Will Alexander

Photo credit: Harold Abramowitz

MLA Offsite Reading at ArtShare, LA, January 8, 2011

complete reading (5:26): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 17, 2007

1. Introduction (4:59): MP3
2. Exercise In Particle Neutrino (1:40): MP3
3. Coping Prana (2:01): MP3
4. Compund Hibernation (2:22): MP3
5. Above The Human Nerve Domain (6:14): MP3

• Complete Reading (17:59): MP3

Segue Series reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, April 3, 2004

1. Introduction (2:05): MP3
2. from "Concerning the Henbane Bird" (34:33): MP3

Reading at the Incognito Lounge, Hosted by A.L. Nielsen

1. Impulse and Nothingness (3:23): MP3
2. recently published and upcoming works (2:41): MP3
3. Clairvoyant Hummingbird's Braille (1:54): MP3
4. his connection to Surrealism (8:00): MP3
5. the poetry and art scene in L.A. (3:05): MP3
6. discussing "A National Day in Bangladesh" (2:06): MP3
7. notions of nation and history in "Asia & Haiti" (2:59): MP3
8. the medium of poetry and leftist ideology (5:33): MP3
9. diversity within Surrealist poetry (3:09): MP3
10. discussing "Apocalyptic Sundown Shadows" (2:08): MP3
11. Apocalyptic Sundown Shadows (4:18): MP3
12. discussing "Rothko" (1:02): MP3
13. Rothko (5:26): MP3
14. using the form of the prose poem (1:34): MP3
15. The Water Dog (4:57): MP3

From Kenning

• "A National Day in Bangladesh" (4:27): MP3 (4:27)


• Will Alexander recorded by Chris Funkhouser, August 1993, at The Grassy Knoll, Los Angeles, CaliforniaText originally published in Caliban #10, 1991, Lawrence R. Smith, ed.

Readings for LA-Lit

LA-Lit 14, June 25, 2006
1. Part A (42:39): MP3
2. Part B (43:51): MP3

Poetic Service Announcement with Diane Ward, LA-Lit, October 15, 2006 (1:11): MP3

Readings for LA-Lit: Clouds, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, November 22, 2008

1. Panel Discussion (17:14): MP3
2. Introduction by Mathew Timmons (2:20): MP3
3. Reading (17:50): MP3

Benefit readings for Will Alexander

Skylight Books, Los Angeles - January 13, 2008
Complete reading (1:46:28): MP3

California College of the Arts - December 1, 2007
Complete recording (3:06): MP3

The Bowery Poetry Club - November 1, 2007
Complete reading (1:16:44): MP3


For more information on Will's condition (as well as information on how you can help), and to hear individual MP3s for the participants in this reading -- including Anne Waldman, Bob Perelman, Jerome Rothenberg, Joel Kuszai and Rodrigo Toscano -- visit our event page for the benefit reading.

Will Alexander on PennSound Daily

• February 13, 2011: "New PennSound Featured Resources Selected by Marcella Durand"
• July 21, 2010: "LA Lit: New Programs, PSAs and Clouds Conference"
• February 29, 2008: "Will Alexander Benefit Reading In Los Angeles"
• January 3, 2008: "Will Alexander San Francisco Benefit"
• November 8, 2007: "Benefit Readings for Will Alexander"

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