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Studio 111 recording session at the University of Pennsylvania - March 16, 2004

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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


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


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Zinc Segue Series New York, 11-16-13, with Eleanor Antin

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




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

    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


    Reading for Double Change, Paris, January 24, 2007


    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


    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


    "The Noise of Time," University of Colorado, 1994



    SUNY-Buffalo - October 9, 1992

    • 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.