Rae Armantrout



photo © 2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound

Reading & Discussion
at the Kelly Writers House
September 20, 2007
complete reading (56:17): MP3

1. opening comments by Jessica Lowenthal
2. introduction by Bob Perelman

from Next Life (2007)
3. "Tease"
4. "Reserved"
5. "Two, Three"
6. "Thing"
7. "Empty"
8. "The Subject"
9. "Yonder"
10. "Framing (for Robert Creeley)"
11. "Make it New"
12. "Yoohoo"
13. "Next Life"

from Versed (forthcoming, 2009)
14."Versed"
15. "Addressed"
16. "Name Calling"
17. "Bonding"
18. "Scumble"
19. "Worthwhile"
20. "Presto"
21. "New"
22. "Links"
23. "Own"
24. "Later"
25. "Birth Order"
26. "Translation"

from Dark Matter (unpublished)
27. "Around"
28. "Dark Matter"
29. "Unbidden"
30. "Head"
31. "Simple"
32. "In Place"
33. "Whatever"
34. "Resounding"
35. "The Racket"
36. "Provenance"
37. "Hey"
38. "Concentrate"
39. "Anchor"
40. "Pass"
41. "Passage"
42. "Fact"

44. Q&A session



Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, May 26, 2007
complete reading (29:54): MP3



Close Listening -- readings and conversations at WPS1.Org
Clocktower Studio, New York, May 10, 2006

Armantrout in conversation with Charles Bernstein (28:18): MP3
excerpt: Armantrout discusses the poem "The Way" (4:10)

WPS1 reading
Full Program (27:08): MP3
Singles:
1. from True (Atelos Press) (6:05)

from Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan, 2001)
2. Generation & View (0:36)
3. Xenophobia (1:49)
4. Double (0:25)
5. The Creation (0:31)
6. The Way (0:27) [discussion of this poem from interview ]
7. Piecemeal (0:30)
8. Manufacturing (0:50)

from Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2003)
9. Form (0:59)
10. Once (0:47)
11. Another Sense (0:38)

from Next Life (forthcoming in Jan. 2007 from Wesleyan)
12. Tease (0:47)
13. Two, Three (0:44)
14. The Subject (0:34)
15. The Ether (0:28)
16. Yonder (0:28)
17. Parse (0:31)
18. Make It New (0:43)
19. Shine On (0:35)
20. Again (0:56)
21. Twizzle (0:41)
22. Next Life (0:39)

from Versed (ms. in progress)
23. Results (0:45)
24. Fetch (0:35)
25. Outer (0:58)
26. Name Calling (0:25)
27. Locality (0:40)
28. Amplification (0:39)
29. Scumble (0:29)
30. Translation (0:25)

Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1
©2006 Rae Armantrout and Charles Bernstein
Studio Engineer: Darrell McNeill

Segue Series reading at the Ear Inn, New York, October 22, 1988
poems from Necromance (Sun & Moon, 1991)

1. Necromance (take one) (2:12) : MP3
2. Necromance (take two) (1:35) : MP3
3. Range (0:43) : MP3
4. Context (0:30) : MP3
5. The Garden (0:24) : MP3
6. The Panoply of (0:38) : MP3
7. The Picture (0:48) : MP3
8. Family Resemblances (0:22) : MP3
9. Location (0:40) : MP3
10. Mechanism (0:43) : MP3
11. The Mix-up (1:07) : MP3
12. First Person (0:51) : MP3
13. Character Development (1:25) : MP3
14. Basis (2:21) : MP3
15. Labors (1:23) : MP3
16. Sense (0:55) : MP3
17. October (0:51) : MP3
18. Locks (0:40) : MP3
19. Late Returns (Three Parts) (1:14) : MP3
20. Begin (0:46) : MP3
21. Privilege (0:44) : MP3
22. The Unit (0:31) : MP3
23. Wake Up (0:54) : MP3
24. Attention (0:41) : MP3
25. Language of Love (1:28) : MP3
26. Getting Warm (0:44) : MP3
27. Pairs (0:24) : MP3
28. Realism (1:19) : MP3
29. Disown (1:35) : MP3

