LIVE Archive

LIVE at the Writers House, episodes 1–50

Episode 50 - 12/13/2004 - Writers

Produced by Tom Devaney.
You can hear the recording of the entire program here.

LIVE at the Writers House this evening featured writers who work at Penn and musical guest Like Moving Insects. Valerie Ross, director of the Critical Writing program, told a somber autobiographical tale of her mother and the wild ambitions, fear, worry, and rage that kept her awake at night. Peter Nichols, editor of Penn Arts and Sciences Magazine, read from his novella, where poisoned nails and pipes are tools for murder, and John Prendergast, editor of The Pennsylvania Gazette related the true tale of an artist and Penn alumna, whose reality involves battling the special needs bureaucracy and a never-diminished pile of laundry. Philly-based band Like Moving Insects mixed disciplines and instruments to bring us "Cornflakes," and Ingrid Schaffner, senior curator at the ICA, invited us into Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus, a world where roaming giraffes explode into flames. John Shea, who has been an editor and writer at the university since 1985, taught us, with a bit of comedic flair and a lot of paranoia, "how to be an alarmist." From journalists to professors with stories true and imagined, the Arts Café was filled with Penn and Philly talent.

  1. Like Moving Insects - Untitled
  2. John Shea - My Then Wife
  3. John Shea - How to be an Alarmist
  4. John Shea - Introduction
  5. Peter Nichols - Untitled
  6. John Prendergast - Introduction
  7. Peter Nichols - Introduction
  8. Ingrid Schaffner - Excerpt from Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funho
  9. Ingrid Schaffner - Introduction
  10. Like Moving Insects - Cornflakes
  11. Like Moving Insects - Introduction
  12. John Prendergast - Excerpt from The Last Lost Beachcomber
  13. Valerie Ross - Introduction
  14. Valerie Ross - Nosebleed Seats

Episode 49 - 11/15/2004 - All Women

Produced by Tom Devaney

Tonight's episode of LIVE featured all women writers and their stories of children, heartbreak, and inequality. Author of Winter Music, a novel set in Philadelphia, Karen Rile read a section from the perspective of Tess, an eight-year old girl with dyslexia. In her slow and melancholic voice, poet Kathy Lou Schultz shared all the struggles endured by a young child before the age of five, while the editor of The Dictionary of Failed Relationships, Meredith Broussard, chatted about how she would dress up like Wonder Woman as a child. Broussard, discussing women and black superheroes, ended on a hopeful note, observing that comics are coming closer to demonstrating an actual range of color and shade (not just green) in America. Poets Sandy Crimmins and Lisa Sewell spoke about deserted women. Crimmins's tales were even told through a unique combination of poetry, song, and David Falcone's strumming guitar. Art historian Judith Stein rounded out the female-centric night with a story about the troubled men (think: alcohol, hemorrhoids, and bad teeth) that were responsible for the grand opening of the Guggenheim. A range of poignant and memorable stories, poems, and songs came alive tonight at the Writers House.

  1. Karen Rile - Introduction
  2. Kathy Lou Schultz - Childhood to Market
  3. Karen Rile - Excerpt from Winter Music
  4. Sandy Crimmins and David Falcone - Introduction
  5. Kathy Lou Schultz - Introduction
  6. Lisa Sewell - Front Page
  7. Lisa Sewell - Hands and Psalms
  8. Lisa Sewell - Mary Hamilton
  9. Judith Stein - Untitled
  10. Judith Stein - Introduction
  11. Sandy Crimmins and David Falcone - Desert
  12. Sandy Crimmins and David Falcone - Ireland
  13. Sandy Crimmins and David Falcone - Spring
  14. Meredith Broussard - Introduction
  15. Meredith Broussard - Untitled

Episode 48 - 10/18/2004

Produced by Tom Devaney

Past decisions haunted present lives in this week's episode of LIVE. University of the Arts fiction writing teacher Elise Juska and novelist Ken Kalfus noted the consequences of failed marriages. After her divorce, Charlotte, the main character in Elise's story, developed a variety of crippling anxieties (think: kidnapping, robbery, and a severe case of insomnia even with a dream machine), while Ken Kalfus's character grew a weird rash due to his "high-strung" and soon-to-be-ex-wife. With a dragging melody that built anticipation, Philly band Espers played a series of hypnotizing and unnerving songs. Penn's own Diane McKinney-Whetstone recited a story about a man who yearned for his past life as a jazz musician, rather than his current life on Cecil Block. The creation of fiction author Shawn McBride, Henry, described not his street block but his middle school block — apologizing for his unpreventable behavior as a "horny bastard" as he detailed the different types of "teets." Humorous and heart-wrenching, this episode of LIVE drew out some of our darkest fears and deepest desires.

  1. Espers - Daughter
  2. Espers - Riding
  3. Espers - Untitled
  4. Elise Juska - Excerpt from
  5. Kenneth Kalfus - Excerpt from
  6. Shawn McBride - Excerpts from
  7. Diane McKinney-Whetstone - Excerpt from

Episode 47 - 05/10/2004

Produced by Tom Devaney

Episode 46 - 04/05/2004 - Spoken-Word

Produced by Venise Battle Co-produced by Jennifer Snead

Thoughts of disabling labels, disappearing choice, and impending death gnawed away at the spoken word artists in tonight's episode of LIVE. Duo Tracy Gilbert and Amma Asare fervently defended having a choice as their voices interrupted, completed, and intertwined with one another. Penn senior Venise Battle demanded that she would be in charge of her own life, not her husband, while creator of This Charming Lab Adam Fieled questioned what decisions Icarus would have made had he landed in the middle of Central Park. Musical guest Guy Ramsey played two moving songs on the piano: one lovely and serene, the other jazzy and syncopated. Hating the man who hurt her, sophomore Caroline Rothstein writhed on the floor of a bathroom stall, feeling like she would die, while Asian American writer Omar F. Telan considered his funeral. Nicole Tabolt, a sophomore English major, affirmed not her own death but that of poetry in a sad and brooding tone. Passionate performances and messages characterized this evening's edition of LIVE.

  1. Tracy Gilbert and Amma Asare - Pro-Life
  2. Venise Battle - A Bop Poem
  3. Venise Battle - Home Altar
  4. Venise Battle - Meeting Mother at the Waters
  5. Venise Battle - Veronica
  6. Adam Fieled - Icarus in New York
  7. Adam Fieled - On Jazz
  8. Adam Fieled - To Bruce Norman
  9. Guy Ramsey - Dream Number Two Seventeen
  10. Guy Ramsey - Stolen Moments
  11. Caroline Rothstein - Noah
  12. Caroline Rothstein - The White Version of Diversity
  13. Caroline Rothstein - They Call Me Granola
  14. Nicole Tabolt - Preparations for Judy and Claire
  15. Nicole Tabolt - Rest in Peace
  16. Nicole Tabolt - Theft
  17. Omar F. Telan - Familiar
  18. Omar F. Telan - Gigolo Serenade Part Fifteen
  19. Omar F. Telan - Gigolo Serenade Part Two
  20. Omar F. Telan - I've Been Thinking a lot about Death Lately
  21. Omar F. Telan - Michaelangelo's Pieta
  22. Omar F. Telan - Suburban Love Affair

Episode 45 - 03/01/2004 - Creative

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney

Live at the Writers House this Monday featured Lorene Cary, Alan Gilbert, Jena Osman, Adam J. Sorkin, and musical guest Box Social. Lorene Cary, founder of Art Sanctuary, told a captivating tale of a young woman, a slave in Baltimore, who was shipped to freedom in a box; that "one night of imprisonment reflected a life of enslavement like a deadly magnifying glass." Alan Gilbert read excerpts from Relative Heat Index, and with heavy pauses and weighty words, explained, "everything is capable of being broken." Box Social, whose sound reminds subtly of British pop and glam-rock, referenced Philadelphia, teeming with bass and drums. Jena Osman invited us to the "Memory Error Theater," where there are cars on fire and a melodious voices that calms. Adam J. Sorkins finished the night with "A Visit to Peles Castle as Seen From Pennsylvania," where there exists "a barbaric spring" and "silk carpets on which our shadows lose their way." Tonight Philadelphia writers and poets showcased creativity and fluidity in their diversity of recitation.

