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Readings sponsored by UB Buffalo Poetics Program

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October 3, 1966

Robert Creeley (53:10): MP3

  1. Introduction (2:11): MP3
  2. The Rain (1:12): MP3
  3. Kore (0:57): MP3
  4. The Plan (1:03): MP3
  5. The Man (0:46): MP3
  6. A Wish (0:39): MP3
  7. The Name (1:29): MP3
  8. The First Time (1:45): MP3
  9. The Rose (1:35): MP3
  10. Love Comes Quiety (0:35): MP3
  11. The People (0:44): MP3
  12. Fire (0:37): MP3
  13. For Friendship (0:22): MP3
  14. The Gesture (1:36): MP3
  15. For Love (8:21): MP3
  16. Dimensions (1:04): MP3
  17. Distance (3:17): MP3
  18. Some Place (0:57): MP3
  19. Song ("What do you") (0:27): MP3
  20. The Box (0:39): MP3
  21. A Piece (1:14): MP3
  22. A Prayer (0:24): MP3
  23. Here ("What / has happened") (0:36): MP3
  24. One Way (1:57): MP3
  25. Anger (4:29): MP3
  26. A Sight (4:29): MP3
  27. The Woman (2:11): MP3
  28. from The Dream (0:53): MP3
  29. Fragments (0:43): MP3
  30. Oh My Love (0:34): MP3
  31. A Tally (1:31): MP3
  32. A Birthday (1:14): MP3
  33. Intervals (0:57): MP3
  34. The Hole (1:44): MP3
These recordings were originally made available to the Slought Foundation by Fred Wah. PennSound publication made with thanks to Slought and with the permission of Fred Wah and the Creeley Estate.

February 17, 1967

George Oppen (31:25): MP3

  1. Of Being Numerous (19:47): MP3
  2. A Preface (0:31): MP3
  3. Historic Pun (1:06): MP3
  4. Epigram (0:39): MP3
  5. Ballad (1:12): MP3
  6. Power, The Enchanted World (1:47): MP3
  7. Route (6:15): MP3

April 19-20, 1974

Ed Dorn

April 19

  1. Introduction (0:41): MP3
  2. The Poet Lets His Tongue Hang Down (from Gunslinger, book IV) (4:11): MP3
  3. Dorn discusses Recollections of Gran Apacheria (1:51): MP3
  4. First Lines (3:05): MP3
  5. Victorio (0:58): MP3
  6. Nana and Victorio (0:56): MP3
  7. Dress for War (0:45): MP3
  8. Bounty Time (0:43): MP3
  9. The Provoking Figure of the Horse Woman (1:00): MP3
  10. Geronimo (0:33): MP3
  11. Juh and Geronimo (0:40): MP3
  12. General Miles Imagined (0:11): MP3
  13. Nanay (0:53): MP3
  14. (When Geronimo Was in Washington for the Inauguration) (1:12): MP3
  15. Fifteen-Hundred Tons of Hay at 1 ¢ per Pound (0:22): MP3
  16. The Moving, Invisible Spectre of the Phraytry on the Traitor Peaches (1:20): MP3
  17. (And When, Above Janos) (0:39): MP3
  18. A Period Portrait of Sympathy (0:39): MP3
  19. (When the Boundary Commission) (0:34): MP3
  20. Assorted Compliments (0:50): MP3
  21. Reservations (3:31): MP3
  22. Creation (2:40): MP3
  23. The Whole European Distinction (0:52): MP3
  24. Personum (0:50): MP3
  25. (The Original Monuments of Perception) (0:11): MP3
  26. (Out of the Sunset Movement) (0:08): MP3
  27. (So the Infant is Bound) (1:16): MP3
  28. The Slipping of the Wheel (0:25): MP3
  29. Immured in Florida (0:16): MP3
  30. La Maquina a Houston (3:59): MP3

