Tracie Morris and Tan Lin

Tan Lin reads (with me) from Plagiarism/Outsource, a project that chronicles Heath Ledger's death through SMS messages and RSS feeds. We talk about the technological provisions for ambient writing with multiple subjectivities, Tan's strategy of re-writing news stories by inserting himself into the work, the genres of autobiography and the novel, duration, and Warhol & disco as post-medium moments.

Tracie Morris airs audio pieces - "Get It, Got It," a collaboration with Elliott Sharp, and "Gallery" - and reads from a collaboration with Charles Bernstein, "Truth Be Told." We talk about poetry's potential for political intervention as we receive word on the economic crisis, and discuss language use in the 2008 election, speech act theory, and collaboration. File is strangely reverb-y.

Juliana Spahr

A new poem, The Incinerator, and a discussion on autobiography/anti-autobiography (see Juliana's Everybody's Autonomy), representing the local (thru Chillicothe), & class in Appalachia.

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Jen Bervin

Apologies to those who tried to catch Jen Bervin's reading/interview streaming at wnyu.org or iTunes -- WNYU's still in the midst of a move and doesn't have working Internet yet. Here's the show to download. Jen read from her latest book, The Desert (Granary Books, 2008), and talked about sewing-through John Van Dyke's work, her book's air, and the new readers & writers of the desert.

Five Shows on PennSound

Recent shows with David Buuck, Eddie Hopely, Matmos, Brian Kim Stefans, and Caroline Bergvall are all available on PennSound, thanks to Dear colleagueS Danny Snelson & Michael S. Hennessey.

WNYU's packing up for greener pastures (a few blocks down), so expect new room tones to fill the non-breaking spaces & stitches of Jen Bervin's poetry and book art next week.

Look to the right for more guests, soon.

Oh Meow: MATMOS

Matmos (Drew Daniel & M.C. Schmidt) talk about their conceptual sound pieces, parapsychology, telepathic love, pedagogy, performances, and the sound & visual portraits that comprise The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast, an album that pays tribute to Wittgenstein, Burroughs and Solanas, among others.

Matmos has a new album out, Supreme Balloon

rabbit on their way to the capitol

Eddie Hopely reads from the chapbooks Plant, Rabbit on their way to the capitol, and other poems. We talk about blueprints, image and text, community & collaboration. Diana Hamilton and I read with Eddie, and describe his rabbit.

Brian Kim Stefans

Brian Kim Stefans reads from Kluge: A Meditation (Roof, 2007) and talks with me about minimal bits of information as events and variation in conceptual literature, ambient poetics and musical influences like John Cage and Alvin Lucier.