  1. Box Social - Suburban Outfitters
  2. Box Social - Tex Avery Dream
  3. Box Social - Untitled
  4. Lorene Cary - Crossing the River on Horseback in the Night
  5. Lorene Cary - Woman Escaping in a Box
  6. Alan Gilbert - Excerpt from Relative Heat Index
  7. Jena Osman - Memory Error Theater
  8. Jena Osman - The March
  9. Adam J. Sorkins - A Visit to Pelis Castle as Seen from Pennsylvania
  10. Adam J. Sorkins - November First, 1996
  11. Adam J. Sorkins - The Dragon
  12. Adam J. Sorkins - The Golden Mean

Episode 44 - 11/11/2003 - Greater

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

From rocks to ham sandwiches, tonight's episode of LIVE brought us back to a more primitive place. Author and Penn alum Leslie Esdaile Bank, aka L. A. Banks, described being stuck between a rock and a hard place — "Splinters are a bitch!" she cried in her sweet, singsong voice. Penn professor Lynn Levin translated our squealing early hominid language — "oooh ah ah eeh!" — into modern speech, while poet Jim Corey twisted modern expressions into their literal meanings — asking to borrow a girl's eyes, who instantly obliged him by popping them out. Associate professor of Digital Media Nick Montfort wondered about the essences of life — time, the textures of delay, and the destruction of meaning, while poet and publisher Steven Allan May interrupted himself, sounding mad, as he described dreams and disconnected heads bobbing in the ocean. Musical guest Snapperhead Zydeco rounded out the evening's reflective tales by playing tunes that sparked the perhaps primitive instinct to dance.

  1. Leslie Esdaile Bank - Untitled (2)
  2. Leslie Esdaile Bank - Untitled
  3. Jim Cory - A Lie
  4. Jim Cory - An Admirer
  5. Jim Cory - Hmm
  6. Jim Cory - Memoire Spring Seventy Seven
  7. Jim Cory - Wife
  8. Jim Cory - Word from the Mainstreet Cafe
  9. Lynn Levin - Action Hero
  10. Lynn Levin - Homo Erectus Recalls the Better Days of Man
  11. Lynn Levin - The Bride of the Ladies' Auxiliary Luncheon
  12. Steven Allen May - Auld Known Stories
  13. Steven Allan May - Dream Remembered at Three Forty Nine AM
  14. Steven Allan May - Fast Weight
  15. Steven Allan May - Run from Some Drunken Dream
  16. Steven Allan May - Tea Fleshhood
  17. Steven Allan May - Time
  18. Nick Montfort - City
  19. Nick Montfort - Reflections
  20. Nick Montfort - The Exhaustion of Libraries
  21. Nick Montfort - The Unrelenting
  22. Snapperhead Zydeco - S'eux Malade ne pas Danser
  23. Snapperhead Zydeco - Tous les Temps en Temps
  24. Snapperhead Zydeco - Untitled
  25. Snapperhead Zydeco - Zydeco Boogaloo

Episode 43 - 10/20/2003 - All

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

Members both past and present of Kelly Writers House's very own planning committee, the Hub, were featured in tonight's episode of LIVE. Al Filreis, a longstanding Penn faculty member, read an excerpt from his fifth book The Fifties Thirties about what happened to modern poets when anti-communists got hold of them in the 1950s. Samantha Barrow and Seth Laracy took us to New Orleans and Memphis respectively; one read her poetry in front of "anarchists, punks, and semi-hipsters" and the other looked for his second-grade love in a dream. Adrienne Mishkin declaimed the power of hands: "hands speak for us like lips — and strong hands shout." Randall Couch closed the nights readings with "Vagabond Theater," "The Abandoned Woman," and the proclamation that "there is only so much self space." Following readings by Hub members and coordinators, Phil Sandick, along with the Penny Loafers, an award-winning co-ed a cappella group, did a variety of covers with solos with a full range of buoyant tenors to impassioned sopranos.

  1. Samantha Barrow - The Dixie Tavern
  2. Randall Couch - Maghrib in Philadelphia
  3. Randall Couch - The Abandoned Woman
  4. Randall Couch - Untitled
  5. Al Filreis - Excerpts from the Fifties Thirties
  6. Seth Laracy - Untitled
  7. Adrienne Mishkin - Hands
  8. Adrienne Mishkin - In Any Language
  9. Adrienne Mishkin - The Dinner War
  10. Adrienne Mishkin - The Only Poem Inspired by Puerto Rico
  11. Adrienne Mishkin - Whispered in the Kitchen
  12. The Penny Loafers - Someday
  13. The Penny Loafers - Take it Off
  14. The Penny Loafers - Wonder

Episode 42 - 09/29/2003 - 2-1-5

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

Chills filled the Arts Café in this evening's edition of LIVE. Producer Tom Devaney started the episode off with a series of sad realizations: dear old Obi Wan Kenobi struggled to do the little things, like get a good haircut, while New Jersey is the greatest poem never written. Fiction writer Jay Kirk shared a shudder-inducing detective murder mystery, and writer Iain Levison told a tale of a man who squirmed in his seat as a company attempted to brainwash him into selling water filters. Teen writer Elisa Ludwig, who enjoys flea markets and Scrabble, presented a story in which her young heroine ended up in a van with an aging roadie in a deserted parking lot while her best friend slept with the lead singer. Eek. Speaking of singers, musical guest The Wayward Wind performed a series of hauntingly happy songs about postcards, willows, and smoking. Unfortunate, and bizarre, situations characterized this episode of LIVE.

  1. Tom Devaney - Not a Ralph
  2. Tom Devaney - Obi Wan Kenobi
  3. Tom Devaney - Trying to Live as if it Were Morning
  4. Tom Devaney - Untitled
  5. Jay Kirk - Watching the Detectives
  6. Iain Levison - Untitled - Excerpt
  7. Elisa Ludwig - Touchy Feely
  8. The Wayward Wind - Postcards from the Wind
  9. The Wayward Wind - Sweet Willow Walking
  10. The Wayward Wind - The Smokers' Pavilion
  11. Kathleen Volk Miller - Driving

Episode 41 - 03/03/2003 - A

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

From Illuminata's Weight Watchers binges to southwest of the Guyana border, poets, novelists, and short story writers invited us into new homes and new countries, at times weaving new worlds in as little as twelve seconds. Ron Swegman honored Philadelphia's Boathouse Row and read "Sonnet for Camden, New Jersey," and Robert Strauss spoke of his love of and trip to Burkina Faso and Ouagadougou, and the easy way they roll off the tongue. Tanya Barrientos, a columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, brought us to Frontera Street, where Illuminata cooked feasts for neighbors but ingested her own food with only hungry eyes. Allie D'Augustine read a series of her short poems and prose, one of which highlighted "Rules for a Good Life": "listen to music and clutch your pen and hope you will survive." Dan Histon asked for Septembers with a twist, and Courtney Mandryk told of the man next door who hums and of tulips "bruised like bananas." Musical guest Andy Bresnan, an artistic director, composer, and producer, joined by the Big Mess Orchestra, full of trombones and saxophones, played tracks each vastly different in their performance and style. Tonight's episode of LIVE featured poems from the honest and everyday to the distant and bizarre, each able to capture the diverse audience's attention.

