Kathleen Fraser

Reading at Segue at the Zinc Bar, NYC, February 27, 2016

1. Bridget Talone’s Introduction (03:04): MP3
2. You Can Hear Her Breathing In The Photograph (06:18): MP3h
3. A Photo Is Often Identified (03:56): MP3
4. In Commemoration Of The Visit (13:09): MP3
5. Wing (12:03): MP3

• Complete Reading (44:32): MP3

Appearing at Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism, sponsored by the Belladonna Reading Series, New York, September 24, 2009

1. Introduction (1:50): MP3
2. Kathleen Fraser's Keynote Address (17:36): MP3
3. Poem for Norma Cole (6:02): MP3

Complete Reading with Erica Hunt (54:44): MP3

Post-reading Q&A (26:53): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, September 22, 2009

1. Introduction (3:32): MP3
2. Reading (41:36): MP3
3. Question & answer session (27:10): MP3
4. Fraser Discusses Charles Olson (10:54): MP3

Complete recording (1:13:01): MP3

Watch a video recording of this complete event via KWH-TV: MOV

PoemTalk #13, discussing Fraser's "The Cars," January 12, 2009

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 8, 2008

1. Christina Strong’s Introduction (01:12): MP3
2. Hotel Classic (00:50): MP3
3. Bill Benton (01:03): MP3
4. The Cars (02:42): MP3
5. Your Back To Me Inside The Black Suit (01:28): MP3
6. First Sight (01:13): MP3
7. Glass Door (02:21): MP3
8. Sidebar: A Kind Of Arrival (00:53): MP3
9. From Stockroom (01:59): MP3
10. Being Intermittent (01:50): MP3
11. Empty Sea And Mind (02:53): MP3
12. Orologic (04:11): MP3
13. On Wing (03:48): MP3
14. Wing (08:46): MP3

Complete reading (40:08): MP3

"The Cars" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 13.

Kathleen Fraser Interviews Hadley Guest about Barbara Guest, Berkeley, July 17, 2007

1. Introduction (0:23): MP3
2. Hadley Guest reading "The Next Floor" by Barbara Guest (0:51): MP3
3. Kathleen Fraser on being introduced to Barbara Guest and her work (13:46): MP3
4. Barbara Guest's friendship with painters (9:33): MP3
5. Hadley Guest on growing up around poets and painters (5:15): MP3
6. the division between uptown and downtown in the New York art world in the 60s (12:31): MP3
7. Barbara Guest's refusal to be pigeon-holed (2:23): MP3
8. the cruelty of the downtown scene and Barbara Guest's intentional erasure (18:31): MP3
9. Hadley Guest on living with Barbara during the last few years of her life and hearing about her first marriage to John Dudley (7:18): MP3
10. Trumbull Higgins and social position in relation to money (11:33): MP3
11. Barbara's uptown studio and her strong family feelings (16:55): MP3
12. Barbara's shared apartment with Perdita Schaffner and her experience working and walking around Union Square (5:00): MP3
13. productivity, freedom, and moving west (4:15): MP3
14. Stephen Guest and introducing Barbara Guest to H.D. (15:35): MP3
15. Barbara's work on H.D. (12:27): MP3
16. Barbara's awareness of women writers, her relation to feminism, and her commitment to being a wife and mother as well as a poet (15:29): MP3

Conversation with Suzanne Stein on Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake, Kelsey Street Press 1984, recorded 2007

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, January 17, 2007

1. Introduction (1:48): MP3
2. Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake (13:34): MP3
3. conversation with Suzanne Stein Part 1 (15:18): MP3
4. Medusa's hair was snakes. Was thought, split inward. (3:01): MP3
5. Conversation with Suzanne Stein Part 2 (34:00): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz, 2005

Episode #84 "Translate the Unspeakable" part one (26:48), part two (28:39)

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 16, 2002

1. Introduction (3:34): MP3
2. Train ( 0:27): MP3
3. 10:10 AM (3:38): MP3
4. Bernini's Chisel (5:23): MP3
5. Hotel Classic (0:46): MP3
6. Human Values (2:25): MP3
7. 20th Century (5:10): MP3
8. The Cars (1:45): MP3
9. Celeste and Serious (6:30): MP3

Complete recording (38:48): MP3

"The Cars" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 13.

