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Episode 56 - Christy Davids interviews erica lewis

PennSound Podcasts - December 21, 2016 15:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Christy Davids interviews erica lewis

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Episode 54 - Mike Hennessey's top 5 PennSound picks

PennSound Podcasts - December 16, 2016 15:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratings
Michael Hennessey, one of the founding participants of the PennSound archive, joins Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio to discuss Mike's top 5 PennSound picks.

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Episode 54 - Mike Hennessey's top 5 PennSound picks

PennSound Podcasts - December 16, 2016 15:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Michael Hennessey, one of the founding participants of the PennSound archive, joins Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio to discuss Mike's top 5 PennSound picks.

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Episode 107 - It is time

PoemTalk at the Writers House - December 06, 2016 15:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Pierre Joris, Anna Strong, and Ariel Resnikoff join Al Filreis to discuss Paul Celan's "Corona."

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Episode 106 - Dear conflicted reader

PoemTalk at the Writers House - November 15, 2016 15:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Mark McMorris, Mel Nichols, and Rob Casper join Al Filreis to discuss C.D. Wright's "One Big Self."

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Episode 105 - No truths self-evident

PoemTalk at the Writers House - October 17, 2016 15:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Kristen Gallagher, Kerry Sherin Wright, and Joshua Schuster join Al Filreis to discuss Michael Magee's "Morning Constitutional."

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Episode 104 - Explode for small change

PoemTalk at the Writers House - September 13, 2016 15:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Yolanda Wisher, Charles Bernstein, and Patricia Spears Jones join Al Filreis to discuss Akilah Oliver's "Is You Is or Is You Ain't."

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Episode 103 - Swear it closed

PoemTalk at the Writers House - August 09, 2016 15:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Rachel Zolf, erica kaufman, and Eileen Myles join Al Filreis to discuss four poems by Simone White from "Of Being Dispersed."

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Episode 102 - Mind's not right

PoemTalk at the Writers House - July 12, 2016 15:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Lisa New, Rafael Campo, and Christina Davis join Al Filreis for a special PoemTalk recorded at Harvard University to discuss Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour."

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Episode 101 - With what geometry

PoemTalk at the Writers House - June 14, 2016 15:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Simone White, Sophia Le Fraga, and Andrew Whiteman join Al Filreis to discuss Ed Dorn's "The Sundering U.P. Tracks."

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Episode 100 - PoemTalk Retrospective

PoemTalk at the Writers House - May 17, 2016 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Al Filreis and seven past PoemTalk guests convene for a special 90-minute celebration of PoemTalk's 100th episode: William Joe Harris, Tracie Morris, erica kaufman, Steve McLaughlin, Maria Damon, Charles Bernstein, and Herman Beavers.

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Episode 99 - The unabettable bleak

PoemTalk at the Writers House - April 12, 2016 15:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Julia Bloch, Joseph Massey, and Michelle Gil-Montero join Al Filreis to discuss four poems from William Bronk's book Finding Losses.

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Episode 55 - CAConrad reading and conversation with Julia Bloch

PennSound Podcasts - March 17, 2016 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 12 ratings
CAConrad reading and conversation with Julia Bloch

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Episode 55 - CAConrad reading and conversation with Julia Bloch

PennSound Podcasts - March 17, 2016 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
CAConrad reading and conversation with Julia Bloch

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Episode 98 - Weakness stalks in pride

PoemTalk at the Writers House - March 15, 2016 15:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Herman Beavers, Salamishah Tillet, and Chris Mustazza join Al Filreis to discuss James Weldon Johnson's "O Southland!"

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Episode 97 - Articulate beyond walls

PoemTalk at the Writers House - February 17, 2016 15:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Michael Kelleher, Daniel Bergmann, and Ron Silliman join Al Filreis for a discussion of three poems by Larry Eigner: "Again dawn," "A temporary language," and "Unyielding / rock."