Complete reading (38:43): MP3

April 20

  1. Introduction (1:11): MP3
  2. on Gunslinger (3:54): MP3
  3. from Gunslinger (23:31): MP3
  4. on Recollections of Gran Apacheria (2:59): MP3
  5. First Lines (3:39): MP3
  6. Victorio (1:00): MP3
  7. Nana & Victorio (0:47): MP3
  8. Dress for War (0:42): MP3
  9. Bounty Time (0:47): MP3
  10. The Provoking Figure of the Horsewoman (0:58): MP3
  11. General Miles Imagined (0:11): MP3
  12. Geronimo (0:28): MP3
  13. Juh & Geronimo (0:40): MP3
  14. Nanay (0:46): MP3
  15. (When Geronimo was in Washington for the Inauguration) (0:34): MP3
  16. Fifteen Hundred Pounds of Hay @ 1 ¢ per Pound (0:21): MP3
  17. The Moving, Invisible Spectre of the Phratry on the Traitor Peaches (1:00): MP3
  18. (And when, above Janos) (0:36): MP3
  19. A Period Portrait of Sympathy (0:35): MP3
  20. (When the Boundary Commission) (0:36): MP3
  21. Assorted Compliments (0:52): MP3
  22. Reservations (3:12): MP3
  23. Creation (2:03): MP3
  24. The Whole European Distinction (0:48): MP3
  25. Personum (0:43): MP3
  26. (The original monuments of perception) (0:08): MP3
  27. (Out of the sunset movement) (0:13): MP3
  28. (So, the infant is bound) (2:11): MP3
  29. The Slipping of the Wheel (0:27): MP3
  30. Immured in Florida (0:12): MP3
  31. La Maquina a Houston (2:22): MP3

Complete reading (59:47): MP3

1974

Charles Reznikoff (click here for segmented recording) - interviews with Reinhold Schiffer

November 30, 1978

Stan Brakhage on a Walking the Dog seminar (precursor to Wednesdays @ 4 Plus) (1:38:07): MP3

1987

Robin Blaser

  1. Introduction (0:40): MP3
  2. "When they sit in consilium..." (2:11): MP3
  3. "For me, every author is absolutely other..." (0:39): MP3
  4. Further (2:19): MP3
  5. The Pause (2:40): MP3
  6. A conversation poem (1:08): MP3
  7. Romance (1:08): MP3
  8. Apologies for Repetitions (5:29): MP3
  9. Gathering (0:56): MP3
  10. Image-Nation (half and half) (4:18): MP3
  11. Robert Graves: In Memoriam (19:40): MP3
  12. Steps (poem for Allen Ginsberg) (4:32): MP3
  13. "I've always liked the notion of the mind as a frying pan..." (5:22): MP3
  14. To Whom It May Concern (1:49): MP3

Complete Reading (54:05): MP3, RealAudio

1990s

Rosmarie Waldrop (27:14): MP3

  1. on Shorter American Memory (1:21): MP3
  2. Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence (1:23): MP3
  3. Shorter American Memory of Money, Science and the City (2:24): MP3
  4. Shorter American Memory of the American Character according to Santayana (2:19): MP3
  5. on "Differences for Four Hands" (2:46): MP3
  6. from "Differences for Four Hands" (16:10): MP3

