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. We are distributed for syndication by PRX and are played around the country on college,...
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10.8.17 Out of This World
Our solar system consists of a star we call the Sun, the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Yes, I said Pluto. Take that International Astronomical Union! It also includes the satellites of the planets;...
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10.1.17 Vegetable Medley
Beans, peas, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, carrots, or cucumbers, whatever your favorite is, you’ll find plenty of poetry to fill you up this week as melodically challenged brings you Vegetable Medley! If This is What It Takes - Curtis...
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9.24.17 Piece of Cake
What do the following words have in common: hummingbird, sheet, marble, chiffon, Charlotte, coffee, pound, and short? They’re all kinds of cake! Whether your favorite is one of those or something a little simpler, like chocolate, you’ll find something to...
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9.17.17 Crowds
Trent Reznor said, “Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.” Or, we might add, in a poetry radio show. This week we invite you to join the crowd! That’s...
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9.10.17 Coffee
"Never trust anyone who doesn't drink coffee." -AJ Lee Legend has it that goat herders in the 9th century noticed that their goats appeared to "dance" after eating coffee berries. A local monk then made a drink with coffee berries,...
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9.3.17 Schooled
Vernon Law said,“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” This week’s show is all about being schooled: the lessons we learned in school, the lessons we wish we’d learned in school, and the lessons...
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5.28.17 Endings
Alexa Von Tobel said, “For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.” Although spring is a time of beginnings--flowers...
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5.21.17 The Bee’s Knees
We're abuzz with excitement about this week's show, bee-cause it's all about bees! The Carpenter Bee - Sean Nevin Solstice - Maria Hummel Killing Bees - Gabriel Welsch (The first sturdy bee) - Kevin Goodan Dead Bees...
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5.14.17 Mother Dearest
Tenneva Jordan said, "A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." Celebrate the things moms do this week on melodically challenged! ...