PennSound: Threads Talk Series (original) (raw)
Threads, a series of talks curated by Steve Clay and Kyle Schlesinger, is devoted to the art of the book featuring poets, scholars, artists, and publishers. The objective for the series is to build on the discourse within book arts to explore and enrich relationships between various strands of book culture that are often approached in isolation, for example poetry and writing, visual and performing arts, collaboration, design, printing, independent publishing, literary history, critical theory, and material culture to name a few. The talks were recorded before a small studio audience and are available for public consumption here on PennSound. Eventually the series will be collected and published in book form.
Threads began in the spring of 2009 in New York City with talks by Alan Loney, Charles Alexander and Simon Cutts. Additional recordings will be added periodically.
The Book Undone: Thirty Years of Granary Books, New York City, Opening Event, September 16, 2015
Columbia University • Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Featuring Granary Press founder Steve Clay; Presentations by Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, Vincent Katz, Daniel Kelm, Emily McVarish, Jerome Rothenberg, and Buzz Spector; Curated by Sarah Arkebauer and Karla Nielsen
- Introduction by Sean Quimby (1:15): MP3
- Remarks by Karla Nielsen (6:32): MP3
- Remarks by Sarah Arkebauer (1:35): MP3
- Steve Clay (12:12): MP3
- Charles Bernstein (7:39): MP3
- Vincent Katz (9:03): MP3
- Emily McVarish (7:44): MP3
- Johanna Drucker (6:58): MP3
- Daniel Kelm (9:45): MP3
- Buzz Spector (8:12): MP3
- Jerome Rothenberg (10:48): MP3
Full Recording (1:23:05): MP3
The Book Undone: Thirty Years of Granary Books, New York City, Closing Event, January 26, 2016
"The Plan Without a Plan" a conversation with Steve Clay and Karla Nielson
Introduction by Sean Quimby
Conversation with Steve Clay and Karla Nielson
Questions from the audience:
- 44:39 Phil Aarons
- 47.51 Duncan Hannah
- 49:18 Tom Damrauer
- 51.45 unknown
- 52:27 Karla Nielson
- 53:42 Jan Herman
- 54:10 Robert C. Morgan
- 57.19 unknown
- 58.47 Karla Nielson
Full Recording (1:01:31): MP3
Alan Loney, March 11, 2009
"What Book Does My Library Make?"
Complete Recording (1:10:24): MP3
Charles Alexander, April 16, 2009
"Between Poetics"
Complete Recording (1:15:12): MP3
Simon Cutts, July 21, 2009
"The Metaphor Books 1967-2009"
Complete Recording (1:09:17): MP3
Buzz Spector, October 2, 2009
"On the Fetishism of the Book Object"
Complete Recording (1:11:56): MP3
Jerome Rothenberg, May 7, 2010
"From the Voice to the Book, from the Book to the Voice: a Dialectic"
- Complete Recording (1:10:55): MP3
Cecilia Vicuña, November 3, 2010
"Knotations on a Quipu"
- Complete Recording (1:00:32): MP3
Jen Bervin, November 17, 2010
"Text from Textile: Stem & Root"
Kathleen Walkup, January 27, 2011
"The Book is a Public Place"
- Complete Recording (1:20:48): MP3
Johanna Drucker, March 16, 2011
"How Some Poems Are Made"
- Complete Recording (1:26:00): MP3
Keith Smith, November 20, 2011
"Struggling to See"
- Complete Recording (55:09): MP3
Richard Minsky, December 3, 2011
"Material Meets Metaphor"
- Complete Recording (1:30:30): MP3
Emily McVarish, October 10, 2012
"Page Space"
- Complete Recording (1🔞30): MP3
Of related interest: Steve Clay talks with Charles Bernstein on Close Listening, May 17, 2021 (60 min.): MP3
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the speakers. © 2011 Threads Talk Series. Used with permission of Steve Clay and Kyle Schlesinger. Distributed by PennSound.