Juliana Spahr

Reading for What Is Undug Will Be: A Digital Archive Launch for XCP (1997–2010), Virtual Program, February 27, 2021

For full list of readers and more information, see complete listing.

Reading as part of the St. Bonaventure Visiting Poets Series, September 19, 2013

1. introduction by Kaplan Harris (2:04): MP3
2. Juliana Spahr (31:56): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, May 7, 2011

1. Kristen Gallagher’s introduction (06:14): MP3
2. Rod Smith, We work too hard (00:17): MP3
3. An Army of Lovers (21:49): MP3

• Complete Reading (30:55): MP3

• Complete reading (1:01:05): MP3

Reading "the Incinerator" & Conversation at the Kelly Writers House, UPenn, November 6, 2009

Complete Recording (53:24): MP3 / MOV (via KWH-TV)

Video excerpt: Spahr on Weiner's "Radcliffe and Guatemalan Women"

Featured on Ceptuetics Radio, hosted by Kareem Estefan, September 10, 2008

• Complete reading(29:30): MP3

At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 2008

• At The Positions Colloquium on August 21, 2008 (19:14): MP3
• N 49 15.832 – W 123 05.921 Positions Colloquium on August 21, 2008 Part 1: With Peter Cole, Reg Johanson, Pat O'Riley, Julana Spahr (58:31): MP3
• N 49 15.832 – W 123 05.921 Positions Colloquium on August 21, 2008 Part 2: With Peter Cole, Reg Johanson, Pat O'Riley, Julana Spahr (45:39): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, October 4, 2008

• Film available from Double Change archives.

Juliana Spahr on A Voice Box, SPT Aggression Conference, CCA, Oakland, May 31, 2008

Complete Reading (13:57): MP3

Benefit Reading at the California College of the Arts for Will Alexander, December 1, 2007

Complete Reading (8:37): MP3

Segue Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 28, 2006

1. Gary Sullivan’s introduction (4:39): MP3
2. The Transformation (27:41): MP3

• Complete reading (35:01): MP3

Mills College Literary Salon, Mills College, 2005

1. Introduction (3:10): MP3
2. Poem Written After September 11, 2001 (5:21): MP3
3. Discussion on Poem Written After September 11, 2001 (6:09): MP3
4. Discussion on Note on Poem Written After September 11, 2001 (7:11): MP3
5. December 4 (2:21): MP3
6. Discussion on December 4 (7:00): MP3
7. January (1:59): MP3
8. Discussion on January (13:11): MP3
9. March 27 and 30 (4:40): MP3
10. Open Questions (7:50): MP3

Complete Reading and Discussion (59:55): MP3

At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 2004

Talk on March 6, 2004 (34:48): MP3

Reading as part of Line Reading Series, May 14, 2002

1. Introduction (2:01): MP3
2. Unnamed Dragonfly Species (20:06): MP3

Complete recording (22:22): MP3

   from Fuck You - Aloha - I Love You


• Things (9:03): MP3 or RealAudio
  

    from This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (Berkeley: U. of California, 2005)

• Poem ("There are things ...") (6:09): MP3 or RealAudio

•   from Response

• Thrashing Seems Crazy (3:27): MP3 or RealAudio
  

    from Some of We in a Land that Was Never Ours (Honolulu: Self-Publish or Perish, 1999)

• Two untitled sonnets (2:39): MP3 or RealAudio
  
• Excerpt (3:25): MP3 or RealAudio
  

  Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, November 14, 2001

  1. Localism or T/here (Fuck You, Aloha, I Love You, 2001) (2:45): MP3
  2. Gathering Palolo Stream (Fuck You, Aloha, I Love You, 2001) (1:32): MP3
  3. We Arrived...(Well Then There Now, 2011 and Tinfish, 2001) (2:28): MP3
  4. Blood Sonnets (Conjunctions, 2000)(7:07): MP3

    from Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against One Another (Ithaca: Palm Press, 2003)

  1. Nature Poetry 1 (4:39): MP3
  2. Nature Poetry 2 (4:00): MP3
  3. Nature Poetry 3 (1:47): MP3
  4. Two Views of Islands... (6:40)MP3

  Segue Series Reading at Double Happiness, New York, December 16, 2000

  1. Introduction (1:53): MP3
  2. Unevenness (13:04): MP3
  3. We arrived and everything was interconnected (1:31): MP3
  4. We arrived (0:48): MP3
  5. New World Sonnet (2:30): MP3
  6. Give Over (0:57): MP3
  7. Harmony Korine Valentine (1:09): MP3
  8. Blood Sonnets (6:41): MP3

  Complete Reading (30:10): MP3

  Peyrafitte Salon, Albany, April 24, 1997 recorded by Chris Funkhouser

  Complete Reading (22:28): MP3

  The Marginalization of Poetry, Segue Series at Double Happiness, NYC, March 22, 1997

  The Marginalization of Poetry - an evening of responses to Bob Perelman's recent book of that name from Princeton University Press, with Bob Perelman, Ann Lauterbach, Ron Silliman, Juliana Spahr, and Steve Evans. Moderated by Sean Killian (curated by Sean Killian & Dan Machlin).

  Part 1: Watch on Media.sas

  Part 2: Watch on Media.sas

  MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

  • Thrashing Seems Crazy (2:45): MP3

  Reading at the SUNY Buffalo, October 6, 1993

  1. Expecting (3:03): MP3
  2. Definition (5:14): MP3
  3. Rube Goldberg Defense (05:14): MP3
  4. Identifying (10:50): MP3
  • Complete reading (25:17): MP3

  Reading at the New Coast Festival, Buffalo, April 1, 1993

  1. Introduction (1:33): MP3
  2. The Letter (11:59): MP3
  • Complete reading (13:37): MP3

  Reading at the SUNY Buffalo, February 12, 1992

  • Nuclear (6:26): MP3

  Also of Interest:

  • Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache (14:17): MP3
  • Juliana Spahr on PennSound Daily
  • November 10, 2008: "Spahr and Giscombe at Double Happiness, 2000:

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