All Ashbery, All the Time February 20, 2013: If you haven't made your way over to PennSound today, you ought to. They've posted some fresh audio and video of John Ashbery from his recent visit to the Kelly Writers House. Also added is a November 2, 2011 reading at Smith College. More about that: In his intro to that event, Michael Thurston offers a brief history of critics' [...] by Harriet Staff

Sampling Silence in Ashbery February 12, 2013: We love it when poetry opens out into other disciplines and art forms. Last spring, the New School hosted a festival called How to Continue: Ashbery Across the Arts. Participants from a variety of disciplines engaged with John Ashbery's work, and all sorts of crazy and exciting things happened. Christian Hawkey chose to examine the collection [...] by Harriet Staff

Listening to Fred Around the House February 11, 2013: So, right, "Her territory sunflower," the first lines of Fred Moten's poem "B Jenkins," perhaps my favorite poem of recent years. I encountered a recording of it first, & months went by before I found it on a page or on a screen. It was one of those situations where the phonotext (a lovely & useful coinage by Steve Evans) took [...] by Dana Ward

PennSound Posted Six New Leslie Scalapino Videos January 11, 2013: [caption id="attachment_59426" align="alignright" width="500"] Screen shot from a video by Cecilia Dougherty.[/caption] Well, this is terrific! Jacket2 has tipped us off that PennSound has posted six, count 'em, six new videos featuring three performances, a reading, and two memorials all surrounding the work of the late Leslie Scalapino. Head [...] by Harriet Staff

Canadian poets take Manhattan (and Philadelphia) for four-day festival March 14, 2011: PennSound has posted over 20 videos and accompanying audio tracks from North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival. Taking place over four days in January at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia and Poets House in New York, the festival was organized by Charles Bernstein and Sarah Dowling and brought together emerging and established Canadian [...] by Harriet Staff