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The Incognito Lounge

A biweekly program produced and hosted by A.L. Nielsen and aired on KSJS FM in San José from 1989 to 1995.

Daniel Davidson reading PRODUCT, recorded by Fran Dyson, broadcast in 2001

  • Complete recording (38:26): MP3

Symposium on Surrealism, Santa Monica, CA, August 19, 1994

organized by Douglas Messerli, with Will Alexander, David Antin, and Jerome Rothenberg

  • Part one (51:37): MP3
  • Part two (36:30): MP3

Alfred Arteaga, Reading at UC Berkeley, March 11 1994

Will Alexander, October 24, 1993

  • Complete interview (61:23): MP3

Daniel Davidson reading at Craig Hill's House on the publication of WEATHER, Mill Valley CA, March 13, 1993

  • Complete reading (38:22): MP3

Leonard Schwartz reading at Cody's Books, Berkeley, June 17, 1992

  • Complete recording (25:44): MP3

Marjorie Perloff, Recorded in Palo Alto, CA, November 11, 1991

  • Complete interview (1:06:36): MP3

Cole Swensen, Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, October 3, 1991

  • Complete reading (28:14): MP3

Daniel Davidson reading at Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, August 30, 1991

  • Complete reading (30:45): MP3

Joan Retallack, July 1991

Complete reading (45:15): MP3

Sherley A. Williams, University of Louisville, February 1991

Complete reading (49:08): MP3

Nathaniel Mackey, July 18, 1991

  • Complete interview (1:00:25): MP3

Nathaniel Mackey, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, June 24, 1991

  • Complete reading (49:37): MP3

Memorial Reading for Robert Duncan, San Jose State University, November 1990

  1. introduction (2:44): MP3
  2. Jim Powell (12:56): MP3
  3. Aaron Shurin (12:24): MP3
  4. Leslie Scalapino (8:49): MP3
  5. David Bromige (15:01): MP3
  6. Aldon Nielsen (13:05): MP3
  7. Robert Glück (17:31): MP3
  • Complete reading (1:23:42): MP3

Kit Robinson reading at Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, October 19, 1990

  • 1. The Dolch Stanzas (8:38): MP3
  • 2. Dayparts (12:08): MP3
  • 3. Pagination in Italy (7:45): MP3
  • 4. Counter Meditation (6:23): MP3

  • Complete recording (34:53): MP3

John Edgar Wideman, October 8, 1990

  • Complete interview (52:18): MP3

John Ashbery reading in San Jose, CA, September 14, 1990

  • Complete reading (quality deteriorates towards end) (49:43): MP3

Bob Perelman, Intersection for the Arts, June 11, 1990

Complete recording (49:39): MP3 / (53:49): MP3 / (10:38): MP3

Carla Harryman and Norma Cole, San Jose State University, May 1, 1990

  1. introduction (2:11): MP3
  2. Carla Harryman (38:50): MP3
  3. Norma Cole (39:44): MP3

Francisco X. Alarcón reading at San Jose State University, October 12, 1989

  • Complete reading (21:05): MP3

David Levi Strauss, October 3, 1989

David Bromige and Ron Silliman, UC Berkeley, May 23, 1989

  • Ron Silliman, from Toner (23:34): MP3
  • David Bromige (22:13): MP3

David Bromige, Date Unknown

Complete recording, intro by A.L. Nielsen (1:03:05): MP3

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