PennSound Podcasts are hosted by PennSound's co-director, Al Filreis. PennSound was created in 2003 in order to produce new audio recordings and to preserving existing audio archives of poets reading their own work and discussing poetry and poetics. PennSound makes these available to eve…
Christie Davids interviews Sue Landers on her 2016 book, Franklinstein.
Davy Knittle interviews Rachel Levitsky
Christy Davids interviews Trish Salah
Michael Hennessey, one of the founding participants of the PennSound archive, joins Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio to discuss Mike's top 5 PennSound picks.
Christy Davids interviews erica lewis
CAConrad reading and conversation with Julia Bloch
Jaime Shearn Coan interviews Brian Teare.
Jerome Rothenberg and Ariel Resnikoff join Al Filreis in discussion.
Brian Teare interviews Brent Armendinger.
Gabriel Ojeda Sague interviews Emji Spero.
Al Filreis interviews William J. Harris in Brooklyn, NY.
Ariel Resnikoff interviews visiting Japanese poet, Yosuke Tanaka.
Brian Teare interviews Rachel Zolf.
Amaris Cuchanski introduces a 20-minute excerpt from an October 2012 event at the Kelly Writers House featuring conceptualist writing by women, celebrating the publication of I'll Drown My Book.
Erin Moure reads at a Belladonna* event, part of the "HOT TEXTS" project, in February 2012.
Eric Weinstein and Al Filreis discuss the modern long poem, with special reference to The Waste Land.
Alan Golding, Orchid Tierney, Bob Perelman, and Ron Silliman join Al Filreis to discuss canons, anthologies, Language writing, academia and the long poem.
Al Filreis interviews David Abel at the Kelly Writers House in March 2014.
A 9-minute excerpt from a November 2013 reading by Ann Lauterbach at the Kelly Writers House.
Emily Harnett introduces a 15-minute excerpt from Duncan's 3-day lecture on Walt Whitman in 1981.
Robert Kocik, Benjamin Aranda, and Vito Acconci talk about poetry and architecture in a 15-minute excerpt from a 2009 event.
Kenneth Koch, Richard Howard, David Lehman, and Susan Schultz introduce John Ashbery in readings spanning five decades.
Harry Mathews on Oulipo at MIT in 1999.
Michael Hennessey's retrospective on creating the PennSound archive.
Nick DeFina and Amaris Cuchanski collaborated to present an anthology of seven recordings from among those produced in association with Alcheringa magazine by Dennis Tedlock and Jerome Rothenberg.
John Tranter visited Philadelphia in spring 2013 and was interviewed by Al Filreis about Jacket magazine and related topics.
Finnish translator and poet Anselm Hollo died in January 2013. PennSound podcasts celebrates his life and work with this retrospective anthology of recordings.
In 2007, at the time Library of America published a new volume of Hart Crane's poems, Charles Bernstein, Samuel Delany, and Brian Reed gathered at the Kelly Writers House to celebrate Crane's life and work.
From the vast Belladonna* reading series page at PennSound, seven performances by Belladonna*-affiliated poets are presented in this podcast hosted by Amaris Cuchanski.
An anthology of 8 introductions to readings by Robert Creeley from 1961 to 1996, from PennSound's Creeley author page.
Charles Bernstein interviews Ken Sherwood and Loss Pequeno Glazier for the LINEbreak series in 1995 at SUNY Buffalo.
Jerome Rothenberg on May 7, 2010, presenting at the Threads Talk Series (curated by Steve Clay and Kyle Schlesinger), mapped branches of book culture that are typically kept apart.
Selections from the five-volume set of recordings made at Brown University at the May 2001 celebration of (then) forty years of Burning Deck Press publishing of books, chapbooks and pamphlets, by, of course, Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop.
On March 14, 1979, Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein visited the studios of WBAI in New York and were interviewed by Susan Howe, 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 on a discussion of opaque as distinct from transparent language and of language’s materiality.
Featuring P. Inman and Dan Farrell in conversation, this is an excerpt of a longer discussion. Hosted by Amaris Cuchanski.
Featuring Kyger, Creeley, and Hewlett in casual conversation, this is an excerpt of a longer discussion. Hosted by Amaris Cuchanski.
Charles Alexander discusses 27 years of Chax Press and predecessors in 20th-century letterpress publishing.
Dan Saxon on Lower East Side '60s poetry
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