Jerome Rothenberg

Photo © Layle Silbert (1972)

LINEbreak interview with Charles Bernstein (1996)

PennSound Podcast Featuring Jerome Rothenberg (15:41): MP3

Reading from Cruel Nirvana at Univeristy of Michigan, April 20013: video

Jerome Rothenberg's 80th Birthday Tribute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, December 9, 2011

1. Introduction (5:50): MP3
2. Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song (1:09): MP3
3. I Come Into the New World (2:29): MP3
4. Variations on the Hell of Measures (3:47): MP3
5. Variations on the Hell of Thieves (2:10): MP3
6. The Times Are Never Right (2:15): MP3
7. A Poem of Miracles (9:44): MP3
8. letter from Henry Munn (2:53): MP3

Lunch Reading with Amish Trivedi, Kelly Writers House, October 12, 2011

• complete reading (1:01:56): MP3

• 1. welcome by Norman Finkelstein, Xavier University (1:59): MP3
• 2. welcome by Ken Ehrlich, Dean of Hebrew Union College (3:43): MP3
• 3. introduction by Finkelstein (4:58): MP3
• 4. opening comments by Rothenberg (5:25): MP3

• 5. the Wedding (Yiddish translation by Amos Schauss) (1:38): MP3
• 6. the Wedding (2:16): MP3
• 7. the Beadle's Testimony (2:00): MP3
• 8. the Student's Testimony (6:15): MP3

• 9. Song for the Shekinah on the Feast of the Sabbath (by Isaac Luria, trans. Rothenberg) (3:27): MP3

• 10. Esther K. Comes to America: 1931 (4:40): MP3

• 11. excerpts from Pre-Face and other introductory comments (4:44): MP3
• 12. In the Dark Word, Khurbn (0:34): MP3
• 13. Dos Oysleydikn (the Emptying) (2:52): MP3
• 14. Dos Geshray (the Scream) (2:43): MP3

• 15. introductory comments (3:28): MP3
• 16. the First Station: Auschwitz-Birkenau (0:46): MP3
• 17. the Ninth Station: Treblinka (0:28): MP3
• 18. the Thirteenth Station: Ravensbrück (0:50): MP3
• 19. the Fourteenth Station: Stutthof (0:20): MP3

20. introductory comments (1:09): MP3
• 21. The Burning Babe (1:29): MP3

• 22. Peroration for a Lost Town (6:44): MP3

• 23. introductory comments on "A Book of Concealments"(3:34): MP3
• 24. Four Preludes (1:29): MP3
• 25. Righting an Ancient Wrong (1:16): MP3
• 26. Let it Be Ice (0:57): MP3
• 27. The Times Are Never Right (1:11): MP3
• 28. In the Book of Concealments (2:17): MP3

Jerome Rothenberg records for the Rockdrill CD series

Rockdrill 6: Sightings, Jerome Rothenberg: Poems 1960-1983

Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Optic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2004.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

1. Twentieth Century Unlimited (0:36): MP3
2. 'A Little Boy Lost' (0:57): MP3
3. A Bodhisattava Undoes Hell (2:22): MP3
4. Sightings #1, #2, #4 (2:55): MP3
5. The Pirate (1:31): MP3
6. The Water of the Flowery Mill (0:59): MP3
7. Child of an Idumean Night (3:24): MP3
8. from Poland/1931 'The Wedding,' Yiddish translation by Amos Schauss (0:59): MP3
9. from Poland/1931 'The Wedding' (2:27): MP3
10. from Poland/1931 'The Wedding,' music by Bertram Turetzky (3:05): MP3
11. Portrait of a Jew Old Country Style (3:04): MP3
12. Cokboy: Part One (7:03): MP3
13. Cokboy: Part Two (7:08): MP3
14. The Animals Are Coming, translation from Senecan Indian with Richard Johnny John (1:25): MP3
15. Introduction to 'A Seneca Journal' (1:02): MP3
16. from 'A Seneca Journal 1: A Poem of Beavers' (1:38): MP3
17. Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song (1:33): MP3
18. from The Dreamers (1:32): MP3
19. The 13th Horse Song of Frank Mitchell (4:53): MP3
20. from The First Horse Song of Frank Mitchell: 4-Voice Version (3:30): MP3
21. The Chicago Poem (2:44): MP3
22. The Chicago Poem, with music by George Lewis (3:53): MP3
23. That Dada Strain (0:39): MP3
24. That Dada Strain, with music by Bertram Turetzky (0:43): MP3
25. Karawane (Hugo Ball), with music by Bertram Turetzky (1:57): MP3
26. A Glass Tube Ecstasy for Hugo Ball, with music by Bertram Turetzky (1:53): MP3
27. the Holy Words of Tristan Tzara (7:53): MP3

