Melodically Challenged

2 days ago

War would end if the dead could return. Stanley Baldwin

Make sure you return to a radio this Tuesday (THAT'S TOMORROW!!) at 7pm ET to hear our show The Return on @album88atlanta that's 88.5 WRAS - Album 88. Here are some lines from a poem you'll hear in the show:

From “No Ruined Stone” by Shara McCallum

When the dead return
they will come to you in dream
and in waking, will be the bird
knocking, knocking against glass, seeking
a way in, will masquerade
as the wind, its voice made audible
by the tongues of leaves, greedily
lapping, as the waves’ self-made fugue
is a turning and returning, the dead
will not then nor ever again
desert you, their unrest
will be the coat cloaking you,
the farther you journey
from them the more
that distance will maw in you,
time and place gulching
when the dead return to demand
accounting, wanting
and wanting and wanting …

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Melodically Challenged

3 days ago

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. Dag Hammarskjold

Don't look back--look forward to next Tuesday at 7pm when you can hear our show The Return on @album88atlanta that's 88.5 WRAS - Album 88. Here are some lines from a poem you'll hear in the show:

from “The More Loving One” by W. H. Auden

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day. …

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Melodically Challenged

4 days ago

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. Florence Scovel Shinn

Make sure you return to your radio next Tuesday night at 7pm ET to hear our show The Return on @album88atlanta that's 88.5 WRAS - Album 88. Here are some lines from a poem you'll hear in the show:

from “Afterlife” by Cutis Bauer

When I return as an ant
or quarter inch of head lice,
I’ll have learned

that mountain beyond I wanted
to climb is even bigger now.
I’ll know the width and length
of a horseshoe just in case. …

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Melodically Challenged

4 days ago

Kevin Young said, “I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.”

Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged when this week we we’ll explore “the Return” in poetry and music. You’ll hear poems by Sharon Olds, Yanyi, Shara McCallum, Gala Mukomolova, Steven Alvarez and Erin Belieu among many others and music by Return to Normal, The Polish Ambassador, SK, and Mister Beep among many others. We’re celebrating The Return this week on melodically challenged, where yesterday’s poetry comes alive and today’s poetry rocks!

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Melodically Challenged

1 week ago

IT'S TIME! To hear Where There's Smoke on Album 88 - Georgia State University's College Radio Station - Atlanta beginning at 7pm EST, that's 88.5 on your FM dial here in town, and if you're out of town click on tunein.com/radio/Album-88-885-s225441/�or go to the GSU or WRAS websites and click on LISTEN. Dr. K is in the booth so give her a call at (404) 413-9727, that's (404) 413-WRAS.

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Melodically Challenged

1 week ago

IT'S TIME! To hear Keeping It Simple on Album 88 - Georgia State University's College Radio Station - Atlanta beginning at 7pm EST, that's 88.5 on your FM dial here in town, and if you're out of town click on tunein.com/radio/Album-88-885-s225441/�or go to the GSU or WRAS websites and click on LISTEN. Dr. K is in the booth so give her a call at (404) 413-9727, that's (404) 413-WRAS. And stay tuned for our Where There's Smoke show beginning at 8pm.���

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Melodically Challenged

1 week ago

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow. George Harrison

Then, George, you won't want to miss our show Keeping It Simple Tuesday night (THAT'S TOMORROW!!!) at 7pm ET on 88.5 WRAS - Album 88 that's @album88atlanta. Here are some lines from a poem you'll hear in the show:

From “Poem” BY MARK YAKICH

Let’s not get carried away with meta-politeness. Literary theory is simply another kind of literature. It is as much philosophy as the warning on a package of nuts: May Contain�Nuts. It is as much pornography as devouring a cashew the shape of a lover’s dimple. ...

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