PennSound: John Tranter (original) (raw)

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PennSound Podcast #31 John Tranter in Philadelphia (48:32) MP3

Close Listening, Readings and Conversation with Charles Bernstein ,April 3, 2008

Reading from Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected

• Complete Reading (24:32): MP3

1. Introduction (2:02): MP3
2. After Hölderlin (1:28) MP3
3. Brussels (2:08) MP3
4. Festival (1:56) MP3
5. Where The Boys Are (1:49) MP3
6. Tranter On Radium (1:44) MP3
7. Radium (2:42) MP3
8. Five Modern Myths (2:14) MP3
9. Like Advertising (1:53) MP3
10. Black Leather (3:15) MP3
11. Snap (3:05) MP3

In Conversation with Charles Bernstein

• Complete Conversation (29:15): MP3

Close Listening produced and recorded by Charles Bernstein ©2008 John Tranter and Charles Bernstein

PoemTalk #68, discussing Ray DiPalma's "It makes of nonsense," June 19, 2013

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

Interviewed by Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House, April 2, 2013

1. After Holderlin (2:22): MP3
2. At the Tomb of Napoleon (2:23): MP3
3. Goats and Monkeys (1:02): MP3

Complete Interview with Al Filreis (48:32): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading at ArtShare, LA, January 8, 2011

Complete reading (3:10): MP3

Home & Away Reading at UTS, Sydney, September 2, 2010

Tranter reading "Grade," "Silk," and "Goats and Monkeys"
Complete reading (3:57): MP3, Video

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: John's Trip, April 3, 2008

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John Tranter
John: What are you doing here?
(mp4, 38 sec., 14.4 mb)

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, March 30, 2005

1. "I Know a Man," by Robert Creeley (0:24):MP3
2. Invitation to America (1:57): MP3
3. Miss Proust (2:47): MP3
4. After Laforge (1:46): MP3
5. Where the Boys Are (0:52): MP3
6. Benzedrine (1:45): MP3
7. Transatlantic (2:13): MP3
8. The Waiting Room (1:40): MP3
9. Poolside (1:09): MP3
10. God on a Bicycle (1:02): MP3
11. Aurora (1:49): MP3
12. Moonshine Sonata (1:04): MP3
13. Voodoo (2:00): MP3

Complete Reading (53:38): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, #30 "Sydney/New York", 2004

• Complete Recording (29:20): MP3

1. Introduction (1:58): MP3
2. Reading Five Modern Myths (1:32): MP3
3. Comments on Five Modern Myths (2:05): MP3
4. Tranter Discusses Australian Poetry (5:06): MP3
5. Tranter Discusses Influence and Process (2:40): MP3
6. Reading Radium (2:43): MP3
7. Comments on Radium (1:07): MP3
8. Tranter Discusses Australian Poetry Distinctions (4:42): MP3
9. Tranter Discusses Jacket Magazine (2:06): MP3
10. Comments on Three Poems About Kenneth Koch (1:09): MP3
11. Reading Three Poems About Kenneth Koch (4:09): MP3

Reading "Willow Talk," Computer Version, Volume 6 and Letter Exchange, unknown date

Complete recording (13:44): MP3

Also on PennSound:

• Tranter interviews John Ashbery for Radio Helicon, Australian Broadcasting Company, 1987 or 1988

John Tranter on PennSound Daily

• April 9, 2008: "New Close Listening, Reading, and Conversation with John Tranter" Also of interest: Interview for YouTube, 2007, for Red Room

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