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Norma Cole

Norma Cole
Photo © Andrew Kenower

Tribute Reading for Larry Eigner's 90th Birthday, The Green Arcade, San Francisco, CA, August 7, 2017

On occasion of the publication of the selected poems, with Jennifer Bartlett, Steve Dickison, Richard Eigner, Norman Fischer, Jack Foley, Kathleen Frumkin, George Hart, Lyn Hejinian, Kit Robinson, and Stephen Ratcliffe.

Complete recording (1:52:07): MP3

Reading for the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Art Foundation, New York:Chelsea, December 6, 2012

with Julian Talamantez-Brolaski

  • Complete reading (20:02): MP3

Reading for Segue Series at BPC in New York, January 22, 2011

  1. Kareem Estefan’s Introduction (06:11): MP3
  2. On CAConrad’s Work (01:02): MP3
  3. Dear Robert (01:05): MP3
  4. Allegory Four (01:46): MP3
  5. Allegory Four (01:20): MP3
  6. Allegory Fourteen (01:27): MP3
  7. Forever Amber (03:18): MP3
  8. The Dream I Had Ended (02:02): MP3
  9. A Green Wine I Love (00:54): MP3
  10. We’re All Guests Of Experience (01:07): MP3
  11. Approach (01:13): MP3
  12. The Horse Declares (00:55): MP3
  • Complete reading (28:33): MP3

MLA Off-Site Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009

  • Complete reading (3:37): MP3

Chax Press 25th Anniversary at Hotel Congress, September 17, 2009 - on POG Sound

Complete Reading (31:14): MP3

On A Voice Box, Pegasus Books, Berkeley, May 3, 2007

  • Complete reading (9:25): MP3

MLA Offsite Series Reading in Philadelphia, December 26, 2006

  • Pluto's Disgrace (3:13): MP3
  • At Bowery Poetry Club, NY, December 10, 2005

    1. Introduction (04:03): MP3
    2. Before the mind catches up the body’s been and gone (00:48): MP3
    3. Action (05:03): MP3
    4. Dear Robert (00:52): MP3
    5. In Our Own Backyard (07:12): MP3
    6. Speech Production Themes And Variations (13:29): MP3
    • Complete reading (36:30): MP3

    Reading for the Belladonna* Series, NYC, February 22, 2002

    1. Introduction (02:45): MP3
    2. Burns (03:301: MP3
    3. Spinoza In Her Youth (02:25): MP3
    4. Artificial memory 1 (00:31): MP3
    5. Artificial memory 2 (00:22): MP3
    6. Artificial Memory 3 (00:24): MP3
    7. Artificial Memory 4 (00:26): MP3
    8. Artificial Memory 5 (00:25): MP3
    9. Artificial Memory 6 (00:27): MP3
    10. Artificial Memory 7 (00:31): MP3
    11. Artificial Memory 8 (00:30): MP3
    12. Artificial Memory 9 (00:32): MP3
    13. Artificial Memory 10 (00:31): MP3
    14. The Boy Who Didn’t Get Up (01:10): MP3
    15. My Operatives (02:46): MP3
    16. Conjunctions (03:18): MP3
    17. Stay Songs For Stanley Whitney (01:35): MP3

      Complete reading (24:10): MP3

    At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1999

    • Reading on January 23, 1999 Part 1 (17:04): MP3
    • Reading on January 23, 1999 Part 2 (19:46): MP3

    MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

    1. A Poet Enters the Body of Expectation (0:42): MP3
    2. Artificial Memory (4:44): MP3

    Reading at SUNY Buffalo, March 18, 1992

    1. After Arthur or Please Let Me Be Misunderstood (02:41): MP3
    2. Ruth (12:25): MP3
    3. Excerpt from Mars (06:08): MP3
    4. Probation (12:17): MP3
    5. Absorption or a Noun of Action (00:58): MP3
    • Complete reading (40:42): MP3

    At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1991

    • Panel on Translation on March 23, 1991 (32:39): MP3

    At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1990

    • Reading September 29, 1990, Part 1 (12:52): MP3
    • Reading September 29, 1990, Part 2 (20:11): MP3
    • Reading September 29, 1990, Part 3 (10:22): MP3
    • Reading September 29, 1990, Part 4 (11:29): MP3

    Reading for the publication of Screens and Tasted Parallels, edited by Tyrus Miller and Terrell Hale, Stanford University, November 19, 1989

    Complete Reading (24:38): MP3

    reading courtesy of A.L. Nielsen

    In Relation, at Guerrero; recorded May 26, 1990.

    Recordings courtesy of David Levi Strauss

    • Complete recording (2:42:34):MP3

    Incognito Lounge reading with Carla Harryman, San Jose State University, May 1, 1990

    • Complete reading (39:44): MP3

    At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1989

    • Reading November 17, 1989, Part 1 (14:16): MP3
    • Reading November 17, 1989, Part 2 (13:22): MP3

    At Ear Inn, May 21, 1988

    • Complete reading (27:46): MP3

    These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author's estate. © 2017 Norma Cole. Used with permission of Norma Cole. Distributed by PennSound.