Featured resources
From "Down To Write You This Poem Sat" at the Oakville Gallery
- 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
- Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Pont Mirabeau" (1913) (1:14):
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- 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 5/2/2022
First, there's audio from the launch event, which took place on September 16th. After an introduction from Sean Quimby, Rare Books Curator, and opening remarks from exhibition curators Karla Nielsen and Sarah Arkebauer, Granary Press founder Steve Clay took the podium. After his comments, the even continued with brief presentations from Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, Vincent Katz, Daniel Kelm, Emily McVarish, Jerome Rothenberg, and Buzz Spector.
Cecilia Vicuña and Jen Bervin were part of a second event connected with the Granary celebration at Columbia on November 17th. Billed as "The Book as Performance", this performance and discussion session is available as both audio and video with links to HD video on Vimeo.
Finally, we have audio from the exhibition's closing event on January 26, 2016. Billed as "The Plan Without a Plan," this conversation between Steve Clay and Karla Nielson was introduced by Sean Quimby. Timestamped questions from the Q&A session that followed accompany this recording are also available, with participants including Phil Aarons, Duncan Hannah, Tom Damrauer, Jan Herman, and Robert C. Morgan, among others.
You can find audio from the opening and closing events on PennSound's Threads Talk Series page, also curated by Granary Books editors Steve Clay and Kyle Schlesinger, where many of those gathered to celebrate the press have given talks over the year. Vicuña and Bervin's performance is available on their individual author pages.
Posted 4/29/2022
This week closes with us shining a spotlight on our author page for Syrian poet, essayist and translator Adonis, for which we owe our gratitude to Pierre Joris (shown at left with the poet), who provided the recording to us back in 2013.
This Poets House-sponsored reading took place on March 7, 2013 as part of that year's AWP conference in Boston. For this event, Adonis was joined by Khaled Mattawa, whose Adonis: Selected Poems was shortlisted for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize, and after the reading, the two engaged in a lively discussion about poetry and contemporary issues.
Unfortunately, in the intervening years, we have not had the opportunity to add more recordings to our Adonis author page, but this modest gem is still well worth sharing with our listeners.
Posted 4/27/2022
Our author page for Black Mountain-associated poet Hilda Morley (1916–1998) is admittedly a scant archive, containing just one three minute recording — the poem "Provence" from a March 15, 1992 reading at New York's Alice Tully Hall — but as PennSound co-director Charles Bernstein notes, "it is the only recording of Morley now available."
In her New York Times obituary, Wolfgang Saxon observed that "Ms. Morley published five books of poetry in which she articulated emotions and feelings in free verse, but a type of verse as measured as dance or music. She was a 'master of that ability,' Robert Creeley, a fellow poet, said." He continues: "She wrote that her poetry was shaped by the visions of Abstract Expressionism, which can create metamorphoses. Artists like Klee and Picasso, she said, gave her the means to create word canvases depicting the world around her."
We're grateful to be able to share this document of Morley's life, no matter how brief, and thank Patrick Beurard-Valdoye and Austin Clarkson for their assistance in making this recording available.
Want to read more? Visit the PennSound Daily archive.