  1. Tanya Maria Barrientos - Excerpt from Frontera Street
  2. Andy Bresnan and Big Flamehead - Untitled
  3. Andy Bresnan and The Big Mess Orche - Being in Love
  4. Andy Bresnan and The Big Mess Orch - For One, Two or Three
  5. Andy Bresnan and The Big Mess Orche - Untitled
  6. Allie DAugustine - Echoes
  7. Allie DAugustine - Inheritance
  8. Allie DAugustine - My America
  9. Allie DAugustine - Perception
  10. Allie DAugustine - Rules for a Good Life
  11. Allie DAugustine - The Way We Are Now
  12. Allie DAugustine - The Weight of Something Missing
  13. Allie DAugustine - To Have and Have Not
  14. Allie DAugustine - Truth
  15. Dan Histon - A September with a Twist
  16. Dan Histon - I Fought the Odds
  17. Dan Histon - Ode to the Pimple on my Nose
  18. Dan Histon - River of Tears
  19. Dan Histon - Shake, Rattle and Roll
  20. Dan Histon - The Book
  21. Dan Histon - The Monster
  22. Courtney Mandryk - 315 South Fifteenth Street Appartment 2F
  23. Robert Strauss - Untitled
  24. Ron Swegman - A Friendly Tavern in Sight
  25. Ron Swegman - An American View
  26. Ron Swegman - Closing Sequence of Philadelphia on the Fly
  27. Ron Swegman - Form
  28. Ron Swegman - Hell Exhaling
  29. Ron Swegman - Lucky Number
  30. Ron Swegman - Prologue to Philadelphia on the Fly
  31. Ron Swegman - Sonnet for Camden, New Jersey
  32. Ron Swegman - The Desire Building
  33. Ron Swegman - Untitled
  34. Dan Histon - On the Bench

Episode 40 - 02/03/2003 - Writers

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

Death, despair, doubt, and the government characterized tonight's episode of LIVE. Founding coeditor of the literary journal 6ix, Alicia Askenase asked for audience participation in her address to the Union (the directed applause stifled her message — which seemed to be exactly her message), while Philadelphia poet Leonard Gontarek explicitly addressed the president in a somewhat crude manner. Founding director of the Philadelphia Alumni Writers House, Kerry Sherin, and PhD candidate, Lena Sze, questioned the purpose of the Iraq War in short bursts of interrupted thoughts and numbered lists. Blake Martin and Dan Fishback focused on wars at home as they shared tales of an unfortunate woman whose mind began unraveling at a young age and commanded a junior to step up to the podium, respectively. Musical guest Mishael Nicole Devlin shared two melancholic songs, singing with a beautifully distraught and breathy voice. An emotional night, this episode asked us to consider why and for what purpose government decisions are made — and whether we should support, question, or criticize such choices.

  1. Alicia Askenase - News in Brief
  2. Alicia Askenase - State of Union
  3. Alicia Askenase - Untitled
  4. Mishael Nicole Devlin - Monody
  5. Mishael Nicole Devlin - Write me a Letter
  6. Dan Fishback - Speech to Introduce Students for Peace Reading
  7. Leonard Gontarek - Arrangement
  8. Leonard Gontarek - Blowback
  9. Blake Martin - Linda
  10. Kerry Sherin - Autumn Lullaby
  11. Kerry Sherin - Untitled
  12. Kerry Sherin - Western Wind
  13. Sze Lena - Gusts
  14. Lena Sze - Guzzle for Genoa
  15. Lena Sze - Suicide
  16. Lena Sze - Untitled
  17. Lena Sze - Very Short Fragment
  18. Lena Sze - You Are

Episode 39 - 12/02/2002 - Civic

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

Tonight's episode of LIVE featured stories about love, support, and obsession. In a gravely voice, Drexel adjunct professor Michael Barsanti shared a love letter from Keats in which Keats demanded his lover not to contact him if she had smiled at anyone since they last spoke. Harsh. Writer Beandrea Davis demonstrated that people of all ages, from kids to senior citizens, could come together to support PCH and the homeless, while Greg Giovanni told of a march to City Hall where everyone "illegally" danced in the streets. Writers Lisa Funderburg and Simpson Bennet couldn't help but be obsessed by trash and producing art at night, respectively. Funderburg even admitted that "it's a low-grade speed, salvaging is" as she ransacked dumpster after dumpster. Defying expectations, musical guest Tara Burke performed pieces on an accordion and a guitar, sending out notes of fatigue and wistful thinking. Like Burke's performance, this episode touched on a variety of raw human emotions.

  1. Michael Barsanti - In an Auction Room
  2. Michael Barsanti - Letter by Keats
  3. Michael Barsanti - On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letter
  4. Tara Burke - Moonlight Sonata
  5. Tara Burke - Ransack the Park
  6. Beandrea Davis - Going Home Going Forward the Life of a West P
  7. Lise Funderburg - Dumpster Diving Dusted off and Fondled
  8. Greg Giovanni - January Second, 1992
  9. Greg Giovanni - Untitled
  10. Simpson Bennett - Ten Buck Phone Card

Episode 38 - 11/11/2002 - Good

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

LIVE at the Writers House this Monday featured poets John Timpane, Deborah Burnham, Bob Perelman, Harriet Levin Millan, and Hassen; musical guest Kenn Kweder; and writer Joey Sweeney. John Timpane, author of Poetry for Dummies, outlines "The Five Steps to Physical Intimacy," each preceding step better than its subsequent; "Something about the sight is better than the touch / The sex of could or might un-tempted by the clutch," he proclaimed in a soft voice. Deb Burnham, with each word carefully placed and each syllable carefully accentuated, spoke of moving away from divorce, and leaves falling in the spring wind. Bob Perelman and Harriet Levin Millan expressed human sorrow in their poems, while Hassen reflected on human fragility. Joey Sweeney wrote a tribute to Bruce Springsteen and his childhood babysitter (who he was in love with), and Kenn Kweder ended the night with "Freedom from Sense" and his distinct rock sound.

  1. Deborah Burnham - Apples September
  2. Deborah Burnham - Mirror
  3. Deborah Burnham - Still
  4. Hassen - Digging a Hole to China
  5. Hassen - Fratercula Arctica Private Eye
  6. Hassen - For David Reminder
  7. Hassen - Fragility
  8. Hassen - Sheltered
  9. Hassen - Third Eye Psalm of Euca
  10. Kenn Kweder - Freedom from Sense
  11. Kenn Kweder - Places
  12. Harriet Levin Millan - Andromeda
  13. Harriet Levin Millan - Birder
  14. Harriet Levin Millan - Quaker City Music Festival
  15. Harriet Levin Millan - Survey of Debris
  16. Harriet Levin Millan - Wrought
  17. Bob Perelman - Djuna Moon
  18. Bob Perelman - Driving to the Philadelphia Poetry Festival at
  19. Bob Perelman - Today's Lament
  20. Joey Sweeney - Excerpt from Piece on Bruce Springstein
  21. John Timpane - The Five Steps to Physical Intimacy
  22. John Timpane - The Reopening of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  23. John Timpane - Untitled

Episode 37 - 10/14/2002 - The

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

  1. Meredith Broussard - The New Fall Season
  2. Meredith Broussard - Anecdotes of Love
  3. Daisy Fried - American Brass
  4. Patrick Kelly - I Fall Upon the Bed of Life I Sleep
  5. Daisy Fried - Broken Radios
  6. Patrick Kelly - Days of Prickly Heat
  7. Paul Green School of Rock Musi - Have a Cigar Son
  8. Paul Green School of Rock Musi - Heart of the Sunrise
  9. Paul Green School of Rock Musi - The Rain Song
  10. Neal Pollack - Untitled
  11. Mary Richarson Graham - Excerpt from "Appetite"

Episode 36 - 04/01/2002 - All

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney
Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

Here is a commentary by Tom Devaney on his appearance on this show.

