Wednesdays @ 4 Plus — SUNY-Buffalo

Readings sponsored by UB Buffalo Poetics Program

See a Calendar of Events (1994-2005) at the Electronic Poetry Center

See a pdf of posters (1990-2003)

October 3, 1966

Robert Creeley (53:10): MP3

George Oppen (31:25): MP3

1. Of Being Numerous (19:47): MP3
2. A Preface (0:31): MP3
3. Historic Pun (1:06): MP3
4. Epigram (0:39): MP3
5. Ballad (1:12): MP3
6. Power, The Enchanted World (1:47): MP3
7. Route (6:15): MP3

Ed Dorn

1. Introduction (0:41): MP3
2. The Poet Lets His Tongue Hang Down (from Gunslinger, book IV) (4:11): MP3
3. Dorn discusses Recollections of Gran Apacheria (1:51): MP3
4. First Lines (3:05): MP3
5. Victorio (0:58): MP3
6. Nana and Victorio (0:56): MP3
7. Dress for War (0:45): MP3
8. Bounty Time (0:43): MP3
9. The Provoking Figure of the Horse Woman (1:00): MP3
10. Geronimo (0:33): MP3
11. Juh and Geronimo (0:40): MP3
12. General Miles Imagined (0:11): MP3
13. Nanay (0:53): MP3
14. (When Geronimo Was in Washington for the Inauguration) (1:12): MP3
15. Fifteen-Hundred Tons of Hay at 1 ¢ per Pound (0:22): MP3
16. The Moving, Invisible Spectre of the Phraytry on the Traitor Peaches (1:20): MP3
17. (And When, Above Janos) (0:39): MP3
18. A Period Portrait of Sympathy (0:39): MP3
19. (When the Boundary Commission) (0:34): MP3
20. Assorted Compliments (0:50): MP3
21. Reservations (3:31): MP3
22. Creation (2:40): MP3
23. The Whole European Distinction (0:52): MP3
24. Personum (0:50): MP3
25. (The Original Monuments of Perception) (0:11): MP3
26. (Out of the Sunset Movement) (0:08): MP3
27. (So the Infant is Bound) (1:16): MP3
28. The Slipping of the Wheel (0:25): MP3
29. Immured in Florida (0:16): MP3
30. La Maquina a Houston (3:59): MP3

Complete reading (38:43): MP3

April 20

1. Introduction (1:11): MP3
2. on Gunslinger (3:54): MP3
3. from Gunslinger (23:31): MP3
4. on Recollections of Gran Apacheria (2:59): MP3
5. First Lines (3:39): MP3
6. Victorio (1:00): MP3
7. Nana & Victorio (0:47): MP3
8. Dress for War (0:42): MP3
9. Bounty Time (0:47): MP3
10. The Provoking Figure of the Horsewoman (0:58): MP3
11. General Miles Imagined (0:11): MP3
12. Geronimo (0:28): MP3
13. Juh & Geronimo (0:40): MP3
14. Nanay (0:46): MP3
15. (When Geronimo was in Washington for the Inauguration) (0:34): MP3
16. Fifteen Hundred Pounds of Hay @ 1 ¢ per Pound (0:21): MP3
17. The Moving, Invisible Spectre of the Phratry on the Traitor Peaches (1:00): MP3
18. (And when, above Janos) (0:36): MP3
19. A Period Portrait of Sympathy (0:35): MP3
20. (When the Boundary Commission) (0:36): MP3
21. Assorted Compliments (0:52): MP3
22. Reservations (3:12): MP3
23. Creation (2:03): MP3
24. The Whole European Distinction (0:48): MP3
25. Personum (0:43): MP3
26. (The original monuments of perception) (0:08): MP3
27. (Out of the sunset movement) (0:13): MP3
28. (So, the infant is bound) (2:11): MP3
29. The Slipping of the Wheel (0:27): MP3
30. Immured in Florida (0:12): MP3
31. La Maquina a Houston (2:22): MP3

Complete reading (59:47): MP3

1974

Charles Reznikoff (click here for segmented recording) - interviews with Reinhold Schiffer

