Poets' West - Thr 6:30pm 6/16/11

PoetsWest on the AirPoetsWest at KSER 90.7 FM Thursday, June 16 at 6:30 p.m. (PST)— FATHERS II If you are out of range for this station, the broadcast is available worldwide via streaming by going to http://www.kser.org/ and following the Listen Live links. Or you can listen to this program and one other recent program on our web site if you have high speed internet: www.poetswest.com under PoetsWest Radio Programs  PoetsWest #80FATHERS II(29.05 minutes) Look at the Stars—Lyn CoffinIce Drum—Brandon CesmatMy Father as Charlie Chaplin—Michael MageeAtheist in Spring—Len TewsGrandpa—Len TewsTo Grandfather—Tomás GaytonRemembering a Visit to My Father—Frederick BridgerNot Silent—RaynRobertsMy Father’s Poetry—Rajah GharbiMy Father & the Fig Tree (Nye)—Meg SavlovA Mirror—(Zagtan) Meg SavlovMy Father’s Tears—J. Glenn Evans Lynch Deep Bkft Tk4Conversation from Arabian Nights Tks 5, 7©2011 PoetsWest Listen to two recent PoetsWest Radio Programswww.poetswest.comNOW On the website:The following programs will be on the PoetsWest website for two weeks starting Friday, 10 Jun 11:Love & Marriage #195Our Kids, Our Selves @196 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTSSaturday, July 2 at 4:00 p.m.Green Lake Branch Seattle Public Library, 7364 E Greenlake Dr. N, SeattleReader’s Choicefeatures TBA. Open mic. MC J. Glenn Evans. Contact J. Glenn Evans 206.682.1268 or JGE@poetswest.com.  SCW Publications announces the release of a short, but powerful chapbook by the poet-novelist and political activist, J. Glenn Evans. It is a little more than half the size of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, a subject lost to the world a generation or so ago. Chapbook, 25 pages, $7.00 plus $2 S&H. Available from PoetsWest (Address above) ORDetails http://www.poetswest.com/books.htm Listed under non-fiction      PayPal available SPECIAL NOTEPoetsWest is syndicated. If you are unable to receive PoetsWest programs on your local non-profit community radio, we encourage you to pass this message to them. PoetsWest, through its affiliation with KSER 90.7 FM, has entered into an agreement with Pacifica Radio Network to make our radio programs available to non-profit radio stations around the nation and the globe. Help to get the word out to friends and relatives in other areas. There is no money involved in this project but it does offer much wider exposure to the poets and provides additional programming to local non-profit radio stations. PoetsWest is listed on Pacifica’s AudioPort.org web site under Weekly Programs.  REMEMBER THE CONSTITUTION AND 1776Earth Rights—Human Rights—Peace MY FATHER’S HANDS Were large and equal to the taskHeld the plow handles, chopped corn with the hoeFed his family and the stock all year longPlanted peanuts and picked the cottonThat bought the school books and the clothesThey chopped the wood that warmed us all winterNever spanked, but those large hands kept the rules When war came they made artillery boomBludgeons in Battery A boxing ringNorth Africa, they set Hitler straightSouth Pacific, sent the Japanese homeHis brother’s hands stayed home, made a fortune After the war my father’s hands were setTo the task of pitching uintaiteWorked on the Colorado high plainsRarely were they ever folded in prayerBut like God’s they were there when neededNow they lay at his side, wait the next task            J. Glenn Evans LAND FOR A DUWAMISH RESERVATION NOW150 YEAR WAIT FOR AN UNFULFILLED PROMISESHOULD BE SEATTLE’S SHAME WHEN MAGNUSON PARKCOULD BE A TOKEN RETURN OF THE LANDTAKEN FROM THEM