PennSound Podcasts

For Episode 25 of PennSound podcasts, Nick DeFina created this 20-minute audio selection from the five-volume set of recordings made at Brown University at the May 2001 celebration of (then) forty years of Burning Deck Press publishing of books, chapbooks and pamphlets, by, of course, and . We hope this excerpt entices you to listen to the whole, itself an aptly remarkable testimony to the range,...

In Episode 24 of PennSound podcasts, on May 7, 2010, presenting at the Threads Talk Series (curated by Steve Clay and Kyle Schlesinger), mapped branches of book culture that are typically kept apart. Rothenberg reviews the differences between — and the need to bring together — speech and writing and printing, and he uses this summary as a way of freshly re-defining ethnopoetics. The title of the t...

In Episode 23 of PennSound podcasts, on March 14, 1979, and visited the studios of WBAI in New York and were interviewed by , host then of the Pacifica Radio Poetry Show. This installment in the PennSound podcast series, introduced again by Amaris Cuchanski and based on editing done by Nick DeFina, features an excerpt from that interview focusing on a discussion of opaque as distinct from transpar...

Hosted by Amaris Cuchanski, Episode 22 of Pennsound podcasts includes a brief introduction, followed by a 21-minute excerpt from the conversation between and that took place at the Kelly Writers House on November 29, 1999, the 14th PhillyTalks event curated by and technically produced by Aaron Levy. The entire recording includes links to audio segmented by poem and a link to a PDF copy of the prog...

Hosted by Amaris Cuchanski, Episode 21 of PennSound podcasts features a 17-minute excerpt from a one-hour-and-23-minute recording of a conversation among Greg Hewlett, , and in June of 1972. The whole discussion — and links to segments by topic — are available on PennSound's page.

In Episode 20 of PennSound podcasts, , founder of Chax Press, joins at the Kelly Writers House for a discussion of his introduction to letterpress printing and his experience with small press.

In Episode 19 of PennSound podcasts, a PennSound Thanksgiving special, introduces recordings from the PennSound archive of poems giving thanks. The recorded readings include 's "I Love Music (For John Coltrane)," 's "Lovely," 's poem dedicated to Eddie Linden, 's "A Letter to Paul Celan in Memory," 's "Glad they were there," and ' "Light Hearted William."

Rare it is that explains one of his poems. But, in a radio interview in 1966, he did that just. He read "These Lacustrine Cities" and then went line by line offering various sorts of explanations - paraphrase, sources for phrases and words, a sense of the process of composition. Here is a PennSound podcast, the 18th in our series, featuring this recording, which aired on WKCR.

Episode 17 of PennSound podcasts features a twenty-three-minute edited excerpt of a celebration at the Kelly Writers House on October 27, 2001, honoring and the release of The Form of Our Uncertainty, edited by Kristen Gallagher and published by Chax Press.

Episode 16 of PennSound podcasts features an excerpt from the 100th birthday celebration organized by to honor at the Kelly Writers House on April 7, 2008. The event included short presentations, talks, readings, and remembrances by , , , , Stephen Cope, , , , , and .

In Episode 15 of PennSound podcasts, Dan Saxon joins at the Kelly Writers House for a conversation in June 2009. The two discuss Le Metro, a gathering place for Lower East Side poets and artists, and Saxon's magazine All Poets Welcome.

In Episode 14 of PennSound podcasts, joins at the Kelly Writers House for a conversation about his poem tubes. The two discuss his connection to poet , Green's art background, and digital poetic communities.

In Episode 13 of PennSound podcasts, joins at the Kelly Writers House for a conversation about her critical study on Venice, Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice. The two discuss the alternative readings of modernism and Venice as an archive for a new epic.

In Episode 12 of PennSound podcasts, on November 20, 2008, visited the Kelly Writers House for the opening of a collaborative student art installation at the Kelly Writers House based on his book The Tapeworm Foundry: And or the Dangerous Prevalence of Imagination. This PennSound podcast features Wershler-Henry's discussion with , , and Kelly Writers House Art curator Kaegan Sparks.

In Episode 11 of PennSound podcasts, on April 19, 2005, interviewed and moderated questions for at the Kelly Writers House. This PennSound podcast features a twenty-two-minute excerpt of their conversation.

Episode 10 of PennSound podcasts features a 15-minute excerpt from a longer phone conversation between and Richard Sieburth conducted not long after Sieburth completed his editing of the collected recordings of for PennSound. Sieburth's complete work, as well as his , is available on the PennSound page.

In Episode 09 of PennSound podcasts, on April 11, 2000, interviewed and moderated questions for at the Kelly Writers House. This PennSound podcast features a twenty-minute excerpt of their conversation.

In Episode 08 of PennSound podcasts, on December 9, 2004, brought together two very different Cageans — and — for a conversation with the students of his Modern and Contemporary American Poetry course. First, we hear from Goldsmith, explaining the hubbub that resulted when his book Soliloquoy was first introduced. Soliloquoy is an unedited document of every word Goldsmith spoke during one week in...

In Episode 07 of PennSound podcasts, discusses , a 2007 Kelly Writers House Fellow, who has written poems and prose about death, human mortality, and nature's stasis. He reads a few of Hall's poems, and recordings of Hall reading his own work are featured.

As explains in the 2007 Episode 06 of Pennsound podcasts, PennSound is an archive for those seeking to make aesthetic connections between different poetic trends: a site of convergence for the reader (in this case, listener) and the poetic tradition. This makes PennSound a particularly useful resource for teachers who are looking to demonstrate to their students the relationships between contempor...

In Episode 05 of PennSound podcasts, an excerpt of a conversation with about recorded poetry is featured. This discussion refers to the sheer quantity of poetic voices now widely available in such recordings, a few of which -- including , , , and -- are played before this discussion.

In Episode 04 of PennSound podcasts — which also features an excerpt from the Flarf Poetry Festival — relates the origin story of the Flarf movement. Stephen McLaughlin, then an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, introduced the Flarf Poetry Festival. This podcast features McLaughlin's introduction and readings by , , , and .

In Episode 03 of PennSound podcasts, for the Winter/Spring of 2006, selected recordings from the PennSound archives to be featured in this episode. Featured poems include 's "On This Side Nothing," 's "Oh," 's "Praise Poem: Elizabeth Murray," 's "Peter Lorre Reminisces about Being a Sidekick," and 's "Trying to Live As If It Were Morning."

In Episode 02 of PennSound podcasts, introduces recordings from the PennSound archive of reading and discussing her work. The recordings include Jena Osman reading "Dropping Leaflets" at a 2001 Kelly Writers House event, a 2004 discussion between and Osman about contemporary poetics and "Dropping Leaflets," a brief excerpt from a 1995 interview with Osman, and Osman's recitation of her piece "The...

In Episode 01 of PennSound podcasts, introduces recordings from the PennSound archive of reading various poems and works. The recorded readings include "A Paradise of Poets," an excerpt from The Lorca Variations, John Cage's "Lecture on Nothing," and selections from Esther K. Comes to America.