  1. Edmund Bacon - Editorial
  2. Edmund Bacon - Thoughts on the Design of Cities
  3. Meredith Broussard - Letters
  4. Ferguson Carey - November 12, 1990
  5. Ferguson Carey - November 12, 1998
  6. Julie Gerstein - Customer Communication Cards
  7. Julie Gerstein - Untitled - Letter (2)
  8. Julie Gerstein - Untitled - Letter
  9. Richard Julian - Good Life
  10. Richard Julian - Please Renee, Not Now
  11. Jane Ludin and Jennifer Snead - School Notes
  12. Michaela Majoun - Letter from Upper Volta
  13. John Moore - Letter from Jeff Young
  14. John Moore - Untitled - Letters

Episode 35 - 03/04/2002 - McSweeney's

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

  1. Amy Fusselman - Excerpt from "The Pharmacist's Mate"
  2. Amy Fusselman - Hell's Bells
  3. Neal Pollack - A Spoken Word Poem for America
  4. Neal Pollack - It is Easy to Take a Lover in Cuba
  5. Neal Pollack - The Rise and Fall of the New Economy
  6. Ted Casterline's Ninja Academy - Mental Feelings
  7. Ted Casterline's Ninja Academy - Teenagers from Mars
  8. Ted Casterline's Ninja Academy - The Non-Sexual Date

Episode 34 - 02/04/2002 - All

Written by Venise Battle and Co-produced by Tom Devaney

  1. Linda DiFeterici Stehling - Into the Abyss
  2. Linda DiFeterici Stehling - Lady H
  3. Linda DiFeterici Stehling - My Choice
  4. Linda DiFeterici Stehling - No More
  5. Dr. Ketchup - Mercy Mercy Mercy
  6. Dr. Ketchup - Miss Iceleen
  7. Simone Eccleston - False Idols
  8. Simone Eccleston - The Myth
  9. Tonya Marie Evans - Angry Don't Live Here No More
  10. Tonya Marie Evans - Find Your Own Shine
  11. Tonya Marie Evans - Rescue the Lyric
  12. Monique Gordon - A Square Dance
  13. Monique Gordon - All New All Times
  14. Monique Gordon - Augmented Sounds
  15. Monique Gordon - Blessed
  16. Monique Gordon - Full Moon
  17. Monique Gordon - Haiku
  18. Monique Gordon - He Played Her
  19. Marj Hanhe - A New York Winter
  20. Marj Hanhe - Brevity
  21. Marj Hanhe - Election Day 2000
  22. Marj Hanhe - No Place Like Home
  23. Marj Hanhe - Remembrance for September Eleventh Two Thousand O
  24. Jason Zuzga - On Beauty

Episode 33 - 01/14/2002 - Best

Written by Tom Devaney, co-produced by Venise Battle, and Hosted by Michaela Majoun

  1. Alicia Askenase - Oh Kosovo
  2. Jennifer Diel - Untitled
  3. Patrick Kelly - Last Will and Testicle
  4. Paige Menton - Bachmans Warbler
  5. Paige Menton - Centralia
  6. Paige Menton - Heath Hen
  7. Paige Menton - Labrador Duck
  8. Pochahontas and the Ribs - Tell Me
  9. Pochahontas and the Ribs - Walk with Me
  10. Stephen Potter - It's Hard for our Poems to be as Zippy as our
  11. Stephen Potter - Of Volume
  12. Elizabeth Scanlon - Infared Radiation
  13. Elizabeth Scanlon - St. Lucy's Day
  14. Elizabeth Scanlon - The Heights
  15. Heather Thomas - News Reports Bliss of Absence
  16. Heather Thomas - The Delicate World
  17. William F. Van-Wert - Description of the Airport in Saigon

Episode 32 - 12/05/2001 - Scholarship

Produced by Tom Devaney and Venise Battle

  1. Carlos Gomez - Untitled
  2. An Lam - A Time Not Too Long Ago
  3. An Lam - Thoughts
  4. Marqui - Always on my Mind
  5. Marqui - Smile
  6. Rita Rodriguez - Untitled
  7. Aliya Sternstein - Happy Trails
  8. Pamela Zinn - Untitled (2)
  9. Pamela Zinn - Untitled (4)
  10. Pamela Zinn - Untitled (5)
  11. Pamela Zinn - Untitled

Episode 31 - 11/05/2001 - The

Produced by Tom Devaney, co-produced by Venise Battle, and hosted by Michaela Majoun.

  1. CA Conrad - Excerpts from Advanced Elvis Course
  2. Gregory Fuchs - Eight Pieces from Cosmic American Music
  3. Ethel Rackin - I Carry this Package with Me
  4. Ethel Rackin - I Keep Jumping into Titles
  5. Ethel Rackin - It's Been Raining Here for a Hundred Years
  6. Ethel Rackin - Post
  7. Molly Russakoff - Abnormal Psychology
  8. Molly Russakoff - Amsterdam Florida Peru
  9. Molly Russakoff - Flowers
  10. Molly Russakoff - The Old Hag Scratches at the Pavement with a
  11. Fran Ryan - Not
  12. Fran Ryan - Respect
  13. Frank Sherlock - Still Living Still Moving
  14. Cassandre Xavier - Life of the Party
  15. Magdalena Zurawski - Ode

Episode 30 - 10/01/2001 - 125

Written by Tom Devaney and Co-produced by Venise Battle

  1. Venise Battle - Gemini
  2. Venise Battle - Untitled (2)
  3. Venise Battle - Untitled
  4. Carole Bernstein - Bounty
  5. Carole Bernstein - Infertility Group
  6. Carole Bernstein - The Cup of Coffee
  7. Carole Bernstein - Three Toed Sloth
  8. Carole Bernstein - Torcello
  9. Jessica Lowenthal - Additions to the Chronology of Locust Rava
  10. Ruth Branning Malloy - Dreams
  11. Ruth Branning Malloy - June Fifth Nineteen Sixty Six
  12. Ruth Branning Malloy - My Room's a Filing Cabinet
  13. Ruth Branning Malloy - On the Passing of a Certain Little Plea
  14. Ruth Branning Malloy - Picture out of Memory
  15. Ruth Branning Malloy - The Separation
  16. Val Operielsky - Deadly Earnest
  17. Val Operielsky - Wheels within Wheels
  18. Hannah Sassaman - Cinderella
  19. Hannah Sassaman - Haircut
  20. Hannah Sassaman - Stephanie Moves Out

Episode 29 - 04/09/2001

You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Jaime Bard - Untitled Two
  2. Jaime Bard - Untitled
  3. Melissa Duclos - Can Not Know
  4. Melissa Duclos - Fireworks Revisited
  5. Melissa Duclos - First Wake
  6. Melissa Duclos - Friend Found Raped
  7. Melissa Duclos - The Secret to Pie
  8. DuEwa Fraiser - Journeys
  9. DuEwa Fraiser - Us Creative Women
  10. Anne Kaier - Easter
  11. Anne Kaier - Sarah
  12. Blake Martin - Untitled
  13. Kelly McQuain - Excerpt From Erasing Sonny
  14. Amy Miller - Phone Date
  15. Amy Miller - Untitled
  16. Jackie Morfesis - Athens
  17. Jackie Morfesis - Baby
  18. Jackie Morfesis - Earthquake
  19. Jackie Morfesis - Lion

