Steve Benson

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, February 14, 2009

Complete Reading (30:11): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, February 11, 2003

(1:27:42) MP3, RealAudio

Excerpt 1 (2:25): MP3
Excerpt 2 (1:42): MP3
Excerpt 3 (2:27): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, February 8, 2003

Complete Reading (29:25): MP3

Excerpt 1 (2:55): MP3
Excerpt 2 (2:37): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, February 6, 1993

Complete Reading (19:07): MP3

Recordings wih the Splatter Trio, 1991

• Part One (32:36): MP3

"I Was an Absent Alien" (12/91), Air Passage" (2/91), "Inside of a Falling Brick" (2/91)

• Part Two (33:22): MP3

"Put Your Hand In Here" (8/91) live on KPFA show Mob Ecstasy (producer Ben Lindgren), with Gino Robair (percussion), Myles Boisen (guitars), Dave Barrett (saxophones)

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, May 20, 1990

Complete Reading (48:17): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, May 25, 1985

Complete Reading (38:17): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, April 28, 1984

Reading (Ends Prematurely) (49:54): MP3

"Steve Benson on His Own" b/w "The Other Side of Steve Benson" with cris cheek, 1976-1980

published by Widemouth Tapes (#8606)

• "Steve Benson on His Own" (39:18): MP3
• "The Other Side of Steve Benson" (46:20): MP3

Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, April 4, 1979.

1. Oral commentary on translation (2:37): MP3
2. Translations (0:58): MP3
3. Translations 2 (0:53): MP3
4. Translations 1A (1:16): MP3
5. The Ex-Communist Manifesto (3:04): MP3
6. Me the blue purple black a shot in the dark . . . (2:15): MP3
7. An oral story about taking a walk the evening before (2:02): MP3
8. Oral commentary on telling and commenting (1:21): MP3
9. Non-Events (9:49): MP3
10. A multidimensional reading of Vanity Mirrors (incomplete) (4:52): MP3

Steve Benson and Carla Harryman: Terms of Address, July 22, 1978

From the Bob Perelman tapes.
• Complete Recording (21:54): MP3

Steve Benson presenting Careers in the Arts in the Talks Series curated by Bob Perelman, February 16, 1978

• Complete Recording (1:32:45): MP3 (The tape flips over around 45:00, and the end is cut short.)

Presenting "Views of Communist China" at 1220 Folsom Street, San Francisco. May 19, 1977.

From the Bob Perelman tapes.
• Complete Recording (1:17:37): MP3 (Break around 45:00 when the tape flips over.)

Also on PennSound

• Alan Berheimer's Particle Arms (1982), which featured Benson as a performer.

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