Fisher and Mac Cormack visit - A digital recording of PhillyTalks 19, featuring Allen Fisher and Karen Mac Cormack. PENNsound recordings - Downloadable MP3 copies of this episode. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event.

Allen Fisher, born in 1944, has been writing poetry since 1962. A painter, printer, publisher and editor he has produced 114 chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics, art documentation and essays. He is currently the editor of Spanner and he lives in Hereford, England. Karen Mac Cormack, born in Zambia, is the author of eight collections of poetry including Straw Cupid, Quill Driver, Quirks and Quillets, Marine Snow and The Tongue Moves Talk. Mac Cormack’s work has been anthologized in such collections as Into the Nightlife and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North American Poetry, as well as the important Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK and Moving Borders. Mac Cormack continues to live, write, and edit in Toronto. Matt Hart, from Penn's English Department, was the host of this event. More information about this event, and about the PhillyTalks series, is available at the PhillyTalks website. Writers House Webcast Archive