PennSound Podcasts
PennSound Podcasts are hosted by PennSound's co-director, Al Filreis. PennSound was created in 2003 in order to produce new audio recordings and to preserving existing audio archives of poets reading their own work and discussing poetry and poetics. PennSound makes these available to everyone through free downloadable sound files. PennSound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Update frequency
- every 48 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 75
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2024
All subjects are made new: Four introductions to John Ashbery across five decades
Kenneth Koch, Richard Howard, David Lehman, and Susan Schultz introduce John Ashbery in readings spanning five decades.
00:12:08 |
Mon 06 Jan 2014
To invent and reinvent: Introduction to Oulipo by Harry Matthews
Harry Mathews on Oulipo at MIT in 1999.
00:16:26 |
Mon 23 Dec 2013
Sense memory: PennSound's 10th anniversary
Michael Hennessey's retrospective on creating the PennSound archive.
00:11:38 |
Mon 18 Nov 2013
Act to change men's lives and minds: an Alcheringa sound anthology
Nick DeFina and Amaris Cuchanski collaborated to present an anthology of seven recordings from among those produced in association with Alcheringa magazine by Dennis Tedlock and Jerome Rothenberg.
00:21:13 |
Mon 29 Apr 2013
Loose with rare volumes: an interview with John Tranter
John Tranter visited Philadelphia in spring 2013 and was interviewed by Al Filreis about Jacket magazine and related topics.
00:48:33 |
Mon 22 Apr 2013
Anselm Hollo, in memoriam: an anthology of Hollo recordings
Finnish translator and poet Anselm Hollo died in January 2013. PennSound podcasts celebrates his life and work with this retrospective anthology of recordings.
00:17:17 |
Mon 15 Apr 2013
The words were what interested him: a celebration of Hart Crane
In 2007, at the time Library of America published a new volume of Hart Crane's poems, Charles Bernstein, Samuel Delany, and Brian Reed gathered at the Kelly Writers House to celebrate Crane's life an…
00:20:46 |
Mon 08 Apr 2013
A moment is everything: a Belladonna* anthology
From the vast Belladonna* reading series page at PennSound, seven performances by Belladonna*-affiliated poets are presented in this podcast hosted by Amaris Cuchanski.
00:17:48 |
Mon 01 Apr 2013
Given just the work to be present in: Eight introductions to Creeley, 1961-1996
An anthology of 8 introductions to readings by Robert Creeley from 1961 to 1996, from PennSound's Creeley author page.
00:13:47 |
Mon 25 Mar 2013
Voices, one after another: a conversation with Kenneth Sherwood and Loss Pequeño Glazier
Charles Bernstein interviews Ken Sherwood and Loss Pequeno Glazier for the LINEbreak series in 1995 at SUNY Buffalo.
00:10:02 |
Mon 18 Mar 2013
Already passing into something else: 40th anniversary celebration of Burning Deck Press
Selections 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…
00:22:58 |
Tue 19 Feb 2013
From the voice to the book: a presentation by Jerome Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg 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.
01:10:55 |
Mon 18 Feb 2013
Quality of world: Susan Howe interviews Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews in 1979
On March 14, 1979, Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein visited the studios of WBAI in New York and were interviewed by Susan Howe, host then of the Pacifica Radio Poetry Show. This installment in the…
00:17:18 |
Tue 12 Feb 2013
To isolate a space: a PhillyTalks conversation with P. Inman and Dan Farrell
Featuring P. Inman and Dan Farrell in casual conversation, this is an excerpt of a longer discussion. Hosted by Amaris Cuchanski.
00:21:58 |
Tue 05 Feb 2013
Ringing through his head: an excerpted 1972 conversation with Robert Creeley, Joanne Kyger, and Greg Hewlett
Featuring Kyger, Creeley, and Hewlett in casual conversation, this is an excerpt of a longer discussion. Hosted by Amaris Cuchanski.
00:17:54 |
Mon 04 Feb 2013
Into the life of making books: an interview with Charles Alexander
Charles Alexander discusses 27 years of Chax Press and predecessors in 20th-century letterpress publishing.
00:28:07 |
Tue 01 Feb 2011
The true, the good, the dead: Poems of Thanksgiving
Poems of Thanksgiving
00:05:16 |
Fri 20 Nov 2009
A dream of history: an excerpted 1966 radio interview with John Ashbery
Ashbery explicates
00:18:45 |
Mon 26 Oct 2009
Taking the form of his uncertainty: celebrating Gil Ott
Celebrating Gil Ott
00:24:50 |
Wed 17 Jun 2009
A spot of light on the curb: 100th birthday celebration of George Oppen
George Oppen at 100
00:23:13 |
Tue 16 Jun 2009
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are the property of PennSound. This content is not affiliated with or endorsed by eachpod.com.