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PoemTalk #184, Discussing John Giorno's "Everyone is a complete disappointment," feat. Brooke O'Harra, and Christopher Funkhouser

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PoemTalk #124, Discussing Jack Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight", feat. J. C. Cloutier, Michelle Taransky, and Clark Coolidge

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PoemTalk #95, Discussing Rob Fitterman's Poem Sprawl, feat. Laynie Browne, Rodrigo Toscano, and Michelle Taransky

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PoemTalk #87, Discussing Emily Dickinson's "She rose to His Requirement," and "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!," feat. Michelle Taransky, Cecilia Corrigan, and Lily Applebaum

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PoemTalk #77, Discussing Lorine Niedecker's "Foreclosure" and "Wilderness"

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PoemTalk #70, Discussing Laura Mullen's "Bride of the New Dawn", feat. Amy Paeth, Michelle Taransky, Steve McLaughlin

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PoemTalk #65, Discussing Lisa Robertson's The Weather

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PoemTalk #56, Discussing Charles Reznikoff's "Salmon and red wine" and "During the Second World War, I was going home one night"

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PoemTalk #52, Discussing Cole Swensen's "If a Garden of Numbers"

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PoemTalk #45, Discussing Eileen Myles' "Snakes", feat. Sarah Dowling, Michelle Taransky, and Charles Alexander

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PoemTalk #40, Discussing Susan Schultz's "Dementia Blog"

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PoemTalk #26, Discussing Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo"

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PoemTalk #24, Discussing Barbara Guest's "Roses", feat. Natalie Gerber, Randall Couch, and Michelle Taransky

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Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, January 13, 2018

  • Complete Recording (25:50): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading, Philadelphia, January 6, 2017

Complete reading (1:52): MP3

The Beat Poets: A Conversation with Philadelphia Writers, KWH, March 17, 2014

(with Frank Sherlock, Maria Raha, Chris McCreary, and Thomas Devaney)

Complete recording (1:01:15): MP3

Reading for Joseph Ceravolo Celebration, September 9, 2013, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania

  • Complete reading (5:42): MP3

Two GChat Poems from "Sorry Was In The Woods" (Omnidawn 2013), June 2012

LIVE at the Writers House #92, February 20, 2012

Introduction (0:52): MP3
No, I will be in the Woods (8:13): MP3

Rachel Blau DuPlessis Celebration, Temple University, October 21, 2011

  • Complete reading (4:02): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 8, 2011

  • Complete reading (25:47): MP3

Appearing on Rabbit Light Movies, Winter 2011

If This Is A Goat, I Will Tell You (1:52): MP3

Studio 111 Session, December 7, 2010

from Barn Burned, Then (Omnidawn Publishing, 2009)

  1. Barn Burner, A Call (0:59): MP3
  2. Barn Burning, An Eclogue (1:07): MP3
  3. Barn Burner, I (1:07): MP3
  4. Barn Burning (0:42): MP3
  5. Barn Burner, Say It (1:14): MP3
  6. A Flower Within (2:14): MP3
  7. Preface (0:22): MP3
  8. Barn Burned, Then (0:32): MP3
  9. What Is Counted (1:52): MP3
  10. Building The Bank, Asking (0:47): MP3
  11. A Stutter, Following (1:33): MP3
  12. Ballad (0:49): MP3
  13. Fall Instructions (1:21): MP3
  14. The Way The Bank Works (1:11): MP3
  15. The Event (1:28): MP3
  16. Standing In The Door, Calling That (1:08): MP3
  17. Saving For A Purpose (0:55): MP3
  18. Banking Rules (0:33): MP3
  19. Bank Note (1:39): MP3
  20. Profit + Loss Statement (1:24): MP3
  21. Theory For Building Where Fault (1:04): MP3
  22. If You Call The Barn Burner (1:01): MP3
Studio 111 Session produced by Jeff Boruszak.

Whenever We Feel Like It presents CAConrad at The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 2, 2010

Introduction by Michelle Taranksy (4:22): MP3

Whenever We Feel Like It presents Myung Mi Kim at The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, March 1, 2010

Introduction by Michelle Taranksy (4:02): MP3

The Mind of Winter at The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, January 28, 2010

(with Al Filreis, Litty Paxton, Kelly Diamond, James La Marre, Lily Applebaum and Zore Dare-Attanasio)

reading from Discrete Series by George Oppen and from Goat in the Snow by Emily Pettit (4:50): MP3

MLA Off-Site Reading at The Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009

Complete reading (2:00): MP3

Appearing at Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism, sponsored by the Belladonna* Reading Series, New York, September 25, 2009

Complete recording (16:31): MP3

Friends Central Poetry Program at The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, May 12, 2009

Michelle Taransky teaches "The Sentence" by Robert Creeley [ PDF ]

  • Complete recording (16:05): MP3

Reading from Barn Burned, Then, May 2009

  • A Stutter Following (1:50): MP3
  • Fall Instructions (1:26): MP3

KWH Art Opening for Spin Glasses and Other Frustrated Systems at The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, April 6, 2009

(with Cecilia Corrigan, Timothy Leonido, Diana Hamilton, Eddie Hopely, Vladimir Zykov, Joey Yearous-Algozin, Trisha Low, Steve McLaughlin, Gregory Laynor, Ian Davisson, Johann Diedrick, and James La Marre)

Complete reading (44:37): MP3

Reading at "William Carlos Williams and the Women" at The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, November 11, 2008

(with Sarah Dowling, Jena Osman and Pattie McCarthy)

Complete reading by Michelle Taransky (11:45): MP3

David Foster Wallace Reading and Celebration at The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 7, 2008

Complete program (1:36:56): MP3

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