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audio & video archive of poetry & poetics Associated with the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/ Center for Programs in Contemp Joined March 2009-
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Today we are releasing episode 202 of the PoemTalk podcast series. In this episode, Harryette Mullen, Simone White, and Laynie Browne discuss the “Chasing Dirt” section of Harryette’s recent book Open Leaves. jacket2.org/podcasts/every… PoemTalk is also available at Spotify.
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PennSound congratuates Peter Gizzi: pennsounddaily.blogspot.com/2024/10/congra…
Hello, PennSound people. Over at ModPo, we bring you a few things about Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem "Baseball Canto" including an audio recording from PennSound's Ferlinghetti page: modpo.org/explore/?artis…
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In an episode of “PoemTalk,” a collaboration of the @kellywritershse and @PennSound, Al Filreis convened members of @PennSAS and Tracie Morris to discuss two poems written by Owen Dodson, which the poet recorded in December 1960. Read More: bit.ly/498fUQd
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Check out the new VOX Audio Collection in the @PennSound archive: writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/VO… And an intro to the collection on Jacket2: jacket2.org/article/vox-co…
Thanks for the efforts of PennSound staffer Zelda Kellogg, PennSound's Clark Coolidge page now includes a segmented (poem by poem) recording of Clark's Segue Series reading at the Ear Inn on March 1, 1986: writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Co…
Yesterday we had the great pleasure of hosting these three for a PoemTalk discussion of Gregory Corso's "A Vision of Rotterdam," written and set in September 1957 & seeing back to the devastating Battle of Rotterdam of May 1940: J.C. Cloutier, Rita Barnard, and M.C. Kinniburgh.
Episode 183 of PoemTalk is out today—a discussion of Dodie Bellamy's "Vomit Journal" with Chantine Akiyama Poh, Murat Nemet-Nejat & Henry Steinberg. Links: (with program note): jacket2.org/podcasts/prese… poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/16014…
PoemTalk episode 182—in which Divya Victor, Whitney Trettien & Dagmawi Woubshet discuss “Welter” & “Static” from Douglas Kearney’s book “SHO.” Links: Poetry Foundation: poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/15987… Jacket2, with programs notes and links to text: jacket2.org/podcasts/woot-…
PennSound highlight: Basil Bunting's amazing performance of Whitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking": youtube.com/watch?v=SdQ5Qh…
New at PennSound—Charles Borkhuis reads in the Segue Series, November 2006: writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bo… Thanks to Daniel Boyko of the PennSound staff for the expert segmenting.
From PennSound: Jackson Mac Low performs Stein's "A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass." youtube.com/watch?v=4B7hOz…
Basil Bunting performs Whitman: youtube.com/watch?v=SdQ5Qh…
New PoemTalk episode: on Matvei Yankelevich's "Dead Winter" with Ahmad Almallah, Huda Fakhreddine, and Kevin Platt. Here are links to audio & program notes: jacket2.org/podcasts/downg… poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/15917…
ModPoMinute #96—on a poem by Helen Adam: youtube.com/watch?v=xcNfJO…
Drawing on the PennSound archive: PoemTalk episode out today, discussion of two poems by Maggie O'Sullivan from her book "In the House of the Shaman" with Julia Bloch, Charles Bernstein & Eric Falci. jacket2.org/podcasts/paw-m… poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/15901…
20 remarkable seconds of Ginsberg's "Howl": youtube.com/watch?v=dlcIje…
PennSound's home is Kelly Writers House and we are celebrating with the KWH folks this very weekend. More here: thedp.com/article/2022/1…
Kit Robinson's July 25, 2011, reading at Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, is now available as a segmented (poem by poem) recording at PennSound—thanks for the superb editing by PennSound staffer Wes Matthews. writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ro…
The new episode of PoemTalk is out today: Abdulhamit Arvas, Dagmawi Woubshet & Carlos Decena talk with @Afilreis about John Ashbery's early poem—a poem in part about cruising?—"Some Trees." jacket2.org/podcasts/touch…
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