Prolesound
By Mathilda Cullen
An 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.
ProlesoundOct 04, 2019
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: 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
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
#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.
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
Douglas Kearney https://www.douglaskearney.com/
Lynda Barry - What It Is
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 from when I worked in a library lmao https://www.dropbox.com/s/5i1l36soaf86c1m/bonney%20commons.pdf?dl=0
https://twitter.com/lesbrarienne / https://twitter.com/prolesound
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
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
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
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!!
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.
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
their website: https://jmpalmer.carrd.co/
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 mathildacullen@gmail.com. follow @prolesound / @mathildork on twitter
Amina & Amiri Baraka (6-14-85)
stolen from the penns0und archives. can't find much else about this recording but holllyyyyyyyy shit. enjoy friends.
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
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!
Trace Happenings — Mathilda Cullen
if you want to download or buy the print chapbook go to gumroad.com/mathilda
marlskarx.page // patreon.com/marlskarx
Notes on Militant Poetics — Sean Bonney
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
Solidarity Against Subtlety: poems of insistence, installment 1
As 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.
Love,
Fargo! @YouKnowFargo
Poems:
Lake Michigan, Scene 9 by Daniel Borzutzky
Return from London by Etel Adnan
To a Young Poet by Mahmoud Darwish
Resist, My People, Resist Them by Dareen Tatour
Hotline by Claire Schwartz
All My Plants Are Dead by Noor Hindi
intimacy v isolation xixi by Marwa Helal
The Master's House by Solmaz Sharif
Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martín Espada
Audio:
Interview with Ghassan Kanafani
Leila Khaled on Marxism-Leninism
Nancy Ajram- Banda Nwalee El Jaw
"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) through what basically seem like Satanist fairytale poems. hope you enjoy it! :) //
"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)
"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)
"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)
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 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 lives in Delhi.
Special thanks to Michael for getting this recording from the Poetry Project! Best of luck in India!
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)
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 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 what the fuck; to everyone who was there whose names I don't know and who I love who came to hear us read; to the two beautiful strangers who helped me pay for the tickets I incurred on the way home; to you for listening and caring, allegedly.
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.
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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 & @prolesound and come read your poems on the pod!
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 Song of Solitude
11:26 Girls Imprisoned
12:15 Smokestacks at Dawn
13:08 The Wall of the Executed
14:07 The Prisoner and Death
16:11 Paths to the World
17:04 A Pregnant Girl in the Compound
17:52 Dusk
18:51 To Linger at Midnight
19:39 Nights
20:28 November
21:28 A Prisoner Reaches a Hand to Death
22:26 Visitor
23:22 Collective Confinement
24:19 Discharged Convicts
25:16 Our Way
26:49 Gedichte der Gefangenen
28:18 Schlaflose Nacht
29:23 Durchsuchung und Fesselung
30:24 Wälder
31:35 Spaziergang der Sträflinge
32:47 Begegnung in der Zelle
33:52 Lied der Einsamkeit
34:55 Gefangene Mädchen
36:03 Fabrikschornsteine am Vormorgen
37:07 Die Mauer der Geschossenen
38:16 Der Gefangene und der Tot
40:44 Pfade zur Welt
41:50 Schwangeres Mädchen auf der Gefängnishof
42:58 Dämmerung
44:10 Verweilen um Mitternacht
45:18 Nächte
46:09 November
47:33 Ein Gefangene reicht dem Tod die Hand
48:59: Besucher
50:01 Gemeinsame Haft
51:11 Entlassene Sträflinge
52:31 Unser Weg
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!!
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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 @ Protean)
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Prolegomena to a Poetry Podcast
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