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Brian Kim Stefans




"Language as Gameplay: From the Oulipo to the Jew's Daughter"
a lecture at the Kelly Writers House, January 22, 2008
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Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, January 16, 2007

Full Reading (34:25): mp3

1. Introduction (4:36)
2. "The Crowds Were Getting Dressed" (2:02)
3. "All Over Theory Might Find Its Way Back" (0:54)
4. "Um Uh" (from The Screens)(4:01)
5. "Third Season: Harold and Sonia" (from Kluge: A Meditation) (16:47)


Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, February 6, 2002

Full Reading (1:11:50): mp3, RealAudio

1. They're Putting a New Door In (1:36)
2. Axis Thinking, from The Screens (3:06)
3. Italics, from The Screens (2:43)
4. Biography of Roger Pellett (2:00)
5. Plausible Implausible (2:39)
6. I Know a Man (1:19)
7. The Warning (0:56)
8. Discussion of homepage Arras.net (13:59)
9. excerpt from "What I" and further discussion of digital poetics (22:01)
10. excerpts from "The Proverbs of Hell" and discussion (20:23)



Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, April 18, 2000

1. Opening Remarks (0:56): MP3

from Gulf (1998):
2. Preporatory Meditation (0:57): MP3
3. Antonio (a sonnet) (1:09): MP3
4. Stare into the Common Joy (0:50): MP3

5. Roger Pellet Bio (2:09): MP3
6. Plausible / Implausible (3:19): MP3
7. Holiday (5:19): MP3
8. A Poem of Attitudes (7:31): MP3
9. "Too much enjoyment in receiving..." (1:14): MP3
10. Pasha Noise (1:19): MP3

Complete Reading (24:44): MP3




Also of Interest:
Reading at SUNY Buffalo, 2001 (18:07): mp3, RealAudio

"Ambient Reading over the Flash poem "The Dreamlife of Letters"

1. Excerpt from "Reflections on Cyberpoetry" (an e-mail from "Thomas Stearns Eliot")
2. Excerpt from "Electronic Desires"
3. Excerpt from "A Poem of Attitudes"
4. Stock figures from Kenny Goldsmith's "Day"
5. Excerpt from "Gulf"

Segue reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, March 13, 2004
1. Introduction by Charles Borkhuis
2. Axis Thinking from "The Screens"
3. Selections from "What Does It Matter?" (or "Pasha Noise: Life and
Contacts")
4. "The Window Ordered to be Made"
5. "Provincial Hack"
6. "State of the Union"
7. "Howlings in Favor of Tulsa"

PhillyTalks Episode #7 with Fred Wah - September 17, 1998
Link to PhillyTalks series page

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