Featured resources
From "Down To Write You This Poem Sat" at the Oakville Gallery
- Charles Bernstein, "Phone Poem" (2011) (1:30): MP3
- Caroline Bergvall, "Love song: 'The Not Tale (funeral)' from Shorter Caucer Tales (2006): MP3
- Christian Bôk, excerpt from Eunoia, from Chapter "I" for Dick Higgins (2009) (1:38): MP3
- Tonya Foster, Nocturne II (0:40) (2010) MP3
- Ted Greenwald, "The Pears are the Pears" (2005) (0:29): MP3
- Susan Howe, Thorow, III (3:13) (1998): MP3
- Tan Lin, "¼ : 1 foot" (2005) (1:16): MP3
- Steve McCaffery, "Cappuccino" (1995) (2:35): MP3
- Tracie Morris, From "Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful" (2002) (3:40): MP3
- Julie Patton, "Scribbling thru the Times" (2016) (5:12): MP3
- Tom Raworth, "Errory" (c. 1975) (2:08): MP3
- Jerome Rothenberg, from "The First Horse Song of Frank Mitchell: 4-Voice Version" (c. 1975) (3:30): MP3
- Cecilia Vicuna, "When This Language Disappeared" (2009) (1:30): MP3
- Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Pont Mirabeau" (1913) (1:14):
MP3
- Amiri Baraka, "Black Dada Nihilismus" (1964) (4:02): MP3
- Louise Bennett, "Colonization in Reverse" (1983) (1:09): MP3
- Sterling Brown, "Old Lem " (c. 1950s) (2:06): MP3
- John Clare, "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein (2:54): MP3
- Velimir Khlebnikov, "Incantation by Laughter" (1910), tr. and performed by Bernstein (:28) MP3
- Harry Partch, from Barstow (part 1), performed by Bernstein (1968) (1:11): MP3
- Leslie Scalapino, "Can’t’ is ‘Night’" (2007) (3:19): MP3
- Kurt Schwitters, "Ur Sonata: Largo" performed by Ernst Scwhitter (1922-1932) ( (3:12): MP3
- Gertrude Stein, If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (1934-35) (3:42): MP3
- William Carlos Willliams, "The Defective Record" (1942) (0:28): MP3
- Hannah Weiner, from Clairvoyant Journal, performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin & Rochelle Kraut (2001) (6:12): MP3
Selected by Charles Bernstein (read more about his choices here)
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Posted 6/9/2021
Back in February we used this space to highlight two newly-added recordings of launch events for Ariel Resnikoff's debut poetry collection, Unnatural Bird Migrator, which had taken place over the previous few months. Today we're announcing that segmented audio from the latter of these two events is now available for your listening pleasure.
Hosted by Stephen Ross of Concordia University's Center for Expanded Poetics, this January 12, 2021 celebration was introduced and moderated by Charles Bernstein with an opening performance by Adeena Karasick. Running ninety-minutes, the launch event recording has been broken into twenty-six individual MP3 files, including separate tracks for each of Karasick's opening pieces, Bernstein's two introductory statements, Resnikoff's individual poems (which are also organized by their section within the book), and finally even the Q&A session has been broken into discrete tracks featuring questions and comments by the likes of Divya Victor, Norman Finkelstein, Pierre Joris, and Adam Sax, along with the participants.
Click here to listen in on PennSound's Ariel Resnikoff author page, which is also home to a wide array of readings, podcasts, interviews, and more from 2015 to the present. You can learn more about Unnatural Bird Migrator, and read its back-cover blurbs by clicking here.
