Michelle Taransky
Photograph by John Carroll
Appearing on or featuring in PoemTalk:
PoemTalk #197, Discussing Marjorie Welish's “Begetting Textile” feat. Sally Van Doren, Christy Davids, Michelle Taransky
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PoemTalk #193, Discussing Ariana Reines' “To the Reader” feat. Michelle Taransky, Robert Eric Shoemaker, Pattie McCarthy
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PoemTalk #184, Discussing John Giorno's "Everyone is a complete disappointment," feat. Brooke O'Harra, Christopher Funkhouser
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PoemTalk #124, Discussing Jack Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight", feat. J. C. Cloutier, Michelle Taransky, and Clark Coolidge
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PoemTalk #87, Discussing Emily Dickinson's "She rose to His Requirement," and "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!," feat. Michelle Taransky, Cecilia Corrigan, and Lily Applebaum
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PoemTalk #77, Discussing Lorine Niedecker's "Foreclosure" and "Wilderness"
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PoemTalk #70, Discussing Laura Mullen's "Bride of the New Dawn", feat. Amy Paeth, Michelle Taransky, Steve McLaughlin
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PoemTalk #65, Discussing Lisa Robertson's The Weather
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PoemTalk #56, Discussing Charles Reznikoff's "Salmon and red wine" and "During the Second World War, I was going home one night"
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PoemTalk #52, Discussing Cole Swensen's "If a Garden of Numbers"
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PoemTalk #40, Discussing Susan Schultz's "Dementia Blog"
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PoemTalk #26, Discussing Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo"
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PoemTalk #24, Discussing Barbara Guest's "Roses", feat. Natalie Gerber, Randall Couch, and Michelle Taransky
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Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, January 13, 2018
- Complete Recording (25:50): MP3
Complete reading (1:52): MP3
The Beat Poets: A Conversation with Philadelphia Writers, KWH, March 17, 2014
(with Frank Sherlock, Maria Raha, Chris McCreary, and Thomas Devaney)Complete recording (1:01:15): MP3
Two GChat Poems from "Sorry Was In The Woods" (Omnidawn 2013), June 2012
Introduction (0:52): MP3
No, I will be in the Woods (8:13): MP3
- Complete reading (4:02): MP3
- Complete reading (25:47): MP3
Studio 111 Session, December 7, 2010
from Barn Burned, Then (Omnidawn Publishing, 2009)
- Barn Burner, A Call (0:59): MP3
- Barn Burning, An Eclogue (1:07): MP3
- Barn Burner, I (1:07): MP3
- Barn Burning (0:42): MP3
- Barn Burner, Say It (1:14): MP3
- A Flower Within (2:14): MP3
- Preface (0:22): MP3
- Barn Burned, Then (0:32): MP3
- What Is Counted (1:52): MP3
- Building The Bank, Asking (0:47): MP3
- A Stutter, Following (1:33): MP3
- Ballad (0:49): MP3
- Fall Instructions (1:21): MP3
- The Way The Bank Works (1:11): MP3
- The Event (1:28): MP3
- Standing In The Door, Calling That (1:08): MP3
- Saving For A Purpose (0:55): MP3
- Banking Rules (0:33): MP3
- Bank Note (1:39): MP3
- Profit + Loss Statement (1:24): MP3
- Theory For Building Where Fault (1:04): MP3
- If You Call The Barn Burner (1:01): MP3
reading from Discrete Series by George Oppen and from Goat in the Snow by Emily Pettit (4:50): MP3 Complete reading (2:00): MP3
Complete recording (16:31): MP3
Michelle Taransky teaches "The Sentence" by Robert Creeley [ PDF ]
- Complete recording (16:05): MP3
Reading from Barn Burned, Then, May 2009
KWH Art Opening for Spin Glasses and Other Frustrated Systems at The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, April 6, 2009
(with Cecilia Corrigan, Timothy Leonido, Diana Hamilton, Eddie Hopely, Vladimir Zykov, Joey Yearous-Algozin, Trisha Low, Steve McLaughlin, Gregory Laynor, Ian Davisson, Johann Diedrick, and James La Marre)
Complete reading (44:37): MP3
Reading at "William Carlos Williams and the Women" at The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, November 11, 2008
(with Sarah Dowling, Jena Osman and Pattie McCarthy)
Complete reading by Michelle Taransky (11:45): MP3
David Foster Wallace Reading and Celebration at The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 7, 2008
Complete program (1:36:56): MP3These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2018 Michelle Taransky. Used with the permission of Michelle Taransky. Distributed by PennSound.