Rockdrill 7: Seedings, Jerome Rothenberg: Poems 1984-2003

Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Optic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2004.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

1. In the dark world, khurbn (0:42): MP3
2. Dos Oysleydikn (The Emptying) (2:31): MP3
3. In the dark world, khurbn [music by Charlie Morrow] (0:45): MP3
4. Dos Oysleydikn (The Emptying) [music by Charlie Morrow] (2:38): MP3
5. Dos Geshray (The Scream) [music by Charlie Morrow] (2:39): MP3
6. Peroration for a Lost Town [music by Charlie Morrow] (6:04): MP3
7. A Paradise of Poets (0:38): MP3
8. Lorca Variations XXXIII: Second New York Poem (7:05): MP3
9. Seedings (10:09): MP3
10. Postlude to Seedings (2:21): MP3
11. At Tsukiji Market, Tokyo (7:19): MP3
12. New Improvisations (8:05): MP3
13. Three Paris Elegies (5:00): MP3
14. First Night Poem, for Jackson MacLow (3:41): MP3
15. Autobiography 1997 (5:36): MP3
16. Auschwitz-Birkenau (0:51): MP3
17. Baba Yar (0:35): MP3
18. The Case for Memory (0:49): MP3
19. The Burning House (0:44): MP3
20. Where God is Light (0:51): MP3
21. A Real Man (0:50): MP3
22. The Last Friend (0:43): MP3
23. I Am Mad by Turns (0:59): MP3
24. A Cruel Nirvana (0:52): MP3
25. I Prefer a Poem with Spaces (1:04): MP3
26. I Can't Say Who I Am (0:56): MP3
27. I Come into the New World (1:19): MP3

Horse Songs & Other Soundings (S Press, 1975)

1. Horse Songs I (7:47): MP3
2. Horse Songs X (4:25): MP3
3. Horse Songs XI (4:09): MP3
4. Horse Songs XII (5:57): MP3
5. Horse Songs XIII (5:44): MP3
6. Salamanca a Prophecy (Seneca Journal) (0:26): MP3
7. Shaking the Pumpkin - opening songs (13:26): MP3
8. Shaking the Pumpkin & Seneca Journal (3:08): MP3
9. Seneca Journal 1 (10:11): MP3

Multitrack recording with Jean-Charles Francois, percussion, and Bertram Turetzky, bass, circa 1975, That Dada Strain

1. Karawane (1:48): MP3
2. A Glass Tube Ecstacy (2:27): MP3
3. London Onion (1:44): MP3
4. The Holy Wars of Tristan Tzara (9:11): MP3
5. Y-V (After Tristan Tzara) (2:01): MP3

Horse Songs (four voices, 1978)

1. Part One (24:20): MP3
2. Part Two (13:22): MP3

Poland 1931, circa 1985

1. The Wedding (3:45): MP3
2. The King of the Jews (1:18): MP3
3. The Beadle's Testimony (1:49): MP3
4. The Rabbi's Testimony (1:51): MP3
5. The 7 Melodies of Esther K (4:04): MP3

Reading as part of the Politics of Poetic Form series at The New School, September 30, 1988

complete recording (2:01:24): MP3

University of California, San Diego, c. 1993

1. "Why was it the apple and not the pomegranate?" (0:35): MP3
2. About Lorca Variations (0:44): MP3
3. From Lorca Variations (5:24): MP3
4. Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song (2:12): MP3

