Warwick Radio: The Voice of Warwick, Rhode Island

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney and Warwick School Committee Chairman Shaun Galligan take an in-depth and fact-based look at the new Pilgrim High School and Toll Gate High School construction project, including the budget, contingency fund, and reimbursement, locking in materials costs, managing the project, changes in the designs, and frequently asked questions.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community. Warwick Life is produced by Scott Nerney and presented by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠We Be Jammin’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick has so many awesome places to eat and drink. Join Leslie Wasilewski to find out what makes them Wicked Good.

Today, Leslie talks with Warwick native and Rhode Island Monthly Best of Rhode Island Editor’s Pick Jariah Gray about Two Hungry Bitches, Jariah’s TikTok and Instagram guide to good food, entertainment, and travel in the Northeast.

Visit the Two Hungry Bitches website.

Go to the Wicked Good Warwick ⁠Instagram page⁠.

Write to Leslie at [email protected].

D.K. Mckenzie, Warwick poet, musician, and creator of The Poe Underground, explores the possibilities of combining the voice of the guitar with the haunting words and expressions of poetry.

In this episode, hear the poems Ether Darkness by James A.S. McPeek and Slow Rhythms (Chant Before Thought) by Rudolph Edward Kornmann accompanied by improvised classical guitar.

Ether Darkness

This dark is beautiful. There is no pain,

No sense is challenged by unmeaning sight—

Only the thick cool blanket of the night

Presses the body and its fevered brain.

Time is sewed quietly by needles of rain—

There is no way to mark this moment's flight

That has no touch with any common light,

Nor so much color as all day has lain

Hidden within a shadowed jonquil bloom.

And in this quietude of nothingness,

There is no sound, no dreaming, no distress—

The darkness flowers to the edge of doom.

Slow Rhythms (Chant Before Thought)

How shall I sleep in

this liquid of moonlight

still and death-steep?

You were breath and delight,

and the moods of your eyes were

of slumber

and fondness—

How shall I sleep?

Remembering your curvedness

(stars at your breasts

and the moons of your thighs)

how shall I sleep—

with the sighs

of your fingertips

haunting my lips?

How shall I sleep in

this liquid of moonlight

still and death-steep?

You were gentle and white

and the sound of your blood is

that breath which will wander

in thin broken twilights

of houses asleep—

(old houses that drowse with

the pain of their wonder

at that which lies under them,

graven and deep).

In this liquid of moonlight,

how shall I sleep?

Watch D.K. record Ether Darkness.

See D.K. record Slow Rhythms.

Visit The Poe Underground⁠ website⁠.

Tune in to The Poe Underground ⁠podcast⁠.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with Nathan Cornell, President and co-founder of the Rhode Island Old Growth Tree Society.

The Old Growth Tree Society works to protect Rhode Island forests, their biodiversity, and the rare and endangered species that live in them. Hear how to identify old growth forests, what makes forests fire prone and why wildfires are less likely in Northeast forests, how to manage tree disease, where to see old growth trees, and how you can help.

Write to Nathan at [email protected].

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community. Warwick Life is produced by Scott Nerney and presented by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠We Be Jammin’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Learn how to find a career in a competitive job market in this monthly series by Warwick career management specialist Kathleen Dohoney.

Today, Kathleen interviews Liz McDonough, a certified personal trainer, health coach, impact life coach, and founder of Bold Adventures Coaching. Hear about focusing on yourself to build a strong body and mind, how coaching works and who can benefit from coaching, how health, wellness, and careers connect, and how Liz keeps wellness in her life.

Visit the Bold Adventures Coaching website.

Write to Liz at [email protected].

Kathleen Dohoney, ACRW, CPRW, CDCS, CCTC, is a Career Coach at Randstad RiseSmart and a Career Specialist at Celtic Résumé Services.

Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Celtic Resume Services⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Go to Kathleen’s LinkedIn page⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Write to Kathleen at [email protected].

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney and Warwick School Committee Chairman Shaun Galligan take an in-depth and fact-based look at the Warwick Public Schools budget deficit, including how the budget is prepared, how the shortfall happened, and how the amount of the deficit can be brought down.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community. Warwick Life is produced by Scott Nerney and presented by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠We Be Jammin’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with artist and professional mermaid Jessie Jewels.

