PoemTalk (episodes 1-41): like I've just discovered it

2/4/08

like I've just discovered it

We find a quick early response to PT#3 on the blog of Tom Devaney:

"[E]ven though I've read the poem numerous times, I feel like I've just discovered it today because this conversation (and recording of Oppen) sent me back to it. Above all, what I like best about the conversation here is its openness."

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podcast shows

[] PT#1: Williams between walls
[] PT#2: Adrienne Rich won't wait
[] PT#3: George Oppen's ballad
[] PT#4: Ginsberg sings Blake
[] PT#5: Ted Berrigan's "3 Pages"
[] PT#6: a Jaap Blonk sound poem
[] PT#7: Rothenberg's paradise
[] PT#8: Armantrout's "The Way"
[] PT#9: Ashbery at a crossroads
[] PT#10: one of Stein's portraits
[] PT#11: Erica Hunt's "voice of no"
[] PT#12: Ezra Pound's America
[] PT#13: Kathleen Fraser's highway
[] PT#14: Stevens at the end
[] PT#15: Lyn Hejinian's change
[] PT#16: Creeley driving the car
[] PT#17: Rodrigo Toscano's poetics
[] PT#18: Lydia Davis has a position
[] PT#19: Bob Perelman's child
[] PT#20: Amiri Baraka's Kenyatta
[] PT#21: Bernstein's restlessness
[] PT#22: Louis Zukofsky anew
[] PT#23: Cid Corman pees in pants
[] PT#24: Barbara Guest's new rose
[] PT#25: Alice Notley's America
[] PT#26: wild Vachel Lindsay
[] PT#27: Duncan opens the field
[] PT#28: Spicer to shrink: drop dead
[] PT#29: Kit Robinson on mad men
[] PT#30: favorite W.C. Williams
[] PT#31: Grenier's sentences
[] PT#32: Howe's Dickinson's gun
[] PT#33: flarfist Sharon Mesmer
[] PT#34: Charles Olson's Maximus
[] PT#35: Bruce Andrews' center
[] PT#36: writing through imagism
[] PT#37: Osman drops leaflets
[] PT#38: Norman Fischer sees
[] PT#39: Knight/Brooks & the sun
[] PT#40: Schultz blogs dementia
[] PT#41: Ezra in Venice

COMING SOON:
[] PT#42: N. Tarn's ecopoetics
[] PT#43: John Weiners on youth
[] PT#44: Fred Wah's race to go
[] PT#45: Eileen Myles on the snake
[] PT#46: Jackson MacLow on Pound

we talk about a poem

For each episode of PoemTalk four friends and colleagues in the world of poetry and poetics convene to collaborate on a close (but not too close) reading of a single poem. We talk through and around the poem, sometimes beyond it, often disagreeing, always excited by what we discover as we talk, and perhaps after twenty-five minutes we've opened up the verse to a few new possibilities and have gained for a poem that interests us some new readers and listeners.

Listeners? Well, yes: all the PoemTalk poems are available in recordings made by the poets themselves as part of the PennSound archive.

gathering paradise

We like to end PoemTalk with a minute or two of “Gathering Paradise” – a chance for several of us to spread wide our narrow hands to gather a little something really poetically good – to extol, hail, puff up, or commend someone, or something going on in the poetry world.

Here's a gathering of our gatherings:

[] We all praised Lorenzo Thomas's Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition, esp. Aldon Nielsen who had the happy/unhappy task of editing it posthumously (PT #26).

[] Joe Milutis suggests we all check out the work Danny Snelson has been doing (PT #25).

[] Natalie Gerber commends the Dodge Poetry Festival and its new-ish YouTube channel (PT #24).

[] Frank Sherlock urges us all to read Joe Massey (PT #23).

[] Wystan Curnow wants us to look at jackbooks.com (PT #22).

[] Eli Goldblatt lauds the Philly scene, e.g. PhillySound (PT #21).

[] Alan Loney recommends Anne Carson's translation of Sappho (PT #20).

[] David Grazian, thinking of poetics-minded sociologists, wants us to read Loic Wacquant's Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (PT #18).

[] Emily Abendroth suggests we take a look at the NONSITE COLLECTIVE (PT #17).

[] Bob Perelman celebrates Ron Silliman's The Alphabet, a gathering of 26 books (PT #15).

[] Lawrence Joseph suggests Sidney Wade's book of poems, Stroke (PT #14).

[] C.A. Conrad recommends State of the Union: 50 Political Poems from Wave Books (PT #13).

[] Julia Bloch wants us to phone Weird Deer Media, upload our own verse voice clips (call 206 569-5451) (PT #11).

[] Lee Ann Brown recommends the Siglio Press publication of Joe Brainard's The Nancy Book (PT #10).

[] Tom Devaney urged us to read a poet he'd recently discovered: Tetra Balestri (PT #9).

[] Ron Silliman recommended a poetic sequence by Philip Whalen entitled The Children, based on photographs by Aram Saroyan (PT #8).

[] Bob Holman suggests we drop in at his own Bowery Poetry Club, a possible paradise of poets (PT#7).

[] Tracie Morris suggested a connection between Jaap Blonk and Kenny Muhammed, "the human orchestra" (PT#6).

[] Kenny Goldsmith happily pointed out a feature on UbuWeb in the March 2008 issue of Artforum (PT#6).

[] erica kaufman commended David Trinidad's new book, The Late Show, in particular the poem "From the Life of Joe Brainard" (PT#5).

[] Rachel pointed us toward the fabulous Blake archive (PT#4).

[] Charles plugged PennSound Daily - "your dose of paradise" (PT#4).

[] Rachel celebrated the publication of the new bpNichol Reader, Alphabet Game (PT #3).

[] Linh directed us to Joe Bageant's urgent blog (PT #3).

[] Randall urged us to read César Vallejo: 1 2 3 4 5 (PT #2).

[] Jessica recommended Kathy Lou Schultz (PT #1).

[] Thinking about Williams's sense of the postindustrial way we live, Linh suggested we look at Mike Davis on "our living arrangements" (PT #1).