Pierre Joris

Close Listening: Readings and Conversations at WPS1, Clocktower Studio, New York, June 21, 2005

• Pierre Joris, in conversation with Charles Bernstein (29:21): MP3
• Entire WPSI Reading (28:13): MP3

1. Returning to These States after a 6 Months Absence (unpublished) (0:22): MP3
2. This Afternoon Dante (from Permanent Diaspora, duration press, 2003) (0:45): MP3
3. The Word, The Mâwqif (from Permanent Diaspora) (1:50): MP3
4. A Calm Vademecum Dose (from Permanent Diaspora) (2:56): MP3
5. Nimrod in Hell (from Permanent Diaspora) (7:27): MP3
6. Reading/Writing #18 (from Permanent Diaspora) (3:31): MP3
7. The Rothenberg Variations on Close Listening (1, 2, 3, 11, 13, 15) (Wild Honey Press, 2004) (3:34): MP3
8. The Tang Extending from the Blade (3 sections) (3:40): MP3
(From Masthead Magazine #9)
9. The Rheumy Eye of Night (unpublished) (1:10): MP3
10. Lines Written From Returning to These Shores After a Long Absense (1:39): MP3
    (read at the 2007 MLA Off-site Reading)

Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1
WPS1 Studio Engineer: Darrell McNeill

© 2005 Pierre Joris and Charles Bernstein

PoemTalk #107, Discussing Paul Celan's "Corona", feat. Pierre Joris, Anna Strong, and Ariel Resnikoff on December 1, 2016

For Complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2

PoemTalk #76, discussing Anne Waldman's "To The Censorious Ones"("Open Address to Senator Jesse Helms") December 3, 2013

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PoemTalk #46, discussing Jackson Mac Low's "Words nd Ends from Ez," October 13, 2011

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PennSound #36: Pierre Joris on Paul Celan's Shoah

Complete recording (21:58): MP3

Reading July 14, 2023 at Bookmark Shop, Brooklyn

Worldwide reading in support of Salman Rushdie, September 28, 2022

Media.SAS mirror URL: MP4

• Charles Bernstein reads from The Satanic Verses (7:57): MP3
• Pierre Joris reads from The Satanic Verses (14:21): MP3

Performed Poetics at Kings College London, March 12–13, 2022

• A video with Nicole Peyrafitte

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Double Change reading, Paris, Atelier Michael Woolworth, June 25,, 2019, tr. Habib Tengour

Complete Recording (21:31) MP3


Memorial reading for Gerrit Lansing, Kingston, NY, October 20, 2018

Introduction (2:00): MP3

Reading (7:09): MP3

Trialogues with Nicole Peyrafitte and Michael Bisio, Kingston, NY, January 20, 2018

Complete Reading (30:47): MP3

Reading at the 27th Subterranean Poetry Festival, September 10th, 2017, Rosendale, NY

Full Reading (13:59): MP3

Poetry Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, NY, March 22, 2017

Full Reading (35:42): MP3

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MLA Offsite Reading, Philadelphia, January 6, 2017

Complete reading (5:09): MP3

Reading with Nicole Peyrafitte, Writers Without Borders, September 8, 2016

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Complete Recording (1:25:10): MP3

Pierre Joris reading Celan and in conversation with Paul Auster, New York University, Dec. 1, 2014

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The Holocaust Experience in the Poetry of Paul Celan, Kelly Writers House, December 3, 2013

A conversation with Pierre Joris, moderated by Al Filreis

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Complete Audio (1:12:28): MP3



Reading for the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Art Foundation, New York:Chelsea, April 8, 2013

with Jerome Rothenberg

• Complete reading (27:30): MP3





Video c. 2013: Joris & Charles Bernstein read extracts from Paul Celan's Radio Play

on Osip Mandelstam (tr. by Pierre Joris, in The Meridian). Videographer/Editor/Producer: Nicole Peyrafitte: MP4




Reading from "Meditations on Mansur al-Hallaj," Filmed & Edited by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, 2012

With Paul Celan into the 21st Century, Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard, November 15, 2011

