Featured resources
From "Down To Write You This Poem Sat" at the Oakville Gallery
Contemporary
- 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
Historical
- 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 12/10/2019
Early December must be when formidable women poets are born — yesterday we celebrated Eileen Myles' 70th, and today would have been the 189th birthday of Emily Dickinson. For many years, a treasure trove of Dickinson materials was scattered throughout our site, but a few years ago we pulled together a proper PennSound author page for the poet, gathering selected resources from throughout our archives.
It should come as no surprise that Susan Howe would be prominent featured, and here you'll find complete talks on the poet from 1984 (from the New York Talk series) and 1990 (from SUNY-Buffalo) in addition to several smaller excerpts from larger talks pertaining to the poet. There's also a link to PoemTalk #32, which discusses Howe's interpretation of Dickinson's "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun."
Full series of lectures on Dickinson are also available from Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley, both at the New College and dating from 1981 and 1985, respectively. Among other substantial contributions, there's also the 1979 Dickinson Birthday Celebration at the St. Mark's Poetry Project (featuring Jan Heller Levi, Charles Bernstein, Susan Leites, Charles Doria, Virginia Terrace, Barbara Guest, Madeleine Keller and Vicki Hudspith, Armand Schwerner, Karen Edwards, Jackson Mac Low, Maureen Owen, and Howe) and Rae Armantrout's 2000 presentation on Dickinson from "Nine Contemporary Poets Read Themselves Through Modernism."
You'll also find performances of individual Dickinson poems from John Richetti and Jeffery Robinson as well as brief excerpts of radio interviews — with John Ashbery, Guest, and Elizabeth Bishop — pertaining to the poet.
Our hope is that this page, which brings together disparate resources already available in our archives, will be a useful tool for teachers, students, and casual readers, as well as serious scholars. Click here to start exploring.
Posted 12/9/2019
Whether you're an old fan or newly acquainted with Myles, a great place to start is her two-part 2009 Close Listening radio program with Charles Bernstein that includes readings of twenty-one poems from throughout her published work, and a half-hour conversation between the two.
Our earliest recordings of Myles are three appearances on Public Access Poetry in the late 1970s. They're nicely complemented by a 1978 appearance on Susan Howe's WBAI radio program and an October 1978 Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn — one of seven total Segue Series appearances from the 1970s to the present. That's followed by a 1981 reading at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, a pair of Belladonna* readings from 2003 and 2009, visits to our own Kelly Writers House in 2010 and 2016 (when she was one of that year's Kelly Writers House Fellows). Other full-length readings include sets from the Dia Art Foundation, Mills College's Contemporary Writers Series, the ICA in Philadelphia, the California College of the Arts, the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona (via POG Sound), LA Lit, the CUNY Graduate Center, Basilica Soundscape, and the Penn Book Center, and there are also numerous individual tracks scattered over the past five decades. Certainly, the promise of the poet's early writing and the audacity of her 1992 presidential campaign have flourished fully in our new century, with Myles taking her rightful place as one of our era's most influential poets, as well as one of our community's greatest ambassadors to lay audiences. Therefore we not only celebrate her today, but wish her many happy returns!
Posted 12/6/2019
Our latest addition to the site is Charles Bernstein's recent Close Listening conversation with French poet Claude Royet-Journoud, which was recorded in Paris late last month. In his Jacket2 commentary post announcing the episode, Bernstein offers this summation: "I recorded this Close Listening conversation with Claude Royet-Journoud in Paris on November 24, 2019. We talked about his early years in London, his editing of Siècle à mains, meeting Anne-Marie Albiach, his extraordinary poetry interview program for France Culture, as well as his trips to the United States."
One of the more notable recordings on PennSound's Claude Royet-Journoud author page is the poet's November 3, 1984 reading with Keith Waldrop at the Ear Inn. Waldrop reads his translations of La Notion d'Obstacle alongside the French originals, and to close out the set, Royet-Journoud reads prose excerpts from book three of Les Objets Contiennent l'Infini. Strangely enough, segmenting this reading was one of the very first projects I undertook after starting at PennSound and it's wonderful to revisit it now. You'll also find a 1974 documentary film on the poet that also features Edmond Jabés and Lars Fredrikson, along with a 1995 reading at SUNY-Buffalo as part of the First Poetics Program French Poetry Festival, a 2008 video portrait by Bernstein, a 2012 lecture in Paris, and a pair of 2016 videos celebrating the release of La finitude des corps simples. Click here to start listening.
