Michael Gizzi

Michael Gizzi Retrospective with William Corbett & Stan Mir, in conversation with Davy Knittle, October 11, 2017

Complete reading (01:08:14): MP3

Chapter & Verse Series Reading at the Chapterhouse Cafe, PHL, with Jena Osman and Craig Watson, October 24, 2009

• Complete recording (18:48): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 13, 2004

• Complete reading (18:13): MP3

from Frequency Audio Journal, First Issue, 2004

• 4 poems from McKenna's Antennas (with jazz pianist Dave McKenna) (5:23): MP3

Reading with Gillian McCain, Wednesdays @ 4-Plus, SUNY Buffalo, February 15, 2001

• Complete reading (1:09:23): MP3

Cured in the Going Bebop, Brooksong Recording, 2000

1. Listen my chilblains... (0:43): MP3
2. Booked as a lullaby... (0:57): MP3
3. His Biffness cured... (0:42): MP3
4. A snake charmer's D.T.s (1:15): MP3
5. A Palomino in my cream... (1:33): MP3
6. Waterboy takes statewide shower... (1:24): MP3
7. Caedmon Cud to Venerable Bede... (1:04): MP3
8. Heckle and Jeckle... (1:01): MP3
9. A Delft postman... (1:34): MP3
10. How soon can I go out... (0:46): MP3
11. A tea shower eavesdrops... (1:12): MP3
12. Billy Bauer backpedals... (0:57): MP3
13. Hypnotists incubate... (0:50): MP3
14. My dream... (0:53): MP3
15. Palaver about squash... (1:14): MP3
16. A land pirate of the first water... (1:07): MP3
17. Two spooks in a fountain... (1:04): MP3
18. O rooster of May... (1:04): MP3
19. Dear Double Jehovah... (1:21): MP3
20. A jet jets... (1:07): MP3

Cured in the Going Bebop was recorded at Brooksong Recording, Chatham, New York, and is a production of Utopia Productions, 53 Tsatsawassa Lake Road, East Nassau, NY 12062. © 2000, All Rights Reserved, Utopia Productions.

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn. December 11, 1999

Complete reading (26:40): MP3

Wednesday Series: Carla Harryman and Michael Gizzi, St. Mark’s Church, NY, February 18, 1998

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (48:07): link
2. Side B (47:58): link

Reading No Both, recordings courtesy of Steve Evans, 1997

"No Both," Brown University, October 22, 1997

1. introduction (2:34): MP3
2. Only last night because I'm always (2:51): MP3
3. Dear Bushwhack Saint Tacky of Bombazine (1:00): MP3
4. Christ clocked at a buck ten on I-91 (1:18): MP3
5. Ripley (1:56): MP3
6. A few times in our lives we live like cats (0:43): MP3
7. A mind to a halfmoon lunatic (0:45): MP3
8. With vexation (0:20): MP3
9. Get your ass outta my soul (1:26): MP3
10. Then went about on little ant knees (1:35): MP3
11. A bald narcissist (0:26): MP3
12. Nostalgia is an impossible language (0:53): MP3
13. Sunup in the kitchen corner (0:44): MP3
14. Mr. Bing Crosberry (1:06): MP3
15. I built this rear window (0:46): MP3
16. Summer affected her dolphin (1:11): MP3
17. Gawking under the influence (1:39): MP3
18. The sun won't stay blind (0:43): MP3
19. The Miracle of Growing Macaroni (1:10): MP3
20. This is only the sixth time (0:39): MP3
21. A near myth childhood hovercraft (0:26): MP3
22. A case of life (1:03): MP3
23. A sermon precipitant of runoff (0:29): MP3
24. The only remnant of a yen I'll get (1:03): MP3
25. Wanton troopers gliding by (0:53): MP3
26. When I die which I weather will be soon (1:06): MP3
27. A day to duck under (0:56): MP3
28. 500 mikes of windowpane (0:42): MP3
29. I shop at the Noble Savage store (0:39): MP3
30. O hymen! O criminy! (0:52): MP3
31. Thank the mighty clouds of Joy (1:15): MP3
32. Who has fame in mind will defame his kind (0:42): MP3
33. Signal smoke curling like woodsmoke (0:53): MP3
34. When your eyes have room I visit (0:39): MP3
35. Suppose we yawned (1:10): MP3
36. Say Listen Uncle Son (0:23): MP3
37. A doll is playing with the minutes (0:40): MP3
38. Strings shoot out of the ground (0:29): MP3
39. One Trick Tony weepy in rooster chaps (1:13): MP3
40. Wanting life (0:46): MP3
41. Louis Thunder gallstone death (1:33): MP3
42. Non-union trees tossing noggin-topped Nijinskis (1:12): MP3
43. In intravenous spring (1:08): MP3
44. The hand that spreads (0:33): MP3
45. Stewnauts collect old teapots (1:04): MP3
46. Planets around the mainstem (1:02): MP3
47. Think of guys high in front of the espesso machine (0:56): MP3
48. I've been sick all my life (0:40): MP3

• Complete reading (49:59): MP3

"We See," at Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop's House, Rhode Island, October 23, 1997

1. Bird on Dial (2:28): MP3
2. A Brodeyak (1:17): MP3
3. Dante Enters Tibet (1:02): MP3
4. In the Vicinity of a Grocer (1:48): MP3
5. Too Big Canader (4:35): MP3
6. In Memory of Brazilla Ray (0:56): MP3
7. Piltdown Audibles (0:50): MP3
8. They Say It's Wonderful (1:25): MP3
9. The Incumbents in her Garden (2:27): MP3
10. North of the Sunset (5:42): MP3
11. Code of Silence (0:47): MP3
12. Tripoli (1:31): MP3
13. Independence Eve (1:05): MP3
14. Joujouka Anaesthetist (2:58): MP3
15. Parker's Point, Chester (1:25): MP3
16. Tristano Solo (1:09): MP3
17. The Golden Book of Resentment (1:08): MP3
18. For Carla in Frisco a Listener (2:07): MP3
19. Ask Me Now (1:00): MP3
20. The Permanence of Whim to Providence (1:51): MP3
21. When Goodies Start to Fail (0:56): MP3
22. Mornithology (1:58): MP3
23. McKenna's All Saints (1:21): MP3
24. Exoduster (1:45): MP3
25. The Rejected Perfume (1:32): MP3
26. Ma Predicate (0:52): MP3
27. Newk's Time (1:46): MP3
28. To a Dutch Astronomer in the Netherlands (2:21): MP3
29. Ode to Woody Strode (4:40): MP3
30. The Academy of False Hope (1:38): MP3
31. Lompoc in Spring (2:10): MP3

• Complete reading (59:03): MP3

Reading Kerouac with Clark Coolidge, West Stockbridge, MA, studio of Steve Schwartz, 1994

Reading Kerouac's Old Angel Midnight (45:53): MP3

Michael Gizzi on PennSound Daily

• September 28, 2010: "In Memoriam: Michael Gizzi (1949-2010)"

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