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 6/2/2023
We wrap up this week with a new addition to our PennSound author page for poet Vincent Katz: a recorded recreation of his November 18, 2022 reading at San Francisco's Green Arcade Books alongside Norma Cole and Aaron Shurin. Running just shy of an hour, Katz's set is comprised of twenty-two titles in total, which show the breadth of his talents. There are generous selections from his most recent collection, Broadway for Paul ("Propensities," "Autumn Days and Hours," "Six Figures Fire," "Winter Window") as well as his current manuscript-in-progress ("Keys and Ripples," "Pulling Out," "The Sign on the Closed Theater Marquee," "Time Marches On," "Walk Beside You") and Previous Glances, a recent retrospective collection published in Italy ("Poem," "The Sky," "Wellsprings"). Katz also reads a pair of translations from the works of germinal Roman elegist Sextus Propertius. Listen to this sprawling set on our Vincent Katz author page, where you'll also find a broad array of readings, talks, and films spanning the past forty five years. Click here to start exploring.
Posted 5/31/2023
This May 31st is the 204th birthday of Walt Whitman — one of the first truly authentic American poetic voices, and one which still resonates with readers more than century after his death. While Whitman left behind no recordings of his poetry — that much heralded wax cylinder with four lines of the late poem "America" is unlikely to be the poet himself — but that doesn't mean that we don't have recordings of Whitman's work for your enjoyment. Today we'll highlight performances and interpretations by three poets. We start with UPenn professor emeritus John Richetti, who has recorded a wide variety of Whitman's work over the years, including "O Captain! My Captain!," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "The Sleepers," "Goodbye My Fancy," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "I Hear America Singing," and sections 1 and 2 of "Calumus." You'll find these tracks on a special page containing all of Richetti's renditions of Whitman's work, which also includes "Song of Myself" in its entirety, among other titles. Sticking with "Song of Myself," we're also lucky to have a 1974 recording of Aaron Kramer reading sections I-XXXII of that poem, and Basil Bunting winds things up with a 1977 reading at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he read "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" as part of a performance that also included work by Louis Zukofsky, Ezra Pound, Thomas Wyatt, and Edmund Spenser. You can click on any of the poets' names above to be taken right to the mentioned recordings.
Posted 5/29/2023
Today is Memorial Day in the United States and at PennSound we're marking the occasion by revisiting Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman's collaborative masterpiece, "Memorial Day," and our recording of their May 5, 1971 reading of the work in its entirety at the Saint Mark's Poetry Project.
This recording is notable not only because "Memorial Day" is a landmark collaboration between two of the New York School's finest poets, but also due to its seeming rarity. Berrigan and Waldman were rumored to have only read the poem together and in its entirety once — in fact, "Memorial Day" was composed specifically for their joint reading in the spring of 1971 — and while the event was recorded, it would seem that the tape had been missing for several decades, presumably lost forever.
My brief Jacket2 essay from 2010, "Recovering 'Memorial Day,'" is both a rumination on the poem itself and a retelling of its being lost and found again in the reel-to-reel tape collection of Robert Creeley. To listen to the recording directly, you can click here. In a wonderful twist, video footage of a 1973 reading of the poem by Berrigan and Waldman has since been located, and you can watch that here.
