Writers Without Borders at the Kelly Writers House

Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, featuring Norbert Lange, October 30, 2018

Program One: Reading

Complete Recording (53:45): MP3

Program Two: Conversation

Complete Recording (29:23): MP3

ko ko thett, January 23, 2017

• Reading (29:18): MP3
• Close Listening Conversation (38:42): MP3

Complete Recording (1:09:09): MP3

Nicole Peyrafitte and Pierre Joris, September 8, 2016

Complete Recording (1:25:10): MP3

Lucas de Lima and Hiromi Itō, April 6, 2015

Lucas de Lima (30:47): MP3
Hiromi Itō (29:02): MP3
Complete Recording (01:13:09): MP3

Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky, October 11, 2012

• intro by Kevin Platt (4:26): MP3
• Matvei Yankelevich (22:52): MP3
• intro by Kevin Platt (1:28): MP3
• Eugene Ostashevsky (24:32): MP3
• discussion (25:45): MP3


• complete recording (1:20:19): MP3

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, reading and discussion in conjunction with Close Listening, November 3, 2010

English translation read by Charles Bernstein.

1. Ludwig Joseph Johann, translation by Thomas Epstein (4:17): MP3
2. Ludwig Joseph Johann (2:49): MP3
3. But as in Anyone's Body, translation by Genya Turovskaya (0:38): MP3
4. But as in Anyone's Body (0:32): MP3
5. You See the Mountains and Think Them Immobile, translation by Lyn Hejinian (3:23): MP3
6. You See the Mountains and Think Them Immobile (3:15): MP3
7. Possible Indications, translation by Genya Turovskaya (2:48): MP3
8. Possible Indications (2:29): MP3
9. It is Told in the Qur'an, read with Kevin Platt (7:21): MP3
10. To Trofim K. Dragomoshchenko, translation by Genya Turovskaya (3:57): MP3
11. To Trofim K. Dragomoshchenko (2:59): MP3
12. The Grandmother Story (introduction to Untitled Poem), translated by Kevin Platt (3:52): MP3
13. Untitled Poem, translation by Jacob Edmund (1:27): MP3
14. Untitled Poem (1:55): MP3
15. introduction to To a Statesman, read with Kevin Platt (3:34): MP3
16. To a Statesman, translation by Genya Turovskaya (4:54): MP3
17. To a Statesman (3:29): MP3
18. There They Go, translation by Genya Turovskaya (2:38): MP3
19. There They Go (2:15): MP3

• complete reading (1:00:27): MP3 / MOV
• complete conversation (29:38): MP3 / MOV

Anna Hallberg, reading and disucssion in conjunction with Close Listening, October 6, 2010

English translations by the author and friends, read by Michelle Taransky

1. Seven Sprinkler, from Friktion (Friction) (2:26): MP3
2. Four Blade, from Friktion (Friction) (1:02): MP3
3. Eight Catatonia, from Friktion (Friction) (1:19): MP3
4. from på era platser (On Your Marks) (9:14): MP3
5. from Mil (Mile) (8:22): MP3
6. Poem (Dead Brown Limbs...), from Kolosseum (Colosseum) (2:47): MP3
7. Poem (Crashing into the Cold Light...), from Kolosseum (Colosseum) (6:03): MP3

• complete reading (31:24): MP3 / MOV
• complete conversation (27:56): MP3 / MOV

Jörgen Gassilewski, reading and disucssion in conjunction with Close Listening, October 6, 2010

English translations by the author and friends, read by Charles Bernstein

1. introduction (2:08): MP3
2. The Marking of the Kerosene is High (1:26): MP3
3. Grind and Drill (2:16): MP3
4. To Whom Should You Talk (1:15): MP3
5. Plant That is Green and Nice (1:00): MP3
6. Paper of the Center, it is to Know (1:10): MP3
7. Turning Back Right After Starting Off (1:39): MP3
8. The Stork Founding a Home (1:00): MP3
9. The Third Test of the Land, Following (1:25): MP3
10. All Days in the Class (1:23): MP3
11. The Weapon and a Forlornness (1:28): MP3
12. Test Run and Refreshments are Offered (1:23): MP3
13. I Love You in a Hundred Languages (2:06): MP3
14. I Love You is a Beautiful and Useful Phrase (0:53): MP3
15. I Love You (1:02): MP3
16. I Love You Too (1:03): MP3
17. When A Joyful Thing Falls (8:52): MP3
18. Untitled (6:34): MP3

