Elizabeth Willis

photo © 2007 by Charles Bernstein/PennSound

Close Listening Reading and Conversation at Art Radio WPS1

with Charles Bernstein, recorded March 17, 2008

Conversation (27:17): MP3

Reading (26:30): MP3

• The Human Abstract
• Sonnet

• Poems from Meteoric Flowers:

  • The Similitude of This Great Flower
  • Sympathetic Inks
  • A Description of the Poison Tree
  • Glittering Shafts of War
  • Verses Omitted
  • On the Resemblance of Some Flowers to Insects
  • The Principle Catastrophe
  • Her Bright Career
  • Verses Omitted by Mistake
  • Pictures Connected by a Slight Festoon of Ribbons
  • Viewless Floods of Heat
  • Address
  • The Oldest Garden in the World
  • Nocturne

Close Listening Engineer: Jeannie Hooper

AWP Offsite Reading, sponsored by Bridge Street Books, Four Seasons Hotel, Washington DC, February 3, 2011

• complete reading (9:16): MP3

Coming in from the Cold: Celebrating Twenty Years of the MLA Off-Site Poetry Reading at the Philadelphia Mariott, December 29, 2009

• complete reading (4:24): MP3

reading for Double Change, Paris, April 7, 2009

• film available from Double Change archives.

from State of the Union: a Poetry Reading, at the CUNY Graduate Center, October 30, 2008

complete reading (7:49): MP3

from Wave Books' PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008

• Ferns, Mosses, Flags (1:45): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #11, discussing Hunt's "the voice of no," October 6, 2008

listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

complete reading (28:37): MP3

reading for Double Change, Paris, March 12, 2007

• film available from Double Change archives.

reading for the Belladonna Series, NYC, September 12, 2006

• general introduction (2:19): MP3
• introduction (4:37): MP3
• complete reading (25:09): MP3

reading from Turneresque at SUNY-Buffalo, April 9, 2003

1. introduction (4:16): MP3
2. Autographeme (2:15): MP3
3. The Tree of Personal Effort (2:03): MP3
4. Catalogue Raisonné (1:06): MP3
5. The Heart of Another Is a Dark Forest (1:01): MP3
6. Little Journeys (1:27): MP3
7. Three Apples, Two Chestnuts, Bowl, and Silver Goblet; Or, the Silver Goblet (1:14): MP3
8. Thunder Road (0:51): MP3
9. Clash By Night (0:44): MP3
10. The Wolfman (0:35): MP3
11. On Dangerous Ground (0:53): MP3
12. The Wild Bunch (0:31): MP3
13. Kiss Me Deadly (0:38): MP3
14. September 9 (0:29): MP3
15. from "Elegy" (1:26): MP3
16. from "Drive" (6:09): MP3

complete reading (26:40): MP3

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University at Buffalo, November 9, 1994

complete reading (21:58): MP3

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

complete reading (15:18): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, March 13, 1993

• complete recording (25:41): MP3

complete reading (27:24): MP3

Elizabeth Willis & Charles Bernstein, "The Obvious"

also of interest:

• Elizabeth Willis reads at the launch of Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven, March 28, 2010

Elizabeth Willis on PennSound Daily

• April 22, 2008: "Close Listening, Reading, and Conversation with Elizabeth Willis"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. Close Listening © 2008 Charles Bernstein and Elizabeth Willis. Other recordings © 2004-2008 Elizabeth Willis. Used with permission of Elizabeth Willis. Distributed by PennSound.