Robert Vincent Morea III founded melodically challenged in May of 2006, after he had been appointed program director of WRAS, the largest all student run radio station in the country. He had been born with Cystic Fibrosis and had received a double lung transplant three-and-a-half years earlier. He contracted an infection shortly after he began the show and passed away June 20, 2006. Robert was awarded his B.A. in English posthumously from Georgia State University. This show is dedicated to Robert Morea and we hope to be able to award scholarships for poets and students who participate in college radio in his name in the future.
K. B. Kincer’s poetry has appeared in Touch: The Journal of Healing , The Atlanta Review , Poet Lore , The Healing Muse , Dappled Things , Red River Review, and elsewhere . She received her MFA in 2009 from Georgia State University and is currently enrolled in their Ph.D. Program. Besides teaching and taking classes, she also hosts melodically challenged , a weekly poetry radio program that airs on WRAS, Georgia State’s 100,000 watt student-run radio station.
Ben Michelman is a teacher of the humanities at the Paideia School in Atlanta. He is currently enrolled in the Georgia State MFA program for poetry. He enjoys tennis, basketball, and photography.
Brittany Pool is studying Journalism/Telecommunications and Film at Georgia State and will graduate in 2013. Her true passion is music, and she has been performing professionally for as long as she can remember. She grew up in a musical family and began her singing career at a very young age. She is a singer in the family group the Harrington’s, who landed a management and publishing deal in 2006 and performs around town regularly. She also works for local production companies as a Production Manager, and loves being a part of live entertainment events in various capacities. After graduation, Brittany hopes to land a job in radio or television production. Melodically Challenged has been an awesome way for Brittany to fine tune her production skills and she loves working on the show.
On today’s show (8/12) there was a poem from an African-American poet involving Einstein, e=mc squared, and Mrs. Johnson in a nursing home…..I can’t find it. Who’s the poet?
Thanks,
Michael McIntyre (middle school teacher)
The poem is called “A Poem About Intelligence for my Brothers and Sisters,” by June Jordan and it’s off of an Academy of American Poets CD that features both Marilyn Hacker and June Jordan. You can hear the poem again on Poets.org. Thanks for listening! kathy
If memory serves, there was an interview by Bill Moyers of the poet Maya Angellou. The beginning of this piece was Mr. Moyers being corrected in the pronunciation of the poet’s last name. The correction was Angel-LOW, not Angel-LEW.
FYI.
Thank you for the heads up. I have no doubt that Ms. Angelou will not be the last poet whose name I will bludgeon. (After mispronouncing it for so long, I’ll probably continue to mispronounce hers for a while yet.) But I appreciate the information, and please let me know whenever I do it again. Thanks for your concern and thanks for listening!
I was thinking that yor playlist wud b here . None of April ‘s shows r listed . Much
to MY chagrin . I didn ‘t have time to write down the name of Undersea Poem ‘s
that ya ‘ll played . I noticed that youtube has only 3 of their songs , at least that I
cud find . Anyway , that is my question . Thank u .
Thanks for listening! This is the end of the semester, and while everyone is writing papers and taking finals, the playlists fall down the priority list.
However, we will have today’s playlist for you shortly. The name of the song in today’s show played by Undersea Poem was called “Theme Song,” and it’s off of their self-titled album. We will try to catch up our playlists soon–probably after finals week, which is this week upcoming. If you can think of a song or poem you want the name for, and can tell me anything about the poem or song lyrics, and the day you heard it, I will try to find it for you. Sorry for the inconvenience and again, thanks for listening! kathy