melodically challenged

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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. melodically challenged : where yesterday's poetry comes alive and today's poetry rocks!

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Welcome to melodically challenged podcasts for radio! We will upload shows to PRX weekly from Spring throughout the Summer. Our themes cover everything from bugs to Mothers to cars, and saving the world through the United Nations Sustainability Goals. We broadcast the best poetry being written today from the Academy of American Poets, Fishousepoems.org and other audio archives. melodically challenged, where yesterday's poetry comes alive and today's poetry rocks!

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Welcome to melodically challenged! In this series we’re honored to present a poetry-infused overview of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals:  “a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet.” Each show will cover one of the 17 goals the U.N. has determined can save the planet featuring poetry from The Academy of American Poets and Fishousepoems.org and you’ll hear music from around the world, because we’re saving the world! On melodically challenged, where yesterday’s poetry comes alive and today’s poetry rocks!


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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, so you’ll have to keep checking your radio during this week’s melodically challenged when we bring you an hour o...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:01
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously wrote “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” All of Cupid’s victims might beg to diff...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Warmer weather brings us sunshine, flowers, trips to the beach, picnics, and BUGS, BUGS, BUGS!!!! And this week, we’ll have bugs: spiders, bees, f...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Mahatma Gandhi said, “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, when this week, we will tackle ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:07
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Welcome to melodically challenged, when this week, we’re honored to present a poetry-infused overview of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals:  “...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
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This week on melodically challenged, we look to the heavens. We’ll be celebrating several successful NASA missions in 2022 that have extended human...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Guy Fieri said, “Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matt...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.”— Eavan Boland Welcome to another edition of melodically c...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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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 edi...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Bobby Knight said, “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, when this week, we’re...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06