Harryette Mullen, "Chasing Dirt"
From left: Laynie Browne, Harryette Mullen, Simone White
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Simone White, Harryette Mullen, and Laynie Browne joined Al Filreis to talk a six-page section of Harryette’s new book Open Leaves. The book, subtitled “poems from earth,” was published by Black Sunflowers Poetry Press of London in 2023. The section discussed by the group is titled “Chasing Dirt” and consists of two epigraphs, a prose-poem paragraph, a mixed media artwork titled Silent Talks by Tiffanie Delune, and a sequence of three-line poems across four pages of four poems each. Since PennSound’s Harryette Mullen author page did not yet include a recording of Harryette performing poems from Open Leaves, we asked her to read “Chasing Dirt” at the start of the recorded session. The pages from Open Leaves are available HERE.
November 20, 2024
Nina Zivancevic's 1983 interview with Charles Bernstein and Douglas Messerli, with a new postscript by Messerli
audio and text
This interview was first publlished in the Belgrade literary magazine, Knjizevnost, and in Sagetrieb's Winter 1984 issue (Vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 63-78).
The undedited audio of the original interview, from November 5, 1983, is avaialbe on PennSound:
(2 hrs, 18min): MP3