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.

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.”

The Scorch of It

Maggie Nelson – from Bluets, sects. 52-59 (5’11”). Recorded on March 11, 2007 for LA-Lit, co-hosted and co-produced by Stephanie Rioux and Mathew Timmons; sponsored by Superbunker; recorded at Betalevel. LA-Lit on PennSound. Nelson according to Wikipedia. Her bio at CalArts. Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions. Bluets is due out in October 2009 from Wave.

An Encyclopedia of Emotion

Rachel Levitsky – Defining (1’08”). From Neighbor, just published by Ugly Duckling Presse. Recorded on January 23, 2008 for Kareem Estefan’s Ceptuetics show on WNYU. • More Levitsky on PennSound. The Belladonna Series, curated by Levitsky; related publications. Levitsky’s “Dim Sum” on Delirious Hem.

Senseless to Try

Jeremy Prynne – reading Cocaine by John Wieners (1’40”). From Archive of the Now. Text of the poem (via Design Process). • More Wieners on PennSound. Previously on Lipstick of Noise: Elizabeth Taylor Is My Sister and The Garbos and the Dietrichs.

Isis Versus the Blur

Eric Baus – Our Common Cloud (1’03”). Posted to Weird Deer on January 22, 2008. Attempt at an audia  transcript (opens as pdf) generated with Sonic Visualiser. Second attempt. Text as it appears on-line at Omnidawn. • Baus’s blog To the Sound. Baus in conversation with Cynthia Arrieu-King. His new book, Tuned Droves.• The Weird Deer deal: “(1) Call 206-569-5451. (2) Wait for beep. (3) Lift voice in song. (4) Do not exceed three minutes when lifting voice. (5) Hang up. (6) Email title + your name to…” 

The near unretrievability of the noun is a function of the drastic drop in intensity and the insertion of a medial pause between the two syllables.

Google / Calls It 100% Relevant

Jennifer Scappettone – da s (3’02”). Recorded April 14, 2009 at Kelly Writers House. One of a series of poems Scappettone composed in response to the NYT obituary article “Jacques Derrida, Abstruse Philosopher, Is Dead.” More Scappettone on PennSound. Her 2008 Attention Span. “da s” is included in From Dame Quickly, just published by Litmus Press. • Tracklist here. Mirrored here.