Rob Fitterman's "slow poetry"

As part of the poetry reading series "Whenever We Feel Like It", Rob Fitterman visited the Kelly Writers House to read from his work. This clip includes Fitterman reading from his book of poetry "Nevermind", a "relaxing" of the lyrics of Nirvana's seminal album "Nevermind" into slow poetry.

Here is a link to the full program. Here is a link to Fitterman's PennSound page. Rob Fitterman is the author of 14 books of poetry including "Nevermind" (forthcoming Wonder Books, Spring 2016), "Rob's Word Shop" (Ugly Duckling Press, forthcoming, 2016), "No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself" (Ugly Duckling Press, 2014), "Holocaust Museum" (Counterpath, 2013, and Veer [London] 2012), "now we are friends" (Truck Books, 2010), "Rob the Plagiarist" (Roof Books, 2009), "war, the musical" (Subpress, 2006), and "Metropolis" — a long poem in 4 separate volumes.