Latest Pennsound Podcast Episodes
PoemTalk 181 - Rhetorical happenings
PoemTalk at the Writers House - February 23, 2023 15:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group gathers at the Writers House to discuss Hoa Nguyen's "Long Light," collected in Red Juice: Poems, 1998-2008 (Wave Books, 2014).
PoemTalk 180 - Nothing made of ink
PoemTalk at the Writers House - January 11, 2023 15:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group travels to the Poetry Foundation in Chicago to discuss seven short poems from Lisa Fishman's Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition (Wave Books, 2020).
Episode 180 - Nothing made of ink
PoemTalk at the Writers House - January 11, 2023 15:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group travels to the Poetry Foundation in Chicago to discuss seven short poems from Lisa Fishman's Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition (Wave Books, 2020).
Episode 179 - Untranslatable
PoemTalk at the Writers House - December 20, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Armand Schwarner: "Tablet XXV" and "'daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?'"
PoemTalk 179 - Untranslatable
PoemTalk at the Writers House - December 20, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Armand Schwarner: "Tablet XXV" and "'daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?'"
Episode 178 - Downgraded to scribble
PoemTalk at the Writers House - November 24, 2022 14:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Matvei Yankelevich's book of poems (or book-length poem), Dead Winter (Fonograph, 2022).
PoemTalk 178 - Downgraded to scribble
PoemTalk at the Writers House - November 24, 2022 14:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Matvei Yankelevich's book of poems (or book-length poem), Dead Winter (Fonograph, 2022).
Episode 177 - Paw mouthings
PoemTalk at the Writers House - October 30, 2022 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Maggie O'Sullivan, "To our Own Day" and "Hill Figures," from In the House of the Shaman (Reality Street, 1993).
PoemTalk 177 - Paw mouthings
PoemTalk at the Writers House - October 30, 2022 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Maggie O'Sullivan, "To our Own Day" and "Hill Figures," from In the House of the Shaman (Reality Street, 1993).
PoemTalk 176 - Touch, love, then explain
PoemTalk at the Writers House - September 27, 2022 14:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio for a fresh take on John Ashbery's iconic "Some Trees."
Episode 176 - Touch, love, then explain
PoemTalk at the Writers House - September 27, 2022 14:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio for a fresh take on John Ashbery's iconic "Some Trees."
PoemTalk 175 - Composition of life, as life
PoemTalk at the Writers House - August 26, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group travels to Bard College in the Hudson Valley to discuss the two opening paragraph's from Joan Retallack's essay "The Poethical Wager."
Episode 175 - Composition of life, as life
PoemTalk at the Writers House - August 26, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group travels to Bard College in the Hudson Valley to discuss the two opening paragraph's from Joan Retallack's essay "The Poethical Wager."
PoemTalk 174 - Girls in the supply chain
PoemTalk at the Writers House - July 25, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group gathers at the Kelly Writers House to discuss four poems from Sawako Nakayasu's Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From (Wave Books, 2020).
Episode 174 - Girls in the supply chain
PoemTalk at the Writers House - July 25, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group gathers at the Kelly Writers House to discuss four poems from Sawako Nakayasu's Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From (Wave Books, 2020).
Episode 173 - When a name falls from a face (Divya Victor, 'Curb')
PoemTalk at the Writers House - June 15, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode, the group gathers to discuss a selection of poems from Divya Victor's book Curb (Nightboat Books, 2021): three poems from the titular "Curb" series in the middle of the book ("Curb" 3, 4, and 5) and another poem, "Frequency (Alka’s Testimony)."
Episode 172 - Trance of language (Harryette Mullen, 'Sleeping with the Dictionary' and 'Dim Lady')
PoemTalk at the Writers House - May 23, 2022 15:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode, we talk about two prose poems in Harryette Mullen’s collection Sleeping with the Dictionary, published by California in 2002. The poems are “Dim Lady” and the title poem, “Sleeping with the Dictionary.”
Episode 171 - Teach us love (Eugene Ostashevsky, 'Language' and 'The Anatomy of Monotony')
PoemTalk at the Writers House - April 21, 2022 15:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode, our discussion takes us to the great Ostashevskyan topics — knowledge otherwise somehow alienated; language that embodies or transliterates a kind of violence; the (sound) differences between knowing and saying no (and similarities); his sincere (and doubtless Russian Absurdist-i...
