John Wieners

For the Voices: A John Wieners Anthology

1. Robert Creeley Intro (2:17): MP3
2. Chinoiserie (1:01): MP3
3. Night Boat to Cairo (2:36): MP3
4. The Mole Proposes Solitude (1:54): MP3
   
5. For Denise Levertov (0:19): MP3
6. Despair is Given Me (0:51): MP3
7. Moon Poems (2:15): MP3
8. The Imperatrice (1:42): MP3
9. Tuesday 7:00 PM (1:52): MP3
10. Le Chariot (0:51): MP3
11. Procrastination (1:30): MP3
12. The Suicide (2:18): MP3
13. Untitled (SF Poem) (1:53): MP3

1. A poem for record players (1:40): MP3
2. A poem for Painters (7:20): MP3
3. A poem for the old man (1:42): MP3
4. "Wracked by beauty..." (0:56): MP3
5. Dion Doyle (0:52): MP3
6. "Grieving battle of swing..." (0:55): MP3
7. A Poem to Dawn (1:19): MP3
8. Cocaine (2:20): MP3
9. Watchmen, What of the Night? (3:46): MP3
10. My Mother (0:51): MP3

Discussion with Walter Lowenfels, Alan DeLoach and Lillian Lowenfels, March 24, 1969

• Complete recording (53:01): MP3

Reading from WBCN Radio, Boston, 1972

1. Loss (0:40):MP3
Note: This version of "Loss" appears to be a broadcast of a recording of a reading given by Wieners at St. Mark's Poetry Project on January 6, 1971. This recording was later included on the double LP The World Record: St. Mark's Poetry Project 1969-1980. This less degraded version of the recording is available below. The identical audio quality of "A Superficial Estimation" indicates that it, too, most likely comes from the 1971 St. Mark's reading.
2. A Superficial Estimation (3:16): MP3
3. The Garbos and Dietrichs (1:03): MP3

Visiting Robert Creeley's ENG-1670 Course, Harvard University, 1972

• Reading and Lecture, August 15th (1:51:43): MP3
• Reading and Lecture, August 17th (1:40:40): MP3
• A Poem for Painters (9:44) MP3, Text

From The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980

Loss (0:37): MP3
• Elizabeth Taylor is My Sister (3:12): MP3

Reading from Brooklyn College, NY, 1988

1. About Himself (1:05): MP3
2. Solitary Pleasure (1:43): MP3
3. Two Barbarians (1:42): MP3

Reading from the Poetry Project at St. Mark's, NY, 1990

1. Acts of Youth (2:15): MP3
2. Confidence (1:26): MP3

Reading from the Poetry Project at St. Mark's, NY, November 7, 1996

1. Intro (0:45): MP3
2. Billie (1:06): MP3
3. Rap (0:50):MP3
4. Apparition (0:42)MP3
5. Consolation (1:24): MP3
6. Deprivation (0:51): MP3
7. Inoperable (0:46): MP3
8. Private Estate (1:20): MP3
9. Just an Ordinary Joe (1:13): MP3
10. Times Square (0:10): MP3
11. After Symond's Venice (5:32): MP3

Reading at the Guggenheim Museum, NY, October 29, 1999

1. Intro (0:29): MP3
2. Tuesday Afternoon (2:30): MP3
3. Espionage (0:38): MP3
4. For Marlene Dietrich (1:42): MP3
5. Wrapped Up in an Indian Blanket (0:49): MP3
6. After Bryon's Maid of Athens (1:09): Mp3
7. The Old Man (1:29): MP3
8. The Garbos and Dietrichs (1:01): MP3
9. Stationary (0:41): MP3
10. Thirty (0:22): MP3
11. Autumn in New York (1:12): MP3

John Wieners on PennSound Daily

• August 21, 2009: "John Wieners: Two Berkeley Readings, July 1965"
• November 16, 2007: "John Wieners' Reading and Lecture, Harvard 1972"

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