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The Left Page & Here Be MediaEpisode 39 - stanzas for four hands. The business of poetry, imperialism and capital. With/by Dominick Knowles & Mathilda CullenHello everyone!! Today we have an incredibly interesting and in-depth episode on imperialism, poetry and capitalism as we delve into and through Dominick Knowles and Mathilda Cullen's recently launched poetry book "stanzas for four hands: an ophanim"! A really good conversation on imagination, creating and writing poetry, and how this "business" or dimension in the US has been so controlled and dominated by private enterprises and their money. Check out their publisher woe eroa: https://www.woeeroa.com/ And Protean Magazine: https://proteanmag.com/ Their Twitters: Mathilda - @lesbrarienne Dominick - @multiwhirl Intro Music: Gymnopédi...
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ProlesoundBonus #2 - When This You See, VOTEWas Gertrude Stein a fascist? Alan Dershowitz thinks so.
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References:
Dershowitz: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/met-gertrude-stein-collaborator_b_1467174
Perloff response: https://jacket2.org/article/short-response-alan-dershowitz
Barabara Will fed site: https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/marchapril/feature/the-strange-politics-gertrude-stein
Renate Stendhal: https://jacket2.org/article/why-witch-hunt-against-gertrude-stein
Václav Paris: https://jacket2.org/article/gertrude-steins-translations-speeches-philippe-petain
Music: KontraSax - Kanon À Deux
2020-12-151h 29ProlesoundBonus #1 - Fuck Whitman, Marry Oppen, Kill Olson (feat. @pastelcathedral @dontology)Donovan of futuremachine interviews Mathilda and Dom on their individual theses and collective work, Stanzas for Four Hands: an Ophanim.
Support the show https://www.patreon.com/prolesound
Intro music: Macintosh Plus, Floral Shoppe - 01 ブート
2020-12-071h 18Prolesound#1 - Finance Conceptualism & Pharmocommunist Biopoiesis with @st_somatictoday I'm joined by Ava Hofmann (@st_somatic) to discuss Franco "Bifo" Berardi's The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance and we took a lot of detours.
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here's a list of ava's reading recs from this episode lmao
Cecilia Vicuña - Saborami
Never Angeline Nørth - Sea Witch
Testo Junkie - Paul B. Preciado
Cyborg Manifesto - Donna J. Haraway
Shulamith Firestone - The Dialectic of Sex
The Xenofeminist Manifesto
Michael DeForge - Very Casual
Dou...
2020-08-232h 10ProlesoundMathilda reads from Bonney's "The Commons"today i'm reading a little bit from my thesis on bonney and from his Commons. Very grateful to the comrades I've been corresponding with re: seiretic verse and who are helping me develop my theories there, specifically margo, r.m. haines, and dom. If you wanna read along here's a scan of the book from when I worked in a library lmao https://www.dropbox.com/s/5i1l36soaf86c1m/bonney%20commons.pdf?dl=0
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2020-08-2147 minProlesoundNicaraguan Peasant Poetry from Solentiname (read by Teagan)read by teagan!! buy their book Apost(le)ate here!
these poems translated from the spanish by David Gullette https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-931122-48-4
2020-04-1710 minProlesoundzip ties between zip codes — meredith hanlin (read by anna)buy the book and support mer's work! https://gumroad.com/l/rRzbq // https://twitter.com/meredeathcore
read by the always wonderful anna https://twitter.com/scrapfruit
2020-04-1422 minProlesoundI Want You To Live — Anna McColganbuy the book here! https://gumroad.com/marlskarx#xZoKm and follow anna on the bird site https://twitter.com/scrapfruit
published via marlskarx, support the patreon over here or grab the pdf for freeee: https://www.patreon.com/marlskarx
2020-03-2824 minProlesoundour lives can be our lives[[transcript]] meredith reads some poems.
their twitter: https://twitter.com/meredeathcore
jamie's ebt poem #16 : https://twitter.com/jamieberrout/status/1241227370729820161
thank you @noelle for the transcript!!
