MLA Offsite Readings

December 28, 2008

• Taking place at the Forum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
• Recording courtesy of Aldon Nielsen (read his account of the reading and see photos of the event on HeatStrings, his blog)

Featuring:

Noah Eli Gordon, Lorraine Graham, Rob Halpern, Durriel Harris, Carla Harryman, Elizabeth Hatmaker, Jeanne Heuving, Paul Hoover, Bill Howe, Lisa Howe, Javier Huerta, Paolo Javier, Kevin Killian, Aaron Kunin, Joseph Lease, Walter Lew, Bill Luoma, Philip Metres, Kasey Mohammad, Bill Mohr, Rusty Morrison, Aldon Nielsen, Tom Orange, Craig Perez, Donna de la Perriere, Kristin Prevallet, Lisa Robertson, Jeffrey Robinson, Kit Robinson, Jerry Rothenberg

• (in)complete recording (1:31:09): MP3

December 28, 2007

• Organized by Robert Archambeau and Patrick Durgin at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recorded by Aldon Nielsen.

Featuring:

Joe Amato, Robert Archambeau, Ray Biancht, Tisa Bryant, Dodie Bellamy, Charles Cantaloupo, Stephen Cope, Josh Corey, Joel Craig, Elizabeth Cross, Garin Cycholl, Michael Davidson, Patrick Durgin, Joel Felix, Kass Fleischer, G.S. Giscombe, Renee Gladman, Chris Glomski, Steven Halle, Duriel Harris, Bill Howe, Pierre Joris, Jennifer Karmin, Kevin Killian, David Lloyd, Nicole Markotic, Cate Marvin, Philip Metres, Laura Moriarity, Simone Muench, Aldon Nielsen, Mark Nowak, Kristy Odelius, Bob Perelman, Kristen Prevallet, Jen Scappetone, Robyn Schiff, Susan Schultz, Don Share, Ed Skoog, Chuck Stebleton, Mark Tardi, Catherine Taylor, Tony Trigilio, Nick Twemlow, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Barrett Watten, Tyrone Williams, Tim Yu

• complete reading (2:07:08): MP3

December 26, 2006

Featuring:

Aaron Kunin, Adam Fieled, Sasha Steensen, Dennis Barone, Aldon Nielsen, Ben Friedlander, Bill Howe (quartet), Bob Perelman, Brent Cunningham (phone call with "Chris"), Brian Kim Stefans, C. A. Conrad, Camille Martin, Cathy Eisenhower, Charles Bernstein, Christian Bök, Eduardo Espina, translation by Loren Goodman, Elaine Terranova, Ethel Rackin, Evie Shockley, Frank Sherlock, Hank Lazer, Herman Beavers, Jena Osman, Jennifer Scappetone, Joan Retallack, Caroline Bergvall, Johanna Drucker, John Wilkinson, Josh Schuster, Kathy Lou Schultz, Lamont Steptoe, Laura Moriarty, Leevi Lehto, Linda Russo, Linh Dinh, Loren Goodman, Matthew Cooperman, Michael Tod Edgerton, Nat Anderson, Nick Monfort, Norma Cole, Patrick Durgin, (Patrick introduces himself as Charles Bernstein), Rachel DuPlessis, Ron Silliman, Susan Schultz, Timothy Yu, Tom Devaney, Tom Orange, Tracy Morris, Tyrone Williams, Carla Harryman, Barrett Watten, Walter Lew, (odd sounds are first, Walter throwing himself across a grand piano, then later rushing out to cut Aldon Nielson's tie in half, then finally throwing himself back over piano), Will Esposito, and Yunte Huang

1. Ron Silliman
2. Various Readers: MP3
3. Various Readers: MP3

Complete Recording (1:27:35): MP3

December 29, 2004

Featuring:

Will Alexander (Compound Hibernation), Kazim Ali, Rae Armantrout (2,3), Alicia Askenase (Osso Buco), Dennis Barone (Wishbone), Herman Beavers (Taking Up Base, After April 15th This Won't Matter), Steve McCaffery (Part 63), Lee Ann Brown, David Buuck, Mark Wallace, Louis Cabri (from Becoming Kitsch), C.A. Conrad introducing Gil Ott Recording (Stingera), C.A. Conrad (The Department of Refusals and Constant Wartime), Brent Cunningham (City of the Sun, Truth is the Flaw), Michael Davidson (The Public Sphere, Poor Yorick, Arcadia), Tom Devaney (Blindfold), Linh Dinh (Continuous Bullets Over Flat Earth, No Biggies, Holes), Greg Djanikian (Buying a Rug), Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Forward Slash), Patrick Durgin (For Jackson MacLow), Norman Finkelstein (Collage 4), Kristen Gallagher, C.S. Giscombe (The Old Northwest) (cut off), Loren Goodman, Hassen, Bill Howe, Jessica Lowenthal, Pattie McCarthy, Chris McCreary, Jenn McCreary, Mark McMorris, Mike Magee, Camille Martin, "continental sweep", Brigette Byrd, Charles Bernstein, "Ballad of the Girly Man", Laura Moriarty, Eileen Myles, Jena Osman, Bob Perelman, Ethel Rackin, Kathy Lou Schultz, Frank Sherlock, Ron Silliman, Juliana Spahr, Chris Stroffolino, Kevin Varone, Mark Wallace, from "Clowns Against Fences" [working title], Barrett Watten

1. Part One (1:01:09): mp3
2. Part Two (1:01:42): mp3

1. Part One (57:34): MP3
2. Part Two (57:11): MP3
3. Part Three (4:50): MP3

• A.L. Neilsen (30:59): MP3
• Charles Berstein (28:58): MP3
• Bob Perelman (39:57): MP3
• Marjorie Perloff (33:20): MP3

Off-Site Reading on PennSound Daily

• January 4, 2008: "2007 MLA Offsite Reading"

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