September 13, 1990

Robert Creeley

Graduate Seminar, Part 1 (1:23:52): MP3
Graduate Seminar, Part 2 (57:28): MP3

  1. Olson's open field, the act of creation, and the body (4:50): MP3
  2. Olson and Williams' experience of woman (6:12): MP3
  3. the lack of company in Williams (2:57): MP3
  4. beginning with one thing in mind and ending with another (6:06): MP3
  5. Creeley's own interest in poetry and fighting for new ways of reading and writing (4:07): MP3
  6. the Beat Generation (4:25): MP3
  7. Allen Ginsberg and rhythm (8:19): MP3
  8. discussing Larry Eigner's "Country/Harbor/Quiet/Act/Around" (6:13): MP3
  9. the spatial and typographical in Eigner's writing (4:55): MP3
  10. the relation of writing to the body (6:50): MP3
  11. the physicality of articulation (2:08): MP3
  12. turning physical disability into a resource (8:53): MP3
  13. the relation of speech to the conditions of poetry (2:46): MP3
  14. the peripheral and the central (3:00): MP3
  15. writing on paper, the typewriter, and the computer (11:48): MP3
  16. on place (19:34): MP3
  17. discussing the poem "I" (17:58): MP3
  18. reading "Something" (1:24): MP3
  19. connection to the "I" in the poems "I" and "Something" (1:21): MP3
  20. reading "Walking" (0:23): MP3
  21. making use of emotion in poetry (4:58): MP3
  22. thinking and impedance (6:58): MP3
  23. portraiture and sincerity (4:42): MP3

September 17, 1990

Robert Creeley

September 26, 1990

Susan Howe

  • Part One (31:59): MP3
  • Part Two (21:39): MP3

October 11, 1990

Jackson Mac Low (1:02:50): MP3

  1. Reading a selection from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and his L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E #6 essay on the book (7:02): MP3
  2. Discussion of opening section of Stein's "Objects" (2:42): MP3
  3. Discussing function of prefaces and introductions to poems (4:25): MP3
  4. Discussing use of notation in creating a poetic collage (3:23): MP3
  5. Discussing close reading of MacLow’s poetry vs. Gertrude Stein’s poetry (6:41): MP3
  6. Role of “chance generation” (1:32): MP3
  7. Influence of John Cage’s chance-composed music and Buddhism (5:50): MP3
  8. Influence of Freud and psychoanalysis (2:11): MP3
  9. Serialism and 12-tone music (6:29): MP3
  10. Discussion of Mac Low’s methodologies (6:07): MP3
  11. Discussion of entropy (1:26): MP3
  12. Meaning in language and sound (3:24): MP3
  13. Cultural construct of language (1:30): MP3
  14. Discussion of voice (3:05): MP3
  15. Segmentation of poetry by sound (6:33): MP3

November 7-8, 1990

Michael Palmer

November 7 - complete reading (44:58): MP3

  1. Introduction by Joseph Conte (2:20): MP3
  2. Six Hermetic Poems (7:21): MP3
  3. In C (1:23): MP3
  4. Eighth Sky (3:21): MP3
  5. SB (0:59): MP3
  6. Recursus to Porta (3:34): MP3
  7. Letters to Zanzotto (10:58): MP3
  8. Who is to Say (0:56): MP3
  9. Poem (0:25): MP3
  10. Books of the Yellow Castle (2:47): MP3
  11. Song of the Round Man (1:15): MP3
  12. This Time (0:47): MP3
  13. As a Real House (0:44): MP3
  14. Sun (5:49): MP3
November 8 - Active Boundaries: Poetry at the Periphery (48:14): MP3
  1. poetic activity as it exists in the margins (6:25): MP3
  2. images of elsewhere in the work of Sebastio Salgado (4:25): MP3
  3. Paul Celan's struggle against representation (5:24): MP3
  4. the historical and social dimensions of hermetic speech (1:21): MP3
  5. double texts (4:12): MP3
  6. tensions in Zukofsky's "A" (3:14): MP3
  7. "X/Self" by Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Caribbean anti-colonial thought (1:52): MP3
  8. the arbitrariness of orthodoxy, new poetry, and Pound and Elliott's bigotry (2:06): MP3
  9. Ron Silliman's "The Alphabet" and representing urban social space (5:21): MP3
  10. Susan Howe's interrogation of the first person subject (7:29): MP3
  11. poetry in Leningrad (6:12): MP3
November 8 - Discussion in Charles Bernstein's Poetics seminar (1:31:40): MP3, RealAudio
  1. poetic identity in Russia (1:59): MP3
  2. shortcomings of conservative academic feminist criticism (2:34): MP3
  3. the uneasy pleasure of Salgado's photographs and aestheticization (8:50): MP3
  4. the dilemma of the sublime (4:51): MP3
  5. the sublime in a post-Holocaust world and Paul Celan's Meridian address (4:58): MP3
  6. Kabbalistic thought and poetry that plays with letter and number (10:48): MP3
  7. formal exploration, rhythm and recurrence in Palmer's Notes for Echo Lake (12:00): MP3
  8. the indirectness of poetry as intervention and the return of poetry during moments of upheaval (4:53): MP3
  9. sound and silence (4:13): MP3
  10. the unconscious recurrence of images and speech in Palmer's work (9:53): MP3
  11. symbolic logic, language philosophy and reading Wittgenstein (6:07): MP3
  12. the musicality of recurrence and the decay of the word uttered (3:59): MP3
  13. the "meaning" of the poem and the problem of intention (8:20): MP3
  14. the function of poetry (4:00): MP3
  15. Jackson MacLow and locating intention (3:45): MP3

