Bob Perelman

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #90, "Ten to One," with host Leonard Schwartz, 2006

Holloway Series Reading with Mia You, UC Berkeley, November 29, 2006

1. Introduction and Reading by Mia You (21:39): MP3
2. Introduction Bob Perelman's Reading (2:45): MP3
3. Selection from If Life (43:01): MP3
4. Reading (46:15): MP3
5. Questions (16:00): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 28, 2005

1. Only One of Us is Henry James (1:31): MP3
2. Ideal Reader (0:12): MP3
3. Student Publication (0:14): MP3
4. Pound's Penis (aside) (0:46): MP3
5. Epic Proportions (0:31): MP3
6. Theater of Cruelty (0:46): MP3
7. Poetic Sex (0:20): MP3
8. Enemy Readers (0:46): MP3
9. Faith Based Lyric (0:38): MP3
10. The Jack Spicer Memorial Neuron (0:14): MP3
11. Stein and Miss Murphy (0:35): MP3
12. Envoi (0:35): MP3

Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NY, March 11, 2006

1. Introduction by Charles Borkhuis (3:07): MP3
2. Iflife (including the "poems" Pleasure, Ankles, & The Past is No Place for Someone Like You) (16:09): MP3
3. Voice Play (named sections: Only One of Us is Henry James, Ideal (): MP3
4. Reader, Student Publication, Pound's Penis [aside], Epic Proportions, Theater of Cruelty, Husbands at Their Desks, Poetic Sex, Enemy Readers, How Much is That Poet in the Window, Faith Based Lyric, The Jack Spicer Memorial Neuron, Stein and Miss Murphy, Envoi (7:28): MP3
5. Veiled Portrait (0:54): Veiled Portrait (0:54)
   
6. Untitled Says it All (0:23): Untitled Says it All (0:23)
   
7. Habits of the Ancients (0:29): Habits of the Ancients (0:29)
   
8. Another (0:23): Another (0:23)
Tank Top (sections: [opening, un-subtitled], Current Poetics, The Remote, Three Coins in a Fountain, Sunday Morning, Host, Mosul, Beating the Bushes) (11:46): MP3

Reading for LIVE at the Writers House, Episode 38, University of Pennsylvania, November 11, 2002

1. Djuna Moon (1:07): MP3
2. Driving to the Philadelphia Poetry Festival (2:55): MP3
3. Today's Lament (3:07): MP3

• Part One (47:50): MP3
• Part Two (43:24): MP3

Segue Reading at Double Happiness NYC, February 17, 2001

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania: "Nine Contemporary Poets Read Themselves Through Modernism", October 14, 2000

1. Introduction by Al Filreis (2:44): MP3
2. Introductory remarks (1:59): MP3
3. About Louis Zukofsky (14:05): MP3
4. "Not Me" and reading from Zukofsky (6:55): MP3
5. "Catalyst" and "Virgil's Fourth Eclogue" (20:03): MP3

Complete Recording: MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, January 26, 1999

1. In a Nutshell (1:11): MP3
2. The Avant Garde (3:34): MP3
3. The Library: January 28 (2:36): MP3
4. Confession (3:12): MP3
5. Chaime Soutine (5:24): MP3
6. The Manchurian Candidate (21:25): MP3
   
7. Symmetry of Past and Future (8:42): MP3
   

Reading for LIVE at the Writers House, Episode 12, University of Pennsylvania, November 11, 1998

1. Chaim Sutein (5:20): MP3
2. The Womb of Avant Garde Reason (6:59): MP3

Reading for LIVE at the Writers House, Episode 1, University of Pennsylvania, February 15, 1997

1. Confessing to the Listserv (2:58): MP3
2. To the Future (1:52): MP3

MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

1. The Alphabet (0:46): MP3
2. In a Nutshell (1:09): MP3
3. Lord Randal (2:16): MP3
4. The Mask of Rhyme (2:17): MP3

Reading for Wednesdays @ 4Plus, University at Buffalo, October 19, 1993

courtesy of A.L. Nielsen's Incognito Lounge

Complete Recording (49:39): MP3 / (53:49): MP3 / (10:38): MP3

MLA Off-Site Reading, Bick's Books, Washington D.C., December 28, 1989

complete recording (39:57): MP3

1. Introduction (0:22): MP3
2. Picture Writing (3:54): MP3
3. Chronic Meanings (6:28): MP3
4. Free Prose (6:11): MP3
5. Seduced by Analogy (2:17): MP3
6. Problems of Everyday Life (1:00): MP3
7. from The First World (1:47): MP3
8. Fable (1:28): MP3
9. Back to the Present (2:19): MP3
10. The View from the Dollar Bill (1:34): MP3
11. The Family of Man (1:45): MP3
12. Here (1:38): MP3
13. Ground (1:33): MP3
14. selectiongs from "Clippings," Section 4 of Captive Audience (5:59): MP3

