PoemTalk at the Writers House, hosted by Al Filreis and based at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. PoemTalk is a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and Jacket2.org.
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss three poems from Larry Price's 1/0.توسط Larry Price, William Fuller, Sophia DuRose, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss four of Marjorie Welish's "Textiles."توسط Michelle Taransky, Christy Davids, Sally Van Doren, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Hart Crane's "The Harbor Dawn," as performed by Tennessee Williams.توسط Jonathan Dick, Gabi Ojeda-Sagué, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss "The Austrian Maiden" and "Joe Brainard's Painting Bingo" by Richard Padgett.توسط James Berger, Richard Deming, Sophia DuRose, Al Filreis
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The PoemTalk team travels to Scotland for a discussion at the Fruitmarket Arts Center in Edinburgh on two poems by Veronica Forrest-Thomson.توسط Iain Morrison, Anthony Capildeo, Laynie Brown, Lee Ann Brown, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Ariana Raines's "To the Reader," from A Sand Book (Tin House, 2019).توسط Michelle Taransky, Eric Shoemaker, Pattie McCarthy, Al Filreis
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Episode 192 - Of shredded love
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Owen Dodson: "For Billie Holiday" and "Sorrow Is The Only Faithful One."توسط Herman Beavers, Tracie Morris, Amber Rose Johnson, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two Kenward Elmslie pieces, "Core Bonus" and "One Night Stand."توسط Henry Steinberg, Simone White, Wayne Koestenbaum, Al Filreis
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The group gathers for a live session in the Kelly Writers House's Arts Cafe to discuss the eponymous piece from Aldon Nielson's book Tray (Make Now Press, 2017).توسط William Joe Harris, Aldon Nielsen, Tyrone Williams, Al Filreis
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Episode 189 - Humming in the vacancy
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Gregory Corso's 1969 performance of "Vision of Rotterdam."توسط Rita Barnard, J.C. Cloutier, M.C. Kinneburgh, Al Filreis
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Episode 188 - To the goon ictus
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Ted Pearson's 1987 book-length poem, Catenary Odes.توسط Rachel Blau DuPlessis, William Fuller, Bruce Andrews, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two "Love Poems" by Mina Loy, from a recording and interview with Paul Blackburn and Robert Von Dias in 1965.توسط Laynie Browne, Maya Pindyck, Hoa Nguyen, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss a version of Tina Darragh's "Wire Boxes" performed at the Line Reading Series in New York in February of 2001.توسط Joan Retallack, Simone White, erica kaufman, Al Filreis
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The team hits the road and lands in Los Angeles at the home of Marjorie Perloff, where the group gathers to discuss two well-known poems by Frank O'Hara: "Poem" or "Lana Turner Has Collapsed!" and "Song (Is it Dirty)."توسط Marjorie Perloff, Charles Altieri Robert von Hallberg, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss John Giorno's 1977 poem, "Everyone is a complete disappointment."توسط Michelle Taransky, Brooke O'Harra, Christopher Funkhouser, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss an excerpt from Dodie Bellamy's Vomit Journal.توسط Henry Steinberg, Chantine Akiyama Poh, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems from Douglas Kearney's SHO (Wave Books, 2021): "Welter" and "Static."توسط Divya Victor, Whitney Trettien, Dagmawi Woubshet, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House to discuss Hoa Nguyen's "Long Light," collected in Red Juice: Poems, 1998-2008 (Wave Books, 2014).توسط Bethany Swann, Jonathan Dick, Kate Colby, Al Filreis
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The group travels to the Poetry Foundation in Chicago to discuss seven short poems from Lisa Fishman's Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition (Wave Books, 2020).توسط Lisa Fishman, Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, Laynie Browne, Al Filreis
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Episode 179 - Untranslatable
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Armand Schwarner: "Tablet XXV" and "'daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?'"توسط Charles Bernstein, Pierre Joris, Jerome Rothenberg, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Matvei Yankelevich's book of poems (or book-length poem), Dead Winter (Fonograph, 2022).توسط Ahmad Almallah, Huda Fakhreddine, Kevin Platt, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Maggie O'Sullivan, "To our Own Day" and "Hill Figures," from In the House of the Shaman (Reality Street, 1993).توسط Julia Bloch, Charles Bernstein, Eric Falci, Al Filreis
