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John Yau

Close Listening -- readings and conversations at WPS1.Org

Clocktower Studio, New York, May 30, 2007

John Yau in conversation with Charles Bernstein

Complete Recording (29:02 ): MP3

WPS1 Poetry Reading

Entire Program (28:00): MP3

Singles

    from Borrowed Love Poems

  1. Russian Letters (0:30): MP3
  2. 830 Fireplace Road (1:06): MP3
  3. Domestic Bliss (1:19): MP3
  4. Borrowed Love Poems (3:53): MP3
  5. from Ing Grish

  6. Untitled Portrait #1 (1:10): MP3
  7. English for You #10 (1:09): MP3
  8. Ing Grish (5:18): MP3 text
  9. from Paradiso Diaspora

  10. Conversation After Midnight (3:06): MP3
  11. Sotto Voce (7:45): MP3
  • Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1 © 2007 John Yau and Charles Bernstein
  • Studio Engineer: Lucy Simanjuntak


Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, April 24, 2010

  1. introduction (2:51): MP3
  2. Variation on Tristan Tzara's Recipe To Make A Dadaist Poem (6:44): MP3
  3. Bungler Draped in Bangles Does Not a Burglar Make (4:56): MP3
  4. 100 Poems (10:34): MP3
  5. On the Way to Mount Rushmore (2:11): MP3
  6. Chinese Nightingales (2:06): MP3
complete reading (30:28): MP3

Reading at George Mason University, September 29, 2006

Segue Series Reading at Double Happiness, NY, February 12, 2000

  1. Introduction (5:31): MP3
  2. A Poem for the Chinese New Year (5:31): MP3
  3. Film Adaptations of Five of America's Favorite Poems (11:10): MP3
  4. Peter Lorre Reminisces about Being a Sidekick (5:22): MP3
  5. 100 Views of the Port of Baltimore (1:47): MP3
  6. Life on a Loading Dock (1:33): MP3
  7. Movies as a Form of Reincarnation (3:27): MP3
  8. 1001 Nights (3:44): MP3
  9. Final Poem (1:33): MP3

Full Reading (40:15): MP3

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University at Buffalo, February 4, 1998

  1. introduction (7:11): MP3
  2. Variations on a Sentence by Laura (Riding) Jackson (2:42): MP3
  3. Third Metabolic Isthmus Sestina (2:37): MP3
  4. First Self-Portrait with Rilke (0:32): MP3
  5. Second Self-Portrait with Rilke (0:31): MP3
  6. Third Self-Portrait with Rilke (0:28): MP3
  7. Fourth Self-Portrait with Rilke (0:29): MP3
  8. Fifth Self-Portrait with Rilke (0:31): MP3
  9. Drinking Song for Trakl 1 (1:39): MP3
  10. Drinking Song for Trakl 2 (0:44): MP3
  11. Drinking Song for Trakl 3 (0:30): MP3
  12. Drinking Song for Trakl 4 (0:51): MP3
  13. Lounge Wizard (0:42): MP3
  14. Post-Positive (2:00: MP3
  15. Architecture Inc. (2:32): MP3
  16. Peter Lorre Dreams He Is the Third Reincarnation of a Geisha (5:17): MP3
  17. Peter Lorre Wonders Which Artist Should Paint His Portrait (4:39): MP3
  18. Angel Atrapado XXII (2:52): MP3
  19. Angel Atrapado XXIV (2:53): MP3
  20. Dear Reader (2:09): MP3
  21. Correlation (2:43): MP3
  22. Green Angel (10:21): MP3
Complete Reading (48:08): MP3

Reading at Tyler School of Art

  1. Corpse and Mirror III (3:14): MP3
  2. Late Night Movies (2:50): MP3
  3. Shanhai Shenanigans (0:43): MP3
  4. 6 Poems Based on The Fallacies of Enoch by Malcolm Morley (3:58): MP3

Panel Discussion at the Tyler School of Art on Image/ Imaging April 10, 1985

With Clark Coolidge, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Michael Palmer, and Geoffrey Young.

  1. Introduction by David Hannah (6:58): MP3
  2. Part One (32:50): MP3
  3. Part Two (32:35): MP3

(Recording courtesy of Rachel Blau DuPlessis)

Appearing on Public Access Poetry with Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, July 21, 1977

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Also of interest on PennSound:

  • Al Filreis reading John Yau's "830 Fireplace Road" (2:39): MP3

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