Featured resources
From "Down To Write You This Poem Sat" at the Oakville Gallery
- Charles Bernstein, "Phone Poem" (2011) (1:30): MP3
- Caroline Bergvall, "Love song: 'The Not Tale (funeral)' from Shorter Caucer Tales (2006): MP3
- Christian Bôk, excerpt from Eunoia, from Chapter "I" for Dick Higgins (2009) (1:38): MP3
- Tonya Foster, Nocturne II (0:40) (2010) MP3
- Ted Greenwald, "The Pears are the Pears" (2005) (0:29): MP3
- Susan Howe, Thorow, III (3:13) (1998): MP3
- Tan Lin, "¼ : 1 foot" (2005) (1:16): MP3
- Steve McCaffery, "Cappuccino" (1995) (2:35): MP3
- Tracie Morris, From "Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful" (2002) (3:40): MP3
- Julie Patton, "Scribbling thru the Times" (2016) (5:12): MP3
- Tom Raworth, "Errory" (c. 1975) (2:08): MP3
- Jerome Rothenberg, from "The First Horse Song of Frank Mitchell: 4-Voice Version" (c. 1975) (3:30): MP3
- Cecilia Vicuna, "When This Language Disappeared" (2009) (1:30): MP3
- Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Pont Mirabeau" (1913) (1:14):
MP3
- Amiri Baraka, "Black Dada Nihilismus" (1964) (4:02): MP3
- Louise Bennett, "Colonization in Reverse" (1983) (1:09): MP3
- Sterling Brown, "Old Lem " (c. 1950s) (2:06): MP3
- John Clare, "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein (2:54): MP3
- Velimir Khlebnikov, "Incantation by Laughter" (1910), tr. and performed by Bernstein (:28) MP3
- Harry Partch, from Barstow (part 1), performed by Bernstein (1968) (1:11): MP3
- Leslie Scalapino, "Can’t’ is ‘Night’" (2007) (3:19): MP3
- Kurt Schwitters, "Ur Sonata: Largo" performed by Ernst Scwhitter (1922-1932) ( (3:12): MP3
- Gertrude Stein, If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (1934-35) (3:42): MP3
- William Carlos Willliams, "The Defective Record" (1942) (0:28): MP3
- Hannah Weiner, from Clairvoyant Journal, performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin & Rochelle Kraut (2001) (6:12): MP3
Selected by Charles Bernstein (read more about his choices here)
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Posted 4/1/2023
This April Fool's Day marks fourteen years since our PennSound Daily announcement of our PigeonSound ™ service, which sadly never got off the ground given — among other things — the widespread rejection of pigeon post in the United States. Turntables still continue to sell healthily, flip phones are coming back, and every hipster has a vintage typewriter they paid too much money for, but the same enthusiasm could not be rekindled for avian poetry delivery, and so our fleet coos in waiting for more genteel and discerning times. Here's our original announcement, which, in true April Fool's Day fashion, came a month early, alongside the unveiling of our Twitter account:
Are you getting the most out of your PennSound experience? Aside from Twitter, don't forget all of the other ways in which you can keep up to date with the site through the web or your cell phone: first, there's the PennSound Daily newsfeed, which automatically delivers entries like this one to your iGoogle page, Google Reader, or favorite feed reader. PennSound is also on FaceBook, along with pages for our sister sites, including the Kelly Writers House and the Electronic Poetry Center. One additional option is the Kelly Writers House's Dial-a-Poem service: just dial 215-746-POEM (7636), and aside from news on upcoming KWH events, you can also hear a recording from a past reading, courtesy of the PennSound archives.
 Finally, for those of you who feel overwhelmed by all this new technology, and liked the world a lot more before it Twittered, Tumblred and Bloggered, we're currently beta-testing yet another, more traditional means of transmission. Utilizing homing pigeons equipped with state-of-the-art (well, state-of-the-art circa WWI) wire recording technology, PigeonSound ™ (see prototype at right) will be able to deliver three minutes of telephone-quality audio up to several hundred miles from our home base at UPenn's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (our apologies to the rest of the world). Though there have been numerous unfortunate setbacks to date, we hope to have the program up and running by the first of next month with our inaugural offering: The Selected Poems of Ern Malley (read by the author himself). From sites that tweet to birds that tweet, we have all of your poetry options covered at PennSound.
Posted 3/31/2023
Today we mark International Transgender Day of Visibility by visiting our author page for noted Canadian poet and critic Trish Salah.
