David Bromige

David Bromige Vancouver Launch Event, People's Co-op Bookstore, October 12, 2018

David Bromige Memorial Reading, Kelly Writers House, September 25, 2018

With Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Steve Dolph, Ryan Eckes, George Economou, Eli Goldblatt, Tom Mandel, Chris McCreary, Jason Mitchell, Bob Perelman, Frank Sherlock, and Orchid Tierney.

Complete Recording (01:15:51): MP3

A Tribute to David Bromige, produced by Katherine Hastings, KRCB-FM, Rohnert Park, CA, August 26, 2009

1. Introduction by Katherine Hastings (10:08): MP3
2. from The Harbormaster of Hong Kong (3:29): MP3
3. "Sonnet" from Tight Corners & What's Around Them (0:46): MP3
4. Jack Foley reading "Often to a Cafe" (1:31): MP3
5. from My Poetry (5:12): MP3
6. Vulnerable Bundles #92 (4:48): MP3
7. Our Tongues (2:31): MP3
8. Katherine Hastings reading from Bill Vartnaw's reflections (4:40): MP3
9. David Bromige and Richard Denner reading from Spade (10:28): MP3
10. Canto 54 (4:48): MP3
11. Cecelia Bromige reading "Able to Describe the Verses" (2:24): MP3
12. Cecelia Bromige reading "Revolving Door" (1:30): MP3
13. Margaret Bromige reading "Abstract" (1:02): MP3
14. Cecelia Bromige reading "Still There" (1:08): MP3
15. Margaret Bromige singing "My Funny Valentine" (1:13): MP3
16. 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

1. Introduction by A.L. Nielsen (3:20): MP3

from Desire:
2. The Romance of the Automobile (1:52): MP3
3. The Art of Capitalsim (0:48): MP3

from Tiny Courts in a World Without Scales:
4. Community Leaders (1:49): MP3
5. Manana from Heaven (1:48): MP3
6. But One Dimension (1:18): MP3

from T as in Tether:
7. One (1:03): MP3
8. Two (0:18): MP3
9. Three (0:38): MP3
10. Four (0:39): MP3
11. Five (0:52): MP3

from "Initializing," "Establishing," and "Authenticizing":
12. Opening Comments (2:15): MP3
13. Initializing 2: To A Drawing Board (0:54): MP3
14. Initializing 7.5 Time Out (1:28): MP3
15. Establishing 3: A Location (2:00): MP3
16. Establishing 6: Not Myself Tonight (1:03): MP3
17. Establishing 11: A Spill (1:41): MP3
18. Establishing 12: E is for Elephant (1:11): MP3
19. Comments on Ganesha (1:01): MP3
20. Establishing 13: While You Were Out (1:26): MP3
21. Authenticizing 5: They Gain Control of My Time (1:55): MP3
22. Authenticizing 13 (1:58): MP3


23. from Not Saying Enough for the Death Penalty (2:10): MP3
24. Apology as Explanation (1:41): MP3
25. The Dream of Rod Stewart (1:53): MP3
26. I Never Write Couplets (3:37): MP3

Complete Discussion (1:21:73): MP3

• Bromige recording (26:39): MP3

complete recording (1:06:36): MP3

PhillyTalks episode #1 with Laura Moriarty - October 31, 1997

1. T as in Tether (3:14) MP3
2. The Signifier Known as George Bowering (1:08) MP3
3. Untitled (1:05) MP3
4. Vulnerable Bundles Number Ninety Two (4:35) MP3
5. Voracious Orifice I Cannot Express (5:34) MP3
6. Excerpts from Initializing (4:56) MP3
7. Excerpts from Establishing (4:33) MP3
8. Excerpts from Authenticizing (1:45) MP3
9. Another Refusal to Mourn (3:30) MP3
10. 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

• Watch on Media.sas

Reading on October 10, 1993 at the Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver

1. The harbormaster of Hong Kong, part 1 (2:48) MP3
2. The harbormaster of Hong Kong, part 2 (1:42): MP3
3. The harbormaster of Hong Kong, Sunday Times excerpts (2:57): MP3
4. Choice (2:07): MP3
5. Couplets (1:28): MP3
6. A succession (1:08): MP3
7. I lays down the law (1:52): MP3
8. Lies (1:18): MP3
9. You (4:54): MP3
10. Preamble (1:55): MP3
11. For Bob Perelman (0:41): MP3
12. For Michael Davidson (1:10): MP3
13. Under (0:44): MP3
14. Unfootnote (0:40): MP3
15. Unparenthetic (0:50): MP3