Posted 6/8/2021
Recent years have brought a heightened critical focus to the groundbreaking work of poet Bob Kaufman, and rightly so — a quintessential San Francisco poet of the post-war period, Kaufman served as a vital bridge between jazz poetry's development during the Harlem Renaissance and its ongoing evolution during the Beat era on both coasts, and was an innovator in the surrealist tradition, as well as co-founder of the germinal journal Beatitude. For those reasons and more, we are very excited to announce the launch of PennSound's new Bob Kaufman author page. Curated by Raymond Foye — who co-edited 2019's Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman from City Lights with Neeli Cherkovski and Tate Swindell — our Kaufman page is anchored by Bob Kaufman, poet: the life and times of an African-American man, a stunning 1992 audio documentary written and produced by David Henderson, which comes to us courtesy of Naropa University Audio Archive, Henderson, and Cherkovski. Extensive timetables have also been generated for both one-hour installments, providing details on the various speakers, topics discussed, etc. Individual poems read by Kaufman have also been broken out into their own MP3 files. Additionally, we're proud to be able to share a twenty-one minute recording made by A. L. Nielsen, for which we have no details regarding date or location, and a brief recording of Kaufman reading the poem "Suicide," which comes to us courtesy of Will Combs. We look forward to adding more Kaufman materials over time, but were too excited to share these astounding recordings with our listeners. Click here to start browsing.
Posted 6/6/2021
While we're all still percolating with excitement from this year's fantastic slate of Kelly Writers House Fellows, any withdrawal symptoms you might be experiencing can easily be remedied with today's exciting news of next year's trio of Fellows. KWH Faculty Director Al Filreis recently shared preliminary information on who'll be joining us in the spring of 2022: Dear friends and colleagues: I am excited to announce next year's Kelly Writers House Fellows. More information about their visits to the Writers House in winter/spring 2022 will come later, but in the meantime if one or more of these Fellows especially interest you please do not hesitate to write us to [email protected] and reserve a seat at our programs. We host a 6:30 PM reading on the Monday evenings and an interview/conversation on the Tuesday mornings starting with brunch at 10 AM. - novelist/essayist Amitav Ghosh: February 21-22
- poet/text and sound-art performer Caroline Bergvall: March 28-29
- memoirist/sports commentator, and NY Times columnist, Doug Glanville: April 25-26
These events are entirely open to the public, although seating is limited. In addition, in an undergraduate seminar, the "Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar," twenty or so students will read the work of each Fellow and then meet privately with them during that week's three-hour class session. If you are a current Penn student and are interested in being a member of the seminar, contact me at [email protected]. For more about Writers House Fellows, including the 22-year history of video recordings of Fellows' visits, please visit this site. Best wishes to all, | Of course, we'll keep our readers posted with more info as it becomes available. In the meantime, if you'd like to spend a little time some of the wonderful visitors we've had over the years, you can do so here. |
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New at PennSound
- New author page for Bob Kaufman
- New author page for Neeli Cherkovski
- New recording of "Steveston, BC" by Daphne Marlatt, May 27, 2021
- Newly segmented seminar of Leslie Scalapino at SUNY Buffalo, March 7, 1991
- Readings by Gregory Corso at Naropa University, 1975-1978
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- Newly segmented reading of Leslie Scalapino at Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, March 20, 2010
- Untitled Home Recording by bill bissett, May 22, 2021
- Newly segmented episode of LINEbreak featuring Leslie Scalapino, SUNY Buffalo, 1996
- Stephen Collis performing "Yes I Do Want to Punch," March 14, 2021
- Steve Clay on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, May 17, 2021
- Jerome Rothenberg and Ariel Resnikoff launch a A Paradise of Hearing, May 23, 2021
- Readings at Prospects Conference, Stevens Institute, by Bruce Andrews, Jackson Mac Low, and Simon Pettet, May 23 1996
- Hanif Abdurraqib virtual reading and conversation, Kelly Writers House, April 19, 2021
- What Is Undug Will Be: A digital archive
launch for Cross Cultural Poetics (1997–2010), February 27, 2021
- Triple book launch party featuring Barbara Henning, Tony
Iantosca, and Lisa Rogal; reading, Q&A;, and Lewis Warsh memorial, November 15, 2020
- Soleida Ríos reading "Pies de palma" in a home recording in Havana, Cuba, February 3, 2021
- Robin Blaser reading at Evergreen State College, February 5, 2007
- Adam Fieled reading from Equations: The Jade Episodes, Carriage Hill, Plymouth Meeting, PA, 2021
- Lecture by Fred Wah "Standing in the Doorway - the Hyphen in Chinese-Canadian Poetry," March 25, 2013
- Readings by Maggie O'Sullivan and Bernadette Mayer,
hosted by University of Glasgow, February 2021
- Grzegorz Wroblewski reading at Woodland Pattern's 27th Annual Marathon, January 30-31, 2021
- Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz present
Jack Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues," from footage recorded live at the Knitting
Factory, NYC, December 4, 1988
- E no. 3/Slowscan Records Volume 48, ft.
