Best PennSound Podcasts (2024)

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Parts of parts: an interview with Larry Price 54:23

5M ago54:23

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In Episode 78 of PennSound podcasts, poet Larry Price joins Al Filreis and William Fuller for an interview in the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House to discuss his new book 1/0, as well as some of his earlier work. The three discuss various influences on Price's poetry, including his love of Shakespeare and his former work as a performance ar…

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If we just had enough heart: an interview with Evie Shockley 54:40

6M ago54:40

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In Episode 77 of PennSound podcasts, poet Evie Shockley sits down in the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House for an interview about her work with Al Filreis, Tyrone Williams, Aldon Nielson, and William J. Harris. In this wide-ranging conversation, Shockley, Filreis, Williams, Nielson, and Harris discuss the scope and trajectory of Shockley's p…

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A placeholder for memory: an interview with Sally Van Doren 44:59

7M ago44:59

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In Episode 76 of PennSound podcasts, Sally Van Doren joins Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House for a discussion of her newest book, Sibilance (LSU Press, 2023). Van Doren reads aloud from her work, and the two discuss the practices of visual art and asemic writing that structure her life as an artist and inform her approach t…

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Backwards and in circles: an interview with Willard Spiegelman 1:09:47

12M ago1:09:47

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In Episode 75 of PennSound podcasts, Willard Spiegelman sits down with Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House's Wexler Studio for a discussion on the underappreciated 20th century poet Amy Clampitt. The duo embark on a long exploration of Spiegelman's biography on Clampitt, Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt (Knopf, 2023). Spieig…

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Advance and retreat of energy: an interview with Gail Scott 1:02:43

2y ago1:02:43

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In Episode 74 of PennSound podcasts, Christy Davids talks with Montréal writer Gail Scott about her recent release Permanent Revolution (Book*hug Press, 2021), a compilation of new and revised essays, including work that originally appeared in Scott's foundational feminist text, Spaces Like Stairs (Women's Press, 1996). The revolutionary character …

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I will wear the mask: a conversation with Emily Abendroth and Jeff T. Johnson 1:18:31

2y ago1:18:31

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In Episode 73 of PennSound podcasts, Jeff T. Johnson and Emily Abendroth exchange perspectives on how modular, nonlinear writing can open into enactive relationships that press readers and listeners alike beyond individual experience toward "critical empathy" and its relational tactics and strategies for living in common amidst social struggles tha…

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I am the city: a conversation with Jill Magi and Davy Knittle 44:37

2y ago44:37

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In Episode 72 of PennSound podcasts, Davy Knittle and Jill Magi spoke over Zoom about Magi's book Speech (Nightboat Books, 2019). Their discussion moved through many aspects of the relationship between the city and the woven object, such as the intersection of textiles and architecture; how weaving, like walking, teaches us to live in communities; …

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Empathy under late capitalism: an interview with Danielle LaFrance 1:04:02

4y ago1:04:02

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In Episode 71 of PennSound podcasts, Levi Bentley, Ted Rees, and Danielle LaFrance met in the Wexler Studio in November 2019 to discuss LaFrance's books Just Like I Like It and Friendly + Fire as a part of the Housework series. Their conversation touched on the gross and grotesque, "it" as ideology, abolishing the self and the "sovereign I," empath…

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Taking up space: an interview with Sarah Rose Etter 24:17

4y ago24:17

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In Episode 67 of PennSound podcasts, Sarah Rose Etter joined Jacket2 editor Julia Bloch in the Wexler Studio last September for a short reading from and discussion of her debut poetic novel, The Book of X, which appeared in 2019 from Two Dollar Radio. Etter and Bloch talked about the impact of open poetics and visual art upon Etter's prose style, t…

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'Some quality of song': an interview with Al Young 1:14:03

4y ago1:14:03

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In Episode 70 of PennSound podcasts, Al Young, Tyrone Williams, and William J. Harris joined Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio to discuss Young and his work. The conversation covered the relationship between Young's poetry and the Black Arts Movement, the role of music and jazz in his writing, and other figures with whom he was acquainted, such as po…

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An openness to language: a conversation with Rodney Koeneke and Davy Knittle 38:02

