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From a Red 2001 Standard Diary (4:03): MP3
O world (2:17): MP3
O unconscious (2:24): MP3
Signs on the Post-9/11 Commute to Work (4:04): MP3
O magic property (3:03): MP3
O Elvis (2:36): MP3
Places in Dreams (4:32): MP3
O lockerrooms (2:12): MP3
O irresponsible (2:48): MP3
From a Red 2003 Standard Diary (3:37): MP3
O vehicle (2:22): MP3
O monkey (2:21): MP3
1957-2037 (3:27): MP3
A Few of My Favorite Things (3:02): MP3
O compulsive (2:15): MP3
O houses (2:15): MP3
Visions (5:09): MP3
O boymel (2:20): MP3
O Indo-European (2:05): MP3
The Triumph of the Red States in 2004 (2:33): MP3
O Momaday (2:28): MP3
O Borodin (2:52): MP3
America's Overseas Military Bases (3:46): MP3
O Tory propensities (3:44): MP3
O oildrops (2:23): MP3
House Republican Leaders Violating the 10 Commandments in 2005 (4:51): MP3
O bring dogs (3:24): MP3
O smiling (2:18): MP3
The Elimination of the U.S. Soccer Team at the 2006 World Cup (3:40): MP3
O stone (2:21): MP3
O adventure (3:20): MP3
A Few of My Favorite Things in American Poetry (3:27): MP3
O oniongrass (2:33): MP3
O petridish (2:12): MP3
A Few of My Favorite Things in T.S. Eliot (4:02): MP3
O wretches (2:15): MP3
O love (2:15): MP3
A Few of My Favorite Things in Allen Ginsberg (4:36): MP3
O America (2:24): MP3
O hope (2:28): MP3
From a Red 2008 Standard Diary (5:11): MP3
O holiday (2:17): MP3
O sandwich (2:10): MP3
From a Notebook of Titles: First Lines (4:04): MP3
O paunts (2:36): MP3
O aberrant phrases (4:01): MP3
U.S. News Headlines in 2010 (5:17): MP3
O lutta perpetua (3:17): MP3
O piecemeal eggs (3:26): MP3
O the fear (2:39): MP3
O relief (3:25): MP3
From a Red 2012 Standard Diary (4:50): MP3
O election (2:19): MP3
O face (2:49): MP3
Repeated Memories (4:42): MP3
O frogs (2:43): MP3
O cicadas (2:56): MP3
U.S. News Headlines in 2014 (6:42): MP3
O zero (2:49): MP3
O yes (2:24): MP3
People in Dreams (4:21): MP3
O bombs (2:15): MP3
O say (2:16): MP3
Memories of the Star-Spangled Banner (3:07): MP3
The Star-Spangled Banner (3:24): MP3
O Ornette (3:00): MP3
O Ornette (3:05): MP3
Donald Trump at the Republican Debate on August 6, 2015 (4:18): MP3
O The Star-Spangled Banner (3:51): MP3
O America (3:04): MP3
Voices at the End of Election Night on November 9, 2016 (6:34): MP3
O failure (2:54): MP3

Reading from The Mouth of the Bay, 2019

Blessed Is Failure (1:02): MP3
Last Thing (1:13): MP3
The Earth Is Held up by Nothing (2:11): MP3
The One Among the Many (0:55): MP3
The Earth Used to Be Covered with Water (0:16): MP3
The Blue and the Green (1:24): MP3
Purifications (3:06): MP3
The Pure (0:31): MP3
What Is This the Remnant Of? (0:58): MP3
Wretches, Stay Away from Beans (9:23): MP3
Further Reaches (8:26): MP3
There's No Beginning and There's No End (1:24): MP3
The Pure (1:13): MP3
We Only Perceive Our Bodies (4:06): MP3
Foghorn (1:30): MP3
Wave Talk (9:34): MP3
Raindrops on a Page (1:03): MP3
The Pure (2:14): MP3
There Are an Infinite Number of Worlds, Some Always Coming to Be, Some Always Perishing (5:41): MP3
Foghorn (1:10): MP3

