Joseph Donahue

Reading with fahima ife and Nathaniel Mackey for Solarities 5, Duke University, March 27, 2025

Introductions by Tessa Bolsover, Amber Manning, and Michael Cavuto.

1. Introduction (6:21): MP3
2. Dickinson Devotions (8:04): MP3
3. Northwest Passage (9:12): MP3
4. Crucifical Clef (1:37): MP3
5. What If I Say I Shall Not Wait? (1:45): MP3

Complete recording (1:34:47): MP3

Lute & Drum Reading Series, the Brown Hotel, Louisville, KY, February 27, 2015

• Complete reading (37:43): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics Episode #305: Red Flash on a Black Field, November 4, 2014

• Donahue reads from and discusses his latest book, Red Flash on a Black Field (Black Square Editions) (29:05): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics Episode #248: Of Voice, March 1, 2012

• Donahue reads from and discusses his new book of poems, Dissolves (Talisman House) (24:54): MP3

Reading at Alan Golding's Home for the 40th University of Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900, Heatstrings, February 25, 2012

• Temple Music (5:49): MP3

Reading at Alan Golding's House, University of Louisville Conference, February 26, 2011

• A Sleepy Little Town That Time Forgot: Los Alamos (3:07): MP3

Reading with Peter Culley for Subtext Reading Series, Chapel Performance Space, Seattle, WA, August 1, 2007

• Peter Culley (8:43): MP3
• Joseph Donahue (26:00): MP3

1. Introduction (2:16): MP3
2. Terra Lucida XXII (2:04): MP3
3. Terra Lucida "in this paradise" (1:12): MP3
4. Terra Lucida sections before "the copper scroll" (9:10): MP3
5. Terra Lucida "the copper scroll" (4:04): MP3

Complete reading with Andrea Selch and Jaki Shelton Green (1:17:31): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz

• Episode #22, 23 February 2004, (28:43) MP3


1. Introduction (0:57): MP3
2. Discussing Incidental Eclipse (1:46): MP3
3. Reading "Here/Beyond" (4:30): MP3
4. Landscape of Pacific Northwest in "Here/Beyond" (3:09): MP3
5. Reading "Aria Nowhere" (5:56): MP3
6. Sense of color in "Aria Nowhere" (4:15): MP3
7. Discussing and reading "Targets Mongolia," after a painting by Randy Hayes (5:48): MP3
8. Images in "Targets Mongolia;" discussing current work (2:22): MP3


• Episode #57, (28:02): MP3
• Episode 187, 15 March 2009, (29:46): MP3

Reading with Peter O'Leary for Subtext Reading Series, Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA, August 6, 2003

• Joseph Donahue (26:13): MP3
• Peter O'Leary (35:58): MP3

Reading with Steven Farmer for Subtext Reading Series, Speakeasy Cafe, Seattle, WA, November 20, 1997

• Joseph Donahue (22:18): MP3
• Steven Farmer (31:19): MP3

Donahue appearing on KUSP Radio's Poetry Show hosted by Dennis Morton. Santa Cruz, California, 1992

Recording courtesy of Chris Funkhouser

Complete recording (52:21): MP3

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