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University at Buffalo, February 28, 2001

• Introduction (7:22): MP3
• Complete reading (1:00:52): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 6, 1999

from What I Want (1974)

1. "Little Notes to You, from Lucas Street" (5:39): MP3

from New Shoes (1978)

2. "Coincidental" (3:30): MP3

from Each Next (1980)

3. "Lena Pergola" (4:41): MP3
4. "Somebody who is hooked on the color red" (1:31): MP3

from Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake (1984)

5. introduction (5:03): MP3
6. "A definite mountain (the upper with tableaux), foul water." (1:05): MP3
7. "They did not make conversation." (0:58): MP3
8. "Anna, in lawn chair endeavor." (0:43): MP3
9. "Becoming famous and powerful" (0:46): MP3
10. "The sun opens and begins to work." (0:33): MP3
11. "Anna ("Are you looking at me?"), if not." (1:17): MP3
12. "Covertly, her husband('s eyes)." (0:13): MP3
13. "Later and tense, looking too big for the body." (0:34): MP3
14. "Small Pyramid, marginal attention." (0:27): MP3
15. ""The certainty of Byzantine tendencies," she reads." (0:45): MP3
16. "In white, she who bathed." (0:22): MP3

other works

17. "Soft Pages" (18:30): MP3
18. "A.D. Notebooks" (14:13): MP3

Reading for the Segue Series at the Ear Inn, New York City, February 15, 1997

• Complete recording (41:12): MP3

At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1994

• Reading on October 11, 1994 Part 1 (25:23): MP3
• Reading on October 11, 1994 Part 2 (28:31): MP3

Reading at the University of Buffalo, November 3, 1993

• Complete reading (1:12:09): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn February 8, 1992

Complete reading (19:59): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn January 25, 1986

Complete reading (44:09): MP3

Reading by Kathleen Fraser and Hannah Weiner, St. Mark’s Church, NY, October 18, 1989

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

1. Side A (44:34): link
2. Side B (38:21): link

St. Mark's Talks, June 6, 1985

• "The Tradition of Marginality"


• Kathleen Fraser (31:42): MP3
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis (26:47): MP3
• Discussion (1:20:30): MP3

Reading at Intersection in San Francisco May 4, 1982

1. Introduction (3:59): MP3
2. Change of Address (2:30): MP3
3. The Baker's Daughter (1:06): MP3
4. Sensing the Presence of Butterfly (2:54): MP3
5. What I Want (1:16): MP3
6. Growing Up (2:33): MP3
7. One of the Chapters (3:50): MP3
8. Collective Invention (3:55): MP3
9. Flood (4:21): MP3
10. Lena Pergola (5:59): MP3
11. Dordogne Song (3:02): MP3
12. One is Whole One is Not (1:26): MP3
13. Manual Dexterity (2:11): MP3
14. These Labdanum Hours (2:35): MP3
15. Medusa's Hair With Snakes with Thought Split Inward (3:50): MP3

Also of Interest:

• On Dante, at Pescara, April 23, 1997 (32:59): MP3
• Bev Dahlen, Tribue and Reading, hosted by Small Press Traffic in Timken Hall CCA, San Francisco, December 13, 2008

Kathleen Fraser on PennSound Daily

• September 28, 2009: "Kathleen Fraser: Kelly Writers House Reading, September 2009"
• January 12, 2009: "PoemTalk #13: Kathleen Fraser's 'The Cars'"
• January 4, 2008: "Kathleen Fraser and Robin Blaser on Dante"

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