Forrest Gander

Reading for What Is Undug Will Be: A Digital Archive Launch for XCP (1997–2010), Virtual Program, February 27, 2021

For full list of readers and more information, see complete listing.

Boise State MFA Reading Series, Boise, March 4, 2011

1. Introduction (1:32): MP3
2. Gander talking about "Kiwao Nomura" (2:03): MP3
3. Kiwao Nomura (1:37): MP3
4. Impure pavane (4:40): MP3
5. Psalm (2:02): MP3
6. Clearing (4:12): MP3
7. Talking about "Mono" (2:11): MP3
8. Mono (2:53): MP3
9. Talking about "Ligature one" (1:45): MP3
10. Ligature one (4:39): MP3
11. Anecdote about a nervous poet (0:36): MP3
12. Anniversary (1:01): MP3
13. Evaporation one (2:43): MP3
14. "In increments enunciated 'oh'" (1:24): MP3
15. Faithfulness (3:58): MP3
16. Q&A (9:43): MP3

• Complete reading (48:18): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #147, "The Night," hosted by Leonard Schwartz, October 7, 2007

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics,Episode #85, "Radio From The Mountain," hosted by Leonard Schwartz, 2005

Reading with C.D. Wright at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, February 3, 2004

• Introduction (3:17): MP3
• complete reading (26:38): MP3

Reading at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2003

(more information at Littoral)

1. Present Tense (9:28): MP3
2. Someone Must Be Called Twilight (4:19): MP3
3. To Live Without Solace (2:54): MP3
4. To the Reader (3:01): MP3
5. Complete reading, 2003 (19:59): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, UPenn, November 12, 2002

1. Introduction by Al Filres and Susan Stewart (4:22): MP3
2. Susan Stewart's Explication of Gerard Hopkins' "Terrible Sonnets" (3:33): MP3
3. "The Rain" by Robert Creeley (1:25): MP3
4. "Someone Must be Called Twilight" by Jaime Sáenz (4:25): MP3
5. Facing in All Directions (6:05): MP3
6. Pastoral (1:32): MP3
7. Present Tense, Part 1 (5:38): MP3
8. Ligatures (6:15): MP3
9. Present Tense, Part 2 (7:26): MP3

• complete reading (41:26): MP3

Reading for the Burning Deck 40th Anniversary Celebration, Providence, May 2001

1. introduction (1:44): MP3
2. Voiced Stops (5:58): MP3
3. interstitial remarks (1:16): MP3
4. Geometric Losses (0:43): MP3
5. Violence's Narrative Continued (0:54): MP3
6. Meditative (0:30): MP3
7. Coda (1:10): MP3

Reading at San Francisco State University, 1996

1. The Ark upon his shoulders (4:16): MP3
2. Time and the hour (1:55): MP3
3. To live without solace (2:38): MP3
4. Kingfisher hanged by the bill (1:53): MP3
5. The ceremony of opening the mouth and the eyes (3:55): MP3
6. Deep elm (1:06): MP3
7. Field guide to southern Virginia (5:08): MP3
8. Writhe (0:51): MP3
9. The Mandible ER992 (2:40): MP3
10. Anecdote about American audiences (2:05): MP3
11. Edge lit scene (2:12): MP3

• complete reading (31:07): MP3

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, March 18, 1995

1. Poet from Hiroshima (1:49): MP3
2. Face (1:05): MP3
3. Speaking looks (1:01): MP3
4. The travelers (1:07): MP3
5. Voiced stops (1:58): MP3
6. The rehearsal (1:02): MP3
7. Line of dissent (5:53): MP3
8. Sermon (0:33): MP3
9. Elegy (0:22): MP3
10. Window, feather (0:46): MP3
11. Eggplants and lotus root (13:50): MP3

• Complete recording (31:47): MP3

Reading at the New Coast Festival, Buffalo, April 3, 1993

1. Introduction (01:37): MP3
2. I murdered a poet (00:45): MP3
3. Juan de Yepes/Saint John of the Cross translation with James Thomas Stevens and Liz Fodaski (03:14): MP3
4. Speaking looks (00:45): MP3
5. Window Feather (01:12): MP3
6. Final Testament (01:29): MP3
7. Faculty for Hearing the Silence of Jesus, Moscow Baths (01:35): MP3
8. Faculty for Hearing the Silence of Jesus, The Conversations (00:50): MP3
9. Faculty for Hearing the Silence of Jesus,Tendencies (01:15): MP3
10. Faculty for Hearing the Silence of Jesus, The Silence of the Leningrad Subway (01:04): MP3
11. Preface, Mostly I am thinking about your body (02:00): MP3

• Complete reading (16:02): MP3

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, May 23, 1992

1. Life of Johnson/Upside Your Head (06:15): MP3
2. Roasted Gingko, Silk (01:56): MP3
3. Roasted Gingko, Figure Of Travel (01:02): MP3
4. Roasted Gingko, The Silence In Another World (02:31): MP3
5. Patterns Of Unsettlement (01:03): MP3
6. Final Testament (01:18): MP3

• Complete recording (15:44): MP3

Also on PennSound:

• Ligatures (1:52): MP3
• Present Tense (6:21): MP3

Forrest Gander on PennSound Daily

• October 24, 2008: "Key West Literary Seminar Readings by Wright, Gander, Nelson"
• February 25, 2008: "Forrest Gander at the Beinecke Library, 2004"

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