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PodQueueOur endless ear (PoemTalk #124)From left to right: J. C. Cloutier, Michelle Taransky, and Clark Coolidge.
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J. C. Cloutier, Michelle Taransky, and Clark Coolidge joined Al Filreis to talk about the first section (and to some extent also the fourth) of Jack Kerouac’s Old Angel Midnight, a sprawling work of prose poetry in sixty-seven numbered parts consuming forty pages of the Library of America Kerouac: Collected Poems. A recording of Kerouac performing the first page is available here. His model was Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. His initial notes were made during an extended visit to the Lower East Side of Manha...2024-10-2743 min
Poem TalkThe Whole World Smiles: A discussion of John Giorno’s “Everyone Is a Complete Disappointment”Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Brooke O’Harra, Michelle Taransky, and Chris Funkhouser.
2023-05-2251 minPoem TalkOur Endless Ear: A discussion of Jack Kerouac’s “Old Angel Midnight”Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring J. C. Cloutier, Michelle Taransky, and Clark Coolidge.
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PoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 95 - I too received identityMichelle Taransky, Laynie Browne, and Rodrigo Toscano join Al Filreis to talk about Rob Fitterman's "Sprawl."2015-12-0834 minPoem TalkI too received identity: A Discussion of Rob Fitterman’s SprawlHosted by Al Filreis and featuring Michelle Taransky, Laynie Browne, and Rodrigo Toscano.
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2015-12-0835 minPoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 87 - Amplitude and aweMichelle Taransky, Cecilia Corrigan, and Lily Applebaum join Al Filreis to discuss two poems by Emily Dickinson, "She rose to His Requirement" and "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!"2015-04-2034 minPoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 77 - My other countryJessica Lowenthal, Michelle Taransky, and Dee Morris join Al Filreis to talk about two short poems by Lorine Niedecker, "Foreclosure" and "Wilderness."2014-05-2830 minPoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 70 - On the convergence of war and weddingAmy Paeth, Michelle Taransky, and Steve McLaughlin met up with PoemTalk's host Al Filreis to talk about one of the poems in Laura Mullen's book Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides (Otis Books, 2012).2013-08-2629 minPoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 56 - Without house and ground: Charles ReznikoffPeter Cole, Michelle Taransky and Harry Steinberg diagnose Charles Reznikoff's "Salmon and red wine" and "During the Second World War" with Al Filreis.2012-07-3133 minPoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 54 - The value of a pronoun - Ron Silliman, "You"Bob Perelman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Frank Sherlock discuss Ron Silliman's "You" with guest host Michelle Taransky.2012-06-2725 minPoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 52 - Where the Real Exceeds the Ideal - Cole Swensen's "If a Garden of Numbers"Ann Seaton, Michelle Taransky, Gregory Djanikian dissect Cole Swensen's "If a Garden of Numbers" with host, Al Filreis.2012-05-0428 minPoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 45 - Poem Going Down the DrainCharles Alexander, Sarah Dowling, and Michelle Taransky talk about "Snakes," a poem by Eileen Myles.2011-09-2728 minPoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 40 - Dementia BlogLeonard Schwartz, Michelle Taransky, Jamie-Lee Josselyn, and Al Filreis discuss Dementia Blog by Susan Schultz2011-01-3128 min
The Reading Edge PodcastTRE 24 Reading, Writing and Twitter?My Bennington MFA classmate Valerie Ellis and I attended a thought-provoking session on April 8, 2010, at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) national convention here in Denver. The title was "The Networked Poetry Classroom," and one of the panelists was Michelle Taransky, who works full-time at the University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia.
Michelle is also the author of Barn Burned, Then , selected by Marjorie Welish as winner of the 2008 Omnidawn poetry prize. She teaches at Temple University and is Reviews Editor for Jacket2 .
Valerie and I the night before the conference had been discussing the use...2010-04-1400 minPoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 26 - wild Vachel LindsayAldon Nielsen, Charles Bernstein, Michelle Taransky, and Al Filreis discuss Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo"2009-11-3026 minPoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 24 - Barbara Guest's new roseNatalie Gerber, Randall Couch, Michelle Taransky, and Al Filreis discuss Barbara Guest's "Roses"2009-10-1926 min