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I met up with Patrick Durgin at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches literature, writing, and critical theory. Patrick has published books and journals under the Kenning Editions imprint since 1998, during which time he's lived in a number of poetry-rich locales: Iowa City, the Bay Area, Buffalo, Ypsilanti, and now the Windy City. In 2004 he earned his Ph.D. in the SUNY-Buffalo Poetics Program. Patrick's latest book is The Route (Atelos, 2008), a collaboration with Jen Hofer. His essay "New Life Writing," on the writing practices of Jackson Mac Low and Hannah Weiner, recently appeared in Jacket2.
Steve Evans is a critic and scholar of poetry and poetics, and a professor at the University of Maine in Orono. He helps run the National Poetry Foundation and directs the UMaine New Writing Series, for which he's hosted numerous visiting writers and scholars. Steve's research often focuses on recorded poetry readings, and he's posted many of his personal favorites on his blog The Lipstick of Noise. His in-progress Jacket2 commentary series on related issues is titled The Phonotextual Braid. You can find more of Steve's work -- including his famed Attention Span survey series -- at ThirdFactory.net. I recorded Steve at his home in Orono in August 2010.
Patrick Durgin, Thom Donovan and Tyrone Williams talk with Al Filreis about Steve Benson's 2003 improvisation consisting only of questions
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Tyrone Williams, Thom Donovan, and Patrick Durgin.
Poet, musician, publisher and professor Patrick Durgin talks about his new book, Hannah Weiner's Open House and the poet's life in Chicago. Hosted by Brent Jenkins.