Elements10 (1:07): MP3
Elements11 (1:48): MP3
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Elements23 (5:46): MP3
The Blue (2:10): MP3
Blue Fields (4:21): MP3

Trance Position (8:40): MP3
Foghorn (1:41): MP3
Even Here (2:03): MP3
If We Could Do What the White Birds Do (0:49): MP3
Of Marsden Hartley (2:40): MP3
Distant Foghorn (2:00): MP3
Even Here (4:50): MP3
Purify Me (11:51): MP3
The Blue Water (7:04): MP3
Foghorn (3:48): MP3
Sounds of a Foggy Coast (2:44): MP3
The Day of the Moon (0:51): MP3
The Blue Compels (5:27): MP3

Waves (3:38): MP3
The Flowing Blue (2:32): MP3
Foghorn (2:48): MP3
Clouds over Frenchman Bay (1:18): MP3
Foghorns and Waves (3:28): MP3

Sounds of High Tide in the Fog (5:04): MP3

Reading from The Edge of the Underworld, 2019

Prologue (4:47): MP3
Sic Fatur Lacrimans (11:50): MP3
Sibilance (3:52): MP3
They're Their There (2:50): MP3
Among Senses (1:08): MP3
The Seal Wore Out (1:09): MP3
Tenebrous Children (2:31): MP3
Five Poems (7:05): MP3
Cape (2:25): MP3
Dusting the Urns (5:35): MP3
Verba Sancta (4:18): MP3
Polymorphous Perversity (1:43): MP3
Antistrophes (1:15): MP3
After the Time of Shared References (0:52): MP3
A Retrospective Glance (0:42): MP3
The Skeleton as a Work of Art (5:43): MP3
Epilogue (5:43): MP3

Reading at the 27th Subterranean Poetry Festival, September 10th, 2017, Rosendale, NY

Michael Ruby (11:53): MP3

Reading from Close Your Eyes (Dusie, 2013) with musicans for Greetings Series at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, N.Y., on November 6, 2014 (recorded 2014)

Accompaniment from Jed Shahar on alto saxophone, mini-cassette recorder and delay pedal; Dan Veksler on samples, bells and whistles with delay, and percussion; Jeffrey Joe Nelson on drum, stones, jangling keys and African thumb piano. Recorded by Jed Shahar

Full Recording (23:06): MP3

Tracks from American Songbook (recorded 2013)

All of the poems in American Songbook (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), recorded in Millburn, N.J., on July 11, 2013, by sound engineer Deena Shoshkes

Pinchbacks—Take ’Em Away (1:55): MP3
Frosty Morning Blues (2:10): MP3
Black Cat, Hoot Owl Blues (1:56): MP3
I’m on the Battlefield for My Lord (3:51): MP3
Keep on the Sunny Side (1:27): MP3
Waiting for a Train (1:51): MP3
Midnight Special (2:18): MP3
My Very Good Friend, the Milkman (1:45): MP3
They’re Red Hot (2:45): MP3
I’m a Gamblin' Woman (1:33): MP3
Blue Skies (2:37): MP3
A Brown Bird Singing (1:18): MP3
Prisoner of Love (1:29): MP3
Over the Rainbow (1:44): MP3
The Desert Blues (9:08): MP3
This Land Is Your Land (1:56): MP3
Gloomy Sunday (1:51): MP3
"Little White Flowers Will Never Awaken You" (2:35): MP3
Don't Explain (1:02): MP3
The Lord Followed Me (3:24): MP3
Summertime is Past and Gone (1:17): MP3
I Dreamed About Mama Last Night (2:20): MP3
Make Up Your Mind (1:43): MP3
In the Good Old Summertime (3:35): MP3
Nightmare (1:26): MP3
Folsom Prison Blues (1:47): MP3
Alright, OK, You Win (2:30): MP3
Love for Sale (3:04): MP3
Summertime (3:35): MP3
She's a Good 'Un (2:09): MP3
Nine Below Zero (1:12): MP3
Help Me (2:29): MP3
Where the Rio De Rosa Flows (1:53): MP3
Johnny B. Goode (2:47): MP3
Can't Help Falling in Love (2:09): MP3
How I Got Over (6:53): MP3
You've Got to Stand Your Test in Judgement (3:21): MP3
Walk in Jerusalem (2:54): MP3
In the Dark (3:37): MP3
It's a Pity (2:27): MP3
Something's Got a Hold on Me (1:41): MP3
A Change is Gonna Come (2:51) (2:07): MP3
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (1:59): MP3
You Keep Me Hangin' On (3:26): MP3
Cigarettes and Coffee (1:52): MP3
You Know, I Know (2:11): MP3
Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again (3:40): MP3
People Are Strange (2:32): MP3
What a Wonderful World (2:42): MP3
I Don't Want No Woman (1:15): MP3
Insane Asylum (3:57): MP3
Ain't No Way (2:07): MP3
Crosstown Traffic (2:54): MP3
The Star-Spangled Banner (I) (3:09): MP3
The Star-Spangled Banner (II) (5:44): MP3
The Thrill is Gone (2:15): MP3
Coal Miner's Daughter (2:47): MP3
Walk Away (3:41): MP3
Little Girl Blue (4:32): MP3
Get It While You Can (3:58): MP3
Truckin' (2:03): MP3
What's Going On (1:42): MP3
Walk on the Wild Side (2:46): MP3
America the Beautiful (3:00): MP3
Midnight Train to Georgia (2:46): MP3
Badlands (2:51): MP3
Hot Stuff (2:36): MP3
Billie Jean (7:36): MP3
I Just Called to Say I Love You (2:00): MP3
Look at Little Sister (1:59): MP3
Come as You Are (2:58): MP3
Bad Love (3:09): MP3
Only God Can Judge Me (6:02): MP3
Hit 'Em Up (5:23): MP3
Life After Death Intro (2:40): MP3
Smooth (4:42): MP3