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New at PennSound
- New video of Joan Retallack for Alternative Poetries and Alternative Pedagogies Reading and Discussion at the Kelly Writers House, February 28, 2001
- George Quasha reading waking from myself, Barrytown, NY, May 20, 2023
- Clark Coolidge reading from A Book
Beginning What and Ending Away for 80 Langton Street Writers In Residence Readings,
October 15–21, 1979
- Vincent Katz reading at Green Arcade, SF, November 18, 2022 [Recreated recording]
- George Quasha reading flayed flaws & other finagled opacities, Barrytown, NY, May 5, 2023
- Barbara Henning reading at Troy Public Library, Troy, MI, April 26, 2023
- Joel Newberger's The Swan reading series, nos. 2 & 25
- William Fuller Wexler Studio Recording Session, March 16, 2023
- Newly Segmented: Charles Borkhuis Segue Reading, November 18, 2006
- Jerome Rothenberg performing "Khurbn/Hiroshima" for Bread
and Puppet Theater, Glover, VT, 1995
- Clyde Moneyhun reading at Boise State, March 31, 2023
- George Quasha reading ripping scales,
Barrytown, NY, March 18, 2023
- Brian Ang, Aditya Bahl, and David Lau at Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore &
Gallery, San Francisco, February 15, 2023
- Steve McCaffery reading Claude Gauvreau's "Jappements à la lune" at Tranzac, Toronto, November 14, 2022
- 32 Ethnic Minority Poets from China
- Susan Schultz reading and conversation with Tim Dyke for launch
of Lilith Walks, da Shop, Kaimuki, Honolulu, HI, February 25, 2023
- Susan Schultz reading for the MUD Parcel Series VII, May 14, 2022
- T.S. Eliot's Speech Lab recordings, 1933–1935
- Steve Benson and Jean Day reading at UCSD, February 25, 1987
- Video: Phillis Webb interviewing bill bissett and bpNichol
- Brian Ang and Anne Lesley Selcer reading at Your Mood Gallery, SF, January 7, 2023
- Anne Tardos and Toni Simon reading for Lunar Chandelier
Salon, October 9, 2022
- Russell Banks: New Author Page
- Peter Glassgold reading Boethius poems 1 & 2
- Leslie Scalapino and Mark Rudman seminar for
Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice 1997–1998 Readings and Talks Series,
Georgetown, October 16, 1997
- George Quasha reading tuning by fire, Barrytown, NY, December 29, 2022
- Kass Fleisher: New Author Page
- Charles Borkhuis and Basil King reading for virtual LCP Salon, November 13, 2022
- Simone White lecture "I Am Not Wallace Stevens" at Hartford Public Library, CT, November 5, 2022
- Steve Benson reading at Rhizome, Washington DC, October 12, 2022
- 2022 Boise State University readings: Aditi Machado and Cody-Rose Clevidence
- Michael Rothenberg: New Author Page
- Brian Ang and Caleb Beckwith reading at Woolsey Heights, Berkeley, September 24, 2022
- Vincent Katz reading at Blacksmith House, Cambridge, MA, April 11, 2022
- Kimberly Lyons, Maureen Owen, and Barbara Owen reading at Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, October 26, 2022
- Alan Halsey: New Author Page
- John Keene: New Author Page
- Jerome Rothenberg reading at Kelly Writers House, September 29, 2022
- Worldwide reading in support of Salman Rushdie with Pierre Joris, September 28, 2022
- Barbara Henning reading for Climate Week at Battery Park, NYC, September 24, 2022
- George Quasha reading at 'T' Space, Rhinebeck, NY, September 3, 2022
- Kit Robinson, Neeli Cherkovski, and Alan Bernheimer reading at Bird & Beckett Books, San Francisco, August 4, 2022
- The Totality Cantos: Brian Ang and Alex Abalos on the Avant-Garde, Eastwind Books, Berkeley, August 20, 2022
- Barbara Henning reading for Everybody Press, Leroy's Place, Brooklyn, August 13, 2022
- Getting It Together: A Film on Larry Eigner, directed by Leonard Henny, 1973
- Julie Patton and Nicole Peyrafitte reading at Zoom event curated by Kimberly Lyons, June 26, 2022
- New Collection: Paul Buck's Pressed Curtains Tape Project
- Barbara Henning reading from Ferne, a Detroit Story, Pages Bookshop, Detroit, MI, June 14,2022
- Erica Hunt and Marty Ehrlich reading in Brooklyn, June 16, 2022
- I See Words: The Life and Work of Hannah Weiner, Artists Space, New York, June 18, 2022
- New author page for Harryette Mullen
- New author page for Lila Zemborain
- Divya Victor's Home Recordings, March 9, 2022
- Performed Poetics: celebration of Jerome Rothenberg's 90th birthday & the works of Eric Mottram, King's College London, March 12-13, 2022
- George Quasha reading sound talk from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, May 21, 2022
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