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Nicole Brossard

Appearing at North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival, Kelly Writers House, January 20-21, 2011

  • Complete presentation (55:45): MP3

  • Complete reading (25:18): MP3

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Nicole: Another Language,

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Nicole Brossard
Nicole came by and we mostly discussed prose poetry, for a class she was going to teach. But then I asked her about the different pronunciations of French in the Americas.
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Segue Reading at Double Happiness in New York, May 5, 2001

  1. Introduction (4:35): MP3
  2. Fleche, Songe, et Promenade (7:07): MP3
  3. If We Perform (1:55): MP3
  4. Si Ceci Est Mal (2:48): MP3
  5. Installations (6:27): MP3
  6. Le Cou de Lee Miller (3:31): MP3

Complete Recording (27:39): MP3

Reading at Wednesdays @ 4 Plus, SUNY-Buffalo, October 4, 2000

  1. introduction (4:30): MP3
  2. Late (1:21): MP3
  3. Eternity (0:33): MP3
  4. Taboo (0:26): MP3
  5. Color Separation (0:33): MP3
  6. Reality (0:37): MP3
  7. Liaison (0:33): MP3
  8. Copyright (0:23): MP3
  9. Metaphor (0:21): MP3
  10. Lesbian (0:14): MP3
  11. Sociology (0:08): MP3
  12. Contemporary (0:16): MP3
  13. Method (0:25): MP3
  14. Encore (0:23): MP3
  15. Redundancy (0:35): MP3
  16. from Typhon Dru, translated by Caroline Bergvall (5:47): MP3
  17. Donatella Zed a la Piazza Ducale (1:57): MP3
  18. reading "If Yes Seismal" by Fred Wah, with Charles Bernstein (3:18): MP3
  19. Le Cou de Lee Miller (4:09): MP3
  20. The Tango of Paula Sola (4:25): MP3
  21. little texts Brossard translated herself (4:52): MP3
  22. Matter Harmonious Still Maneuvering (5:56): MP3

Complete recording (43:00): MP3

Wednesday Series: Thalia Field, Nicole Brossard, St. Mark’s Church, NY, April 14, 1999

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

  1. Side A (58:04): link
  2. Side B (50:05): link

Segue Reading, May 8, 1997

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Reading at The Kootenay School of Writing, 1994

  • February 20, 1994 Part 1 (17:26): MP3
  • February 20, 1994 Part 2 (25:03): MP3
  • February 20, 1994 Part 3 (2:56): MP3
  • February 20, 1994 Part 4 (13:28): MP3

Reading at the SUNY Buffalo, January 25-26, 1991

January 25
  1. introduction (1:19): MP3
  2. from Mauve Desert (8:26): MP3
  3. with Elizabeth Burns, dialogue from Mauve Desert (6:09): MP3
  4. Close (2:36): MP3
  5. Green Night of Labyrinth Park (14:05): MP3
  6. Matter Harmonious Still Maneuvering (6:00): MP3
Complete reading (38:44): MP3

January 26

Complete seminar (1:30:26): MP3

Poetic Politics

Brossard talks at The Politics of Poetic Form series, curated by Charles Bernstein, at the New School (New York), on Oct. 21, 1988. The talk was published in The Politics of Poetic Form, ed. Bernstein (New York: Roof Books, 1990)

  • Part One (48:39): MP3
  • Part Two (54:01): MP3

At New Poetics Colloquium, Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1985

    Reading on August 22, 1985 (23:40): MP3

    Talk and Discussion on August 23, 1985 (1:25:32): MP3

    1. Introduction (9:21): MP3
    2. Brossard talks about shifts in the writing styles of female authors in Quebec (12:46): MP3
    3. Brossard talks about the problems faced by female authors writing for journals (4:10): MP3
    4. Brossard talks about the self image of female authors (2:02): MP3
    5. Brossard talks about the anonymity of female authors (4:41): MP3
    6. Brossard talks about positive self image and the anonymity of female authors (4:42): MP3
    7. Brossard talks about the French subject in her writing (6:30): MP3
    8. Brossard talks about the female subject in her writing (1:44): MP3
    9. Brossard talks about how she defines "women's writing" (5:44): MP3
    10. Brossard talks about the problem of the male subject (7:00): MP3
    11. Dicussion on the use of the term "modernity" in critical discourses (6:56): MP3
    12. Brossard talks about the female subject within modern feminist discourse (4:49): MP3
    13. Brossard talks about the feminist aspect of her writing (8:15): MP3
    14. Brossard talks about the gender division in writing (6:38): MP3

Also of interest: Brossard reads at the 2009 PEN Word Voices

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