Best Mathilda Cullen Podcasts (2025)

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Alexander Benedict - Carrying Noise Like A Cloud 39:02

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demonic palaces / All art should be in service to communism / a fun ride / erotic novel / receipts today, industrial printing access tomorrow / Fela Kuti / Jean Genet / Robert Jordan & Capital / dancing shoes / carrying noise like a cloud / cargo bikes / cleaning the presses / maintenance work / the machine & the socialization of work / barcodes ha…

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Summer 2025 green_space: Amie Zimmerman, Thom Eichelberger-Young, Mathilda Cullen, Alex Benedict, & Sara Lefsky 51:38

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This reading took place in Chapin Parkway, between Delevan and Potomac, in Buffalo, NY in the furious summer of 2025. The audio contains the contributions of combustion engines, birds, insects, and audience members. Readers include Amie Zimmerman, Thom Eichelberger-Young, Mathilda Cullen, Alex Benedict, & Sara Lefsky.…

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Dominick Knowles - Costco as the Base of a Communist Project 51:53

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The geometry of death / use value overtaking exchange value and them both abolishing each other / Tripwire / “even the moon hates cops” / Brendan Joyce / summer garden / Luddism / the moon a horrified witness / The White Rose / Milf Manor / Castro’s “Nothing Can Stop the Course of History / the fragment / nourishment / regimes of time / escarole / …

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Amie Zimmerman - The Power of the Poem Is Its Mobility 59:23

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Printing-reading sonic overlay / angels / rolling ink / the mobility of the poem / the book as a vessel for a relationship / collectively making time / collating together / gardening / home repair / dreams / demons / sitting with it / if we could swap dreams / silence We ask Amie Zimmerman 10 questions, 7 from our Season 1 guests. Amie: Amie Zimmer…

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Chaun Webster - Other Suns 31:24

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Wail Song / André 3000’s NewBlue Sun / expectations of black masculine performance / the desire for legibility / other suns / Sun Ra’s Blue Universe / sordid relationship with poetry / poetry that seeks the end of poetry, the end of genre and disciplinarity / what is left of poetry after its stripped of material norms / poetry’s exceptional theoret…

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Laura Jaramillo - The Savage Detectives Is Real 38:42

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Troubled relationship with machines / the tool is not life /poetry’s evolution into a visual or performative medium, away from the codex / Lisa Robertson / mapping subjectivity as its displaced across technologies, architecture, and clothes / clothes as costume / tragic relationship to lost objects / trash picking / indexing life through clothes / …

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Olivia Muenz - Healthcare, The Systems That Kill Us, and Vibing Straight Through 27:11

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Machines, bureaucracy, health care, and the systems thatkill us / TENS units / illness / Taoism, Buddhism, and the future / 5 year plans as antithetical to the human experience getting in the way of getting a job / the internet as primary third space / Tik Tok as creative platform / art as a way of being, process / everything we do is a form of art…

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Laura Jaramillo, Sarah Sgro, & Marty Cain perform at green_space 4/1/23 58:25

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The Spring 2023 green_space (relocated from Chapin Parkway to a home on the West Side due to lightning). Our readers: Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic. Born to Colombian parents in Queens, New York, she now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in c…

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Mike Corrao - Hopeless Tasks 38:11

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how to cut every vegetable / cursed instagram page / art that provokes pain / tactile discomfort / creation as ritual sacrifice / hyper-presentness / interesting trash / repurposing ambient data collection / turning a technical-rational operation into an occulted enigma Mike Corrao is the author of numerous works including Gut Text (11:11 Press), R…

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ava hofmann & Isaac Pickell perform at green_space 11/13/22 41:15

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The Fall 2022 green_space in Chapin Parkway, Buffalo. ava hoffman performed work from [ . . . ]. Ava Hofmann's digital chapbook, THE WOMAN FACTORY, was published by the Operating System in 2020. Her second full-length book, love poems / smallness studies, is forthcoming in 2022. She also “edits” SPORAZINE, a magazine of experimental writing written…

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Isaac Pickell - Agitated Into Questioning 1:15:04

