Cole Swensen

Reading for Double Change, Paris, December 20, 2010

• Audio available from Double Change archives.

Reading as part of the Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, Olympia, January 14, 2010

• Complete Reading (43:03): MP3

1. Introduction and discussion of the Le Notre Gardens (5:12): MP3
2. Brief note on the style of A Garden Is a Start (1:40): MP3
3. A Garden Is a Start (3:12): MP3
4. Discussion of the language of fact in poetry (8:05): MP3
5. Paradise (0:56): MP3
6. Discussion of gardens as dominion over nature (2:43): MP3
7. Discussion of the geometry of the Le Notre gardens (3:38): MP3
8. If a Garden of Numbers (1:23): MP3
9. Introductory discussion to Versailles the Unfurled (2:53): MP3
10. Versailles the Unfurled (3:56): MP3
11. Dicussion of fountains and water as a public and private commdity (5:42): MP3
12. Keeping Track of Distance (with a brief introduction) (1:40): MP3
13. Closing comments (2:04): MP3

Reading as part of the Holloway Series, Berkeley, February 20, 2007

1. introduction (1:38): MP3
2. complete reading (41:15): MP3
3. Questions (9:49): MP3

Reading as part of the Belladonna Reading Series, New York, November 17, 2006

• complete reading (6:12): MP3

Reading as part of the Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, January 8, 2005

• complete reading (24:43): MP3

Reading as part of the Left Hand Reading Series, Boulder, April 7, 2000

1. introduction (2:13): MP3
2. complete reading (16:10): MP3

Reading as part of the Left Hand Reading Series, Boulder, March 11, 1999

1. Introduction (1:25): MP3
2. How Photography Has Changed the Human Face (4:58): MP3
3. Water Water (4:34): MP3
4. A Thousand Ghost Stories About My Grandfather (1:45): MP3
5. Is (2:40): MP3
6. Blind Spot (3:03): MP3
7. March 3 (2:23): MP3
8. March: The Third Lesson (0:47): MP3
9. March 15: Nocturne (0:46): MP3
10. March 25, 1472-75: The Annunciation, Leonardo da Vinci (1:35): MP3
11. May 30, 1427: Joan-not-yet-saint with Sheep (1:33): MP3
12. August 1424: The First Dance Macabre (1:43): MP3
13. August 1427: Abundance (1:13): MP3
14. October 4, 1451: Paolo Uccello Examines the Sky (1:50): MP3
15. October 28, 1449: The Translation of the Relics of St. Jean in Anticipation of the End of the Hundred Years' War (1:17): MP3

Appearing at the New Coast Festival, New Freedoms, April 9, 1993

• Complete Recording (1:57:29): MP3

New Coast Reading, Buffalo, April 1, 1993

• complete reading (18:45): MP3

Reading for Incognito Lounge at Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, October 3, 1991

• complete reading (28:14): MP3

Cole Swensen on PennSound Daily

• September 1, 2010: "Cole Swensen: Newly Segmented Cross Cultural Poetics Program, 2010"

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