the Poetry Project Podcast

Monday Reading Series Simon Pettet, as well as the recent author of Hearth and As A Bee, is the author of More Winnowed Fragments among other poetry collections. Black Sparrow published his Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler in 1999. He is also the author of Talking Pictures and Conversations About Everything with the photographer Rudy Burckhardt. British by birth, he is a long-time resident...

Wednesday Reading Series Joshua Clover is the author of two books of poetry and two of cultural history and theory. His new book of poetry, Red Epic, is forthcoming from Commune Editions (spring 2015) and a book on the political economy of struggle, Of Riot, will be published by Verso in spring 2016. His column “Pop & Circumstance” appears monthly in The Nation, and he has completed collaborative...

Wednesday Reading Series Nicole Peyrafitte is a pluridisciplinary artist. Her latest project, “Bi-Valve: Vulvic Space / Vulvic Knowledge,” was published by StockportFlats. more info: www.nicolepeyrafitte.com. Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is the author of As Water Sounds (Bootstrap 2014) and Palm to Pine (2011), as well as the small books 88 Haiku for Lorca (Push Press), Against What Light (Ypolita), Room S...

Wednesday Reading Series Bruce Andrews is an experimental poet, performance artist, literary theorist & recently retired (after 38 years) left-wing professor of political science. As Musical Director for Sally Silvers & Dancers, he has created sound designs and, in performance, live mixes of music & text for over two decades of performances. Most recent of a dozen or so big books is last year’s Yo...

Friday Reading Series Sally Wen Mao is the author of Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014), the winner of the 2012 Kinereth Gensler Award and a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Pick of Fall 2014. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2013 and is forthcoming or published in Black Warrior Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, and Third Coast, among...

Wednesday Reading Series Robert Kocik is a prosodist and design/builder. He has a business for each letter of the alphabet. Of late, he has concentrated on the writing of libretti (investigative, political economy, somato-sonic musicals) for the Commons Choir which he co-directs with choreographer Daria Faïn. His cross-disciplinary writings move through the hard, soft and sore sciences to comprise...

Wednesday Reading Series Benjamin Hollander was born in Haifa, Israel and as a boy immigrated to New York City. He presently lives on the west coast of North America. His books include: In the House Un-American (Clockroot Books/Interlink Publishing, Spring 2013); Memoir American (Punctum Books, Spring 2013); Vigilance (Beyond Baroque Books, 2005); Rituals of Truce and the Other Israeli (Parrhesia...

Friday Reading Series Maryam Parhizkar writes, researches and works via her musical training, and is completing her MA concentration in American Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the managing editor of Litmus Press and the author of Pull: a ballad (The Operating System, 2014). She will be joined by cellist Hamilton Berry for part of this reading/performance. Audra Wolowiec is an interdis...

Wednesday Reading Series Ed Sanders is a poet, historian and composer. Sanders’ books include Tales of Beatnik Glory, 1968, a History in Verse; The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg; The Family, a history of the Charles Manson murder group; and Chekhov, a biography in verse. His 1987 collection, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, won an American Book Award. His selected poems, 1986-2008, Let...

Wednesday Reading Series Reina Gossett is the membership director at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project as well as the 2014-2015 Activist-In-Residence at Barnard College’s Center for Research on Women. Reina is a filmmaker collaborating with Sasha Wortzel to write, direct and produce STAR PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, a film detailing the lives of Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P Johnson and Street Transvestite...

Monday Reading Series Diana Hamilton‘s first book, Okay, Okay (Truck Books 2012) deals primarily with women crying at work. Three chapbooks came out this year, or will soon enough: 1. Universe (Ugly Duckling Presse), a long poem about examples in moral philosophy, 2. Some Shit Advice (The Physiocrats), in which the speaker provides advice about shitting, and 3. 23 Women to Kiss Before You Die (Mak...

Wednesday Reading Series Author of over 20 books, Will Alexander works in multiple genres. Aborginal Salt: Early Divinations is a compendium of early work is due out from White Print Inc in Detroit, as well as a 2nd edition of Towards The Primeval Lightning Field to be published by Litmus Press. Winner of a 2013 American Book Award for his book of essays Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat, he continues...