Stan Brakhage on a Walking the Dog seminar (precursor to Wednesdays @ 4 Plus) (1:38:07): MP3

Robin Blaser

1. Introduction (0:40): MP3
2. "When they sit in consilium..." (2:11): MP3
3. "For me, every author is absolutely other..." (0:39): MP3
4. Further (2:19): MP3
5. The Pause (2:40): MP3
6. A conversation poem (1:08): MP3
7. Romance (1:08): MP3
8. Apologies for Repetitions (5:29): MP3
9. Gathering (0:56): MP3
10. Image-Nation (half and half) (4:18): MP3
11. Robert Graves: In Memoriam (19:40): MP3
12. Steps (poem for Allen Ginsberg) (4:32): MP3
13. "I've always liked the notion of the mind as a frying pan..." (5:22): MP3
14. To Whom It May Concern (1:49): MP3

Complete Reading (54:05): MP3, RealAudio

1990's

Rosmarie Waldrop (27:14): MP3

Robert Creeley

Graduate Seminar, Part 1 (1:23:52): MP3
Graduate Seminar, Part 2 (57:28): MP3

1. Olson's open field, the act of creation, and the body (4:50): MP3
2. Olson and Williams' experience of woman (6:12): MP3
3. the lack of company in Williams (2:57): MP3
4. beginning with one thing in mind and ending with another (6:06): MP3
5. Creeley's own interest in poetry and fighting for new ways of reading and writing (4:07): MP3
6. the Beat Generation (4:25): MP3
7. Allen Ginsberg and rhythm (8:19): MP3
8. discussing Larry Eigner's "Country/Harbor/Quiet/Act/Around" (6:13): MP3
9. the spatial and typographical in Eigner's writing (4:55): MP3
10. the relation of writing to the body (6:50): MP3
11. the physicality of articulation (2:08): MP3
12. turning physical disability into a resource (8:53): MP3
13. the relation of speech to the conditions of poetry (2:46): MP3
14. the peripheral and the central (3:00): MP3
15. writing on paper, the typewriter, and the computer (11:48): MP3
16. on place (19:34): MP3
17. discussing the poem "I" (17:58): MP3
18. reading "Something" (1:24): MP3
19. connection to the "I" in the poems "I" and "Something" (1:21): MP3
20. reading "Walking" (0:23): MP3
21. making use of emotion in poetry (4:58): MP3
22. thinking and impedance (6:58): MP3
23. portraiture and sincerity (4:42): MP3

September 17, 1990

Robert Creeley

• Part 1 (1:11:04): MP3
• Part 2 (1:33:04): MP3, RealAudio

Jackson Mac Low (1:02:50): MP3

1. Reading a selection from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and his L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E #6 essay on the book (7:02): MP3
2. Discussion of opening section of Stein's "Objects" (2:42): MP3
3. Discussing function of prefaces and introductions to poems (4:25): MP3
4. Discussing use of notation in creating a poetic collage (3:23): MP3
5. Discussing close reading of MacLow’s poetry vs. Gertrude Stein’s poetry (6:41): MP3
6. Role of “chance generation” (1:32): MP3
7. Influence of John Cage’s chance-composed music and Buddhism (5:50): MP3
8. Influence of Freud and psychoanalysis (2:11): MP3
9. Serialism and 12-tone music (6:29): MP3
10. Discussion of Mac Low’s methodologies (6:07): MP3
11. Discussion of entropy (1:26): MP3
12. Meaning in language and sound (3:24): MP3
13. Cultural construct of language (1:30): MP3
14. Discussion of voice (3:05): MP3
15. Segmentation of poetry by sound (6:33): MP3

November 7-8, 1990

Michael Palmer poetry reading (44:58): MP3

October 15, 1990

Robert Creeley

• Part 1 (51:45): MP3
• Part 2 (51:40): MP3

December 5-6, 1990

Nick Piombino

December 5 - Complete Reading (45:52): MP3

December 6 - Seminar

• Part 1 (46:06): MP3
• Part 2 (46:00): MP3
• Part 3 (46:05): MP3

Nicole Brossard

1. introduction (1:19): MP3
2. from Mauve Desert (8:26): MP3
3. with Elizabeth Burns, dialogue from Mauve Desert (6:09): MP3
4. Close (2:36): MP3
5. Green Night of Labyrinth Park (14:05): MP3
6. Matter Harmonious Still Maneuvering (6:00): MP3