Episode 28 - 03/19/2001

You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Venise Battle - Taboo
  2. Venise Battle - Two Thirty-Seven AM
  3. Venise Battle - Yen
  4. Deborah Burnham - Our Lady of the Cabbages
  5. Deborah Burnham - Skipping Stones
  6. Jeffrey Loo performed by Lori Nan-Engler - Excerpt from Identity Papers
  7. Paige Menton - Trackings
  8. Michelle Meyers - Ancestor Worship
  9. Michelle Meyers - Mudang Magic
  10. Michelle Meyers - Untitled
  11. Heather Starr and Kerry Sherin - Intersections
  12. Audrey Smith-Bey - Love Will Find Away
  13. Audrey Smith-Bey - Summertime
  14. Kammika Williams Witherspoon - Summer Headlines Heavy From The Weight
  15. Andrew Zitcer - Oh Sweet Nothing
  16. Andrew Zitcer - Staccato Thoughts Trampled
  17. Andrew Zitcer - Title Without a Poem
  18. Andrew Zitcer - Untitled
  19. Andrew Zitcer - With Senses Concensus

Episode 27 - 02/19/2001

You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Brandy Durham - Absence of Soul
  2. Brandy Durham - Thief
  3. Amina Gautier - Untitled Short Story
  4. Carlos Gomez - One
  5. Carlos Gomez - The Crack in the Timeglass
  6. Matthew Hart - A Future Like That Right Dancing
  7. Matthew Hart - Audio Visual Poem by Mike Magee
  8. Matthew Hart - Because Horse Sang Here
  9. Matthew Hart - Major Breakthrough at Easter
  10. Lois Moses - I Love You Mothers
  11. Lois Moses - If You Couldnt See Me Before Can You See Me Now
  12. Sarah St Vincent - Olives
  13. Sarah St Vincent - Pearl Mamma
  14. Sarah St Vincent - Wild Honey in a Glass Jar
  15. Solade Thorpe - Motherly Advice
  16. Solade Thorpe - Reading
  17. Solade Thorpe - The Jogger
  18. Robert Toteras - House of God
  19. Robert Toteras - Keep Me Around

Episode 26 - 01/22/2001

You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Laura Bardwell - Apparatus
  2. Holly Bittner - Trigger
  3. Sandra Chin - Community
  4. Sandra Chin - Journal Entry
  5. Sandra Chin - Trouble
  6. Daisy Fried - A Story Having To Do With Walt Whitman
  7. Daisy Fried - Two Thousand
  8. Gena Heng - Subway Talk
  9. Gena Heng - Untitled
  10. David Sanders - Excerpt From Quiatu
  11. Elizabeth Scanlon - Passerby
  12. Elizabeth Scanlon - Radio Dream
  13. Elizabeth Scanlon - Sweet Success
  14. Kathy Lou Schultz - Sonnet Four
  15. Kathy Lou Schultz - Sonnet One
  16. Kathy Lou Schultz - Sonnet Three
  17. Kathy Lou Schultz - Sonnet Two
  18. Anita Thakkar - Devotion
  19. Three Stories High - Hey
  20. Three Stories High - I Never Think
  21. Van Tu - Free Write
  22. Van Tu - Untitled

Episode 25 - 12/11/2000

You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Christine Grow - For Robert Granier
  2. Christine Grow - Leidas Song
  3. Jonathan London - Paul
  4. Stephen Marmel - Alman
  5. Stephen Marmel - Follow
  6. Bruce Niedt - Grandmother Roses
  7. Bruce Niedt - Immortals
  8. Bruce Niedt - Nephew
  9. Tahneer Oksman - December Echo Turn
  10. Tahneer Oksman - Where Are the Beats
  11. Siani Taylor - Good Girl
  12. Siani Taylor - Losing Senses
  13. Heather Thomas - News
  14. Heather Thomas - Skin Memory
  15. Simone Zelitch - Excerpt From Louisa

Episode 24 - 11/13/2000

You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Walter Aikens - Woman You Can Make a Plum Cry
  2. Laura Durback - Heredity
  3. Leonard Gontarek - Fragment Two
  4. Leonard Gontarek - Fragment Three
  5. Leonard Gontarek - Fragment
  6. Leonard Gontarek - Zen for Beginners
  7. Leanne Magee - Bloom and Doom
  8. Leanne Magee - Flow
  9. Leanne Magee - Pink Moon
  10. Don Riggs - Doggedly
  11. Don Riggs - Our Parents Left New York
  12. Don Riggs - That Smile Could Spark
  13. Don Riggs - Untitled
  14. Guarnieri Sahms - Easter
  15. Guarnieri Sahms - Still Life
  16. Hannah Sassaman - Bizarre Non-Sequitor Text
  17. Peter Schwarz - Excerpts From The Ruins
  18. Simon - Begin Again
  19. Simon - Sweet Angel
  20. James Specht - Rides Like These Make Me Proclaim Myself a Disgusting Person
  21. Leah Wyant - Paper Words

Episode 23 - 10/02/2000

You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Jennifer McCreary - Possible Manifestations of Her Behavior Intrigued Him
  2. Herman Beavers - Problems of Translation
  3. Herman Beavers - Secrets
  4. Herman Beavers - The Real Deal
  5. Herman Beavers - Vernell Contemplates the Meaning of Existence
  6. Carole Bernstein - Mah Jongg 1967
  7. Carole Bernstien - The Visit
  8. Cathy Crimmins - Excerpts From Where is the Mango Princesse
  9. Nancy Falkow - Eraser
  10. Nancy Falkow - Sleeping East
  11. Mytili Jagannathan - Acts
  12. Mytili Jagannathan - Cinderella Itinerary
  13. Mytili Jagannathan - Open Letter
  14. Mytili Jagannathan - Rapid Transit
  15. Holly Johnson - Creationist Lectures
  16. Holly Johnson - Love Poem
  17. Jennifer McCreary - Dear Nancy
  18. Jennifer McCreary - Praises
  19. Peter Rock - Ambulence
  20. Peter Rock - Collapse

Episode 22 - 09/17/2000

Episode 21 - 03/20/2000

Episode 20 - 02/21/2000 - Inspiring

Produced and hosted by Heather Starr, directed by Joe Taylor
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Renee Balthrop - Cauldron
  2. Ivan Fisher - Untitled
  3. Ivan Fisher - Why Do Cats Chase Strange Things
  4. Deirdre Flint - King of the Rollorama
  5. Deirdre Flint - Our Past Life Regrets
  6. Andrew Hahn - A Night in Vienna
  7. Andrew Hahn - Insurance
  8. Andrew Hahn - Midafternoon Dreams
  9. Andrew Hahn - Montreal
  10. Andrew Hahn - Noodle Salad
  11. Andrew Hahn - Turkey
  12. Amanda James - Im Tired
  13. KD Morris - Make Free
  14. KD Morris - Yours
  15. Heather and Kristen Thorpe Starr - Radio Poem
  16. Shawnda Tep - War
  17. Randall Couch - Rubrics
  18. Melissa Duclos - Untitled
  19. Laura Goldstein - From Fifteenth to Forty-Eighth
  20. Laura Goldstein - From Fifth to Thirty-Fourth
  21. Rebekah Grossman - Body Lift
  22. Rebekah Grossman - Owl Mask
  23. Rebekah Grossman - Untitled
  24. Lynn Levin - If You Are Reading This
  25. Yasinah Mobley - What I Want To Say
  26. KD Morris - A Time To Leave
  27. KD Morris - Autumn
  28. KD Morris - Commercial Dad
  29. Marylin Piety by Cassie Macdonald - Untitled
  30. Laura Pyle - The Sign
  31. John Shea - The Last Sestina
  32. Simon - Ill Meet You There
  33. Simon - Moonfall
  34. Ellen Slack - Exports Reports Vision
  35. Lauren Smith - Untitled
  36. Haadiya Starkey - Remember
  37. Haadiya Starkey - Simplicity Yasinah
  38. James Tidall - Whale

