Erin Moure at the Kootenay School of Writing, 2007 — now segmented at PennSound

Al Filreis

Thanks to the careful work of PennSound staffer Luisa Healey, Erin Moure’s PennSound page now includes a segmented (by poem and discussion topic) audio recording of Erin’s 2007 reading at the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver. Here, for instance, is a six-minute segment on noise and access.

Introduction to O Cidadan (3:01): MP3
Document 15 [from O Cidadan] (2:55): MP3
Document 16 [from O Cidadan] (1:10): MP3
Hazard Non [from O Cidadan] (0:56): MP3
Georgette [from O Cidadan] (0:31): MP3
Document 17 [from O Cidadan] (1:22): MP3
Discussion of O Cidadan and its relation to the discourse of terrorism (3:38): MP3
Introduction to Little Theatres (1:26):MP3
Homenaxe ao mineral basico de borscht (Galetian) [from Little Theatres] (0:48): MP3
Homage to the Basic Mineral of Borscht (English) [from Little Theatres] (0:52): MP3
Homenaxe ao mineral do repolo (Galetian) [from Little Theatres] (1:15): MP3
Homage to the Mineral of Cabbage (English) [from Little Theatres] (1:04): MP3
Homenachia potense de pataka (Galetian) [from Little Theatres] (2:07): MP3
Homage to the Force of the Potato (English) [from Little Theatres] (0:44): MP3
Theorist of Little Theaters (quote) [from Little Theatres] (1:14): MP3
Theatre of the Green Leira [from Little Theatres] (1:17): MP3
Theatre of the Stones that Ran [from Little Theatres] (1:36): MP3
Quotes by Elisa Sampedrin [from Little Theatres] (2:08): MP3
Symmetry from Little Theatres (1:07): MP3
Introduction to O Cadoiro (5:02): MP3
“The world is not a home I can swear allegiance to…” [from O Cadoiro] (0:25): MP3
“Mother, keep me from going to San Servando…” [from O Cadoiro] (0:49): MP3
“If I see the Ocean…” [from O Cadoiro] (1:04): MP3
“I’m not pleading any threat of love until I see you…” [from O Cadoiro] (0:29): MP3
“That day I lost your ring in the green pine…” [from O Cadoiro] (2:10): MP3
“I go my beauty to serve the king...” [from O Cadoiro] (1:27): MP3
Become the Spectral Subject [from O Cadoiro] (2:06): MP3
The Dreamy One (5:06): MP3
On identity politics and literary criticism (7:33): MP3
On the English language as porous (6:23): MP3
On notions of noise and access (6:45): MP3
On poetic form and prosthesis (6:00): MP3
On taking on another identity in Little Theaters (6:05): MP3
On the concept of language as theatrical stagings, on dominant discourse (11:55): MP3
On passages from O Cidadan (6:22): MP3

October 21, 2018

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ELECTRONIC PEDAGOGY: 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' 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 brings together all of the university's writing programs and projects: Critical Writing, Creative Writing, the Kelly Writers House, PennSound, RealArts@PENN, the Chinese/American Poetry Association, Writers Without Borders, Creative Ventures, Jacket2, and more. For information and links to each of these projects, click on the logo above.