Kit Robinson

Reading and Conversation at the Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, July 25, 2011

• complete reading (1:10:34): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading at ArtShare, LA, January 8, 2011

complete reading (2:37): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #29, discussing Robinson's "Return on Word," March 3, 2010

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

Reading at Xavier University with Dana Ward, Cincinnati, OH, October 27, 2009

1. Introduction by Tyrone Williams (3:15): MP3
2. I Remember You (1:53): MP3
3. In the American Tree (2:02): MP3
4. Counter Meditation (5:18): MP3
5. The Wall (1:00): MP3
6. Cloud Water (0:24): MP3
7. The 4th of July (0:38): MP3
8. Line 56 (0:43): MP3
9. Walnuts (1:25): MP3
10. Train I Ride (10:27): MP3
11. Notes Toward a Phenomenology of Time (from The Grand Piano #9) (16:15): MP3

complete reading (43:43): MP3

Reading at The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ, October 24, 2009 - on POG Sound

Complete Reading (43:56): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 22, 2008

Complete Reading (36:28): MP3

Down City Poetry Series, sponsored by Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, Tazza Caffe. Providence, RI, April 13, 2005

Reading List:

• Line 56
• Walnuts
• Ode to Ed
• The Outcome
• Le Meridien
• The Lit

Excerpts from "Not Even"

• I Remember You
• Looks Like Up
• Let’s Call This
• Working Girl Blues

Complete reading (35:59): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, November 11, 1999

1. Introduction (02:34): MP3
2. King E (2:20): MP3
3. Balance Sheet (6:20): MP3
4. In a Hawaiian Garden (3:10): MP3
5. Return on Word (1:13): MP3
6. The Wall (2:19): MP3
7. The Sieve (0:35): MP3
8. A/K/A (from Cloud Eight with Alan Bernheimer) read with Bob Perelman (7:29) MP3
9. On Memory and Writing (4:32): MP3
10. 3:15 (5:31): MP3
11. Distribution (0:37): MP3
12. Progression (0:53): MP3
13. In-Betweenness (1:05): MP3
14. Equinimity (1:47): MP3
15. The Person (3:22): MP3


16. Full Reading (49:51): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, November 10, 1999

1. Introduction (4:12): MP3
2. Introduction to King E (2:03): MP3
3. King E (1:13): MP3
4. In a Hawaiian Garden (2:56): MP3
5. The Term (2:56): MP3

From The Crave (Berkeley: Atelos, 2002)

6. Return on Word (1:01): MP3
7. The Touch (0:17): MP3
8. The Big Nowhere (0:38): MP3
9. The Wall (0:49): MP3
10. Cloud Water (0:24): MP3
11. The Sieve (0:24): MP3

From Cloud Eight, with Alan Bernheimer, Lowestoft: Sound & Language, 1999

12. A/K/A (read with Charles Bernstein) (8:04): MP3
Note: This piece was written in 1977, not 1997 as the author erroneously states in his introductory remarks.

From The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980, Part 9, with Rae Armantrout, Lyn Hejinian, Ted Pearson, Tom Mandel, Carla Harryman, Ron Silliman, Steve Benson, Barrett Watten and Bob Perelman (Detroit: Mode A, 2009)

13. Notes Toward a Phenomenology of Memory (3:26): MP3

From 9:45 (Sausalito: The Post-Apollo Press, 2003)

14. 3:15 (0:27): MP3
15. 29 (0:13): MP3
16. 3VBH351 (0:15): MP3
17. 30 (0:16): MP3
18. 7' 10" x 10' 10" (0:20): MP3
19. 528-5030 (0:16): MP3
20. 150,000 Sq. Ft. (0:15): MP3
21. 1 (0:16): MP3
22. 2 (0:12): MP3
23. 88.5 (0:12): MP3
24. 760 (0:13): MP3
25. 50 (0:13): MP3
26. 200 (0:17): MP3
27. 27 (0:17): MP3
28. 212 (0:07): MP3
29. 10/30/99 (0:18): MP3

From Democracy Boulevard, (New York: Roof Books, 1998)

30. The Person (3:32): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Segue Space, 303 E. 8th Street, NYC, May 23, 1993

• Complete reading (50:53): MP3
• Counter Mediation (9:35): MP3
• Balance Sheet (34:43): MP3
• Ice Cubes II (6:35): MP3

Reading for Incognito Lounge, Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, October 19, 1990

• 1. The Dolch Stanzas (8:38): MP3
• 2. Dayparts (12:08): MP3
• 3. Pagination in Italy (7:45): MP3
• 4. Counter Meditation (6:23): MP3


• complete recording (34:53): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, December 13, 1983

Complete Reading (39:34): MP3

Reading at Amsterdam Avenue, July 1982

Group readings include Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee, Alan Davies, Erica Hunt, Bruce Andrews, Ted Greenwald, Michael Gottlieb, Peter Seaton and George-Therese Dickinson

• Part One: Tribute to Nervous (Tuumba, 1982); group reading of prose poems “Verdigris” and “Trial de Novo” (from Windows, 1985) (45:57): MP3
• Part Two: Group reading of the play “Collateral” (37:00): MP3

appearing on In the American Tree, hosted by Alan Bernheimer, July 1, 1979

Complete Recording (33:17): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, December 1978

Complete Reading (24:45): MP3

Also on PennSound:

• Alan Berheimer's Particle Arms (1982), which featured Robinson as a performer.

Kit Robinson on PennSound Daily

• March 8, 2010: "PoemTalk 29: Kit Robinson's 'Return on Word'"

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