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Close Listening Conversationn with Charles Bernstein, September 13, 2007

MP3(28:38)

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

Reading with India Radfar and Laynie Browne

MP3(59:25)

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

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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

    5. Bridge

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

    6. 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

    16. Bridge

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

    17. 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

Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania

October 21, 2003

Reading at the Ear Inn, December 5, 1992

Complete Recording (28:47)

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

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

Complete Recording (34:45)

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

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

Complete Reading (30:10)

  1. Introduction (1:32)
  2. William Blake's Ah, Sunflower! (1:46)
  3. Shadow House Series for Julianne (2:32)
  4. Insufflation (1:37)
  5. A Call for Vertical Integration (0:45)
  6. Commentary (0:38)
  7. Encyclopedia Botanica (1:32)
  8. Poet's Complaint (1:18)
  9. Respond to Me (0:52)
  10. Shiny Jewel Eye (2:56)
  11. Whitman Poem Come (1:03)
  12. Rose Clothed Ahead (0:58)
  13. The Sleep that Changed Everything (1:30)
  14. Vibratory Ode (4:52)
  15. My Uncruel April (1:04)
  16. Animal Planet (0:36)
  17. The Ballad of Susan Smith (2:57)

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

Complete reading (22:46): MP3

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

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

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

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

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