Reading at the University of Buffalo, March 3, 1993

1. introduction by Dennis Tedlock (7:57): MP3
2. on "Horse Songs" and total translation (2:33): MP3
3. Horse Songs I (4:29): MP3
4. on Seneca Journal (3:29): MP3
5. Seneca Journal I (8:07): MP3
6. on That Dada Strain (1:37): MP3
7. That Dada Strain (0:34): MP3
8. performing Hugo Ball's "Karawane" (0:58): MP3
9. A Glass Tube of Ecstasy, for Hugo Ball (1:47): MP3
10. on addressing the dead and Garcia Lorca (2:16): MP3
11. The Lorca Variations I, Lorca's Spain: A Homage (1:56): MP3
12. The Lorca Variations VII, Water (for Charles Bernstein) (1:24): MP3
13. The Lorca Variations XV, Water Jets (1:17): MP3
14. The Lorca Variations XXXIII, Second New York Poem (6:43): MP3
15. The Lorca Variations VIII, Backwaters (0:41): MP3
16. on Khurbn (1:45): MP3
17. In the Dark Word, Khurbn (0:33): MP3
18. Dos Oysleydikn (The Emptying) (3:33): MP3
19. Dos Geshray (The Scream) (2:37): MP3
20. on writing poems to accompany Arie Galles's drawings (1:33): MP3
21. Third Station: Buchenwald (0:14): MP3
22. Twelfth Station: Gross-Rosen (0:20): MP3
23. Seventh Station: Dachau (0:12): MP3
24. Ninth Station: Treblinka (0:34): MP3
25. Eleventh Station: Maidanek (0:35): MP3
26. Thirteenth Station: Ravensbruck (0:44): MP3
27. Peroration for a Lost Town (5:00): MP3

Reading selections from Poems for the Millennium at the Kelly Writers House, September 28, 1998

1. Aime Cesaire: Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (0:19): MP3
2. Robert Duncan: Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow (1:15): MP3
3. John Cage: Lecture on Nothing (2:10): MP3
4. Marie Louise Kaschnitz: Who Would Have Thought It (1:49): MP3
5. Alice Notley: Desamere (2:15): MP3
6. Fujii Sadakazu: Where is Japanese Poetry (2:31): MP3
7. Andrei Voznesensky: Back into the Future (0:25): MP3
8. Maria Sabina: The Midnight Velada (4:13): MP3
9. Rothenberg's "Lorca Variations" read by the author (3:30): MP3
10. Rothenberg's "Three Paris Elegies" read by the author (7:40): MP3
11. Rothenberg's "Night Poems for Jackson MacLow" read by the author (8:45): MP3

Radio Readings Project, April 24, 1999

1. A Paradise of Poets (1:45): MP3
2. At Tsukiji Market, Tokyo October 19, 1996 (8:40): MP3
3. Three Paris Elegies (7:40): MP3
4. New Improvisations (9:32): MP3
5. Anger, a Dream & Pain (1:34): MP3
6. First Night Poem for Jackson Mac Low - Variations & Collage (8:40): MP3
7. Discussion (14:29): MP3

Reading at San Diego State University, February 28, 2001

Signature (2001)

1. A Book of Witness (34:24): MP3
2. Khurbn (12:06): MP3
3. 14 Stations (8:34): MP3
4. At Tsukiji Market Tokyo (8:06): MP3
5. Paris Elegies (8:46): MP3

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University at Buffalo, February 28, 2001

• introduction (4:58): MP3
• Complete Reading (58:52): MP3

Interview with Paul Nelson, November 2001

1. his early introduction to the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, Lorca's use of the word "duende," and poetry as a kind of language people turn to in times of death (6:59): MP3
2. his project Lorca Variations and the concept of "othering" (7:31): MP3
3. reading "Second New York Poem," and discussing the prophetic nature of the poem and his experience being in New York on September 11, 2001 (7:20): MP3
4. reading and discussing "Lorca Variation IXX, In A Time Of War," and discussing his anthology Poems for the Millennium (10:12): MP3
5. discussing the Dada movement and Robert Motherwell's anthology from the 50s and its influence on him, and reading "That Dada Strain" and "A Glass Tube Ecstasy" (12:07): MP3

Rothenberg & the Klezmatics, 2002

Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics #13 (hosted by Leonard Schwartz), 2003

Benefit Reading for Will Alexander at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 1, 2007

