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photo © Christopher Bromige
David Bromige Vancouver Launch Event, People's Co-op Bookstore, October 12, 2018
David Bromige Memorial Reading, Kelly Writers House, September 25, 2018
Watch on Media.sas
Complete Recording (01:15:51): MP3
- Introduction by Katherine Hastings (10:08): MP3
- from The Harbormaster of Hong Kong (3:29): MP3
- "Sonnet" from Tight Corners & What's Around Them (0:46): MP3
- Jack Foley reading "Often to a Cafe" (1:31): MP3
- from My Poetry (5:12): MP3
- Vulnerable Bundles #92 (4:48): MP3
- Our Tongues (2:31): MP3
- Katherine Hastings reading from Bill Vartnaw's reflections (4:40): MP3
- David Bromige and Richard Denner reading from Spade (10:28): MP3
- Canto 54 (4:48): MP3
- Cecelia Bromige reading "Able to Describe the Verses" (2:24): MP3
- Cecelia Bromige reading "Revolving Door" (1:30): MP3
- Margaret Bromige reading "Abstract" (1:02): MP3
- Cecelia Bromige reading "Still There" (1:08): MP3
- Margaret Bromige singing "My Funny Valentine" (1:13): MP3
- Conclusion (2:33): MP3
Complete Recording (58:17): MP3
Reading and Discussion for Heatstrings with Michael Davidson at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, April 23-24, 1998
Complete Reading (43:08): MP3
- Introduction by A.L. Nielsen (3:20): MP3
from Desire:
- The Romance of the Automobile (1:52): MP3
- The Art of Capitalsim (0:48): MP3
from Tiny Courts in a World Without Scales:
- Community Leaders (1:49): MP3
- Manana from Heaven (1:48): MP3
- But One Dimension (1:18): MP3
from T as in Tether:
- One (1:03): MP3
- Two (0:18): MP3
- Three (0:38): MP3
- Four (0:39): MP3
- Five (0:52): MP3
from "Initializing," "Establishing," and "Authenticizing":
- Opening Comments (2:15): MP3
- Initializing 2: To A Drawing Board (0:54): MP3
- Initializing 7.5 Time Out (1:28): MP3
- Establishing 3: A Location (2:00): MP3
- Establishing 6: Not Myself Tonight (1:03): MP3
- Establishing 11: A Spill (1:41): MP3
- Establishing 12: E is for Elephant (1:11): MP3
- Comments on Ganesha (1:01): MP3
- Establishing 13: While You Were Out (1:26): MP3
- Authenticizing 5: They Gain Control of My Time (1:55): MP3
- Authenticizing 13 (1:58): MP3
- from Not Saying Enough for the Death Penalty (2:10): MP3
- Apology as Explanation (1:41): MP3
- The Dream of Rod Stewart (1:53): MP3
- I Never Write Couplets (3:37): MP3
Complete Discussion (1:21:73): MP3
MLA Poetry Reading, with Leslie Scalapino and Lyn Hejinian, 1998
complete recording (1:06:36): MP3
- T as in Tether (3:14) MP3
- The Signifier Known as George Bowering (1:08) MP3
- Untitled (1:05) MP3
- Vulnerable Bundles Number Ninety Two (4:35) MP3
- Voracious Orifice I Cannot Express (5:34) MP3
- Excerpts from Initializing (4:56) MP3
- Excerpts from Establishing (4:33) MP3
- Excerpts from Authenticizing (1:45) MP3
- Another Refusal to Mourn (3:30) MP3
- Prose Intermission (5:11) MP3
- Complete Discussion (1:12:35) MP3
- Complete Recording (1:56:47) MP3
The text of this program is available as PDF here.
