In our original tribute post, we also pointed listeners towards "another marvelous and revealing resource": Stan Mir's lengthy 2006 interview with Gizzi and Craig Watson , which had recently been published in the final issue of. While that's still a wonderful document, we are happy to also add a 2017 retrospective honoring Gizzi at our own Kelly Writers House, hosted by Davy Knittle and featuring Mir and William Corbett , which is given prominence of place at the head of our Michael Gizzi author page . Click here to reconnect with these marvelous poems and Gizzi's memorable voice, which are every bit as potent a decade later.

Today is the tenth anniversary of the passing of Michael Gizzi. When we originally broke the news on PennSound Daily, we acknowledged that Gizzi's work was widely praised by some of the most respected names in the world of contemporary poetics, including John Ashbery , who hailed his poetry as "[r]azor sharp but also rich and generously compelling . . . [it] lambastes as it celebrates, bringing us finally to a place of poignant irresolution." Similarly, reviewing his final collectionfor John Yau praised Gizzi's ear for "American vernacular," insisting that readers interested in knowing "how weird, interesting, scary, and odd America is" acquaint themselves with Gizzi's poetry, while Ron Silliman cited Gizzi's "genius" as "not just the degree to which [he] can make great complexity appear breath-takingly simple, but rather the great sense of humanity in whose service he does this."

You can read more about this latest show, read Stevens poem, and choose between unedited video footage of the conversation or the polished podcast version here . Filreis has also made arrangements with the MLA to present video of the aforementioned conference panel available on our site. The full PoemTalk archives, spanning more than a decade, can be found here

Today we release the PoemTalk Podcast series , its 152nd program in total, Wallace Stevens' "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain." This show is doubly special in that a) it's the second PoemTalk episode dedicated to "this gnarly poem" (as Al Filreis describes it) and b) it was recorded in conjunction with a panel at last year's MLA conference on contemporary poetic responses to Stevens' work, with the same formidable panel — Kate Colby Mónica de la Torre , and Aldon Nielsen — participating in both conversations.

Andrew Kenower of who very generously shared a half-dozen recordings of Killian made in the Bay Area between 2009 and 2013. Today, we're happy to announce that we've segmented three of these readings, as well as a favorite NYC reading from our archives. It's been more than a year since the death of poet Kevin Killian and his absence is still acutely felt within the poetry community. In the aftermath of his passing we were grateful to A Voice Box who very generously shared a half-dozen recordings of Killian made in the Bay Area between 2009 and 2013. Today, we're happy to announce that we've segmented three of these readings, as well as a favorite NYC reading from our archives.





The most recent of these readings is Killian's June 2011 set as part of the Condensary Series at Oakland's The Speakeasy. Following short introductory comments, Killian reads a total of sixteen poems, including "Better Than Today," "Overcoming Shame," "Anagrams," "Wuthering Heights," "Violets in the Snow," and "Nude Valentine." Next, from the New Reading Series at Oakland's 21 Grand we have a forty-three minute set that includes nine poems in total, among them "Hey Day," "I Lost Me to Meth," "Skull With Jewels on It," "Cannot Exist," and "American Idol." Also from 2009, we have Killian's undated recording from San Francisco's Canessa Park, however this set consists of just one piece, "Hot Lights," with brief opening comments. Finally, Killian's contribution to the 2007 launch event for EOAGH Issue 3: Queering Language from the Bowery Poetry Club, which includes "Norwegian Wood" and "Is It All Over My Face?"