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New at PennSound
- John Richetti reads selected poems of T. S. Eliot
- Anne-Marie Albiach, from Mezza Voce 1992
- Eric Mottram reading at Sub-Voicive, The Archers Bricklane, London, 1992
- Matvei Yankelevich reading and discussing Dead Winter with Al Filreis, Kevin Platt, and Ahmad Almallah, Kelly
Writers House, February 17, 2022
- Three new reading events from Belladonna* featuring Erica Hunt, Laura Henriksen, Gabrielle Civil, 최 Lindsay, Anna Moschovakis, and more
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge conversation and reading with Runa Bandyopadhyay, February 13, 2022
- Sophia Naz reading in the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House, September 8, 2021
- Clark Coolidge reading at SPD Open House, April 5, 2009
- A collection of videos by Ted Roeder, ft. Larry Fagin, Tonya
Foster, John Godfrey, Julie Patton, Stacy Syzmaszek, and Anne Waldman, c. 2013
- Amiri Baraka performing with Steve McHall and Fred Houn in 1984
- Mark Van Doren: Portrait of a Poet, film by Adam Van Doren, 1994
- Peter Gizzi reading with interview and introduction by Ocean Vuong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 18, 2021
- Jerome Rothenberg reading for his 90th birthday celebration, NYC, December 12, 2021
- John Richetti reads a selection of love poetry, 2021
- John Ashbery and Peter Ackroyd in conversation, September 23, 1986
- Robert Duncan reading at the Berkeley Poetry Conference, July 16, 1965
- Jackson Mac Low recording from the Naropa Institute Archives, August 1975
- Clark Coolidge and Gryphon Rue in conversation, Montez Press Radio, September 22, 2021
- Stephen Ratcliffe reading Sound of Wave in Channel, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, June 2021
- Eugene Ostashevsky delivering Scalapino-Hejinian Lecture in Innovative Poetics, UC Berkeley English Department, September 2021
- Reading by Amiri Baraka and Diane di Prima, July 26, 1978
- New author page for Davy Knittle
- Rachel Zolf reading and interview with Airea D. Matthews for launch of No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics, Kelly Writers House, September 9, 2021
- John Ashbery recording from the Naropa Institute Archives, 1976
- John Richetti reading selected poems of Robert Frost, home recordings, August 2021
- Philip Whalen recording from the Naropa Institute Archives, August 1976 and June 1987
- Paul Blackburn recording from the Ben Tripp Tapes, 1966
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- Michael McClure reading "Grahhh! (Michael in the Lion's Den)" at the Lion House, San Francisco Zoo, summer 1966
- Lew Welch, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, and David Meltzer at the Mad Mammoth Monster Poetry Readings, 1963
- John Wieners and Philip Lamantia at the Mad Mammoth Monster Poetry Readings, 1959
- Gregory Corso reading at Fantasy Studios, Natoma Street, San Francisco, 1969
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading "Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow", 1970
- Newly added readings by Dagmar Apel and Charlie Morrow, recorded by Phil Niblock
- New recordings of Lisa Samuels reading from her book, Tender Girl
- New author page for Norman Pritchard
- Barbara Henning reads from Digigrams, July 2021
- Newly added excerpts from "100,000 Hand-Drawn Questions from the Red Notebooks" by Peter Jaeger, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre, Buffalo, New York, September 11 to October 23, 2020
- Newly added interview with John Ashbery, Brockport Writers Forum, November 27, 1972
- Newly segmented audio of Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin interviewed by Jake Marmer, San Diego, CA, December 23, 2015
- Stephen Ratcliffe reads "Rocks," written over a backpacking trip, in Bolinas, CA, 2021
- Claude Royet-Journoud discusses his 2021 book, L'usage et les attributs du cœur, Paris, May 17, 2021
- Book Launch for Cliff Fyman's TAXI NIGHT, June 6, 2021
- New author page for Bob Kaufman
- New author page for Neeli Cherkovski
- New recording of "Steveston, BC" by Daphne Marlatt, May 27, 2021
- Newly segmented seminar of Leslie Scalapino at SUNY Buffalo, March 7, 1991
- Readings by Gregory Corso at Naropa University, 1975-1978
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- Newly segmented reading of Leslie Scalapino at Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, March 20, 2010
- Untitled Home Recording by bill bissett, May 22, 2021
- Newly segmented episode of LINEbreak featuring Leslie Scalapino, SUNY Buffalo, 1996
- Stephen Collis performing "Yes I Do Want to Punch," March 14, 2021
- Steve Clay on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, May 17, 2021
- Jerome Rothenberg and Ariel Resnikoff launch a A Paradise of Hearing, May 23, 2021
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