Bernadette Mayer

Cover of Studying Hunger

Close Listening

• A Conversation with Charles Bernstein, September 13, 2007 (28:09): MP3
• Recorded in conjunction with Mayer's reading with Lee Ann Brown at the Kelly Writers House.
• The Mayer/Brown reading here.

Pacifica Radio with Susan Howe, April 22, 1979

• Complete Reading (57:51): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn May 26, 1979

Complete Reading (37:33): MP3

from The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980

• From Studying Hunger ("Blondie") (5:29): MP3

Catullus #48

• Catullus #48 (studio recording with Latin):MP3
• Catullus #48 Naropa (1987): MP3

Bernadette Mayer reading at the Ear Inn with Lee Ann Brown, October 15, 1988

1. Introduction (0:55): MP3
2. Alone (0:53): MP3
3. Presidential Platform (5:24): MP3
4. Ten Three Line Poems (2:07): MP3
5. Do You Have Sex in the Bed or on the Floor? (0:42): MP3
6. The Tragic Condition (1:54): MP3
7. Who Is the Elegant What of the Something (1:57): MP3
8. Period of the Delaware Water Gap (3:04): MP3
9. Titles- Turtles for Clark (4:03): MP3
10. Marie, You Must Meet Kristina At Music School Tomorrow and Not Her Home (2:15): MP3
11. Diary Kept Everyday for Ten Weeks (6:56): MP3
12. Food that we would normally not be eating (5:50): MP3
13. Compete Introductory Lectures on Poetery (2:02): MP3
14. Spooky Action From a Distance (1:07): MP3
15. Holding the Thought of Love (1:03): MP3
16. A Marriage of Cut Flowers (0:51): MP3
17. Love is a babe and when you put your startling hand on my cunt... (0:50): MP3
18. Clap Hands (1:29): MP3

Complete Recording (37:45): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, October 1991

• Complete Reading (27:50): MP3

Rattle Up A Deer, Live at Penny Lane, 19: Bernadette Mayer & Anne Waldman

1. Introduction by Tom Peters (1:55): MP3
2. Catullus 6 #48 (0:41): MP3
3. On Catullus #2 (1:09): MP3
4. Horace's Fourth Ode (1:23): MP3
5. DWI (after Horace's fourth Ode) (1:57): MP3
6. Epigram: I am the six-pack of Coke... (0:12): MP3
7. Poor John Egan epigram (0:17): MP3
8. Epigram: La Clinica Dental (0:13): MP3
9. Sepulchral God the Father Epigram (0:15): MP3
10. Two from the Greek Anthology (1:58): MP3
11. Laundry, School and Food Epigrams (2:56): MP3
12. Catullus #99 (1:16): MP3
13. After Catullus and Horace (1:32): MP3
14. Epigram: Some men think... (0:30): MP3
15. A Philosophy for Boys (1:12): MP3
16. Epigram after Auden (0:15): MP3
17. Epigram: I'm the pen your lover writes with... (0:14): MP3
18. Epigram: I was the song I sang... (0:16): MP3
19. Epigram: I'm an old known paint... (0:17): MP3
20. Toy Epigrams (3:00): MP3
21. Catullus #67 (4:12): MP3
22. Man and Woman Epigrams (1:28): MP3
23. American Imitation Amatory Epigrams (1:36): MP3
24. Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33 (0:48): MP3
25. Catullus #42 (1:39): MP3

Sound engineers: Micheal Zangari & Tom Peters
Recorded on portable 4 track directly through non-amplified music.
Original master tapes property of "So. You're a Poet," Archives/Tom Peters, all rights reserved. © 2004.
(Recording courtesy of Farfalla Press and Gary Parrish)

Bernadette Mayer Celebration at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 1, 1998

1. Introduction (4:27): MP3
2. Shawn Walker (15:29): MP3
3. Ange Mlinko (24:18): MP3
4. Bernadette Mayer (36:57): MP3

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, April 18, 2000

1. Lytle Shaw's Introduction (1:56): MP3
2. March 20, 2000 - April 17, 2000 Diary Entries (7:14): MP3
3. Jackie Strumpendairy & Celestia St. Auvin at the College of New Rochelle (3:01): MP3
4. Walmart Epigrams (0:46): MP3
5. Epigram on Epigrams: A collaborative epigram (0:16): MP3
6. LeeAnn Brown: Starbucks Epigram, Andrew's Epigram, Too Many Epigrams (1:27): MP3
7. Various Epigrams (including: Epigram, I am the rope used to tie Marinza up; David Letterman Epigram; John Fisk Epigram; Louis Anemone Epigram; Dollar Bill Epigram; I ate my Macoroni & Cheese; Birdfeeder Epigram; Garden Epigram; I am Bernadette Echo Hawk; Epigram on Being Alone) (5:27): MP3
8. Poem for Jackson (2:03): MP3
   
9. Objectivity (0:17): MP3
   
10. This is a list of fruit and vegetables (1:09): MP3
    
11. Amatory Epigrams (0:18): MP3
    
12. What It Means to Be Human (1:09): MP3
    
13. Short Poems (2:21): MP3
    
14. List of names (1:50): MP3
    
15. Marie Makes Fun of Me at the Drawer (1:21): MP3
    
16. April 18, 2000 Diary Entry (written during the reading) (2:49): MP3
    
    Complete Reading (33:33): MP3
    

Reading as part of The Line Series Reading, May 11, 2004

• Complete Reading (36:19): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 22, 2008

• Complete Reading (31:07): MP3

Also on PennSound:

• On Exact Change Yearbook 1995 no. 1 (ed. Peter Gizzi)
  (Mayer reads "Blondie" from Studying Hunger, 1971)
• More Mayer at Meshworks/Miami University

Bernadette Mayer on PennSound Daily

• January 17, 2009: "Bernadette Mayer and Lee Ann Brown: KWH 2007, Now Segmented"
• January 21, 2009: "Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh: Segue Series Reading, 1979"
• November 12, 2007: "Bernadette Mayer and Lee Ann Brown Visit UPenn"



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