• complete reading (38:13): MP3 / MOV
• complete conversation (28:10): MP3 / MOV

Mark Weiss, The Whole Island reading and discussion, September 30, 2010

1. introduction (2:09): MP3
2. opening remarks by Mark Weiss (2:09): MP3
3. discussion of The Whole Island (3:46): MP3
4. Homeland - José Martí (1:59): MP3
5. Martían Text - Lorenzo García Vega (1:27): MP3
6. "I Will Never Leave Them" and "On my neighbor's door..." by Vergilio Piñera (4:12): MP3
7. "Cuban Poets Don't Dream Anymore" and "Poetics" by Heberto Padilla (3:48): MP3
8. Fable - Gastón Baquero (3:33): MP3
9. The Girl in the Forest - Eliseo Diego (2:23): MP3
10. "Little Elegy", "Use of the Plural" and "This Grammar Book" by Fina García Marruz (4:10): MP3
11. "Woman Emerging from the Closet", "Loss of the Love Poem Called 'Mist'" and "In the Vortex of the Cyclone" by Luis Rogelio Nogueras (5:06): MP3
12. from Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Raúl Hernández Novás (5:13): MP3
13. Maleva and the Children in Paradise - Soleida Ríos (2:38): MP3
14. Herbalist - Alessandra Molina (2:03): MP3
15. discussion (16:52): MP3

• complete reading (1:01:35): MP3 / MOV

Tianna Kennedy and Tomomi Adachi, in conjunction with the EDIT Series, February 18, 2010

• introduction by Danny Snelson (5:30): MP3

Tianna Kennedy

• complete discussion (29:52): MP3

Tomomi Adachi

1. Untitled (1:56): MP3
2. Face for Voice and Gesture (4:16): MP3
3. Anata 5 (2:17): MP3
4. Sekkan no Shu (2:04):MP3
5. Voice Sound Poetry Form Begun With -X- (1:46): MP3
6. Opus Ki (1:54): MP3
7. Second Hand (3:17): MP3
8. Introduction to Voice and Infrared Sensor Shirt (2:25): MP3
9. Voice and Infrared Sensor Shirt (6:19): MP3

Christian Bök, reading and discussion November 18, 2009

1. introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (2:51): MP3
2. introduction by Keagan Sparks (7:57): MP3
3. Seahorses and Flying Fish (Seepferdchen und flugfische) by Hugo Ball (1:18): MP3
4. Karawane by Hugo Ball (0:46): MP3
5. Excerpt from Eunoia, from Chapter "I" for Dick Higgins (1:38): MP3
6. Excerpt from Eunoia, Excerpt from Chapter "U" (1:31): MP3
7. Voyelles by Arthur Rimbaud (1:39): MP3
8. Vowels (1:27): MP3
9. Phonemes (1:53): MP3
10. Vocables (1:45): MP3
11. Valuvëula (1:51): MP3
12. Two Equal Texts (1:31): MP3
13. Ten Maps of Sardonic Wit (1:13): MP3
14. From "Patent # 3,005,282" by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen (0:58): MP3
15. From "The Great Order of the Universe" by Democritus (0:59): MP3
16. Excerpt from "Busted Sirens" (3:29): MP3
17. American Dada (1:10): MP3
18. Sipher ING-ARD614 (1:59): MP3
19. The Doomsday Song, For Frederiech Nietzsche upon the Death of Superman (1:14): MP3
20. From "The Ursonate" (1:53): MP3
21. Aria of the Three-Horned Enemy, From "The Princess of the Stars" (4:01): MP3
22. "Mushroom Clouds" from The Cyborg Opera (2:14): MP3
23. "Synth Loops" from the Cyborg Opera (1:56): MP3
24. Totenklage (1:58): MP3
25. Q & A and Discussion with Christian Bök (41:07): MP3

• Complete Recording (1:33:08): MP3   MOV

Dmitry Golynko, November 10, 2009

1. Shashenka / сашенка [Russian] (3:07): MP3
2. Shashenka / сашенка [English] (3:13): MP3
3. She Has Been Given / она отдана [Russian] (2:00): MP3
4. She Has Been Given / она отдана [English], translation by Rebecca Bella (2:09): MP3
5. ET 22 / ЭВ 22 [Russian] (1:17): MP3
6. ET 22 / ЭВ 22 [English] (1:04): MP3
7. ET 23 / ЭВ 23 [Russian] (1:01): MP3
8. ET 23 / ЭВ 23 [English] (0:58): MP3
9. ET 24 / ЭВ 24 [Russian] (1:16): MP3
10. ET 24 / ЭВ 24 [English] (1:08): MP3
11. ET 25 / ЭВ 25 [Russian] (1:15): MP3
12. ET 25 / ЭВ 25 [English] (1:13): MP3
13. Whip it Out / вынь да положь, translation by Rebecca Bella (7:50): MP3

• Complete Reading (30:48): MP3
• Conversation with Charles Bernstein (40:46): MP3
• (read a transcript of this program at Sibyl)

note: Dmitry Golynko's reading was a part of the Close Listening series, Art International Radio, operationg at ARTonAIR.org