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New at PennSound
- Adam Fieled's The Ballad of Robert Johnson at Westminster Arch, Philadelphia, 2011
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- Charles Bernstein, Ann Lauterbach, and Mónica de la Torre Double Change Readings
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- Close Listening with Charles Bernstein featuring Claude Royet-Journoud. November 24, 2019
- Belladonna Readings at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop on October 30, 2019 and Chaim & Renee Gross Foundation on November 18, 2019
- Breaking Through featuring Shiv Kotecha and Bianca Rae Messinger, hosted by Simone White, Kelly Writers House, November 20, 2019
- New Author Page: Ted Enslin
- Cia Rinne reading texts by Vagn Steen, April, 2019
- Cia Rinne and Tomomi Adachi reading at the Haus für Poesie, Berlin, February 2, 2019
- Charles Bernstein reading at Dilluns de Poesia, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, October 21, 2019
- Nathaniel Mackey reading with Marty Ehrlich, Hugo House, Seattle, September 22, 2019
- Close Listening with Charles Bernstein featuring Kit Robinson, October 6, 2019
- Kit Robinson and Uche Nduka reading at Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, October 6, 2019
- A selection of readings by Tom Weatherly
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- Jackson Mac Low, Bob Cobbing, and Tom Leonard reading at the Sound & Syntax International Festival of Sound Poetry, 1978
- Julie Patton readings filmed by Ted Roemer, circa 2013
- Double Change readings by Habib Tengour, Pierre Joris, Charles Bernstein July 25, 2019
- Steve Dalachinsky: New Author Page
- Aldon Nielsen Reading at Xavier University, April 25, 2016
- New works from Gar, The Fire of 'Bu, and other sound and video poetry by Eva Macali in Italiana
- Talks with Jennifer Scappettone and Haun Saussy, UChicago, January 23-24, 2018
- Etel Adnan interviewed by Jennifer Scappettone, Extra Video: Travels in Philosophy and Music, Paris, September 23 and 24, 2017
- Kenward Elmslie and Steven Taylor performing at Naropa University, July 23, 1991
- Pen America Conversation with Harryette Mullen and Erica Hunt, NYC, November 15, 2007
- New readings from Segue Series at ZINC Bar, 2016–19
- Pamela Sneed and Samuel Ace on Montez Press Radio, June 27, 2019
- Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, featuring Dubravka Djuric, July 26, 2019
- Raul Zúrita: New Author Page
- Lesbian All Stars with Ariel Goldberg, Andriniki Mattis,
Natalie Peart, LJ Roberts, Jeanne Thornton, and Jeanne Vaccaro, NYC, July 12, 2019
- Lyn Hejinian reading from The Book of a Thousand Eyes, January 15, 2011
- Bill Berkson reading from Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently, January 15, 2011
- Bill Berkson and Clark Coolidge on Philip Guston, June 8, 2011
- A selection of readings from the Robert Creeley collection, by Cid Corman, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael McClure, Robert Duncan, Basil Bunting, Louis Zukofsky, and Charles Olson
- A selection of readings (circa 2009–2013) by Kevin Killian, courtesy of Andrew Kenower/A Voice Box
- Charles Bernstein reading at the 50th Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, June 13, 2019
- Raúl Zurita reading in Rotterdam, June 15, 2019
- Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge reading and brunch conversation for Kelly Writers House Fellows Program, March 25–26, 2019
- M. NourbeSe Philip reading for Belladonna* Series, Poets House, New York City, June 1, 2019
- A selection of readings (circa 1974–1989) by Kenward Elmslie
- Concordance: an evening with Susan Howe, Harvard Divinity School, April 24, 2019
- Charles Bernstein Birthday and Retirement Celebration, Kelly Writers House, April 4, 2019
- Allison Cobb and Brian Teare reading at Kelly Writers House, April 2, 2019
- Bernadette Mayer reading and conversation for Brodsky Gallery Opening, Kelly Writers House, April 1, 2019
- Poetry is for Breathing with readings by Aditya Bahl, Husnaa Hashim,
and Fatemeh Shams, hosted by Orchid Tierney, Kelly Writers House, April 17, 2019
- John Richetti reads English Renaissance verse and poetry by W.H. Auden at the Wexler Studio, Kelly Writers House, April 10, 2019
- City Planning Poetics Episode 7: CARCERAL
JUSTICE, with Emily Abendroth and Nina Johnson, Kelly Writers House, March 21, 2019
- Spring 2019 Belladonna* programming: Lesbian All Stars with
Raquel Gutiérrez, Ru (Nina) Puro, Camille Roy, Gail Scott, and Pamela Sneed at
Performance Space New York; Epic Voices ft Bernadette Mayer and Stacy Szymaszek at Poets
House; and Sahar Muradi and Diana Khoi Nguyen at Queens College
- New Housework at Chapterhouse Recordings from February 11, 2017 and April 16, 2017, Philadelphia, PA
- Stephen Ratcliffe reading from _sound of wave in channel_ and _w i n d o w_ at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco (October 28, 2018) and Vanne Bistro in Berkeley (January 7, 2019)
- PennSound Single: Andrei Codrescu reading at Strand Book Store, NYC, March 26, 2019
- Barbara Henning and Maureen Owen Reading for Belladonna* at McNally Jackson Williamsburg, January 18, 2019
- Will Alexander recording of Aural Monsoon, Live in The Haight, August 13, 2017
- Barbara Henning, Maureen Owen, and Ashley Smith Keyfitz Reading at Malvern Books, Austin, TX, February 2, 2019
- New PennSound Page: Ezra Pound Radio Speeches
- Amiri Baraka Reading at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, October 24, 2005
- Tribute to Anne-Marie Albiach at IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine), Paris, France, November 26, 2015
- Will Alexander Reading at Hauser and Worth, NY, February 12, 2019
- A Celebration of Gerrit Lansing in Kingston, NY, October 20, 2018
- PennSound Single: Richard Sieburth Retirement Speech at NYU, February 9, 2019
- PennSound Single: Hanif Abdurraqib reading "USAvCUBA", January 2019
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