Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet:
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from May 10, 2026
Classic overnight radio with that feel of an unanticipated fill-in! Hour-long installation pieces, murmurs in the dark, endless hurtling to the bottomless abyss! Hi Mom!
Sunday
3 - 6am
(EDT)
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On
WFMU
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91.1, 90.1, 91.9 FM &
wfmu.org
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May 10, 2026: "Distracted from distraction by distraction"
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boygenius
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black hole
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the rest
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Played at the Wrong Speed
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Charles Olson
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Reading from Maximus, Poems IV, V, VI, c. 1969, pub. 1975
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Pennsound
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The Maximus Poems
Educated at Wesleyan and Harvard Universities and the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, Charles Olson had a distinguished career in academia and politics before becoming a serious poet. He began work on his opus, The Maximus Poems, in the mid-1940s, and continued to expand and revise them until his death in 1970. Formally similar to Ezra Pound's Cantos, the Maximus poems are, in Olson's words, "about a person and a place."
The person, Maximus, represents Olson's alter ego, and is named after the second-century Maximus of Tyre, as well as a fourth-century Phoenician mystic, and may also refer to Olson's impressive stature (he was six feet seven inches tall). The place is Gloucester, Massachusetts, or more accurately, the small town communal American life that Olson struggled to preserve. Taking up local issues such as preserving the wetlands and documenting the history of fishermen in the Northeast, Olson's poems are widely read as political, but like the Cantos, they also contain deeply lyrical and personal passages as well.
The Maximus Poems are divided into three volumes, meant to be read as a long, single poem--Olson refers to it as such. The collection includes "Maximus to Himself" and "Maximus to Gloucester," a series of poems to the town that were printed in the local newspaper. The most frequently anthologized pieces are the opening pages, a selection of the letters to Gloucester, and "Cole's Island," a poem from the last volume that describes his encounter with death.
As a teacher at the Black Mountain College, Olson was one of the three most influential members of the Black Mountain movement, alongside to Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan. Creeley has joked that Olson was referred to as "Maximus" and he was called "Minimus," in reference to their teacher-apprentice relationship, a close friendship documented in their long, published correspondence.
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Sun Ra
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Berkeley Lecture: "Power of Words" Part I
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Sun Ra Speaks
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In 1971, he served as artist-in-residence at UC Berkeley and offered a spring semester lecture, African-American Studies 198, also known as “Sun Ra 171,” “The Black Man in the Universe,” or “The Black man in the Cosmos.” The course featured readings from—to name just a few—theosophist Madame Blavatsky, French philosopher Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf, black American writer and poet Henry Dumas, and “God,” whom the cosmic jazz theorist reportedly listed as the author of The Source Book of Man’s Life and Death (otherwise known as the King James Bible).
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WBCN 104.1 Boston
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Watergate Primer 13 May 1973 [ends abruptly]
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"The Watergate Primer" was originally produced on WBCN in Boston, Mass., and broadcast on Sunday, May 13, 1973. It was written, researched, produced and or performed by the following (in alphabetical order): Edwin Birdsong, Michael Fremmer, David Frye, Kenneth Greenblatt, Tom Hadges, Andrew Kopkind, Charles Laquidara, Bob Males, Martin Mull, Joe Rogers, John Scagliotti, Danny Schechter, Jackie Shearer, Norn Winer, Studio Band
Art Direction: Stephen Nicastro / Coordinator: Yosef Reznat / Photographer-collagist: Jerry Berndt / Consultant: Barbara Niets / Executive Producer: A. Trauts Nilp
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Sandra Hüller
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Sign of the Times (Karoake Scene)
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Project Hail Mary
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Harry Styles Cover
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Bruno Duplant
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La Nuit Inquiète (Part 1) [excerpt]
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La Nuit Inquiète
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Names Divine
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The Waterfall
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Take My Hand
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Featuring Kendraplex
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The Writer's Allman Brother
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Friday May 1, 2026
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https://writersallmanbrother.buzzsprout.com/
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The Writer's Allman Brother
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Friday May 8, 2026
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https://writersallmanbrother.buzzsprout.com/
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Michael Sugrue
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Kierkegaard's Christian Existentialism
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Recorded at Princeton University in the 1970s
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Dr. Michael Sugrue earned his BA at the University of Chicago and PhD at Columbia University.
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Willie Nash & his Lux Ducks
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Good Rockin'
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Good Rockin'
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David Behr
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David Behr: A Séance with Elvis (1979)
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Spectra Ex Machina / A Sound Anthology of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Vol.2
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