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):
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 2/19/2021
Back in November, we announced the addition of Hanuman Presents!, Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz's film celebrating the influential press co-founded by Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente. Today we're back with another stunning film from the pair, documenting a group reading of Jack Kerouac's Mexico City Blues, which took place at the Knitting Factory on December 4, 1988. The line-up for this event is nothing short of astounding, with appearances by Barbara Barg, Charles Bernstein, Lee Ann Brown, Maggie Dubris, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Hell, Bob Holman, Lita Hornick, Vicki Hudspith, Vincent Katz, Rochelle Kraut, Gerard Malanga, Judith Malina, Eileen Myles, Simon Pettet, Hanon Reznikov, Bob Rosenthal, Jerome Rothenberg, Tom Savage, Elio Schneeman, Michael Scholnick, Carl Solomon, Steven Taylor, David Trinidad, Lewis Warsh, Hal Willner, and Nina Zivancevic, while Mark Ettinger, Dennis Mitcheltree, Charlie Morrow, and Samir Safwat, among others, provided an improvised score for the proceedings. Interviews with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael McClure round out the film, which was produced and directed by Bittencourt and Katz, and edited by Henry Hills and Oliver Katz. Running just over thirty minutes, this short film is both a fitting tribute to Kerouac's iconic voice and the generations of poets he inspired, as well as a remarkable time capsule for the downtown cultural scene in the late 1980s. You can start watching here.
Posted 2/17/2021
 "Killian is adept at working several narrative registers — time, kind of story (high, low; gossipy, aesthetic), and tone — all at once," Filreis notes in his PoemTalk blog post announcing the new episode. "A good deal of the PoemTalkers' effort in this discussion is directed at describing those various times: 1992, the date of Arthur Russell's death; 1978, when Killian is studying in Long Island; Lou Harrison's death in 2003; June 2004, when the speaker nearly perishes himself; the present of the poem's writing, looking back on all this; the audience-implicated present of the poem's mesmerizing Queering Language performance in 2007." He continues, "There's a genius with which this New Narrative poem — along with the almost set-piece digressions and gossipy annotations and wisecracks offered extra-textually by the performer — manages these separate yet overlapping moments," before concluding: "Such genius enables the crucial convergence of themes: the gay sexual chain of witness back to Whitman; the flora of Long Island and generally the importance of place and documentation; the death of Arthur Russell from AIDS; Allen Ginsberg's doggerel and his overall 'obviosity'; pop music, beloved unironically; the speaker's (Killian's) 'own premature death.'"
You can learn more about this latest program, read Dalachinsky's poem (and watch him perform it), and listen to the podcast here. The full PoemTalk archives, spanning more than a decade, can be found here.
Posted 2/15/2021
We recently added not one, but two recordings of launch events for Ariel Resnikoff's debut poetry collection, Unnatural Bird Migrator, which took place over the last few months. Both video and audio recordings are available for the earlier of the two events, which took place over Zoom on December 20th of last year. For this event, hosted by Elæ — founder and creative director for The Operating System, the book's publisher — Resnikoff was joined by poets erica kaufman and Tyrone Williams, who offered up brief sets to start off the reading. The latter launch reading, hosted by Stephen Ross of Concordia University's Center for Expanded Poetics, was introduced and moderated by Charles Bernstein with an opening performance by Adeena Karasick. Audio from this ninety-minute event, which took place this January 12th, is available in MP3 format. You can listen to both recordings, along with a wide array of readings, podcasts, interviews, and more from 2015 to the present on PennSound's Ariel Resnikoff author page. You can learn more about Unnatural Bird Migrator, and read its back-cover blurbs (including appraisals from kaufman, Williams, Bernstein, and Karasick) by clicking here.
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New at PennSound
- Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz present
Jack Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues," from footage recorded live at the Knitting
Factory, NYC, December 4, 1988
- E no. 3/Slowscan Records Volume 48, ft.
