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Jen Bervin

The Book as Performance with Cecilia Vicuña, in the Kempner Gallery, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, November 17, 2015

in association with the exhibition "The Book Undone: Thirty Years of Granary Books"

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Complete Performance (46:35): MP3
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Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, April 21, 2012

  1. Kristen Gallagher’s introduction (07:10): MP3
  2. On the Gorgeous Nothings (15:19): MP3
  3. Emily Dickinson, A277 (01:23): MP3
  4. Emily Dickinson, A842 (00:24): MP3
  5. It is hard to say those without veils suffer (02:24): MP3
  6. Mycological poems (08:16): MP3
  • Complete reading (34:20): MP3

Group Reading at Modernist Studies Association, Hallwall's Contemporary Art Center, Heatstrings, Buffalo, October 7, 2011

  • Jen Bervin (2:21): MP3

Reading as part of the Threads Talk Series in NYC, November 13, 2010

"Text from Textile: Stem & Root"
  1. Introduction by Steve Clay (1:51): MP3
  2. Talk (41:01): MP3

Reading as part of the Contemporary Writers Series, Mills College, September 28, 2010

  • Complete reading (56:42): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, October 27, 2006

Reading as part of the Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, January 8, 2005

  1. Introduction (02:33): MP3
  2. A Non- Breaking Space (13:53): MP3
  • Complete reading (17:39): MP3

Reading on Poetic Brooklyn, December 5, 2004

  1. A Non-Breaking Space (9:27): MP3
  2. Nets - Sonnet 8 (1:49): MP3
  3. Nets - Sonnet 28 (3:30): MP3
  4. Nets - Sonnet 27 (1:31): MP3
  5. Nets - Sonnet 134, 135, 136 (4:20): MP3
  6. Nets - Sonnet 64 (0:08): MP3
  7. Nets - Sonnet 95, 128, 129, 150 (1:25): MP3

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