Friday Reading Series Claudia La Rocco’s recent and ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations include projects with the performance company Findlay//Sandsmark, the sound artist Martijn Tellinga and the composer Phillip Greenlief. La Rocco founded thePerformanceClub.org, which won a 2011 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and focuses on criticism as a literary art form. She is a m...

Penny Arcade is an internationally respected performance artist, writer, political activist, and poet. One of the handful of artists who created contemporary text-based performance art beginning in the 1980s, she has continued to define the art form for nearly three decades. In 2010, Semiotext(e) published Bad Reputation, a book on her performance work that included three performance scripts. Sinc...

Friday Reading Series Sarah McCarry (www.therejectionist.com) is the author of the novels All Our Pretty Songs and Dirty Wings and the editor and publisher of the chapbook series Guillotine. Sade Murphy was born and raised in Houston, TX. She doesn’t have an accent. She attended the University of Notre Dame and graduated with a Bachelor’s in Studio Art. Her studio practice is focused in book arts,...

Monday Reading Series Talk Series: Hans Ulrich Obrist on Etel Adnan Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Co-director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris. Since his first show “World Soup” (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 250 shows. Obrist’s recent publications include A Brief History...

Wednesday Reading Series Jena Osman‘s books of poetry include Corporate Relations (Burning Deck Press), Public Figures (Wesleyan University Press), The Network (Fence Books), An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books) and The Character (Beacon Press). For 12 years she co-edited the magazine Chain with Juliana Spahr, and now they co-edit the ChainLinks book series together. Osman teaches in the MFA Creativ...

Monday Reading Series Mark Johnson lives in Philadelphia. He hosts a reading series at his book and record shop, Hiding Place. Recent publications include Dream of a Like Place (SUS Press), rful (Lulu), and Gruon BS (Make Now). His first full-length is due out from Make Now in the fall of 2014. Claire Wilcox is a writer based in New York City. Recent works of poetry and criticism have appeared in/...

Friday Reading Series Chelsea Hodson, a 2012 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow, is currently writing a book of essays. She is the author of two chapbooks: Pity the Animal (Future Tense Books, 2014), and Beach Camp (Swill Children, 2010). Her essays have been published in Black Warrior Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Sex Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Jackie Wang is a queer...

Laura Sims is the author of three books of poetry: My god is this a man, Stranger, and Practice, Restraint (Fence Books); her fourth collection, Staying Alive, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2016. She edited Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson, a book of her correspondence with the celebrated experimental novelist (powerHouse Books), and has also published five chapbooks of poetr...

Monday Reading Series Sarah Dowling is the author of DOWN, Birds & Bees, and Security Posture, winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Selections from her work appear in I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. Her critical work has appeared in American Quarterly, GLQ, Canadian Literature, Signs and elsewhere. Dowling is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisci...

Wednesday Reading Series Angela Carr’s most recent book of poetry is Here in There (BookThug 2014). Her other poetry books are Ropewalk (2006) and The Rose Concordance (2009). She has also published a few chapbooks, including “Risk Accretions” in Handwerk. Currently, she teaches creative writing and poetry at The New School for Liberal Arts. In addition, she is a translator (French to English). He...

Monday Reading Series Lanny Jordan Jackson is a poet and artist concerned with performance, recitation, writing, and filmmaking. His recent video Scorpio vs. Glass Door Restaurant can be viewed online at The Claudius App. Aaron Winslow is the author of the chapbook Four Gashes: Tales of the Great Misery (Make Now) and the novel Jobs of the Great Misery (ABC Books, Spring 2015). He is currently wor...

Wednesday Reading Series Lucas de Lima was born in southeastern Brazil. He is the author of Wet Land (Action Books) as well as the chapbooks Ghostlines (Radioactive Moat) and Terraputa (Birds of Lace). A contributing writer at Montevidayo, he pursues doctoral studies in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Jeanine Oleson is a visual artist with an expanded practice. She has pu...

Bill Berkson was born and grew up in New York and has lived in Northern California since the early 1970s. He is Professor Emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he taught art history and literature from 1984 to 2008. He is a corresponding editor for Art in America and a contributor to such other journals as Aperture and The Brooklyn Rail. His most recent books include: Portrait and Dre...