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  • The Poetry Show: October Country
    Enlighten Radio Presents

    Harvest or Pestilence?
    Janet visits October country -- again -- Carl Sandburg, Joy Ladin, William Blake, Omar Khayam, Philip Larkin, Robert Herrick, Lucy Larcom
    Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
    This Episode Recorded Oct 8, 2025

    Time Passes

    by Joy Ladin


    Time too is afraid of passing, is riddled with holes
    through which time feels itself leaking.
    Time sweats in the middle of the night
    when all the other dimensions are sleeping.
    Time has lost every picture of itself as a child.
    Now time is old, leathery and slow.
    Can’t sneak up on anyone anymore,
    Can’t hide in the grass, can't run, cant catch.
    Cant figure out how not to trample
    what it means to bless.

     

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    28 min
  • The Last Stop Cafe: The BiPolar Commanders are Freaking Us OUT
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    The Last Stop Cafe: The BiPolar Commanders are Freaking Us OUT
    Identity Crisis in Washington. Commanders mimic nation.

     

     

    Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays at 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
    Why knock your head against the wall. Learn how to just walk through them. Mind over matter. But where were you on Sept. 11?
    This Episode Recorded September 12, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    28 min
  • The Poetry Show: Crossing the Equinox
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    Oliver, Rilke, Yeats, McGrath, Kunitz -- No Shelter for the Homeless?"

     

     

    "...So let us go on, cheerfully enough, this and every crisping day, though the sun be swinging east, and the ponds be cold and black, and the sweets of the year be doomed."

    Mary Oliver

    Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
    Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
    This Episode Recorded September 24, 2025

    The Wild Swans at Coole

    by William Butler Yeats

     


    The trees are in their autumn beauty,
    The woodland paths are dry,
    Under the October twilight the water
    Mirrors a still sky;
    Upon the brimming water among the stones
    Are nine-and-fifty swans.

    The nineteenth autumn has come upon me
    Since I first made my count;
    I saw, before I had well finished,
    All suddenly mount
    And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
    Upon their clamorous wings.


    I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
    And now my heart is sore.
    All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,
    The first time on this shore,
    The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
    Trod with a lighter tread.


    Unwearied still, lover by lover,
    They paddle in the cold
    Companionable streams or climb the air;
    Their hearts have not grown old;
    Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
    Attend upon them still.


    But now they drift on the still water,
    Mysterious, beautiful;
    Among what rushes will they build,
    By what lake's edge or pool
    Delight men's eyes when I awake some day
    To find they have flown away?

     

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    37 min
  • The last Stop Cafe: Watch that step off the plank
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    The last Stop Cafe: Watch that step off the Back Porch
    Mafia Morality Takes Over America: Will Sports Stay Poor? Is Every Game Rigged?

     

     

    Broadcasts LIVE, Thursdays 10 AM
    Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
    Cuccherini weighs in on pro women's sports. Where is the Fair Game? That step off the porch? It has no bottom.
    This Episode Recorded Aug 28, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

     

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    46 min

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