Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Close Listening recording session at Studio 111, the University of Pennsylvania, April 27, 2005

A Conversation with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, with host Charles Bernstein (36:02)

From Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan University Press, 2001)

1. Draft 20 - Incipit (5:35): MP3
2. excerpt from Draft 19: Working Conditions (4:16): MP3 (from LIVE KWH/WXPN radio show)
3. Draft 25 - Segno (5:34): MP3 [ALSO, from KWH LIVE Draft Twenty-Five Seigno (4:53): MP3]

From Poker 4 (Summer 2004)

4. 4. Draft 63 - Dialogue of Self & Soul (6:49): MP3

From: Drafts. Drafts 39-57, Pledge with Draft, unnumbered (Salt, Cambridge, England, 2004) & Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt, 2007)

5. Draft 46 - Edge (9:18): MP3
6. Draft 64 - Forward Slash (5:05) (unpublished): MP3
7. 4 Sections from Draft 51 - Clay Songs (12:34): MP3
8. Draft 61 - Pyx (5:21): MP3

produced by Charles Bernstein

recording engineer: Chris Mustazza

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

"Section 9: Of Being Numerous" (7:54): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, February 5, 2008

1. Introduction (4:52): MP3
2. Draft 64: Forward Slash (8:06): MP3
3. from Draft 74: Wanderer (10:55): MP3
4. Draft 88: X-Posting (a variation on Ingeborg Bachmann's "Keine Delikatessen") (16:25): MP3
5. from Draft 85: Hard Copy (12:47): MP3

Complete Reading (54:17): MP3

Selected portions of this event were recorded:

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Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, January 19, 2008

Complete reading (29:55): MP3

Studio 111 Session, October 12, 2007

from Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt, 2007)

1. Draft 58: In Situ (8:03): MP3
2. Draft 60: Rebus (7:26): MP3
3. Draft 72: Nanifesto (5:59): MP3
4. Draft 75: Doggerel (14:07): MP3
5. Draft 85: Hard Copy (41:10): MP3

See Also: DuPlessis' readings of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats, recorded that same day

Studio 111 Session produced by Michael S. Hennessey

on Virginia Woolf, from Nine Contemporary Poets Read Themselves Through Modernism at the Kelly Writers House, October 13, 2000

• Draft 38: Georgics and Shadow (10:28): MP3
• Draft 48: Being Astonished (11:54): MP3

Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics, presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003

• reading Friday, October 17, 2003 (6:27): MP3
• reading Saturday, October 18, 2003 (4:28): MP3

from PhillyTalks Episode #13, November 15, 1999

• from Draft 48: Being Astonished (6:47): MP3
• Draft 41: Of This (18:56): MP3

Statement made for the celebration of Ron Silliman's The Alphabet, February 2009

Complete Recording (10:43): MP3

Reading at Robin's Books, Philadelphia, May 11, 1988

1. Introductory comments (2:54): MP3
2. Attar (from Tabula Rosa) (1:40): MP3
3. Introduction to Drafts (1:48): MP3
4. Draft 2: She (11:54): MP3
5. Draft 3: Of (9:40): MP3
6. Draft 6: Midrush (12:46): MP3
7. Draft 7: Me (6:31): MP3

(this track cuts off prematurely)

complete reading (48:23): MP3

(recording courtesy of the Herschel Baron Collection)

Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI March 27, 1988

1. Introduction (2:44): MP3
2. From H.D.: The Career of That Struggle (1:06): MP3
3. From Other-how (4:29): MP3
4. Praxilla's Silliness (7:38): MP3
5. Rupturing the History of Poetry by the History of Poetry (4:12): MP3
6. Introduction to Crowbar (3:35): MP3
7. Crowbar (17:52): MP3

Complete Reading (42:23): MP3

8. Discussing Drafts (3:50): MP3
9. Draft 2: She (13:07): MP3
10. Introduction to Draft 6 (5:30): MP3
11. Draft 6 (10:08): MP3

Complete Reading (42:56): MP3

Reading at the Tyler School of Art April 10, 1985

1. From Wells (2:29): MP3
2. Writing (7:18): MP3
3. Crowbar (17:14): MP3

Complete Reading (27:33): MP3

Panel Discussion on Image/ Imaging at the Tyler School of Art April 10, 1985. With Clark Coolidge, Michael Palmer, John Yau, and Geoffrey Young

• Part One (32:50): MP3
• Part Two (32:35): MP3

Reading at Intersection in San Francisco May 4, 1982

1. Introduction to Selections from Wells (2:04): MP3
2. From Wells: Euridice (5:24): MP3
3. From Wells: Medusa (6:57): MP3
4. From: A History of Poetry (9:30): MP3
5. Excerpt from Wells: (2:13): MP3
6. Ode in Six Parts (15:20): MP3

Complete Reading (43:41): MP3

Writers Talk with Mary Oppen, Anita Barrows and Frances Jaffer, Produced by Norma Smith at KPFA Berkeley, 1985 or 1986

• Part One (28:00): MP3
• Part Two (26:30): MP3

DuPlessis in Discussion with Susan Howe in DuPlessis's Class

• Part One (49:20): MP3
• Part Two (45:45): MP3

See also: The Louis Zukofsky Centennial Conference at Columbia University and Barnard College, September 17-19, 2004 for video footage of Duplessis' presentation.

Rachel Blau Duplessis on PennSound Daily

• July 25, 2008: "Coolidge, DuPlessis, Palmer, Yau, Young: Readings and Roundtable at Tyler School of Art, 1985"
• March 17, 2008: "Vintage Rachel Blau Duplessis: Robin's Books, 1988"
• February 22, 2008: "Rachel Blau Duplessis at the Kelly Writers House"
• October 19, 2007: "Rachel Blau Duplessis' Studio 111"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2005-2008 Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Studio 111 conversation © 2005 Rachel Blau DuPlessis/Charles Bernstein. Used with permission of Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Distributed by PennSound.