David Antin

Photo credit: Charles Bernstein/PennSound © 2008

PoemTalk Podcast #123, Discussing David Antin's "War", feat. Ariel Resnikoff, Jerome Rothenberg, and Diane Rothenberg

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

Appearing on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, March 16, 2004

• Complete conversation (1:11:21): MP3, RealAudio

Producer: Charles Bernstein
• Recording Engineers: Chris Mustazza and Julie Sheets

Talking About David Antin with Eleanor Antin, Charles Bernstein, Julien Bismuth, and Ellen Zweig, Artists Space, NYC, March 27, 2018

Introduction by Jay Sanders.

Complete audio recording (1:57:16): MP3

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

• Complete recording (1:35:55): MP3

Poetry Project, New York City, December 3, 2014




Video by Charles Bernstein of a large fragment of the talk.




Reading for the Segue Series 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 1 (11:16): MP3
• Part 2 (14:22): MP3
• Part 3 (8:55): MP3
• Part 4 (14:57): MP3
• Part 5 (09:16): MP3

Complete recording (59:15): MP3

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

• Part 1 (1:41:10): MP3
• Part 2 (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

Complete recording (19:36): MP3 [Note: better sound volume than video.]

Video shot by Brian Kim Stefans (low audio).

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

• Complete reading (41:16): MP3

Talk at the Kelly Writers House: Rethinking Freud - Taking Freud Out of Psychoanalysis, February 16, 2010

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

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Antin in the Sky with Diamonds, February 18, 2008
("I do the best I can")

David Antin
David and I met for lunch in SoH0, near Ellie's gallery. Much of our conversation focussed on David's essay collection; there were enough works for two books, so which to leave out? David was never much interested in talking about collecting his essays; his focus was always on what he doing now, what he was doing next. That's partly why it took him so long to gather together the pieces in that book. But I was persistent and brought up the essay collection just about every time we met. After a while, we walked outside and wound our way, slowly, toward Houston, talking all the while. I asked David about his sky-writing poems.
(mp4, 28 seconds, 5.4 mb)

Reading for Double Change, Paris, January 24, 2007

• Film available from Double Change archives.

Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, September 17, 2005

Antin discusses and reads excerpts from i never knew what time it was:


• 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

Reading at the 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

Seminar and Reading for the Wednesdays @ 4 Plus Series, SUNY-Buffalo, March 26-27, 2003

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

David Antin's talk on Kathy Acker, NYU, New York, November 8, 2002

Video by George Quasha.

Complete recording (28:53) MP3

Reading at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, April 26, 2002

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

Reading at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York City, 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 1 (51:37): MP3
• Part 2 (36:30): MP3

• Complete audio recording (53:02): MP3


• Note: Slight drop out at 46 mins when the cassette was flipped.

"Sky Poem 1", Santa Monica, May 1987

St Mark's Talks, New York City, November 11, 1984

"Line, Music, Counterpoint, Disjunction, and the Measure of Mind" for St. Mark's Poetry Project, curated by Charles Bernstein.

• Part 1, including introduction by Bernstein (45:44): MP3
• Part 2 (22:45): MP3
• Q&A (46:16): MP3

Recording at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, June 1980

• The Principle of Fit, II, Part 1 (26:32): MP3
• The Principle of Fit, II, Part 2 (25:49): MP3

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

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

Recording courtesy of Ron Silliman.

Also of Interest:

• Archive of Antin recordings at the Getty can be found here.

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2004-2018 David Antin. Used with permission of David Antin. Distributed by PennSound.