Steve McCaffery, CoAccident, Greta Monach, Jackson Mac Low, Vladan Radovanovic, Irrepressible Bastards,
Hannah Weiner, and Gene Carl
- New author page: Derek Beaulieu
- Gabriel Ojeda-Sague and Charles Bernstein read at 47th Annual Poetry Project Marathon, January 1, 2021
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- Canadian launch of Ariel Resnikoff's Unnatural Bird Migrator, January 12, 2021
- John Richetti reading Ben Jonson's "On My First Son"
and William Empson's "Just A Smack at Auden," January 2021
- Breaking Through with Taylor Johnson, November 17, 2020
- Sussman Poetry Program reading by Jake Marmer of Cosmic Disapora, October 14, 2020
- Gabriel Ojeda-Sague reading Losing Miami October 7, 2020
- Bob Perelman reading Jack and Jill in Troy September 23, 2020
- September 20 Kimberly Alidio Book Launch Event and December 8 In-Flux Reading added in the Belladonna* Series
- John Richetti reading Clement Clark Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas", December 10, 2020
- Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive: Fall Poetry Reading Series, 2019
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis Reading from Late Work and Around the Day in 80 Worlds, October 2020
- Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz, Hanuman Presents!: A Reading at the Poetry Project, New York, May 18, 1989
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Pog Reading, Tucson, Arizona, October 10, 2020
- Henry Hills, Plagiarism (1981)
- Reading and Discussion with Rae Armantrout and Bob Perelman on Zoom at The San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books, August 28, 2020
- John Richetti reading Poe, Coleridge, Tennyson, and Whitman at home for PennSound Classics, September, 2020
- Tyrone Williams reading at Zaza Performance Series, August 7, 2020
- Three readings from Tim Dlugos, c. 1974-84
- John Richetti reads Walt Whitman at his home, September 2, 2020
- Jacques Roubaud reading at la Libraire Texture, Paris, December 4, 2019
- July 7 In-Flux readings and August 18 Matters of Feminist Practice Journal Launch Part 3 added in the Belladonna* Series
- Ed Roberson reads at The Mackey Sessions in Durham, NC, September 20, 2018
- Nathaniel Mackey reads with Our True Day Begun Soon Come Qu'ahttet at The Mackey Sessions in Durham, NC, September 21, 2018
- Michael Ruby reads from The Star-Spangled Banner, 2020
- Michael Ruby reads from The Mouth of the Bay, 2019
- Michael Ruby reads from The Edge of the Underworld, 2019
- Dozens of added recordings and new archival information added to the S Press Collection
- Lisa Robertson and sabrina soyer perform translations of Troubadour poet Na Castelloza in Brussels, 2020
- Trevor Joyce reading at Effie Street, February 24, 2020
- Adrienne Rich reads for WBAI Radio, April 30, 1972
- Adrienne Rich reads for City Arts & Lectures, San Francisco, November 30, 1993
- Adrienne Rich, from A Sign / I Was Not Alone, 1977
- Ted Joans performing in Amsterdam, 1964
- Erín Moure reads for the Kelly Writers House Fellows Program via Zoom, March 30, 2020
- Peter BD and Rachel James read for Breaking Through at the Kelly Writers House, January 29, 2020
- Erica Hunt reads at the Kelly Writers House, November 4, 2019
- Shiv Kotecha and Bianca Rae Messinger read for Breaking Through at the Kelly Writers House, November 20, 2019
- Dottie Lasky, Emily Pettit, and Meeree Orlandini read for the Whenever We Feel Like It Series at the Kelly Writers House, November 5, 2019
- Donna Stonecipher and Daniel R. Biddle in City Planning Poetics, Episode 8: Urban Ruins, at the Kelly Writers House, October 7, 2019
- Laura Mullen reads at the Kelly Writers House, September 24, 2019
- Kate Colby reads at the Kelly Writers House, September 18, 2019
- Marjorie Welish reads for Time Sensitive at the Kelly Writers House, September 17, 2019
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