Tracks from Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (recorded 2013)

Part of the trilogy Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill Press, 2012), recorded in Millburn, N.J., on November 25, 2013, by sound engineer Deena Shoshkes

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A Note About Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (4:28): MP3

Tracks from Compulsive Words

Almost all of the poems in Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX books, 2010) recorded in Brooklyn, N.Y., at various times in 2008-2011, by sound engineer David Kumin

Dread (4:14): MP3
Fields (8:03): MP3
Dreams (1:35): MP3
Dreams of Europe (0:31): MP3
Everyone Makes Up Stories Every Night (1:05): MP3
A Sleeper's Itinerary (3:19): MP3
The Morals of Dreams (2:38): MP3
Fleeting Memories (2:16): MP3
Stuck in Transition (2:34): MP3
Dim Lessons (2:08): MP3
Family Problems (2:13): MP3
The Disequilibrists (2:21): MP3
A Cure for Headaches (1:22): MP3
Incisions (1:24): MP3
To Not (1:38): MP3
Fatalism (1:26): MP3
The Millennium (1:20): MP3
Still Stuck (1:16): MP3
Old Woldinorum (1:53): MP3
Fatality (6:52): MP3
Compulsive Words (3:33): MP3
Beginnings, Middles and Ends (1:53): MP3
A Body (3:24): MP3
Dance of the Chance Automata (4:30): MP3
The Star-Spangled Banner (2:14): MP3
Titles & First Lines (6:20): MP3
What Has Changed? (1:54): MP3
I Can't Change (1:29): MP3
After Another Absence (1:31): MP3
So Much (0:30): MP3
Almost Forever (2:26): MP3
Tue. (1:46): MP3
Too (2:10): MP3
Tu (0:43): MP3
Even You (4:07): MP3

From Radio Poetique presents Poetic Brooklyn, May 24th, 2004

Among the Crepusculars (3:52): MP3
Only on Tuesday (4:52): MP3
Before; Text for Kupka's "Black and White Abstraction" (4:01): MP3
First Names (3:23): MP3
Among Senses (1:38): MP3
Glimpsed from a Car; The Train in the Distance (2:55): MP3
Pinchbacks – Take 'Em Away (for Bessie Smith) (4:19): MP3

Interview with Susan Brennan (1:11:57): MP3

Monday Night Series: Tracy Blackmer, Michael Ruby, St. Mark's Church, NY, May 8, 2000

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

Side A (47:45): link
Side B (48:24): link

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