Cecilia Vicuña


Photo © 2008 Charles Bernstein/PennSound.

Reading at Wednesdays @ 4 Plus, SUNY-Buffalo, March 17, 1993

complete reading (35:43): MP3

LINEbreak Reading at the Charles Morrow and Associates Studio, New York City, September 1995

Complete Recording (28:59): MP3

The Radio Reading Project, New York University, April 24, 1999

Reading at Wednesdays @ 4 Plus, SUNY-Buffalo, March 22, 2002

Complete Reading (47:52): MP3

Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics, "Word in Words" Reading, March 8, 2004

1. Introduction (0:46): MP3
2. Reading from Water Poems (4:20): MP3
3. Water and fluidity of language and culture in poetry (2:37): MP3
4. Influence of Quechua language (2:31): MP3
5. Jose Maria Argueda's influence on Vicuna's work (1:49): MP3
6. Performance of poetry (1:12): MP3
7. Reading a poem performed for St. Mark's Poetry Project in 2002 (5:56): MP3
8. Form and content of performance poetry (1:25): MP3
9. Discussing current work (0:52): MP3
10. Overlaps of Quechua and Chinese artistic production (5:07): MP3
11. Comments on upcoming work; conclusion of first half (2:52): MP3

Writers Without Borders Reading, Kelly Writers House, UPenn, April 15, 2008

Complete Reading (50:23): MP3

A 40th Anniversary Celebration of Technicians of the Sacred, at the Bowery Poetry Club, September 14, 2008

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 28, 2009

Reading from Poems for the Millenium III, Bowery Poetry Club, NY, March 29, 2009

Reading for Threads Talk Series, November 3, 2010

1. Introduction by Steve Clay (3:07): MP3
2. Talk (40:25): MP3
3. Discussion (15:39): MP3

A screening and discussion of Kon Kon, a documentary poem, Kelly Writers House, February 3, 2011

complete recording (1:24:40): MP3

excerpt, discussing ritual in relation to poetry (6:45): YouTube

Flux Poetics; Writing in Cultural Duality, Belladonna* Reading Series, New York, April 19, 2011

complete reading (19:08): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics #239: Two Masters, 2011

• complete segment (31:45): MP3

Chanting fragments of her poem Instan (Kelsey Street Press 2002), improvising on a Tibetan dramyin, Berkeley, February 17, 2012

Recorded by Ross Craig

1. alba del habla/mother of time (4:38): MP3
2. luz y del qué/cúal es nuestra verdad? (8:20): MP3
3. Instan, a journey inside words, an oral improvisation (5:27): MP3

Cecilia Vicuña on PennSound Daily

• December 3, 2010: "Threads Talk Series: Cecilia Vicuñ, Knotations on a Quipu"
• April 15, 2008: "Writers Without Borders: Cecilia Vicuña at UPenn, 4/15"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to Cecilia Vicuña. Used with the permission of Cecilia Vicuña. © 2008 Cecilia Vicuña. Distributed by PennSound.