Speaking at the Kenneth Irby Colloquium, Lawrence, Kansas, November 3, 2011

Complete Talk (32:39): MP3

Recordings courtesy of Benjamin D. Cartwright

Reading for the Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, April 30, 2011

Complete Reading (29:59): MP3

Pierre Joris reading for the launch of Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader at Bowery Poetry Club, September 19, 2009

Complete Reading (8:32): MP3

Reading from Poems for the Millenium III, Bowery Poetry Club, NY, March 28, 2009

• Complete reading (13:22): MP3

A 40th Anniversary Celebration of Technicians of the Sacred, at the Bowery Poetry Club, September 14, 2008

Reading for POG Sound: Reading at The Drawing Studio, Tuscon, AZ, February 2, 2008

Complete Reading (37:13): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, December 28, 2007

Complete reading (1:39): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, June 13, 2007

Film available from Double Change archives.

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Pierre Joris, October 22, 2006

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Pierre and I met for lunch at Franklin Street Cafe, where he told me about his new anthology project, which will be part of the Poems for the Millenium series.
(mp4, 38 sec., 6.2 mb)




Further Notes of Nomad Poetics, read at the Kelly Writers House, February 18, 2006

Entire Program (1:07:09): MP3

Untitled, 2001

Pierre Joris coediting Poems for the Millenium, visit link for more information

Reading with Nicole Peyrafitte for the Segue Series at Double Happiness, May 6, 2000

• Complete recording (40:43): MP3

1 With Pierre's Words, performed at the Yulman Theatre, Union College, New York, May 3, 1997




Reading at Wednesdays @ 4-Plus,SUNY-Buffalo, September 25, 1996

Incomplete reading (cuts out in the middle) (46:51): MP3

Frozen Shadows, performed at the Yulman Theatre, Union College, New York, January 20, 1996




Reading at UC San Diego, November 29, 1989

Recorded on audiocassette. Featured in the Joris and Peyrafitte tape collection.

Complete recording (52:10): MP3

Temple Reading, March 3, 1988

Recorded on audiocassette. Featured in the Joris and Peyrafitte tape collection.

• Complete recording (47:54): MP3

~10 minute introductory reading by unknown person called "Jennifer"

Reading at Foster Clough, Hebden Bridge (UK), July 23, 1978

• Complete recording (40:43): MP3

Recording courtesy of Paul Buck

Reading at Foster Clough, Hebden Bridge (UK), August 3, 1977

• Complete recording (45:48): MP3

Recording courtesy of Paul Buck

Reading at Dr. Generosity's, April 1974

Recorded on audiocassette. Featured in the Joris and Peyrafitte tape collection.

• Complete recording (34:29): MP3

Reading in French, date and location unknown

Recorded on audiocassette. Featured in the Joris and Peyrafitte tape collection.

• Complete recording (51:34): MP3

On Cross-Cultural Poetics with Leonard Schwartz

• Episode #165: Nomadics (1:05:00): MP3
• Episode #253: Celan/Bronk, 2012
1. Introduction (0:52): MP3
2. on Paul Celan's "Meridian" speech and the difficulty of translating Celan's text (10:26): MP3
3. scholarship, discovery and encounter in Celan's work, and the enlightening experience of translating The Meridian: Final Version-Drafts-Materials (5:49): MP3
4. tremors and hints within the compositional process, transparency in Celan's writing practice, and Celan as an aphoristic writer (4:53): MP3
5. Celan as a concentration camp survivor, his difficult relationship to the German language, and how careful Celan was with what he wrote when receiving the Buchner prize (5:05): MP3
6. Pierre Joris reading new translations of aphorisms by Paul Celan (0:46): MP3
7. the richness of phrases in The Meridian and the daily work of poetry (2:14): MP3


• Episode #259: Fidelio/In Translation, November 1, 2012: (29:13): MP3

Pierre Joris on PennSound Daily

• July 14, 2010: "POG Sound: Nine New Readings Added"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. © 2016 Pierre Joris. Used with permission of Pierre Joris. Distributed by PennSound.