Susan Howe

Reading with Roberto Tejada at the Poetry Project, St. Marks, New York, February 8, 2012

• Watch a recording of the event here, via YouTube.

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

Frolic Architecture, performed with David Grubbs, Harvard University, November 1, 2011

PoemTalk Podcast #32, discussing Howe's interpretation of Emily Dickinson's "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun," May 24, 2010

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

"Souls of the Labadie Tract," with David Grubbs, Walker Art Center, April 29, 2010

• (click here for a video recording)

Reading for the Kelly Writers House Fellows Program, March 22, 2010

1. introduction by Al Filreis (6:06): MP3
2. introduction by Cecilia Corrigan (5:46): MP3
3. introduction by Susan Howe (0:57): MP3
4. from Secret History of the Dividing Line (1:22): MP3
5. discussing "Melville's Marginalia" (2:00): MP3
6. from the closing of "Melville's Marginalia" (1:01): MP3
7. the preface of "Melville's Marginalia (11:09): MP3
8. from Bedhangings (17:09): MP3
9. "Errand" (2:07): MP3
10. from Souls of the Labadie Tract (10:14): MP3

complete reading (1:00:11): MP3 / MOV

Discussion during the the Kelly Writers House Fellows Program, March 23, 2010

1. introduction by Al Filreis (4:55): MP3
2. on Wilson Walker Cowen (6:50): MP3
3. owning Emily Dickinson (1:59): MP3
4. wild libraries (5:53): MP3
5. the Adriondacks (5:54): MP3
6. on the writing environment (3:08): MP3
7. on Marta L. Wenrer's Dickinson Project (2:11): MP3
8. the rhetoric of terror (5:43): MP3
9. the violence of selving (3:13): MP3
10. on Wallace Stevens (7:50): MP3
11. in the stacks (3:53): MP3
12. books as transitional objects (5:00): MP3
13. marginalia and dirty laundry (4:19): MP3
14. the recuperation of past poets (5:13): MP3
15. reading from Frame Structures (6:43): MP3

complete recording (1:12:44): MP3 / MOV

Reading for Double Change, Paris, October 29, 2009

• Film available from Double Change archives.

"Souls of the Labadie Tract," recorded live with David Grubbs, Southbank Centre, London, October 8, 2009

• (click here for complete recording and performance info)

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club January 26, 2008

1. introduction (3:28): MP3
2. short selections from Pierce Arrow (5:56): MP3
3. Stage Snow (1:51): MP3
4. Concrete Central (8:26): MP3
5. 118 Westerly Terrace (11:29): MP3

• complete reading (31:43): MP3

Kelly Writers House

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

1. Introduction by Charles Bernstein (4:02): MP3
2. "What Is This Crackling of Voices in the Mind" (15:37): MP3
3. From Thorow (19:40): MP3
Complete Recording (40:16): MP3

Thursday, February 15, 2007, (sponsored by Theorizing)

1. Introduction by Rebecca Sheehan (4:32): MP3 (With text of introduction
2. From The Midnight(first two unnumbered pages at the beginning flyleaf sections then pp. 57-60) (14:52): MP3
3. "Originality and Quotation: A Prose Poem" [on Jonathon Edwards] (19:57): MP3
Complete Recording (40:13): MP3

• (click here for segmented recordings, photographs, liner notes and more)

Radio Readings Project, produced by Ernesto Grosman, 1998

1. Introduction (0:56): MP3
2. Thorow: Introduction (5:51): MP3
3. Thorow: I (3:17): MP3
4. Thorow: II (5:28): MP3
   
5. Thorow: III (3:13): MP3
   
6. Introduction to The Europe of Trusts (6:30): MP3
   
7. Commentary on Pythagorean Silence (1:07): MP3
   
8. The "Pearl Harbor" section of Pythagorean Silence (5:27): MP3
   [Note: Howe reads the verse prologue--"we that were wood..."--and most pages of section 1, titled "Pearl Harbor" of the long poem. In the New Directions edition of The Europe of Trusts, these are the pages she reads: pp. 17, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32. Here is the text of the excerpt.]
   
9. Discussion with Ernesto Livon-Grosman (24:13): MP3
   Complete Reading (55:26): MP3
   

On LINEbreak radio program with Charles Bernstein, 1995

1. Introduction (1:04): MP3
2. On War As A Motif (3:34): MP3
3. Reading "There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to Cover to Crown to Cover" from the preface to The Europe of Trusts (7:06): MP3
4. On women writing about war and silenced women (5:36): MP3
5. Reading from My Emily Dickinson (2:00): MP3
6. On power, writing as a woman, and Emily Dickinson (2:26): MP3
7. Reading Emily Dickinson's "My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun" and the associated passage about the poem in My Emily Dickinson (6:34): MP3
8. [clip from above, beginning "When I love a thing..."]
9. [clip from above, beginning "I go in disguise, so under stress..."]
10. From painting to poetry (5:57): MP3
11. Reading from "The Nonconformist's Memorial" (5:44) MP3
12. On writing and performing "The Nonconformist's Memorial" (7:09): MP3
13. Reading more from "The Nonconformist's Memorial" (3:18): MP3
14. Advice to new readers of Howe's poetry (1:23): MP3
15. On teaching as a poet (3:52): MP3
Complete Interview and Discussion (58:44): MP3

Reading at SUNY Buffalo with Charles Bernstein and Robert Creeley, March 31, 1995

1. "Scattering As Behaviour Toward Risk" (6:19): MP3
   From Singularities (Wesleyan University Press) EPC Resource: Ming-Qian Ma discusses this poem
2. "The Non-Conformist Memorial" (14:08): MP3
Complete Reading (21:36): MP3

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University of Buffalo, November 6, 1994

Complete Reading (25:10): MP3

Reading at the Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, July, 1991

• introduction (2:27): MP3
• reading (27:15): MP3

Reading at the University of Buffalo, September 26, 1990

• Part One (31:59): MP3
• Part Two (21:39): MP3

Politics of Poetic Form, New School, NYC, November 4, 1988

• introduction by Charles Bernstein (7:10): MP3
• complete recording (1:49:20): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, June 20, 1987

1. Heliopathy (14:47): MP3
2. Thorow (13:44): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn April 12, 1986

New York Talks, New York, NY, February 24, 1984

• "My Emily Dickinson" (2:04:37): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the The Ear Inn, October 22, 1983

Segue Series Reading at the The Ear Inn, November, 1978

Also on PennSound:

• Daily Pennsylvanian article on Howe visit.
• Live at the Ear, a compilation from Elemenope Productions, 1994.
• Howe's Pacifica Radio poetry programs.

Susan Howe on PennSound Daily

• February 26, 2011: "PennSound Congratulates Bollingen Prizewinner Susan Howe"
• May 24, 2010: "PoemTalk 32: Susan Howe's Emily Dickinson"
• March 29, 2010: "Susan Howe: Kelly Writers House Fellows Audio and Video Now Available"
• March 17, 2010: "Susan Howe and David Grubbs: 'Souls of the Labadie Tract' (Live in London, 2009)"
• February 8, 2010: "Susan Howe and David Grubbs, "Thiefth" (2005)"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2005 Susan Howe. Used with permission of Susan Howe. Distributed by PennSound.