Ron Padgett

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, April 8, 2003

1. Lytle Shaw's Introduction (2:05): MP3
2. Padgett's Opening Remarks (1:36): MP3

from Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003):
3. Chapter 1 from Oklahoma Tough (6:15): MP3
4. Opening Remarks on Nice People Among the Pint Pitchers (1:53): MP3
5. Nice People Among the Pint Pitchers (12:35): MP3

complete reading (24:27): MP3


Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,
February 26, 2003

1. Chapter 1 of Oklahoma Tough (7:36)

poems from You Never Know (2002):
2. "The Drink" (1:09)
3. "Morning" (0:54)
4. "To Myself" (0:42)
5. "The Missing Lips" (0:39)
6. "Not Particularly" (0:39)
7. "Fairy Tale" (1:36)
8. "J and J" (0:57)
9. "For a Moment" (0:32)
10. "Fixation" (0:31)
11. "Obit Backlash" (1:07)
12. "The Austrian Maiden" (0:57)
13. "Mountains are a Feeling" (0:46)
14. "The County Fair" (0:59)
15. "The Sweeper" (0:52)
16. "Bluebird" (0:36)
17. "Medieval Salad Dive" (0:37)
18. "You Never Know" (0:36)
19. "Poet as Immortal Bird" (0:29)
20. "My Trip to Italy" (1:20)
21. "Haiku" (0:08)
22. "Bob Creeley Breakthrough" (1:03)
23. "Feathers" (0:26)
24. "The Love Cook" (0:27)
25. "Penser Juste" (1:04)
26. "Sacred Heart" (1:39)
27. "Amy" (1:13)


Interviewed on miPOradio by Amy King
part one (42:41): MP3
part two (33:20): MP3

from The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980
The Music Lesson (7:33): MP3

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