PennSound Podcasts

In Episode 70 of PennSound podcasts, , , and joined in the Wexler Studio to discuss Young and his work. The conversation covered the relationship between Young's poetry and the Black Arts Movement, the role of music and jazz in his writing, and other figures with whom he was acquainted, such as poets Ishmael Reed and . Young also gave readings of some of his poems: "A Dance for Militant Dilettantes," "Yes, the Secret Mind Whispers" (which was written in honor of Kaufman), and "January."

In Episode 69 of PennSound podcasts, hosted poet in the Wexler Studio to discuss his book, Body and Glass (Wave Books, 2018). Their conversation touches on Koeneke's writing process and use of pronouns as a "distancing technique," the role of poetry — particularly experimental forms — in America today, and how joy might emerge from work about loss. In the podcast, the two also examine the traditions that poetry assembles for itself, drawing comparisons between modernists like and contemporary poets.

In Episode 68 of PennSound podcasts, and had a conversation at Myles's home in the East Village in New York City in August, 2018, for this PennSound podcast. Their discussion began in the midst of an exchange about Myles's 1991 collection Not Me and changes in their neighborhood at the time. Conversation topics spanned "not-me-ness," gender, capitalism, sexuality, perception, and observation, among others.

In Episode 67 of PennSound podcasts, Sarah Rose Etter joined Jacket2 editor in the Wexler Studio last September for a short reading from and discussion of her debut poetic novel, The Book of X, which appeared in 2019 from Two Dollar Radio. Etter and Bloch talked about the impact of open poetics and visual art upon Etter's prose style, the feminist politics of speculative narrative, the process of fact-checking menstrual blood output, and the etymology of the book's governing image — among other things.

In Episode 66 of PennSound podcasts, Argentine poet Dani Zelko was joined in the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House by Jennifer Ponce de León to discuss North Border: forced migrations (Gato Negro, 2019), the latest installment of Zelko's Reunión project. Zelko and Ponce de León's conversation explores the Reunión writing procedure as a "reciprocal work," the book as a political object, migrant and feminist agencies, and artistic production as means to form community.

In Episode 65 of PennSound podcasts, Wendy Trevino joined hosts Levi Bentley and Ted Rees for this PennSound podcast, the first in a series of intimate conversations in Housework's transition from reading series to recording series. Conversation topics included Barack Obama's appearance in Best Experimental Writing 2016, post-arrest listmaking, "unequal collateral," the organizing-specific shifts of self, acknowledging messy comrade conflict, and further associations drawn from Trevino's 2018 collection Cruel Fiction.

In Episode 64 of PennSound podcasts, visited the Kelly Writers House in October 2017 for a retrospective reading and conversation with Stan Mir in honor of the poet Michael Gizzi. During his visit, Corbett and had a conversation in the Wexler Studio about the work of New York School poet , whose Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler Corbett edited (Turtle Point Press, 2009). In their conversation, they discussed Schuyler's early poems, his methods of perception, his fondness for children, his attention to New York and its qualities of light from his apartment window, and Corbett's long career of teaching Schuyler's poetry to undergraduate students.

In Episode 63 of PennSound podcasts, Allison Cobb and joined , Knar Gavin, and Aylin Malcolm in the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House on April 2, 2019, following their lunchtime discussion with scholars and poets from Penn's Poetry and Poetics and Anthropocene and Animal Studies reading groups. Our discussion ranged from human embeddedness in the nonhuman world to the relationship between poetic duration and historiography to the role of affect in poetry that seeks to reckon with the ever-intensifying ecodisasters of our time.

In Episode 62 of PennSound podcasts, the Reno, Nevada–based poet Jared Stanley visited Philadelphia and the Kelly Writers House in April 2017 during a book tour for the release of EARS, which Sam Lohmann in The Volta has called "a manifesto of interdependence and susceptibility, a theory of the senses, and a deliberate sequence of jokes about lyric address." In this PennSound podcast interview with , Stanley talks about how notions such as friendship, ethics, and animism inform the scope of his work.

In Episode 61 of PennSound podcasts, Samantha Giles visited the Kelly Writers House during her reading tour last December to talk with about her new collection, Total Recall, which was published by Krupskaya Press and which Daniel Borzutsky has described as a book that "powerfully and strangely melds autobiography, poetry, ethnography, philosophical inquiry, and testimony." In this PennSound podcast, Giles talks about child-raising as "durational performance"; about studying with at Mills College; and about the role of research in the writing practice that produced Total Recall, which Giles tells us is "a book that centers itself around memory but when memory is impacted by trauma and the ways in which that trauma unwrites the memories in one's own brain."