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Kimberly Lyons


Photograph © Barbara Henning

Reading with Barbara Henning and Maureen Owen, Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, October 26, 2022

Introduction of Julie Patton and Nicole Peyrafitte at Zoom event for Lunar Chandelier Press, June 26, 2022

Media SAS Mirror: MP4

Book Launch for Cliff Fyman's TAXI NIGHT, Long News Reading, June 6, 2021

Reading with Cliff Fyman, Kim Lyons, Peter Bushyeager, and Ron Kolm


Media.SAS URL link: MP4

Reading for the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Art Foundation, New York:Chelsea, January 14, 2013

with Laura Moriarty

  • Complete reading (22:33): MP3

Reading at The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ, May 8, 2010 - on POG Sound

  1. Introduction by Charles Alexander (2:49): MP3
  2. Prefatory comments (2:29): MP3
  3. Drain (1:04): MP3
  4. Contretemps (1:17): MP3
  5. Wash Out (1:13): MP3
  6. Passage (0:49): MP3
  7. Ampule (1:04): MP3
  8. Sonnet II: "When leaves staineth" (1:12): MP3
  9. Inhabited Nothingness Chair (1:29): MP3
  10. Evalerian (0:57): MP3
  11. Utica to Rome (1:29): MP3
  12. Rouge (1:30): MP3
  13. Morandi (1:59): MP3
  14. Dear Elizabeth (0:45): MP3
  15. The Books (1:11): MP3
  16. Cape (0:40): MP3
  17. On Robert Duncan's Birthday (1:39): MP3
  18. Minnow (0:55): MP3
  19. For Red Things (0:48): MP3
Complete Reading (23:01): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 31, 2009

  1. Introduction (2:17): MP3
  2. The Litae (2:31): MP3
  3. For Mexican Candies (1:47): MP3
  4. The New York Marble Cemetery (1:11): MP3
  5. Drain (1:04): MP3
  6. A Few Bottles of Bleach (1:07): MP3
  7. Thick (0:42): MP3
  8. Persimmon (0:55): MP3
  9. Sonnet II: "The leaves staineth" (0:45): MP3
  10. Emily Dickinson's House (0:42): MP3
  11. Drinking Coffee (0:19): MP3
  12. Cleopadre (0:35): MP3
  13. Coffee and Dirt (1:16): MP3
  14. Gypsy (0:39): MP3
  15. Green Glass Doors (1:22): MP3
  16. Eleven Spiders (1:07): MP3
  17. Angel Hairs (0:58): MP3
  18. Minnow (0:53): MP3
  19. Halloween Parade (0:41): MP3
  20. Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Curiosities (0:50): MP3
  21. Eucalyptus (0:40): MP3
  22. Cermak Road (0:47): MP3
  23. Happy Happy Birthday (0:35): MP3
  24. Rhinecliff Station, Again (0:48): MP3
  25. Dearest Lee Ann (1:13): MP3
  26. The Third Floor (0:56): MP3
  27. On Picasso's Birthday (0:40): MP3
  28. Estival (1:10): MP3
Complete Reading (29:58): MP3

Segue Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, November 11, 2006

  1. Introduction by Nada Gordon (3:45): MP3
  2. Introduction by Kimberly Lyons (1:22): MP3
  3. Leonora Carrington's Studio (for Lorna Smedman (0:47): MP3
  4. Bangkok (0:53): MP3
  5. Nethermead (0:27): MP3
  6. Labyrinth (0:57): MP3
  7. Black Swallotail (0:57): MP3
  8. The Teacup Ride (2:02): MP3
  9. For Elizabeth Robinson (0:33): MP3
  10. As Instructed (1:31): MP3
  11. The Ancramdale Hotel (2:33): MP3
  12. Red Book (for Tony Fitzpatrick) (1:47): MP3
  13. The Quaker Cemetery (0:42): MP3
  14. Miss Brenda's Ghostss (0:39): MP3
  15. The Great Bear (0:29): MP3
  16. Sagittarius (0:27): MP3
  17. Saqqara (0:40): MP3
  18. 11 Spiders (1:02): MP3
  19. The Gem Room (1:10): MP3
  20. In One Basket (0:43): MP3
  21. Away (1:01): MP3
  22. St. Felix Street (0:57): MP3
  23. Fear of the Future (0:54): MP3
  24. More Samovars (for Toni Simon) (3:53): MP3
  25. Avenue B (1:25): MP3
Complete Recording (33:20): MP3

Wednesday Series: Fanny Howe, Kimberly Lyons, St. Mark's Church, NY, October 10, 2001

Library of Congress recording (1:00:32): link

Segue Series Reading at Double Happiness, March 18, 2000

  • Complete Reading (47:42): MP3

Reading for the Belladonna Series, NYC, January 1, 2000

Complete Reading (18:44): MP3

Wednesday Series: Kim Lyons and Myung Mi Kim, St. Mark’s Church, NY, March 11, 1998

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

  1. Side A (55:22): link
  2. Side B (55:26): link

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, March 20, 1993

  • Complete recording (37:18): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, May 1992

  1. April (0:38): MP3
  2. Latitude (0:18): MP3
  3. Polka Dot (0:41): MP3
  4. The Ear Inn (0:34): MP3
  5. Red (1:04): MP3
  6. Scarletina (0:30): MP3
  7. Chicago in Line (0:44): MP3
  8. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (4:04): MP3
  9. Scissors Cut Paper (6:59): MP3
  10. Mirror (0:44): MP3
  11. The Correspondence of Days (0:49): MP3
  12. At the Payless Point of 10:00 (0:32): MP3
  13. Lapse (0:40): MP3
  14. Remembered Minimal (0:47): MP3
  15. Basket (0:37): MP3
  16. Object Relations (0:48): MP3
  17. Solving Chicago (0:54): MP3
  18. Rayographs (0:56): MP3
  19. Looking for Mina Loy (0:34): MP3
  20. Isn't New York (0:25): MP3
  21. Transformation Then, Said Mr. Spicer (0:31): MP3
  22. Kind (0:31): MP3
  23. Twelve Noon (0:38): MP3
  24. The Museum of Science and Industry (2:36): MP3
  25. Garden (2:09): MP3
Complete Reading (30:50): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, 1986

  1. Aeromet Sweater (1:45): MP3
  2. Stairway's Light (0:39): MP3
  3. Shift (0:41): MP3
  4. Over the introduction to literary theory (0:32): MP3
  5. Fuscia (1:08): MP3
  6. Laurie's Calendar (0:52): MP3
  7. Pieces of Paper (1:59): MP3
  8. Aspire (2:19): MP3
  9. Wrist Codes (4:25): MP3
  10. How to Read the Lines of the Hand (0:45): MP3
  11. Niagra (0:32): MP3
  12. Writing in a notebook with a fake florentine fruit and flower motif (0:34): MP3
  13. Fan Club (0:35): MP3
  14. Thai Coffee (0:34): MP3
  15. Shower (0:20): MP3
  16. Kastengeist (1:12): MP3
  17. Aix-en-Provence (0:46): MP3
  18. Ting Fu (1:27): MP3
  19. Bright Blue (1:20): MP3
  20. A. Semen is purely like aloe (0:10): MP3
  21. B. Before, before (0:16): MP3
  22. M. Dark earrings is an augury (0:22): MP3
  23. Accidents (1:22): MP3
  24. Two Stories About Hair (2:47): MP3
  25. Henna (1:28): MP3
  26. Writing While Asleep (1:12): MP3
  27. In Padua (2:48): MP3
  28. I take my dogs, the whole snarling pack (2:57): MP3

Complete Reading (37:22): MP3

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