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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…

PennSound

  • Jun 14, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
  • infrequent NEW EPISODES
  • 31m AVG DURATION
  • 56 EPISODES


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Episode 59 - Christie Davids interviews Sue Landers

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2018 60:13


Christie Davids interviews Sue Landers on her 2016 book, Franklinstein.

Episode 58 - Davy Knittle interviews Rachel Levitsky

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2017 53:05


Davy Knittle interviews Rachel Levitsky

Episode 57 - Christy Davids interviews Trish Salah

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2017 25:13


Christy Davids interviews Trish Salah

Episode 54 - Mike Hennessey's top 5 PennSound picks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2016 57:02


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.

Episode 56 - Christy Davids interviews erica lewis

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2016 57:49


Christy Davids interviews erica lewis

Episode 55 - CAConrad reading and conversation with Julia Bloch

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2016 61:07


CAConrad reading and conversation with Julia Bloch

Episode 53 - Jaime Shearn Coan interviews Brian Teare

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2015 64:19


Jaime Shearn Coan interviews Brian Teare.

Episode 52 - Jerome Rothenberg and Ariel Resnikoff

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2015 66:55


Jerome Rothenberg and Ariel Resnikoff join Al Filreis in discussion.

Episode 51 - Brian Teare interviews Brent Armendinger

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2015 54:28


Brian Teare interviews Brent Armendinger.

Episode 50 - Gabriel Ojeda Sague interviews Emji Spero

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2015 54:19


Gabriel Ojeda Sague interviews Emji Spero.

Episode 49 - Al Filreis interviews William J. Harris

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2015 82:01


Al Filreis interviews William J. Harris in Brooklyn, NY.

Episode 47 - Ariel Resnikoff interviews Yosuke Tanaka

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2015 26:10


Ariel Resnikoff interviews visiting Japanese poet, Yosuke Tanaka.

Episode 48 - Brian Teare interviews Rachel Zolf

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2015 60:10


Brian Teare interviews Rachel Zolf.

Episode 43 - I'll Drown My Book

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2015 19:35


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.

Episode 41 - Erin Moure at 'Hot Texts' in 2012

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2015 23:03


Erin Moure reads at a Belladonna* event, part of the "HOT TEXTS" project, in February 2012.

Episode 46 - The modern long poem with Eric Weinstein

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2015 37:17


Eric Weinstein and Al Filreis discuss the modern long poem, with special reference to The Waste Land.

Episode 45 - Alan Golding, Orchid Tierney, Bob Perelman, and Ron Silliman

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2014 58:22


Alan Golding, Orchid Tierney, Bob Perelman, and Ron Silliman join Al Filreis to discuss canons, anthologies, Language writing, academia and the long poem.

Episode 40 - Poet/bookseller David Abel in conversation

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2014 83:39


Al Filreis interviews David Abel at the Kelly Writers House in March 2014.

Episode 39 - Ann Lauterbach

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2014 10:17


A 9-minute excerpt from a November 2013 reading by Ann Lauterbach at the Kelly Writers House.

Episode 38 - Robert Duncan on Walt Whitman

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2014 16:33


Emily Harnett introduces a 15-minute excerpt from Duncan's 3-day lecture on Walt Whitman in 1981.

Episode 37 - On Poetry and Architecture

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2014 17:39


Robert Kocik, Benjamin Aranda, and Vito Acconci talk about poetry and architecture in a 15-minute excerpt from a 2009 event.

Episode 35 - Four Introductions to John Ashbery

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2014 12:08


Kenneth Koch, Richard Howard, David Lehman, and Susan Schultz introduce John Ashbery in readings spanning five decades.

Episode 34 - Introduction to Oulipo

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2013 16:26


Harry Mathews on Oulipo at MIT in 1999.

Episode 33 - PennSound celebrates its 10th

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2013 11:38


Michael Hennessey's retrospective on creating the PennSound archive.

Episode 32 - An Alcheringa sound anthology

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2013 21:13


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.

Episode 31 - John Tranter in Philadelphia

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2013 48:33


John Tranter visited Philadelphia in spring 2013 and was interviewed by Al Filreis about Jacket magazine and related topics.

Episode 30 - Anselm Hollo, in memoriam

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2013 17:17


Finnish translator and poet Anselm Hollo died in January 2013. PennSound podcasts celebrates his life and work with this retrospective anthology of recordings.

Episode 29 - Hart Crane Celebration

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2013 20:46


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.

Episode 28 - A Belladonna* anthology

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2013 17:48


From the vast Belladonna* reading series page at PennSound, seven performances by Belladonna*-affiliated poets are presented in this podcast hosted by Amaris Cuchanski.

Episode 27 - 8 introductions to Robert Creeley

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2013 13:47


An anthology of 8 introductions to readings by Robert Creeley from 1961 to 1996, from PennSound's Creeley author page.

Episode 26 - Sherwood and Glazier on digital poetics in 1995

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2013 10:02


Charles Bernstein interviews Ken Sherwood and Loss Pequeno Glazier for the LINEbreak series in 1995 at SUNY Buffalo.

Episode 24 - Jerome Rothenberg on the book

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2013 70:55


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.

Episode 25 - Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Burning Deck Press

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2013 22:58


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.

Episode 23 - Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, and Bruce Andrews in 1979

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2013 17:18


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.

Episode 22 - P. Inman and Dan Farrell, PhillyTalks

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2013 21:58


Featuring P. Inman and Dan Farrell in conversation, this is an excerpt of a longer discussion. Hosted by Amaris Cuchanski.

Episode 21 - Joanne Kyger, Robert Creeley, and Greg Hewlett in coversation

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2013 17:54


Featuring Kyger, Creeley, and Hewlett in casual conversation, this is an excerpt of a longer discussion. Hosted by Amaris Cuchanski.

Episode 20 - Charles Alexander and letterpress publishing

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2011 28:07


Charles Alexander discusses 27 years of Chax Press and predecessors in 20th-century letterpress publishing.

Episode 19 - Thanksgiving

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2009 5:16


Thanksgiving

Episode 18 - Ashbery explicates

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2009 18:45


Ashbery explicates

Episode 16 - George Oppen at 100

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2009 23:13


George Oppen at 100

Episode 15 - Dan Saxon on Lower East Side '60s poetry

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2009 17:10


Dan Saxon on Lower East Side '60s poetry

Episode 14 - Tony Green

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2009 38:02


Tony Green

Episode 17 - celebrating Gil Ott

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2009 24:50


Celebrating Gil Ott

Episode 13 - Jennifer Scappettone

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2009 41:31


Jennifer Scappettone

Episode 12 - return to the Tapeworm Foundry

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2008 32:11


return to the Tapeworm Foundry

Episode 11 - Adrienne Rich

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2008 23:39


Adrienne Rich

Episode 10 - Poundian sound editor

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2008 16:24


Poundian sound editor

Episode 09 - Creeley conversation

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2008 27:48


Creeley conversation

Episode 08 - two very different Cageans

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2008 18:17


two very different Cageans

Episode 07 - Donald Hall

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2007 11:12


Donald Hall

Episode 06 - PennSound pedagogy

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2007 15:38


PennSound pedagogy

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