Segue Reading at the Ear Inn May 24, 1986

• Complete Reading (47:13): MP3

• First Part (32:18): MP3
• Second Part (30:17): MP3
• Third Part (32:48): MP3
• Fourth Part (12:45): MP3

St. Mark's Talks, May 25, 1984

the first half of the talk by Bob Perelman was not recorded

• Bob Perelman (50:18): MP3

Talk on Pronouns Given at 578 Folsom as a Part of the Grand Piano Series, April 1, 1979

• First Part (48:05): MP3
• Second Part (48:30): MP3
• Third Part (31:50): MP3

Talk on Style Given at 80 Langton St, San Francisco March 23, 1978

• First Part (46:34): MP3
• Second Part (46:47): MP3
• Third Part (41:46): MP3

Appearances on PoemTalk

PoemTalk Podcast #44, discussing Fred Wah's "Race, to go," August 11, 2011

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

PoemTalk Podcast #34, discussing Charles Olson's Maximus poems, July 26, 2010

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PoemTalk Podcast #31, discussing Robert Grenier's "Sentences," April 22, 2010

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PoemTalk Podcast #30, discussing William Carlos Williams' "Flowers by the Sea" and "The Red Wheelbarrow," March 28, 2010

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PoemTalk Podcast #22, discussing Louis Zukofsky's "It's hard to see but think of a sea," from Anew, September 14, 2009

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PoemTalk Podcast #19, discussing Perelman's "The Unruly Child," July 6, 2009

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PoemTalk Podcast #16, discussing Robert Creeley's "I Know A Man," April 8, 2009

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PoemTalk Podcast #15, discussing Lyn Hejinian's "constant change figures," March 9, 2009

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PoemTalk Podcast #10, discussing Gertrude Stein's "Portrait of Christian Bernard," September 8, 2008

Also at PennSound:

• At the "Finding the Words" post-9/11 event, November 7, 2001: Untitled (8:35)
• Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics [Presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003]
      Revenge of the Bathwater, read Friday, October 17th
      Saturday reading
  
• "What's the Word" program #163 - Contemporary Language Poetry (29:11): mp3
     Modern Language Association, 2003
     Produced by Sally Placksin.
• Participation in "DIAPHORISMS", a roundtable discussion with Jean-Michel Rabaté and Osvaldo Romberg
• PhillyTalks Episode #11 with Susan Stewart - April 22, 1999
• Discussion on Pseudonymy/Pseudography with Kent Johnson, Bob Perelman, and Tan Lin hosted by  Joshua Schuster, Kelly Writers House, April 23, 1999. (1:52:31): MP3
• from "Self Portrait with Language Writing" (4:10): MP3
• Bob Perelman hosts a reading by Michael Gottlieb and Tony Lopez in conjunction with Penn's Creative Writing Program
• Discussion with Al Filreis and Ron Silliman after the Bob Cobbing celebration at the Kelly Writers House, October 11, 2007 (5:31)
• Bob Perelman at the benefit reading for Will Alexander, November 1, 2007 (7:12): mp3
• Symposium on William Carlos Williams' "To Elsie" with Al Filreis, Kristen Gallagher, and Shawn Walker (1:33:41): MP3
• Discussion with Robert Grenier, Al Filreis, and Ron Silliman on 1959-1964 at the Kelly Writers House on October 27, 2009 (1:16:28): MP3
• Discussion with Ron Silliman, Al Filreis, Jena Osman and Brian Kim Stefans at the Contemporary Avant-Garde Poetry Symposium at the Kelly Writers House December 7, 1999 (1:51:06): .rm, MP3

Bob Perelman on PennSound Daily

• January 24, 2011: "Wuhan Poets at the Kelly Writers House, 2010"
• May 19, 2010: "A Performance of Bob Perelman's "The Alps" at the Kelly Writers House, 2010"
• July 8, 2009: "PoemTalk #19: Bob Perelman's 'The Unruly Child'
• October 20, 2008: "Vintage Talks Curated By Bob Perelman"
• May 30, 2008: "Bob Perelman: Newly Segmented 2007 Segue Reading"