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Rae Armantrout

Will Alexander
Photo credit: Charles Bernstein/PennSound ©2007

Rae Armantrout on A Voice Box

Reading & Discussion, Kelly Writers House - September 20, 2007

View the Kelly Writers House calendar entry here.

Complete reading (56:17): MP3

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

    3. 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"

    14. 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"

    27. from Dark Matter (unpublished)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"

  43. Q&A session

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, May 26, 2007

  1. Introduction (2:16): MP3
  2. Two Three (0:57): MP3
  3. Empty (0:49): MP3
  4. The Subject (0:45): MP3
  5. A Distance (0:53): MP3
  6. Reversible (0:47): MP3
  7. Headline Song (0:16): MP3
  8. Remote (0:33): MP3
  9. Make it New (0:53): MP3
  10. Shine On (0:46): MP3
  11. Ins and Outs (0:34): MP3
  12. Yoohoo (0:42): MP3
  13. Next Life (0:47): MP3
  14. Versed (0:34): MP3
  15. Fetch (0:40): MP3
  16. Operations (0:30): MP3
  17. Name Calling (0:30): MP3
  18. Locality (0:48): MP3
  19. Bonding (0:47): MP3
  20. Scumble (0:38): MP3
  21. Worthwhile (0:55): MP3
  22. Equals (0:18): MP3
  23. New Genres (0:43): MP3
  24. New (0:39): MP3
  25. What We Mean (0:51): MP3
  26. Own (1:50): MP3
  27. Birth Order (0:46): MP3
  28. On Your Way (0:42): MP3
  29. Dark Matter (0:33): MP3
  30. Perfect (0:32): MP3
  31. Whatever (0:43): MP3
  32. Resounding (0:36): MP3
  33. The Racket (0:41): MP3
  34. Fact (0:48): MP3

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

  • Complete conversation (28:18): MP3
  • Armantrout discusses the poem "The Way" (4:10) MP3

WPS1 reading

Full program (27:08): MP3

Individual poems:

  1. from True (Atelos Press) (6:05)

    2. 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)

    9. From Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2003)

  9. Form (0:59)
  10. Once (0:47)
  11. Another Sense (0:38)

    12. 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)

    23. 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, April 14, 1979

  • Part One (10:27): MP3
  • Part Two (14:00): MP3

Reading on January 16, 1983

Complete Reading (31:42): MP3

Talk on Silence, January 16, 1983