"Is Robin here?" On this episode, we ask what we can "know" about the dynamics of a space through listening. We listen to the "Charles Olson Memorial" recording and talk about mourning, spontaneity, relationships, authority, and poetry recitation.Host Karis Shearer is joined by curator Amy Thiessen and special guests Hannah McGregor and Emily Murphy. Together they discuss Warren Tallman's introduction to the "Charles Olson Memorial Reading"  recorded at St. Anselm's Church (Vancouver) March 14, 1970 on the occasion of a memorial reading for American poet Charles Olson. Their conversation touches on mourning, levity, spontaneity, religiosity, relationality, poetry, and pedagogy.  Listen to find out if "Robin" is here. Episode 4 was co-produced by Karis Shearer and Nour Sallam.Bios: Karis Shearer is Associate Professor of English & Cultural Studies and the Director of the AMP Lab. With Deanna Fong, she recently co-edited Wanting Everything: The Collected Works of Gladys Hindmarch (Talonbooks 2020).Amy Thiessen is an Honours English student at UBCO where she is working on a digital edition of Sharon Thesen's poem "The Fire." She is a writer, an RA and project manager for the UBCO SpokenWeb project and an aspiring teacher.Emily Murphy is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at UBCO's Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies. She is also Assistant Director of UBCO's AMP Lab. She researches technology and cultural memory. Hannah McGregor is an Assistant Professor in Publishing at SFU where her research focuses on podcasting as scholarly communication, systemic barriers to access in the Canadian publishing industry, and the history of middlebrow periodicals. She  also hosts a number of podcasts including Secret Feminist Agenda and the SpokenWeb Podcast. Links: The SoundBox Collection: https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/Amy Thiessen's Honours Project / Digitial Exhibition on Sharon Thesen's "The Fire": sharonthesenthefire.omeka.netThe Real Vancouver Writers' Series: https://realvancouver.org/Episode 7 of the SpokenWeb Podcast featuring Hannah McGregor: https://spokenweb.ca/podcast/episodes/the-voice-is-intact-finding-gwendolyn-macewen-in-the-archive/Secret Feminist Agenda podcast: https://secretfeministagenda.com/category/podcast/   Christine Mitchell's "Can You Hear Me?":  https://amodern.net/article/can-you-hear-me/ Due to COVID-19, both the Tech Talk Series and the Inaugural Sharon Thesen Lecture by John Lent mentioned at the end of this episode were unfortunately cancelled or postponed. 

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Is Robin Here?

Host Karis Shearer is joined by curator Amy Thiessen and special guest-poets Nancy Holmes and Sharon Thesen. Together they talk about a November 1986 recording on which Sharon Thesen visits Warren Tallman's English 205 class on November 14th, 1986. The podcast features two archival clips: in the first, Tallman introduces Thesen to the class; in the second, Thesen reads "Chrysanthemum Perfume" from a manuscript she calls "The Landlord's Flowerbeds" on this recording but ultimately publishes as her book The Beginning of the Long Dash (Coach House Press, 1987). Bios:Amy Thiessen is an Honours English student at UBCO where she is working on a digital edition of Sharon Thesen's poem "The Fire." She is a writer, an RA and project manager for the UBCO SpokenWeb project and an aspiring teacher.Sharon Thesen is a poet, editor, and writer who was based in Vancouver before moving to the Okanagan, where she now lives in Lake Country   After receiving her MA degree from Simon Fraser University in 1975, she taught English and Creative Writing at Capilano College (now University) in North Vancouver, and joined UBC Okanagan’s ’s Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies as professor of Creative Writing in 2005.  She is the author of thirteen books, the most recent, The Receiver, Oyama Pink Shale, The Good Bacteria, and A Pair of Scissors.Nancy Holmes has published five collections of poetry, most recently, The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems (Ronsdale Press, 2012), a collection of poems about the place, people, plants and animals of the Okanagan valley in the southern interior of British Columbia.  She is also the editor of Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009). Links:The SoundBox Collection: https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/ Inaugural Sharon Thesen Lecture (by John Lent): https://www.facebook.com/events/633541527437750/ Sharon Thesen's Pinecone Writing Workshops: https://www.sharonthesen.com/ Laisha Rosnau's Little Fortress: https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/little-fortress The Receiver: https://www.newstarbooks.com/book.php?book_id=1554201403  

Only the Imagination Carries Forward

Host Karis Shearer, guest curator Megan Butchart, and poet Daphne Marlatt have a conversation about Daphne Marlatt's 1969 archival recording of leaf leaf/s and her experience of performing poetry with the archive in 2019. This episode was co-produced by Karis Shearer and Nour Sallam.Visit our website at soundbox.ok.ubc.ca. See what our UBCO SpokenWeb team is up to by following us on Instagram at @amplab_ubco and be sure to check out the larger SpokenWeb network at @spokenweb.For the shout-outs mentioned at the end of this episode, please visit the links below:John Lent's A Matins Flywheel:https://www.thistledownpress.com/html/search/genre/Poetry/a_matins_flywheel_p656.cfmDavid R. Loy's Nonduality in Buddhism and Beyond:https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nonduality/David-R-Loy/9781614295242Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic:https://houseofanansi.com/products/ana-historicInspired Word Cafe:http://www.inspiredwordcafe.com/

Performing the Archive

You can find the full-length recording of the bill bissett clip at soundbox.ok.ubc.ca. See what our UBCO SpokenWeb team is up to by following us on Instagram at @amplab_ubco and be sure to check out the larger SpokenWeb network at @spokenweb.For the shout-outs mentioned at the end of this episode, please visit the links below:bill bissett's Breth (Talonbooks): https://talonbooks.com/books/breth bill bissett on PennSound: https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/bissett.php Cut and Run Podcast by Brady Marks: http://furiousgreencloud.com/wordpress/blog/author/furiousgreencloud/Sarah Tolmie's The Art of Dying (MQUP): https://www.mqup.ca/art-of-dying--the-products-9780773552715.php Ian Ferrier at the Inspired Word Cafe: http://www.inspiredwordcafe.com/

Is That Me?

SoundBox Signals is a podcast that brings literary archival recordings to life through a combination of curated close listening and conversation. Hosted and co-produced by Karis Shearer, each episode features a conversation with a curator and two special guests. Together they’ll listen, talk, and consider how a selected recording signifies in the contemporary moment and ask what listening allows us to know about cultural history. Full-length versions of these archival recordings are available here on our website.

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