Fanny Howe

Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, NYC, May 23, 2015

1. Nathaniel Otting’s introduction (02:27): MP3
2. After Seeing “Man Follows Birds” by Ali Khamraev (15:19): MP3

• Complete Reading (19:53): MP3

PoemTalk #81, Discussing Fanny Howe's “The Descent” and "The Source," feat. Laynie Browne, Rae Armantrout, and Kerry Sherin Wright on October 2, 2014

For complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, April 3, 2010

1. Introduction (2:26): MP3
2. The Descent (2:25): MP3
3. Come and See (4:24): MP3
4. Gulls (2:26): MP3
5. On the Ground (3:36): MP3
6. Agoniya (12:20): MP3

• Complete reading (27:38): MP3

"The Descent" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 81.

from Radio Poetique's Poetic Brooklyn, March 10, 2007

The Lyrics (17:14): MP3

Tis of Thee

Music by Miles Anderson

Directed by Nya Patarinos

1. Tis of Thee, Part 1 (7:28): MP3
2. Tis of Thee, Part 2 (15:10): MP3
3. Tis of Thee, Part 3 (4:40): MP3
4. Tis of Thee, Part 4 (13:04): MP3
5. Tis of Thee, Part 5 (9:24): MP3
6. Tis of Thee, Part 6 (8:37): MP3

Musicians:

• 5-string electric violin: Erica Sharp
• Trombone and electronics: Miles Anderson

Performers:

• X, an African-American Man: Paul Miles
• Y, a European-American woman: Stephanie French
• Z, their grown son: Andre Canty

Originally produced as a CD inserted in Fanny Howe's Tis of Thee from Atelos Press, 2003; A Project of Hip's Road

• Editors: Lyn Hejinian & Travis Ortiz
• Additional Production: Travis Ortiz

From Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics Presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003

1. Friday, October 17th reading:
2. Far and Near (0:49): MP3
3. 2002 (2:31): MP3

• Complete reading (3:21): MP3


• Saturday, October 18th reading: (2:38): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, February 1, 2003

1. Introduction (1:06): MP3
2. "I once knew a man who was a poem..." (8:32): MP3
3. The Mountain (0:36): MP3
4. Walker (3:52): MP3
5. One Night in Balthazar (1:28): MP3
6. Medjugorje (4:52): MP3

• Complete Reading (21:49): MP3

Wednesday Series: Fanny Howe, Kimberly Lyons, St. Mark's Church, NY, October 10, 2001

Library of Congress recording (1:00:32): link

Reading with Norman Fischer at the Kelly Writers House, March 23, 2000

1. Start (0:32): MP3
2. Basic Science (0:59): MP3
3. Finish (0:41): MP3
4. Forged (7:25): MP3
5. Let it Snow (0:15): MP3
6. The Children Turned (0:25): MP3
7. Never (0:15): MP3
8. Untitled (0:25): MP3
9. Orthodoxy (0:27): MP3
10. The Source (0:28): MP3

"The Source" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 81.

Reading for the Belladonna* Series, NYC, October 6, 2000

1. Rachel Levitsky's introduction (03:29): MP3
2. Indivisible (04:27): MP3
3. Angria (01:18): MP3
4. Targeted (00:19): MP3
5. The Children Turned (00:33): MP3
6. "My own knee" (00:20): MP3
7. A Lovely Future (00:31): MP3
8. Annunciation (00:19): MP3
9. 28 Anvils (00:26): MP3
10. Ink (00:15): MP3
11. Let It Snow (00:16): MP3
12. Winter Distances (00:19): MP3
13. Again (00:28): MP3
14. Never (00:22): MP3
15. Once (00:25): MP3
16. The Source (00:31): MP3
17. The Splinter (recording cuts off) (07:22): MP3

• Complete reading (30:46): MP3

"The Source" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 81.

Wednesday Series: Fanny Howe and Laynie Browne, St. Mark’s Church, NY, March 25, 1998

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

1. Side A (48:22): link
2. Side B (47:07): link

Reading at Wednesdays @ 4 Plus, University at Buffalo, February 22, 1995

1. Introduction (2:57): MP3
2. O'Clock (16:04): MP3

Complete Reading (20:15): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, October 1991

Complete Reading (25:06): MP3
Howe reads "Last Love", a prose piece set in Dublin.

• Part One (47:14): MP3
• Part Two (13:14): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz

• Episode #5: Doubt, November 3, 2003, (27:56): MP3
• Episode #40: The Contemporary Logos (58:50): MP3
  1. Introduction (0:59): MP3
  2. How motherhood informs writing (3:16): MP3
  3. Commenting on selected passages from “Fairies” (1:56): MP3
  4. Commenting on “Bewilderment” (1:43): MP3
  5. Payer, meditation, and conversation in The Wedding Dress (2:17): MP3
  6. Discussing essay “White Lines” (3:52): MP3
  7. Reading excerpt from “White Lines” (4:09): MP3
  8. Listening as dimension of writing (1:05): MP3
  9. Howe’s view of gnostic perspective (3:07): MP3
  10. Discussing Samuel Beckett’s theology (2:47): MP3
  11. Perspective of women as mothers and authors (1:11): MP3
  12. Current work (1:28): MP3
  
  
• Episode #258: "Come and See," October 25, 2012, (31:23): MP3

Fanny Howe on PennSound Daily

• April 16, 2009: "PennSound Congratulates Pegasus Award Winners Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko"

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