PennSound Podcasts

In Episode 28 of PennSound podcasts, from the excitingly varied PennSound page hosting recordings from the Belladonna* reading series from 1999 to the present, PennSound podcasts now presents, for its twenty-eighth episode, an anthology of seven Belladonna* performances. The seven are: , "A Conventional Hero" and "PS 54"; , "Seconds"; , "City People"; , "In the Wee Hours"; , "Gait Signatures"; , "Bricky"; , "Taking My Own Advice After Skylar."

Episode 27 of PennSound podcasts features an anthology of eight introductions to , culled from PennSound's many recordings of Creeley's readings over the years. The introductions are, in order: by Paul Carroll (Chicago, May 15, 1961), at the Berkeley Poetry Conference (Berkeley, July 22, 1965), by (New York, October 24, 1966), in the Woodberry Poetry Room of Harvard (Cambridge, October 27, 1966), at MoCA Los Angeles in 1983, by Reed Bye at Naropa (Boulder, July 1984), by Diane Wakoski (Washington, DC, 1984), and by (Buffalo, October 11, 1996).

In Episode 26 of PennSound podcasts and as part of the LINEbreak series, co-editors of RIF/t, and , talk with visited the studios of WBAI in New York and were interviewed by , host then of the Pacifica Radio Poetry Show. This installment in the PennSound podcast series, introduced again by Amaris Cuchanski and based on editing done by Nick DeFina, features an excerpt from that interview focusing on a discussion of opaque as distinct from transparent language and of language's materiality.

For Episode 25 of PennSound podcasts, Nick DeFina created this 20-minute audio selection from the five-volume set of recordings made at Brown University at the May 2001 celebration of (then) forty years of Burning Deck Press publishing of books, chapbooks and pamphlets, by, of course, and . We hope this excerpt entices you to listen to the whole, itself an aptly remarkable testimony to the range, longevity and generous persistence of the Waldrops in Providence. The Waldrops, of course, are no stranger to Jacket: we've published reviews, video clips, and (among many other items) Anne Dewey's essay on Olsonian poetics in Rosmarie's work.

In Episode 24 of PennSound podcasts, on May 7, 2010, presenting at the Threads Talk Series (curated by Steve Clay and Kyle Schlesinger), mapped branches of book culture that are typically kept apart. Rothenberg reviews the differences between — and the need to bring together — speech and writing and printing, and he uses this summary as a way of freshly re-defining ethnopoetics. The title of the talk from which this podcast-length (18 mins.) excerpt is taken: "From the Voice to the Book, from the Book to the Voice: a Dialectic." The Threads Talk Series page at PennSound includes, of course, the full audio recording of the talk, the introduction by Steve Clay, and the 38 minutes of discussion that followed the talk.

In Episode 23 of PennSound podcasts, on March 14, 1979, and visited the studios of WBAI in New York and were interviewed by , host then of the Pacifica Radio Poetry Show. This installment in the PennSound podcast series, introduced again by Amaris Cuchanski and based on editing done by Nick DeFina, features an excerpt from that interview focusing on a discussion of opaque as distinct from transparent language and of language's materiality.

Hosted by Amaris Cuchanski, Episode 22 of Pennsound podcasts includes a brief introduction, followed by a 21-minute excerpt from the conversation between and that took place at the Kelly Writers House on November 29, 1999, the 14th PhillyTalks event curated by and technically produced by Aaron Levy. The entire recording includes links to audio segmented by poem and a link to a PDF copy of the program that had been distributed by Cabri before the event.

Hosted by Amaris Cuchanski, Episode 21 of PennSound podcasts features a 17-minute excerpt from a one-hour-and-23-minute recording of a conversation among Greg Hewlett, , and in June of 1972. The whole discussion — and links to segments by topic — are available on PennSound's page.

In Episode 20 of PennSound podcasts, , founder of Chax Press, joins at the Kelly Writers House for a discussion of his introduction to letterpress printing and his experience with small press.

In Episode 19 of PennSound podcasts, a PennSound Thanksgiving special, introduces recordings from the PennSound archive of poems giving thanks. The recorded readings include 's "I Love Music (For John Coltrane)," 's "Lovely," 's poem dedicated to Eddie Linden, 's "A Letter to Paul Celan in Memory," 's "Glad they were there," and ' "Light Hearted William."