1. Logic (0:49): MP3
2. Mesha of dialects (1:15): MP3
3. Outside (1:00): MP3
4. Set of twelve (5:03): MP3
5. The edible world (1:46): MP3
6. With each step down the air grows cooler (3:18): MP3
7. Aporia will be define (9:48): MP3

Seminar at SUNY Buffalo, January 30, 1992

1. typicality and particularity (6:20): MP3
2. consciousness and habit (3:12): MP3
3. two kinds of invisibility and what breaks through the boundary (3:16): MP3
4. making strange (8:41): MP3
5. understandability, a literature of what is outstanding, and waking up habits (5:57): MP3
6. certainty and ambiguity in literature (2:10): MP3
7. disruptions, surprises, and mistakes in texts (8:27): MP3
8. anomalous words in lists from Karen Gordon's The Transitive Vampire (6:20): MP3
9. surprise and confusion in Alice Munro's "Wild Swans" (11:26): MP3
10. prose style in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (7:18): MP3
11. discussing Cydney Chadwick's "Enemy Clothing" (9:58): MP3
12. discussing Cyra McFadden's "The Serial" (5:01): MP3
13. maps and dialect representation (6:54): MP3
14. voyeurism and fantasy in prose (1:19): MP3
15. Thomas Hardy's writing (2:49): MP3
16. discussing the "T" section in Red Hats (15:47): MP3
17. digression in literature (15:32): MP3
18. discussing "Hieratics (7:19): MP3

Reading at SUNY Buffalo, January 29, 1992

1. Epigraph from Desire (translation from Nietzsche's The Joyful Wisdom) (1:29): MP3
2. The Art of Capitalism (1:07): MP3
3. The states supplanted gold (0:41): MP3
4. Community leaders (0:19): MP3
5. Kafka (0:28): MP3
6. Giant redwoods (0:34): MP3
7. Reality, of continuing interest (0:19): MP3
8. She wore white lipstick (0:14): MP3
9. Civ = blab (0:24): MP3
10. Ex catheter (0:25): MP3
11. Fiction of neutralized culture (0:21): MP3
12. Seated at the organ (groan), for Robert Grenier (0:38): MP3
13. These days the students demand to be tested (0:41): MP3
14. Song: Brilliantly inventive, for opal nations (1:10): MP3
15. Feeling for the blind, for Michael Palmer (0:57): MP3
16. Vehicle (0:17): MP3
17. Manana from heaven (0:19): MP3
18. One (0:18): MP3
19. Zither music (1:02): MP3
20. Open wide (0:35): MP3
21. The fate of presence in our time (0:25): MP3
22. The poet strolls at evening by the river, for Tom Sharp (0:35): MP3
23. Associations (0:25): MP3
24. The referents' lair, for George Bowering (0:46): MP3
25. Soyez raisonnable (0:48): MP3
26. Don't drool when you say lot-split (0:46): MP3
27. Scum to sun (0:32): MP3
28. Tubal legislature (0:30): MP3
29. Book ends (0:16): MP3
30. Clearings in the throat, for Anselm Hollo (1:09): MP3
31. The poet (0:46): MP3
32. Clocks, for Cecelia Belle (0:26): MP3
33. Ancient riff (0:47): MP3
34. Art as revenge/revenue (0:59): MP3
35. Might be right, for Samuel Brittan (2:12): MP3
36. P.g., or, a Canadian narrative, for Barry McKinnon (1:00): MP3
37. Meanwhile (1:20): MP3
38. Orphic (0:34): MP3
39. Trance ending (0:28): MP3
40. Male order brides, for Michael Davidson (1:19): MP3
41. Voice (0:18): MP3
42. Prophetic soul mode (0:38): MP3
43. Da capo (1:01): MP3
44. Good god! you, here? (0:31): MP3
45. Obligatory poem of the perspicacious child, for Robert Creeley (0:14): MP3
46. On going on, for Cydney Chadwick (1:14): MP3
47. Personal (1) (0:33): MP3
48. Personal (too) (0:19): MP3
49. So, a poetry of immediacy (0:23): MP3
50. Confidence (0:31): MP3
51. But one dimension (1:00): MP3
52. Where we came in (0:48): 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.

