Thomas Devaney

from Six Poets Each Teach One Short Poem to High School Students at the Kelly Writers House, May 12 2009

Thomas Devaney teaches a Basho haiku and John Ashbery's "37 Haiku" [ PDF ]
(21:51): MP3, QuickTime

book release party for A Series of Small Boxes at the Kelly Writers House, September 26, 2007

1. introduction (4:50): MP3
2. Industry and New Clothes (1:51): MP3
3. One Hour October (0:52): MP3
4. William James and the Giant Peach (2:32): MP3
5. Sonnet (1:19): MP3
6. Origami Headphones (4:58): MP3
7. Obi-Wan Kenobe (1:38): MP3
8. The Thousand Year Storm (1:16): MP3
9. Poem (2:52): MP3

• complete reading (23:56): MP3

reading at the Kelly Writers House, February 7, 2000

Poems from The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press, 1999)

1. "The American Pragmatist Fell in Love" (1:27)
2. "Obi-Wan Kenobi" (1:53)
3. "Sonnet" (0:53)
4. "More than usual state of motion, with more than usual order" (2:09)
5. "The Heartbeat of America Makes Its Own Gravy" (1:27)
6. "Everyone I know" (1:27)
7. "Sunday Big Movie Sonnet" (1:20)
8. "Getting to Philadelphia" (3:55)
9. "Kill-Spray" (3:45)

Segue Series Reading at Double Happiness, March 18, 2000

1. introduction (4:15): MP3
2. Bag Pipes (1:29): MP3
3. Mr. Glinting as Seen Off the Atlantic Seaboard (1:54): MP3
4. How Do You Say "Funky Chicken" in Spanish, Poppy? (0:47): MP3
5. More Than Usual State of Motion With More Than Usual Border (2:10): MP3
6. At and Near the Georgia Guidestone (1:56): MP3
7. Everyone I Know (1:44): MP3
8. No One I Know and the Tree (1:19): MP3
9. When Things Shake (1:02): MP3
10. Trying To Live As If It Were Morning (3:28): MP3
11. This Blues is Bullshit (5:53): MP3
12. Bee Beard Sonnet (1:27): MP3
13. The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (1:32): MP3

At the "Finding the Words" post-9/11 program, November 7, 2001:

"Fireman's Song" (1:04)

The Philly Sound Weekend reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, August 9, 2003

1. Trying to Live As If It Were Morning (2:59)
2. A free for all ends at AC airport (2:30)
3. The Stink of Nothing (3:52)
4. Frog Song (1:33)

Reading of The Rat and the Flowerpot (1:01) for Frequency Audio Journal (2004 Issue)

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, April 4, 2007 with John Coletti

mp3 with introduction by Julia Bloch (49:31)

from A Celebration of George Oppen's 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008

• introduction (4:45): MP3
• on Mary Oppen's Meaning A Life (14:48): MP3

Also on PennSound

• Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics [Presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003]:
• Saturday reading: "Origami Headphones"(4:28)

Tom Devaney on PennSound Daily

• June 1, 2009: "Six Poets Each Teach One Short Poem to High School Students"
• November 7, 2007: "Tom Devaney: A Series of Small Boxes"

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