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Prolesound

by Mathilda Cullen

"Pennsound for the People" — royAn archive/podcast of contemporary leftist poetry and poetics. This project is like pennsound but for any poet, come and read your poems your entire chapbook your essays your shopping lists.

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Episodes

  1. Bonus #2 - When This You See, VOTE

    Was Gertrude Stein a fascist? Alan Dershowitz thinks so. https://www.patreon.com/prolesound 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:...

  2. Bonus #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

  3. #1 - Finance Conceptualism & Pharmocommunist Biopoiesis with @st_somatic

    today 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. read ava and Sporazine!! here's a list of ava's reading recs from this episode lmao Cecilia Vicuña - Saborami Never Angeline Nørth - Sea Witch Testo...

  4. Mathilda 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...

  5. Nicaraguan 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

  6. zip 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

  7. I Want You To Live — Anna McColgan

    buy 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

  8. our 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!!

  9. sylvia, jamie, & anne order martinis at the ritz

    jamie 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.

  10. Searching for Smoke Rings — Jonce Marshall Palmer

    download & 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…

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  11. Sean 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 [email protected]. follow @prolesound / @mathildork…

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  12. Amina & Amiri Baraka (6-14-85)

    stolen from the penns0und archives. can't find much else about this recording but holllyyyyyyyy shit. enjoy friends.

  13. 24 Theses #Misanthropocene — Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr

    A collaboration between Commune editors Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr. Download the chapbook here. read by Mathilda Cullen // marlskarx // prolesound

  14. Midwinter Day — Bernadette Mayer

    special 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! <3

  15. Trace Happenings — Mathilda Cullen

    if you want to download or buy the print chapbook go to gumroad.com/mathilda marlskarx.page // patreon.com/marlskarx

  16. Notes on Militant Poetics — Sean Bonney

    Page 36-48 https://illwilleditions.noblogs.org/files/2016/03/BONNEY-All-this-Burning-Earth-USLETTER-READ.pdf

  17. Corpus Hermeticum: On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres — Sean Bonney

    rest 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

  18. "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...

  19. "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) @mathildork // @prolesound

  20. "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) @mathildork // @prolesound

  21. "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) @mathildork // @prolesound

  22. Vahni 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...

  23. Proletarian 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...

  24. How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love the Character Limit w/ @nicetryofficer

    PREORDER CHARACTER LIMIT https://gumroad.com/nicetryofficer#qDURBM Big thanks to @nicetryofficer for having this double feature with me. What a lad. follow us @prolesound or me @mathildork

  25. Mathilda reads Poems of the Imprisoned & Gedichte der Gefangenen

    Today 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! follow @mathildork &...

  26. A Hole Shaped Like My Body & Fishing with Mitch

    big 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!! // Follow prolesound // Follow mathilda (that's me)

  27. Elon Musk Defeats Space & the Proletariat Restores the Earth with James

    WELCOME 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 @...

  28. Prolegomena to a Poetry Podcast

    From my car like a good commie podcaster I tell you some plans for the revolution. @mathildork or @prolesound on twitter

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

"Pennsound for the People" — royAn archive/podcast of contemporary leftist poetry and poetics. This project is like pennsound but for any poet, come and read your poems your entire chapbook your essays your shopping lists.

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