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Will Alexander
Photo credit: Harold Abramowitz
Complete recording (28:33): MP3
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Reading at Hauser and Worth, NY, February 12, 2019
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Reading with A.L. Nielsen at Poetics Research Bureau, Los Angeles, California, October 7, 2017
Complete recording (54:38): MP3
Aural Monsoon, Live in The Haight, August 13, 2017
- Bamboo and Fire (5:43): MP3
- Calm and Furious Waters (6:16): MP3
- Uranian Chartings (8:59): MP3
- Sahara BC (8:13): MP3
- Verdrigris Panorama (6:09): MP3
- Lyrical Jasmine Towers (6:59): MP3
- Aural Diamonds in Motion (10:36): MP3
- Etheric Mountain Dwelling (12:04): MP3
- Double Recognition (6:28): MP3
Featuring Will Alexander on piano and Mark Pino on drums.
Paradigm Shifting: Edwin Torres and Will Alexander in Conversation at the Kelly Writers House, October 25, 2016
Alternate angle filmed by Charles Bernstein:
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Complete recording (1:22:44): MP3
- Introduction by Julia Bloch (2:20): MP3
- Edwin Torres Reading Part 1 (12:13): MP3
- Introduction (3:00): MP3
- Slipped Curve (2:00): MP3
- Oblique Offering (1:41): MP3
- Immigrant Earthling (5:30): MP3
- Will Alexander Reading Part 1 (14:34): MP3
- The Blood Penguin (7:35): MP3
- The Ghost Survivor (1:04): MP3
- The Newborn as Combat (1:54): MP3
- Compression and Purity (2:16): MP3
- The Deluge in Formation (1:38): MP3
- Conversation Part 1 (17:05): MP3
- On uncertainty and the blessing of mishearing (2:50): MP3
- On going past the borders of disciplines and ideological templates (1:55): MP3
- On the human condition of boundaries (4:24): MP3
- On exploring the English language (4:27): MP3
- On how a poet can get to a “living language” (3:26): MP3
- Edwin Torres Reading Part 2 (8:25): MP3
- The Happy Skeptic (2:55): MP3
- To the Rendered Excision (0:51): MP3
- Of What Is (4:37): MP3
- Will Alexander Reading Part 2 (8:36): MP3
- The Bedouin Ark (6:30): MP3
- The Nexus of Phantoms (2:04): MP3
- Conversation Part 2 (18:59): MP3
- On space/dimensions in writing and imagination (2:40): MP3
- On familiar and unfamiliar audiences (2:41): MP3
- On the relationship between poems and cities (3:12): MP3
- On Sun Ra’s influence (4:24): MP3
- On reconciliation between "sound" and "voice" (2:06): MP3
- On how dealing with borders in writing can confront the legal/national (3:53): MP3
Performance with Julie Patton and various artists at the Roosevelt Room, Detroit, MI, August 26, 2016
- Getting ready (3:51): MP3
- Take One (14:42): MP3
- Take Two (13:44): MP3
- Take Three (8:22): MP3
- Take Four (16:35): MP3
WHAT I SAY Anthology Reading for the 2016 National Black Writers Conference at AWP, Brooklyn, NY, March 31, 2016
Reading by Will Alexander (13:06): MP3
- Introduction (1:21): MP3
- Apprenticeship (5:59): MP3
- Heidecker Poem (5:51): MP3
Complete reading (1:54:16): MP3
At Next Now Festival, Berkeley, 2016
Solo Piano (20:10): MP3
Provision for the Higher Ozone Body (5:26): MP3
Reading for LA-Lit: Clouds, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, November 22, 2008
- Panel Discussion (17:14): MP3
- Introduction by Mathew Timmons (2:20): MP3
- Reading (17:50): MP3
Benefit Reading at Skylight Books, Los Angeles, January 13, 2008
- Mind Tornado (6:29): MP3
- Concerning Forms Which Hold Heidegger in Judgment (7:18): MP3
- Within the Opaque Termites' Morass (4:54): MP3
- On the Forming Substance of Orishas (4:19): MP3
- Concerning the Henbane Bird (9:39): MP3
- Exobiology as Goddess (6:29): MP3
Complete reading by Will Alexander (39:12): MP3
Complete program (1:46:28): MP3
Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 17, 2007
- Introduction (4:59): MP3
- Exercise In Particle Neutrino (1:40): MP3
- Coping Prana (2:01): MP3
- Compound Hibernation (2:22): MP3
- Above The Human Nerve Domain (6:14): MP3
- Complete reading (17:59): MP3
"Compound Hibernation" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 75.
