Corroded

Johannes Göransson – reading Fox Heart by Aase Berg in his translation (0’46”). Private recording aired April 2, 2009 on WSUM’s Wordsalad (playlist, soundfile). Berg’s With Deer, in which this poem appears. Reviewed on Cold Front. A mini-review in JMWW. Three poems at La Petite Zine. • Görannson’s blog, Exoskeleton. A bio-note from the Action, Yes masthead. His A New Quarantine Will Take My Place, which I’ve been reading with interest this week.

Fingers Crossed

Pam Rehm – Pollux (4’41”). Recorded at the Ear Inn on March 7, 1992 and archived on PennSound. The introduction (perhaps by Stacy Doris) mentions two forthcoming chapbooks, one from Leave and one from Oblek (in the event, Garlic Press), and appearances in Andrew Schelling and Benjamin Friedlander’s Dark Ages Clasp the Daisy Root. Download Pollux (pdf) from Duration. Stan Mir “recovers” The Garment In Which No One Had Slept on Octopus 6. Rehm’s more recent volumes, both from Flood.

The Poets Don’t Know from Secrets

Erika Staiti – from Go, Poet, Go (2’26”). Recorded shortly after the January 17, 2009, performance of the text at Canessa Park and archived in its entirety (10’11”) on A Voice Box (a faulty mic connection spoiled the live recording). Two poems from Shampoo 32. Staiti’s contribution to the SPT Aggression Conference in May 2008. Her discourse documenting project What We Said.  Stan Apps on Verse/Switch & Stop Motion (a “stapled, xeroxed book” in private circulation). Kevin Killian’s account of an evening of Neo Benshi that included Staiti’s telling of a scene from Cassavetes’s A Woman Under the Influence. • Jennifer Manzano alludes to Staiti’s performance in a discussion of “poets and their clothes.”

Look Innocent

Geoffrey G. O’Brien – The Bulletin of Lyon (3’33”). Recorded on September 7, 2006 as part of the Holloway Reading Series at UC Berkeley. O’Brien’s full set (“Realia,” “Logic of Confession,” “The Bulletin of Lyon,” “Wall of Men and Women,” “A Word with a Poem Around It”). All from Green and Gray, then forthcoming. Charles Fourier according to Wikipedia & Hakim Bey.

Just Right Tight

Jennifer L. Knox – What I Got Out of the Art Opening (1’24”). Recorded on November 8, 2003 for Radio Poetique, hosted by Susan Brennan and also featuring Garrett Kurai and Ada Limon. More Knox on PennSound. Her website. Six new poems in Octopus 12, introduced by K. Silem Mohammad. Drunk by Noon on Goodreads.

Witness Is Not What We Understand

Thom Donovan – Come Out, Again (1’09”). Recorded January 24, 2009 at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn. More Donovan on PennSound. Tyrone Williams on PennSound. About Steve Reich’s composition Come Out. Reich in conversation about the piece. Download Early Works from iTunes.

Irritable or Iterable

Susan Holbrook – Good Egg Bad Seed (4’54”). A review of the Nomados chapbook on That Unsound. A little more Holbrook on PennSound. About Joy Is So Exhausting, due this October from Coach House.

We’re Good

Garrett Caples – Orpheus (0’58”). Recorded December 6, 2007 at Pegasus Books and archived at A Voice Box. • Set list: Margin of Terror, Earth to Earth Come in Earth, Lost Blood, Chanson de Googoo, Robocop Imagines Accepting Other Roles, Orpheus, I Have Seen Enough (Elegy for Philip Lamantia), Dubsong of Prufrock Shakur. • Caples’s Complications (and John Olson’s appreciation of it). His cd, Surrealism’s Bad Rap, from Narrow House.

Who’s Left

K. Lorraine Graham – “I dated a French boy…” (2’01”) from “See It Everywhere.” Recorded May 13, 2007 and archived on the KSW Audio site. Partial text on MiPOesias. An earlier version. Graham’s writing blog  See It Everywhere; her Flickr account; her other blog Spooks by Me. A first full-length collection, Terminal Humming, is just out from Edge.

I Have Constructed a Reading for You

Suzanne Stein – from Hole in Space (1’27”). Performed at Canessa Park on January 17, 2009 and archived in its entirety on A Voice Box. The chapbook from OMG. A Flickr set pertaining to not reading (with Ann Stephenson) at the Poetry Project on November 17, 2008, the principal source text for the Canessa Park event. Stein’s blog. More soundfiles on PennSound.