Rod Smith

PhillyTalks, December 10, 1998


Segue Series reading at Double Happiness, NYC. April 14, 2001
complete reading (27:02): MP3


Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, January 15, 2002
complete reading (20:47): MP3


Reading at Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics. Kelly Writers House. October 17, 2003.
complete reading (3:34): MP3




Fear the Sky - album from Narrow House Recordings 2005

1. Snips 1 (3:10)
2. Snips 2 (4:57)
3. Identity is the Cause of Warts (2:05)
4. The Spider Poems 1 (3:13)
5. The Spider Poems 2 (2:48)
6. The Spider Poems 3 (3:09)
7. Poem for Stingers - Homage to Homage to Creeley 1 (0:59)
8. Wrong Turnstile - Homage to Homage to Creeley 2 (1:15)
9. Shadows Are Our Friend - Homage to Homage to Creeley 3 (0:57)
10. The Life of a Dime - Homage to Homage to Creeley 4 (1:03)
11. pour le CGT - Homage to Homage to Creeley 5 (0:39)
12. A Grammar Manikin (5:52)
13. Ted's Head (1:46)
14. the love that is truly a refuge for all living beings (1:46)
15. Farlow (1:11)
16. All of It's Gone to Moneyland (w/Alexandra Smith) (0:25)
17. Sweet Sweet Sweet Sweet Sweet Dirt. Susie Asado. (0:47)
18. The Responsibility of Intellectuals - The Classics 1 (1:22)
19. The Sublime Object of Ideology - The Classics 2 (0:48)
20. The American Evasion of Philosophy - The Classics 3 (1:06)
21. The Prison Notebooks - The Classics 4 (0:23)
22. The Body in Pain - The Classics 5 (0:33)
23. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - The Classics 6 (0:36)
24. Clothes Shaver Plus (for Tom Raworth) (1:48)
25. Disgusted Optimistic Lyric Language Poem (0:52)
26. "If a lion could speak..." -- Wittgenstein - Love Poems 1 (2:29)
27. "To become unhinged..." -- Kevin Davies - Love Poems 2 (2:36)
28. "To keep the mixtures revealed..." -- Olson - Love Poems 3 (2:03)
29. The Strength (0:43)
30. The Narrative Quiescence (3:35)
31. from The Good House 1 (6:28)
32. from The Good House 2 (2:51)
33. from The Good House 3 (3:03)
34. from The Good House 4 (3:20)


Segue Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club. NY, November 4, 2006
Complete Recording (31:11)

1. Introduction by Nada Gordon (5:12)
2. from Flare Petals (2:14)
3. Police said (0:58)
4. Milky Gumbo: A Case Study (0:47)
5. Police Poem (2:14)
6. Barnes & Chernobyl (0:12)
7. Oleo (0:28)
8. erf (0:46)
9. flarf-ku (0:23)
10. Farlow (0:56)
11. earth's dirt (0:51)
12. tub ride (0:17)
13. Moist Feelings: A Love Poem (0:38)
14. I Guess That Means You Hate Grover's Puppies (0:47)
15. What is Happening to Grover's Bottom (1:09)
16. Grover Leper (1:09)
17. from Snips (0:19)
18. Ghost Brain (0:54)
19. Ghost Brain & the redoubtable language by which it apprehends a condemned world (1:22)
20. Ghost Brain (0:11)
21. the sad winds (0:35)
22. I was gender isolated... (0:37)
23. Me's Wittl Birdy Bong Stowy (0:56)
24. Novocaine Brain (0:11)
25. Osama Bin Drinkin (2:24)
26. bananas are evil (0:22)
27. War & Pee (1:08)
28. Snip (0:08)
29. Ghost Brain (0:13)
30. raging fur ghost brain #4 spodiodie (0:29)
31. Ghost Brain (0:39)


from the Flarf Poetry Festival at the Kelly Writers House, February 8, 2007
1. No, My Name is Gary Sullivan. I Own a Mansion and a Yacht (0:58): MP3
2. Moist Feelings, a Love Poem (0:31): MP3
3. The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being (4:00): MP3
4. (inaudible) (0:52): MP3
5. This is Such Total Bullshit (4:00): MP3
6. Grover Leper (0:54): MP3
7. War and Pee (1:25): MP3


Reading and Interview on Ceptuetics Radio, March 5, 2008. (29:14) MP3
Hosted by Kareem Estefan. Rod Smith reads from Deed (University of Iowa, 2008), discusses the structure of the book, quotation and détournement, his writing processes, and the New American and "outsider" traditions that have influenced him.



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