Podcast appearances and mentions of ron silliman

Karaoke may be where the party goes to die, but Poetry Karaoke will give you life!Please consider supporting the poets we mention in today's show! If you need a good indie bookstore, we recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a DC-area Black-owned bookshop. Constant Craving is a great song by kd lang. Read Marianne Moore's iconic poem "Poetry" here. Show You the Shape of My Heart, Backstreet Boys. Watch a fabulous interview with Mona Van Duyn here (~30 min).You can watch Robert Bly read three of his poems in his writing studio here (~5 min).Watch Galway Kinnell give a reading and an interview about his influences here (~30 min). You can read his poem "The Bear" here. Listen to Air Supply's "Sweet Dreams" here.  Here's an interview with Ron Silliman in which he discusses his relationship with Ezra Pound (~5 min).Watch Kylie Minogue sing "Your Disco Needs You" live at Royal Albert Hall (~4 min). And you can watch the official video for "Into the Blue" here.Watch Yusef Komunyakaa's answer to how writing and art has changed him here. (~3 min).Here's Heart's "These Dreams" -- a great karaoke ballad!Kevin Killian was interviewed in 2011 as part of the "Big Joy" collection at Georgia State University (~50 min). Listen to Idina Menzel talk about her Wicked injury here. Frankie and Ariana Grande cover "Seasons of Love" here. Or, since we mention a nuptial ceremony in the show, here's a wedding-party cover of the song with the most washed-out bridesmaids who ever did bridesmaid. (You're welcome, Aaron!)

Wave Debris by Diana Duta & Julia E. Dyck https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/wave-debris Diana Duta and Julia E. Dyck's Wave Debris takes the work of scientist Elizabeth Alexander as its starting point, in particular her research into the radio frequencies emitted during sunset. Working mostly with modulated versions of those frequencies, they worked in their own field recordings, feedback, and readings from Ron Silliman’s Sunset Debris. The result feels especially cryptic and otherworldly, full of smoke and dissolving images. The live version was performed at sunset during Rocks Radio Radar Long Wave Radiation, organized by Cristina Ramos as part of her residency at The Watch Berlin. Housed in a former GDR watchtower, half the transmission was streamed from Brussels while the other was performed on location one floor below the audience. The performance attempts to illuminate phenomena that are present but not perceived, that mediate, dissolve, or disclose.

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Ron Silliman, Charles Bernstein, and Rachel Zolf.

Wednesday Reading Series Michael Davidson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge U Press, 1989), Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (U of California Press, 1997), Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (U of Chicago, 2003) and Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (U of Michigan, 2008). His most recent book, Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics was published in 2011 by Wesleyan University Press. He is the editor of The New Collected Poems of George Oppen (New Directions, 2002). He is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is The Arcades (O Books, 1998). He is the co-author, with Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten, and Ron Silliman, of Leningrad (Mercury House Press, 1991). Marjorie Welish is the author of The Annotated “Here” and Selected Poems, Word Group, Isle of the Signatories, and In the Futurity Lounge / Asylum for Indeterminacy (Spring 2012), all from Coffee House Press. The papers delivered at a conference on her writing and art held at the University of Pennsylvania were published in the book Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Books). In 2009, Granary Books published Oaths? Questions?, a collaborative artists' book by Marjorie Welish and James Siena which was the subject of a special exhibition at Denison University Museum, Granville, Ohio, and part of a two-year tour of artists' books throughout the United States. Her honors include the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Fellowship from Brown University, the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellowship at Cambridge University, and two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has held a Senior Fulbright Fellowship, which has taken her to the University of Frankfurt and to the Edinburgh College of Art. She is now Madelon Leventhal Rand Distinguished Lecturer in Literature at Brooklyn College.

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Ron Silliman, Daniel Bergmann, and Michael Kelleher

Michael Kelleher, Daniel Bergmann, and Ron Silliman join Al Filreis for a discussion of three poems by Larry Eigner: "Again dawn," "A temporary language," and "Unyielding / rock."

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

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Ron Silliman, Jessica Lowenthal, and Randall Couch.