Lunch Poems Reading, UC Berkeley, November 2, 2006
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Reading for LA-Lit, October 15, 2006
Poetic Service Announcement with Diane Ward (1:11): MP3
Reading for LA-Lit 14, June 25, 2006
- Part A (42:39): MP3
- Part B (43:51): MP3
Segue Series reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, April 3, 2004
- Introduction (2:05): MP3
- From "Concerning the Henbane Bird" (34:33): MP3
Complete reading (36:42): MP3
- Impulse and Nothingness (3:23): MP3
- Recently published and upcoming works (2:41): MP3
- Clairvoyant Hummingbird's Braille (1:54): MP3
- His connection to Surrealism (8:00): MP3
- The poetry and art scene in L.A. (3:05): MP3
- Discussing "A National Day in Bangladesh" (2:06): MP3
- Notions of nation and history in "Asia & Haiti" (2:59): MP3
- The medium of poetry and leftist ideology (5:33): MP3
- Diversity within Surrealist poetry (3:09): MP3
- Discussing "Apocalyptic Sundown Shadows" (2:08): MP3
- Apocalyptic Sundown Shadows (4:18): MP3
- Discussing "Rothko" (1:02): MP3
- Rothko (5:26): MP3
- Using the form of the prose poem (1:34): MP3
- The Water Dog (4:57): MP3
Complete reading (61:23): MP3
From Kenning, Issue #12, Autumn/Winter 2002-2003
- "A National Day in Bangladesh" (4:27): MP3
- Will Alexander recorded by Chris Funkhouser, August 1993, at The Grassy Knoll, Los Angeles, California. Text originally published in Caliban #10, 1991, Lawrence R. Smith, ed.
Benefit Readings for Will Alexander
Skylight Books, Los Angeles - January 13, 2008
Complete reading (1:46:28): MP3
California College of the Arts - December 1, 2007
Complete recording (3:06): MP3
The Bowery Poetry Club - November 1, 2007
Complete reading (1:16:44): MP3
For more information on Will's condition (as well as information on how you can help), and to hear individual MP3s for the
participants in this reading -- including
Anne Waldman,
Bob Perelman,
Jerome Rothenberg,
Joel Kuszai and
Rodrigo Toscano -- visit our
event page for the
benefit reading.
Reading in Los Angeles, CA, 1995
Complete recording (46:34): MP3
From the archives of Chris Funkhouser.
Incognito Lounge: Symposium on Surrealism, Santa Monica, CA, August 19, 1994
- Part 1 (51:37): MP3
- Part 2 (36:30): MP3
New Coast Festival Reading at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, March 31, 1993
Will Alexander reading (30:16): MP3
Also of Interest:
Benefit Readings for Will Alexander
Skylight Books, Los Angeles - January 13, 2008
Complete reading (1:46:28): MP3
California College of the Arts - December 1, 2007
Complete recording (3:06): MP3
The Bowery Poetry Club - November 1, 2007
Complete reading (1:16:44): MP3
For more information on Will's condition (as well as information on how you can help), and to hear individual MP3s for the
participants in this reading -- including
Anne Waldman,
Bob Perelman,
Jerome Rothenberg,
Joel Kuszai and
Rodrigo Toscano -- visit our
event page for the
benefit reading.
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and
educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2017 Will
Alexander. Used with permission of Will Alexander. Distributed by
PennSound.
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