complete reading (28:25): MP3


Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, November 12, 1998

poems from Pretext (Green Integer, 2001)
1. Birthmark: The Pretext (2:25)
2. Writing (0:57)
3. Police Business (1:10)
4. Stream Of (0:50)
5. Performers (0:45)
6. Her References (1:06)
7. The Past (0:40)
8. Articulation (0:53)
9. Near Rhyme (0:48)
10. Collapse (1:03)
11. Qualia (0:36)
12. Thinking (0:41)
13. My Associates (0:38)
14. About (0:39)
15. Part of It (0:53)
16. Sets (0:57)
17. Greeting (0:29)
18. The Plot (1:25)
19. Here (0:52)
20. Over (0:10)
21. Size (0:28)
22. Light (0:45)
23. Statement (0:29)
24. Now (0:43)

poems from the new section of Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan, 2001)
25. Falling (1:35)
26. Theories (0:42)
27. As We're Told (0:34)
28. Systemic (0:42)
29. Overhearing (0:39)
30. Ongoing (0:44)
31. Rehearsal (0:34)
32. Manufacturing (1:02)
33. Inside Out (0:48)
34. Purpose (0:28)

Reading at the University of Pennsylvania, October 14, 2000
Rae Armantrout on Emily Dickinson / "Reading through Modernism" (Kelly Writers House)

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, September 25, 2002
1. Introduction (5:31)
from Veil: New and Selected Poems:
2. Birthmark, the Pretext (3:06)
3. Writing (0:54)
4. Stream Of (0:45)
5. Performers (0:43)
6. Sets (0:51)
7. Greeting (0:25)
8. The Plot (1:15)
9. Size (0:26) (from The Pretext)
10. Manufacturing (0:49)
11. The Plan (0:37)
12. Inside Out (0:45)
from Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2004)
13. Up to Speed (1:25)
14. Form (0:55)
15. Currency (0:34)
16. Sake (0:33)
17. The Fit (0:26)
18. Middlemen (0:33)
19. Solid (0:49)
20. End Times (1:02)
21. The Cell Phone at Your Ear May Not Exist (1:23)
22. Next Generations (0:56)
23. Upper World (0:51)
24. Once (0:46)
25. Another Sense (0:35)
26. Transaction (0:57)
27. As One (1:01)
28. In Route (0:35)
29. Imaginary Places (0:43)
30. Speaking (0:45)
31. Gorgons (0:30)
32. Back (0:36)
33. Phrasing (1:06)
34. Now This (0:28)
35. The Creation (0:42) (from Veil)

1. Introduction (0:54)
2. The Creation (0:36)
3. Writing (0:59)
4. Sets (0:52)
5. The Way (0:38) [discussion of this poem recorded in 2006]
6. Manufacturing (1:03)
7. Up to Speed (1:06)
8. Form (1:01)
9. Middlemen (0:37)
10. Solid (0:59)
11. Seconds (0:43)
12. Next Generations (0:57)
13. Upper World (1:03)
14. Once (0:53)
15. Back (0:40)
16. Tease (0:46)
17. Two Three (0:50)
18. Close (0:38)
19. Thing (0:23)
20. Empty (0:44)
21. The Subject (0:40)
22. A Distance (0:46)
23. Away (0:41)
24. Headline Song (0:27)
25. Clear (0:34)
26. Yonder (0:38)
27. Visits (0:42)
28. Short Story (0:37)
29. Promise (0:43)
30. In Part (0:45)
31. Pronouncements (0:42)
32. As One (1:20)
33. Ins and Outs (0:30)
34. Propensity (0:39)
35. Twizzle (0:49)

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