Leslie Scalapino

at Kelly Writers House, 2007 / photo: Bernstein

LINEbreak radio program

• Live at the Ear CD
• Way on Kenning CD

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn November 17, 1984

1. that they were at the beach — aeolotropic series (29:21): MP3
2. Chameleon Series I (7:09): MP3
3. Chameleon Series II (1:36): MP3

• complete reading (38:12): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn December 13, 1986

1. Bum Series (6:38): MP3
2. No Setting (12:53): MP3
3. Hoofer (8:00): MP3
4. Roll (12:12): MP3

• complete reading (39:42): MP3



Memorial Reading for Robert Duncan, San Jose State University, Incognito Lounge, November 1990

• complete reading (8:49): MP3



Reading at Reed College, 1991

1. The Fans on Stocks (11:04): MP3
2. Hannah (19:15): MP3
• complete reading (30:14): MP3 , RealAudio



Reading for Wednesday @ Four Plus, University of Buffalo, March 6-7, 1991

March 6
1. introduction (2:02): MP3
2. from "Waking Life" (27:58): MP3
3. Ochre (16:51): MP3

complete reading (46:58): MP3

March 7

complete seminar (1:40:45): MP3


Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, July, 1991

complete reading (18:25): MP3



Segue Series reading at the Ear Inn, with Charles Bernstein, NYC, April 2, 1994

1. from Defoe (13:55): MP3
2. from The Front Matter, Dead Souls (11:56): MP3
3. from Objects in the Terrying Tense / Longing from Taking Place (13:48): MP3

complete reading (39:40): MP3



Goya's L.A., New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, February 26, 1995

• Leslie Scalapino, Text
• Carla Harryman, Director
• Amy Tratchenberg, Artistic Director
• Larry Ochs, Musician/Composer
• Mikio Hirata, Michelle Rollman, Rebecca Levi, Pamela Norris, Actors



Prospects Reading, Hoboken, May 23, 1996 recorded by Chris Funkhouser

from New Time (7:49): MP3




Reading for Wednesday @ Four Plus, University of Buffalo, October 23, 1996

complete reading (52:11): MP3




Leslie, Reading at Bard College, 1998



• Leslie Scalapino, Text: "As: All Occurrence in Structure, Unseen (-Deer Night)" from The Public World/Syntactically Impermanence (Wesleyan, 1999)
• Cecilia Dougherty, Video



Performing New Time, Zen Center, San Francisco, CA, April 4, 1998

A collabration with June Watanabe





Reading for the Belladonna Series, NYC, December 5, 2003

1. introduction (3:52): MP3
2. Dahlia's Iris — Secret Autobiography and Fiction (21:08): MP3
3. 'Can't' is 'Night' [recording cuts out at end] (5:39): MP3
• complete recording (30:42): MP3



Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, February 18, 2006

• Introduction (1:42): MP3
• from The Forest is in the Euphrates River (11:14): MP3
• from Delay Rose (22:20): MP3


• complete reading (36:42): MP3



Close Listening: Private Edition  #2 May 14, 2007, New York

Scalapino reads selections from Day Ocean State of Stars’ Night: Poems and Writings 1989 & 1999-2006
(Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2007)


1. from ‘Can’t’ is ‘Night’ (3:19): MP3
2. from It’s go in/quiet illuminated grass/land (4:40): MP3
3. from The Forest is in the Euphrates River (5:00): MP3
4. from DeLay Rose (12:02): MP3

Recorded by Charles Bernstein




Reading at the Kelly Writers House November 13, 2007, the University of Pennsylvania

1. Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows (18:45): MP3
2. 'Can't' is 'Night' (11:08): MP3
3. DeLay Rose (11:36): MP3
• Introduction by Charles Bernstein (3:33): MP3
• Complete Reading (41:28): MP3
• Discussion with Penn Students (1:25:43): MP3



From POG Sound: Scalapino reading at The Drawing Studio, Tuscon, AZ, May 3, 2008

1. Considering How Exagerrated Music Is (10:53): MP3
2. New Time (22:42): MP3
3. 'Can't' is 'Night' (6:01): MP3
4. The Forest is in the Euphrates River (1:09): MP3
5. from DeLay Rose (4:36): MP3
• complete reading (45:22): MP3



Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, December 6, 2008

1. introduction (5:14): MP3
2. Hmmmm (3:27): MP3
3. from Considering How Exaggerated Music Is (4:23): MP3
4. New Time (3:09): MP3
5. 'Can't' is 'Night' (3:20): MP3
6. from Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows (9:55): MP3
7. Tea, Trees, The Stars (13:02): MP3
• complete reading (42:49): MP3



Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz

• Episode #35: Making It Happen (59:53): MP3
• Episode #95: New Time/The Long Moment (28:52): MP3




Readings recorded and produced by Konrad Steiner, February, 14, 2010

from Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows




from The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom






Final Reading, Small Press Traffic, Recorded by Cloud House Poetry Archives, San Francisco, March 20, 2010






Flow - Winged Crocodile / The Trains: A Noh Play, Oberlin Dance Collective, San Francisco, CA, December 21, 2010

• Leslie Scalapino, Text
• Fiona Templeton, Direction
• John Jesurun, Video
• Joan Jeanrenaud, Music: “Strange Toys”
• Molissa Fenley, Dance Choreography
• Molissa Fenley, Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver, and Julie Troost, Performers




Reed Memorial Reading and Exhibition in Honor of Leslie Scalapino, Pt. I

Eliot Halll Chapel, Reed College, February 12, 2011



Speakers and presentations, in order of appearance:


1. Ellen Keck Stauder
2. Norma Cole*
3. Denise Newman
4. Stephen Ratcliffe
5. Maryrose Larkin, Endi Bogue Hartigan, James Yeary, Standard Schaefer, and Allison Cobb
6. Judith Goldman
7. Video presentation made by Leslie Scalapino ('66) and Konrad Steiner



Reed Memorial Reading and Exhibition in Honor of Leslie Scalapino, Pt. II



Speakers and presentations, continued:


1. Excerpt from Fin de Siècle, three plays by Leslie Scalapino, directed by Sarah Dougher
2. Sam Danon
3. Alicia Cohen
4. Jeanne Heuving
5. Michael Cross
6. James Sherry
7. Susan Amis
8. Tom White
9. Video of Leslie Scalapino reading from The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom, by Konrad Steiner

*Note: Norma Cole replaces Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, originally listed in the Reed Memorial program.




Leslie Scalapino Memorial Reading, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, June 21, 2010



Speakers and presentations, in order of appearance:


1. Beginning slide projection by Konrad Steiner
2. Stacy Szymaszek
3. audio recording of Leslie Scalapino reading excerpt from It's go in/quiet illumined grass/land
4. E. Tracy Grinnell
5. Charles Bernstein
6. Susan Howe
7. Simone Fattal
8. James Sherry
9. Laura Elrick
10. Pierre Joris
11. Brenda Iijima
12. Fiona Templeton and The Relationship
13. Stacy Szymaszek
14. Judith Goldman
15. Ann Lauterbach
16. Susan Bee
17. Rachel Levitsky
18. Rodrigo Toscano
19. Sue Landers
20. Paolo Javier
21. Steve Clay
22. Joan Retallack
23. Tom White
24. video of Leslie Scalapino reading from The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom by Konrad Steiner
25. Stacy Szymaszek
26. The Animal in the World Like Water Like Water
27. Leslie's signature




Lyn Hejinian remembers Leslie Scalapino (follow link to read the complete essay)





Leslie Scalapino on PennSound Daily

• February 13, 2011: "New PennSound Featured Resources Selected by Marcella Durand"
• September 3, 2010: "Leslie Scalapino: Five Newly Segmented Readings, 1986-2008"
• August 2, 2010: "New at the EPC: 4 Early Books by Leslie Scalapino"
• July 5, 2010: Lyn Hejinian Remembers Leslie Scalapino, 2010"
• July 14, 2010: "POG Sound: Nine New Readings Added"
• June 14, 2010: "Leslie Scalapino: Two New Videos"
• May 29, 2010: "In Memoriam: Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010)"
• November 13, 2007: "Leslie Scalapino Reading at the KWH Tonight"

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