Joan Retallack

Appearing on Close Listening hosted by Charles Bernstein, Bard College, February 26, 2011

Program One: Reading

1. Preface to "The Woman in the Chinese Room" (4:30): MP3
2. "The Woman in the Chinese Room" from How To Do Things With Words (Sun & Moon Classics, 1998) (9:26): MP3
3. from The Bosch Bookshelf, 1-6, (published in Qui Parle [At the Intersections of Ecocriticism], Vol.19, No.2, Spring 2011) (7:50): MP3
4. from "Coimbra Poem of Poetry & Violence: Grief's Rubies," from Procedural Elegies / Western Civ Cont'd / (Roof Books, 2010) (5:15): MP3

• complete program (27:04): MP3

Program Two: Conversation with Charles Bernstein & Al Filreis

• complete program (32:19): MP3

University of Louisville, Feb. 22, 2013

intro: Alan Golding; recorded by A.L. Nielsen for Heatstrings
(1:02:59): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #46, discussing Jackson Mac Low's "Words nd Ends from Ez," October 13, 2011

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

Small Press Traffic Presents: The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics, Recorded by Cloud House Poetry Archives, San Francisco, May 27, 2011

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 9, 2010

• complete reading (29:54): MP3

Appearing at Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism, sponsored by the Belladonna Reading Series, New York, September 25, 2009

complete recording (44:16): MP3

Reading at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 23, 2009

1. Introduction by Prof. Lynn Keller (7:19): MP3
2. Joan's Introductory Remarks (4:47): MP3
3. Present Tensed (3:11): MP3
4. The Woman in the Chinese Room (8:49): MP3
5. Introduction to The Reinvention of Truth (1:32): MP3
6. The Reinvention of Truth (8:57): MP3
7. A Boy and Her Dog (5:24): MP3
8. Introduction to "The Bosch Bookshelf" (1:16): MP3
9. The Bosch Bookshelf (10:40): MP3
10. Post-reading Q&A (12:00): MP3

Full Reading (68:40): MP3

This project was made possible with generous funding provided by the Brittingham Foundation, the University Lectures Committee, and the Department of English.

Lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 22, 2009

"John Cage's Anarchic Harmony: A Poethical Wager" (55:16): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, May 9, 2009

1. introduction (2:37): MP3
2. The Bosch Bookshelf (23:14): MP3

Complete Reading (28:14): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, December 9, 2006

1. introduction (3:40): MP3
2. Ex Post Animo (3:18): MP3
3. Here's Looking at You, Francis Bacon (4:57): MP3
4. The Reinvention of Truth (8:20): MP3
5. A to Z (17:05): MP3

complete reading (39:07): MP3

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

• sections from The Reinvention of Truth (4:14): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, February 5, 2005

1. introduction (4:20): MP3
2. To Find the Light (12:25): MP3
3. A Box, from Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (1:08): MP3
4. A to Z (8:18): MP3
5. #25, from Jackson Mac Low's The Twenties (2:40): MP3
6. poem composed from the phonemes in "Jackson Mac Low" (3:27): MP3

Alternative Poetries and Alternative Pedagogies Reading and Discussion at the Kelly Writers House, February 28, 2001

1. introduction by Al Filreis (4:36): MP3
2. reading "What is This?" from Gertrude Stein's "Useful Knowledge" (1:50): MP3
3. reading "Memnoir" (12:43): MP3
4. reading Errata 5uite (10:41): MP3
5. reading "Here's Looking at You, Francis Bacon" (5:55): MP3
6. Kerry Sherin discusses the Bard conference on poetry and pedagogy (4:34): MP3
7. on the importance of contextualizing experimental writing texts (4:54): MP3
8. on what makes reading experimental writing difficult (5:09): MP3
9. on techniques to teach experimental poetry (12:06): MP3
10. on writing into texts (13:50): MP3
11. the student's perspective on dialogues with text (1:45): MP3
12. on interesting non-humanities students in humanities (2:25): MP3
13. Bob Perelman on experimental poetics as a pedagogy (3:27): MP3
14. on the necessity of "reconfiguring the geography of our attention" (7:59): MP3
15. on the aftermath of the Bard conference on poetry and pedagogy (4:40): MP3
16. on teaching criticism (4:41): MP3
17. on taking cues from the text (5:08): MP3
18. on the interaction of the contemporary poet with the contemporary world (7:02): MP3
19. on experiential learning (9:52): MP3
20. on experiencing Tender Buttons, and closing remarks (2:58): MP3

complete reading and discussion (2:05:00): MP3 RealVideo (streaming file) rm

Reading for the Belladonna Reading Series, NYC, September 3, 2004

complete reading (29:15): MP3

Reading as part of the Kelly Writers House program "9 Poets Read Themselves through Modernism," October 12, 2000

1. Introduction (2:16): MP3
2. from Tractacus Logico Philosophicus (3:21): MP3
3. Woman in a Chinese Room (2:09): MP3
4. Various pieces by Gertrude Stein (4:19): MP3
5. from Gertrude Stein's "Stanzas in Meditation," first stanza (*see text below) (1:17): MP3
6. SteinZas in Meditation (6:10): MP3
7. Art is Either a Complaint or Something Else (2:53): MP3
8. Mem-noir (3:58): MP3

complete reading MP3

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, May 6, 1995

• complete recording (27:01): MP3

At SUNY-Buffalo, September 22, 1993

1. Existence is an Attribute (5:28): MP3
2. Not a Cage (3:33): MP3 [text-audio alignment]
3. Strange Attractors (7:55): MP3
4. Here's Looking At You, Francis Bacon (3:22): MP3
5. Autobiographia Literaria II (11:55): MP3
6. from Errata 5uite (7:29): MP3

Complete Reading (40:20): MP3

Reading recorded by A.L. Nielsen for the Incognito Lounge, July 1991

1. Not a Cage, for John Cage (2:47): MP3
2. ditto Marcel Duchamp? ditto ditto Gertrude Stein? (8:42): MP3
3. How to Do Things With Words: Homage to the Austens, Jane and JL (5:33): MP3
4. A Brief Experiment in Linguistics (10:20): MP3
5. Here's Looking at You, Francis Bacon (2:41): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, Feburary 15, 1987

Complete Recording note: incomplete (32:23): MP3

also of interest:

• I caught a bird which made a ball
• And they thought better of it.
• But it is all of which they taught
• That they were in a hurry yet
• In a kind of a way they meant it best
• That they should change in and on account
• But they must not stare when they manage
• Whatever they are occasionally liable to do
• It is often easy to pursue them once in a while
• And in a way there is no repose
• They like it as well as they ever did
• But it is very often just by the time
• That they are able to separate
• In which case in effect they could
• Not only be very often present perfectly
• In each way whichever they chose.

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to Joan Retallack. © 2007 Joan Retallack. Used with permission of Joan Retallack. Distributed by PennSound.