In the Midst of Deepest Night

by Gregory Whitehead, March 2026

… the tumor broke open; now the end is at hand … if at the start, there were still enough forces … in the midst of deepest night …

What reverberates for me within EAPS: we are not only a community of acoustic & poetic creativity—we are also a community of listening!

As a lifelong singer, I have been a part of many different kinds of vocal ensembles. The most enjoyable, for both singers and audiences, have been those where the collective voicing was deeply rooted in close listening, with singers “tuning” each other into a true camarata. Through time, I sense that we EAPS artists are gradually experiencing that same sort of tuning, in all sort of subtle ways, giving depth and integrity to each successive EAPScast.

I look forward to that day (and I am sure it will come!) when we convene together somewhere and perform live-to-air!

I am also relieved that our themes are aesthetic qualities and not topical subjects; suggestive, rather than prescriptive in the fashion of poetically vacant and numbingly predictable “shows” like This American Life.

In the Midst of Deepest Night, Gregory Whitehead, 2025

In Memory of the White Rose anti-Nazi Resistance. Text drawn from Leaflet II of the White Rose, 1942; and from Hannah’s Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951.

Gregory Whitehead: radiomaker, audio artist, text-sound poet, playwright, singer of tales and media philosopher. In recent radiocasts, I have drawn inspiration from Elizabeth Alexander’s brilliant poem, Invocation, inscribed on a stone at the National Memorial for Peace & Justice in Montgomery, Alabama:
The wind carries sorrows, sighs, and shouts.
The wind brings everything. Nothing is lost.

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