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Michael S. Hennessey

PoemTalk Podcast #50: State of Error (on Tom Raworth's "Errory"), February 28, 2012

with Al Filreis, Marjorie Perloff and Charles Bernstein

  • Complete program (30:13): MP3

    SWOP, Chase Public, Cincinnati, Summer 2015

  • Complete set (7:36): MP3

PennSound 10th Anniversary, Kelly Writers House, November 18, 2013

Complete recording (9:30): MP3

Post-Internet People Reading in Real Life, Third Party Gallery, Cincinnati, May 22, 2012

Launch reading for Brighton Approach: Gold Edition at U.turn Art Space, Cincinnati, February 19, 2011

  • In Reverse (2:16): MP3
  • New Year, Before Departure (1:18): MP3
  • All Beset (0:33): MP3
  • Driven to Distraction (1:01): MP3
  • On at All Hours (0:31): MP3
  • Untangled (0:56): MP3
  • Jet Set Document (1:06): MP3
  • Disappearer (0:50): MP3
  • These Are My Twisted Words (3:25): MP3

  • Complete reading (12:27): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading at ArtShare, LA, January 8, 2011

Complete reading (2:56): MP3

Poetry in 1960 - A Symposium at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, December 6, 2010

(with Al Filreis, Danny Snelson, Erica Kaufman, Bob Perelman, Mel Nichols, Ron Silliman, Judith Goldman, Chris Funkhouser, Kristen Gallagher, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Charles Bernstein)

on A New Folder edited by Daisy Aldan (7:25): MP3

Complete program (2:20:13): MP3

from Poetry in the Garden at the Cincinnati Public Library, April 27, 2010

Reading at the Comet, Cincinnati, OH, April 15, 2010

MLA Off-Site Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009

  • [ begin by erasing my name ] (0:51): MP3
  • These Are My Twisted Words (2:15): MP3

  • Complete reading (3:07): MP3

Reading as part of the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series, Cincinnati, July 9, 2009

Complete reading (17:02): MP3

Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics, Episode #191, "Quite a Lineup," April 26, 2009

  • Complete segment (18:54): MP3

Reading at the Cincinnati Public Library, April 7, 2009

  1. Controlled Descent (0:49): MP3
  2. Towards No Horizon (1:01): MP3
  3. Distance = Rate x Time (1:12): MP3
  4. Overcast, Waiting (0:54): MP3
  5. Think Small (0:33): MP3
  6. Tick-Tock (0:34): MP3
  7. [Invisible][Frame] (0:59): MP3
  8. Quickest Respite / Slow Composition (0:59): MP3
  9. A Loose Association to Departure (1:15): MP3
  10. Entertainments (0:40): MP3
  11. Winter Light (0:26): MP3
  12. Category (0:43): MP3
  13. Everyone and Anyone (1:18): MP3
  14. My Own Disaster (0:15): MP3
  15. An Ear to the Ground (1:02): MP3
  16. Passenger Studies (0:41): MP3
  17. (How We Cope) (2:08): MP3
  18. Easter Sunday (1:54): MP3
  19. The Back Room (0:30): MP3
  20. Triangulations (1:58): MP3
  21. Forget Chicago (0:57): MP3
  22. Just Drowsy Enough Not to Care (0:47): MP3
  23. (Ir)redeemable (0:58): MP3
  24. Absence (0:40): MP3
  25. Four-Year Interrupt (1:04): MP3
  26. An Anthology of Lost Hotel Rooms (1:36): MP3
  27. I Will (0:55): MP3
  28. The Thaw Thwarted (0:40): MP3
  29. Make a List of Bad Habits Occasioned by Poverty Poetry (1:30): MP3
  30. My Last Dime and What It Got Me (0:46): MP3

Complete reading (32:17): MP3

Chapter and Verse Reading Series, Chapterhouse Cafe, Philadelphia, with Brian Carpenter and Lewis Warsh September 13, 2008

  1. Entertainments (0:37): MP3
  2. Four-Year Interrupt (1:01): MP3
  3. Just Drowsy Enough Not To Care (0:48): MP3
  4. Triangulations (1:54): MP3
  5. Winter Light (0:25): MP3
  6. The Back Room (0:48): MP3
  7. Absence (0:38): MP3
  8. Everyone and Anyone (1:40): MP3
  9. Easter Sunday (1:49): MP3
  10. Partition / Shadowal (Coping) (2:21): MP3
  11. A Loose Association to Departure (1:31): MP3
  12. Overcast, Waiting (0:50): MP3
  13. Distance = Rate x Time (1:27): MP3
  14. My Last Dime and What It Got Me (0:52): MP3

Complete reading (starts in medias res) (17:40): MP3

Recording courtesy of Jack Krick.

Recording Performance / Recording as Performance

An Essay and Playlist for Helicotrema, 2015


Digital Projects

"Mike Makes Music": experiments with voice and sound, 1996–present


  • Infrastructure Speaks, "A photo/text blog about public rhetorics, graffiti, signage, misreadings, memory, industrial identity, hidden missives, obsolescence, typography, neon, and typos," 2015–2016
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  • A Little Bit of a Tumblr, 2010
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  • Allen Ginsberg ringtone, ("ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling, I'm a victim of telephone"), 2010: MP3

Michael Hennessey on PennSound Daily

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