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Ammiel Alcalay
PoemTalk #43, Discussing John Wieners' "The Acts of Youth", feat. Ammiel Alcalay, Gary Barwin, and Danny Snelson
Listen to the complete recording and read program notes at Jacket2.
Talk with Benjamin Hollander on Translation and Poetic Identity in the Age of Identity Politics, Bard College, November 18, 2013
- Poetic imagination and politics (6:29): MP3
- Monolingualism in American literary culture, the need for a multilingual consciousness, and language as alien (6:40): MP3
- Ben Hollander reading "Clear, Concise, Correct: A Drama" (5:14): MP3
- English as a second language and as a sovereign language (2:41): MP3
- On In the House Un-American (2:36): MP3
- On language and reimagination, our index of imagery, and writing for a non-American audience (5:40): MP3
- On the way image-makers respond to crisis, the lack of preparedness, and friendships as a frontline against propoganda (7:04): MP3
- The normalizing of difference (2:46): MP3
- Physicality in relation to the modalities by which public discourses are created (8:09): MP3
- The projection of the image and the nexus between art, imagination, and magic (5:56): MP3
- Language that stretches across cultural boundaries (2:40): MP3
- Multiplicity as permissible and the domestication of fantasy (8:13): MP3
- Sameness and difference in relation to writing and translation (7:29): MP3
- Poetic thinking as being in between events and translation as cultural invention (4:19): MP3
- On From the Warring Factions and how the work of translators is absorbed by other writers (5:45): MP3
- On difference and transmission (6:07): MP3
- On allegiance and community (5:19): MP3
- On cultural multiplicity (6:47): MP3
Complete recording (1:40:05): MP3
Special Views of History, Reading with Benjamin Hollander, Bard College, November 18, 2013
Complete reading (1:50:25): MP3
Complete video (1:02:23): MP4
Episode #240: Around Town, November 10, 2011
Ammiel Alcalay and Ana Bozičević talk about Diane Di Prima, H.D., Jack Spicer, and their Lost and Found Series of chapbooks on The New American Poetry, based at CUNY.
- Complete recording (28:54): MP3
- Introduction (7:57): MP3
- Translation of Horace (3:26): MP3
- Translation of Pardi (1:00): MP3
- Translation of Pavese (0:42): MP3
- Politics (1:47): MP3
- Martyr's Resting Place (0:46): MP3
- From "Nine Alexandrians" (1:14): MP3
- "Prologue" from Scrapmetal(8:43): MP3
- Old Poem and Commentary (4:31): MP3
- The Harbor (0:41): MP3
- End of Scrapmetal(3:12): MP3
- From "Islanders" (11:07): MP3
- On categorization (2:06): MP3
- On translation (1:00): MP3
- On meaning (4:58): MP3
- On rhythm (2:14): MP3
- On location (2:33): MP3
- On confrontation (3:14): MP3
Complete recording (1:01:54): MP3
Complete video (1:01:53): MP4
"Prologue" from Scrapmetal (8:30): MP4
Episode #200: Conflict after Conflict, November 12, 2009
Ammiel Alcalay reflects on the personal background to his classic After Jews and Arabs: Remapping Levantine Culture (University of Minnesota Press).
Complete recording (28:15): MP3
Complete recording (1:06:55): MP3
Complete video (1:06:55): MP4
Reading at Cornell University, November 2002
Reading at UC San Diego, 2001
Ammiel Alcalay reading (15:54): MP3
Complete reading (33:00): MP3
- Introduction (2:20): MP3
- Charles River (1:13): MP3
- After Ibn Hazm (1:29): MP3
- Morisco's Song (1:58): MP3
- The Quill's Embroidery (0:55): MP3
- Highway Song (0:18): MP3
- In Memoriam, La Cuizza 30 September 1916 (1:07): MP3
- From the Warring Factions I, Old Bridge (8:04): MP3
- From the Warring Factions II, No Place Not Rome (8:11): MP3
- From the Warring Factions III, Migration Ajira (7:07): MP3
- Complete recording (32:40): MP3
Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, April 26, 1999
- Complete recording (38:48): MP3
- Introduction (2:41): MP3
- Discussion (35:23): MP3
- Alcalay readings:
- Untitled (4:34): MP3
- Excerpts from The Cairo Notebook (1:24): MP3
- Alcalay reads Abdullah Sidran's "Those Who Pass" (2:58): MP3
- Understanding Revolution, Section 6 (2:20): MP3
- Complete recording (1:38:18): MP3
Wednesday Series: Ammiel Alcalay and Julia Kunina, St. Mark’s Church, NY, January 14, 1998
Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.
- Side A (48:49): link
- Side B (48:21): link
Reading at the Ear Inn, April 26, 1997
- Complete recording (39:25): MP3
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