Lee Ann Brown

Photo © 2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound

28th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival, September 8th, 2018

Lee Ann Brown (19:05): MP3

PoemTalk #108, Discussing Tracie Morris' "Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful," feat. Camara Brown, Edwin Torres, and Brooke O'Harra on January 10, 2017

For complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2

PoemTalk #10, discussing Gertrude Stein's "Portrait of Christian Bernard," September 8, 2008

Close Listening Conversation with Charles Bernstein, September 13, 2007

Complete Reading (28:38): MP3

Recorded in conjunction with Brown's reading with Bernadette Mayer at the Kelly Writers House. Click here for the Mayer/Brown reading.

I See Words: The Life and Work of Hannah Weiner, June 18, 2022, Artists Space, New York

Curated by Jennifer Bartlett and sponsored by Zoeglossia.
Introduction by Jennifer Bartlett
A screening of Hannah Weiner: A Film by Phill Niblock, 1974, with new captions
Reading of Clairvoyant Journal by Darcie Dennigan, Farnoosh Fathi, and James Sherry
Panel discussion with Susan Bee, Judith Goldman, Declan Gould, and Phill Niblock, moderated by Lee Ann Brown
Closing remarks by Charles Bernstein

Segue Series reading at the Zinc Bar, New York, November 7, 2015

• Complete Reading (30:35): MP3

1. Introduction (3:55): MP3
2. The Dark Prince (0:49): MP3
3. Ecstatic Revelation (0:44): MP3
4. Tilt Heaven (3:06): MP3
5. Prima Graveda (1:19): MP3
6. Low Water is White (5:13): MP3
7. Eight Month Cuplets (3:32): MP3
8. Walking (1:13): MP3
9. Miranda is Two (2:28): MP3
10. Tonight’s Day (1:30): MP3
11. Kitty Fly (0:24): MP3
12. The Archers of Love Exalted for Stacey Dorris (1:38): MP3
13. June Full Moon Song of Acumulation (1:26): MP3
14. What is the Grass (3:21): MP3

Tender Buttons at 100 Celebration, Kelly Writers House, October 1, 2014

Lee Ann Brown (10:04): MP3

PoemTalk #63, discussing Laynie Browne's "Daily Sonnets," March 1, 2013

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

Convergence on Poetics, University of Washington Bothell, North Creek Events Center, September 27-30, 2012

• Lee Ann Brown (13:07): MP3
• complete recording (2:02:52): MP3


• listen to entire event here

Reading for the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Art Foundation, New York:Chelsea, February 26, 2012

with Anne Waldman

• complete reading (28:09): MP3

Reading at Jerome Rothenberg's 80th Birthday Tribute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, December 9, 2011

Appearing on LA-Lit 23, June 24, 2007

Reading with India Radfar and Laynie Browne

Complete Reading (59:25): MP3

Reading in Girassol, May 22, 2004.

Recordings courtesy of Chris Funkhouser

Complete Recording (26:15): MP3

"A Lee-Ann-thology of Concrete Poetry," a short film by Henry Hills

Click here to view the movie.

Segue reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, May 15, 2004

1. Introduction (2:48): MP3
2. Introduction by Lee Ann Brown (1:44): MP3
3. Odometer (4:45): MP3
4. The Chemical Literature (4:25): MP3
5. Low Movers (0:54): MP3
6. Nascent Toolbox (3:51): MP3
7. Letters to the Wonderous Field of Reality Torn (11:21): MP3
8. Unknown Title (Inaudible) (1:23): MP3

Tender Buttons Press reading at the Kelly Writers House, October 21, 2003

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Recorded Live at the Bowery Poetry Club, May 2003

• A Song Cycle by Lee Ann Brown, Directed by Tony Torn
• Performed by Lee Ann Brown, Anne Doerner, Carolyn Kelley, Cynthia Nelson & Hai-Ting Chinn.

Act One (Hymns)

1. Transformation Hymn (1:16): MP3
2. Three Graces (2:33): MP3
3. Three Rings (1:54): MP3
4. Vision Crown (2:51): MP3

Bridge

5. Pledge / The Words of Love (2:45): MP3

Act Two (Girl Scout Songs)

6. Fireman's Band / Billboard (0:55): MP3
7. I'm a Nut (0:27): MP3
8. Underwear (0:29): MP3
9. Blood on the Saddle (0:21): MP3
10. Ragtime Cowboy Joe (0:36): MP3
11. Desperado (1:09): MP3
12. Prunie (0:36): MP3
13. Hop Hop Bunny Bunny (0:43): MP3
14. Don Gato (1:59): MP3
15. Five Little Pumpkins (0:36): MP3

Bridge

16. False Knight in the Road (1:41): MP3

Act Three (Ballads)

17. Was a Lady Living Yore (1:41): MP3
18. The Ballad of Susan Smith (2:43): MP3
19. The Ballad of Phoebe Steele (3:04): MP3
20. Maddy Groves (3:11): MP3
21. Red Fox / Shady Grove (3:08): MP3