1. Side A (32:01): link
2. Side B (32:51): link

Memorial Reading for Robert Duncan, San Jose State University, Incognito Lounge, November 1990

• complete reading (17:31): MP3

1. Introduction (4:35): MP3
2. The Swiss (0:33): MP3
3. Let Me Put This Another Way (3:47): MP3
4. On a Hundred Block Walk from A Cast of Tens (4:01): MP3
5. “I am a brainwashed Sudanese poet…“ (5:55): MP3
6. “I have five minutes to read it…“ (7:26): MP3

Appearing on A.L. Nielsen's Incognito Lounge, UC Berkeley, May 23, 1989

• complete recording (22:13): MP3

1. Introduction (0:30): MP3
2. Opening Remarks (0:44): MP3
3. You (3:31): MP3
4. You (1:09): MP3
5. Sounds like Something I Would Make (5:21): MP3
6. Lines (3:46): MP3
7. It to Experience (Complete Set of 12 Poems) (6:59): MP3
8. 1 from It to Experience (0:20): MP3
9. 2 from It to Experience (0:29): MP3
10. 3 from It to Experience (0:35): MP3
11. 4 from It to Experience (0:49): MP3
12. 5 from It to Experience (0:35): MP3
13. 6 from It to Experience (0:43): MP3
14. 7 from It to Experience (0:42): MP3
15. 8 from It to Experience (0:13): MP3
16. 9 from It to Experience (0:25): MP3
17. 10 from It to Experience (0:17): MP3
18. 11 from It to Experience (0:31): MP3
19. 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.

1. Side A (30:20): link

Interviewing Stephen Ratcliffe, San Francisco State University, April 30, 1987

Discussion with Robert Grenier, May 7, 1986

complete discussion (1:35:33): MP3

1. on the desire to “run amok” vs the desire to speak the truth in poetry (3:34): mp3
2. on history and being political (6:36): mp3
3. on how poets are like Hell’s Angels (5:49): mp3
4. on readings of each other’s work (10:16): mp3
5. on diversity of perspective in poetry (6:44): mp3
6. on California (1:39): mp3
7. on creating a relation between their works (2:17): mp3
8. on teaching poetry (2:40): mp3
9. on relationship between past work and present work, on Whitman (4:32): mp3
10. on having an “un-European” vision of reality, on terms of understanding (6:13): mp3
11. on having one’s life back up one’s work (4:46): mp3
12. on the "basic difference" between them (7:27): mp3
13. on Xeroxing work, on Grenier’s A Day at the Beach (5:18): mp3
14. on revision (6:15): mp3
15. on the nature of their occupation (8:26): mp3
16. on spirits, on bearing witness (6:52): mp3
17. 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

St. Mark's Talks, October 4, 1985

• "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

1. Red Hats (10:10): MP3
2. 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

1. This Didn't Really Happen Quite Like This To Me (0:51): MP3
2. Some Dicta of William Blake (incomplete) (1:02): MP3
3. A Letter Is Never A Mental Thing Alone (0:19): MP3
4. The End of Hermeneutics (0:42): MP3
5. A Dialogue Between A and B (0:58): MP3
6. A Hundred Subjects and What To Say About Them (19:05): MP3
7. Moves In English (7:41): MP3
8. Indictable Suborners (16:30): MP3
• Complete reading (49:13): MP3

New York, c. 1980

1. Dear Charles (1:06): MP3
2. Shorn of Duration (1:06): MP3
3. This Second Kind of Happiness (1:06): MP3
4. Who Has Seen the Wind (0:56): MP3
5. Soon the Outlines of Things Began to Grow (0:52): MP3
6. Finally We Know Only We Are Unhappy (0:53): MP3
7. Nevertheless the Winter Wears On (0:47): MP3
8. Hence the Air of Joyful Resignation (0:58): MP3
9. We Had Reached That Stage (0:40): MP3
10. Meanwhile He Had Taken (1:36): MP3
11. Nor Is Today Really Any Different (0:43): MP3
12. As If I Were Only a Flower (0:39): MP3
13. Why After All Were We Not Destroyed in the Conflagration (0:53): MP3
14. But Of Course Since This (0:40): MP3
15. To Everything There Is a Season (0:54): MP3
16. At a Sign From You (0:45)MP3
17. You Discovered That There Was a Fork in the Road (0:48): MP3
18. A Little Cautiously and the Other Also (6:48): MP3
19. Shrinking Things to Make Us Feel Bigger (0:32): MP3
20. Cybil and the Psychological Model for Codhopin (1:52): MP3
21. My Poetry (5:25)MP3 (NOTE: cut is missing about 10 seconds of the poem)
22. 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
1. In the Restroom at the Grand Piano (2:35): MP3
2. Our Tongues (2:23): MP3
3. Humanism Truth (3:42): MP3
4. Seven Postcards from Seven Who Know Best (8:47): MP3
5. There Are Hours (5:09): MP3
6. In the Kitchen with the Norwegian (4:37): MP3
7. The Romance of the Automobile (2:19): MP3
8. Out of My Head (11:48): MP3

