Joe Brainard

At the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, March 31, 1971

From Selected Writings (New York: The Kulchur Foundation, 1971):

1. Sick Art (1:19) (from Selected Writings, New York: The Kulchur Foundation, 1971)
2. Van Gogh (1:21) (Selected Writings)
3. Art (0:47) (Selected Writings)
4. "Here I am, up in the air, drinking a Bloody Mary on my way to Chicago..." (0:43)
5. Tuesday, February 18th, 1971 (1:16) (Selected Writings)
6. I Remember excerpts (26:39) (new edition, Granary Books, 2001)

Reading with Bill Berkson at Intersection, San Francisco, June 15, 1971

1. Introduction by Tim Dlugos (0:42)
2. Worry Wart (2:18)
3. Today (Monday, February 23rd, 1981) (4:06)

Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York (April 15, 1981)

1. Introduction by Bernadette Mayer (1:28)
2. Scope (3:23)
3. Art Note (0:38)
4. Breakfast Out (1:16)
5. Roaches (0:36)
6. Sunday (1:04)
7. Thanksgiving (0:39)
8. Evelyn Waugh (0:28)
9. Holland (Beauty and Sadness and Landscape) (0:31)
10. Insomnia (2:46)
11. The Fourth of July (1:16)
12. Minute Observation (1:09)
13. Worry Wart (2:51)
14. Bird Life in Vermont (1:09)
15. How Jane Austen Drops a Bomb (0:13)
16. True Love (0:25)
17. The Zucchini Problem (0:58)
18. Today (Monday, February 23rd, 1981) (7:03)

from The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980

Van Gogh (1:18): MP3

Also of Interest:

• excerpt from I Remember, recorded GPS, February 11, 1974 (6:37)
• excerpt from I Remember, recorded Calais, Vermont, July 1970 (4:03)

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