October 15, 1990

Robert Creeley

  • Part 1 (51:45): MP3
  • Part 2 (51:40): MP3

November 14, 1990

Clark Coolidge (53:42): MP3

November 15, 1990

Panel discussion with Clark Coolidge (2:13:30): MP3

December 5-6, 1990

Nick Piombino

December 5 - Complete Reading (45:52): MP3

  1. Happenstance (5:41) : MP3
  2. Fantasy (4:12) : MP3
  3. The Broken Angel (2:37) : MP3
  4. Codex (1:43) : MP3
  5. An Odd Reprisal (2:07) : MP3
  6. Interior Demolition (2:19) : MP3
  7. X (published in "Avec", ed. Cydney Chadwick, David Bromige and Jim McCrary, Vol 2, No 1, 1989) (6:34) : MP3
  8. The Silence Spoke (0:53) : MP3
  9. The Frozen Witness (1:28) : MP3
  10. Manhattan (1:39) : MP3
  11. "Any m meant they came to a destination" (1:47) : MP3
  12. "The simple poetry of sleep" (3:13) : MP3
  13. Aphorisms (written in 1987) (5:10) : MP3
  14. Step (6:30) : MP3

Poems from The Frozen Witness, Poems (Sun & Moon, 1988), and Light Street (Zasterle Press, 1996)

December 6 - Seminar

  • Part 1 (46:06): MP3
  • Part 2 (46:00): MP3
  • Part 3 (46:05): MP3

January 25-26, 1991

Nicole Brossard

January 25 — complete reading (38:44): MP3

  1. introduction (1:19): MP3
  2. from Mauve Desert (8:26): MP3
  3. with Elizabeth Burns, dialogue from Mauve Desert (6:09): MP3
  4. Close (2:36): MP3
  5. Green Night of Labyrinth Park (14:05): MP3
  6. Matter Harmonious Still Maneuvering (6:00): MP3

January 26 — complete seminar (1:30:26): MP3

February 20-21, 1991

Steve McCaffery

February 20 - complete reading (30:51): MP3

  1. Code of System Four (11:20): MP3
  2. Invariant (4:02): MP3
  3. Little House (3:32): MP3
  4. Foucault Acrostic (2:58): MP3
  5. At corners collating when the dislocation fades (30:51): MP3

February 21 - complete seminar (1:24:01): MP3

  1. The Kommunist Manifesto or Wot We Wukkers Want (6:01): MP3
  2. Appropriation As My Beatrice: Insufficiencies of Theory to Poetical Economies (33:51): MP3
  3. the distinction between theory and poetics (8:28): MP3
  4. the abandonment of primary texts (8:44): MP3
  5. theory in critical vs. creative writing (6:08): MP3
  6. the distinction between primary/secondary texts and high/low art (9:33): MP3
  7. a critique of Bourdieu and contemporary theory (10:50): MP3