Episode 19 - 01/24/2000

Produced by Kirsten Thorpe, directed by Joe Taylor, hosted by Michaela Majoun
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Malila Beckton - Building Blocks
  2. Malila Beckton - To The Ringleader
  3. Nate Chinen - Also Some Women
  4. Nate Chinen - Downtown and Brooklyn Late Nights
  5. Nate Chinen - For the Time Being November Poem
  6. Paul Elsberg - Craft
  7. Paul Elsberg - On Observing a Squirrel Fall From a Large Tree Convulse and Run A
  8. Paul Elsberg - Street Signs
  9. John Faye - Dancing In Your Shadow
  10. John Faye - Miss Catch-22

Episode 18 - 11/08/1999

Produced by Heather Starr, directed by Joe Taylor, hosted by Shawn Stewart
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Animus - Untitled Two
  2. Animus - Untitled
  3. Gay Ross - The Execution
  4. Gay Ross - The Hernia
  5. Gay Ross - The Marionette
  6. Tonya Hegamin - Autumn Serenade
  7. Tonya Hegamin - Our Ship Didnt Have A Name
  8. Tonya Hegamin - The One Next to Tutenkamens Amazingly Small
  9. Tonya Hegamin - Your Love Plucks Me Like A Plum
  10. Daniel Nester - Happy Days
  11. Daniel Nester - On the Death of Owen the Blue Blazer Hart
  12. Daniel Nester - Throwing Rocks
  13. Deborah Richards - Untitled
  14. Frank Sherlock - A Revolutionary Kind of Fiction
  15. Frank Sherlock - Boo
  16. Frank Sherlock - Thirteen
  17. Don Silver - Brief History of the United States in Late Twentieth Century
  18. Don Silver - Floyd
  19. Don Silver - Middle of the Woods
  20. Don Silver - Moving Day
  21. Abigail Susik - A Landscape for Three Voices
  22. Abigail Susik - The Boxer
  23. Abigail Susik - The Terrain Versus Alex Katz

Episode 17 - 10/11/1999

Produced by Heather Starr, directed by Joe Taylor, hosted by Shawn Stewart

Episode 16 - 09/13/1999

Produced by Heather Starr, directed by Joe Taylor, hosted by Shawn Stewart

  1. Melisa Cahnmann - Advice
  2. Melisa Cahnmann - Every Moment Also A Missed Moment
  3. Melisa Cahnmann - Untitled
  4. Cidalia Cornelio - Journey Through Parallel Souls
  5. Cidalia Cornelio - Now If It All Aint Right
  6. Nancy Falkow - Untitled Two
  7. Nancy Falkow - Untitled
  8. Gregory Fuchs - Came Like It Went
  9. Gregory Fuchs - The Day Princess Died
  10. Gregory Fuchs - The New Mad Cow Alert
  11. Michael Higgins - The Tiger
  12. Michael Higgins - Untitled
  13. Hannah Sassaman - 4112 Spruce Street Appartment Number Six
  14. Hannah Sassaman - Birthday Poem
  15. Hannah Sassaman - Stephanie Moves Out
  16. Hannah Sassaman - Twins
  17. Mark Wilhelm - Capanaba
  18. Mark Wilhelm - Elvis in Las Vegas
  19. Mark Wilhelm - Ode to the Last Cigarette
  20. Yolanda Wisher - Cat Scat
  21. Yolanda Wisher - Peaches
  22. Yolanda Wisher - Ruby Flow
  23. Yolanda Wisher - Strange Fruit
  24. Magdalena Zurawski - Ballad of the Concrete Tree
  25. Magdalena Zurawski - Bruised Nickelodeon
  26. Magdalena Zurawski - Horses
  27. Magdalena Zurawski - This Where

Episode 15 - 04/12/1999

Produced by Heather Starr, directed by Joe Taylor, hosted by Shawn Stewart

  1. Natalie Anderson - Aulophobia - Fear of Flutes
  2. Natalie Anderson - Bromidrosophobia - Fear of Body Odor
  3. Natalie Anderson - Excerpt from The Miser
  4. Natalie Anderson - Gringophobia - Fear of Gringos
  5. Natalie Anderson - Hydrophobophobia - Fear of Rabies
  6. Natalie Anderson - Jukebox Memories
  7. Natalie Anderson - Nephophobia - Fear of Clouds
  8. Brett Evans - Excerpt from Beauty Damage Control Mardi Gras 1997
  9. Caroline Jacobson - Not Worth It
  10. David Koppish - Harvest Moon
  11. David Koppish - Improvisation Number Five
  12. David Koppish - Prayer
  13. Nicola - Anything
  14. Nicola - My Own Woman
  15. Lisa Sandale - Blue Borders
  16. Lisa Sandale - Glass Ocean
  17. Lisa Sandale - Language Wax
  18. Dennison Whitmer - Breathe In This Life
  19. Dennison Whitmer - Stations

Episode 14 - 03/15/1999

produced by Heather Starr, directed by Joe Taylor, hosted by Shawn Stewart

  1. Toni Brown - Postcards From Cave Cannum One
  2. Toni Brown - Postcards From Cave Cannum Two
  3. Toni Brown - Roxie
  4. Toni Brown - Salvation
  5. Toni Brown - The Smile
  6. Toni Brown - The Train Ride
  7. Amber DeLaurentis - Deep Into Indigo
  8. Amber DeLaurentis - What I Meant To Say
  9. Kristen Gallagher - Implosion Theory Number One Seduction and the Significant Other
  10. Kristen Gallagher - Logic Calling
  11. Kristen Gallagher - Some History
  12. Valerie Hanson - In Stations
  13. Valerie Hanson - Of This Other Hands
  14. Valerie Hanson - Still Life
  15. Valerie Hanson - Stories of Sight
  16. Valerie Hanson - X-Ray Days
  17. Mytili Jagannathan - Against
  18. Mytili Jagannathan - Declarations
  19. Mytili Jagannathan - House (Password Protected)
  20. Mytili Jagannathan - Nationalism Redactor
  21. Cynthia Mason - Critic
  22. Cynthia Mason - Untitled
  23. Lauren Smith - February Letter
  24. Lauren Smith - Letters January 1996 Through October 1996 or Surviving By the Boo
  25. Lauren Smith - Suzanne At Home Midday
  26. Lauren Smith - Suzanne at the Office in the Eighties
  27. Lauren Smith - Suzanne House-Hunting In Montreal 1957
  28. Lauren Smith - Suzannes Morning Errands
  29. Lauren Smith - Untitled
  30. Suzanna Urminska - Pomegranet
  31. Beth Trigg - Oysters
  32. Beth Trigg - Procreation
  33. Beth Trigg - Stateside
  34. Suzanna Urminska - Senses At Seven
  35. Suzanna Urminska - Silhouette of a Dream Horse
  36. Suzanna Urminska - Untitled Two
  37. Suzanna Urminska - Untitled Three
  38. Suzanna Urminska - Untitled

