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"Poetry, the spoken word & all things word-inspired." Celebrating the literary arts every week at WGDR.org Sundays @ 5 pm
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This is a siren going off. Current administration is using the federal government to intimidate public media & its supporters. This is authoritarian practice to lock down information & prevent independent reporting. Bravo to @wbur.org for straight up reporting on it. www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...

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Poet conjuror Mr. St. N. will be spellbinding at the VT. Statehouse tonite. Wed, 26th at 7:30 pm

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Today at 5 pm on BonMot multiple camp Holocaust survivor Menachem S. Arnoni’s Manifesto of Belief in Man, delivered at a UC-Berkeley Teach-in, October 1965. Dial up archive.WGDR.org and lend an ear.

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Statehouses often pass legislation that sets precedents, for better or worse. Keep your eyes peeled. There should be legit reporters in every state house during every legislative session.

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Poets and short story writers, Bobbie Hawkins & Elena Georgiou on BonMot on WGDR.org at 5 pm. Ms. Hawkins on individuality & writers’ voices. Ms. Georgiou on a pastor’s culinary sermon, preaching the gospel of Pork Fat. Lend yr ears.

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What a prophetic bastard…

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In 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. was invited to Hollywood, to a private home, as a fundraiser for his Civil Rights work. With both Marlon Brando and James Baldwin present, it was the last time he spoke in LA. Historic Pacifica Radio on BonMot at 5pm on WGDR.org #blm

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The ways in which libraries led the resistance to the Patriot Act, which culminated in the Doe v. Gonzales case, was one of the primary reasons I became a librarian. It remains a motivating factor in my work on intellectual freedom.

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Talking local, nonprofit, public service journalism w/ Hardwick Gazette editor, Paul Fixx on BonMot Sunday at 5pm on WGDR.org. Lend yr ears.

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Good Heart Farmstead family members (son & Mom) Waylon & Katie read short fiction & poetry on Bon Mot today at 5pm on WGDR.org Please lend an ear to live community radio.

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T’was conjectured in Vt Bernie’d wear a Carhartt worksuit to #fordysevenz inaug, but now there’s astroturf red carpet… whatevs willy wear?

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@modaviau.bsky.social Gotta love bookstore database fields…

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Jimmy at an Allman Bros concert! Rock in Peace and Rest in Peanuts

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Hardwick Gazette had to reschedule today. Instead, a great archive edition of Bon Mot with Brett Stancui, writer, sugar maker, philosopher, anthropologist, knitter, librarian, and all around great human

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Great roundup of 24/25 observations & prognostications @niemanlab.org

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Talking local, nonprofit, public service journalism w/ Hardwick Gazette editor, Paul Fixx on BonMot Sunday at 5pm on WGDR.org. Lend yr ears.

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@modaviau.bsky.social Love Signs Revisited

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Byron’s Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairies, Child’s Xmas In Wales, Winter Light, Abdul the Rabbi, Larry Novins in Moscow, Klezmer Conservatory, Sam Hughes, Dean Martin, and Henry Mancini channeling or gilding Geshwin. An eclectical & solsticial BonMot @ archive.wgdr.org

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