Kathleen Fraser

Reading at Intersection in San Francisco May 4, 1982

1. Introduction (3:59): MP3
2. Change of Address (2:30): MP3
3. The Baker's Daughter (1:06): MP3
4. Sensing the Presence of Butterfly (2:54): MP3
5. What I Want (1:16): MP3
6. Growing Up (2:33): MP3
7. One of the Chapters (3:50): MP3
8. Collective Invention (3:55): MP3
9. Flood (4:21): MP3
10. Lena Pergola (5:59): MP3
11. Dordogne Song (3:02): MP3
12. One is Whole One is Not (1:26): MP3
13. Manual Dexterity (2:11): MP3
14. These Labdanum Hours (2:35): MP3
15. Medusa's Hair With Snakes with Thought Split Inward (3:50): MP3
Complete Reading (47:38): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn January 25, 1986

Complete Reading (44:09): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn February 8, 1992

Complete Reading (19:59): MP3

Reading at the University of Buffalo, November 3, 1993

• complete reading (1:12:09): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 6, 1999

From What I Want (1974)

1. "Little Notes to You, from Lucas Street" (5:39): MP3

From New Shoes (1978)

2. "Coincidental" (3:30): MP3

From Each Next (1980)

3. "Lena Pergola" (4:41): MP3
4. "Somebody who is hooked on the color red" (1:31): MP3

From Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake (1984)

5. Introduction (5:03): MP3
6. "A definite mountain (the upper with tableaux), foul water." (1:05): MP3
7. "They did not make conversation." (0:58): MP3
8. "Anna, in lawn chair endeavor." (0:43): MP3
9. "Becoming famous and powerful" (0:46): MP3
10. "The sun opens and begins to work." (0:33): MP3
11. "Anna ("Are you looking at me?"), if not." (1:17): MP3
12. "Covertly, her husband('s eyes)." (0:13): MP3
13. "Later and tense, looking too big for the body." (0:34): MP3
14. "Small Pyramid, marginal attention." (0:27): MP3
15. ""The certainty of Byzantine tendencies," she reads." (0:45): MP3
16. "In white, she who bathed." (0:22): MP3

Newer Work

17. "Soft Pages" (18:30): MP3
18. "A.D. Notebooks" (14:13): MP3

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University at Buffalo, February 28, 2001

• introduction (7:22): MP3
• Complete Reading (1:00:52): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 16, 2002

1. introduction (3:34): MP3
2. Train ( 0:27): MP3
3. 10:10 AM (3:38): MP3
4. Bernini's Chisel (5:23): MP3
5. Hotel Classic (0:46): MP3
6. Human Values (2:25): MP3
7. 20th Century (5:10): MP3
8. The Cars (1:45): MP3
9. Celeste and Serious (6:30): MP3

complete recording (38:48): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz

Episode #84 "Translate the Unspeakable" part one (26:48), part two (28:39)

Conversation with Suzanne Stein 2007/Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake (Kelsey Street Press 1984)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, January 17, 2007

1. Introduction (1:48): MP3
2. Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake (13:34): MP3
3. Conversation with Suzanne Stein Part 1 (15:18): MP3
4. Medusa's hair was snakes. Was thought, split inward. (3:01): MP3
5. Conversation with Suzanne Stein Part 2 (34:00): MP3

Kathleen Fraser Interviews Hadley Guest about Barbara Guest, Berkeley, July 17, 2007

1. introduction (0:23): MP3
2. Hadley Guest reading "The Next Floor" by Barbara Guest (0:51): MP3
3. Kathleen Fraser on being introduced to Barbara Guest and her work (13:46): MP3
4. Barbara Guest's friendship with painters (9:33): MP3
5. Hadley Guest on growing up around poets and painters (5:15): MP3
6. the division between uptown and downtown in the New York art world in the 60s (12:31): MP3
7. Barbara Guest's refusal to be pigeon-holed (2:23): MP3
8. the cruelty of the downtown scene and Barbara Guest's intentional erasure (18:31): MP3
9. Hadley Guest on living with Barbara during the last few years of her life and hearing about her first marriage to John Dudley (7:18): MP3
10. Trumbull Higgins and social position in relation to money (11:33): MP3
11. Barbara's uptown studio and her strong family feelings (16:55): MP3
12. Barbara's shared apartment with Perdita Schaffner and her experience working and walking around Union Square (5:00): MP3
13. productivity, freedom, and moving west (4:15): MP3
14. Stephen Guest and introducing Barbara Guest to H.D. (15:35): MP3
15. Barbara's work on H.D. (12:27): MP3
16. Barbara's awareness of women writers, her relation to feminism, and her commitment to being a wife and mother as well as a poet (15:29): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 8, 2008

Complete Reading (40:08): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #13, discussing Fraser's "The Cars," January 12, 2009

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, September 22, 2009

• Introduction (3:32): MP3
• Reading (41:36): MP3
• Question & Answer Session (27:10): MP3
• Fraser Discusses Charles Olson (10:54): MP3

complete recording (1:13:01): MP3

watch a video recording of this complete event via KWH-TV: MOV

Appearing at Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism, sponsored by the Belladonna Reading Series, New York, September 24, 2009

Reading with Erica Hunt (54:44): MP3

complete discussion (26:53): MP3

Also of Interest:

On Dante, at Pescara, April 23, 1997 (32:59): MP3

Kathleen Fraser on PennSound Daily

• September 28, 2009: "Kathleen Fraser: Kelly Writers House Reading, September 2009"
• January 12, 2009: "PoemTalk #13: Kathleen Fraser's 'The Cars'"
• January 4, 2008: "Kathleen Fraser and Robin Blaser on Dante"

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