Episode 13 - 02/08/1999

produced by Heather Starr, directed by Joe Taylor, hosted by Shawn Stewart
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Tom Devaney - No One I Know and the Tree
  2. Tom Devaney - Obi Wan Kenobe
  3. Tom Devaney - Sonnet
  4. Tom Devaney - The Heartbeat of America Makes Its Own Gravy
  5. Jo Grudziak - City Trees
  6. Jo Grudziak - My Native Language
  7. Jo Grudziak - Thoughts on Curdled Cream in Time of Economic Crisis
  8. David Lavin - Goin to Nabagamon
  9. David Lavin - Tradition Song
  10. John Parker - The Sinful Flesh
  11. Stephen Potter - Carved
  12. Stephen Potter - Fugue
  13. Ethel Rackin - Blush
  14. Ethel Rackin - Box Skirt
  15. Ethel Rackin - My Portable Radio
  16. Ethel Rackin - Silly You
  17. Heather Starr - Not Calm
  18. Heather Starr - Then It Was the Atlantic in All Directions
  19. Heather Starr - This Bow and Arrow
  20. John Stephens - Loves In Need
  21. John Stephens - Untitled
  22. Shawn Walker - 4834
  23. Shawn Walker - Vivifier

Episode 12 - 11/09/1998

produced by Heather Starr, directed by Joe Taylor, hosted by Shawn Stewart
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Barbara Cole - Wandering Rocks
  2. David Goldman - Fallen
  3. David Goldman - Poem
  4. Seth Greenberg - Cherries and Mints
  5. Seth Greenberg - Untitled
  6. Rebekah Grossman - Aerial Body
  7. Rebekah Grossman - Babylon Body
  8. Rebekah Grossman - Brother Body
  9. Rebekah Grossman - Cut and Whole Body
  10. Rebekah Grossman - Doctor
  11. Rebekah Grossman - Double Compartment Body
  12. Rebekah Grossman - Earth Box
  13. Rebekah Grossman - Hotel Mirror Body
  14. Rebekah Grossman - Love Body Number Five
  15. Rebekah Grossman - Love Body Number Four
  16. Rebekah Grossman - Love Body Number One
  17. Rebekah Grossman - Love Body Number Three
  18. Rebekah Grossman - Love Body Number Two
  19. Rebekah Grossman - Post-Carbon Egyptian Bodies
  20. Rebekah Grossman - Wireless
  21. Rebekah Grossman - Womans Body
  22. Jennifer McCreary - In Which Opposition and Sister Squares Are
  23. Jennifer McCreary - Open Letter to Peggy Guggenheim
  24. Bob Perelman - Chaim Sutein
  25. Bob Perelman - The Womb of Avant Garde Reason
  26. Caitlin Roper - Heat
  27. Caitlin Roper - How the Roof of the Sky is Made
  28. Caitlin Roper - Salem Massachusetts Summer Witching
  29. Madelaine Sauk - Cat Heart Attack
  30. Madelaine Sauk - Friday Night at OHaggans
  31. Madelaine Sauk - Philadelphia
  32. Madelaine Sauk - The Bermuda Triangle Love Style

Episode 11 - 10/13/1998

produced by Heather Starr, directed by Joe Taylor, hosted by Shawn Stewart

  1. Alicia Askenase - Gunlife
  2. Josephine Foo - The Grass Collects Its Dew
  3. Josephine Foo - Perception
  4. Josephine Foo - The Frightened Child
  5. Josephine Foo - The Literal Mountain
  6. Hot Mango Chutney - Dragons
  7. Hot Mango Chutney - Untitled
  8. Michael Taylor Jon Madof Group - Untitled Two
  9. Jerry Rudasill - Trapped and Tagged
  10. Carrie Scanga - Awake
  11. Carrie Scanga - Seven-Thirty and the Spit Pit
  12. Carrie Scanga - The Room on Polk Street
  13. Carrie Scanga - Treat
  14. Kirsten Thorpe - Reciting Lines
  15. Kirsten Thorpe - The Morning
  16. Andrew Zitcer - Reassuring
  17. Andrew Zitcer - Up and Up
  18. Rebekah Grossman - Dual Time Body
  19. Jennifer McCreary - Surrealist Table Tennis
  20. Caitlin Roper - Daughter Dying in the Hospital
  21. Andrew Zitcer - Sikha Prefers Fingers
  22. Michael Taylor Jon Madof Group - Untitled

Episode 10 - 09/14/1998

produced by Heather Starr, directed by Joe Taylor, hosted by Shawn Stewart

  1. Rachel Blau-DuPlessis - Draft Twenty-Five Seigno
  2. Rachel Blau-DuPlessis - Excerpt From Draft Nineteen Working C
  3. Jessica Chiu - At the Khyber Pass Pub
  4. Jessica Chiu - Poem
  5. Jessica Chiu - There
  6. Jessica Chiu - Try To
  7. Nijmie Dzurinko - A Woman I Know
  8. Nijmie Dzurinko - Having a Daughter
  9. Nijmie Dzurinko - In the Case of Young Mister S
  10. Nijmie Dzurinko - The Storm
  11. Rachel Raffler - Count Down From Five
  12. Rachel Raffler - Untitled Two
  13. Rachel Raffler - Untitled
  14. John Shea - Tales From Websters Amon Ra to Amort
  15. John Shea - Tales From Websters Monseignor to Monstrance
  16. John Shea - Tales From Websters Paramount to Paraphrase
  17. Kerry Sherin - Love Lyrics
  18. Kerry Sherin - Song of the Moon
  19. Kerry Sherin - Why I Dont Wear Pearls
  20. The Gilroys - Untitled Two
  21. The Gilroys - Untitled
  22. Toscano Rodrigo - Premise Number One
  23. Kirsten Thorpe - Definitions
  24. Kirsten Thorpe - In the Red

Episode 8 - 03/21/1998

produced by Kristen Gallagher and Holly Johnson, hosted by Kerry Sherin

  1. Ben And Yanni - Untitled Two
  2. Rebekah Grossman - Ethnography of the Body
  3. Rebekah Grossman - Shapenote
  4. Rebekah Grossman - Weeds
  5. Matthew Hart - Four Poems
  6. Matthew Hart - In the English Lake District
  7. Matthew Hart - Notes to His Wife at the Foot of a Cliff
  8. Carolyn Jacobson - Grappling With Charlotte Bronte
  9. Christopher McCreary - Blue Lines
  10. Christopher McCreary - Legends
  11. Christopher McCreary - Sublimation
  12. Christopher McCreary - Whirlybird
  13. She Haw - Gold Watch and Chain
  14. She Haw - Oh Death
  15. Lamer Steptoe - America
  16. Lamer Steptoe - Bored
  17. Lamer Steptoe - Scared
  18. Lamer Steptoe - Thought
  19. Lamer Steptoe - Untitled
  20. Lamont Steptoe - A Genied Lamp
  21. Lamont Steptoe - Coming Ashore
  22. Lamont Steptoe - Contraband
  23. Lamont Steptoe - Dayworker
  24. Lamont Steptoe - My Daughter
  25. Lamont Steptoe - Part
  26. Lamont Steptoe - Spookism
  27. Lamont Steptoe - Supper
  28. Lamont Steptoe - To Lamer Belle
  29. Lamont Steptoe - With Every Breath
  30. Michael James Trainer - Go
  31. Shulamith Wechter-Caine - Craniology
  32. Shulamith Wechter-Caine - How To Throw a Spear or Write a Poem
  33. Shulamith Wechter-Caine - Love Fugue
  34. Ben and Yanni - Untitled
  35. Michael James Trainer - The Thief