January 26 — complete seminar (1:30:26): MP3

February 20-21, 1991

Steve McCaffery

February 20 - complete reading (30:51): MP3

1. Code of System Four (11:20): MP3
2. Invariant (4:02): MP3
3. Little House (3:32): MP3
4. Foucault Acrostic (2:58): MP3
5. At corners collating when the dislocation fades (30:51): MP3

February 21 - complete seminar (1:24:01): MP3

1. The Kommunist Manifesto or Wot We Wukkers Want (6:01): MP3
2. Appropriation As My Beatrice: Insufficiencies of Theory to Poetical Economies (33:51): MP3
3. the distinction between theory and poetics (8:28): MP3
4. the abandonment of primary texts (8:44): MP3
5. theory in critical vs. creative writing (6:08): MP3
6. the distinction between primary/secondary texts and high/low art (9:33): MP3
7. a critique of Bourdieu and contemporary theory (10:50): MP3

Karen Mac Cormack

• February 20 - complete reading (26:53): MP3

February 28, 1991

Robert Creeley

• Part One (46:58): MP3
• Part Two (46:50): MP3
• Part Three (47:00): MP3
• Part Four (33:59): MP3

Leslie Scalapino

1. introduction (2:02): MP3
2. from "Waking Life" (27:58): MP3
3. Ochre (16:51): MP3

March 7 — complete seminar (1:40:45): MP3

March 20, 1991

Robert Creeley (48:03): MP3

April 3, 1991

Jerome McGann (51:34): MP3

Rachel Blau DuPlessis (52:04): MP3

1. from "Acknowledgments" (3:50): MP3
2. The Pink Guitar (48:12): MP3

Robin Blaser

• April 24 - "Check Out Your Lintels: Poetry and Doors" (1:07:04): MP3
• April 25 - "Homotextualism" (2:13:57): MP3

• Gene Frumkin (51:50): MP3

1. introduction (3:36): MP3
2. from the preface to Comma in the Ear (3:52): MP3
3. Outnumbering Any One Way (32:00): MP3
4. Stray Formulations (12:19): MP3

October 9, 1991

Tom Raworth (27:28): MP3

October 23, 1991

Lyn Hejinian

• reading (46:25): MP3 (incomplete)
• excerpt from "The Cell" (10:27): MP3

David Bromige

• January 29 - complete reading (39:51): MP3
• January 30 - complete seminar (2:08:06): MP3

February 19, 1992

James Sherry (37:37): MP3

• Ray Federman - Postmodernism: Before and After (1:20:50): MP3

April 1-2, 1992

Barbara Guest

• Poetry reading (43:50): MP3
• I. Lecture "How I Got out of Poetry and into Prose" (20:24): MP3
• II. Seminar discussion (1:37:35): MP3
  [Note: This recording drops out once at 0:26:00 minutes and again and 1:13:00 when cassette was flipped or changed during recording.]

April 15, 1992

Bruce Andrews (58:45): MP3 (slight drop-out at 46:38 when cassette was flipped)

November 11, 1992

Rosmarie Waldrop (click here for segmented recording)

Robin Blaser, introduced by Robert Creeley (1:05:46): MP3

September 22, 1993

Joan Retallack (40:20): MP3

September 28, 1993

Jena Osman (33:01): MP3

Bob Perelman [beg. cut-off] (49:57): MP3

Mark Wallace (33:17): MP3

P. Inman, intro Joan Retallack (39:23): MP3

Tina Darragh, intro Retallack (35:18): MP3

March 2, 1994

Erica Hunt, intro Bernstein (53:54): MP3

• Introduction (3:35): MP3
• Agha Shahid Ali (24:18): MP3
• Toi Derricotte (22:42): MP3
• Cecilia Vicuna (16:56): MP3
• Ray A Young Bear (21:41): MP3