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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio for a fresh take on John Ashbery's iconic "Some Trees."توسط Abdulhamit Arvas, Dagmawi Woubshet, Carlos Decena, Al Filreis
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Episode 175 - Composition of life, as life
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The group travels to Bard College in the Hudson Valley to discuss the two opening paragraph's from Joan Retallack's essay "The Poethical Wager."توسط Joan Retallack, Laynie Browne, erica kaufman, Al Filreis
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Episode 174 - Girls in the supply chain
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The group gathers at the Kelly Writers House to discuss four poems from Sawako Nakayasu's Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From (Wave Books, 2020).توسط Bethany Swann, Henry Steinberg, Caroline Bergvall, Al Filreis
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Episode 173 - When a name falls from a face (Divya Victor, 'Curb')
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In this episode, the group gathers to discuss a selection of poems from Divya Victor's book Curb (Nightboat Books, 2021): three poems from the titular "Curb" series in the middle of the book ("Curb" 3, 4, and 5) and another poem, "Frequency (Alka’s Testimony)."توسط Timothy Yu, Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Piyali Bhattacharya, Al Filreis
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Episode 172 - Trance of language (Harryette Mullen, 'Sleeping with the Dictionary' and 'Dim Lady')
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In this episode, we talk about two prose poems in Harryette Mullen’s collection Sleeping with the Dictionary, published by California in 2002. The poems are “Dim Lady” and the title poem, “Sleeping with the Dictionary.”توسط Maxe Crandall, Larissa Lai, Julia Bloch, Al Filreis
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In this episode, our discussion takes us to the great Ostashevskyan topics — knowledge otherwise somehow alienated; language that embodies or transliterates a kind of violence; the (sound) differences between knowing and saying no (and similarities); his sincere (and doubtless Russian Absurdist-influenced) plea to “teach us love / teach us love / t…
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In this episode, the group discusses three poems from Diane di Prima's 'Revolutionary Letters' project: #16 (“We are eating up the planet”), #19 (“If what you want is jobs”), and #27 (“How much can we afford to lose before we win”). The project’s goals and modes of address shifted over time. Any single letter-poem, read separately from the others, …
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Al Filreis convenes Charles Bernstein, Anthony Elms, and Laynie Browne to talk about two poems by George Quasha. The book, published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2020, titled Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, consists of eight gatherings of preverbs; our two poems, coming from the final section — which bears the name of the book — are “self fast” (number…
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Today we are releasing episode #168 of PoemTalk, in which Amber Rose Johnson, Daniel Bergmann, and Yolanda Wisher meet up at the Kelly Writers House to talk with Al Filreis about Jayne Cortez's "She Got He Got". This poem/performance piece is comprised of a “She” half and an “He” half, she giving variations of hot, while he instantiates variations …
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Today we are releasing episode #167 of PoemTalk, in which Jack Giesking, Jonathan Dick, and erica kaufman meet up at the Kelly Writers House to talk with Al Filreis about Myung Mi Kim's "And Sing We" from Under Flag.توسط Jack Giesking, Jonathan Dick, erica kaufman, Al Filreis
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Today's episode dives into Cecilia Vicuña's 'Colliding and not colliding at the same time'. The performance begins as the audience, having been encouraged to ask questions about an art video that had just been screened, went momentarily silent. No questions were being asked, so Vicuña began improvisationally to fill the room with words and sounds, …
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Today, we talk about a poem by Stephen Collis that appeared in his book, A History of the Theories of Rain, published by Talonbooks in Vancouver in 2021. The poem is titled “Yes I Do Want to Punch” — and perhaps should be called “Yes I Do Want to Punch / fascists in the face,” proceeding to its key first line. The eco-poetic turn — an urgent one, a…