4+ y ago38:02

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In Episode 69 of PennSound podcasts, Davy Knittle hosted poet Rodney Koeneke in the Wexler Studio to discuss his book, Body and Glass (Wave Books, 2018). Their conversation touches on Koeneke's writing process and use of pronouns as a "distancing technique," the role of poetry — particularly experimental forms — in America today, and how joy might …

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Not-me-ness: a conversation with Eileen Myles and Davy Knittle 46:13

4+ y ago46:13

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In Episode 68 of PennSound podcasts, Davy Knittle and Eileen Myles had a conversation at Myles's home in the East Village in New York City in August, 2018, for this PennSound podcast. Their discussion began in the midst of an exchange about Myles's 1991 collection Not Me and changes in their neighborhood at the time. Conversation topics spanned "no…

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Always with, never about: a conversation with Dani Zelko and Jennifer Ponce de Léon 1:08:39

5y ago1:08:39

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In Episode 66 of PennSound podcasts, Argentine poet Dani Zelko was joined in the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House by Jennifer Ponce de León to discuss North Border: forced migrations (Gato Negro, 2019), the latest installment of Zelko's Reunión project. Zelko and Ponce de León's conversation explores the Reunión writing procedure as a "reci…

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Become something with other people: an interview with Wendy Trevino 1:13:40

5y ago1:13:40

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In Episode 65 of PennSound podcasts, Wendy Trevino joined hosts Levi Bentley and Ted Rees for this PennSound podcast, the first in a series of intimate conversations in Housework's transition from reading series to recording series. Conversation topics included Barack Obama's appearance in Best Experimental Writing 2016, post-arrest listmaking, "un…

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The poem is the memory: a conversation with William Corbett and Davy Knittle 44:47

5y ago44:47

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In Episode 64 of PennSound podcasts, William Corbett visited the Kelly Writers House in October 2017 for a retrospective reading and conversation with Stan Mir in honor of the poet Michael Gizzi. During his visit, Corbett and Knittle had a conversation in the Wexler Studio about the work of New York School poet James Schuyler, whose Just the Thing:…

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New writing through the Anthropocene: an interview with Allison Cobb and Brian Teare 56:39

5y ago56:39

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In Episode 63 of PennSound podcasts, Allison Cobb and Brian Teare joined Julia Bloch, Knar Gavin, and Aylin Malcolm in the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House on April 2, 2019, following their lunchtime discussion with scholars and poets from Penn's Poetry and Poetics and Anthropocene and Animal Studies reading groups. Our discussion ranged fr…

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Loving the self in the world: a conversation with Jared Stanley and Brian Teare 53:59

5y ago53:59

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In Episode 62 of PennSound podcasts, the Reno, Nevada–based poet Jared Stanley visited Philadelphia and the Kelly Writers House in April 2017 during a book tour for the release of EARS, which Sam Lohmann in The Volta has called "a manifesto of interdependence and susceptibility, a theory of the senses, and a deliberate sequence of jokes about lyric…

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Woken up in the sun: a conversation with Samantha Giles and Jenn McCreary 43:59

5y ago43:59

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In Episode 61 of PennSound podcasts, Samantha Giles visited the Kelly Writers House during her reading tour last December to talk with Jenn McCreary about her new collection, Total Recall, which was published by Krupskaya Press and which Daniel Borzutsky has described as a book that "powerfully and strangely melds autobiography, poetry, ethnography…

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Dwell in an otherwise space: a conversation with Ted Rees and Ariel Resnikoff 1:12:34

5+ y ago1:12:34

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In Episode 60 of PennSound podcasts, Ted Rees, who recently relocated from Northern California back to his hometown of Philadelphia, and Ariel Resnikoff, who recently relocated from Philadelphia back to his previous home in Northern California, met up at the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House in October to read from and talk about Ted's new b…

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A place that is living: a conversation with Sue Landers and Christy Davids 1:00:13

6y ago1:00:13

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In Episode 59 of PennSound podcasts, Christy Davids returned to the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House earlier this year to chat with Sue Landers, whose 2016 book Franklinstein represents a documentary-poetic engagement with the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. As she notes in this interview with Davids, Landers's work makes an argument a…