In Memoriam: Jackson Mac Low, recorded with Charlie Morrow, 2008

1. Jerome Rothenberg & Charlie Morrow — In Memoriam: Jackson Mac Low (18:17): MP3
2. Charlie Morrow — Awakenings for Jackson Mac Low (15:52): MP3

Kelly Writers House Fellows Program, April 28-29, 2008

April 28th reading

1. Al Filreis Introduction (7:57): MP3
2. Matt Abess Introduction (4:43): MP3
3. Jamie Lee Josselyn Introduction (1:51): MP3
4. Three Paris Elegies (7:53): MP3
5. The Announciation (2:42): MP3
6. Aztec Definitions (4:10): MP3
7. Arnhem Land (1:33): MP3
8. Gift Event from the Kwakiutl (1:18): MP3
9. Crazy Dog Events (1:12): MP3
10. Poland/ 1931: The Wedding (4:28): MP3
11. The Student's Testimony (7:04): MP3
12. In the Dark Word Khurbn (3:50): MP3
13. Dos Oysleydikin (The Emptying) (2:52): MP3
14. Peroration for a Lost Town (7:01): MP3
15. For the God of Europe (4:17): MP3
16. The Burning Babe (1:43): MP3
17. From The Book of Concealments, Righting an Ancient Wrong (1:55): MP3
18. From The Book of Concealments, Larger than Life (0:55): MP3
19. From The Book of Concealments, Let it Be Ice (0:54): MP3
20. From The Book of Concealments, What Believers See (1:02): MP3
21. From The Book of Concealments, The Mystery of Evil (2:02): MP3
22. Night Poems in Memoriam Jackson Mac Low (14:48): MP3
23. Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song (3:44): MP3

April 29th discussion with Al Filreis

1. Al Filreis introduction (4:20): MP3
2. poetry and Treblinka (6:50): MP3
3. Jewish identity (5:01): MP3
4. Jewish dream (7:57): MP3
5. "Technicians of the Sacred" (5:24): MP3
6. Robert Duncan (7:54): MP3
7. "The Burning Babe" and Robert Duncan (0:46): MP3
8. on travel (3:49): MP3
9. travel and elegy (2:42): MP3
10. Paul Blackburn (4:25): MP3
11. Surrealism, Dada and ethnopoetics (4:01): MP3
12. contemporary American avant-poetics (1:48): MP3
13. tensions within the avant-garde (4:06): MP3
14. Secularism and poetics (4:54): MP3
15. poetry in the classroom (2:13): MP3
16. Paul Celan (5:52): MP3
17. "A Letter to Paul Celan, in Memory, December 1975" (2:21): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #7, discussing Rothenberg's "A Paradise of Poets," May 28, 2008

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

A 40th Anniversary Celebration of Technicians of the Sacred, at the Bowery Poetry Club, September 14, 2008

1. Part one (8:40): MP3
2. Part two (3:44): MP3
3. Part three (7:54): MP3
4. Part four (9:34): MP3

Reading from Poems for the Millennium III Launch, Bowery Poetry Club, NY, March 3, 2009

Reading from Poems for the Millennium III, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 7, 2009

Complete reading (1:46:24): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #27, discussing Robert Duncan's "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow," January 14, 2010

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

Threads Talk Series Presentation, "From the Voice to the Book, from the Book to the Voice: a Dialectic," May 7, 2010

1. Introduction by Steve Clay (1:55): MP3
2. Talk (29:55): MP3
3. Discussion (38:11): MP3

Also on PennSound:

Jerome Rothenberg on PennSound Daily

• September 13, 2010: "Jerome Rothenberg: Threads Talk Series Presentation, 2010"
• May 15, 2009: "Jerome Rothenberg: Two New Rockdrill Collections"
• October 1, 2008: "A 40th Anniversary Celebration of Technicians of the Sacred"
• September 12, 2008: "Jerome Rothenberg: KWH Fellows Reading Now Segmented"
• June 4, 2008: "PoemTalk #7: Jerome Rothenberg's 'A Paradise of Poets'"
• April 30, 2008: "Jerome Rothenberg: Kelly Writers House Fellows Program Now Available"
• April 27, 2008: "Jerome Rothenberg at UPenn April 28-29, + New Recording"

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