Régis Bonvicino, October 13, 2009

• Conversation (29:27): MP3
• Reading (34:52): MP3

Segmented Reading: Translations Read by Charles Bernstein

1. Introduction (2:15): MP3
2. El Mataa (1:08): MP3
3. El Mataa (1:09): MP3 tr. Odile Cisneros
4. "Imagem impossível," interspersed with "Image Impossible"(3:12): MP3 tr. Charles Bernstein
5. Outra tempestade (0:42): MP3
6. Another Storm (0:48): MP3 tr. Odile Cisneros
7. Poema sério (0:48): MP3
8. Serious Poem (0:37): MP3 tr. Odile Cisneros
9. Tatugem (0:55): MP3
10. Tattoo (2:11): MP3 tr. Charles Bernstein
11. Azulejo (0:34): MP3
12. Blue Tile (0:27): MP3 tr. Charles Bernstein
13. Azulejo (0:26): MP3
14. Caminho de hamster (1:12): MP3 tr. Odile Cisneros
15. The Hampster's Way (1:14): MP3
16. Definitions of Brazil with Charles Berstein (7:21): MP3
17. Cocaine Kate (3:58): MP3 tr. Charles Bernstein and Maria do Carmo Zanini
18. Prosa (0:55): MP3
19. Prose (1:04): MP3 tr. Charles Bernstein
20. Untitled (1:05): MP3
21. Sem título (1:14): MP3 tr. Odile Cisneros

note: Régis Bonvicino's reading was a part of the Close Listening series, Art International Radio, operationg at ARTonAIR.org

Wystan Curnow Reading, April 14, 2009

1. introduction by Al Filreis (2:22): MP3
2. introduction by Bob Perelman (3:03): MP3
3. Keeping to Myself (1:25): MP3
4. Cancer Daybook (7:47): MP3
5. Shored Up (3:25): MP3
6. Riffing on Tzara (6:20): MP3
7. Down Comes a Nude (0:33): MP3
8. Paris Sucks (0:30): MP3
9. Listen Here (0:41): MP3
10. Young Yvonne (3:06): MP3
11. Portrait of Picabia (2:47): MP3
12. Max (9:48): MP3

• Complete Reading (41:57): MP3   MOV

Wystan Curnow Lecture, "Curating as a Critical Practice," April 7, 2009

Complete Lecture (1:22:03): MP3   MOV

Zhimin Li, February 4, 2009

1. introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (2:32): MP3
2. introduction by Charles Bernstein (7:13): MP3
3. Live in Light of Love, to Emma (3:19): MP3
4. Contrast (1:07): MP3
5. A Soul (1:08): MP3
6. Non-Presence I (3:07): MP3
7. Non-Presence II (4:37): MP3
8. Non-Presence III (2:44): MP3
9. Non-Presence IV (1:44): MP3
10. Non-Presence V (2:06): MP3
11. Non-Presence VI (2:07): MP3
12. Non-Presence VII (2:50): MP3
13. Non-Presence VIII (0:58): MP3
14. Non-Presence IX (2:00): MP3
15. Non-Presence X (1:54): MP3
16. Non-Presence XI (1:16): MP3
17. Non-Presence XII (2:09): MP3
18. Non-Presence XIII (2:11): MP3
19. Non-Presence XIV (2:07): MP3
20. She (3:48): MP3
21. Lecture on New Chinese Poetry: The Origin and the Development from the Prespective of Cultural Exchanges Between China and the West (46:29): MP3

• Complete Reading (1:39:45): MP3

Breyten Breytenbach, December 4, 2008

• 1. Introduction by Rita Barnard and Breyten Breytenbach (10:16): MP3
• 2. Looking for the Road (8:32): MP3
• 3. A Black City (4:22): MP3
• 4. Letter to a Butcher from Abroad (7:40): MP3
• 5. In a Burning Sea (1:36): MP3
• 6. Transit (5:26): MP3
• 7. Your Letter (4:16): MP3
• 8. Goya (1:45): MP3
• 9. The Way Back (1:51): MP3
• 10. All One Horse (5:27): MP3
• 11. Prayer (2:43): MP3
• 12. Q & A with Breyten Breytenbach (20:59): MP3


• Complete Reading (1:14:58): MP3

New European Poets, September 23, 2008

• 1. Introduction (4:03): MP3
• 2. Discussion (30:51): MP3
• 3. Q & A with the Audience (8:55): MP3
• 4. Adam Sorkin (11:01): MP3
• 5. Marella Morris-Feltrin (6:55): MP3
• 6. Murat Nemet-Nejat (6:17): MP3
• 7. J.C. Todd (5:12): MP3


• Complete Reading (1:13:37): MP3

Cecilia Vicuña, April 15, 2008

• 1. Introduction by Al Filreis (2:54): MP3
• 2. Introduction by Charles Bernstein (6:58): MP3
• 3. Poems and Songs by Cecilia Vicuña (40:08): MP3


• Complete Reading (50:23): MP3



Writers Without Borders on PennSound Daily

• February 24, 2010: "Newly Segmented Writers Without Borders Readings by Christian Bok, Zhimin Li"
• April 22, 2009: "Wystan Curnow: New Close Listening Programs Plus Writers Without Borders Recordings"




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