Poems for Monday Mornings: Myung Mi Kim reads from DURA (“Chart”)

This morning, we’re continuing the Monday Morning series that we began last month in celebration of National Poetry and API Heritage Months.  Each week, we will be sharing an audio recording of a different poem that has moved, challenged, or stuck with us.

This week’s selection is one of Mia’s again: Myung Mi Kim reads from the section “Chart” (in her book Dura) for Wave Books’ PoetryPolitic Blog (via PennSound):

Myung Mi Kim reads from Dura

To listen via streaming audio, click the link above, which will take you to Kim’s page on PennSound, and then scroll down to the recording (under the heading “From Wave Books’ PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008”).

Or, to retrieve and open the file directly on your computer’s media player software, click here.

Happy Monday!

– Mia & Iris

Poems for Monday Mornings: M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Zong 19”

In celebration of National Poetry Month and APIA Heritage Month this year, we have started a two-month Monday Morning series in which we will be sharing an audio recording of a different poem that has moved, challenged, or stuck with us each week.

Today’s Monday Morning Poem is one of Mia’s picks, an excerpt of M. NourbeSe Philip’s book Zong! (Wesleyan U Press, 2008), which takes on, and writes against,  the injustice inherent in the [true] story of a slave ship whose captain—in November of 1781—ordered that 150 Africans be drowned so that the owners could collect insurance money.   Philip’s masterful control of sound, space, and pause; and the piercing understated-ness of her oral delivery make this recording (and the rest of the “Zong” poems that are documented in PennSound‘s archives) softly chilling and magnetically resonant.

M. NourbeSe Philip reads “Zong 19”

To listen via streaming audio, click the link above, which will take you to Philip’s page on PennSound, and then scroll down to the recording (#17 under the “Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club”).

Or, to retrieve and open the file directly on your computer’s media player software, click here.

Enjoy, and Happy [Easter] Monday!

– Mia & Iris

Poems for Monday Mornings: Aryanil Mukherjee’s “honeycomb scriptures :: world granulated” at PennSound

In celebration of National Poetry Month and APIA Heritage Month this year, we have started a two-month Monday Morning series in which we will be sharing an audio recording of a different poem that has moved, challenged, or stuck with us each week.

Today’s Monday Morning Poem features a version of a piece that actually appeared in Issue 2 of Lantern Review.  Aryanil Mukherjee reads from his series “honeycomb scriptures,” beginning with the poem “honeycomb scriptures :: world granulated,” which later appeared in LR. (Via PennSound‘s archives).

Mia and I both love the ‘rubbly’ translucence and impermanence of the images in “world granulated,” so we were excited to run across this recording, in which we get to hear the poem contextualized within the series to which it belongs.  We hope you enjoy it, too:

Aryanil Mukherjee reads from “honeycomb scriptures” at the Cincinnati Public Library

To listen via streaming audio, click the link above, which will take you to Mukherjee’s page on PennSound, and then scroll down to the recording (the second one listed under “Poetry in the Garden at the Cincinnati Public Library”).

Or, to retrieve and open the file directly on your computer’s media player software, click here.

If you’d like to follow along as you listen, the version of “world granulated” that appeared in LR can be found here.

Happy Monday!

– Iris & Mia

 

Poems for Monday Mornings: Juliana Spahr’s “Gathering Palolo Stream” at PennSound

In celebration of National Poetry Month and APIA Heritage Month this year, we have started a two-month Monday Morning series in which we will be sharing an audio recording of a different poem that has moved, challenged, or stuck with us each week.

Today’s Monday Morning Poem is one of Mia’s recommendations, a fantastic live recording that comes from PennSound‘s vast archives:

Juliana Spahr’s “Gathering Palolo Stream” (from Fuck You – Aloha – I Love You).

To listen via streaming audio, click the link above, which will take you to Spahr’s page on PennSound, and then scroll down to the recording (listed under “Reading at SUNY Buffalo, November 14, 2001”).

Or, to retrieve and open the file directly on your computer’s media player software, click here.

Happy Monday!

– Iris & Mia