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Full Readings & Talks

Anthology Film Archives, April 3. New York, 1977

Place Center, New York, Dec. 18, 1977

Folio Books, Washington, DC, 1978: MP3
Introduction by Doug Lang
As If the Trees by Their Roots Had Hold of Us (from Senses of Responsibility) (time marker 2’36”)
Loose Shoes (from Senses of Responsibility) (6’17”)
“Likening Then” (9’43”) Shade?
St.McC (from Shade) (10’29”)
For – (from Shade) (12’00”)
from Faculty Politics (from Poetic Justice) (22’00”)
Roseland from Parsing (12’43”)
Soul Under (from Shade) (27’42)
Palukaville (from Poetic Justice) (30’25”)

West End bar, New York, March 12, 1978

Six Fillious Reading (with McCaffery, Higgins, et al), February 7, 1979

Reading at the Grand Piano, San Francisco, February 20, 1979 (46:29)

Reading in the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard College Library, December 11, 1980 (50:54): MP3

Introduction by Stratis Haviaris
Palukaville (from Poetic Justice) (2’24”)
Poem (from Shade) (8’33”)
For – (from Shade) (10’44”)
Simple Pleasures (from Controlling Interests) 19’37’
March (25’28”) (from Stigma)
Sprocket Damage (from Islets/Irritations) (26’53”)
Islets/Irritations (31’10”)
Island Life (from Controlling Interests) (37’20”)

Legend, read by Andrews, Silliman, DiPalma, Bernstein — March 10, 1981

Ithaca, NY, May 8, 1982

The Poetry Project, St Mark's Church, New York, October 17, 1983 (39:50): MP3
Fear and Trespass (from The Sophist) 2’34”
from Resistance (9’56”)
Searchless Warrant (from The Sophist) (19’15”)
Prosthesis (21’35”) (from The Sophist)
Preface to Content’s Dream (24’04”)
The Voyage of Life (28’00”) (from The Sophist)
Dysraphism (from The Sophist) (30’13”)

Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, New Poetics Collquen -- August, 1985

Temple University, Philadelphia - November 15, 1988: MP3

Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, New Poetics Collquen -- June 10, 1989

Naropa Institute, Boulder, Co., in 1991, in RealAudio (32 minutes)

UC-Berkeley, February 7, 1995, ntroduced by Douglas Messerli (recorded by A.L. Nielsen): (35:21) MP3

With Robert Creeley and Susan Howe at SUNY Buffalo - March 31, 1995

 Sun & Moon Press salon, Los Angeles, Feb. 28, 1998 (recored by A.L. Nielsen): (19:58) MP3

"Cortland Review": 1999 New School (NY) Reading and Interview (with David Lehman)

from the libretto to Shadowtime at Kelly Writers House, UPenn, Oct. 13, 2000

Harvard University - February 21, 2001

The Line Reading Series, January 15, 2002

Live at Kelly Writers House, UPenn, September 25, 2003

Brooklyn Poetique, Sept. 12, 2004

From Radio Poetique's Poetic Brooklyn, September 13, 2004

Segue at Bowery Poetry Club, New York, October 2, 2004

Discrete Reading Series,Chicago, November 21, 2004

Mills College, Oakland, November 9, 2004

Five Poems from Girly Man, studio recording, December 20, 2004

Recording Session at the Charles Morrow studios, Dec. 22, 2004:
1. "Didn't We" (from World on Fire in Girly Man)
2. "Castor Oil" with Emma Bee Bernstein (from Gilry Man)
3. " War Stories" with Emma Bee Bernstein (from Gilry Man)
4. "Likeness" (from Gilry Man)
5. every lake..." (from Let's Just Say in Girly Man

University of Chicago, Nov. 20, 2006

Indiana University of Pennsylvania, April 11, 2006

Cue Foundation launch/reading for Girly Man, January 16, 2007

Segue at Bowery Poetry  Club, New York, April 28, 2007

McGann session (Poems for Jerome McGannn at 70), May 28, 2007

Mo Pitkin's, New York, June 6, 2007 (with John Ashbery)

Yale University Beinecke Library, Oct. 16, 2007: MP3 (49:49)

A Celebration of Jackson Mac Low's Thing of Beauty, January 18, 2008

"What, Me Conceptual?," Conceptural Poetry & Its Others, Poetry Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, June 2009.

A 40th Anniversary Celebration of Technicians of the Sacred, at the Bowery Poetry Club, September 14, 2008

Segue/BPC March 14, 2009
full reading (42:35): MP3
1. Manifest Aversions, Conceptual Conundrums, & Implausibly Deniable Links (8:58): MP3
2. Pompeii (1:08): MP3
3. Fold (3:44): MP3
4. The Sixties, with  Apologies (2:01): MP3
5. Stupid Men, Smart Choices (1:25): MP3
6. The Moment Is You (4:59): MP3
7. Won’t You Give Up This Poem to Someone Who Needs It? (1:17): MP3
8. The Honor of Virtue (0:30): MP3
9. Death on a Pale Horse (1:02): MP3
10. On Election Day (4:30): MP3
11. Morality (2:03): MP3
12. If You Say Something, See Something (0:52): MP3
13. Today Is the Last Day of Your Life Until Now (0:54): MP3
14. Time Served (1:42): MP3
15. And Aenigma Was His Name, O! (0:22): MP3
16. Be Drunken (1:57): MP3

New Reading Series at 21 Grand, Oakland, Calif., June 21, 2009 (46:16): MP3

Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader Launch Reading, the Bowery Poetry Club, September 19, 2009 (8:35): MP3

Poems for the Millennium III, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 7, 2009 (12:12): MP3

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