Erica Hunt

Close Listening - reading and conversation with Charles Bernstein at WPS1.org Clocktower Studio, New York, June 20, 2005

1. introduction by Charles Bernstein (0:45): MP3
2. on poetry as social praxis (14:20): MP3
3. on the influence of jazz (2:33): MP3
4. on the sources for her works (2:50): MP3
5. on identity poetics and the Twenty-First Century Foundation (5:32): MP3
6. on the Cave Canem Workshop (2:32): MP3

Reading

Complete Recording (30:39): MP3

from Piece Logic

1. The small print (1) (0:56): MP3
2. The small print (2) (0:53): MP3
3. "The great reigns are only the enlarged projections of little thieves" - Augustine (6:07): MP3
4. Invisible Hands (3:18): MP3
5. Proof (1:55): MP3
6. Poem for a Second (1:36): MP3
7. Poem for the Future (1:30): MP3
8. There's Living Done (1:31): MP3

from Arcade

9. Ecstasy (1:24): MP3
10. The Voice of No (1:01): MP3
11. Arcade (3:12): MP3
12. (parabola) -- from The Long View (2:04): MP3
13. #4 ("not a branch stirred") from Piece Logic (1:42): MP3

• Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1
• © 2005 Erica Hunt and Charles Bernstein
• WPS1 Studio Engineer: Darrell McNeill

Appearing on In the American Tree, hosted by Alan Bernheimer, August 12, 1979

Complete Recording (29:27): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, June 8, 1985

1. Introduction (1:58): MP3
2. from Local History (5:25): MP3
3. Radio Howdy (1:41): MP3
4. Getting Even (3:24): MP3
5. After a Tune (1:22): MP3
6. Move (1:56): MP3
7. Preface (2:20): MP3
8. Reach Extended (9:06): MP3
9. Just mention me (10:58): MP3

Complete Reading (39:08): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, February 28, 1987

Complete Reading (29:52): MP3

Politics of Poetic Form Lecture and Discussion at The New School, New York October 14, 1988

• I. Lecture - "Notes for an Oppositional Poetics" (38:04): MP3
• II. Discussion (1:30:18): MP3

Presented at The New School, Wolfson Center for National Affairs, New York as part of "The Politics of Poetic Form" series and published in The Politics of Poetic Form, ed. Charles Bernstein (New York: Roof Books, 1990).

Reading at the Ear Inn (with Diane Ward), May 20, 1990:

Part One (20:52), Part Two (14:37)

Reading at Wednesdays @ 4Plus, University at Buffalo, March 2, 1994

Complete Reading (53:54): MP3

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, October 3, 2000

complete reading (30:11): MP3

Reading with Akilah Oliver, and Tribute to kari edwards, Belladonna* Reading Series, Dixon Place, New York, December 12, 2006

• introduction to reading (2:17): MP3
• introduction to Erica Hunt (2:23): MP3
• complete reading (26:19): MP3
• Rachel Levitsky, Erica Kaufman, and Erica Hunt tribute to kari edwards (7:53): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #11, discussing Hunt's "the voice of no," October 6, 2008

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

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, January 17, 2009

Complete Recording (45:20): MP3

Appearing at Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism, sponsored by the Belladonna Reading Series, New York, September 24, 2009

Reading with Kathleen Fraser (54:44): MP3

complete discussion (26:53): MP3

Also on PennSound:

• Erica Hunt on Live at the Ear, a compilation from Elemenope Productions, 1994.
• Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics [Presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003]
• Erica Hunt in Nine Contemporary Poets Read Themselves Through Modernism at the Kelly Writers House
• Erica Hunt reads at the launch of Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven, March 28, 2010

Erica Hunt on PennSound Daily

• October 7, 2008: "Poem Talk 11: Erica Hunt's 'the voice of no'"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. Used with permission of Erica Hunt. Distributed by PennSound.