C.D. Wright

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• Photo credit: Marnie Crawford Samuelson

1. Introduction (1:21): MP3
2. On oddness (2:23): MP3
3. On Arkansas and poetry (4:00): MP3
4. Personals (2:11): MP3
5. On influences (2:13): MP3
6. On Frank Stanford (2:48): MP3
7. On "Deepstep Come Shining" (2:14): MP3
8. From "Deepstep Come Shining (1:06): MP3
9. On closure (2:17): MP3
10. On "One Big Self (3:11): MP3
11. Dear Prisoner (1:19): MP3
12. Like Something Flying Backwards (2:30): MP3

• Complete program (27:34): MP3

Reading excerpts from One Big Self: An Investigation, date and location unknown

• Part one (5:48): MP3
• Part two (5:10): MP3
• Part three (5:37): MP3
• Part four (3:48): MP3
• Part five (incomplete) (8:01): MP3
• Part six (12:00): MP3

Appearing at the University of Chicago, March 3-4, 2005

• Introduction (1:53): MP3

• Reading excerpts from "One Big Self"

1. Count Your Fingers (2:01): MP3
2. Count Heads (1:19): MP3
3. I Want To Go Home (2:34): MP3
4. If I Were You (1:07): MP3
5. Beinvenu en Louisiane (3:37): MP3
6. My Dear Conflicted Reader (6:03): MP3
7. My Dear Affluent Reader (0:56): MP3
8. Prepare to Exit the Forest (1:16): MP3
9. Dear Dying Town (2:16): MP3
10. Dear Unbidden, Unbred (1:58): MP3
11. Mack Trapped a Spider (2:14): MP3
12. Dear Child of God (0:57): MP3
13. Lines of Defense Including (1:18): MP3
14. Count Her Bruises and Contusions (1:47): MP3

• March 3rd Reading (31:13): MP3

• March 4th Lecture (49:03): MP3

1. Count Your Fingers (0:34): MP3
2. Count Heads (1:17): MP3
3. I Want To Go Home (1:20): MP3
4. Beinvenu en Louisiane (12:44): MP3

• Complete reading (from One Big Self) (15:54): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics #41, "How We Move," hosted by Leonard Schwartz

Recording (58:50): MP3

1. Introduction by Nancy Kuhl (2:35): MP3
2. From "One Big Self" (5:16): MP3
3. Beinvenu en Louisiane (5:28): MP3
4. My Dear Affluent Reader (2:04): MP3
5. Dear Unbidden (2:16): MP3

• Complete reading (15:36): MP3

Reading at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, September 13, 2000

• Introduction by Jim Paul (2:01): MP3
• from Deepstep Come Shining (26:32): MP3

Copper Canyon Press Studio Recording Session, Port Townsend, WA, July 16, 1999

Deepstep Come Shining recorded in its entirety

From String Light

• 1. Why Ralph Refuses to Dance (1:40): MP3
• 2. Self-Portrait on a Rocky Mount (1:21): MP3

From Just Whistle: a Valentine

From Tremble

• 4. Floating Trees (2:20): MP3
• 5. And it Came to Pass (0:54): MP3
• 6. Sonic Relations (1:22): MP3
• 7. Oneness (1:11): MP3
• 8. Song of the Gourd (2:15): MP3
• 9. Girlfriend Poem #5 (0:36): MP3
• 10. Privacy (0:36): MP3
• 11. Flame (0:39): MP3

From Steal Away

• 12. This Couple (1:34): MP3
• 13. Petition for Replenishment (0:54): MP3
• 14. Lake Return (0:24): MP3
• 15. More Blues and the Abstract Truth (1:42): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, March 18, 1995

1. Introduction (0:41): MP3
2. Hunting the Old Iron (3:02): MP3
3. From "Tremble" (2:36): MP3
4. Approximately Forever (0:39): MP3
5. Like Peaches (1:24): MP3
6. With Grass As Their Witness (1:04): MP3
7. Autographs (3:02): MP3
8. Girlfriend (1:16): MP3
9. Various Positions (1:10): MP3
10. One-ness (2:13): MP3
11. On the Beach (1:17): MP3
12. Girlfriend Poem #3 (2:09): MP3
13. Girlfriend Poem #4 (1:10): MP3
14. Like Rocks (1:35): MP3
15. Girlfriend Poem #5 (1:32): MP3
16. Girlfriend Poem #6 (0:42): MP3

• Complete recording (27:10): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, November 1992

1. Introduction (1:12): MP3
2. Just Whistle: A Valentine (29:45): MP3

• Complete recording (31:38): MP3

C.D. Wright on PennSound Daily

• October 24, 2008: "Key West Literary Seminar Readings by Wright, Gander, Nelson"
• March 13, 2008: "PennSound Welcomes C.D. Wright"

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