Carla Harryman

LINEbreak Interview with Charles Bernstein

1. Full program (28:57): MP3, RealAudio
2. Carla performs her poem "The Male" (5:00): RealAudio

Grand Piano Reading: Episode 7, December 4, 2022

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Carla Harryman: I read one complete essay, "Drift à Deux," the leadoff piece for Grand Piano 4. The theme of everyday life threads through the essay's sequences of two-sentence paragraphs. The idea of pairings motivated my choice to bookend the reading of "Drift à Deux" with excerpts from a recent dialogue poem, "Late to Work" in Cloud Cantata and a collage poem (in GP 10) of a reading of Kathy Acker's and Lorenzo Thomas's that took place at the Ear Inn in 1978. It was a reading of paired sentences, conjoined text, and conversational fantasia in COVID time, followed by an extended conversation on the topic of everyday life.

Third Annual Convergence on Poetics

Held at the University of Washington Bothell, North Creek Events Center, September 25-27, 2014

Reading / Performance + Conversation: Gail Scott w / interlocutor Carla Harryman:

• Jeanne Heuving and Carla Harryman Introductions (10:39): MP3
• Gail Scott Reading (34:30): MP3
• Carla Harryman and Gail Scott in Conversation (30:08): MP3

Convergence on Poetics, University of Washington Bothell, North Creek Events Center, September 27-30, 2012

• Carla Harryman (9:52): MP3
• Complete recording (2:02:52): MP3


• Listen to entire event here

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 31, 2012

1. Introduction (03:22): MP3
2. With John Raskin and the John Raskin Quartet (03:08): MP3
3. Chapter 24 (02:32): MP3
4. Cutting Corners (A Score) (08:03): MP3
5. Disk (15:52): MP3
6. Look Again (12:35): MP3

• Complete reading (46:39): MP3

Reading with Lyn Hejinian, The Wide Road Reading & Book Release Party, Belladonna* Reading Series, New York, December 14, 2011

• Complete reading (1:11:30): MP3

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

• Complete reading (2:17): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading at ArtShare, LA, January 8, 2011

Complete reading (5:08): MP3

MLA Off-Site Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009

• Complete reading (3:09): MP3

Appearing at Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism, sponsored by the Belladonna* Reading Series, New York, September 25, 2009

Complete recording with Julie Patton and Rodrigo Toscano(21:27): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, May 29, 2009

• Film available from Double Change archives.

from textsound Issue #2, Fall 2008 with Austin Publicover

• REguard for the Object (echelon mix) (5:18): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 25, 2008

1. Alan Davies’ introduction (00:55): MP3
2. Cell of meaning, which resembles them (01:13): MP3
3. It is difficult to write satire (02:15): MP3
4. Imagination is inflamed by women who lack imagination, reprise (04:54): MP3
5. Headless heads (22:14): MP3
6. Orgasms (04:20): MP3
• Complete reading (40:12): MP3

Reading for the Belladonna* Reading Series, NYC, May 6, 2008

• Introduction (1:58): MP3
• Complete reading (24:19): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, January 28, 2006

1. Brenda Iijima’s introduction (06:21): MP3
2. In. My. Sin. (01:56): MP3
3. National. Identity. Question. (00:52): MP3
4. When (03:04): MP3
5. Open Box (12:35): MP3
6. Mirror Play, Act II (08:17): MP3
• Complete reading (34:34): MP3

MLA Offsite Series Reading in Philadelphia, December 26, 2006

Devouring (1:44): MP3

Down City Poetry Series: Providence, RI, April 13, 2005

1. Look again: Chapter 1 (01:51): MP3
2. Chapter 2 (01:38): MP3
3. Chapter 5 (02:12): MP3
4. Chapter 6 (01:30): MP3
5. Chapter 9 (01:21): MP3
6. Chapter 10 (02:04): MP3
7. Chapter 12 (02:41): MP3
8. Chapter 19 (01:33): MP3
9. Chapter 20 (00:36): MP3
10. Song For Asa (02:46): MP3
11. Baby (04:24): MP3
12. Open Box (17:21): MP3
• Complete recording (41:46): MP3

Reading as part of the Belladonna* Series, NYC, March 29, 2002

1. From Gardener of Stars: Gardener (incomplete) (03:53): MP3
2. From Gardener of Stars: Caesar thought of everyone as his mother (09:17): MP3
• Complete reading (14:03): MP3

