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Rochelle Owens

Reading at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania with George Economou, October 17, 2013

Complete reading (1:29:46): MP3

Reading at Jerome Rothenberg's 80th Birthday Tribute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, December 9, 2011

Studio 111 Recording Session, University of Pennsylvania, May 19, 2011

  1. Solitary Workwoman [excerpt] (Junction Press, 2011) (5:13): MP3
  2. Sticks In Your Mind (7:33): MP3
  3. Below Ground (10:24): MP3
  4. Ode to a Gila Monster (7:46): MP3
  5. The Glacier (3:30): MP3
  6. Priestly Litany (2:20): MP3

Reading from Poems for the Millennium III, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 7, 2009

Complete reading (16:05): MP3

Interview with Joe Gouveia and Reading of "Chomsky Grilling Linguica" for Radio WOMR, Provincetown, MA, 2006

  • Part I, August 31, 2006 (14:42): MP3
  • Parts II and III, September 7, 2006 (14:31): MP3

Studio 111 Recording Session, University of Pennsylvania, March 29, 2006

From New and Selected Poems, 1961-1996, Junction Press, 1997

    Originally published in Not Be Essence that Cannot Be:

  1. Not Be Essence that Cannot Be (1:33): MP3
  2. Yields(0:41): MP3
  3. Up, Up On the Disorders of the Hairs (1:16): MP3
  4. Humble Humble Pinati (6:30): MP3
  5. from Elga's Incantation (8:53): MP3
  6. The Power of Love He Wants Shih (from Salt & Core) (3:48): MP3

    7. Originally published in I Am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter:

  7. Dedication (1:39): MP3
  8. The Voluminous Agony of Karl Marx (3:38): MP3
  9. The Queen of Greece (17:13): MP3
  10. I Am Deebler Woman (3:19): MP3

    11. Originally published in The Joe 82 Creation Poems:

  11. Wild-Woman & the Second Moment of Science (1:57): MP3
  12. Wild-Man & the Rhythm of the Mechanized System (1:42): MP3
  13. The Joe Chronicles Part 2 (1:39): MP3
  14. from Shemuel (4:07): MP3
  15. Tension (from Constructs, 1985) (1:40): MP3
  16. from W. C. Fields in French Light (1986) (2:22): MP3
  17. from How Much Paint Does the Painting Need (1988) (2:14): MP3
  18. La Polonaise & Saud Said... (from How Much Paint Does the Painting Need) (4:03): MP3
  19. A Steel Pin (from Luca: Discourse on Life & Death Part I) (6:25): MP3

    20. From Luca: Discourse on Life & Death Part II:

  20. Death Cart (3:34): MP3
  21. Corn Plants (2:46): MP3

    22. from Triptych, Texture Press, 2006, a work-in-progress:

  22. Here We Are Like A Leaf Driven (1:20): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, November 18, 2002

Introduced by Kathy Lou Schultz

Complete reading (32:15): MP3

Wednesday Night Series: George Economou, Rochelle Owens, Kazuko Shiraishi, St. Mark's Church, April 17, 2002

Library of Congress recording (1:45:14): link

Rubbed Stones recording session, 1997

  1. Part I (31:04): MP3
  2. Part II (26:59): MP3

Black Chalk, 1994

"Black Chalk," a dynamically paced series of images and language, is a narrative and poetic meditation about the European conquest of the Americas, the life and work of Leonardo DaVinci, and contemporary society's issues.

How Much Paint Does The Painting Need, 1992

"How Much Paint Does The Painting Need" presents multiple perspectives on the process of making art from the point of view of actors as well as critics and the artists themselves. A fusion of the present, past, mythology, religious imagery and innovative art forms.

Reading at National Poetry Festival, June 14-24, 1973

  • Poetry Workshop: Various Poets; "Translation Workshop"

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