In a special long episode of PoemTalk, Ron Silliman, Jessica Lowenthal, Randall Couch and PoemTalk's producer and host Al Filreis gathered to discuss two sections of "Draft 85: Hard Copy," which is the 85th "draft" or canto in Rachel Blau DuPlessis's ongoing long poem Drafts.

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Ken Jacobs, Mark Nowak, and Ron Silliman.

Al Filreis welcomes Mark Nowak, Ken Jacobs, and Ron Silliman to investigate Charles Alexanders "Near or Random Acts".

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Joel Lewis, Daisy Fried, and Ron Silliman.

Ron Silliman, Daisy Fried and Joel Lewis delve into Paul Blackburn's "7th Game: 1960 Series" with host, Al Filreis.

Bob Perelman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Frank Sherlock discuss Ron Silliman's "You" with guest host Michelle Taransky.

This from the Poetry Foundation: "An influential figure in contemporary poetics, Ron Silliman became associated with the West Coast literary movement known as “Language poetry” in the 1960s and ‘70s. He edited In the American Tree (1986), which remains the primary Language poetry anthology, as well as penned one of the movement's defining critical texts, The New Sentence (1987). Silliman's prolific publishing career includes over thirty books of poetry, critical work, collaborations and anthologies. He has long championed experimental or “post-avant” poetics, most recently through Silliman's Blog, a weblog he started in 2002." I met with Ron at the Ottawa International Airport to talk about Language poetry. Among other things we discuss the 'Bardic I"; diagnosis of the self; examining viewpoint; the concept of clarity in writing; literary effects; passion through form; Raid 'killing bugs dead'; manipulation of the reader; the artificiality of literary devices and pre-set responses. Louis Zukofsky; received rather than earned wisdom. Shakespeare as a great font of creative invention. Bing Crosby as the Jimi Hendricks of the microphone. Steve Roggenback. The 'God help us' response. Unquestioned ideology. Ambiguity. Self check-out lanes. Common denominators.  Helen Vendler's irrelevancy. Poets' dishonest criticism. And the importance of reading series.   Photo credit: Jeff Hurwitz  