David Bromige delivering Poetry and Intention at a talk series curated by Bob Perelman, San Francisco, June 2, 1977

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):

Reading with Sherrill Jaffe, UC Berkeley, February 12, 1976

1. Introduction (4:40): MP3
2. A Defect (3:39): MP3
3. A Final Mission (12:52): MP3
4. Weight Less Than The Shadow (10:37): MP3
5. I Can't Read, & Here's A Book (8:30): MP3
6. He Wanted To Do An Interview (8:22): MP3

Complete recording (1:47:14): MP3

Reading at Tight Corners, Squaw Valley, August 18, 1974

• Complete reading (43:23): MP3

Reading at Cal Tech, March 7, 1972

1. Beside Himself (6:20): MP3
2. Triumph of the Will (18:56): MP3
3. Tight Corners (14:26): MP3
4. Your Gift (2:24): MP3

Complete recording (42:25): MP3

Reading at Panjandrum Books, San Francisco, January 19, 1972

1. Do These Words Relate To You (2:16): MP3
2. Getting A Job In Thirteen Verbs, Some Persistent Nouns, And One Adjective (2:07): MP3
3. My First Wife Ann Never Let Up In Her Efforts To Investigate Each Area Of The Relationship (3:03): MP3
4. Dancing Like Tiny Flames (2:02): MP3
5. Yes (7:13): MP3
6. Guides (5:10): MP3
7. They Are Eyes (2:35): MP3
8. Watchers in the Skies (4:36): MP3
9. Once Upon A Time (6:43): MP3
10. Caterpillar (6:13): MP3
11. Intermission (0:57): MP3

Complete recording (45:15): MP3

Reading from Threads and Ends, UC Davis, August 1970

1. Introduction (0:17): MP3
2. In His Image (3:01): MP3
3. Why I Went There (2:04): MP3
4. First Love (3:42): MP3
5. Fond (1:36): MP3
6. There Are Joys (3:22): MP3
7. Why This Grief (1:42): MP3
8. My Fault (2:16): MP3
9. They Want (3:20): MP3
10. Only Fair (0:30): MP3
11. I Can't Read (1:30): MP3
12. Acknowledged (1:48): MP3
13. Choosing the Event (2:01): MP3
14. In Time (1:36): MP3
15. The Delivery (2:50): MP3
16. In Two Places At Once (4:30): MP3
17. What Friends (0:24): MP3
18. After the Engraving (2:32): MP3
19. Threads (6:07): MP3
20. Defect (0:32): MP3
21. A High Mass (2:08): MP3
22. The Faster (0:36): MP3
23. A Call (1:22): MP3
24. Logical Conclusions (0:56): MP3
25. Fictions (3:16): MP3

Complete recording (57:59): MP3

Reading at home, February, 1970

• Track List:
1. In This Image
2. Why I Went There
3. After the Lantern was Switched Off
4. After the Engraving
5. My Fault
6. An Imperfect Failure
7. Fuck You
8. Surf
9. The Toll
10. A Little History
11. The Guarantee
12. A Providence
13. "The Scientists are in Terror, & the European Mind..."
14. For ---
15. "I, who kept changing..."
16. In Time
17. Fictions
18. A Mystery
19. A Slot
20. Some Current Dreams: 1-3
21. The Quivering Roadway
22. Psychoanalysis
23. Precept
24. Example
25. At Elsworth St. & Alston Way
26. Only Fair
27. First Love
28. The Haunting
29. Finders Keepers

Complete recording (1:30:56): MP3

Reading in Albany, California, Fall 1968

• Track List:
1. We Could Get a Drink
2. Please, Like Me
3. A Call
4. A High Mass
5. The Faster
6. Why Not
7. Made
8. Weight Less Than the Shadow
9. Yes
10. A Final Mission
11. 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

David Bromige on PennSound Daily

• October 19, 2009: "David Bromige: "Intention and Poetry" Talk, San Francisco, 1977"
• September 10, 2009: "A Tribute to David Bromige, KRCB-FM, 2009"
• June 3, 2009: "In Memoriam: David Bromige (1933-2009)"

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