Jessie Jewels is a full-time artist, Miss Mermaid Rhode Island and Ms Rhode Island Mermaid, Save the Bay activist, and former circus fire dancer. Hear what inspires her art and what she creates, how she became a mermaid, what it’s like to compete in a mermaid pageant, about mermaid birthday parties for kids, and how she helps conserve Rhode Island beaches.

Visit the Jesse Jewels Art website.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community. Warwick Life is produced by Scott Nerney and presented by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠We Be Jammin’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with Gamm Theatre Executive Director Jason Cabral.

Jason oversees marketing, finance, development, education programming, and audience engagement work, and copilots The Gamm with Artistic Director Tony Estrella. Hear about 40 years of The Gamm, community support, acting and stage combat classes, student programs, movie nights, National Theatre Live, space rentals, and how you can volunteer.

Visit The Gamm Theatre website.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community. Warwick Life is produced by Scott Nerney and presented by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠We Be Jammin’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick poet and musician D.K. Mckenzie presents excerpts from his spoken word and music podcast, The Poe Underground, in a Warwick Radio exclusive.

In this episode, hear jazz-inspired, original music and the poems Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens, Songs from the Dusk by Russell W. Davenport, and Infinity by D.K. Mckenzie.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

I

Among twenty snowy mountains,

The only moving thing

Was the eye of the blackbird.

II

I was of three minds,

Like a tree

In which there are three blackbirds.

III

The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.

It was a small part of the pantomime.

IV

A man and a woman

Are one.

A man and a woman and a blackbird

Are one.

V

I do not know which to prefer,

The beauty of inflections

Or the beauty of innuendoes,

The blackbird whistling

Or just after.

VI

Icicles filled the long window

With barbaric glass.

The shadow of the blackbird

Crossed it, to and fro.

The mood

Traced in the shadow

An indecipherable cause.

VII

O thin men of Haddam,

Why do you imagine golden birds?

Do you not see how the blackbird

Walks around the feet

Of the women about you?

VIII

I know noble accents

And lucid, inescapable rhythms;

But I know, too,

That the blackbird is involved

In what I know.

IX

When the blackbird flew out of sight,

It marked the edge

Of one of many circles.

X

At the sight of blackbirds

Flying in a green light,

Even the bawds of euphony

Would cry out sharply.

XI

He rode over Connecticut

In a glass coach.

Once, a fear pierced him,

In that he mistook

The shadow of his equipage

For blackbirds.

XII

The river is moving.

The blackbird must be flying.

XIII

It was evening all afternoon.

It was snowing

And it was going to snow.

The blackbird sat

In the cedar-limbs.

Songs from the Dusk (Movement for an Imaginary Violin)

Take me there, take me there—far, far within

The scarlet cloisters of the clouds, hung over

This glassy water-terrace rimmed with clover,

O my imaginary violin!

It cannot hush, it cannot hush—as thin,

As wild, as sweet as miracle! Mad lover,

My heart must almost perish to discover

What ecstasy of wine we are—what kin.

Yet you grow slow aloft, and falter—fall.

I scarcely hear, I scarcely hear at all

Those drops of tone. Warblers and swallows call

Across the water, drawing shore to shore;

The woodpecker; the dusk. Oh, play one more—

One more—one more—one more note! That is all.

Infinity

Death pulls me one way

You tug me the other

Your giant eyes dance

Bust forth with black hole gravity

Atomic fusion is your smile with a voice of combustion

There you go with the laughter of a thousand earthquakes

Rattling the ground beneath your feet

Never exhausting your gate of storms and fire

Your kiss however is the thing

The most powerful thing that topples the world

And keeps the oceans from flowing

The poison of time is postponed and so is death

The universe is on hold when we're together

We are immortal dancing, spinning, embracing

Through the constants of infinity and true love

Visit The Poe Underground ⁠⁠website⁠⁠.

Tune in to The Poe Underground ⁠⁠podcast⁠⁠.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with the Mayor’s Chief of Staff William Facente.

Hear about William’s 30-year career in the City of Warwick, why he’s running the Community Development office, what makes Mayor Picozzi stand out from past mayors, what a typical day is like for a Chief of Staff, how longevity makes working with city departments easier, how Warwick is a hub for New England, and how to get in touch with William.

Write to William Facente at [email protected].

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community. Warwick Life is produced by Scott Nerney and presented by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠We Be Jammin’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.