Just Arrived

Robert Duncan – Enthralled (3’27”). Recorded in Buffalo in 1982 and archived on PennSound. The text via Google books. Ground Work II: After the War, from New Directions.• Duncan according to Wikipedia, Modern American Poetry, and Poets.Org. The companion site to Lisa Jarnot’s on-going biographical work on Duncan, excerpted on-line at Harp & Altar, Drunken Boat, and Jacket.

Stoned and Inconsolable

Anne Boyer – Brute (0’35”). Text at slow-to-load MiPOesias Magazine (scroll down). Boyer’s blog, odali$qued. Her Coffee House book Romance of Happy Workers. On Women of the Web, back in 2007. And on Delirious Hem, just this May. Abraham Lincoln, the mag she edits with K. Silem Mohammad.

Unimpeachable

Michael S. Hennessey – Everyone and Anyone (1’13”). Recorded by phone on April 26, 2009 for Leonard Schwartz’s Cross-Cultural Poetics program on KAOS-FM in Olympia, Washington (scroll down to show #191). This poem (1’18) was also part of Hennessey’s set at the Cincinnati Public Library on April 7, 2009, which is archived on his PennSound page. Hennessey is managing editor at PennSound as well as the pen behind PennSound Daily.

By Terror Armed

Marie Buck – The Beheading Game (0’55”). Broadcast on Kareem Estefan’s Ceptuetics program on WNYU on February 6, 2008 and archived on PennSound. Diana Hamilton’s review of Buck’s chapbook Life & Style (Patrick Lovelace Editions, 2009, available for download at Beard of Bees) at Sustainable Aircraft. Website for the little magazine Buck edits with Brad Fliss, Model Homes. Buck’s contribution to Attention Span 2008.

This Job Will Not Wait

Alli Warren – The Poet Must Be a Professional… (1’38”). Recorded July 16, 2009 and archived on A Voice Box. • Warren’s blog, The Ingredient. Her chapbook, Cousins. The reading series she curates with Brandon Brown at 21 Grand, recently recognized as a “Best of the Bay” type thing. • Nice to see A Voice Box picked up for syndication, as it were, on PennSound.

The Erosion of Sound

Rob Halpern – “And in all these faces…” (0’42”) from Music for Porn (Factory School, forthcoming). Full track (7’12). Recorded March 3, 2007 as part of the Segue Series at the Bower Poetry Club and archived on PennSound. • An appreciation of Disaster Suites by Brandon Brown.

Fluted Throats

Elizabeth Marie Young – The Shiftless Art of Watching Dead Things Rising at the Louvre (2’21”). Recorded April 6, 2007 at Pegasus Books and archived on A Voice Box, where the full thirteen minute set also includes “Life Lessons Gleaned from a Grammar of Attic Inscriptions,” “Watching the Ruler Thrown Triumphantly Atop His House of Fame,” and “Instructions for Inhabiting a Miniature World.” Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize is Young’s first book, just out from Fence.

Like Tiresias

George Stanley – Veracruz (2’10” with intoduction). Text courtesy of Woodland Pattern. Recorded to audiocassette at the St. Marks Poetry Project in 2000; digitized and put on-line by Eric Baus in May 2007. A highly distorted recording, made at the Kelly Writers House in October 2003, is available on PennSound. A Tall, Serious Girl (Qua, 2003) at SPD, on Goodreads, on LibraryThing. Beverly Dahlen’s notes on reading Vancouver (New Star, 2007) on Jacket 37.

Very Fanciful

Bill Luoma – “I love the idea of a Jennifer sofabed” (0’50”) from My Trip to New York City. Recorded on February 11, 1994 as part of the Segue series at the Ear Inn and archived on Pennsound. Jeff Hull introduces, and Luoma opens the set by reading, with Jennifer Moxley, the long poem “n-space” by Helena Bennett (available for pdf download in Impercipient 6, archived on Brian Kim Stefan’s Arras site).

Was the Policy

M. NourbeSe Philip – Zong 26 (1’17”). Text via Google Books. Recorded February 17, 2007 as part of the Segue Series at Bowery Poetry Club and archived on her PennSound page, where one can hear another version of the same poem (1’09), recorded on April 23, 2008 in Toronto. Philip’s homepage. Zong at Wesleyan, and on Goodreads. An appreciation, at The All-Purpose Magical Tent.