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This episode discusses a three-page section of Leslie Scalapino’s “‘Can’t’ is ‘Night’” — the passage having been chosen by the poet for It’s Go in Horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006. Close listening and close reading: surely some manner of these, both, are required by every Leslie Scalapino work. The PoemTalk group sought to respect this in the …
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Episode 163 - Perilous bodies
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This episode features a poem by Daphne Marlatt called “Steveston, B.C.” We were joined by Davy Knittle, Jane Robbins Mize, and Karis Shearer. The poem is in a sense — although not quite exactly — the title poem in a much-admired book published in 1974.توسط Davy Knittle, Jane Robbins Mize, Karis Shearer, Al Filreis
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This episode presents a remarkable — freewheeling, energetic, yet comprehensive — discussion of a remarkable artist, Tuli Kupferberg. We considered two works by Tuli: “Morning, Morning,” among the most famous songs performed by The Fugs; and one of Tuli’s spoken-word pieces or “pop poems,” titled “No Deposit, No Return.”…
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The group convenes over Zoom to discuss Sarah Dowling's Entering Sappho (Coach House, 2020).توسط Larissa Lai, Maxe Crandall, Julia Bloch, Al Filreis
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The group convenes over Zoom to discuss two well-known sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay, "I Shall Forget You Presently" and "Love Is Not All." (Coach House, 2020).توسط Lisa New, Jane Malcolm, Sophia DuRose, Al Filreis
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Stephen Ratcliffe, Joanne Kyger and Julia Bloch join Al Filreis in Bolinas, California to discuss Philip Whalen's "Life at Bolinas. The Last of California".توسط Stephen Ratcliffe, Joanne Kyger, Julia Bloch, Al Filreis
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Siobhan Phillips, Emily Harnett, and Joseph Massey join Al Filreis to discuss Kate Colby's "I Mean"توسط Siobhan Phillips, Emily Harnett, Joseph Massey, Al Filreis
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Camara Brown, Edwin Torres, and Brooke O’Harra join Al Filreis to discuss Tracie Morris's "Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful"توسط Camara Brown, Edwin Torres, Brooke O’Harra, Al Filreis
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Pierre Joris, Anna Strong, and Ariel Resnikoff join Al Filreis to discuss Paul Celan's "Corona."توسط Pierre Joris, Anna Strong, Ariel Resnikoff, Al Filreis
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Mark McMorris, Mel Nichols, and Rob Casper join Al Filreis to discuss C.D. Wright's "One Big Self."توسط Mark McMorris, Mel Nichols, Rob Casper, Al Filreis
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Kristen Gallagher, Kerry Sherin Wright, and Joshua Schuster join Al Filreis to discuss Michael Magee's "Morning Constitutional."توسط Kristen Gallagher, Kerry Sherin Wright, Joshua Schuster, Al Filreis
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Yolanda Wisher, Charles Bernstein, and Patricia Spears Jones join Al Filreis to discuss Akilah Oliver's "Is You Is or Is You Ain't."توسط Yolanda Wisher, Charles Bernstein, Patricia Spears Jones, Al Filreis
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Rachel Zolf, erica kaufman, and Eileen Myles join Al Filreis to discuss four poems by Simone White from "Of Being Dispersed."توسط Rachel Zolf, erica kaufman, Eileen Myles, Al Filreis
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Lisa New, Rafael Campo, and Christina Davis join Al Filreis for a special PoemTalk recorded at Harvard University to discuss Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour."توسط Lisa New, Rafael Campo, Christina Davis, Al Filreis
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Simone White, Sophia Le Fraga, and Andrew Whiteman join Al Filreis to discuss Ed Dorn's "The Sundering U.P. Tracks."توسط Simone White, Sophia Le Fraga, Andrew Whiteman, Al Filreis
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Episode 100 - PoemTalk Retrospective
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Al Filreis and seven past PoemTalk guests convene for a special 90-minute celebration of PoemTalk's 100th episode: William Joe Harris, Tracie Morris, erica kaufman, Steve McLaughlin, Maria Damon, Charles Bernstein, and Herman Beavers.توسط Al Filreis
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