Our holdings included the poet's appearance at the 2009 ADFEMPO (Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism) conference, organized by Belladonna*, which took place on September 24th and 25th of that year. Salah appeared as part of a panel on "Body as Discourse" chaired by Kate Eichhorn that included Joan Retallack, Laura Smith, Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël), and Ronaldo V. Wilson in addition to Salah, which explored "questions of the body, referentiality, remapping bodies and borders, intertextuality, narrativity, aesthetics, and the challenges of de-essentialization as we scrutinize 'female,' 'queer,' 'raced' and 'othered' bodies."
In addition to that panel, we have a brief set as part of a Belladonna* Reading Series event on Transfeminism and Literature from 2012, and Salah's Segue Series reading at the Zinc Bar in March 2013. More recent recordings, include "Nevada: A Reading and Panel" that also included Imogen Binnie, from the Young Centre for Performing Arts in 2013; 2014's Wanting in Arabic: A Conversation with Poet Trish Salah," recorded as part of the Asia Pacific Forum for NYC's WBAI-FM; and a 2014 reading at the East Bay Poetry Summit, hosted by the Manifest Reading and Workshop Series. There's also a very exciting PennSound Podcast episode (#57) in which Christy Davids interviews Salah and Salah reads her poetry, including "Two Self Portraits," "Interlude for the Voice," "Future Foundered," and "Gossels in Fugue."
You can listen to any and all of the recordings mentioned above by clicking here.
Posted 3/30/2023
Here is a true slice of vintage Kelly Writers House programming, dating all the way back to March 26, 1999. If you were around then, you could've enjoyed a full day of wonderful programming billed as "A Celebration of Philadelphia Writers," which was sponsored by the Humanities Forum.
The day started early with breakfast at the White Dog Cafe and a talk entitled, "So, You Want to Get Published?" That was followed by "Communities and Writers," a lunchtime event on "Writing in Philly," "Philadelphia in Film," and an exhibition opening and book signing that went straight on through to 5:30. For evening plans, you had your choice of The Chosen at the Arden Theatre or a busy night at the Clef Club that started with a talk on "Interplay of Philadelphia Jazz and Poetry," followed by an open-mic poetry jam hosted by KWH.
The keystone event of the day, however — and the one that we're highlighting — is the Philadelphia Small Presses Dinner, held at the Writers House. As the program blurb announces, "Philadelphia is experiencing a literary renaissance, thanks to the many dedicated poets and writers who run reading series, publish literary journals, and run small presses here in Philadelphia. Join some of Philadelphia's literary innovators at the Kelly Writers House for a roundtable conversation about Philadelphia's lively publishing scene." The line-up for the event is quite formidable, including Chris and Jenn McCreary (of Ixnay Press), Dave Deifer (of Xconnect), Michael Magee (of Combo), Heather Thomas and Alicia Askenase (representing 6ix), Gil Ott (of the Philadelphia Publishing Project and Singing Horse Press), Louis Cabri (of PhillyTalks), Kristen Gallagher (of Handwritten Press), and Jena Osman (of Chain). You can listen to this historic discussion here.
Want to read more? Visit the PennSound Daily archive.