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Through the door: a conversation with Rachel Levitsky and Davy Knittle 53:05

6+ y ago53:05

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In Episode 58 of PennSound podcasts, Davy Knittle hosted poet Rachel Levitsky in the Wexler Studio to discuss her project during her residency at LMCC's Process Space on Governor's Island, "Mother of Separation." Their conversation centers on the role of space, scale, and queerness in Levitsky's work. Conversation topics spanned movement and desire…

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Breaking down that I: a conversation with Trish Salah and Christy Davids 25:13

7+ y ago25:13

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In Episode 57 of PennSound podcasts, Christy Davids and Trish Salah visited Kelly Writers House on February 10, 2017, for a reading and conversation. Davids and Salah talked about lyric form, origin stories, and the "problems of the self" before Salah read passages from Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1, and Wanting in Arabic. Shortly after this reading, Sala…

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Soundtrack of your life: an interview with erica lewis 57:49

7+ y ago57:49

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In Episode 56 of PennSound podcasts, Christy Davids visited Kelly Writers House on October 24, 2016, to talk with erica lewis, who was passing through Philadelphia to give a reading in Jason Mitchell's Frank O'Hara's Last Lover series in between stops in Pittsburgh and Brooklyn. While in the studio, lewis read some work and talked about her box set…

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Adhered to them these extra meanings: Mike Hennessey picks five PennSound recordings 57:02

7+ y ago57:02

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In Episode 54 of PennSound podcasts, Michael Hennessey, one of the founding participants of the PennSound archive, joins Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio to discuss Mike's top 5 PennSound picks.By Al Filreis

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Forms of ritual: an interview with CAConrad 1:01:07

8+ y ago1:01:07

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In Episode 55 of PennSound podcasts, CAConrad returned to the Kelly Writers House on January 27, 2016, to visit the Wexler Studio to speak with Julia Bloch and to read from ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness, which appeared from Wave Books in 2014, as well as a number of new works generated from his ongoing performative and pedagogic…

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To go forward: an interview with Brian Teare 1:04:19

8+ y ago1:04:19

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In Episode 53 of PennSound podcasts, Brian Teare came back to the Kelly Writers House on October 30, 2015, to speak with Jaime Shearn Coan about his new collection of poetry, The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, published in 2015 by Ahsahta Press. Shearn Coan describes Teare's collection as one that imagines "how to language what is un-langua…

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To open things up: an interview with Jerome Rothenberg 1:06:55

8+ y ago1:06:55

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In Episode 52 of PennSound podcasts, on September 10, 2015, Jerome Rothenberg re-visited the Kelly Writers House to give an evening reading. A few hours earlier, Ariel Resnikoff and Al Filreis met Rothenberg in the Wexler Studio for an extended interview/conversation that ranged across many epochs, poetic modes, and topics. Among them: the new youn…

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Trouble the pronoun: an interview with Brent Armendinger 54:28

9y ago54:28

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In Episode 51 of PennSound podcasts, the Los Angeles-based poet Brent Armendinger visited Philadelphia and the Kelly Writers House in April 2015 during a book tour for the release of The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying, which Bhanu Kapil has described as a book that "traces the index of an intense need: the kind of contact that can't be assuaged by tou…

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Any point can connect to any other point: an interview with Emji Spero 54:19

9y ago54:19

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In Episode 50 of PennSound podcasts, Emji Spero, an Oakland-based artist and poet exploring the intersections of writing, book art, installation, and performance, visited Philadelphia and the Kelly Writers House in April 2015 to talk about their book almost any shit will do, which uses found language from mycelial studies, word-replacement, and era…

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All sorts of education: an interview with William J. Harris 1:22:01

9y ago1:22:01

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In Episode 49 of PennSound podcasts, this interview tracks William J. Harris' genesis and early development as a poet and intellectual. Harris' artistic and cultural education occurs during the late '50s, the '60s and the early '70s and takes place primarily in and around academic institutions: the liberal college, Antioch, which is in his hometown…

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An intangible third: an interview with Rachel Zolf 1:00:10

