David Antin

Photo credit: Charles Bernstein/PennSound © 2008

Archive of Antin recordings at Getty (streamable)

Close Listening: Reading and conversation with Penn students - March 16, 2004

A Conversation with David Antin, with host Charles Bernstein and questions from Penn students (1:11:21) MP3 RealAudio

• Close-Listening.Studio 111
  Producer: Charles Bernstein
• Recording Engineers: Chris Mustazza and Julie Sheets
• © 2004 David Antin/Charles Bernstein

Interviewed by Jake Marmer, with Jerome Rothenberg, December 23, 2015, San Diego

• Full recording (1:35:55): MP3

Poetry Project, NY, Dec. 3, 2014. Video by Charles Bernstein of large fragment of the talk.


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Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, New York City, November 16, 2013 with Eleanor Antin

• intro by Genji Amino (2:19) MP3
• "The Macassar Strait" (45:23) MP3
• Discussion with Eleanor Antin (13:20) MP3




Reading for Double Change at Galerie éof, Paris, June 17, 2011

• part one (11:16): MP3
• part two (14:22): MP3
• part three (8:55): MP3
• part four (14:57): MP3
• part five (09:16): MP3

complete audio (59:15): MP3






Poets & Critics discussion at Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée, June 15, 2011

• part one (1:41:10): MP3
• part two (55:54): MP3




Book Launch for Antin's Radical Coherency

and Bernstein's Attack of the Difficult Poems, home of Marjorie Perloff, Los Angeles May 15, 2011
video shot by Brian Kim Stefans (low audio)
complete audio recording (which has better sound volume than video) (19:36): MP3




Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 23, 2010

• complete reading (41:16): MP3



David Antin Kelly Writers Talk: Rethinking Freud--Taking Freud Out of Psychoanalysis, February 16, 2010

• Introduction by Charles Bernstein (5:22): MP3
• Complete Talk (1:06:09): MP3



Reading for Double Change, Paris, January 24, 2007

• Film available from Double Change archives.



Bowery Poetry Club, New York - September 17, 2005

Antin talks about, and reads excerpts from i never knew what time it was (University of California Press, 2005):


• Part 1 (43:29) MP3
• Part 2 (22:05) MP3



Temple University - March 18, 2004

• Introduction by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, part 1 (1:58) MP3
• Introduction, part 2 (2:43) MP3
• "Dying & Living" (52:06): MP3, RealAudio



Kelly Writers House - March 16, 2004

• Introduction by Charles Bernstein (2:42) MP3
• "Living & Dying" (55:16): MP3, RealAudio
• Q & A session (36:51) MP3

SUNY-Buffalo Poetics Program - March 26 and 27, 2003

• March 26, "War" (50'34"): MP3, RealAudio
• March 27, Charles Bernstein's Poetics seminar (2:31:20): MP3

Full Recording (28:53) MP3

The Getty Museum, Los Angeles - April 26, 2002

"How Wide is the Frame" (33:17) MP3

Whitney Museum, Philip Morris - May 6, 1998

"I Never Knew What Time It Was" (39:29) MP3

Incognito Lounge: Symposium on Surrealism, Santa Monica, CA, August 19, 1994

organized by Douglas Messerli, with Will Alexander, David Antin, and Jerome Rothenberg

• part one (51:37): MP3
• part two (36:30): MP3

• The talk was presented at the Nina Freudenheim Gallery in downtown Buffalo
• (Slight drop out at 46 mins when the cassette was flipped.)
• (53:02)MP3



"Sky Poem 1," Santa Monica, May 1987





St Marks Talks - November 11, 1984

St. Mark's Poetry Project, curated by Charles Bernstein

• "line music counterpoint disjunction and the measure of mind"
• Part 1, includes introduction by Bernstein (45:44) MP3
• Part 2 (22:45) MP3
• Q & A (46:16) MP3

Recording at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. - June 1980

• The Principle of Fit, II (Part I) (26:32): MP3
• The Principle of Fit, II (Part II) (25:49): MP3

Lecture, "Figures of Speech and Figures of Thought" - May 13, 1978 at 80 Langton Street, San Francisco

Recording courtesy of Ron Silliman

• Part 1 (47:14) MP3
• Part 2 (47:20) MP3
• Part 3 (47:52) MP3
• Part 4 (33:00) MP3

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2004-2006 David Antin. Used with permission of David Antin. Distributed by PennSound.