The Poetry Episode! Anne Waldman with Steve Lacy! Clark Coolidge with Alvin Curran! Carla Harryman with Jon Raskin! FLARF! Susana Gardner, Aaron Belz, Ron Silliman, Leslie Scalapino, Jackson Mac Low, Hannah Weiner, Marcella Durand, David Antin, Heather Fuller, Jen Hofer! (starts at 00:00) “Ice” ~ Anne Waldman ~Live in Amsterdam 6.2.91 (Soyo Records) (starts at 02:26) ”Herso Mashup 1″ ~ Susana Gardner* (starts at 03:22) ”Good Directions” ~ Jen Hofer ~ Snake Hiss: A Transcendental Friend Audio Project (Transcendental Friend, 1999) (starts at 04:29) ”A Pile of Trees and an Actuary” ~ Aaron Belz* (starts at 05:33) ”Song for Asa” ~ Jon Raskin / Carla Harryman ~ Open Box(Tzadik, 2012) (starts at 11:14) Selections from Snips and War and Pee. ~ Rod Smith ~ Flarf Orchestra (Aerial/Edge, 2012)**  (starts at 19:54) ”I Loved My Father” ~ Katie Degentesh ~ Flarf Orchestra(Aerial/Edge, 2012)** (starts at 23:12) ”The Dog Fox” and selections from “The Gospel of Justin” ~ Michael Magee ~ Flarf Orchestra (Aerial/Edge, 2012)** (starts at 27:26)  ”Drew Gardner” ~ Rodney Koeneke  Flarf Orchestra(Aerial/Edge, 2012)** (starts at 32:06) “Open Box II” ~ Jon Raskin / Carla Harryman ~ Open Box(Tzadik, 2012) (starts at 42:54) “Fish Speech” ~ Jon Raskin / Carla Harryman ~ Open Box(Tzadik, 2012) (starts at 47:58) “from OZ” ~ Ron Silliman (starts at 53:55) “from Bum Series” ~ Leslie Scalapino (starts at 58:42) “from Spoke” ~ Hannah Weiner (12-14 from Live at the Ear(Elemenope Productions, 1994) (starts at 1:04:19) “Excerpt from Phoneme Dance in Memoriam John Cage” ~ Jackson Mac Low & Anne Tardos ~ All Poets Welcome (Univ. of California Press, 2003) (starts at 1:08:21) “Hunt” ~ Marcella Durand ~ Snake Hiss: A Transcendental Friend Audio Project (Transcendental Friend, 1999) (starts at 1:10:08) “Who Are My Friends?” ~ David Antin ~ All Poets Welcome(Univ. of California Press, 2003) (starts at 1:13:16) “from Pieces of an Hour (‘Dear John Cage’)” ~ Anne Waldman with Steve Lacy ~ Battery (Fast Speaking Music, 2003) (starts at 1:17:46) “Stereo” ~ Anne Waldman ~ Alchemical Elegy (Fast Speaking Music, 2001) (starts at 1:21:49) “Herso Mashup II” ~ Susana Gardner* (starts at 1:23:51) “Mine” ~ Alvin Curran with Clark Coolidge ~ Maritime Rites(New World Records, 2004) (starts at 1:35:00) “Mr. Fibitz” ~ Aaron Belz* (starts at 1:36:35) “Stricken” ~ Heather Fuller ~ Snake Hiss: A Transcendental Friend Audio Project (Transcendental Friend, 1999) *Recorded by the poets exclusively for Papers for the Border. ** Tracks 6-9, from the Flarf Orchestra CD, features music written and conducted by Drew Gardner. More information can be found here: http://www.aerialedge.com/DrewGardnerFlarfOrchestraCD.html Anne Waldman’s “Ice,” also known as “You’re Like Ice,” was published in her book Journals and Dreams (Stonehill Press, 1976). It’s part of a larger poem titled “In April.” “Pieces of an Hour” was originally published in IOVIS: All Is Full of Jove (Coffee House Press, 1992) and republished in The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press, 2011). “Stereo” was published in Marriage: A Sentence (Penguin, 2000). Susana Gardner’s pieces are from her recent book HERSO: An Heirship in Waves (Black Radish Books, 2011). Aaron Belz’s poems “A Pile of Trees and an Actuary” and “Mr. Fibitz” are from his book Lovely, Raspberry (Persea Books, 2010). Carla Harryman had this to say about “Song for Asa”: “Song for Asa” was published as a broadside in a very limited edition for a reading series in New Orleans. I believe it was also published in a very little magazine that came out Naropa, possibly in about 1999. Other than that it makes an appearance, broken up, in Gardener of Stars, a Novel. Harryman’s “Fish Speech” was published in Memory Play (O Books, 1994) and reprinted in 12 x 12: Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics (University of Iowa Press, 2009). “Open Box II” is a selection from her book Open Box: Improvisations (Belladonna Books, 2007). The text of “Song for Asa” is sung by Aurora Josephson. Text for “Open Box II” is read by Carla Harryman and Jon Raskin. Text for “Fish Speech” is read by Aurora Josephson, Jon Raskin, and Roham Sheikhani. Rod Smith’s recording is comprised of  selections from two manuscripts: Snips and War and Pee. Katie Degentesh’s poem is from The Anger Scale (Combo Books, 2006). Ron Silliman’s “OZ” is a portion of his long workThe Alphabet (University of Alabama Press, 2008). Leslie Scalapino’s “bum series” can be found in her book Way (North Point Press, 1988). Hannah Weiner’s “Spoke” is from the book of the same name (Sun & Moon, 1984). Marcella Durand’s “Hunt” is unpublished. David Antin’s “Who Are My Friends?” was published in Selected Poems, 1963-1973 (Sun & Moon, 1991). “Mine” features Clark Coolidge reading from his book Mine: The One that Enters the Stories (The Figures, 1981; republished, 2004). From the CD liner notes: “Also heard is Arlan Coolidge, retired chairman of the Brown University Music Department, reminiscing about Block Island, Rhode Island, in 1918 and playing a portion of the popular 1917 song “Smiles” on the violin. This material is mixed with the foghorns of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, all three horns on Block Island, and the foghorn on the Block Island Ferry during its crossing.” Heather Fuller’s “Stricken” was published in her book perhaps this is a rescue fantasy (Edge Books, 1997).

Al Filreis, Ron Silliman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Charles Bernstein discuss Armantrout's "The Way"