Nick Piombino

photo © 2006 Charles Bernstein/PennSound

Close Listening

• A conversation with Charles Bernstein at WPS1.Org
  Clocktower Studio, New York, May 23, 2005
• Complete Reading (28:32): MP3

• Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1
• Studio Engineer: Darrell McNeill
• © 2005 Nick Piombino & Charles Bernstein

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, January 27, 1979

1. If that's how you were I just forgot (4:23): MP3
2. We made love in a cold room (2:06): MP3
3. Annexing Glass (2:53): MP3
4. Promethean (0:34): MP3
5. Untitled ("Debussy and Ravel appealed to me for sympathy") (2:12): MP3
6. Feelings in Matter (1:04): MP3
7. The Sirens (0:45): MP3
8. An Explanation of Listening (2:13): MP3
9. Untitled ("What greater disappointment to love") (3:04): MP3
10. Turning Away from a Kiss (3:54): MP3
11. from Before (9:10): MP3
12. Somewhere around St. Thomas (2:57): MP3
13. We had to invent shadows and earthquakes (1:22): MP3
14. Don't you feel cold next to the window like that? (1:32): MP3
15. Is it still dark out? (2:20): MP3
16. I got drunk on my anger (1:13): MP3

1. Introduction (1:28): MP3
2. In the Center of Movement, A Debate (2:54): MP3
3. My Lady Carries Stones (1:47): MP3
4. Manhattan (1:18): MP3
5. If That's How You Were I Just Forgot (2:41): MP3
6. The Pyramids (0:33): MP3
7. Dans Le Jardin Des Plantes (0:21): MP3
8. from "STET" (10:11): MP3
9. from "Anon" (7:47): MP3
10. Selection of Diary Notes (7:00): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, February 16, 1985

1. Introduction (0:33): MP3
2. Source (8:51): MP3
3. A Simple Invocation Would Be (4:08): MP3
4. The Tower of Babel (12:39): MP3
5. Reminders Given (2:34): MP3
6. An Angel Fell Under a Shadow of Conceptions (1:16): MP3
7. A Preface to Precision (2:03): MP3
8. Beauty is not always like swans (2:03): MP3
9. My Lady Carries Stones (1:06): MP3
10. The Simple Poetry of Sleep (3:04): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, April 22, 1989

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, April 7, 1990

Reading and Discussion at the University at Buffalo, December 5-6, 1990

December 5

1. Happenstance (5:41) : MP3
2. Fantasy (4:12) : MP3
3. The Broken Angel (2:37) : MP3
4. Codex (1:43) : MP3
5. An Odd Reprisal (2:07) : MP3
6. Interior Demolition (2:19) : MP3
7. X (published in "Avec", ed. Cydney Chadwick, David Bromige and Jim McCrary, Vol 2, No 1, 1989) (6:34) : MP3
8. The Silence Spoke (0:53) : MP3
9. The Frozen Witness (1:28) : MP3
10. Manhattan (1:39) : MP3
11. "Any m meant they came to a destination" (1:47) : MP3
12. "The simple poetry of sleep" (3:13) : MP3
13. Aphorisms (written in 1987) (5:10) : MP3
14. Step (6:30) : MP3

December 6

1. Seminar, part 1 (46:06): MP3
2. Seminar, part 2 (46:00): MP3
3. Seminar, part 3 (46:05): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, February 2, 1991

Reading at the University at Buffalo, September 28, 2000

1. Introduction (5:15): MP3
2. Opening: Email Responses [from Poems (Sun & Moon, 1988)] (2:11): MP3
3. "Somewhere around St. Thomas" [from Light Street (Zasterle Press, 1996)] (3:04): MP3
4. The Broken Angel [from Theoretical Objects (Green Integer, 1999)] (2:54): MP3
5. 3rd Silent Manifesto (2:46): MP3
6. Missing (2:40): MP3
7. Solitaire (2:57): MP3
8. Submission (3:30): MP3
9. Cold Comfort (5:45): MP3
10. Eurydice Pleading with Orpheus to Stay Home [from Rhizome #4 (ed. Standard Schaefer and Evan Calbi, 2000)] (4:03): MP3
11. The Wandering Poem (3:43): MP3
12. With Open Arms (6:21): MP3

Reading at WKCR-FM, New York, March 29, 2002

1. 3rd Silent Manifesto (1:50): MP3
2. Automatic Manifesto #7 (3:38): MP3
3. Between the Voices (3:39): MP3
4. Cold Comfort (4:35): MP3
5. Dust (1:48): MP3
   
6. Eurydice Pleading (3:33): MP3
7. Imbroglio & Frozen Witness (4:56): MP3
8. Impasse (2:55): MP3
9. Interior Demolition (2:14): MP3
10. Introduction & Allegro (1:40): MP3
11. Missing (2:17): MP3
12. Perhaps the Dream of Writing (2:27): MP3
13. Solitaire (2:36): MP3
14. Submission (3:16): MP3
15. Broken Angel (3:16): MP3
16. The Sphynx (2:02): MP3
17. The Wandering Poem (2:44): MP3
18. Time Bomb (1:23): MP3
19. Whoever Listens Lovingly (1:25): MP3
20. With Open Arms (5:30): MP3

WKCR reading produced by Charles Bernstein & Tom Kelly

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, New York, December 3, 2002

complete reading (25:30): MP3

KSDT, UCSD radio, Broadcast Sunday, April 24, 2005

1. Cut Here (published on As/Is) and Drew's Atlantic Sky (After Black Atlantic Sky by Drew Gardner, published in Slope 17) (4:44): MP3
2. Silenced(published on Fait Accompli 7/12/04) (4:22): MP3
3. 7/31/97 (published on As/Is poetry blog 7/11/03) (0:30): MP3
4. Stick Dairyman (published on Stamen Pistel poetry blog 7/5/04) (1:00): MP3
5. June Behead (published on Stamen Pistel 6/21/04) (0:58): MP3
6. Sorry for the Delay (published on Stamen Pistel 6/18/04) (0:42): MP3
7. Sotto Voce and Shelter Angel (published on Shampoo 17 poetry web site) (1:10): MP3
8. Poems from Hegelian Honeymoon (published by Chax Press in 2004) (4:09): MP3
9. Who Owns the Words: The Thought and The Poem (published on Fait Accompli) (3:09): MP3
10. Career of the Poet (published on As/Is poetry blog) (2:54): MP3
11. History's Echoic Flying Lessons (published on nemski.com) (2:28): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, November 11, 2006

1. Introduction (5:19) : MP3
2. Opening: Nick Piombino on the Contradicta series (1:49) : MP3
3. Contradicta (various) (6:50) : MP3
4. Opening: On literary time & Fait Accompli (NY: Heretical Texts, 2007) (2:41) : MP3
5. Selected Fait Accompli weblog entries:
   March 11 (4:24) : MP3
   April 26 (6:20) : MP3
   May 4 (2:19) : MP3
   May 6 (2:05) : MP3
   May 8 (3:23) : MP3

Contradicta: Aphorisms, with drawings and video by toni Simon, at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, January 19, 2011

Complete reading (25:36): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, April 30, 2011

1. Introduction (1:42): MP3
2. A note about Contradicta: Aphorisms (1:05): MP3
3. Reading from Contradicta: Aphorisms (Green Integer) and new "Contradicta" (23:35): MP3

Also on PennSound:

• Variations on a Theme of Steven's (2:06): RealAudio
• The Frozen Witness (1:09): RealAudio

Nick Piombino on PennSound Daily

• February 13, 2008: "Nick Piombino: Three Newly Segmented Readings"

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