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A.L. Nielsen
Appearing on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, 9/11/09Program One: Reading
Complete reading (25:38): MP3 Program Two: ConversationComplete conversation (31:24): MP3 PoemTalk #126, Discussing Amiri Baraka’s “Something in the Way of Things (In Town),” feat. Tyrone Williams, William J. Harris, and Aldon NielsenFor complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2. PoemTalk #115, Discussing Lorenzo Thomas' "An Arc Still Open", feat. William J. Harris, Tyrone Williams, and Aldon Nielsen on August 9, 2017For complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2. PoemTalk #26, Discussing Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo," November 30, 2009For complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2. Video readings and performances, c. 2020Performing "Caldonia Softens"Watch on Media.sas
Reading "Musica Callada" for Wuhan, Chinese translation by Lianggong Luo and read by Chen HongboWatch on Media.sasPerforming "Redevelopment"Watch on Media.sasPerforming Langston Hughes' "Summer Night" with Anna EverettWatch on Media.sasPerforming Langston Hughes' "Six-Bits Blues"Watch on Media.sasReading Two PoemsWatch on Media.sasReading at Xavier University, April 25, 2019Complete recording (42:41): MP3 Reading with Wesley Rothman and Sally Wenn Mao at In Your Ear Series, D.C. Arts Center, Washington, D.C., February 17, 2018
Reading with Will Alexander at Poetics Research Bureau, Los Angeles, California, October 7, 2017
Complete recording (54:38): MP3 Interview with E. Ethelbert Miller for WFPW's On The Margin, May 4, 2017Complete recording (59:58): MP3 MLA Offsite Reading, Philadelphia, January 6, 2017Complete reading (1:52): MP3 Reading for Heatstrings, at Alan Golding's Home, Louisville, KY, February 20, 2016
"Race, Ethnicity, and United States Poetry," MLA 2016, Austin, Texas, January 8, 2016Listen to the complete roundtable discussion here Reading for Heatstrings at Modernism Studies Association, Boston, MA, November 20, 2015Complete reading (04:50): MP3 Reading for Heatstrings at Modernism Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, November 7, 2014
Appearing on New Day Jazz with Justin Desmangles, KDVS, August 18, 2013Chinese American Association for Poetry and Poetics Conference, Central China Normal University - Wuhan, China. June 8, 2013.
 photograph by Stephane Robolin Reading at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, March 18, 2013
Convergence on Poetics, University of Washington Bothell, North Creek Events Center, September 27-30, 2012Poetry in Performance: National Poetry Foundation Conference on the 1980'sRecorded June 29, 2012; Featuring A.L. Nielsen, Catherine Wagner, Laura Hinton, Evie Shockley and Linda Russo.
Reading at Alan Golding's Home for the 40th University of Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900, Heatstrings, February 25, 2012
MLA Offsite Reading, Town Hall Downstairs, Seattle, January 7, 2012Complete reading (2:38): MP3 Group Reading at Modernist Studies Association, Hallwall's Contemporary Art Center, Heatstrings, Buffalo, October 7, 2011
Reading at Alan Golding's House, University of Louisvulle Conference, February 26, 2011
Reading at Alan Golding's House, Louisville, KY, February 20, 2010
MLA Off-Site Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009
Reading at the first Pan African Writers Forum, Ghana, 17 July 2008Of this recording, Nielsen says: I'd been invited there to deliver a lecture and hadn't brought any of my poetry with me. When the organizers asked me to do a poetry reading, I hurriedly gathered a few poems from web sites, and one in progress from my notebook -- The reading took place late one night under the stars and just a few yards from the ocean.
The Future of an Allusion, Georgetown University, April 13, 2005Complete recording (53:44): MP3 Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz, September 1, 2004How We Place African American Poetry, University of Wisconsin, April 2003A.L. Nielsen writes of this reading: In April of 2003, Lorenzo Thomas and I appeared at a symposium at the University of Wisconsin organized by Lynn Keller, titled WHAT'S NEW IN AMERICAN POETRY. Lorenzo and I had by then been on many panels together, acting as a sort of roving tag team of poetry criticism. This time out, Lorenzo delivered a talk he called "How We Place African American Poetry" and I delivered a prepared response to his talk.
"Self-Organizing Networks," music and performance by Christopher Reiner, LA, August 15 and 15, 2002Complete Recording (5:05): MP3 Presenting with Rae Armantrout and Charles Altieri at the American Literature Association, San Diego, May 1992
Complete reading (1:32:13): MP3 Heatstrings: recordings from A.L. Nielsen's blog.The Incognito Lounge, biweekly radio show hosted by A.L. Nielsen and aired on KSJS FM in San José from 1989 to 1995.AWP Offsite ReadingsMLA Offsite ReadingsMLA Offsite 2004-6MLA Offsite Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 28, 2005
MLA Offsite 2007MLA Offsite 2008MLA OffSite Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009
Sterling Brown Panel at AWP, Baltimore, March 1, 2003A. L. Nielsen and Lorenzo Thomas
MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996
Memorial Reading for Robert Duncan, San Jose State University, Incognito Lounge, November 1990
MLA OffSite Reading, Bick's Books, Washington D.C., December 28, 1989Complete recording (30:59): MP3
A.L. Nielsen on PennSound Daily
Also of InterestPanel on the Work of Aldon Nielson, ALA Boston, 2023Featuring Jean-Philippe Marcoux, Evie Shockley, Susan Weeber, Justin Melette, Richard Flynn, Kathy Lou Schultz, Laura Vrana, Mark Scroggins, Tyrone Williams, James Smethurst, Keith Leonard, Anette Debow, Laura Hinton and Shirley Moody Turner These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. (c) 2023 A.L. Nielsen. Used with permission of A.L. Nielsen. Distributed by PennSound. |
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