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sea lion whiskers, poetry as a feeling organ / agitated into questioning / mimesis / if time travel isn't true I don't want to be true / didn't do it for the 22,480/yr / 'pronouns of knowing' / C. Riley Snorton / I am the thinker that excites me most / theoretically-adjacent poetry / Rob Halpern / Kevin Latimer / thinking by seeking / Taylor Byas /…

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Joel Craig & Megan Kyle perform at green_space 8/26/22 37:44

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The Summer 2022 green_space in Chapin Parkway, Buffalo. Megan Kyle brought us the sound installation Soggy Music for any number of participants of any skill level, body of water, hydrophone, and fixed media playback routed through Max patch by Megan Kyle, electronics by Ethan Hayden Buffalo-based oboist Megan Kyle performs as a soloist, improviser,…

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Tim Liu - A Cosmic Library, The Other Who Comes 1:33:38

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A cosmic library / The unsayable / Rickie Lee Jones / akashic records / Devo / L’avenir / UMass / Derrida / David Berman / Space for feeling-states / poetry / Pavement / Hedonism / What is to come, someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected…that is the real future, the other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival / G…

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Danika Stegman LeMay & Vincent James Perrone read at green_space 5/8/22 38:36

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Danika Stegeman LeMay & Vincent James Perrone--lakewise traveling--read at green_space in Buffalo on 5/8/22. Thanks to them for making the trip and thanks to everyone who came and helped them feel welcome. About Stegeman LeMay & Perrone: Danika Stegeman LeMay’s work has appeared in 32 Poems, Afternoon Visitor, Concision, Forklift, OH, Harpy Hybrid …

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Lindsay Lerman - Fallow Periods & Epistemic Play 26:53

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Interview w/novelist Linsday Lerman--What Are You, Bataille, non-knowledge, fallow periods in the creative process, so much meaning in daily text threads, the possibility in communication, engagement with theory as a drug, touching a plant, the useless version of epistemic play, Brahms, waste is the way the universe functions, going cold-turkey on …

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Jay Besemer - Simple Machines, Co-creating the Future 1:02:02

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Jay Besemer’s outlook on being with the world, changing through language, and negotiating the event while foregrounding the needs of the body feel absolutely essential. green_space is delighted to present our interview with Jay. And a surprise reading of the poem (“The Wound”) that saved Joe from the pandemic. co-creating the future / Cocteau Twins…

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Dana Venerable Reads at green_space 1/28/22 17:35

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Dana Venerable reads at green_space in the evening of 1/28/22 in the snowy parkway, temperatures in the single digits, vapor from our breath lettering the air / a collaborative work in dialogue with description, notation, dance, the interview, a shared movement through language, the connection of sound, what body of water matters to you and why, do…

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Marty Cain - Between Identification and Alterity 48:07

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The Wound is (Not) Real, Trembling Pillow Press, baby as thinker, poetry and primal sensory experience, The Preludes, Romanticism, Sophie Sieta, Provisional Avant-Gardes, weird archival shit, the material culture of skate, Kyle Beachy: The Most Fun Thing, playing snake on my Nokia phone, duality between identification and alterity, who am I being p…

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Dana Venerable - Everyone Dances Alone 1:30:56

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Nella Larsen, Harmony Holiday, curating sound, grief, Milford Graves, dance and combat, attention to vibration, Ntozake Shange, the choreopoem, writing after dance, art as access to a different experience of time, time as a modality that dismantles, moving through my house, actively giving attention--Dana Venerable talks to green_space Dec 2, 2021.…

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Kenning JP García 52:03

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Donald Goines, The Diary, Serialized Sparks, Belle & Sebastian, Zero Waste, Blaxploitation, Blue Collar Life, Afro-absurdism, Fuzzy Texts, No Fucking Meaning, Idea Centers, Minimize All This Foolish Symbolism, Gundam Kenning, If You’re Teaching Sally Rooney and Put on the Pogues I Don’t Know Kenning JP García answers 10 questions for green_space. G…

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Danika Stegeman LeMay 55:05

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Danika Stegeman LeMay answers 10 questions for green_space.

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green_space #1 recording – Ryan Kaveh Sheldon, Travis Sharp, & Allison Cardon 45:37

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Ryan Kaveh Sheldon, Travis Sharpe, & Allison Cardon read for green_space on 13 Aug 21.

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Ryan Kaveh Sheldon 39:39

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Ryan Kaveh Sheldon answers 10 questions for green_space.