2020-03-2809 minProlesoundsylvia, jamie, & anne order martinis at the ritzjamie hood reads sylvia plath’s “berck plage,” her own poem “each night i dream of rising waters &” and anne sexton’s “the operation,” and briefly considers the place of women’s confessionalism in the apocalypse.
2020-03-2228 minProlesoundSearching for Smoke Rings — Jonce Marshall Palmerdownload & order here! https://gumroad.com/l/smokerings
Jonce Marshall Palmer is a non-binary poet, student, and activist living in Tallahassee. They are the author of the chapbooks Searching for Smoke Rings and the forthcoming Anti Pastoral.
jonce's twitter: https://twitter.com/masterofmusix
their website: https://jmpalmer.carrd.co/
2020-03-2231 minProlesoundSean Bonney — Happiness [read by @lesbrarienne]Happiness: Poems after Rimbaud. read by mathilda. a pdf of this book can be found here. and you can buy the book here.
sorry the archive's been pretty dry as of late. if you're bored, record a book, yours or someone elses, and send it to mathildacullen@gmail.com. follow @prolesound / @mathildork on twitter
2020-03-1238 minProlesoundAmina & Amiri Baraka (6-14-85)stolen from the penns0und archives. can't find much else about this recording but holllyyyyyyyy shit. enjoy friends.
2019-12-291h 11Prolesound24 Theses #Misanthropocene — Joshua Clover & Juliana SpahrA collaboration between Commune editors Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr. Download the chapbook here.
read by Mathilda Cullen // marlskarx // prolesound
2019-12-2711 minProlesoundMidwinter Day — Bernadette Mayerspecial thanks to kay for getting this recording to prolesound! this is a marathon reading featuring: Kay Gabriel, Liam O'Brien, Nathaniel Rosenthalis, Becca Teich, Ariel Goldberg, Stephen Ira, Chevelle Caballero, Diana Hamilton, and our unnamed co-conspirators!
2019-12-253h 05ProlesoundTrace Happenings — Mathilda Cullenif you want to download or buy the print chapbook go to gumroad.com/mathilda
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2019-12-2238 minProlesoundNotes on Militant Poetics — Sean BonneyPage 36-48 https://illwilleditions.noblogs.org/files/2016/03/BONNEY-All-this-Burning-Earth-USLETTER-READ.pdf
2019-11-2326 minProlesoundCorpus Hermeticum: On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres — Sean Bonneyrest in power, sean.
text here: http://abandonedbuildings.blogspot.com/2015/06/corpus-hermeticum-on-revolution-of.html
audio from: https://soundcloud.com/sean-bonney/corpus-hermeticum-on-the
2019-11-2206 minProlesoundSolidarity Against Subtlety: poems of insistence, installment 1As we continue to critique poetry's entanglement with empire, with power, and with ferocious capital, it is imperative to find poetry unafraid of telling, not showing-- poetry which begins to forge transnational possibilities for solidarity, support, and exchange. From Chile to Palestine, Chicago to Beirut, the poets in this episode name and attack empire in its many forms and its complex webs. People of revolts know how to use the language of revolts; today my angry Palestinian ass stands with Chile and with those rising up against neoliberalism and all its claws. Yalla. Throw a stone today.
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2019-11-1141 minProlesound"Nursery Rhymes for Children of Darkness" - Gladys Oaks (read by @TomSnarsky)a message from Tom! // in the spirit of Halloween, here's one of my favorite books I've ever recorded, called Nursery Rhymes for Children of Darkness, written by Gladys Oaks way back in I think 1928. I know almost nothing about her except that she gained some small notoriety for a hot af poem called "Climax" (in the book!) and that she also published in The Liberator; this book is fun in no small part because it's a hella subversive rewriting of a bunch of biblical touchstones (the first poem is about Judas and there's a big one about Mary Magdalene...