Steve McCaffery, CoAccident, Greta Monach, Jackson Mac Low, Vladan Radovanovic, Irrepressible Bastards,
Hannah Weiner, and Gene Carl
- New author page: Derek Beaulieu
- Gabriel Ojeda-Sague and Charles Bernstein read at 47th Annual Poetry Project Marathon, January 1, 2021
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- Canadian launch of Ariel Resnikoff's Unnatural Bird Migrator, January 12, 2021
- John Richetti reading Ben Jonson's "On My First Son"
and William Empson's "Just A Smack at Auden," January 2021
- Breaking Through with Taylor Johnson, November 17, 2020
- Sussman Poetry Program reading by Jake Marmer of Cosmic Disapora, October 14, 2020
- Gabriel Ojeda-Sague reading Losing Miami October 7, 2020
- Bob Perelman reading Jack and Jill in Troy September 23, 2020
- September 20 Kimberly Alidio Book Launch Event and December 8 In-Flux Reading added in the Belladonna* Series
- John Richetti reading Clement Clark Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas", December 10, 2020
- Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive: Fall Poetry Reading Series, 2019
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis Reading from Late Work and Around the Day in 80 Worlds, October 2020
- Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz, Hanuman Presents!: A Reading at the Poetry Project, New York, May 18, 1989
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Pog Reading, Tucson, Arizona, October 10, 2020
- Henry Hills, Plagiarism (1981)
- Reading and Discussion with Rae Armantrout and Bob Perelman on Zoom at The San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books, August 28, 2020
- John Richetti reading Poe, Coleridge, Tennyson, and Whitman at home for PennSound Classics, September, 2020
- Tyrone Williams reading at Zaza Performance Series, August 7, 2020
- Three readings from Tim Dlugos, c. 1974-84
- John Richetti reads Walt Whitman at his home, September 2, 2020
- Jacques Roubaud reading at la Libraire Texture, Paris, December 4, 2019
- July 7 In-Flux readings and August 18 Matters of Feminist Practice Journal Launch Part 3 added in the Belladonna* Series
- Ed Roberson reads at The Mackey Sessions in Durham, NC, September 20, 2018
- Nathaniel Mackey reads with Our True Day Begun Soon Come Qu'ahttet at The Mackey Sessions in Durham, NC, September 21, 2018
- Michael Ruby reads from The Star-Spangled Banner, 2020
- Michael Ruby reads from The Mouth of the Bay, 2019
- Michael Ruby reads from The Edge of the Underworld, 2019
- Dozens of added recordings and new archival information added to the S Press Collection
- Lisa Robertson and sabrina soyer perform translations of Troubadour poet Na Castelloza in Brussels, 2020
- Trevor Joyce reading at Effie Street, February 24, 2020
- Adrienne Rich reads for WBAI Radio, April 30, 1972
- Adrienne Rich reads for City Arts & Lectures, San Francisco, November 30, 1993
- Adrienne Rich, from A Sign / I Was Not Alone, 1977
- Ted Joans performing in Amsterdam, 1964
- Erín Moure reads for the Kelly Writers House Fellows Program via Zoom, March 30, 2020
- Peter BD and Rachel James read for Breaking Through at the Kelly Writers House, January 29, 2020
- Erica Hunt reads at the Kelly Writers House, November 4, 2019
- Shiv Kotecha and Bianca Rae Messinger read for Breaking Through at the Kelly Writers House, November 20, 2019
- Dottie Lasky, Emily Pettit, and Meeree Orlandini read for the Whenever We Feel Like It Series at the Kelly Writers House, November 5, 2019
- Donna Stonecipher and Daniel R. Biddle in City Planning Poetics, Episode 8: Urban Ruins, at the Kelly Writers House, October 7, 2019
- Laura Mullen reads at the Kelly Writers House, September 24, 2019
- Kate Colby reads at the Kelly Writers House, September 18, 2019
- Marjorie Welish reads for Time Sensitive at the Kelly Writers House, September 17, 2019
- Marcus Slease reads five poems by Grzegorz Wroblewski
- Fred Moten at The Mackey Sessions
- New Readings in the Belladonna* Series, Spring 2020
- Reading and Discussion at CAAPP, University of Pittsburgh, September 30, 2019:
Julie Patton and Tyrone Williams
- Ezra Pound, "Reading and Collections," with D. G. Bridson, April 1959
- Peter Gizzi reading from Sky Burial, on Zoom, May 11, 2020
- Maggie O'Sullivan reads at Eric Mottram Conference
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