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New at PennSound
- George Quasha reading ripping scales,
Barrytown, NY, March 18, 2023
- Brian Ang, Aditya Bahl, and David Lau at Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore &
Gallery, San Francisco, February 15, 2023
- Steve McCaffery reading Claude Gauvreau's "Jappements à la lune" at Tranzac, Toronto, November 14, 2022
- 32 Ethnic Minority Poets from China
- Susan Schultz reading and conversation with Tim Dyke for launch
of Lilith Walks, da Shop, Kaimuki, Honolulu, HI, February 25, 2023
- Susan Schultz reading for the MUD Parcel Series VII, May 14, 2022
- Joel Newberger's The Swan reading series, nos. 6, 9, 10, 11,
12, & 21
- T.S. Eliot's Speech Lab recordings, 1933–1935
- Steve Benson and Jean Day reading at UCSD, February 25, 1987
- Video: Phillis Webb interviewing bill bissett and bpNichol
- Brian Ang and Anne Lesley Selcer reading at Your Mood Gallery, SF, January 7, 2023
- Anne Tardos and Toni Simon reading for Lunar Chandelier
Salon, October 9, 2022
- Russell Banks: New Author Page
- Peter Glassgold reading Boethius poems 1 & 2
- Leslie Scalapino and Mark Rudman seminar for
Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice 1997–1998 Readings and Talks Series,
Georgetown, October 16, 1997
- George Quasha reading tuning by fire, Barrytown, NY, December 29, 2022
- Kass Fleisher: New Author Page
- Charles Borkhuis and Basil King reading for virtual LCP Salon, November 13, 2022
- Simone White lecture "I Am Not Wallace Stevens" at Hartford Public Library, CT, November 5, 2022
- Steve Benson reading at Rhizome, Washington DC, October 12, 2022
- 2022 Boise State University readings: Aditi Machado and Cody-Rose Clevidence
- Michael Rothenberg: New Author Page
- Brian Ang and Caleb Beckwith reading at Woolsey Heights, Berkeley, September 24, 2022
- Vincent Katz reading at Blacksmith House, Cambridge, MA, April 11, 2022
- Kimberly Lyons, Maureen Owen, and Barbara Owen reading at Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, October 26, 2022
- Alan Halsey: New Author Page
- John Keene: New Author Page
- Jerome Rothenberg reading at Kelly Writers House, September 29, 2022
- Worldwide reading in support of Salman Rushdie with Pierre Joris, September 28, 2022
- Barbara Henning reading for Climate Week at Battery Park, NYC, September 24, 2022
- George Quasha reading at 'T' Space, Rhinebeck, NY, September 3, 2022
- Kit Robinson, Neeli Cherkovski, and Alan Bernheimer reading at Bird & Beckett Books, San Francisco, August 4, 2022
- The Totality Cantos: Brian Ang and Alex Abalos on the Avant-Garde, Eastwind Books, Berkeley, August 20, 2022
- Barbara Henning reading for Everybody Press, Leroy's Place, Brooklyn, August 13, 2022
- Getting It Together: A Film on Larry Eigner, directed by Leonard Henny, 1973
- Julie Patton and Nicole Peyrafitte reading at Zoom event curated by Kimberly Lyons, June 26, 2022
- New Collection: Paul Buck's Pressed Curtains Tape Project
- Barbara Henning reading from Ferne, a Detroit Story, Pages Bookshop, Detroit, MI, June 14,2022
- Erica Hunt and Marty Ehrlich reading in Brooklyn, June 16, 2022
- I See Words: The Life and Work of Hannah Weiner, Artists Space, New York, June 18, 2022
- New author page for Harryette Mullen
- New author page for Lila Zemborain
- Divya Victor's Home Recordings, March 9, 2022
- Performed Poetics: celebration of Jerome Rothenberg's 90th birthday & the works of Eric Mottram, King's College London, March 12-13, 2022
- George Quasha reading sound talk from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, May 21, 2022
- Tyrone Williams reading at Stephen Henderson Award Ceremony, May 27th, 2022
- Adam Fieled reading from Something Solid, Harmonville, Plymouth Meeting, PA, 2022
- Three Peter Lamborn Wilson recordings by Chris Funkhouser: Olana
State Historic Site, February 7, 2015; Woodstock Public
Library, July 11, 2015; and Hudson Opera House with
Charles Stein, April 3, 2016
- Radical Poetry Reading #82 / New Social Environment #562 ft.
Barbara Henning, Brooklyn Rail, May 18, 2022
- John Richetti reads selected poems of T. S. Eliot
- Anne-Marie Albiach, from Mezza Voce 1992
- Eric Mottram reading at Sub-Voicive, The Archers Bricklane, London, 1992
- Matvei Yankelevich reading and discussing Dead Winter with Al Filreis, Kevin Platt, and Ahmad Almallah, Kelly
Writers House, February 17, 2022
- Three new reading events from Belladonna* featuring Erica Hunt, Laura Henriksen, Gabrielle Civil, 최 Lindsay, Anna Moschovakis, and more
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge conversation and reading with Runa Bandyopadhyay, February 13, 2022
- Sophia Naz reading in the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House, September 8, 2021
- Clark Coolidge reading at SPD Open House, April 5, 2009
- A collection of videos by Ted Roeder, ft. Larry Fagin, Tonya
Foster, John Godfrey, Julie Patton, Stacy Syzmaszek, and Anne Waldman, c. 2013
- Amiri Baraka performing with Steve McHall and Fred Houn in 1984
- Mark Van Doren: Portrait of a Poet, film by Adam Van Doren, 1994
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