2019-10-2444 minProlesound"The Romance of Happy Workers" - Anne Boyer (read by @TomSnarsky)A recording of Anne Boyer's book The Romance of Happy Workers, by @TomSnarsky
if you have any recordings you want to contribute to the show send them in! (of yourself, of other poets, of yourself reading other poets, etc)
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2019-10-1949 minProlesound"Articulation of Sound Forms in Time" - Susan Howe (read by @mathildork)A recording of Susan Howe's book Articulation of Sound Forms in Time by me, @mathildork
if you have any recordings you want to contribute to the show send them in! (of yourself, of other poets, of yourself reading other poets, etc)
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2019-10-1430 minProlesound"Hennecker's Ditch" - Kate Kilalea (read by Tom Snarsky)A recording of Kate Kilalea’s poem “Hennecker’s Ditch” by @TomSnarsky
if you have any recordings you want to contribute to the show send them in! (of yourself, of other poets, of yourself reading other poets, etc)
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2019-10-1006 minProlesoundVahni Capildeo & Vivek Narayanan at St. Mark's (7.16.11)Vahni Capildeo writes both poetry and prose. Her fourth book, Dark & Unaccustomed Words, is due out this year. She is a Lecturer at Kingston University (UK) and Contributing Editor for the Caribbean Review of Books.
Vivek Narayanan’s first book, Universal Beach, will be published by ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni this spring; his second, Mr. Subramanian, is forthcoming. Narayanan is co-editor of Almost Island, and was a coordinator of the fellowship network at Sarai. His work appears in The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry and Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. He...
2019-10-101h 40ProlesoundProletarian Poetry Party (10/2/19)in Philadelphia at Wooden Shoe Books. All my thanks to KM for organizing and hosting; to Paintbucket and James for gathering us together in the first place, in this very online way; to Isobel for her generous recording and editing; to Ronnie for driving down to Philly with me in the rain; to Brendan for driving 7 hours from Cleveland to read; to Patrick for printing and distributing them zines (to JumpsuitUtopia for designing them); to Shel for reading poems that made me cry; to Amy for reading poems that made me laugh; to Steele for reciting your goddamn poems...
2019-10-041h 20ProlesoundHow I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love the Character Limit w/ @nicetryofficerPREORDER CHARACTER LIMIT https://gumroad.com/nicetryofficer#qDURBM
Big thanks to @nicetryofficer for having this double feature with me. What a lad.
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2019-09-162h 00ProlesoundMathilda reads Poems of the Imprisoned & Gedichte der GefangenenToday I'm reading my translations of Ernst Toller's Poems of the Imprisoned, which you can download here, and following that I read the original German, which you can find here.
Keep an eye out for my discussion of this work with Roy over on the Marxist Poetry podcast!
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TIMESTAMPS???
04:47 Poems of the Imprisoned, epigraphs
06:10 Sleepless Night
06:56 Search and Capture
07:49 Woods
08:48 Walk of the Convicts
09:38 Encounter in the Cell
10:30 So...
2019-08-2554 minProlesoundA Hole Shaped Like My Body & Fishing with Mitchbig thanks to mitch for dealing with my audio bs. he originally read two poems but since the recording crapped out you only get this one!!
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2019-08-1620 minProlesoundElon Musk Defeats Space & the Proletariat Restores the Earth with JamesWELCOME TO PROLESOUND!! biggest thanks to James for joining us for our FIRST EPISODE!! James is poetry editor over at Protean and the all-consuming world-devouring brain behind Paintbucket.page.
James's work:
(Carnival in) "The Last Decade: The Communists vs. Climate Catastrophe" (full zine @ Protean)
Nightshift of the Lepus
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2019-08-121h 02ProlesoundProlegomena to a Poetry PodcastFrom my car like a good commie podcaster I tell you some plans for the revolution. @mathildork or @prolesound on twitter
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