Please check them out HERE.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll shoot milk out your nose.
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Showing posts with label Audio. Show all posts
10.7.12
Listen to carte blanche's This Really Happened
Please check them out HERE.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll shoot milk out your nose.
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3.2.12
Orange Alert Podcast
Please check out the podcast HERE.
Big thanks to Jason Behrends.
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20.6.09
Poesy Planet Podcast Reading
Listen to me read "The End of Desire is The End" on the Poesy Planet podcast here.Here's a bit of a preamble to the poem: imagine the key scenes in a novel presented out of context and without all that annoying filler.
Thank you, Paul A. Toth.
Groovy,
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18.4.09
Matthew Zapruder on Ashbery
and a gale came and said
it is time to take all of you away
from the tops of the trees to the little houses
on little paths so startled
-from How to Continue, John Ashbery
Matthew Zapruder discusses John Ashbery's poem "How to Continue" with The Poetry Foundation.
This is one of my new favorite poems by Ashbery.
Listen to it here.
Read the complete text here.
it is time to take all of you away
from the tops of the trees to the little houses
on little paths so startled
-from How to Continue, John Ashbery
Matthew Zapruder discusses John Ashbery's poem "How to Continue" with The Poetry Foundation.
This is one of my new favorite poems by Ashbery.
Listen to it here.
Read the complete text here.
28.7.08
Poesy Ain't Easy
Tired of plot and pacing, prose writer Steve Almond immersed himself in the world of verse for a year thinking it would be a piece of cake only to discover that poesy ain't easy. The Poetry Foundation has an interesting essay by him that takes a look at his not-so-rosy attempt at becoming a serial beret-wearer. They also have a podcast up of Almond that's worth checking out if only to hear some of his writing samples.
From The Poetry Foundation:
In the fall of 1997, I moved to a partially renovated one-bedroom apartment in Somerville. This struck me as a fine place to lick my wounds after the glorious persecutions of grad school. I was a short story writer and a failure and a masochist and I felt certain, within a month or so of my arrival, that poetry—what I took to be its particular brand of exalted suffering—was just the thing to cure me.
I knew next to nothing about versification, but I was crazy for enjambment, a device suited to my lust for the easy gimmick. I enjoyed using terms like “good line” and “syntactical pivot.” In more hysterical moments, I imagined they might get me laid.
I was constantly composing such dreck. I set myself the task of one poem a day and stumbled around in my underpants, pooping out pale imitations of Auden and Philip Levine. I was the Dale Carnegie of poetry: dogged and well-meaning, with no sense of occasion. I was prepared to make anything into a poem, because a poem was just a suite of words designed to express how deeply empathic and observant the poet was.
More here.
Listen to Steve Almond on the Poetry Off the Shelf podcast here.
From The Poetry Foundation:
In the fall of 1997, I moved to a partially renovated one-bedroom apartment in Somerville. This struck me as a fine place to lick my wounds after the glorious persecutions of grad school. I was a short story writer and a failure and a masochist and I felt certain, within a month or so of my arrival, that poetry—what I took to be its particular brand of exalted suffering—was just the thing to cure me.
I knew next to nothing about versification, but I was crazy for enjambment, a device suited to my lust for the easy gimmick. I enjoyed using terms like “good line” and “syntactical pivot.” In more hysterical moments, I imagined they might get me laid.
I was constantly composing such dreck. I set myself the task of one poem a day and stumbled around in my underpants, pooping out pale imitations of Auden and Philip Levine. I was the Dale Carnegie of poetry: dogged and well-meaning, with no sense of occasion. I was prepared to make anything into a poem, because a poem was just a suite of words designed to express how deeply empathic and observant the poet was.
More here.
Listen to Steve Almond on the Poetry Off the Shelf podcast here.
19.6.08
The Griffin, Ashbery on CBC
Listen to the Words at Large podcast of the prize-giving at the recent Griffin Poetry Prize gala, as well as an interview with the international poetry prize winner, John Ashbery. Also, pay attention to Robin Blaser's acceptance speech for the Canadian award around the 15:30 mark; he really seems genuinely touched to win the prize. Gives me the warm fuzzies inside.
Check out the podcast here.
Check out the podcast here.
1.1.08
18.5.07
Like iTunes for poetry recordings. But free!
If you haven't discovered PENNsound yet I suggest you take a gander right now. Co-directed by poet Charles Bernstein from the University of Pennsylvania, you can listen to a vast archive of recordings by contemporary poets and writers absolutely free. Started two years ago, PENNsound features more than 200 writers and more than 10,000 digital recordings, even including readings by iconic poets and writers like Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, HD, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and many more. I'm also happy that experimental Canadian poets are well represented here, with recordings by Christian Bok, Nicole Brossard, the Four Horsemen, bp Nichol, Darren Wershler-Henry, and Angela Rawlings.
More here.
Visit PENNsound here.
More here.
Visit PENNsound here.
5.2.07
Valentine's Day Poems with Ange Mlinko
Discussing Valentine's Day poems with Ange Mlinko from PoetryFoundation.org. Also, listen for Camille Guthrie's great long poem "My Boyfriend". It's bizarre but worth listening to for some of her similes. Listen to the podcast here.
UPDATE: Read "My Boyfriend" by Camille Guthrie in its entirety here.
UPDATE: Read "My Boyfriend" by Camille Guthrie in its entirety here.
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