Episode 7 - 02/21/1998

produced by Kristen Gallagher and Holly Johnson, hosted by Kerry Sherin

  1. Nate Chinen - Ode
  2. Nate Chinen - Conjugation
  3. Gregory Djanikian - Phone Call From Arizona
  4. Gregory Djanikian - Shooting Star
  5. Gregory Djanikian - The Physics of Traveling Away
  6. Gregory Djanikian - Voyeur
  7. Gregory Djanikian - Years Later
  8. Holly Johnson - Antipedes
  9. Holly Johnson - Untitled
  10. Elliot Levin - Complete Performance
  11. Elliot Levin - Juan
  12. Elliot Levin - Slow Mo Oh Roman Aroma
  13. Elliot Levin - To Be Perfectly Frank
  14. Elliot Levin - Untitled
  15. Brenda McMillan - Cotton
  16. Brenda McMillan - Daddy
  17. Brenda McMillan - Narrative
  18. Brenda McMillan - P Funk
  19. David Quintilliani - Untitled Four
  20. David Quintilliani - Untitled Three
  21. David Quintilliani - Untitled
  22. Heather Starr - Flush
  23. Heather Starr - Thursday Night Series
  24. Lamont Steptoe - My Daughter

Episode 6 - 11/08/1997

produced by Kristen Gallagher and Holly Johnson, hosted by Kerry Sherin

  1. Betsy Andrews - For Louis
  2. Betsy Andrews - The Crypts of Lieberkouhn
  3. Gregory Biglieri - Eyelicks In Exile
  4. Kristen Gallagher - Christ Market
  5. Kristen Gallagher - Untitled
  6. Kristen Gallagher - Zone
  7. Mytili Jagannathan - American Fantasies (Password Protected)
  8. Mytili Jagannathan - Liberation
  9. Mytili Jagannathan - Training
  10. Patty McCarthy - Octaves Three
  11. Maya Mojo - City Wings
  12. Maya Mojo - Remember
  13. Maya Mojo - Untitled
  14. Ron Silliman - Excerpt From Oz
  15. Kevin Verrone - Faux or Flow or Flaw
  16. Holly Johnson - Pencils
  17. David Quintilliani - Untitled Two
  18. Ron Silliman - Philadelphia

Episode 5 - 10/11/1997

produced by Kristen Gallagher and Holly Johnson, hosted by Kerry Sherin

  1. Louis Cabri - Excerpt From Disposed
  2. Louis Cabri - Excerpt
  3. Louis Cabri - Untitled
  4. Jessica Chiu - A Commentary on Asian Movies
  5. Jessica Chiu - At The Podium
  6. Jessica Chiu - July
  7. Barbara Cole - Vivian In Ink On Smoothest Paper
  8. Holly Johnson - Paintings in a Foreign Language
  9. Holly Johnson - Treatise on Academia
  10. Jeffrey Loo - Lambs
  11. Michael Magee - A Kind of Woman
  12. Michael Magee - Poem Beginning With a Line of O'Hara's
  13. Perry Aaron Yeats - The Yes's of the Body to the No's of the Mind
  14. Betsy Andrews - Hand Born
  15. Patty McCarthy - If Then
  16. Maya Mojo - Moments of Understanding

Episode 4 - 09/13/1997

produced by Kristen Gallagher and Holly Johnson, hosted by Kerry Sherin

  1. Herman Beavers - Crossings
  2. Herman Beavers - Eclipse
  3. Herman Beavers - Heart Murmur
  4. Herman Beavers - Mourning
  5. Kristen Gallagher - The Verb Poetry
  6. Herman Beavers - Spy Glass
  7. Herman Beavers - Still Life Narrative
  8. Herman Beavers - The Journeyman
  9. Herman Beavers - The Witness Stone
  10. Herman Beavers - Untitled
  11. Nate Chinen - Movement Acceleration
  12. Nate Chinen - On Location
  13. Nate Chinen - On The Eve of John Coltrane's Seventieth Birthday
  14. Kyle Connor - Art Lesson
  15. Kyle Connor - The Happy Head or An Afternoon at the Parade
  16. Kristen Gallagher - Borders
  17. Kristen Gallagher - Citescape
  18. Kristen Gallagher - Missing
  19. Holly Johnson - Question or Direction
  20. Holly Johnson - Two Fearful Maidens
  21. Holly Johnson - Untitled
  22. Colleen O'Neill - Epic
  23. Colleen O'Neill - Incidentally
  24. John Parker - Bibliotheque Mazarene
  25. David Slarskey - I Am Anachronism
  26. David Slarksey - I Sit By the Banks and It Takes Me In
  27. David Slarksey - Pastel
  28. Kirsten Thorpe - Bang Bang
  29. Kirsten Thorpe - Not With
  30. Kirsten Thorpe - Oh Man
  31. Kirsten Thorpe - Playing
  32. Jessica Chiu - Being Frank

Episode 3 - 04/12/1997

produced by Sarah Giulian and Joe Taylor; hosted by Jeff Wachs

Episode 2 - 03/22/1997

produced by Sarah Giulian and Joe Taylor; hosted by Jeff Wachs

  1. Tali Aronsky - Scenarios
  2. Tali Aronsky - Senior Year Spring Semester
  3. Edward Francis - Bay Views
  4. Edward Francis - Bitch Burnt My Scrapple
  5. Edward Francis - Directors Cut
  6. Edward Francis - Grave Concerns
  7. Edward Francis - The Love Song of JCPenny
  8. Major Jackson - Leaving Saturn Sun-Ra and Myth Science Orchestra Painted Bride
  9. Jeffrey Loo - Crossing Walt Whitman Bridge
  10. Jeffrey Loo - Out of the Machine
  11. Tina Lopez - Caesar's Palace Atlantic City
  12. Tina Lopez - Ready Made
  13. Michael Magee - A Detroit of the Mind
  14. Michael Magee - Stranger's Visit
  15. Antonio Shagnasti - Untitled
  16. Karina Sliwinski - Once Upon a Polish Village
  17. Shawn Walker - Corner B
  18. Shawn Walker - Sixty-Four Cent Sonnet
  19. Hop Wechsler - Dream Server
  20. Hop Wechsler - Ghost Bride
  21. Hop Wechsler - Phluphia
  22. Major Jackson - Ours Poetica for Charles Semmig
  23. Hop Wechsler - Day In Day Out
  24. Holly Johnson - Scowl for Jack Kerouac

Episode 1 - 02/15/1997 - Writers House

produced by Sarah Giulian and Joe Taylor; hosted by Jeff Wachs

  1. Claire Bayard - Midwinter
  2. Claire Bayard - The Worm and the Toothache
  3. Andrew Chandler - Urban Romance Number Eleven
  4. Andrew Chandler - Western Mobeus In Spasm
  5. Nate Chinen - Blues Fivespot For Johnny Griffin
  6. Jennifer Connolly - In Dedication to Silence
  7. Jennifer Connolly - Losing Arlena
  8. David Deifer and Leah Sheppard - on Robert Klein Engler's "Resurrection"
  9. Linh Dinh - Diorama
  10. Linh Dinh - Drunkard Boxing
  11. Nijmie Dzurinko - Untitled One
  12. Al Filreis - Silence
  13. Kristen Gallagher - Tape Recorder, Radio, Producer, Girl with Microphone
  14. Sarah Giulian - Peter Tchaikovskys Symphony Number Four
  15. Patrick Kelly - Autobiography Volume One
  16. Patrick Kelly - Let Me Tell You About My Baby
  17. Patrick Kelly - Opportunity Knocks
  18. Patrick Kelly - The Hollow Men
  19. Bob Perelman - Confessing to the Listserv
  20. Bob Perelman - To The Future
  21. Josh Schuster - Probably About Jewish Extremism
  22. Josh Schuster - Security
  23. Josh Schuster - Wellness
  24. Jeff Wachs - A Visit
  25. Jeff Wachs - Introduction
  26. Shawn Walker - The Bottomless Bottle
  27. Shawn Walker - Push
  28. Leah Sheppard - On Poetry
  29. Leah Sheppard - Snapshot Number Twelve
  30. Nijmie Dzurinko - Untitled Two