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Charles Bernstein's Fall 2020 pick

• Down To Write You This Poem Sat

Fall 2015 pick

• Helicotrema playlist and essay by Michael S. Hennessey

Spring 2015 pick

• David Jhave Johnston's PennSound MUPS: A Poetry Mash-Up Engine

Fall 2011 picks

• Charles Bernstein - St. McC.
• Amiri Baraka - Against Bourgeois Art
• Michael Palmer - Lies of the Poem
• Henry Hills - Money
• Barrett Watten - "I dreamed of a group of sociable foxes in the basement"
• Steve McCaffery - The Baker Transformation
• Bruce Andrews - Feature
• Jackson Mac Low - Feeling Down Clementi Felt Imposed Upon From Every Direction (HSCH 10)
• Ron Silliman - Quindecagon
• Rod Smith - This is Such Total Bullshit
• Rachel Blau Duplessis - Draft 72: Nanifesto
• K. Silem Mohammad - Sonnet 154: The little love god lying once asleep

Selected by Brian Ang (read more about these selections on PennSound Daily)

Spring 2011 picks

Selected by Marcella Durand (read more about these selections on PennSound Daily)

Fall 2008 picks

• In Cold Hell, In Thicket - Charles Olson
• The Mysterious Cat - Vachel Lindsay
• Talk, October 9, 1992 - David Antin
• Structure of Rime 10 - Robert Duncan
• from 1,000 Avant-Garde Plays - Kenneth Koch
• Repeat if Necessary - Jed Rasula
• 1:1 - Tan Lin
• j j j - Bruce Andrews
• Loss - John Wieners
• A Hum for Stevie Winwood - bpNichol
• An Extraordinary Adventure Which Happened to Me, Vladimir Mayakovsky, One Summer in the Country - Vladimir Mayakovsky
• As Real as Thinking - Robert Creeley
  Histoire de Florida - Robert Creeley

Selected by Stephen McLaughlin (read more about these selections on PennSound Daily)

Spring 2008 picks

• The Ambassadors (Part I) - Jed Rasula
• The Defective Record - William Carlos Williams
• Danse Russe - William Carlos Williams
• Shoot It Jimmy! - William Carlos Williams
• from The Tapeworm Foundry - Darren Wershler Henry
• The Franker Tale (Deus hic) - Caroline Bergvall
• Thing Language - Jack Spicer
• Sporting Life - Jack Spicer
• from San Francisco's Burning - Helen Adam
• Evil Axis - Gregory Whitehead
• from Shift - Craig Dworkin
• The 8-Voice Stereo-Canon Realization of The Black Tarantula Crossword Gatha - Jackson Mac Low
• Polaroid (Part I) - Clark Coolidge
• Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) - Ezra Pound
• Cyclops Eye - Rosemarie Waldrop
• Doctrine of Similarity from Shadowtime - Charles Bernstein


• Click here for the full text of Danny Snelson's collage

Spring 2007/2008 picks

• "Saving Tallow" - Barbara Guest
• "Black Dada Nihilismus" - Amiri Baraka
• "The Process of Explication" - Dorothea Lasky
• "Catullus #48" - Bernadette Mayer
• from "The Making of Americans" - Gertrude Stein
• "1935 The Present situation in quantum mechanics" - Tan Lin
• from "May from the Journal in June" - Hannah Weiner
• from "Of Being Numerous" - George Oppen
• from "Dura" - Myung Mi Kim
• "Song of the Andoumboulou 19" - Nathaniel Mackey
• At Night The States - Alice Notley
• "Protection" and "Front Seat" - John Godfrey

--Selected by Eric Baus

Winter 2006/2007 picks

• Kiss Me Deadly - Elizabeth Willis
• Dream On - James Tate
• Excerpt from I Remember, recorded GPS, February 11, 1974 - Joe Brainard
• Basic Science - Fanny Howe
• Praise Poem Elizabeth Murray - Bob Holman
• Oh - CK Williams
• Excerpt from Memorial Day (with Ted Berrigan) - Anne Waldman
• Peter Lorre Reminisces about Being a Sidekick - John Yau
• The Sore Throat - Aaron Kunin
• Apple - Susan Stewart
• Revival - Peter Gizzi
• On This Side of Nothing - Jennifer Moxley
• To Lindsay - Allen Ginsberg

--Selected by Tom Devaney
Tom Devaney's "Death Poems & PennSound" is a commentary on this selection.

Spring 2006 picks

• Segue reading at Double Happiness, NY - John Yau
• Mayakovsky's From Street to Street, read by L. Brik
• Catacoustics - Tom Raworth
• Clark Coolidge Reading
• Speeches at the Barriers - Susan Howe
• The Kummunist Manifesto or Wot We Wukkers Want &
• Little Hans - Steve McCaffery
• Synth Loops - Christian Bok
• Ambient Fish &
• Flèsh - Caroline Bergvall
• Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Exactly Absolutely - Leevi Lehto
• Landscape with Terry Riley (video) - Robert Ashley
• The Letter - Lydia Davis

--Selected by Marjorie Perloff

Fall 2005 picks

• Four Horsemen - Mayakovsky
• John Wieners - The Garbos & Dietrichs
• Ange Mlinko - Poem Bejeweled with Proper Nouns
• Lydia Davis - A Position at the University
• Linh Dinh - Acoustics
• Mark McMorris - A Poem for the Love of Women
• Sawako Nakayasu - Capacity
• Susan Howe - "During the Summer of 1997..." (not currently available)
• Juliana Spahr - Thrashing Seems Crazy
• K. Silem Mohammad - Spooked
• Lyn Hejinian - Lyn
• Ted Berrigan - Red Shift

--Selected by Steve Evans
More info and commentary: Lipstick of Noise

August 2005 picks

• Lisa Robertson: "The Weather"
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis: from "Draft 48: Being Astonished"
• Jena Osman: "Dropping Leaflets"
• Ron Silliman: "Philadelphia"
• Charles Alexander: "Near or Random Acts"
• Erica Hunt: "Cold War Breaks"
• Bob Perelman: "Revenge of the Bathwater"
• Nick Piombino: "Silenced"

--Selected by Al Filreis