The Progressive Voice of the Mountains

As of now, the following shows are available at ibiblio.org. Before 2008, shows were thirty mintues long; 2008 shows are an hour long.

Enjoy.

2006:

September 3, 2006, featuring Laura Hope-Gill and Sebastian Matthews

2007:

February 11,2007, featuring John Crutchfield

March 18, 2007, featuring Laura Hope-Gill discussing her work with alchemy.

April 29, 2007, Laura Hope-Gill and I read and discussed the work of Robert Bly

May 27, 2007, featuring Samuel Adams

June 10, 2007, featuring Robert Bly reading at UNCA (production notes)

June 17, 2007, featuring Keith Flynn

July 1, 2007, featuring Allan Wolf

October 14, 2007, featuring Gary Hawkins

October 28, 2007, featuring archival recordings of Walt Whitman, Alfred Tennyson, and others

November 4, 2008, featuring Jessica Smith (production notes)

November 11, 2007, featuring William Matthews

November 18, 2007, featuring Robert Morgan (production notes)

December 2, 2007, featuring Laura Hope-Gill

December 9, 2007, featuring Nan Watkins presenting her translations of Yvan Goll (production notes)

December 16, 2007, featuring Mara Simmons

December 23, 2007, featuring Laura Hope-Gill reading “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”

2008:

January 13, 2008 featuring Ed Dorn (production note)

January 20, 2008, featuring Katherine Min

January 27, 2008, featuring Gary Hawkins and Landon Godfrey

February 3, 2008, featuring Sebastian Matthews and Dick Barnes

February 17, 2008, featuring my April, 2006 reading for the publication of Natures

February 24, 2008, featuring the very literate singer-songwriter Angela Faye Martin

March 2, 2008, featuring Thomas Rain Crowe reading from Radiogenesis

March 9, 2008, featuring Chad Prevost (production note)

March 23, 2008, featuring Jonathan Williams reading at Sylva’s City Lights Books in May of 2005 (production note)

April 7, 2008, featuring Galway Kinnell reading at Breadloaf in 2002

April 13, 2008, featuring Laura Hope-Gill pitching on the pledge drive show

May 25, 2008, featuring Ross Gay in an interview with Joanna Cooper, and reading at Asheville’s Malaprops Books (production note)

June 1, 2008, featuring Coleman Barks performing at the Fine Arts Theater in April, 2008 (production note)

June 8, 2008, featuring Wayne Caldwell, author of Cataloochee

June 15, 2008, featuring Robert Creeley

June 29, 2008, featuring Nan Watkins presenting her translations of Yvan Goll - the extended edition (production note)

July 6, 2008, featuring Landon Godfrey (production note)

July 13, 2008, featuring Chall Gray

July 20, 2008, featuring Jeffery Beam (production note)

August 3, 2008, featuring Ken Rumble (production note)

Many more to come …

Enjoy,

Jeff

This week on Veterans’ Voices we talk with Jason Hurd and other IVAW members to see what’s up in Minneapolis for the RNC. When we spoke to him last week, they were at the DNC about to do Operation First Casualty. Independent news sources describe mass arrests in preemptive raids of activists in Minneapolis. Amy Goodman, among those arrested, states that almost 300 people have already been arrested by the end of the first day of the convention.
Jason Hurd and other IVAW members during Operation First Casualty in Denver during DNC.

If you missed last week’s interview with Dr. Russell McCrimmon and Ron Kennedy from the Veterans’ shelter, get it before it’s gone.
Tune in to Veterans’ Voices at 5 pm every Wednesday or stream/podcast here.

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Listen for Adam’s exclusive interview with Elliot Bergman, sax player for NOMO (Ubiquity Records). Elliot took a quick break from their American tour to stop by our WPVM studios last month. Learn about the formation of this explosive band and their exciting US tour promoting their new album Ghost Rock.

Attorneys representing the Pack family heirs, Buncombe County, and developer Stewart Coleman made their arguments today in Superior Court regarding the sale of park land for luxury condos. We’ll tell you what happened and hear from the Pack attorney, Joe Ferikes.

We’ll also talk about last weekend’s Southern Energy and Environment Expo.

This local news and public affairs show focuses on underreported information and encourages civic activism. Tune in live 7-8 pm Monday, catch the 1 pm Tuesday rebroadcast, or stream or podcast.

This week on Veterans’ Voices we talk with “Jim Stroupe, a local resident who is a veteran of World War II, the Korean Conflict & the Vietnam Clusterf*ck.” As per Ronald Harayda. Additionally we hope to check in with Jason Hurd and find out how the IVAW State of the Union Tour is going.

News this week:

How to Crack the Pentagon Pundits’ Code

The ‘Veterans’ Vote’ is far from locked up

US Army Deserter to be Deported from Canada

America’s Homeless Vets, a Causality of Epidemic Proportions

This last article is one we will be following up on in the near future. Stay tuned for our upcoming series on the homeless Veteran crisis.

Tune in to Veterans’ Voices at 5 pm every Wednesday or stream/podcast here.

Greensboro’s Ken Rumble, one of the founders of the Lucifer Poetics Group, trekked across rivers and mountains to Asheville this past Sunday and visited Wordplay. He provided some keys to Key Bridge (that’s a .pdf file, so give it a few seconds to download), his well-received book from Carolina Wren Press, discussed some his favorite poets, working on typewriters, and read some new work as well. One new piece was a two-voiced collaboration, so I got to fill in as the other voice. It was a hoot.

Ken’s work is always adventurous in its exploration of the dimensions of poetic form - and like, in that respect, the work of one of his favorite contemporaries, Lisa Jarnot. Both seem to draw on the work of Robert Duncan and George Oppen, who drew in turn on the practice of William Carlos Williams, Gertude Stein, and others among the great twentieth century modernists; both go a far piece, of course, beyond the maps defined by Duncan and Oppen into their own territories. But that’s the company, as it seems to me, and it’s a fine company to be in.

Music this week all came from Geoffrey Keezer’s Falling Up; we opened with the title track (long the virtual theme for Wordplay), and also heard “Palm Reader” and “Gollum’s Song.”

Do check it out over on the Archive page (just scroll down to “Wordplay”).

(For the impatient, here’s the direct link to the .mp3.)

The show will be available as an on-demand stream and podcast through next Sunday, August 10th.
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The photo can be found over at Ken’s blog, in his Blogger profile. The closed eyes perhaps testify to its candid occasion …

Cross-posted at Natures.

We’ll talk to Jason Hurd of WPVM’s “Veterans Voices”. Jason and other Iraq Veterans Against the War are on the State of the Union Base Tour, currently heading for Fort Bragg. We’ll talk about what he and the other veterans are doing to try to raise awareness among military families.

David will talk about what George Bush and the Republicans (and some Democrats) don’t want to acknowledge: Socialism is alive and well in America - socialism for the wealthy, that is.

We’ll talk to some of the treesitters from the Magnolia slated for destruction if Stewart Coleman is allowed to build his Parkside condominiums.

This local news and public affairs show focuses on underreported information and encourages civic activism. Tune in live 7-8 pm Monday, catch the 1 pm Tuesday rebroadcast, or stream or podcast.