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Allison Cardon 26:41

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Allison Cardon answers ten questions for green_space.

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Bonus #2 - When This You See, VOTE 1:29:54

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Was Gertrude Stein a fascist? Alan Dershowitz thinks so. https://www.patreon.com/prolesound References: Dershowitz: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/met-gertrude-stein-collaborator_b_1467174 Perloff response: https://jacket2.org/article/short-response-alan-dershowitz Barabara Will fed site: https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/marchapril/feature/the-s…

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Bonus #1 - Fuck Whitman, Marry Oppen, Kill Olson (feat. @pastelcathedral @dontology) 1:18:30

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Donovan of futuremachine interviews Mathilda and Dom on their individual theses and collective work, Stanzas for Four Hands: an Ophanim. Support the show https://www.patreon.com/prolesound Intro music: Macintosh Plus, Floral Shoppe - 01 ブート

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#1 - Finance Conceptualism & Pharmocommunist Biopoiesis with @st_somatic 2:10:15

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today I'm joined by Ava Hofmann (@st_somatic) to discuss Franco "Bifo" Berardi's The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance and we took a lot of detours. read ava and Sporazine!! here's a list of ava's reading recs from this episode lmao Cecilia Vicuña - Saborami Never Angeline Nørth - Sea Witch Testo Junkie - Paul B. Preciado Cyborg Manifesto - Donna J. …

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Mathilda reads from Bonney's "The Commons" 47:11

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today i'm reading a little bit from my thesis on bonney and from his Commons. Very grateful to the comrades I've been corresponding with re: seiretic verse and who are helping me develop my theories there, specifically margo, r.m. haines, and dom. If you wanna read along here's a scan of the book from when I worked in a library lmao https://www.dro…

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Nicaraguan Peasant Poetry from Solentiname (read by Teagan) 10:17

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read by teagan!! buy their book Apost(le)ate here! these poems translated from the spanish by David Gullette https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-931122-48-4

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zip ties between zip codes — meredith hanlin (read by anna) 22:50

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buy the book and support mer's work! https://gumroad.com/l/rRzbq // https://twitter.com/meredeathcore read by the always wonderful anna https://twitter.com/scrapfruit

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I Want You To Live — Anna McColgan 24:47

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buy the book here! https://gumroad.com/marlskarx#xZoKm and follow anna on the bird site https://twitter.com/scrapfruit published via marlskarx, support the patreon over here or grab the pdf for freeee: https://www.patreon.com/marlskarx

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our lives can be our lives 9:11

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[[transcript]] meredith reads some poems. their twitter: https://twitter.com/meredeathcore jamie's ebt poem #16 : https://twitter.com/jamieberrout/status/1241227370729820161 thank you @noelle for the transcript!!

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sylvia, jamie, & anne order martinis at the ritz 28:27

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jamie hood reads sylvia plath’s “berck plage,” her own poem “each night i dream of rising waters &” and anne sexton’s “the operation,” and briefly considers the place of women’s confessionalism in the apocalypse.

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Searching for Smoke Rings — Jonce Marshall Palmer 31:55

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download & order here! https://gumroad.com/l/smokerings Jonce Marshall Palmer is a non-binary poet, student, and activist living in Tallahassee. They are the author of the chapbooks Searching for Smoke Rings and the forthcoming Anti Pastoral. jonce's twitter: https://twitter.com/masterofmusix their website: https://jmpalmer.carrd.co/…

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Sean Bonney — Happiness [read by @lesbrarienne] 38:53

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Happiness: Poems after Rimbaud. read by mathilda. a pdf of this book can be found here. and you can buy the book here. sorry the archive's been pretty dry as of late. if you're bored, record a book, yours or someone elses, and send it to [email protected]. follow @prolesound / @mathildork on twitter…

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Amina & Amiri Baraka (6-14-85) 1:11:52

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stolen from the penns0und archives. can't find much else about this recording but holllyyyyyyyy shit. enjoy friends.