5 Love Poems of Admonition, radio show on KRCB (North Bay, CA), July 1, 1996
- complete recording (52:34): MP3
Reading with Friends at Sun and Moon Offices, Los Angeles, CA, October 22, 1994
Reading on October 10, 1993 at the Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver
Part 1 (27:04): MP3
- The harbormaster of Hong Kong, part 1 (2:48) MP3
- The harbormaster of Hong Kong, part 2 (1:42): MP3
- The harbormaster of Hong Kong, Sunday Times excerpts (2:57): MP3
- Choice (2:07): MP3
- Couplets (1:28): MP3
- A succession (1:08): MP3
- I lays down the law (1:52): MP3
- Lies (1:18): MP3
- You (4:54): MP3
- Preamble (1:55): MP3
- For Bob Perelman (0:41): MP3
- For Michael Davidson (1:10): MP3
- Under (0:44): MP3
- Unfootnote (0:40): MP3
- Unparenthetic (0:50): MP3
Part 2 (23:06): MP3
- Logic (0:49): MP3
- Mesha of dialects (1:15): MP3
- Outside (1:00): MP3
- Set of twelve (5:03): MP3
- The edible world (1:46): MP3
- With each step down the air grows cooler (3:18): MP3
- Aporia will be define (9:48): MP3
- typicality and particularity (6:20): MP3
- consciousness and habit (3:12): MP3
- two kinds of invisibility and what breaks through the boundary (3:16): MP3
- making strange (8:41): MP3
- understandability, a literature of what is outstanding, and waking up habits (5:57): MP3
- certainty and ambiguity in literature (2:10): MP3
- disruptions, surprises, and mistakes in texts (8:27): MP3
- anomalous words in lists from Karen Gordon's The Transitive Vampire (6:20): MP3
- surprise and confusion in Alice Munro's "Wild Swans" (11:26): MP3
- prose style in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (7:18): MP3
- discussing Cydney Chadwick's "Enemy Clothing" (9:58): MP3
- discussing Cyra McFadden's "The Serial" (5:01): MP3
- maps and dialect representation (6:54): MP3
- voyeurism and fantasy in prose (1:19): MP3
- Thomas Hardy's writing (2:49): MP3
- discussing the "T" section in Red Hats (15:47): MP3
- digression in literature (15:32): MP3
- discussing "Hieratics (7:19): MP3
Complete recording (2:08:06): MP3
Reading at SUNY Buffalo, January 29, 1992
- Epigraph from Desire (translation from Nietzsche's The Joyful Wisdom) (1:29): MP3
- The Art of Capitalism (1:07): MP3
- The states supplanted gold (0:41): MP3
- Community leaders (0:19): MP3
- Kafka (0:28): MP3
- Giant redwoods (0:34): MP3
- Reality, of continuing interest (0:19): MP3
- She wore white lipstick (0:14): MP3
- Civ = blab (0:24): MP3
- Ex catheter (0:25): MP3
- Fiction of neutralized culture (0:21): MP3
- Seated at the organ (groan), for Robert Grenier (0:38): MP3
- These days the students demand to be tested (0:41): MP3
- Song: Brilliantly inventive, for opal nations (1:10): MP3
- Feeling for the blind, for Michael Palmer (0:57): MP3
- Vehicle (0:17): MP3
- Manana from heaven (0:19): MP3
- One (0:18): MP3
- Zither music (1:02): MP3
- Open wide (0:35): MP3
- The fate of presence in our time (0:25): MP3
- The poet strolls at evening by the river, for Tom Sharp (0:35): MP3
- Associations (0:25): MP3
- The referents' lair, for George Bowering (0:46): MP3
- Soyez raisonnable (0:48): MP3
- Don't drool when you say lot-split (0:46): MP3
- Scum to sun (0:32): MP3
- Tubal legislature (0:30): MP3
- Book ends (0:16): MP3
- Clearings in the throat, for Anselm Hollo (1:09): MP3
- The poet (0:46): MP3
- Clocks, for Cecelia Belle (0:26): MP3
- Ancient riff (0:47): MP3
- Art as revenge/revenue (0:59): MP3
- Might be right, for Samuel Brittan (2:12): MP3
- P.g., or, a Canadian narrative, for Barry McKinnon (1:00): MP3
- Meanwhile (1:20): MP3
- Orphic (0:34): MP3
- Trance ending (0:28): MP3
- Male order brides, for Michael Davidson (1:19): MP3
- Voice (0:18): MP3
- Prophetic soul mode (0:38): MP3
- Da capo (1:01): MP3
- Good god! you, here? (0:31): MP3
- Obligatory poem of the perspicacious child, for Robert Creeley (0:14): MP3
- On going on, for Cydney Chadwick (1:14): MP3
- Personal (1) (0:33): MP3
- Personal (too) (0:19): MP3
- So, a poetry of immediacy (0:23): MP3
- Confidence (0:31): MP3
- But one dimension (1:00): MP3
- Where we came in (0:48): MP3
Complete reading (39:51): MP3
Wednesday Series: David Bromige and Elizabeth Fodaski, St. Mark’s Church, NY, November 6, 1991
Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.
