PennSound Podcasts

In Episode 78 of PennSound podcasts, poet joins and 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 artist, which are both reflected in the theatrical, monologic quality of his work.

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 poetry, from her 2011 book the new black, to her mo...

In Episode 76 of PennSound podcasts, Sally Van Doren joins 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 to poetry.

In Episode 75 of PennSound podcasts, Willard Spiegelman sits down with 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). Spieigelman reveals the challenges he faced connecting the dots on...

In Episode 74 of PennSound podcasts, Christy Davids talks with Montréal writer 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 of richly polysemous, multiply path-winding texts is a recurr...

In Episode 73 of PennSound podcasts, Jeff T. Johnson and 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 that require collective reflection and navigation. The conversation i...

In Episode 72 of PennSound podcasts, 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; and walking, weaving, and poetry as fragmentary practices. They...

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," empathy in a late-capitalist world, and the discomfort o...

In Episode 70 of PennSound podcasts, , , and joined 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 poets Ishmael Reed and . Young also gave readings of some of his poems: "A Dance for Militant Dilettante...

In Episode 69 of PennSound podcasts, hosted poet 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 emerge from work about loss. In the podcast, the two also examine the traditio...

In Episode 68 of PennSound podcasts, and 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 "not-me-ness," gender, capitalism, sexuality, perception, and observation, amon...

In Episode 67 of PennSound podcasts, Sarah Rose Etter joined Jacket2 editor 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, the feminist politics of speculative narrative, the process of...

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 "reciprocal work," the book as a political object, migr...

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, "unequal collateral," the organizing-specific shifts...

In Episode 64 of PennSound podcasts, 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 had a conversation in the Wexler Studio about the work of New York School poet , whose Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler Corbett edited (Turtle Point Press, 2009). In their...

In Episode 63 of PennSound podcasts, Allison Cobb and joined , 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 from human embeddedness in the nonhuman world to the relationship between p...

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 address." In this PennSound podcast interview wit...

In Episode 61 of PennSound podcasts, Samantha Giles visited the Kelly Writers House during her reading tour last December to talk with 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, philosophical inquiry, and testimony." In this PennSound podca...

In Episode 60 of PennSound podcasts, Ted Rees, who recently relocated from Northern California back to his hometown of Philadelphia, and , 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 book, In Brazen Fontanelle Aflame. Rees and Resnikoff explore the...

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 against dehistoricized nostalgia as a documentary-p...

In Episode 58 of PennSound podcasts, hosted poet 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, person-making, and gaps in cities.

In Episode 57 of PennSound podcasts, Christy Davids and 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, Salah presented research from her current research project, Toward...

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 trilogy, a three-part project that engages with p...

In Episode 55 of PennSound podcasts, returned to the Kelly Writers House on January 27, 2016, to visit the Wexler Studio to speak with 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 pedagogical practice of somatics and ecopoetics.

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