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Angela Genusa

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 12, 2016 13:49 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Angela Genusa is a writer and artist, formerly of Austin, Texas and now living in Louisiana. Her recent conceptual works include Simone’s Embassy (Eclipse Editions, 2015), Spam Bibliography (Troll Thread, 2013), Tender Buttons (Gauss PDF, 2013), and Jane Doe (Gauss PDF, 2013). Angela’s writing ha...

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Ara Shirinyan

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 23:08 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Ara Shirinyan is a poet and publisher living in Los Angeles. He runs Make Now Press and is a co-founder of the Poetic Research Bureau with Joseph Mosconi and Andrew Maxell. The PRB hosts a long-running reading series, publishes books, puts on exhibits, and generally advocates for experimental wri...

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Steve Roggenbuck

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 23:08 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Steve Roggenbuck is a twenty-six-year-old Internet poet from rural Michigan. He has spent the last several years giving readings and talks all over the country, sleeping on couches, selling books and t-shirts, making thousands of friends. His full-length collections are CRUNK JUICE (2012) and IF ...

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Joe Milutis

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 22:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Joe Milutis is a writer, media artist, musician, and Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Washington-Bothell. His latest book is Failure, A Writer’s Life (Zero Books, 2013).

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Ben Friedlander

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 22:58 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this inaugural edition of Into the Field, I talk with Benjamin Friedlander at his home in Bangor, Maine. Friedlander is a poet, critic, teacher, and member of the Flarflist Collective. He currently teaches at the University of Maine. Friedlander reads a selection of poems originally posted on ...

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Andrew Zawacki

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 22:58 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
I meet Andrew Zawacki in this episode of Into the Field, recorded on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens. Zawacki teaches in the creative writing program at UGA, and holds degrees from the College of William and Mary, Oxford, the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and the Univer...

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Sina Queyras

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 22:58 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Sina Queyras is a poet and writer currently living in Montreal. She was raised in western Canada, and has degrees from the University of British Columbia and Concordia University. Queyras has lived in many places and held many jobs, and we talk about the ways geography and work have shaped her po...

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Tao Lin

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 22:58 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Tao Lin is a novelist, poet, and provocateur currently living in Brooklyn. He has written six books of fiction and poetry, including Richard Yates (2010), Shoplifting from American Apparel (2009), and cognitive behavioral therapy (2008). Lin runs the publishing imprint Muumuu House, and you can f...

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Kaplan Harris

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 22:58 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Kaplan Harris is a scholar and editor who writes about a wide variety of 20th- and 21st-century poetry, including the work of Ted Berrigan, Hannah Weiner, Susan Howe, and the Flarf poets. With degrees from North Carolina State University and the University of Notre Dame, he currently teaches at S...

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Souvankham Thammavongsa

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 22:58 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Souvankham Thammavongsa is a poet who lives and works in Toronto. Her parents were raised in Laos, and she was born in a refugee camp in Thailand in 1978. Thammavongsa's family moved to Canada when she was a year old. Her book Found (2007) describes these experiences, and was made into a short fi...

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Jeremy James Thompson

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 22:58 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Jeremy James Thompson is a renaissance man of the poetic arts: writer, publisher, printer, designer, teacher, and all-around organizer. On his website The Autotypograph, you can find his imprint Auto Types Press and his blog Autotypist, as well as a thorough list of his other projects and accompl...

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Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 22:58 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford is a poet and video artist of the first degree. I spoke with him in Athens, Georgia on a muggy July afternoon just over a year ago. These days Alejandro makes a living as a professional VJ, touring the world regularly with the band MGMT. You can see a bit of his ...

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Nick Montfort

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 22:57 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Nick Montfort is a writer and scholar specializing in digital poetics and computational media. He has a Ph.D. in computer and information science from Penn, and is currently an associate professor of digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We discuss his most recent book, Ridd...

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Dale Smith and Hoa Nguyen

Into the Field from Jacket2.org - February 09, 2016 22:57 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
I interviewed Dale Smith and Hoa Nguyen at their home in Austin last August. The two studied poetry at the New University of California, and they started the Skanky Possum imprint together in the late '90s. Hoa's book Hecate Lochia came out in 2009, and her new collection As Long as Trees Last wi...