Episode 170 - Better to lose and win (Diane di Prima's 'Revolutionary Letters')
PoemTalk at the Writers House - March 14, 2022 15:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode, the group discusses three poems from Diane di Prima's 'Revolutionary Letters' project: #16 (“We are eating up the planet”), #19 (“If what you want is jobs”), and #27 (“How much can we afford to lose before we win”). The project’s goals and modes of address shifted over time. Any ...
Episode 169 - Far in toward the far end (Two poems from George Quasha's “preverbs”)
PoemTalk at the Writers House - February 11, 2022 15:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAl Filreis convenes Charles Bernstein, Anthony Elms, and Laynie Browne to talk about two poems by George Quasha. The book, published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2020, titled Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, consists of eight gatherings of preverbs; our two poems, coming from the final section — which...
Episode 168 - Hot and cold (Jayne Cortez, 'She Got He Got')
PoemTalk at the Writers House - January 14, 2022 15:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsToday we are releasing episode #168 of PoemTalk, in which Amber Rose Johnson, Daniel Bergmann, and Yolanda Wisher meet up at the Kelly Writers House to talk with Al Filreis about Jayne Cortez's "She Got He Got". This poem/performance piece is comprised of a “She” half and an “He” half, she givin...
Episode 167 - Must it ring true (Myung Mi Kim, 'And Sing We')
PoemTalk at the Writers House - December 22, 2021 15:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsToday we are releasing episode #167 of PoemTalk, in which Jack Giesking, Jonathan Dick, and erica kaufman meet up at the Kelly Writers House to talk with Al Filreis about Myung Mi Kim's "And Sing We" from Under Flag.
Episode 166 - Coup created by our thoughts
PoemTalk at the Writers House - November 24, 2021 15:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsToday's episode dives into Cecilia Vicuña's 'Colliding and not colliding at the same time'. The performance begins as the audience, having been encouraged to ask questions about an art video that had just been screened, went momentarily silent. No questions were being asked, so Vicuña began impro...
Episode 165 - Punch fascists
PoemTalk at the Writers House - October 18, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsToday, we talk about a poem by Stephen Collis that appeared in his book, A History of the Theories of Rain, published by Talonbooks in Vancouver in 2021. The poem is titled “Yes I Do Want to Punch” — and perhaps should be called “Yes I Do Want to Punch / fascists in the face,” proceeding to its k...
Episode 164 - As words label space
PoemTalk at the Writers House - September 27, 2021 15:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis episode discusses a three-page section of Leslie Scalapino’s “‘Can’t’ is ‘Night’” — the passage having been chosen by the poet for It’s Go in Horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006. Close listening and close reading: surely some manner of these, both, are required by every Leslie Scalapino wo...
Episode 163 - Perilous bodies
PoemTalk at the Writers House - August 26, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis episode features a poem by Daphne Marlatt called “Steveston, B.C.” We were joined by Davy Knittle, Jane Robbins Mize, and Karis Shearer. The poem is in a sense — although not quite exactly — the title poem in a much-admired book published in 1974.
Episode 162 - In my rotting place
PoemTalk at the Writers House - July 26, 2021 15:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis episode presents a remarkable — freewheeling, energetic, yet comprehensive — discussion of a remarkable artist, Tuli Kupferberg. We considered two works by Tuli: “Morning, Morning,” among the most famous songs performed by The Fugs; and one of Tuli’s spoken-word pieces or “pop poems,” titled...
Episode 161 - This unwitting monument
PoemTalk at the Writers House - June 14, 2021 15:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group convenes over Zoom to discuss Sarah Dowling's Entering Sappho (Coach House, 2020).
Episode 160 - Biologically speaking
PoemTalk at the Writers House - May 14, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe group convenes over Zoom to discuss two well-known sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay, "I Shall Forget You Presently" and "Love Is Not All." (Coach House, 2020).
Episode 67 - Sarah Rose Etter interviewed by Julia Bloch
PennSound Podcasts - August 01, 2020 14:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsSarah Rose Etter interviewed by Julia Bloch about her new book The Book of X
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