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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. We are distributed for syndication by PRX and are played around the country on college,...
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4.8.18 Going to Seed
Joel Salatin said, “Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.” And that’s what we have this week on melodically challenged, an hour of poetic innovation and creativity because we’re goin’ to...
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4.1.18 Fools Rush In
Alexander Pope wrote in his 1711 poem An Essay on Criticism, “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Not much has changed in 300 years because this week on melodically challenged Fools Rush In! The poems and songs you’ll...
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3.25.18 In the Running
James Thurber said, “All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.” And that’s what our poets strive to do in this week’s show: take a hard look at the why,...
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3.18.18 It’s Got Legs
This week on melodically challenged, we’re going to give you a leg up on poetry, with an hour of poetry and music with legs. So shake a leg! Into the Empty Woods - David Roderick Safe Harbor...
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3.11.18 Up a Tree
This week on melodically challenged, we’re going out on a limb to bring you poetry and music about trees. George Bernard Shaw said, “Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as...
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3.4.18 Get to Your Happy!
Omar Khayyam said, "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life," and that’s what this week’s melodically challenged is about: being happy. But just as Carl Jung advised, “The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were...
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2.25.18 In a Word
This week on melodically challenged it’s “In a Word”: poems and songs that explore language and diction. Umberto Eco said, “Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.” On...
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2.18.18 Down on the Farm
Old MacDonald had a farm…and it was so good there’s a song about it! So it’s no surprise there are poems about farms too. This week on melodically challenged, we’ll be Down on the Farm. If farm livin’ is the...
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2.11.18 A Rose Is a Rose
Charles Bukowski said, “We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.” You don’t have to wait much longer because this week...
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2.4.18 Play It Again
Gertrude Stein called repetition “the lesson that history teaches.” In melodically challenged's “Play It Again,” every poem will feature some form of repetition: either a word, a phrase, or a whole line. Poetry Doesn’t Need You - Ken...