David Hureta (24:58): MP3

Jorge S. Perednik (47:50): MP3

March 23, 1994

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (1:03:53): MP3

Ann Lauterbach introduced by Jena Osman (50:25): MP3

John Taggart introduced by Robert Creeley (52:38): MP3

Robert Grenier (slide lecture) (1:19:23): MP3

• introduction by Charles Bernstein (3:45): MP3
• Michael Davidson (50:04): MP3

November 2, 1994

Clayton Eshleman, introdcued by Yunte Huang (54:31): MP3

• introduction by Joseph Conte (9:40): MP3
• Dennis Tedlock (23:12): MP3
• Charles Bernstein (27:12): MP3
• Susan Howe (25:10): MP3

• introduction by Juliana Spahr (1:51): MP3
• Elizabeth Willis (21:58): MP3
• Ted Pearson, introduction by Jena Osman (27:11): MP3

December 7, 1994

Reading of Atmosphere Magazine (45:28): MP3

January 25, 1995

Jorie Graham introduced by Susan Howe (52:32): MP3

• introduction to Welch Everman (8:25): MP3
• Welch Everman (26:01): MP3
• introduction to Maureen Owen (2:39): MP3
• Maureen Owen (32:01): MP3

• introduction to Douglas Messerli (4:43): MP3
• Douglas Messerli (36:09): MP3
• introduction to Rae Armantrout (2:05): MP3
• Rae Armantrout (31:03): MP3

February 22, 1995

Fanny Howe (20:15): MP3

M. NourbSe Philip (34:12): MP3

March 1, 1995

Charles Alexander (54:17): MP3

Ric Caddel (39:59): MP3

Peter Middleton (36:28): MP3

• introduction by Jorge Guitart (4:47): MP3
• Jose Kozer (44:43): MP3

March 29, 1995

Christian Prigent (55:16): MP3

March 31, 1995

Robert Creeley

• Introduction (2:50): MP3
• Histoire de Florida (18:24): MP3

Susan Howe (21:36): MP3

Charles Bernstein (25:06): MP3

Kathy Acker interview (1:10:13): MP3

April 12-13, 1995

Lydia Davis Reading with an Introduction by Charles Bernstein (48:26): MP3 (Slight gap where tape was turned at 45 minutes.)

Lydia Davis Interview by Charles Bernstein with Susan Howe (48:08): MP3 (Slight gap where tape was turned at 45 minutes.)

April 19, 1995

Michael Ondaatje (47:57): MP3

April 26, 1995

Paul Auster (1:03:15): MP3

Carla Harryman (42.23): MP3

Fiona Templeton (41:18): MP3

September 27, 1995

Lucette Finas (1:13:54): MP3

Luci Tapahonso (55:08): MP3

• introduction (6:12): MP3
• Michel Deguy (39:07): MP3

November 1, 1995

Lance Olson (reading cuts out in the middle) (25:29): MP3

November 15, 1995

Steve McCaffery (47:52): MP3

• Introduction by Dennis Tedlock (3:09): MP3
• Andrew Schelling (27:26): MP3
• Andrew Schelling and Anne Waldman (6:28): MP3
• Anne Waldman (25:41): MP3

Larry McCaffery and Doug Rice: Poetics & Practice of Avant-Pop Literature (lecture) (1:27:34): MP3

September 11, 1996

Deanna Ferguson (50:50): MP3

October 12, 1996

John Ashbery (48:37): MP3
Ashbery reads as part of the Robert Creeley 70th birthday tribute

October 16, 1996

Serge Gavronsky (51:53): MP3

October 23, 1996

Leslie Scalapino (52:11): MP3

November 3, 1996

Susan Schultz (29:08): MP3

Hank Lazer (38:26): MP3

complete reading (1:07:33): MP3

• Susan Shultz introduction to John Kinsella (5:11): MP3
• John Kinsella (29:06): MP3
• Taylor Brady introduction to Barrett Watten (incomplete) (4:05): MP3
• Barrett Watten (39:04): MP3