From "Poems Not Fit For the White House," Lincoln Center, February 2003

Transformation Hymn (3:07): MP3

Recorded live at WKCR-FM (New York) by Tom Kelly on May 3, 2002

1. Epithalamium (8:05): MP3
   
2. selections from Polyverse (3:41): MP3
3. Comfit - several short poems (4:10): MP3
4. After Sappho (0:13): MP3
5. The A, Chain Reaction & Subway Exchange (0:42): MP3
6. Tender Skin (2:17): MP3
7. Witch Alphabet, Mistranslation of Mayakovsky, Pledge & Love (4:25): MP3
8. The Day the War Started (1:04): MP3
9. Poem for Lisa (2:20): MP3
10. Demi Queer Notion (0:49): MP3
11. To Jennifer M. While Drinking the GCB (0:41): MP3
12. Poem for Joe (2:10): MP3
13. Co-Labs (1:54): MP3
14. Co-Lab 2 (2:01): MP3
15. Co-Lab with Hannah Weiner (1:43): MP3
16. Two by Furs (2:07): MP3
17. Co-Lab with Lisa Jarnot (1:02): MP3
18. Definitions (1:03): MP3
19. untitled (0:37): MP3
20. Tennos (1:05): MP3
21. To Bed (0:27): MP3
22. Crush (5:44): MP3
23. Ballad of Susan Smith (6:25): MP3

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, December 4, 2001

Complete reading (22:46): MP3

Segue reading at Double Happiness, NY, May 26, 2001

Complete Reading (30:10): MP3

1. Introduction (1:32): MP3
2. William Blake's Ah, Sunflower! (1:46): MP3
3. Shadow House Series for Julianne (2:32): MP3
4. Insufflation (1:37): MP3
5. A Call for Vertical Integration (0:45): MP3
6. Commentary (0:38): MP3
7. Encyclopedia Botanica (1:32): MP3
8. Poet's Complaint (1:18): MP3
9. Respond to Me (0:52): MP3
10. Respond to Me (0:52): MP3
11. Whitman Poem Come (1:03): MP3
12. Rose Clothed Ahead (0:58): MP3
13. The Sleep that Changed Everything (1:30): MP3
14. Vibratory Ode (4:52): MP3
15. My Uncruel April (1:04): MP3
16. Animal Planet (0:36): MP3
17. The Ballad of Susan Smith (2:57): MP3

Wednesday Series: Lee Ann Brown and Heather Ramsdell, St. Mark’s Church, NY, April 15, 1998

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (48:22): link
2. Side B (53:51): link

Reading in Albany, NY, April 27, 1997.

Recording courtesy of Chris Funkhouser

Complete recording (40:14): MP3

Reading at unknown location in 1993.

Recording courtesy of Chris Funkhouser

Complete recording (28:56): MP3

Lee Ann Brown and Erica Hunt reading for the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, December 8, 1993

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (45:50): link
2. Side B (44:40): same link

Reading at the New Coast Festival, Buffalo, April 1, 1993

Complete Reading (21:37): MP3

Reading at the Ear Inn, December 5, 1992

Complete Recording (28:47): MP3

1. Aerator Orato (3:35): MP3
2. N Plus Seven (0:45): MP3
3. A Present Beau (1:43): MP3
4. Updated Version of Paulus Silentarius (0:43): MP3
5. Whitman (1:17): MP3
6. Emily Dickinson (0:38): MP3
7. Untitled (with Liz Fodaski) (3:11): MP3
8. Body in Trouble (with Jennifer Moxley) (0:59): MP3
9. Inner Crawdad Buzz (1:10): MP3
10. A Long Poem (12:33): MP3
11. So Impatient (7:30): MP3

Reading at The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1991

August 2, 1991 (34:05): MP3

Reading at The Knitting Factory, NYC, December 4, 1988

As captured in the film Jack Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues", produced by Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz

High quality YouTube mirror: link

For full credits and list of readers, click here

Reading at the Ear Inn with Bernadette Mayer, October 15, 1988

Complete Recording (34:45): MP3

1. Alone (1:36): MP3
2. I Pledge Allergy (0:46): MP3
3. Love (1:26): MP3
4. Untitled (9:27): MP3
5. Untitled (0:59): MP3
6. Coffee (5:02): MP3
7. Oracular Vowels (3:19): MP3
8. After Sappho (2:12): MP3
9. Villanelle to Beth (1:07): MP3
10. Titles for Clark (2:05): MP3
11. Untitled List (1:56): MP3

Also of interest:

• I'll Drown My Book, a celebration of the I'll Drown My Book anthology held at the Kelly Writers House, October 17, 2012

Lee Ann Brown on PennSound Daily

• July 21, 2010: "LA Lit: New Programs, PSAz and Clouds Conference"
• June 17, 2009: "Bernadette Mayer and Lee Ann Brown: KWH 2007, Now Segmented"
• May 19, 2008: "Lee Ann Brown's '13th Sunday in Ordinary Time"

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