Reading as part of the Line Reading Series, June 21, 2000

1. Lytle Shaw's introduction (01:52): MP3
2. The Words (08:41): MP3
3. Portrait of Baby (12:51):MP3
4. In the Done of the Imitator (some audio missing) (13:11): MP3
5. Song for Asa (02:30): MP3
6. The Center With Gertude Stein (00:19): MP3
• Complete reading (43:07): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, December 2, 1999

1. introduction (2:04): MP3
2. reading an article by Kathy Acker from The Artist and Society (5:59): MP3
3. presenting slides and reading excerpts from Carmen, a play written by Chris Tisch and directed by Carla Harryman (7:05): MP3
4. Discussing written responses to "chair collection" at Cranbrook Museum (5:21): MP3
5. Womb Chair (2:30): MP3
6. Billy Wilder’s Chair (1:24): MP3
7. Tulip Chair (0:47): MP3
8. Cranbrook Dining Chair (3:47): MP3
9. Bench from Cranbrook collection (2:59): MP3
10. discussing Cranbrook Collection (1:35): MP3
11. slide: Six Square Court, from the Roper School (2:18): MP3
12. slide: Cover of journal from Detroit (1:08): MP3
13. last two slides: first page of Home in the Book of Daniel & Sandra Flinoil (0:24): MP3
14. reading from Home in the Book of Daniels, and discussing Detroit Theater (20:36): MP3

Complete recording (1:00:55): MP3, Real Audio

Reading for the Segue Series at Double Happiness, New York, October 23, 1999

1. Introduction (03:36): MP3
2. Mothering (Enigma) (02:19): MP3
3. Memory Play (04:52): MP3
4. The River in Children, a Child in a Photograph, Resistance and Utopia (06:06): MP3
5. Comic relief, in the time of the private automobile (09:07): MP3
6. Trails (07:56): MP3
• Complete recording (35:59): MP3

Wednesday Series: Carla Harryman and Michael Gizzi, St. Mark’s Church, NY, February 18, 1998

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

1. Side A (48:07): link
2. Side B (47:58): link

MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

• Fairy Tale (7:03): MP3

Reading at SUNY Buffalo in 1995

1. Pierre Joris' introduction (06:21): MP3
2. The Words: Chapter 16/Allegory (02:04): MP3
3. Magi (Eller Rousseau) (04:01): MP3
4. In The Dome of the Imitator (13:36): MP3
5. The Words: Chapter 20/Trans (09:34): MP3
6. There Never Was A Rose Without A Thorn: Not-France (04:41): MP3
7. Conversations Between France and Not-France (05:22): MP3
8. Memory Play: Act 1 (05:11): MP3
• Recordings courtesy of Chris Funkhouser
• Complete Recording (52:26): MP3

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University at Buffalo, September 13, 1995

1. Introduction (1:40): MP3
2. Memory Play: Act II, Scene III (2:48): MP3
3. Matter (1:58): MP3
4. Magic or Rousseau (3:19): MP3
5. There never was a rose without a thorn (5:36): MP3
6. Footnote #2: dialogue between Rousseau and Marquis de Sade (2:50): MP3
7. Conversation between France and not France (7:29): MP3
8. Song of Rousseau's Nanny, from The Confessions (3:18): MP3
9. White End Dream (11:03): MP3
10. Suppressed Names and Their Propositions (0:46): MP3

Complete reading (42:23): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, January 2, 1993

1. Magic or Rousseau (04:34): MP3
2. Memory Play: prologue (06:03): MP3
3. Memory Play: Act I, Scene I (12:31): MP3
4. Memory Play: Act I, Scene II (05:47): MP3
5. Memory Play: Act I, Scene III (04:40): MP3

Complete reading (34:11): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, December 3, 1991

1. The Wide Road (04:50): MP3
2. The Words (21:29): MP3

Complete reading (26:21): MP3

Incognito Lounge reading with Norma Cole, San Jose State University, May 1, 1990

• Introduction (2:11): MP3
• Complete reading (38:50): MP3

New Poetics Colloquium at The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1985

• Reading from Vice on August 23, 1985 (19:23): MP3
• Talk on August 24, 1985 Part 1 (30:34): MP3
• Talk on August 24, 1985 Part 2 (35:22): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, October 15, 1983

1. Introduction (00:56): MP3
2. Typical Domains and other prose (some audio missing) (39:46): MP3
• Complete reading (41:33): MP3

Carla Harryman and Steve Benson: Terms of Address, July 22, 1978

From the Bob Perelman tapes

Complete recording (21:54): MP3

Carla Harryman on PennSound Daily

• July 14, 2009: "Carla Harryman and Barrett Watten: Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, 1993"

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