Ron Silliman

Photo © 2008 Charles Bernstein/PennSound

LINEbreak program with Charles Bernstein

• Ron Silliman on Live at the Ear, a compilation from Elemenope Productions, 1994.

Reading at The Grand Piano June 20, 1978

• Complete Reading (44:00): MP3

1. Part 1 (1:33:20): MP3 (Break around 45:00 - 46:00 when tape flips over.)
2. Part 2 (1:32:09): MP3 (Break around 45:00 - 46:00 when tape flips over.)

Complete Recording (3:03:49): MP3 (5-second breaks every 45:00 - 46:00 minutes when the tapes flip over.)

Silliman with Andrews and Bernstein, March 6, 1981

1. Part 1 (44:37): MP3
2. Part 2 (44:43): MP3
3. Part 3 (43:32): MP3

• Complete Reading (40:29): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, NYC April 7, 1984

• Complete Reading (31:37): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, NYC April 12, 1986

• Complete Reading (37:27): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, February 15, 1987

• Complete Reading (38:28): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, January 29, 1994

• Complete Reading (36:46): MP3

• Complete Reading (35:50): MP3
• Question & Answer Session (37:07): MP3
(Reading courtesy of Jack Krick)

PhillyTalks Episode #3 with Jeff Derksen, January 21, 1998

• Complete Recording (24:49): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, March 16, 2000

• Introduction (11:02): MP3
• 'Paradise' (1:05:47): MP3

Segue Series Reading at Double Happiness, May 13, 2000

1. Introduction (1:48): MP3
2. Silliman's Introduction (1:18): MP3
from the "You" section of The Alphabet

3. Selection One (2:30): MP3
4. 18 (for Bob and Francie) (2:34): MP3
5. 26 (0:39): MP3
6. 38 (for Linh Dinh) (2:44): MP3
7. 52 (2:30): MP3
From the "VOG" section of The Alphabet
8. Silence of the Looms (5:14): MP3
9. Elegy for Larry Eigner (4:10): MP3
10. Spiderduck (11:59): MP3

Complete Reading (38:22): MP3

Silliman on Williams as part of the "9 Poets Read Themselves through Modernism" event at the Kelly Writers House, October 12, 2000

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• Complete Reading (18:03): MP3 (Reading courtesy of Jack Krick.)

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania September 21, 2004

1. Introduction by Bob Perelman (6:07): MP3
2. Albany (5:55): MP3
3. Quindecagon (9:57): MP3: text, © Ron Silliman 1995, 2004
4. From Xing (20:48)MP3
5. Woundwood (8:07): MP3
6. Discussion (10:05): MP3

Talk at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, "Theorizing" series, February 23, 2005

• Plotless Prose: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book (1:30:00) MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 19, 2005

1. Introduction (3:43): MP3
2. Silliman's opening comments (3:08): MP3
3. Quindecagon (8:38): MP3
4. Albany (5:26): MP3
5. On Under Albany (1:53): MP3
from Under Albany
6. "If a function of writing is to express the world" (4:40): MP3
7. "A benefit reading" (10:17): MP3
8. "Co-payment" (3:37): MP3

Complete Reading (42:07): MP3

Amy King interviews Ron Silliman on a miPOradio POdcast at Bowery Poetry Club, November 19, 2005

• Complete Interview (1:24:25): MP3

Desert City Reading at Chapel Hill, March 2, 2006

• Complete Recording (39:48): MP3

Reading at Kutztown State University in PA, March 6, 2006

• Complete Recording (35:41): MP3

Reading for the Contemporary Writers Series at Mills College, October 2, 2007

1. Introduction by Stephen Ratcliffe (6:10): MP3
2. The Age of Huts (15:10): MP3
3. A Chinese Notebook (7:09): MP3
4. 2197 (10:26): MP3
5. Q&A (15:48): MP3

Complete Reading (58:35) MP3

From A Celebration of George Oppen's 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008

• "Three Regrets for George Oppen" (7:49): MP3 (read Silliman's essay on his blog)

The Alphabet Reading at the Kelly Writers House, February 17, 2009

1. Introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (3:09): MP3
2. Statement by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (10:44): MP3
3. Introduction by Charles Bernstein (5:18): MP3
4. Introduction by Bob Perelman (4:12): MP3
5. The Alphabet Reading (52:10): MP3

Complete Recording (1:08:10): MP3
Watch a video recording of this event via KWH-TV

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, April 4, 2009

• Recording (begins midway through) (17:46): MP3

Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics, Episode #195, "The Alphabet/Farout", June 7, 2009

• Complete Recording (34:58): MP3

Also of Interest at PennSound:

• LEGEND, read by Andrews, Bernstein, DiPalma and Silliman in NYC, March 10, 1981
• Silliman reading Philadelphia (2:45) for Episode 6 of Live at the Kelly Writers House
• Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics [Presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003]
      Friday reading
      Saturday reading
  
• Discussion with Al Filreis and Bob Perelman after the Bob Cobbing celebration at the Kelly Writers House, October 11, 2007 (5:31): MP3
• Statement made by Rachel Blau DuPlessis for the celebration of Silliman's The Alphabet (February 2009) (10:44): MP3
• Also of note: Video: Birkbeck Poetics Centre, University of London, May 5th 2009
• Discussion with Robert Grenier, Al Filreis, and Bob Perelman on 1959-1964 at the Kelly Writers House, October 27, 2009 (1:16:28) MP3

Ron Silliman on PennSound Daily

• February 23, 2009: "A Celebration of Ron Silliman's The Alphabet at the Kelly Writers House"
• February 15, 2009: "A Celebration of Ron Silliman's The Alphabet at the Kelly Writers House"
• September 29, 2008: "Ron Silliman: New Recordings from 1997, 2003"
• April 1, 2008: "Ron Silliman: Two Recent Segue Readings Segmented"

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