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from textsound Issue #3, Spring 2009

  • Take Me Away, Roy Rogers (3:09): MP3
  • Regina, La Postcard Queen Of La Breeze Marina (6:27): MP3

Segue Series reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, April 7, 2007

  1. Introduction by Trace Peterson (1:35): MP3
  2. Tropical Garden (2:29): MP3
  3. Sprout (1:30): MP3
  4. Awkwardly Put (1:16): MP3
  5. Winter Site Probe (1:19): MP3
  6. Easter (2:25): MP3
  7. Core Bonus (1:32): MP3
  8. Confession (1:49): MP3
  9. The Air I Subsist On (2:16): MP3
  10. Solo Imbroglio (5:06): MP3
  11. The Whores Behind the Door (2:16): MP3
  12. Sneaky Pete (3:46): MP3
  13. Rap (6:49): MP3
  14. Complete recording (36:13): MP3

Snippets: A Gathering of Songs, Visual Collaborations, and Poems, presented at Kelly Writers House on Wednesday, November 12, 2003

  1. Bio (4:24): MP3
  2. Sin (2.38): MP3
  3. Postcard Songlets (1:21): MP3
  4. Jiffy Kimono (4:11): MP3
  5. Night Soil (4:36): MP3
  6. Solo Embrolio (8:43): MP3
  7. Busby Berkeley (5:55): MP3
  8. One Night Standn(3:23): MP3
  9. Japanese City (4:32): MP3
  10. From "Postcards on Parade" (3:43): MP3
  11. Question and Answer session (17:23): MP3

You can hear a recording of the entire program in mp3 format here.

Wednesday Night Series: Kenward Elmslie, Bill Berkson, St. Mark's Church, NY, October 17, 2001

Library of Congress recording (1:34:25): link

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, April 18, 2000

  • Lytle Shaw's Introduction (1:39): MP3
  • Nightsoil (in memoriam Rudy Buckhardt) (5:58): MP3
  • from Cyberspace (2000):
  • Rock Bottom (3:36): MP3
  • Solo Embrolio (3:56): MP3
  • Diddly Squat (4:14): MP3
  • Complete Reading (19:23): MP3

Reading with Steven Taylor, Naropa, July 23, 1991

Complete recording (1:38:56): MP3

Reading in Burlington, VT, September 7, 1989

  • Complete recording (1:08:57): MP3

Reading with Steven Taylor, St. Mark's Poetry Project, February 22, 1984

  • Complete recording (58:04): MP3

Reading at Beyond Baroque, November 6, 1982

  • Complete recording (54:49): MP3

Reading with Kenneth Deifik as part of the "Town Hall," St. Mark's Poetry Project, April 19, 1980

  • Saga of Skunk's Misery (5:47): MP3

Reading with Kenneth Deifik, Books and Co, NYC, February 29, 1980

  • Complete recording (47:19): MP3

Reading with Tony Greco at St. Mark's Poetry Project, February 20, 1974

  • Complete recording (40:41): MP3

Reading with Kenneth Deifik, Philadelphia, Date Unknown

  • Complete recording (56:42): MP3

Reading with Lee Crabtree, Date Unknown

  • Complete recording (57:06): MP3

Reading at The Poetry Room, Date Unknown

  • Complete recording (30:48): MP3

Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, Date Unknown

  • Complete recording (10:09): MP3

Reading Rare Meat, Date Unknown

  • Complete recording (1:00:47): MP3


Also of Interest:

on Exact Change Yearbook 1995, no. 1 (ed. Peter Gizzi)

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2009 by Kenward Elmslie. Used with permission of Kenward Elmslie. Distributed by PennSound.