Choice and style (PoemTalk #20)
LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), 'Kenyatta Listening to Mozart' PoemTalkLISTEN TO THE SHOW“Kenyatta Listening to Mozart” is an early poem of Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones. It was published in a...
View ArticleChoice and style (PoemTalk #20)
LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), "Kenyatta Listening to Mozart"LISTEN TO THE SHOW"Kenyatta Listening to Mozart" is an early poem of Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones. It was published in a periodical...
View ArticleAfter the night years (PoemTalk #39)
Etheridge Knight's 'The Sun Came' and Gwendolyn Brooks' 'Truth' PoemTalkLISTEN TO THE SHOWOn PennSound’s Etheridge Knight page we offer single downloadable MP3 recordings of every poem Knight read at...
View ArticleAfter the night years (PoemTalk #39)
Etheridge Knight's "The Sun Came" and Gwendolyn Brooks' "Truth"LISTEN TO THE SHOWOn PennSound's Etheridge Knight page we offer single downloadable mp3 recordings of every poem Knight read at a...
View ArticleConstrained to honor (PoemTalk #71)
Claude McKay, 'If We Must Die' PoemTalkLISTEN TO THE SHOWHerman Beavers, Salamishah Tillet, and Kathy Lou Schultz joined PoemTalk producer and host Al Filreis to talk about Claude McKay’s widely...
View ArticleThe signature public (PoemTalk #86)
Tyrone Williams, 'Written By H'Self' & 'Cant' PoemTalkTyrone WilliamsLISTEN TO THE SHOWAlan Golding, Lily Applebaum, and Herman Beavers joined Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers...
View ArticleRequiem so sweet we forgot what it lamented (PoemTalk #89)
Nathaniel Mackey, 'Day after Day of the Dead' PoemTalkLISTEN TO THE SHOWTsitsi Jaji, Herman Beavers, and William J. Harris joined Al Filreis in the new Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House to...
View ArticleWeakness stalks in pride (PoemTalk #98)
James Weldon Johnson, 'O Southland!' PoemTalkHerman Beavers, Salamishah Tillet, and Chris Mustazza joined Al Filreis to discuss James Weldon Johnson’s “O Southland!” Johnson made a recording of this...
View ArticleA PoemTalk retrospective (PoemTalk #100)
PoemTalkers each respond to two episodes PoemTalkFrom left to right: William J. Harris, Tracie Morris, erica kaufman, Steve McLaughlin, Herman Beavers, Maria Damon, and Charles Bernstein.LISTEN TO THE...
View ArticleListen to everything you love disappear (PoemTalk #112)
Patrick Rosal, 'Instance of an Island' PoemTalkPatrick Rosal.LISTEN TO THE SHOWRoss Gay, Josephine Park, and Herman Beavers joined Al Filreis to talk about Patrick Rosal’s “Instance of an Island.” The...
View ArticleHerman Beavers, the tundra of yes
A review of 'Obsidian Blues'Herman Beavers reading from 'Obsidian Blues' at the Kelly Writers House, September 2017Obsidian Blues, to quote Herman Beavers quoting Ralph Angel, is itself “a still life...
View ArticleChoice and style (PoemTalk #20)
LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), "Kenyatta Listening to Mozart"LISTEN TO THE SHOW"Kenyatta Listening to Mozart" is an early poem of Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones. It was published in a periodical...
View ArticleAfter the night years (PoemTalk #39)
Etheridge Knight's 'The Sun Came' and Gwendolyn Brooks' 'Truth' PoemTalkLISTEN TO THE SHOWOn PennSound’s Etheridge Knight page we offer single downloadable MP3 recordings of every poem Knight read at...
View ArticleAfter the night years (PoemTalk #39)
Etheridge Knight's "The Sun Came" and Gwendolyn Brooks' "Truth"LISTEN TO THE SHOWOn PennSound's Etheridge Knight page we offer single downloadable mp3 recordings of every poem Knight read at a...
View ArticleConstrained to honor (PoemTalk #71)
Claude McKay, 'If We Must Die' PoemTalkLISTEN TO THE SHOWHerman Beavers, Salamishah Tillet, and Kathy Lou Schultz joined PoemTalk producer and host Al Filreis to talk about Claude McKay’s widely...
View ArticleThe signature public (PoemTalk #86)
Tyrone Williams, 'Written By H'Self' & 'Cant' PoemTalkTyrone Williams.LISTEN TO THE SHOWAlan Golding, Lily Applebaum, and Herman Beavers joined Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers...
View ArticleRequiem so sweet we forgot what it lamented (PoemTalk #89)
Nathaniel Mackey, 'Day after Day of the Dead' PoemTalkLISTEN TO THE SHOWTsitsi Jaji, Herman Beavers, and William J. Harris joined Al Filreis in the new Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House to...
View ArticleWeakness stalks in pride (PoemTalk #98)
James Weldon Johnson, 'O Southland!' PoemTalkHerman Beavers, Salamishah Tillet, and Chris Mustazza joined Al Filreis to discuss James Weldon Johnson’s “O Southland!” Johnson made a recording of this...
View ArticleA PoemTalk retrospective (PoemTalk #100)
PoemTalkers each respond to two episodes PoemTalkFrom left to right: William J. Harris, Tracie Morris, erica kaufman, Steve McLaughlin, Herman Beavers, Maria Damon, and Charles Bernstein.LISTEN TO THE...
View ArticleListen to everything you love disappear (PoemTalk #112)
Patrick Rosal, 'Instance of an Island' PoemTalkPatrick Rosal.LISTEN TO THE SHOWRoss Gay, Josephine Park, and Herman Beavers joined Al Filreis to talk about Patrick Rosal’s “Instance of an Island.” The...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....