Massachusetts Review Radio
Thursdays 5:30-6:30 PM, WMUA 91.1 FM Click here to listen to WMUA live
Upcoming Broadcasts:
MARCH 9: A visit from poets JON ANDERSON, MARTÍN ESPADA, AND DANIELLE LEGROS GEORGES prior to their reading at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall at the University of Massachusetts.
MARCH 16: LORETTA ALPER of the Media Education Foundation, and Pepi Leistyna, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics Graduate Studies at UMass Boston, on their new documentary Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class.
CD Recordings of these programs--Sut Jhally, Bill Streeter, Hans Teensma, Dara Wier, Matthew Zapruder--are now available from The Massachusetts Review. Please send a check (sorry, no credit cards) for $7 for each CD you would like to: The Massachusetts Review, South College, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003
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Every Thursday MR² investigates the cultural life of the Pioneer Valley, along with the rest of the universe. Tune in to hear our hosts--Roger Fega, David Lenson, and Jim MacDee--interview writers, artists, musicians, critics, artisans, and a variety of interesting and dynamic people. The topics range widely and the discussions reach far beyond the propaganda, pabulum, and palaver that dominate talk radio.
Present: the blues, bookbinding, painting, publishing, literature, nudity, the majesty of catalpa trees, marijuana, Disney, perversion, animals, weaponry, binaural recording, book design, contemporary poetry, ancient Athenian sex strikes, war protest, media criticism, sculpture, sexuality, food, intellectual stimulation, baseball.
Absent: dogma, kow-towing, political correctness, commercials, pledge drives, rhetoric, favor-grubbing, easy answers, flattery, showboating, celebrity-pandering, boredom.
MR² News
The Massachusetts Review Debuts MR², its New Radio Show on WMUA, 91.1 FM
Read the full Press Release.
Read an article on MR² from Illuminating, the UMass Humanities and Fine Arts Newsletter
Read the Valley Advocate's Article on MR² by James Heflin
