Welcome to melodically challenged: Podcasts for Radio
Our weekly radio show plays the best in contemporary poetry, traditional, and avant-garde poetry, and alternative music revolving around a theme.
You can listen to both our syndicated program and melodically challenged live! on WRAS Album 88 at our new time: Tuesday evenings from 7 to 9pm Eastern Time.
- Tune in ONLINE at http://22113.live.streamtheworld.com/WRASFM_SC or on your radio app!
We are distributed for syndication by PRX and are played around the country on college, community, and public radio stations.
Please use this site to find playlists from each syndicated show, as well as links to more great poetry and music by the artists that you’ve heard on our program.
Please spread the news of our show as well as these poets and musicians. Thanks for listening!
The Atlanta Mayor's Office of Entertainment Presents: Get in the Mix
Get in the Mix with *melodically challenged* on September 26th, 2024 in Atlanta! We will hear from several of our favorite poets, including Dr. K who will be sharing the stage with *poetry is pretentious* as well as the musical imaginings of The Harmonic Continuum. There will also be an open-mic for other creatives to showcase their talent. This free event starts at 8pm ET and runs until 11pm at the Southern Feedstore in the East Atlanta Village.
CONGRATULATIONS!
TO ALL OF OUR WINNERS IN
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!!!
(If you have not received your prize yet, and we have your address, please be patient, it’s on the way! if we do not have your address, and you received a notice that you’re a winner, please include an address where we can mail your prize on this form. And then, be patient, please, we tend to move like cold molasses, and that’s putting it mildly.)
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John Lennon said, “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged when this week, we’ll be Speaking of God in every poem and song. You’ll hear poems by Thomas Lux, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, James Hoch, Star Davis, Jose Olivarez, and Robert Pfeiffer among many others and music by Pistol Jazz, Buskerdroid and A Ninja Slob Drew Me among many others. We’re speaking of God, this week on melodically challenged, where yesterday’s poetry comes alive and today’s poetry rocks!
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IT'S TIME! To hear forty-five minutes of our show Out in the Cold on Album 88 - Georgia State University's College Radio Station - Atlanta beginning at 7pm EST and airing for forty-five minutes because tonight you're going to hear PANTHER BASKETBALL!!!!! GO PANTHERS!!!! You'll hear it all on 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. And this week because we'll be rooting for Panther Basketball, we will not air our live show.�GO PANTHERS!!!
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell your friends to warm up in front of a radio and listen to our show Out in the Cold 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 “Migration” by Jenny George
Crows assemble in the bare elm above our house. �
Restless, staring: like souls �
who want back in life.
—And who wouldn’t want again �
the hot bath after hard work, �
with soft canyons of splitting foam; �
or the glass of spring water �
cold at the mouth? …
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A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just. Pope Francis
Don't miss our show Out in the Cold this Tuesday 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 “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. …
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It was so cold I almost got married. Shelley Winters
Don't be rash! Just get on a heavy coat, hat, muffler and a radio to sit in front of next Tuesday night to hear our show Out In The Cold 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 “Terra Anthropologica” by Michael Brock
Elska is not a word I expect you to know
but to someone in Iceland it is love, which is also
nothing I expect you to know, but means
etymologically there is steam under the earth
which may gush from its fissures any time of day or night
but often when no one is watching, not even the stars
caring either, their white light glowing
with an aloneness no one even knows to feel sad about. ...
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Emily Dickinson said, “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged when this week, we’re out in the cold: you’ll hear an hour of poetry and music with the cold somewhere in every poem and song. Poems by Robert Hayden, Tasha Graff, Jason Reynolds, Tarfia Faizullah, Stephanie Adams-Santos, and Norman Dubie among many others; you’ll hear music by Kai Engel, Massimo Ruberti, Borrtex, Rafael Archangel and Kevin Hartnell among many others. We’re out in the cold, this week on melodically challenged, where yesterday’s poetry comes alive and today’s poetry rocks!
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#poetry, #poems #poetrylovers, #poetryislife, #poem, #radiopoetry, #poetrycommunity #audiopoetry #academyofamericanpoets #fishousepoems
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IT'S TIME! To hear CROWDS LIVE!!! on Album 88 - Georgia State University's College Radio Station - Atlanta beginning at 8pm 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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Welcome to melodically challenged
Our weekly radio show plays the best in contemporary poetry, traditional, and avant-garde poetry, and alternative music revolving around a theme.
You can listen to both our syndicated program and melodically challenged live! on WRAS Album 88 (http://22113.live.streamtheworld.com/WRASFM_SC or on your radio app) at our new time: Tuesday evenings from 7 to 9 pm Eastern Time.
We are distributed for syndication by PRX and are played around the country on college, community, and public radio stations.
Please use this site to find playlists from each syndicated show, as well as links to more great poetry and music by the artists that you’ve heard on our program.
Please spread the news of our show as well as these poets and musicians. Thanks for listening!
Besides broadcasting the best poetry being written today read by those poets, we want to award scholarships to college students interested in poetry and radio with the RVM3 Radio / Poetry scholarships, and to pay undergraduate and graduate students and poets to work on the show. You can help! Donate to our 501(3)C. It is tax deductible.
If you hear a poem on our show you like, or have a favorite poem you’d like to share, fill out our form and let us know! We’d love to hear from you.
Hear our show!
The syndicated version of melodically challenged broadcasts on our home station, WRAS-ATL (88.5 FM), from 7:00-8:00 PM EST Tuesday evenings. melodically challenged LIVE! follows right after that from 8:00-9:00pm EST. Listen to both hours on HD2, online at WRAS.org, https://tunein.com/radio/Album-88-885-s225441/ or with your smart phone radio app set to Album 88. Please tune in!