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Spring 2011 picks

• 1. Will Alexander: A National Day at Bangladesh
• 2. Guillaume Apollinaire: Le Pont Mirabeau
• 3. John Ashbery: For John Clare
• 4. Brenda Coultas: The Abolitionist's Journal
• 5. Ronald Johnson: Heatstrings Reading, 1989
• 6. Bernadette Mayer: from Studying Hunger, "Blondie"
• 7. Fred Moten: Fugitivity is imminent to the thing but is manifest transversely
• 8. Lorine Niedecker: Reading from the Factory School Archive
• 9. M. Nourbese Philip: Zong 5
• 10. Claudia Rankine: Don't Let Me Be Lonely, Pt. 1
• 11. Leslie Scalapino: that they were at the beach—aeolotropic series

Selected by Marcella Durand (read more about these selections on PennSound Daily)

Fall 2008 picks

• In Cold Hell, In Thicket - Charles Olson
• The Mysterious Cat - Vachel Lindsay
• Talk, October 9, 1992 - David Antin
• Structure of Rime 10 - Robert Duncan
• from 1,000 Avant-Garde Plays - Kenneth Koch
• Repeat if Necessary - Jed Rasula
• 1:1 - Tan Lin
• j j j - Bruce Andrews
• Loss - John Wieners
• A Hum for Stevie Winwood - bpNichol
• An Extraordinary Adventure Which Happened to Me, Vladimir Mayakovsky, One Summer in the Country - Vladimir Mayakovsky
• As Real as Thinking - Robert Creeley
  Histoire de Florida - Robert Creeley

Selected by Stephen McLaughlin (read more about these selections on PennSound Daily)

Spring 2008 picks

• The Ambassadors (Part I) - Jed Rasula
• The Defective Record - William Carlos Williams
• Danse Russe - William Carlos Williams
• Shoot It Jimmy! - William Carlos Williams
• from The Tapeworm Foundry - Darren Wershler Henry
• The Franker Tale (Deus hic) - Caroline Bergvall
• Thing Language - Jack Spicer
• Sporting Life - Jack Spicer
• from San Francisco's Burning - Helen Adam
• Evil Axis - Gregory Whitehead
• from Shift - Craig Dworkin
• The 8-Voice Stereo-Canon Realization of The Black Tarantula Crossword Gatha - Jackson Mac Low
• Polaroid (Part I) - Clark Coolidge
• Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) - Ezra Pound
• Cyclops Eye - Rosemarie Waldrop
• Doctrine of Similarity from Shadowtime - Charles Bernstein


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Spring 2007/2008 picks

• "Saving Tallow" - Barbara Guest
• "Black Dada Nihilismus" - Amiri Baraka
• "The Process of Explication" - Dorothea Lasky
• "Catullus #48" - Bernadette Mayer
• from "The Making of Americans" - Gertrude Stein
• "1935 The Present situation in quantum mechanics" - Tan Lin
• from "May from the Journal in June" - Hannah Weiner
• from "Of Being Numerous" - George Oppen
• from "Dura" - Myung Mi Kim
• "Song of the Andoumboulou 19" - Nathaniel Mackey
• At Night The States - Alice Notley
• "Protection" and "Front Seat" - John Godfrey

--Selected by Eric Baus

Winter 2006/2007 picks

• Kiss Me Deadly - Elizabeth Willis
• Dream On - James Tate
• Excerpt from I Remember, recorded GPS, February 11, 1974 - Joe Brainard
• Basic Science - Fanny Howe
• Praise Poem Elizabeth Murray - Bob Holman
• Oh - CK Williams
• Excerpt from Memorial Day (with Ted Berrigan) - Anne Waldman
• Peter Lorre Reminisces about Being a Sidekick - John Yau
• The Sore Throat - Aaron Kunin
• Apple - Susan Stewart
• Revival - Peter Gizzi
• On This Side of Nothing - Jennifer Moxley
• To Lindsay - Allen Ginsberg

--Selected by Tom Devaney
Tom Devaney's "Death Poems & PennSound" is a commentary on this selection.

Spring 2006 picks

• Segue reading at Double Happiness, NY - John Yau
• Mayakovsky's From Street to Street, read by L. Brik
• Catacoustics - Tom Raworth
• Clark Coolidge Reading
• Speeches at the Barriers - Susan Howe
• The Kummunist Manifesto or Wot We Wukkers Want &
• Little Hans - Steve McCaffery
• Synth Loops - Christian Bok
• Ambient Fish &
• Flèsh - Caroline Bergvall
• Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Exactly Absolutely - Leevi Lehto
• Landscape with Terry Riley (video) - Robert Ashley
• The Letter - Lydia Davis

--Selected by Marjorie Perloff

Fall 2005 picks

• Four Horsemen - Mayakovsky
• John Wieners - The Garbos & Dietrichs
• Ange Mlinko - Poem Bejeweled with Proper Nouns
• Lydia Davis - A Position at the University
• Linh Dinh - Acoustics
• Mark McMorris - A Poem for the Love of Women
• Sawako Nakayasu - Capacity
• Susan Howe - "During the Summer of 1997..." (not currently available)
• Juliana Spahr - Thrashing Seems Crazy
• K. Silem Mohammad - Spooked
• Lyn Hejinian - Lyn
• Ted Berrigan - Red Shift

--Selected by Steve Evans
More info and commentary: Lipstick of Noise

August 2005 picks

• Lisa Robertson: "The Weather"
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis: from "Draft 48: Being Astonished"
• Jena Osman: "Dropping Leaflets"
• Ron Silliman: "Philadelphia"
• Charles Alexander: "Near or Random Acts"
• Erica Hunt: "Cold War Breaks"
• Bob Perelman: "Revenge of the Bathwater"
• Nick Piombino: "Silenced"

--Selected by Al Filreis