Mind of Winter
January 26, 2012
- Due to technical difficulties, sound is only available for part of the program.
- Watch complete program. Sound starts at 34:13.
- Lindsey Todd - from "Spring Love Noise and All" by David Antin
- Kate Herzlin - from Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Rolf Potts - "In Which Snow is made by a Kenyan," by George Saunders
- Zoe Kirsch - from The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill bryson
- Diamond Irwin - “Santaland Diaries," by David Sedaris
- Leslie Krivo-Kaufman - from A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
- Sam Apple - from Last Kings of Thule by Jean Malaurie
January 26, 2011
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- Jessica Lowenthal - Introduction
- Al Filreis - “The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens
- Emily Harnett - writing from The New Yorker by E.B. White
- Jamie-Lee Josselyn - from “Affliction” by Russell Banks
- Trisha Low - “The Fair Young Wife” by Helen Adam
- Molly O'Neill - “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert Service
- Alex Marcus - from Fight for Your Long Day by Alex Kudera
- Max McKenna - from “Gifts for Orphans” by Arthur Rimbaud
- Bob Perelman - “Scenes on Ferry and River -- Last Winter’s Nights” from
Specimen Days by Walt Whitman
January 28, 2010
- Complete program - QuickTime video
- Al Filreis - on "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens
- Litty Paxton - "True Love" and "Ecstacy" by Sharon Olds and "Snow Melting" by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
- Kelly Diamond - "Let It Snow" by David Sedaris
- James La Marre - from Songs to Joannes by Mina Loy
- Lily Applebaum - "Into the Dusk-Charged Air" by John Ashbery
- Zoe Dare-Attanasio - from "Twilight in Italy" by D.H. Lawrence
- Michelle Taransky - from Discrete Series by George Oppen and from Goat in the Snow by Emily Pettit
January 29, 2009
- Complete program - QuickTime video
- Jessica Lowenthal - Introduction
- Al Filreis - "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens
- Sam Sharf - from "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote
- Kathy De Marco - from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
- Lance Wahlert - from The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
- Blair Borish - from The Jungle
- Greg Djanikian - "Year's End" by Richard Wilbur and "When I First Saw Snow" by Greg Djanikian
- Allison Harris - from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Zach Ferris - "Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne
January 24, 2008
- Jessica Lowenthal - Introduction
- Kim Eisler - "January" by William Carlos Williams, "A City in Winter" by Frank O'Hara
- Danny Goldstein - from "Eskimo Love" by Max Apple
- Cecilia Corrigan - "Alcanac Breakup" by Cecilia Corrigan
- Dick Polman - "The Only Rose" by Yves Bonnefoy
- Jillian Budd - Untitled by Jillian Budd
- Adrian Khactu - "Misbegotten Son" by Adrian Khactu
- Jessica Lowenthal - "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens
January 18, 2007
- Jessica Lowenthal - introduction to the event
- Al Filreis - discussion of Stevens' "The Snow Man"
- John Carroll - "Sudden Snow", "A Warm Day for December", and "Poem" by Frank O'Hara
- Brooke Palmieri - "The March of the Ottoman Turks" by Brooke Palmieri
- Mingo Reynolds - from The Brothers K by David James Duncan
- Anna Levett - from The Facts of Winter by Paul Lafarge
- Sam Allingham - "Something She Told Me" by Sam Allingham
- Arielle Brousse - "Housed in Winter" by Marge Piercy and "February" by Margaret Atwood
January 19, 2006
- Jennifer Snead - introduction to the event
- Al Filreis - discussion of Stevens' "The Snow Man"
- Julia Bloch - poems by Julia Bloch ("In the Cardigan of the Mind," "Night Flight," excerpts from "Letters to Kelly Clarkson," "Pilot's Bay," "Seasonal Affective Disorder")
- Erin Gautsche - "Ohio" (by Erin Gautsche)
- Janine Catalano - Calvin Trillin's "Speaking of Soup"
- Kenny Goldsmith - the "Groundhog Day" section of Goldsmith's The Weather
- Beth Kephart - Michael Ondaatje excerpt entitled "Frozen Ice"
- Jim Gardner - reading from "The Dead" by James Joyce
January 26, 2005
Program (PDF)
- Al Filreis - Introduction
- Jamie-Lee Josselyn & Phil Sandick - Celebration of Al's 20th year of teaching at Penn
- Al Filreis - "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens
- Samantha Barrow - "LA Rte 82" by Samantha Barrow
- Samuel Wilcocks - Shakespearean song
- John Timpane - "Winter beforelight" by John Timpane
- Alicia Oltuski - "Ice Fishing"
- Miriam Mann Guerrero - Excerpt from The Snow Falcon by Stuart Harrison
- Matthew Abess - "Sestina díInverno" by Anthony Hecht
- Jennifer Snead - "Why Stop at Salmon?" by Jennifer Snead
- Emily Missner - Excerpt from The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
- David Grazian - "Horses and Men in Rain" and "Man and Do on an Early Winter Morning" by Carl Sandburg, "Before Air Conditioning" by Donald Rumsfeld
- Conni Bille - "These Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden, "Winter" by Conni Billi, "Lines for Winter" by Mark Strand
January 22, 2004
Program (PDF)
- Al Filreis - Introduction and a reading of Wallace Stevens' "The Snow Man"
- Erin Sweeney - "Forecast"
- Andrew Zitcer - "Zero Tolerance for Gurgling" and two short poems by George Herbert and Ibn Gabirol
- Greg Djanikian - "After the First Snow"
- Phil Sandick - a reading from from Wordsworthís The Prelude
- Aaron Levy - a reading from from Emma Kayís Worldview
- Pat Green - "The Snow Arrives After Long Silence" by Nancy Willard
- Jennifer Snead - Farewell
January 31, 2002
- Greg Djanikian
- Allie D'Augustine ("Derivations")
- Bob Perelman
- An Lam
- Kathy Lou Schultz
- Pamela Zinn (on piano)
- Blake Martin
- Andrew Zitcer (untitled poem)
- Heather Starr, live from Taos ("Winter Solstice")
- Mike Magee, live from Providence