Karen Mac Cormack

  • February 20 - complete reading (26:53): MP3
  1. Untitled ("In the editing of...") (2:21): MP3
  2. Sentinel (3:56): MP3
  3. Dominoes (1:15): MP3
  4. Two Candlesticks (4:16): MP3
  5. Fifth Force (5:38): MP3
  6. from Quirks and Quillets (3:42): MP3
  7. Joyance (2:14): MP3
  8. Hardcover (2:57): MP3

February 28, 1991

Robert Creeley

  • Part One (46:58): MP3
  • Part Two (46:50): MP3
  • Part Three (47:00): MP3
  • Part Four (33:59): MP3

March 6-7, 1991

Leslie Scalapino

March 6 — complete recording (46:58): MP3
  1. introduction (2:02): MP3
  2. from "Waking Life" (27:58): MP3
  3. Ochre (16:51): MP3

March 7 — complete seminar (1:40:45): MP3

March 20, 1991

Robert Creeley (48:03): MP3

April 3, 1991

Jerome McGann (51:34): MP3

April 17, 1991

Rachel Blau DuPlessis (52:04): MP3

  1. from "Acknowledgments" (3:50): MP3
  2. The Pink Guitar (48:12): MP3

April 24-25, 1991

Robin Blaser

  • April 24 - "Check Out Your Lintels: Poetry and Doors" (1:07:04): MP3
  • April 25 - "Homotextualism" (2:13:57): MP3

September 11, 1991
  1. introduction (3:36): MP3
  2. from the preface to Comma in the Ear (3:52): MP3
  3. Outnumbering Any One Way (32:00): MP3
  4. Stray Formulations (12:19): MP3

October 9, 1991

Tom Raworth (27:28): MP3

October 23, 1991

Lyn Hejinian

  • reading (46:25): MP3 (incomplete)
  • excerpt from "The Cell" (10:27): MP3

November 13, 1991
  1. from Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali Songs, #11 (3:10): MP3
  2. Mister Anderson (1:08): MP3
  3. L'Argent (1:03): MP3
  4. The Gambler (0:48): MP3
  5. The Audie Murphy Game (1:23): MP3
  6. Now You Can Worry (1:45): MP3
  7. Knight to Queen's Pawn (0:40): MP3
  8. Grudge Match (1:13): MP3
  9. Walking Vicksburg Blues (3:17): MP3
  10. Some Streets (0:56): MP3
  11. Speed Key (2:07): MP3
  12. Souvenir of the Manassah Ball (1:49): MP3
  13. Last Call (5:08): MP3
  14. The Guards on Privilege (1:52): MP3
  15. Chanson (for Karen) (0:50): MP3
  16. Tirade (1:04): MP3
  17. An excerpt from "Big House Movies" (9:50): MP3
  18. Ovidio Martinez's "Salt" (2:23): MP3
  19. Back-Ordered Tears (1:33): MP3