• introduction by Raymond Federman (6:15): MP3
• Josee Lapeyere (35:00): MP3
• introduction by Charles Bernstein (2:39): MP3
• Bernard Noel (36:15): MP3

December 6, 1995

Reading of Atmosphere Magazine (46:34): MP3

Jackson Mac Low (56:36): MP3

• introduction (3:24): MP3
• Geraldine Monk (42:14): MP3
• Alan Halsey (40:14): MP3

November 6, 1997

Steve McCaffery (click here for segmented recording)

• introduction (3:15): MP3
• Fred D'Aguiar (50:54): MP3

October 22, 1998

Robert Grenier Lecture: "Realizing Things" (2:21:01): MP3

October 29, 1998

Christian Prigent (click here for segmented recording)

November 9, 1998

Barbara Tedlock Lecture: The Hidden Female Shaman Tradition (1:06:52): MP3

November 14, 1998

Myung Mi Kim (click here for segmented recording)

1998

Joel Kuszai (24:49): MP3

February 4, 1998

• introduction (7:11): MP3
• John Yau (48:08): MP3

February 18, 1998

Allen Fisher (55:36): MP3

February 25, 1998

Rod Smith (34:30): MP3

Heather Fuller (34:25): MP3

March 18, 1998

Michael McClure (49:03): MP3

April 1, 1998

Samuel R. Delany (1:33:34): MP3

September 15, 1999

Bill Griffiths (click here for segmented recording)

September 26, 1999

Susan Stewart (37:25): MP3

November 10, 1999

Lyn Hejinian (click here for segmented recording)

Kit Robinson (click here for segmented recording)

March 3, 1999

• introduction (6:02): MP3
• Laird Hunt (24:30: MP3
• introduction (4:58): MP3
• Eleni Sikelianos (26:29): MP3

February 9, 2000

Christian Bok (56:00): MP3

March 16, 2000

Ron Silliman (1:05:47): MP3

April 12, 2000

Reina María Rodríguez (click here for segmented recording)

April 26, 2000

Clark Coolidge (53:52): MP3

September 6, 2000

Jorie Graham (1:00:45): MP3

September 20, 2000

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, introduced by Lew Daly (46:17): MP3

October 18, 2000

Adrienne Rich

November 15, 2000

Dominique Fourcade (1:04:18): MP3

2000

Christian Bök

1. And Sometimes (0:32): MP3
2. Valuvëula (1:16): MP3
3. from Motorized Razors (2:24): MP3
4. Ubu Hubbub (0:46): MP3
5. Bök performs Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" (18:36): MP3

April 2001

Darren Wershler-Henry (9:39): MP3

October 30, 2001

Stacy Doris (click here for segmented recording)

November 14, 2001

Juliana Spahr (click here for segmented recording)

Rodrigo Toscano (click here for segmented recording)

November 28, 2001

Bruce Andrews (51:21): MP3
Note: Roberta Tejada's introduction was not recorded.

Olivier Cadiot (20:19): MP3

2001

Christian Bök (17:15): MP3 , RealAudio

September 25, 2002

Rae Armantrout (click here for segmented recording)

February 27, 2003

Louis Cabri (click here for segmented recording)

K. Silem Mohammad (click here for segmented recording)

March 26, 2003

David Antin (50:33): MP3, RealAudio

April 9, 2003

Elizabeth Willis (26:40): MP3

May 20, 2003

Marjorie Perloff (1:09:36): MP3, RealAudio

date unknown

Chris Mann (click here for segmented recording)

Walter Lowenfels (1:06:25): MP3




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Wednesdays @ 4 Plus was coordinated by Charles Bernstein for the Poetics Program and sponsored, variously, by the Gray, Capen, McNultey, Butler, and Jones Chairs, and the Department of English at SUNY-Buffalo. Thanks to Robert Creeley, Dennis Tedlock, Raymond Federman, Robert Bertholf, and Susan Howe. These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the authors. © 2009 by the poets or their estates. Recorded by Charles Bernstein, mostly on a SONY Walkman Pro. Distributed by PennSound.

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