2009 MLA off-site poetry reading (audio)

Al Filreis

During the 2009 conference of the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Julia Bloch and Michelle Taransky organized the annual off-site poetry reading. The reading took two hours and 36 minutes and an audio recording was made; for the past several years, this long recording has been available on PennSound’s “MLA Offsite Readings” page. Now PennSound staff editor Anna Zalokostas has segmented the entire recording and we are now able to present the recording of each reader, as follows:

introduction (1:34): MP3
Matthew Landis (2:56): MP3
Rodrigo Toscano (4:14): MP3
Carlos Soto Roman (2:32): MP3
Kim Gek Lin Short (4:51): MP3
Jacob Russell (2:10): MP3
Angel Hogan (2:37): MP3
Ish Klein (3:45): MP3
Gregory Laynor (3:01): MP3
Nava EtShalom (3:50): MP3
Ryan Eckes (1:16): MP3
Sueyeun Juliette Lee (1:52): MP3
David Larsen (2:56): MP3
Norma Cole (3:37): MP3
Rod Smith (3:13): MP3
Frank Sherlock (1:55): MP3
CA Conrad (3:21): MP3
Aldon Nielsen (2:20): MP3
Suzanne Heyd (5:13): MP3
Emily Abendroth (3:06): MP3
Laura Moriarty (3:47): MP3
Evie Shockley (1:50): MP3
Pattie McCarthy (2:23): MP3
Ron Silliman (2:10): MP3
Thomas Devaney (2:37): MP3
Rachel Blau DuPlessis (2:28): MP3
Tyrone Williams (3:31): MP3
Jenn McCreary (2:43): MP3
Carla Harryman (3:09): MP3
Kate Lilley (2:44): MP3
Steve Dolph (1:57): MP3
Chris McCreary (2:21): MP3
Jennifer Scappettone (3:20): MP3
Lisa Howe (3:45): MP3
Bill Howe (1:32): MP3
Charles Cantalupo (3:24): MP3
Julie Phillips Brown (1:58): MP3
Norman Finkelstein (2:57): MP3
Mel Nichols (2:39) MP3
Aaron Kunin (3:05): MP3
Jamie Townsend (1:46): MP3
Michael S. Hennessey (3:18): MP3
Chris Carrier (2:43): MP3
Eric Selland (2:59): MP3
Barrett Watten (7:08): MP3
James Shea (2:08): MP3
Sandra Lim (1:52): MP3
Mecca Sullivan (2:25): MP3
Danny Snelson (3:29): MP3
Michelle Taransky (2:00): MP3
Herman Beavers (4:05): MP3
Adrian Khactu (2:26): MP3
Julia Bloch (0:53): MP3

September 18, 2013

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DIGITAL PEDAGOGY: This was a magazine story published in 2001 about my use of e-media in teaching. “Postmodern poets focused on the process of their poetry, rather than on what the words in their poems actually said. The purpose was to make poetry and language new again. There's no better way to describe Filreis's teaching style. He uses technology to free class time for discussion, which to Filreis is more important than the course material itself. The point is to develop his students' ability to think critically, not to have memorized every last fact about Gertrude Stein. And yet, he said, through that active engagement with the material, students end up remembering more of the content.”

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ASHBERY PERFORMS STEVENS: In October of 1989, John Ashbery went to St. John's the Divine Cathedral in New York to be part of the induction of Wallace Stevens at the Poets' Corner. There was a vespers service and Ashbery read six sections of Stevens's "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven." Imagine that--that poem read at a vespers service! Anyway, I certainly don't know of another recording of Ashbery performing Stevens. Stevens was a fairly bad reader of his own poems. Ashbery is deemed by many to be an indifferent reader of his poems. (I don't agree, but understand the point.) But here, reading Stevens, Ashbery is marvelous. Here is a 7-minute recording of sections 3, 5, 12, 17, 18 and 30 of the Stevens poem that comes closest to real serial writing (seriality at the level of the section, anyway).

THE (ANTI)MODERN PRESIDENT. After looking at an abstract mural at the U.N. then President-elect Eisenhower said, “To be modern you don't have to be nuts.”

THE END OF THE LECTURE & PLANNING TO STAY. As often as I can, I call for the end of the lecture as we know it. I'm pretty serious about this - not often exaggerating on the point. Click here for one of many forays into the topic. Once you're there, click on the "end of the lecture" tag for still more. My thoughts on institutional politics and the arts were presented in a manifesto called "Planning to Stay" (published as a pamphlet by No Press); the text of that talk is available here.

KELLY WRITERS HOUSEPhiladelphia's PBS affiliate, WHYY-12, produces a TV show that in each episode features four centers for the arts and creativity in the Philadelphia region. For its winter 2010-11 program, the show devoted 15 minutes to the Kelly Writers House in a segment called “The Creative Campus.” To watch the video, click on the image above.

REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HOLOCAUSTI dislike Spielberg’s Schindler’s List intensely. It's a film, I think, that is very friendly toward sovereignty. For more on this minority view, click on the image above. I teach a course at Penn on representations of the Holocaust in literature and film every other fall semester.

In 2003 I founded and continue to direct the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. CPCW brought together the university's writing programs and projects: Critical Writing, Creative Writing, the Kelly Writers House, PennSound, RealArts@PENN, Writers Without Borders, Creative Ventures, Jacket2, and more. For information and links to each of these projects, click on the logo above.