PennSound Podcasts

PennSound podcast 39 is devoted to — a nine-minute excerpt from a reading she gave at the Kelly Writers House in November of 2013. Allison Harris introduces and hosts. For a full video recording of the reading and/or a full audio recording, see the Kelly Writers House web calendar entry. introduced the event, and a few seconds of his remarks can be heard in the podcast.

Episode 38 in the PennSound podcast series presents a fifteen-minute excerpt from 's lectures on Walt Whitman presented at New College in three sessions between June 11 and 18, 1981. The full recordings are available on PennSound's Duncan page. The excerpt was edited by Nick DeFina and the podcast is introduced by Emily Harnett.

In Episode 37 of PennSound podcasts, at a at the Bowery Poetry Club hosted and curated by on April 25, 2009, Robert Kocik, Benjamin Aranda, and Vito Acconci each speak for about twenty-six minutes about relations between poetry and architecture. Peterson wrote this about the event afterward: "People really turned out for this event: I counted over seventy in the audience including David Antin, Ellen Zweig, Gail Scott, Wystan Curnow, Eileen Myles, Andrew Levy, Abigail Child, Walter Lew, Jonathan Skinner, Jennifer Scappetone, Andy Fitch, and many Segue regulars. But a portion of the audience was people I had never seen before, people connected with architecture who would otherwise perhaps not have the experience of attending a poetry event."

The 35th episode of PennSound podcasts presents an anthology of introductions to readings given by : in 1963, in 1996, David Lehman in 2008, and Richard Howard in 1967. Nick DeFina selected and edited the introductions from Ashbery's PennSound page; Allison Harris hosts and introduces the podcast.

In Episode 34 of PennSound podcasts, the Literature faculty and the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT invited to present on Oulipo in 1999. The audio has been segmented - making available separate links to audio recordings of his introduction, his remarks on the Oulipo group, a brief Q and A session, and several readings of lipograms and N+7 writing. As a service particularly to those who don't know much about Oulipo, Nick DeFina at PennSound has created an edited 15-minute excerpt of Mathews's general overview.

In Episode 33 of PennSound podcasts, on November 18, 2013, Steve McLaughlin hosted a celebration of PennSound's 10th anniversary. After introductory remarks offered by , there were short talks each by , , , Katie Price, Steve McLaughlin himself, and Benjamin Behrend. In this PennSound podcast, Hennessey's retrospective is featured (along with clips he prepared from various bits from the archive).

For Episode 32 of PennSound podcasts, Nick DeFina and Amaris Cuchanski collaborated to present an anthology of seven recordings from among those produced in association with Alcheringa magazine by and . For Jacket2's "Reissues" department, has prepared a digital edition of the EP audio inserts that appeared with the magazine in each issue. Here are the seven recordings chosen for our podcast anthology: , "The Tenth Horse-Song of Frank Mitchell" (1971); Andrew Peynesta, "Once Long Ago," in the original Zuni language (1973); Jaime de Angulo, "Story of the Gilak Monster" (1975); Son House, "Conversion Experience Narrative" (1976); Awawo, Ogiepo, Asegieme, "Nigerian Songs of Ritual License" (1976); Reverend W.T. Goodwin, "Easter Sunrise Sermon" (1971); Hotoke-Oroshi, "Manifestations of the Dead" (1953).

In Episode 31 of PennSound podcasts, visited the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. He participated in the recording of an episode of PoemTalk (about a poem by ), and then took time to record a conversation with about the founding of Jacket and various related topics. This recording is episode #31 in the PennSound podcast series. During the discussion Filreis asked Tranter to read a few recent poems; three poems can be heard in the whole recording, but have also been segmented, as follows: "After Hölderlin, " "At the Tomb of Napoleon," and "Goats and Monkeys".

, the widely admired Finnish poet and translator, died on January 29, 2013. Hollo translated poetry and belles-lettres from Finnish, German, Swedish and French into English and was one of the early translators of into German and Finnish. Hollo taught creative writing in eighteen different institutions, among them SUNY Buffalo, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Colorado at Boulder; and starting in 1985, he taught in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. For the 30th episode of the PennSound podcasts series, Nick DeFina and Amaris Cuchanski have put together an anthology of Hollo recordings.

In Episode 29 of PennSound podcasts, on the occasion of the publication by the Library of America of Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters (edited by Langdon Hammer), , Brian Reed and gathered at the Kelly Writers House to talk about 's life and poetry on January 24, 2007. The event was co-sponsored by the Writers House, Penn's Creative Writing Program, Temple-Penn Poetics, The Poetry Society of America, and Penn's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. The full recording is available at PennSound.