PennSound Podcasts

In Episode 53 of PennSound podcasts, 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-languageable." In this PennSound podcast, Teare and Shearn Coan talk...

In Episode 52 of PennSound podcasts, on September 10, 2015, re-visited the Kelly Writers House to give an evening reading. A few hours earlier, and met Rothenberg in the Wexler Studio for an extended interview/conversation that ranged across many epochs, poetic modes, and topics. Among them: the new young German poets of the mid- to late 1950s; the world of Jewish mystics Rothenberg discovered as...

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 touch alone." Armendinger read from the book and then...

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 erasure to map the boundaries of collective engagemen...

In Episode 49 of PennSound podcasts, this interview tracks ' 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 of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and the nearby black state university, Ce...

In Episode 48 of PennSound podcasts, on March 18, 2015, Canadian poet visited Philadelphia and the Kelly Writers House and came into the Wexler Studio to record a conversation with . Zolf and Teare discussed Zolf's most recent book, Janey's Arcadia, which Teare described in his introduction to Zolf's reading at Temple University in November 2014 as a work that "situates us in a Canadian national h...

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 called "ModPo"; and to sit down in the Wexler Studio w...

In Episode 46 of PennSound podcasts, Eric Alan Weinstein and 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 's The Waste Land, and in particular to two modally quite distin...

In Episode 45 of PennSound podcasts, convened an hourlong conversation with Alan Golding, , , and . 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 shifted to Golding's assessment then of opposition to Language poets' anti-academic stance. Finally, t...

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, 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 can hear the entire recording — and indeed watch a video recording — of the event by...

In Episode 41 of PennSound podcasts, on February 20, 2012, traveled from Calgary, Alberta, to read at a Belladonna* event, part of the "HOT TEXTS" project. She read with and , and was introduced by Emily Skillings. Skillings and Krystal Languell hosted the event, which took place at The Way Station in Prospect Heights Brooklyn. Episode #41 of the PennSound podcasts series, hosted and edited by Emi...

In Episode 40 of PennSound podcasts, 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 and ), and to participate in a recording session of PoemTalk (on a poem by ). spoke with David about his own poetry...

PennSound podcast 39 is devoted to — 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. introduced the event, and a few seconds of his remarks can be heard in the podcast.

Episode 38 in the PennSound podcast series presents a fifteen-minute excerpt from '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.

In Episode 37 of PennSound podcasts, at a at the Bowery Poetry Club hosted and curated by 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 out for this event: I counted over seventy in the audience including David Antin, Ell...

The 35th episode of PennSound podcasts presents an anthology of introductions to readings given by : in 1963, 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.

In Episode 34 of PennSound podcasts, the Literature faculty and the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT invited 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 readings of lipograms and N+7 writing. As a service particularly to tho...

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 , there were short talks each by , , , Katie Price, Steve McLaughlin himself, and Benjamin Behrend. In this PennSound podcast, Hennessey's retrospective is featured (along with clips he prepared from various bits from the archive).

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 and . For Jacket2's "Reissues" department, has prepared a digital edition of the EP audio inserts that appeared with the magazine in each issue. Here are the seven recordings chosen for our podcast antho...

In Episode 31 of PennSound podcasts, visited the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. He participated in the recording of an episode of PoemTalk (about a poem by ), and then took time to record a conversation with about the founding of Jacket and various related topics. This recording is episode #31 in the PennSound podcast series. During the discussion Filreis asked Tranter to read a few recent p...

, 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 into German and Finnish. Hollo taught creative writing in eighteen different institutions, among them SUNY Buffalo, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Colorado at Boulder;...

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), , Brian Reed and gathered at the Kelly Writers House to talk about 's life and poetry on January 24, 2007. The event was co-sponsored by the Writers House, Penn's Creative Writing Program, Temple-Penn Poetics, The Poetry So...

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: , "A Conventional Hero" and "PS 54"; , "Seconds"; , "City People"; , "In the Wee Hours"; , "Gait Signatures"; , "...

Episode 27 of PennSound podcasts features an anthology of eight introductions to , 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 (New York, October 24, 1966), in the Woodberry Poetry Room of Harvard (Cambridge, October 27, 1966),...

In Episode 26 of PennSound podcasts and as part of the LINEbreak series, co-editors of RIF/t, and , talk with 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 o...