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24 Theses #Misanthropocene — Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr 11:50

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A collaboration between Commune editors Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr. Download the chapbook here. read by Mathilda Cullen // marlskarx // prolesound

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Midwinter Day — Bernadette Mayer 3:05:45

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special thanks to kay for getting this recording to prolesound! this is a marathon reading featuring: Kay Gabriel, Liam O'Brien, Nathaniel Rosenthalis, Becca Teich, Ariel Goldberg, Stephen Ira, Chevelle Caballero, Diana Hamilton, and our unnamed co-conspirators! <3

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Trace Happenings — Mathilda Cullen 38:59

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if you want to download or buy the print chapbook go to gumroad.com/mathilda marlskarx.page // patreon.com/marlskarx

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Notes on Militant Poetics — Sean Bonney 26:51

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Page 36-48 https://illwilleditions.noblogs.org/files/2016/03/BONNEY-All-this-Burning-Earth-USLETTER-READ.pdf

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Corpus Hermeticum: On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres — Sean Bonney 6:38

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rest in power, sean. text here: http://abandonedbuildings.blogspot.com/2015/06/corpus-hermeticum-on-revolution-of.html audio from: https://soundcloud.com/sean-bonney/corpus-hermeticum-on-the

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Solidarity Against Subtlety: poems of insistence, installment 1 41:02

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As we continue to critique poetry's entanglement with empire, with power, and with ferocious capital, it is imperative to find poetry unafraid of telling, not showing-- poetry which begins to forge transnational possibilities for solidarity, support, and exchange. From Chile to Palestine, Chicago to Beirut, the poets in this episode name and attack…

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"Nursery Rhymes for Children of Darkness" - Gladys Oaks (read by @TomSnarsky) 44:34

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a message from Tom! // in the spirit of Halloween, here's one of my favorite books I've ever recorded, called Nursery Rhymes for Children of Darkness, written by Gladys Oaks way back in I think 1928. I know almost nothing about her except that she gained some small notoriety for a hot af poem called "Climax" (in the book!) and that she also publish…

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"The Romance of Happy Workers" - Anne Boyer (read by @TomSnarsky) 49:28

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A recording of Anne Boyer's book The Romance of Happy Workers, by @TomSnarsky if you have any recordings you want to contribute to the show send them in! (of yourself, of other poets, of yourself reading other poets, etc) @mathildork // @prolesound

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"Articulation of Sound Forms in Time" - Susan Howe (read by @mathildork) 30:29

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A recording of Susan Howe's book Articulation of Sound Forms in Time by me, @mathildork if you have any recordings you want to contribute to the show send them in! (of yourself, of other poets, of yourself reading other poets, etc) @mathildork // @prolesound

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"Hennecker's Ditch" - Kate Kilalea (read by Tom Snarsky) 6:43

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A recording of Kate Kilalea’s poem “Hennecker’s Ditch” by @TomSnarsky if you have any recordings you want to contribute to the show send them in! (of yourself, of other poets, of yourself reading other poets, etc) @mathildork // @prolesound

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Vahni Capildeo & Vivek Narayanan at St. Mark's (7.16.11) 1:40:10

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Vahni Capildeo writes both poetry and prose. Her fourth book, Dark & Unaccustomed Words, is due out this year. She is a Lecturer at Kingston University (UK) and Contributing Editor for the Caribbean Review of Books. Vivek Narayanan’s first book, Universal Beach, will be published by ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni this spring; his second, Mr. Subr…

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Proletarian Poetry Party (10/2/19) 1:20:12

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in Philadelphia at Wooden Shoe Books. All my thanks to KM for organizing and hosting; to Paintbucket and James for gathering us together in the first place, in this very online way; to Isobel for her generous recording and editing; to Ronnie for driving down to Philly with me in the rain; to Brendan for driving 7 hours from Cleveland to read; to Pa…

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love the Character Limit w/ @nicetryofficer 2:00:09

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PREORDER CHARACTER LIMIT https://gumroad.com/nicetryofficer#qDURBM Big thanks to @nicetryofficer for having this double feature with me. What a lad. follow us @prolesound or me @mathildork

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Mathilda reads Poems of the Imprisoned & Gedichte der Gefangenen 54:42

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Today I'm reading my translations of Ernst Toller's Poems of the Imprisoned, which you can download here, and following that I read the original German, which you can find here. Keep an eye out for my discussion of this work with Roy over on the Marxist Poetry podcast! follow @mathildork & @prolesound and come read your poems on the pod! TIMESTAMPS…