January 29-30, 1992

David Bromige

January 29 - Complete reading (39:51): MP3

  1. Epigraph from Desire (translation from Nietzsche's The Joyful Wisdom) (1:29): MP3
  2. The Art of Capitalism (1:07): MP3
  3. The states supplanted gold (0:41): MP3
  4. Community leaders (0:19): MP3
  5. Kafka (0:28): MP3
  6. Giant redwoods (0:34): MP3
  7. Reality, of continuing interest (0:19): MP3
  8. She wore white lipstick (0:14): MP3
  9. Civ = blab (0:24): MP3
  10. Ex catheter (0:25): MP3
  11. Fiction of neutralized culture (0:21): MP3
  12. Seated at the organ (groan), for Robert Grenier (0:38): MP3
  13. These days the students demand to be tested (0:41): MP3
  14. Song: Brilliantly inventive, for opal nations (1:10): MP3
  15. Feeling for the blind, for Michael Palmer (0:57): MP3
  16. Vehicle (0:17): MP3
  17. Manana from heaven (0:19): MP3
  18. One (0:18): MP3
  19. Zither music (1:02): MP3
  20. Open wide (0:35): MP3
  21. The fate of presence in our time (0:25): MP3
  22. The poet strolls at evening by the river, for Tom Sharp (0:35): MP3
  23. Associations (0:25): MP3
  24. The referents' lair, for George Bowering (0:46): MP3
  25. Soyez raisonnable (0:48): MP3
  26. Don't drool when you say lot-split (0:46): MP3
  27. Scum to sun (0:32): MP3
  28. Tubal legislature (0:30): MP3
  29. Book ends (0:16): MP3
  30. Clearings in the throat, for Anselm Hollo (1:09): MP3
  31. The poet (0:46): MP3
  32. Clocks, for Cecelia Belle (0:26): MP3
  33. Ancient riff (0:47): MP3
  34. Art as revenge/revenue (0:59): MP3
  35. Might be right, for Samuel Brittan (2:12): MP3
  36. P.g., or, a Canadian narrative, for Barry McKinnon (1:00): MP3
  37. Meanwhile (1:20): MP3
  38. Orphic (0:34): MP3
  39. Trance ending (0:28): MP3
  40. Male order brides, for Michael Davidson (1:19): MP3
  41. Voice (0:18): MP3
  42. Prophetic soul mode (0:38): MP3
  43. Da capo (1:01): MP3
  44. Good god! you, here? (0:31): MP3
  45. Obligatory poem of the perspicacious child, for Robert Creeley (0:14): MP3
  46. On going on, for Cydney Chadwick (1:14): MP3
  47. Personal (1) (0:33): MP3
  48. Personal (too) (0:19): MP3
  49. So, a poetry of immediacy (0:23): MP3
  50. Confidence (0:31): MP3
  51. But one dimension (1:00): MP3
  52. Where we came in (0:48): MP3

January 30 - Complete seminar (2:08:06): MP3

  1. typicality and particularity (6:20): MP3
  2. consciousness and habit (3:12): MP3
  3. two kinds of invisibility and what breaks through the boundary (3:16): MP3
  4. making strange (8:41): MP3
  5. understandability, a literature of what is outstanding, and waking up habits (5:57): MP3
  6. certainty and ambiguity in literature (2:10): MP3
  7. disruptions, surprises, and mistakes in texts (8:27): MP3
  8. anomalous words in lists from Karen Gordon's The Transitive Vampire (6:20): MP3
  9. surprise and confusion in Alice Munro's "Wild Swans" (11:26): MP3
  10. prose style in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (7:18): MP3
  11. discussing Cydney Chadwick's "Enemy Clothing" (9:58): MP3
  12. discussing Cyra McFadden's "The Serial" (5:01): MP3
  13. maps and dialect representation (6:54): MP3
  14. voyeurism and fantasy in prose (1:19): MP3
  15. Thomas Hardy's writing (2:49): MP3
  16. discussing the "T" section in Red Hats (15:47): MP3
  17. digression in literature (15:32): MP3
  18. discussing "Hieratics (7:19): MP3

February 12, 1992

Buffalo Poetics Program Reading:
  1. Mike Basinski (10:14): MP3
  2. Elizabeth Burns and Jefferson Hanson (13:10): MP3
  3. Lou Daly (10:07): MP3
  4. Peter Gizzi (4:57): MP3
  5. Loss Glazier (10:56): MP3
  6. Mark Hammer (7:01): MP3
  7. Cynthia Kimball (2:23): MP3
  8. Jena Osman (9:19): MP3
  9. Juliana Spahr (6:26): MP3
  10. Taylor Brigham (9:58): MP3
  11. Bill Tuttle (8:46): MP3
  12. Mark Wallace (8:41): MP3
  13. Elizabeth Willis (7:12): MP3