Herman Beavers

PoemTalk Podcast #39, discussing Etheridge Knight's "The Sun Came" and Gwendolyn Brooks' "Truth," December 29, 2010

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

MLA Off-Site Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009

• complete reading (2:36:46): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #20, discussing Amiri Baraka's "Kenyatta Listening to Mozart," July 30, 2009

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

Reading for LIVE at the Writers House, Episode 23, University of Pennsylvania, October 2, 2000

1. Problems of Translation (0:20): MP3
2. Secrets (1:22): MP3
3. The Real Deal (0:08): MP3
4. Vernall Contemplates the Meaning of Existence (1:44): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, September 14, 2000

1. "An Old Man Remembers the Guitar" (4:46): MP3
2. 2. "1916 (3:14): MP3
3. The Journeyman (3:15): MP3
4. Mourning (1:57): MP3
5. The Witness Stone (2:17): MP3
6. Eclipse (1:45): MP3
7. January 1989 (3:31): MP3
8. Midnight Roll (2:19): MP3
9. Dance Speak (3:40): MP3
10. Chord Changes (2:17): MP3
11. Dream Lubricant (1:29): MP3
12. Problems of Translation (2:28): MP3
13. Secrets (1:41): MP3
14. Til You Come Back (1:54): MP3
15. A Matter of Life and Debt (1:03): MP3
16. The Real Deal (0:37): MP3
17. Vernell Meets the Devil (1:02): MP3
18. Vernell Contemplates the Meaning of Existence (2:18): MP3
19. L.L. Benbo on the Matter of Vernell (2:22): MP3
20. Some Kind of Hard Arithmetic (4:01): MP3
21. Dignity City (2:53): MP3
22. We was watching Star Trek (1:14): MP3

Reading for LIVE at the Writers House, Episode 4, University of Pennsylvania, September 13, 1997

1. Crossings (1:04): MP3
2. Eclipse (1:23): MP3
3. Heart Murmur (1:22): MP3
4. Mourning (1:16): MP3
5. Spy Glass (1:50): MP3
6. Still Life Narrative (1:20): MP3
7. The Journeyman (1:38): MP3
8. The Witness Stone (1:12): MP3
9. Untitled (1:04): MP3

• Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics [Presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003]
• Dream - Minstrel with Gun, Dream Lubricant & Cabal, read Friday, October 17th
• Saturday reading

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• January 3, 2011: "PoemTalk 39: Etheridge Knight and Gwendolyn Brooks"

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