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 3/23/2022
Poet, performance artist, sound artist Caroline Bergvall is traveling from London to be with us on March 28th and 29th. Please plan to join us! Caroline is our second Kelly Writers House Fellow of winter/spring 2022. She will join us at 3805 Locust Walk here in Philadelphia to give a reading on Monday, March 28 at 6:30PM and the next morning will be back for an interview/conversation moderated by Al Filreis — Tuesday, March 29 at 10:30AM. Both events will be livestreamed and recorded, of course, so you have many ways to join us for these extraordinary days! But we urge you to come to the Writers House to meet Caroline and be involved as an audience member at the House! Note that in-person attendance for both events will be strictly limited, and you must RSVP to attend either or both events at the Writers House. To RSVP, please write to Lily Applebaum, Fellows Program Coordinator, at whfellow@writing.upenn.edu. If you will be attending online, you can get a program reminder with a direct streaming link as well! Please just indicate when writing to Lily whether you're attending in person or online only. Those attending in person will receive information about our COVID-19 protocols. And please also write to Lily at whfellow@writing.upenn.edu with questions to ask for more information.
Posted 3/21/2022
PennSound Senior Editor Danny Snelson was responsible for seeing this remarkable multimedia resource through to fruition, and so we thought it fitting to have him provide our listeners with an introduction. Here's what he had to say: PennSound has been working in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute to present this remarkable collection of historical and contemporary transrational poetry, centered on an exhibition of Russian Futurist book art held at the Getty earlier this year. The exhibition's title — "Tango with Cows" — taken from a poem by Vasily Kamensky, points to the sense of hilarity and irreverence you'll hear in these startlingly original 'beyonsense' poems. Our page of recordings compliments the extensive media collected online at the Getty's website. There, you can find programs, essays, video footage, full scans of the Futurist books, and even a fully interactive slideshow of key books from the exhibition! Our archive of sound recordings comes in two parts: first, Tango with Cows features Oleg Minin's bilingual readings of essential poems found in book art projects from poets such as Alexei Kruchenykh, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Pavel Filonov. By reading from the Russian before the accompanying English translation, Minin offers listeners the pleasure of sound before recognition — an ideal situation for the revolutionary poetics on display here.
However, the real highlight of this great resource sounds from the second half: we're pleased to present high quality recordings of Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry held on February 4th, 2009. This blockbuster reading casts the zaum' poetries of Khlebnikov and Kruchenykh in the parallel light of historic and contemporary sound poetry, as presented by Christian Bok and Steve McCaffery. After virtuoso performances of English translations of historical Russian poems, Bok and McCaffery present personal selections from the history of sound poetry alongside their own original compositions. On the short list are works by Aristophanes, Raoul Hausmann, F.T. Marinetti, Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, and R. Murray Schafer, just to mention a few.
You can hear more work in this vein on PennSound pages for Christian Bok, Steve McCaffery, Jaap Blonk, Tomomi Adachi, and The Four Horsemen. Additionally, we'd like to suggest our historic pages for F.T. Marinetti and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Our partner UbuWeb offers a huge index of this exciting brach of poetry; we suggest in particular that you visit a companion set of Russian Futurist recordings from the GLM Collection.
Special thanks to Nancy Perloff and everyone at the Getty Research Institute for making this resource possible. We hope these recordings lend the same vision of language that mystified Benedikt Livshits in 1911 (from Nancy Perloff, Curator's Essay): "I saw language come alive with my very own eyes. The breath of the primordial word wafted into my face."
Posted 3/19/2022
Here's an opportunity to get to know another side of poet Will Alexander through his jazz duo, Aural Monsoon, where he plays piano alongside drummer Mark Pino. Today, we're proud to highlight Live at the Haight, an album recorded on August 13, 2017. Click here to listen to all nine tracks, including "Bamboo and Fire," "Calm and Furious Waters," "Verdigris Panorama," "Lyrical Jasmine Towers," "Aural Diamonds in Motion," and "Double Recognition."
Here's what Pino had to say about his their collaboration: "Los Angeles poet and musician Will Alexander's work been shaking my perceptions for several years now. I was happy to play with him on sets with Cloud Shepherd, and continue to love to read his writing. Hence, when Will contacted me to ask about my being available for a house show in San Francisco, with me on drums and he on piano, I jumped at the opportunity." Later, he says of the same gig, "Towards the end of the second set, I simply stopped playing my drums and listened to Will, more as a fan than a duo partner. I guess I kind of got lost in that for a few minutes. Will's Surreal Trance moves will have that effect!"
For those craving more of Alexander's work, click here to visit his PennSound author page, which is home to a variety of talks, readings, and interviews going back to 1994.
Want to read more? Visit the PennSound Daily archive.
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New at PennSound
- 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
- Readings at Prospects Conference, Stevens Institute, by Bruce Andrews, Jackson Mac Low, and Simon Pettet, May 23 1996
- Hanif Abdurraqib virtual reading and conversation, Kelly Writers House, April 19, 2021
- What Is Undug Will Be: A digital archive
launch for Cross Cultural Poetics (1997–2010), February 27, 2021
- Triple book launch party featuring Barbara Henning, Tony
Iantosca, and Lisa Rogal; reading, Q&A, and Lewis Warsh memorial, November 15, 2020
- Soleida Ríos reading "Pies de palma" in a home recording in Havana, Cuba, February 3, 2021
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