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A recording of Susan Howe's book Articulation of Sound Forms in Time by me, @mathildork

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A recording of Kate Kilalea’s poem “Hennecker’s Ditch” by @TomSnarsky

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Vahni Capildeo writes both poetry and prose. Her fourth book, Dark & Unaccustomed Words, is due out this year. She is a Lecturer at Kingston University (UK) and Contributing Editor for the Caribbean Review of Books.

Vivek Narayanan’s first book, Universal Beach, will be published by ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni this spring; his second, Mr. Subramanian, is forthcoming. Narayanan is co-editor of Almost Island, and was a coordinator of the fellowship network at Sarai. His work appears in The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry and Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. He lives in Delhi.

Special thanks to Michael for getting this recording from the Poetry Project! Best of luck in India!

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in Philadelphia at Wooden Shoe Books. All my thanks to KM for organizing and hosting; to Paintbucket and James for gathering us together in the first place, in this very online way; to Isobel for her generous recording and editing; to Ronnie for driving down to Philly with me in the rain; to Brendan for driving 7 hours from Cleveland to read; to Patrick for printing and distributing them zines (to JumpsuitUtopia for designing them); to Shel for reading poems that made me cry; to Amy for reading poems that made me laugh; to Steele for reciting your goddamn poems what the fuck; to everyone who was there whose names I don't know and who I love who came to hear us read; to the two beautiful strangers who helped me pay for the tickets I incurred on the way home; to you for listening and caring, allegedly. 

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Big thanks to @nicetryofficer for having this double feature with me. What a lad.

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Today I'm reading my translations of Ernst Toller's Poems of the Imprisoned, which you can download here, and following that I read the original German, which you can find here. 

Keep an eye out for my discussion of this work with Roy over on the Marxist Poetry podcast!

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TIMESTAMPS???

04:47 Poems of the Imprisoned, epigraphs

06:10 Sleepless Night

06:56 Search and Capture

07:49 Woods

08:48 Walk of the Convicts

09:38 Encounter in the Cell

10:30 Song of Solitude

11:26 Girls Imprisoned

12:15 Smokestacks at Dawn

13:08 The Wall of the Executed

14:07 The Prisoner and Death

16:11 Paths to the World

17:04 A Pregnant Girl in the Compound

17:52 Dusk

18:51 To Linger at Midnight

19:39 Nights

20:28 November

21:28 A Prisoner Reaches a Hand to Death

22:26 Visitor

23:22 Collective Confinement

24:19 Discharged Convicts

25:16 Our Way

26:49 Gedichte der Gefangenen

28:18 Schlaflose Nacht

29:23 Durchsuchung und Fesselung

30:24 Wälder

31:35 Spaziergang der Sträflinge

32:47 Begegnung in der Zelle

33:52 Lied der Einsamkeit

34:55 Gefangene Mädchen

36:03 Fabrikschornsteine am Vormorgen

37:07 Die Mauer der Geschossenen

38:16 Der Gefangene und der Tot

40:44 Pfade zur Welt

41:50 Schwangeres Mädchen auf der Gefängnishof

42:58 Dämmerung

44:10 Verweilen um Mitternacht

45:18 Nächte

46:09 November

47:33 Ein Gefangene reicht dem Tod die Hand

48:59: Besucher

50:01 Gemeinsame Haft

51:11 Entlassene Sträflinge

52:31 Unser Weg

big thanks to mitch for dealing with my audio bs. he originally read two poems but since the recording crapped out you only get this one!! 

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WELCOME TO PROLESOUND!! biggest thanks to James for joining us for our FIRST EPISODE!! James is poetry editor over at Protean and the all-consuming world-devouring brain behind Paintbucket.page. 

James's work:

(Carnival in) "The Last Decade: The Communists vs. Climate Catastrophe" (full zine @ Protean)

Nightshift of the Lepus

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