- Side A (32:01): link
- Side B (32:51): link
- complete reading (17:31): MP3
- Introduction (4:35): MP3
- The Swiss (0:33): MP3
- Let Me Put This Another Way (3:47): MP3
- On a Hundred Block Walk from A Cast of Tens (4:01): MP3
- “I am a brainwashed Sudanese poet…“ (5:55): MP3
- “I have five minutes to read it…“ (7:26): MP3
- complete recording (22:13): MP3
- Introduction (0:30): MP3
- Opening Remarks (0:44): MP3
- You (3:31): MP3
- You (1:09): MP3
- Sounds like Something I Would Make (5:21): MP3
- Lines (3:46): MP3
- It to Experience (Complete Set of 12 Poems) (6:59): MP3
- 1 from It to Experience (0:20): MP3
- 2 from It to Experience (0:29): MP3
- 3 from It to Experience (0:35): MP3
- 4 from It to Experience (0:49): MP3
- 5 from It to Experience (0:35): MP3
- 6 from It to Experience (0:43): MP3
- 7 from It to Experience (0:42): MP3
- 8 from It to Experience (0:13): MP3
- 9 from It to Experience (0:25): MP3
- 10 from It to Experience (0:17): MP3
- 11 from It to Experience (0:31): MP3
- 12 from It to Experience (0:56): MP3
Reading by David Bromige, St. Mark’s Church, NY, May 17, 1989
Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.
- Side A (30:20): link
complete discussion (1:35:33): MP3
- on the desire to “run amok” vs the desire to speak the truth in poetry (3:34): mp3
- on history and being political (6:36): mp3
- on how poets are like Hell’s Angels (5:49): mp3
- on readings of each other’s work (10:16): mp3
- on diversity of perspective in poetry (6:44): mp3
- on California (1:39): mp3
- on creating a relation between their works (2:17): mp3
- on teaching poetry (2:40): mp3
- on relationship between past work and present work, on Whitman (4:32): mp3
- on having an “un-European” vision of reality, on terms of understanding (6:13): mp3
- on having one’s life back up one’s work (4:46): mp3
- on the "basic difference" between them (7:27): mp3
- on Xeroxing work, on Grenier’s A Day at the Beach (5:18): mp3
- on revision (6:15): mp3
- on the nature of their occupation (8:26): mp3
- on spirits, on bearing witness (6:52): mp3
- on finding self in a composed poem, on cause and effect (6:32): mp3
Ear Inn, New York - October 5, 1985
- Introduction (1:46): MP3
- UC of You See (part 1) (12:44): MP3
- UC of You See (part 2) (9:03): MP3
- Geographist's History (19:08)MP3
- "Condition, Information, and the Paranoia of the New"
- David Bromige (1:34:00): MP3
- discussion (1:01:20): MP3
Ear Inn, New York - March 3, 1984
- Red Hats (10:10): MP3
- Lazy Susan (3:30): MP3
Complete reading (44:00): MP3
Reading a children's story to his daughter, February 28, 1984
- Complete recording (23:43): MP3
Reading at The Bakery, 1983
- This Didn't Really Happen Quite Like This To Me (0:51): MP3
- Some Dicta of William Blake (incomplete) (1:02): MP3
- A Letter Is Never A Mental Thing Alone (0:19): MP3
- The End of Hermeneutics (0:42): MP3
- A Dialogue Between A and B (0:58): MP3
- A Hundred Subjects and What To Say About Them (19:05): MP3
- Moves In English (7:41): MP3
- Indictable Suborners (16:30): MP3
- Complete reading (49:13): MP3
New York, c. 1980
- Dear Charles (1:06): MP3
- Shorn of Duration (1:06): MP3
- This Second Kind of Happiness (1:06): MP3
- Who Has Seen the Wind (0:56): MP3
- Soon the Outlines of Things Began to Grow (0:52): MP3
- Finally We Know Only We Are Unhappy (0:53): MP3
- Nevertheless the Winter Wears On (0:47): MP3
- Hence the Air of Joyful Resignation (0:58): MP3
- We Had Reached That Stage (0:40): MP3
- Meanwhile He Had Taken (1:36): MP3
- Nor Is Today Really Any Different (0:43): MP3
- As If I Were Only a Flower (0:39): MP3
- Why After All Were We Not Destroyed in the Conflagration (0:53): MP3
- But Of Course Since This (0:40): MP3
- To Everything There Is a Season (0:54): MP3
- At a Sign From You (0:45)MP3
- You Discovered That There Was a Fork in the Road (0:48): MP3
- A Little Cautiously and the Other Also (6:48): MP3
- Shrinking Things to Make Us Feel Bigger (0:32): MP3
- Cybil and the Psychological Model for Codhopin (1:52): MP3
- My Poetry (5:25)MP3 (NOTE: cut is missing about 10 seconds of the poem)
- My Compensations (Glurk) (26:24)MP3
Reading at the Ear Inn, with Carole Korzeniowsky, December 2nd, 1978
- Complete Reading, Part 1 (incudes Korzeniowsky) (41:20): MP3
- Complete Reading, Part 2 (incudes Korzeniowsky) (40:54): MP3
- In the Restroom at the Grand Piano (2:35): MP3
- Our Tongues (2:23): MP3
- Humanism Truth (3:42): MP3
- Seven Postcards from Seven Who Know Best (8:47): MP3
- There Are Hours (5:09): MP3
- In the Kitchen with the Norwegian (4:37): MP3
- The Romance of the Automobile (2:19): MP3
- Out of My Head (11:48): MP3
From the Talk Series curated by Bob Perelman.
