For Winning Week on BTR, we bring you an in-depth conversation with Marcia Rock and Patricia Lee Stotter, the filmmakers behind a new documentary called Service: When Women Come Marching Home. The film explores post-traumatic stress syndrome, military sexual trauma, homelessness, and other issues facing military service women. In our interview, Rock and Stotter discuss how civilians can help women veterans overcome the challenges awaiting them when they come home.
Check out the official trailer for Service here:
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/22874367[/vimeo]
Today’s spoken word segments feature the talents of Andrea Gibson, Dave Lordan, and Marty McConnell. If you’d like to submit a poem for our consideration to be played/read/performed on the show, send the text of your poem in a Word document format to thirdeyeweekly at gmail dot com. Feel free to send an mp3 of your file but if you do, of course, we’ll have to take the file’s sound quality into consideration. So just be prepared to have one of us read your poem on the air (you know, if we like it) if we can’t tell what you’re saying.
So without further ado…
The Playlist!
The Music!
Peasant
Bound For Glory official cover art.
Live:
Aug 10 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia
Xiu Xiu
Live:
Jun 27 – Le Divan Du Monde – Paris, France
Jun 28 – Exhaus – Trier, Germany
Jun 29 – Marie Antoinette – Berlin, Germany
Jun 30 – K4 – Nuremberg, Germany
Jul 02 – Ostinato – Pist, Czech Republic
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