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Monday: The Poetry Show with co-host Janet Harrison--Poet Brad Leithauser
Born in Detroit on February 27, 1953, Brad Leithauser is a man of many trades and talents. He graduated from Harvard Law School, and then worked as a research fellow for a law center in Japan for three years before launching a career as a writer and teacher. He has published novels, essays, translations, and criticism as well as poetry. He is married to fellow poet Mary Jo Salter. For 21 years the two shared the position of Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College. In 2008, they moved to Baltimore and joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. Among Brad Leithauser's more unusual projects was Darlington's Fall, a novel about an entomologist which was written in verse and selected by the New York Times as a Notable Book of 2002. His collections of poetry include Hundreds of Fireflies (Knopf, 1982), Cats in the Temple (Knopf, 1986), The Mail From Anywhere (Knopf, 1990), The Odd Last Thing She Did (Knopf, 1998), and Curves and Angles (Knopf, 2006). He has also published two collections of light verse, Lettered Creatures and Toad to a Nightingale, both published by David R. Godine.
This week's featured poem is "Red Letter Jacket" from The Odd Last Thing She Did (Knopf, 1998)
RED LEATHER JACKET
Had I not spoken first
when we met that clouded morning
after a broken night
in which we'd slept apart;
had I not stunned myself
at the start I underwent,
kindling at the sight
of you far across the park
(bright--so bright your jacket's
red on that dark day
whose fallen leaves were drifting
from brown to a final gray);
had I then, possessed by a flame
that stirred up the ashes of
a cool cover of pigeons,
not broken into a run
(past a row of frost-gripped benches
and a low, wire-caught kite
that hung its head in shame),
and reached you almost breathless;
well, suppose I hadn't spoken
first, dipping my head
toward a spooneristic kiss
from you who glowed as red
as any Queen of Hearts,
hadn't cried, "My dear, you luck
like Lady Look herself!"
would you have managed better?
What would you have said?
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Tuesday: Occupy WSHC -- TAX DAY
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Wednesday: Are You Crazy? Night Terrors Day!
HP Lovecraft, Poe, poetry from Eva Braun, and more.
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Labor Radio From the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginina
Veteran union leaders John Christensen and Michael Roberts dig down into working America, the working life, and the defense of the American middle class.
UPDATE: John reports there will be a 99% Spring Training opportunity in Hagerstown for the April 17th tax day!
....Mack Truck on Maugans Ave, food provided, AFL-CIO, OWS folks are sponsoring it! Contact jbc...@yahoo.com for more info. All details reported on the Labor Beat!
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Friday: The Bill and John Show -- Shepherdstown culture and politics.
Bill Tchakirides and John Case stir up a witches brew of commentary, with help from Mark, Ralph, Stu and the Dusty Footed Philosophers.
"To winners go the just rewards of victory. And to losers the opportunity to be uplifted. Invest in the losers and the game of life is improved for all. Every conflict is succeeded by a more important one. There will be no final reconciliation; the indifference of the universe remains, and the unknown grows larger with each truth that we learn --- today in poetry and song for the shrouded heart: and tomorrow, or the day after, when we do the show for real." Anonymous...
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