Audio is progressively poorer toward the end.
- Part 1 (44:08): MP3
- Part 2 (59:29): MP3
Reading at SUNY-Buffalo from Threads; Birds of the West; Credences of Winter; Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other., April 26, 1976
Complete recording (1:07:08):
- Introduction (4:40): MP3
- A Defect (3:39): MP3
- A Final Mission (12:52): MP3
- Weight Less Than The Shadow (10:37): MP3
- I Can't Read, & Here's A Book (8:30): MP3
- He Wanted To Do An Interview (8:22): MP3
Complete recording (1:47:14): MP3
Reading at Cal Tech, March 7, 1972
- Beside Himself (6:20): MP3
- Triumph of the Will (18:56): MP3
- Tight Corners (14:26): MP3
- Your Gift (2:24): MP3
Complete recording (42:25): MP3
Reading at Panjandrum Books, San Francisco, January 19, 1972
- Do These Words Relate To You (2:16): MP3
- Getting A Job In Thirteen Verbs, Some Persistent Nouns, And One Adjective (2:07): MP3
- My First Wife Ann Never Let Up In Her Efforts To Investigate Each Area Of The Relationship (3:03): MP3
- Dancing Like Tiny Flames (2:02): MP3
- Yes (7:13): MP3
- Guides (5:10): MP3
- They Are Eyes (2:35): MP3
- Watchers in the Skies (4:36): MP3
- Once Upon A Time (6:43): MP3
- Caterpillar (6:13): MP3
- Intermission (0:57): MP3
Complete recording (45:15): MP3
Reading from Threads and Ends, UC Davis, August 1970
- Introduction (0:17): MP3
- In His Image (3:01): MP3
- Why I Went There (2:04): MP3
- First Love (3:42): MP3
- Fond (1:36): MP3
- There Are Joys (3:22): MP3
- Why This Grief (1:42): MP3
- My Fault (2:16): MP3
- They Want (3:20): MP3
- Only Fair (0:30): MP3
- I Can't Read (1:30): MP3
- Acknowledged (1:48): MP3
- Choosing the Event (2:01): MP3
- In Time (1:36): MP3
- The Delivery (2:50): MP3
- In Two Places At Once (4:30): MP3
- What Friends (0:24): MP3
- After the Engraving (2:32): MP3
- Threads (6:07): MP3
- Defect (0:32): MP3
- A High Mass (2:08): MP3
- The Faster (0:36): MP3
- A Call (1:22): MP3
- Logical Conclusions (0:56): MP3
- Fictions (3:16): MP3
Complete recording (57:59): MP3
- In This Image
- Why I Went There
- After the Lantern was Switched Off
- After the Engraving
- My Fault
- An Imperfect Failure
- Fuck You
- Surf
- The Toll
- A Little History
- The Guarantee
- A Providence
- "The Scientists are in Terror, & the European Mind..."
- For ---
- "I, who kept changing..."
- In Time
- Fictions
- A Mystery
- A Slot
- Some Current Dreams: 1-3
- The Quivering Roadway
- Psychoanalysis
- Precept
- Example
- At Elsworth St. & Alston Way
- Only Fair
- First Love
- The Haunting
- Finders Keepers
Complete recording (1:30:56): MP3
Reading in Albany, California, Fall 1968
- We Could Get a Drink
- Please, Like Me
- A Call
- A High Mass
- The Faster
- Why Not
- Made
- Weight Less Than the Shadow
- Yes
- A Final Mission
- A Kind of Numbness
Complete recording (34:25): MP3
Reading with Barry Gifford, 1968
Complete recording (28:51): MP3
Reading with Ron Loewinsohn, San Francisco, January 29, 1964
Complete recording (2:47:38): MP3
Reading on the Incognito Lounge, KSJS FM, San Jose, Date Unknown
Complete recording, intro by A.L. Nielsen (1:03:05): MP3
Segue Series Reading at HERE, date unknown
Complete Reading (15:51): MP3
Reading "8 Soliliquets," Date Unknown
Complete recording (25:19): MP3
Reading New Poems, Date Unknown
Complete recording (1:23:05): MP3
Reading from The Gathering, Date Unknown
Complete recording (37:30): MP3
Unlabeled Reading
Complete recording (1:23:05): MP3
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2008 David Bromige.
Used with permission of David Bromige. Distributed by PennSound.
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