George Economou

Reading at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania with Rochelle Owens, introduced by Randall Couch, November 18, 2002

Complete Reading (35:20)MP3

Poet's Corner recording sessions with Joe Gouveia at WOMR, Provincetown, MA. September 14 and September 21, 2006

• First Session: Interview and Reading of Poems and Translations from Acts of Love (14:47)
• Second Session: Interview and Reading of Poems and Translations from Acts of Love (14:27)

Studio 111 recording session at the University of Pennsylvania, February 24, 2006

1. “Day of Disembarkation,” The Charioteer, 43 (2005), p. 9. (0:55): MP3
2. “Ameriki, Book One, Part III,” Ameriki: Book One and Selected Earlier Poems (New York: Sun, 1977), pp. 8-9; harmonies & fits (Norman, OK: Point Riders Press, 1987), pp.32-33. (1:55): MP3
3. “Ameriki,Book One, Part V,” Ibid., pp. 12-13; pp. 35-36. (1:38): MP3
4. “Ameriki, Book One, Part VII,” Ibid., pp. 16-17; pp. 39-40. (2:08): MP3
5. “Ameriki, Book Two, Part IV,” harmonies & fits, pp. 52-53. (2:03): MP3
6. “Orange Light Over Blue Expression,” Landed Natures (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969), pp. 25-27; Ameriki, Book One, pp. 79-81. (2:55): MP3
7. “Voluntaries, 3,” Century Dead Center (Kingston, NY: Left Hand Books, 1997), pp. 58-59. (1:55): MP3
8. “Voluntaries, 13,” Ibid., pp. 70-71. (1:48): MP3
9. “Sestina du Crépuscule,” Ibid., pp. 52-53. (3:47): MP3
10. “An Evening in Kingfisher,” Ibid., pp. 119-121; harmonies & fits , pp. 5-7. (4:25): MP3
11. “Kassandra’s Story,” 45/46 (2000), pp .91-92. (1:10): MP3
12. “The Amorous Drift of the First Hoplite on the Right Wing, The Battle of Mantinea, 348 B.C.,” American Poetry Review (May/June 2004), p. 31. (2:21): MP3
13. From Ananios of Kleitor: Poems & Fragments and their Reception from Antiquity to the Present, Collected and Translated by George Economou (unpublished manuscript). (16:02): MP3

Translations from the works of C. P. Cavafy:

• “Days of 1908” (1932), I’ve Gazed So Much (London: Stop Press, 2001), n.p. (2:10): MP3

Forthcoming in Half and Hour, Poems by C. P. Cavafy (London: Stop Press):

• “Half an Hour,” (1917) (1:00): MP3
• “The Bandaged Shoulder,” (1919) (1:00): MP3
• “He Asked about the Quality,” (1930) (1:51): MP3

From Acts of Love, Ancient Greek Poetry from Aphrodite’s Garden (New York: Random House/Modern Library, 2006):

• Archilochos 6:, pp. 6-8., (3:03): MP3
• Sappho 5, pp. 9-10. (1:44): MP3
• Straton 5, p. 94. (1:30): MP3
• Anonymous 20, p. 104. (0:41): MP3
• “Sappho, A Recently Discovered Poem (2004),” (unpublished). (1:23): MP3

William Langland's Piers Plowman: The C Version, Kelly Writers House, May 17, 2007:

• Introduction (1:17): MP3
• Passus 5 (6:30): MP3
• Glutton's Confession, Passus 6 (5:57): MP3
• The Harrowing of Hell (3:49): MP3
• Complete Reading (21:34): MP3

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

"Inside a Tale that is Full of Eyes;" Economou's poem, "Identified;" Oppen's poem, "Psalm" (13:20): MP3

Reading from Poems for the Millennium III, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 7, 2009

Complete Reading (13:33): MP3

• reading from Ananios of Kleitor (5:55): MP3
• on the process of writing Ananios of Kleitor (13:58): MP3

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

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