9+ y ago1:00:10

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In Episode 48 of PennSound podcasts, on March 18, 2015, Canadian poet Rachel Zolf visited Philadelphia and the Kelly Writers House and came into the Wexler Studio to record a conversation with Brian Teare. Zolf and Teare discussed Zolf's most recent book, Janey's Arcadia, which Teare described in his introduction to Zolf's reading at Temple Univers…

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The split life: an interview with Yosuke Tanaka 26:10

9+ y ago26:10

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In Episode 47 of PennSound podcasts, the poet and translator Yosuke Tanaka visited Philadelphia and the Kelly Writers House in late 2014. The purpose of his visit was threefold: to join a scientific conference on cell biology; to see the Writers House in person after spending much time there virtually as a participant in the open online course call…

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I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women 19:35

9+ y ago19:35

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In Episode 43 of PennSound podcasts, Amaris Cuchanski has edited and now introduces a 20-minute excerpt from a one-hour recording made of an October 17, 2012, event at the Kelly Writers House featuring conceptualist writing by women, celebrating the publication of I'll Drown My Book. This excerpt is episode 43 in the PennSound podcast series. You c…

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HOT TEXTS: Erín Moure's reading at a 2012 Belladonna* event 23:03

9+ y ago23:03

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In Episode 41 of PennSound podcasts, on February 20, 2012, Erín Moure traveled from Calgary, Alberta, to read at a Belladonna* event, part of the "HOT TEXTS" project. She read with Rachel Levitsky and Christian Hawkey, and was introduced by Emily Skillings. Skillings and Krystal Languell hosted the event, which took place at The Way Station in Pros…

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On reading and teaching the modern long poem: an interview with Eric Weinstein 37:17

9+ y ago37:17

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In Episode 46 of PennSound podcasts, Eric Alan Weinstein and Al Filreis spent some time in the Wexler Studio of the Kelly Writers House talking about the problematics of the modern long poem. Can it be taught? Why is it so challenging, despite its central importance? The discussion is intentionally general at first, but soon Eric and Al turn to Eli…

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Face to face: a conversation with Alan Golding, Orchid Tierney, Bob Perelman and Ron Silliman 58:22

9+ y ago58:22

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In Episode 45 of PennSound podcasts, Al Filreis convened an hourlong conversation with Alan Golding, Orchid Tierney, Bob Perelman, and Ron Silliman. They began by reflecting on Golding's 1995 book From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry twenty years later, beginning with a discussion about anthologies in the digital era, and soon talk shi…

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A way of witnessing: an interview with David Abel 1:23:39

10+ y ago1:23:39

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In Episode 40 of PennSound podcasts, David Abel visited the Kelly Writers House recently in order to record his poems for PennSound, to check with us about our progress in digitizing a box of rare recordings on cassette he has given us for adding to the PennSound archive (including readings by David Rattray and Gene Frumkin), and to participate in …

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Beauty hails us: an excerpted reading by Ann Lauterbach 10:17

10+ y ago10:17

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PennSound podcast 39 is devoted to Ann Lauterbach — a nine-minute excerpt from a reading she gave at the Kelly Writers House in November of 2013. Allison Harris introduces and hosts. For a full video recording of the reading and/or a full audio recording, see the Kelly Writers House web calendar entry. Charles Bernstein introduced the event, and a …

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One great poetic mind through the mind of another: a lecture on Walt Whitman by Robert Duncan 16:33

10+ y ago16:33

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Episode 38 in the PennSound podcast series presents a fifteen-minute excerpt from Robert Duncan's lectures on Walt Whitman presented at New College in three sessions between June 11 and 18, 1981. The full recordings are available on PennSound's Duncan page. The excerpt was edited by Nick DeFina and the podcast is introduced by Emily Harnett.…

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Poetry and architecture: a Bowery Poetry Club event 17:39

10+ y ago17:39

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In Episode 37 of PennSound podcasts, at a Segue Series event at the Bowery Poetry Club hosted and curated by Trace Peterson on April 25, 2009, Robert Kocik, Benjamin Aranda, and Vito Acconci each speak for about twenty-six minutes about relations between poetry and architecture. Peterson wrote this about the event afterward: "People really turned o…

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All subjects are made new: Four introductions to John Ashbery across five decades 12:08

