Melodically Challenged

22 hours ago

Elizabeth Gilbert said, “Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.” Well, the good news is that poetry can do all of those things and we have an hour of poetry and music that will feature a couch and the occasional chair in every poem and song. You’ll hear poems by Juan Carlos Flores, Heather Tresseler, Jericho Brown, Cate Marvin, and Kevin A. Gonzales among many others and you’ll hear music by John Wesley Coleman, Blue Dot Sessions, roMeow, Anitek and Manuele Atzeni among others. We’re looking for Couch Potatoes this week on melodically challenged, where yesterday’s poetry comes alive and today’s poetry rocks!

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Melodically Challenged

4 days ago

IT'S TIME! To hear Talkin' the Talk! 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 Memorial Day Live! show beginning at 8pm.����

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Melodically Challenged

5 days ago

According to research in 2013 people spend 60 per cent of conversations talking about themselves.

With the other 40 per cent you use in having conversations, don't forget to tell everyone to tune in to our show Talkin' the Talk this Tuesday (THAT'S TOMORROW!!!) at 7pm ET on @album88atlanta that's 88.5 WRAS - Album 88. Here are some lines from a poem you'll hear in the show:

From “I was taught the lyric is a song” by Rosalie Moffet

I was taught the lyric is a song
outside of time.
In narrative, there is consequence:


A leads to B. Before
she hit her head she’d been watching
the snails heal themselves, tricks


their brains performed on the stage
the microscope made.
Once, as a child, I helped, wielding tiny scissors,


knife-sharp, to snip
one eye off each snail and she recorded how
the brain ordered


the eye to regenerate. Because of her,
I knew it was eye stalk
not antenna, not tentacle.


I knew all the right terms.
I wasn’t allowed to retain a childish lexicon. ...

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Melodically Challenged

6 days ago

According to research published in 2012, talking to yourself helps you look for things.

So you can have a great conversation with yourself when you are looking for your radio next Tuesday night to hear our show Talkin' the Talk 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 “Archipelago” by Jasmine V. Bailey

You have come into and out of my life
like a needle knitting me to the earth.
Here and not here, rising and diving.

Yours is a love that requires
talking to sounds that gather in grass,
holding a bottle by the neck. Why blame you

for the end of summer or its reprisal?
Why march down to the road
and travel it? I don’t know. We must accept

everything. Light seems to exist just for us
and still the mushrooms after the last rain
are all suspicious. ….

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Melodically Challenged

7 days ago

5. Research has shown that English speakers say “um” before a long pause, and “uh” before a short pause.

Um...don't miss our show Talkin' the Talk next Tuesday at 7pm ET on @album88atlanta that's 88.5 WRAS - Album 88. Uh, here are some lines from a poem you'll hear in the show:

From “I’m Not Going to Talk” by Paula Simonetti translated by Catherine Jagoe

I’ll talk about something else
never that
I’m not going to tell you
enough
I’m going to draw this subtle
paradise of paper
that doesn’t mention lice or dreams
glimpses of a brief childhood
I’m going to talk about hammocks
and rosaries
I assume you don’t pray
and you never slept in a hammock
yesterday
tomorrow
never
I won’t keep a tally
bruises that go away turn inwards
to blow up again in children’s faces
your own kids’ and ad eternum
I’ll forget later when I’m talking
to no one
about Picasso
…

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Melodically Challenged

1 week ago

According to express.co.uk Despite often-repeated claims that women talk more than men, research in 2007 reported that both sexes speak around 16,000 words a day…..but men interrupt women three times as often as women interrupt men. Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged when the theme word for this show is “talk.” You’ll hear poetry by Jasmine V. Bailey, Sandra Lim, Mariano Peyrou and Adrian Matejka and we’ll hear music by Chad Crouch, Chandeliers, Painted Doll, Ian Alex Mac and Marco Castelli among others. We’re Talking the Talk this week on melodically challenged, where yesterday’s poetry comes alive and today’s poetry rocks.

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