REPLAY: Listen to POW-WOW and REMEMBER

05/14/15 • 120 min

Do you miss POW-WOW? Well Chicago April is Poetry Month and CWT4R would like to give you a night of POW-WOW, radio style, Wednesday night. Sit back, click on the Facebook link turn up your computer and enjoy the last night of Poetry- POW-WOW Style. Yes we will have 5 words, oops 6 words, and poets from the past and a special feature.. Also gracing the airwaves will be some of poets that packed places POW-WOW called home like the Jeffrey Pub, Leo’s Den, 917, and Lee’s Unleaded Blues. Remember, Cocoa, Truth, Enina Jay, Tim’m, Logic, and Ugochi, just to name a few. Bet you long to hear F*** my Blues Away or Pu*** Play just to name a few pieces you might hear that night. Picture the last time you walked in to the Pub and saw Tuesday night family. One thing this evening we will have to take the moment to get that hug from yourself of whoever is in the room with you. Remember watching as the lights go down, and the music start to fade, spot light comes up and there on the stage is Lucy and all of her loveliness. Welcome to POW-WOW and it’s on. Now what would POW-WOW be if we didn’t have the Founder to grace us with her poetic voice, her Hips, her being a lady, CC Carter. A double WOW will be when our feature RED SUMMER takes you back to First Person, Raw Sugar and Shades of Red. This night is shaping up to be a POW-WOW Reunion so join us and feed your poetry soul.

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Life With Baby and a CWT4R Shout out to Mother’s Everywhere

Rejoining Terry Boi, Ina Anthony and Michelle Brown on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 8:30PM EST/7:30PM CST for this pre-Mother’s Day Show are new parents Jonica and Nkenge Jazz Burkhead. Jonica and Nkenge were our guests in January sharing their story of growing their family via IVF. Now that little Johan has arrived. The new parents are back to talk about life with baby – the birth, each of their experience with maternity/parental leave and work, the joys and challenges and how big brother Patrick is doing with baby Johan.Also joining us will be L and Sharron Dorris proud parents of son Jeremiah Dorris. Their story is unique because L and Sharron work with children shelters. After watching how these children live, L and Sharron decided that they wanted to give a child all the love they knew they could give, so they decided to adopt. Jeremiah came into their lives and his happy and warm personality stole their hearts and the rest is history. Jeremiah was adopted in 2014 and if you see the pictures posted by the proud parents you know Jeremiah is at home.CWT4R will open the lines during the last half-hour of the show so that you can share your special tribute/remembrance of your mother. Let’s tell the women we call momma/mother whether blood or not how much we love them and what they mean or meant to our lives. Remember some mommas were aunts, grandmothers, and sisters. Read a letter, say a poem or just say I LOVE YOU.

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How Will You Preserve Stories told by Women? Who Will Tell Our History?

Joining Can We Talk for REAL, Wednesday night will be Dr. Watson, from Real Woman Speak. RWS is dedicated to impacting the lives of women through visual media and print by collecting our stories and preserving our histories So many stories have been lot but so many have been captured and will hold our history forever.Most recently, she was featured on the LGBT Radio Nation Show the topic being Intergenerational Communication. Dr. Watson has also been a guest on the Rhonda Sciortino radio show Crack the Code and the Detroit Area Agency on Aging Senior Solutions Radio Show. Since her retirement, she has ventured into yet another genre, film making. Starting a production company, Reel Women Speak is dedicated to impacting the lives of women through visual media. Women will have the opportunity to become empowered, enhance and develop their quality of life and recalibrate their future, thereby strengthening families and transforming communities. Collective Voices: Wisdom of our Lesbian Elders is her first independent film. Dr. Watson states that “whether it’s in my writing, art or film I have a deep need to recollect traditions and generational legacy, this perhaps comes from listening to stories from my elders specifically, African American women sitting, laughing, talking on porch steps or around the kitchen table.” Dr. Debraha Watson describes herself as a mother of two adult children, a film maker, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor and retired higher education administrator. “I can be driven or complacent. Insecure or egotistical like all living creatures I am passing through stages. I am recovering, discovering and growing.”