10+ y ago12:08

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The 35th episode of PennSound podcasts presents an anthology of introductions to readings given by John Ashbery: Kenneth Koch in 1963, Susan Schultz in 1996, David Lehman in 2008, and Richard Howard in 1967. Nick DeFina selected and edited the introductions from Ashbery's PennSound page; Allison Harris hosts and introduces the podcast.…

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To invent and reinvent: Introduction to Oulipo by Harry Matthews 16:26

10+ y ago16:26

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In Episode 34 of PennSound podcasts, the Literature faculty and the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT invited Harry Mathews to present on Oulipo in 1999. The audio has been segmented - making available separate links to audio recordings of his introduction, his remarks on the Oulipo group, a brief Q and A session, and several reading…

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Sense memory: PennSound's 10th anniversary 11:38

10+ y ago11:38

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In Episode 33 of PennSound podcasts, on November 18, 2013, Steve McLaughlin hosted a celebration of PennSound's 10th anniversary. After introductory remarks offered by Al Filreis, there were short talks each by Charles Bernstein, Michael Hennessey, Danny Snelson, Katie Price, Steve McLaughlin himself, and Benjamin Behrend. In this PennSound podcast…

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Act to change men's lives and minds: an Alcheringa sound anthology 21:13

11y ago21:13

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For Episode 32 of PennSound podcasts, Nick DeFina and Amaris Cuchanski collaborated to present an anthology of seven recordings from among those produced in association with Alcheringa magazine by Dennis Tedlock and Jerome Rothenberg. For Jacket2's "Reissues" department, Danny Snelson has prepared a digital edition of the EP audio inserts that appe…

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Loose with rare volumes: an interview with John Tranter 48:33

11y ago48:33

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In Episode 31 of PennSound podcasts, John Tranter visited the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. He participated in the recording of an episode of PoemTalk (about a poem by Ray DiPalma — to be released later), and then took time to record a conversation with Al Filreis about the founding of Jacket and various related topics. This recording is epi…

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Anselm Hollo, in memoriam: an anthology of Hollo recordings 17:17

11+ y ago17:17

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Anselm Hollo, the widely admired Finnish poet and translator, died on January 29, 2013. Hollo translated poetry and belles-lettres from Finnish, German, Swedish and French into English and was one of the early translators of Allen Ginsberg into German and Finnish. Hollo taught creative writing in eighteen different institutions, among them SUNY Buf…

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The words were what interested him: a celebration of Hart Crane 20:46

11+ y ago20:46

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In Episode 29 of PennSound podcasts, on the occasion of the publication by the Library of America of Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters (edited by Langdon Hammer), Samuel R. Delany, Brian Reed and Charles Bernstein gathered at the Kelly Writers House to talk about Crane's life and poetry on January 24, 2007. The event was co-sponsored …

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A moment is everything: a Belladonna* anthology 17:48

11+ y ago17:48

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In Episode 28 of PennSound podcasts, from the excitingly varied PennSound page hosting recordings from the Belladonna* reading series from 1999 to the present, PennSound podcasts now presents, for its twenty-eighth episode, an anthology of seven Belladonna* performances. The seven are: erica kaufman, "A Conventional Hero" and "PS 54"; Rae Armantrou…

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Given just the work to be present in: Eight introductions to Creeley, 1961-1996 13:47

11+ y ago13:47

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Episode 27 of PennSound podcasts features an anthology of eight introductions to Robert Creeley, culled from PennSound's many recordings of Creeley's readings over the years. The introductions are, in order: by Paul Carroll (Chicago, May 15, 1961), at the Berkeley Poetry Conference (Berkeley, July 22, 1965), by Ed Sanders (New York, October 24, 196…

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Voices, one after another: a conversation with Kenneth Sherwood and Loss Pequeño Glazier 10:02

11+ y ago10:02

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In Episode 26 of PennSound podcasts and as part of the LINEbreak series, co-editors of RIF/t, Loss Pequeño Glazier and Kenneth Sherwood, talk with Charles Bernstein about electronic publishing and the politics of editing the first online hypertext journal of poetry and poetics, RIF/t magazine. Their program was recorded in the Music Department at S…

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