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 2/24/2021
It's a sad day in the world of poetry,because Lawrence Ferlinghetti is no longer with us. The legendary poet and publisher died yesterday at the age of 101, bringing to an end a prodigious life that shaped the course of contemporary poetry both in the US and throughout the world. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in the spring of 2019, Robert Pinsky offered this resumé of his various lives in The New York Times: "poet, retail entrepreneur, social critic, publisher, combat veteran, pacifist, poor boy, privileged boy, outspoken socialist, and successful capitalist." Indeed, long after San Francisco's Beat heyday and the end of the Summer of Love, and long after many of his friends and peers had passed on — with Ferlinghetti's death, only Gary Snyder and Edward Field remain among the roster of Donald Allen's The New American Poetry — he persevered and continued to produce vital work that spoke to our changing world. We first launched our Lawrence Ferlinghetti author page in honor of the poet's 99th birthday in 2019. Its most recent recording is an hour-long set from 1994 at Page Hall in Albany, which comes to us via Chris Funkhouser. Next we have a pair of recordings from the archives of George Drury and Lois Baum, including an appearance on the program Word of Mouth and a forty-minute reading of selected poems at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then there's Ferlinghetti's Watershed Tapes release Into the Deeper Pools, recorded in two sessions in Bethesda and Baltimore, Maryland in 1984 and 1983, respectively, and his 1981 S-Press cassette release, No Escape Except Peace. Jumping back a few decades, there's a set of poems recorded in 1969, including "Assassination Raga" and "Tyrannus Nix," which were digitized by Joel Kuszai for The Factory School, and the Ferlinghetti/Ginsberg episode of Richard O. Moore's Poetry USA series from 1966. Finally, along with a short recording from the Berkeley Poetry Conference and a few assorted recordings without dates.
Ferlinghetti's obituaries will give prominence to the impact of City Lights, as both a publisher and a bookstore, and that's both understandable and deserved. It's hard to imagine where any of us might be had Howl and Other Poems or Lunch Poems or Fast Speaking Woman or Gasoline had never been published, and anyone who's ever set foot inside its premises knows immediate that they are in one of poetry's sacred spaces. That said, it's worth remembering that the Pocket Poets series began with Ferlinghetti's Pictures of the Gone World, and so it's wonderful to see so many fans turning to beloved, dogeared copies of that volume or its follow-up, A Coney Island of the Mind — not to mention the many books that would follow over the next six decades — as they mourn him. You can listen to any of the aforementioned recordings by clicking here.
Posted 2/22/2021
The 2021 Kelly Writers House Fellows program starts tonight with the first of two events featuring poet Erica Hunt. There's still time to RSVP for one or all of this year's events — which will also include visits by author/critic Hilton Als and chef/author Gabrielle Hamilton — by dropping us a line at whfellow@writing.upenn.edu.
Hunt is a poet, essayist, and author of Local History, Arcade, Piece Logic, Time Flies Right Before the Eyes, A Day and Its Approximates, Veronica: A Suite in X Parts, and her newest work Jump The Clock: New and Selected Poems out with Nightboat Books in October 2020. Her poems and non-fiction have appeared in BOMB, Boundary 2, The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetics Journal, Tripwire, FENCE, Hambone, and In The American Tree, among other publications. Essays on poetics, feminism and politics have been collected in Moving Borders, Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women and The Politics of Poetic Form, The World, and other anthologies. With poet and scholar Dawn Lundy Martin, Hunt is co-editor of the anthology Letters to the Future, Black Women/Radical Writing from Kore Press. Hunt graduated with a B.A. in English from San Francisco State University in 1980 and an M.F.A. from Bennington College in 2013. She has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Fund for Poetry, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Djerassi Foundation, and is a past fellow of Duke University/the University of Capetown Program in Public Policy and a past Fellow at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing in Poetics and Poetic Practice here at Penn. Currently, Hunt is Bonderman Visiting Professor at Brown University and a Poet in Residence at Temple University. Funded by a grant from Paul Kelly, the Kelly Writers House Fellows program enables us to realize two unusual goals. We want to make it possible for the youngest writers and writer-critics to have sustained contact with authors of great accomplishment in an informal atmosphere. We also want to resist the time-honored distinction — more honored in practice than in theory — between working with eminent writers on the one hand and studying literature on the other. You can read more about the program and browse through past Fellows going back to the program's start in 1999 by clicking here.
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.
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New at PennSound
- Grzegorz Wroblewski reading at Woodland Pattern's 27th Annual Marathon, January 30-31, 2021
- 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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