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PoemTalk #5, discussing Berrigan's "3 Pages"

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PoemTalk #25, discussing Alice Notley's "I The People"

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PoemTalk #85, Discussing James Schuyler's “February,” feat. Bernadette Mayer, Julia Bloch, and erica kaufman

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PoemTalk #94, discussing CAConrad's (Soma)tic poetry

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PoemTalk Episode #100, Discussing Significant PoemTalk Episodes

Full Episode (1:30:18): PoemTalk 100: Celebration and Retrospective

Featuring Herman Beavers, Maria Damon, William J. Harris, erica kaufman, Tracie Morris, Steve McLaughlin, Charles Bernstein.

PoemTalk #103, discussing Simone White's Poem "Of Being Dispersed"

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PoemTalk #186, Discussing Tine Darragh's "Wire Boxes," feat. Joan Retallack, and Simone White

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American Launch for Ariel Resnikoff's Unnatural Bird Migrator with erica kaufman and Tyrone Williams, December 20, 2020

Reading in the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House, November 5, 2018

  1. Bad Habit (for CAConrad) (6:53): MP3
  2. Instant Classic on Contingence (1:54): MP3
  3. Post Classic, an invocation (1:32): MP3
  4. Post Classic (0:39): MP3
  5. Post Classic (3:55): MP3
  6. Post Classic (5:51): MP3
  7. Post Classic (1:36): MP3

Complete Recording (22:25): MP3

28th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival, September 8th, 2018

erica kaufman (09:04): MP3

Reading at Oh! Sandy: A Remembrance, Industry City, Brooklyn, New York, November 10, 2013, hosted by Phong Bui

Complete reading (3:35): MP3

Segue Series reading at the Zinc Bar, January 5, 2013

  1. Introduction (3:58): MP3
  2. For Peter Elbow (1:23): MP3
  3. From "Instant Classic" (5:11): MP3
  4. Instant Classic Thinker (4:12): MP3
  5. Instant Classic on Contingence (1:51): MP3
  6. Encountering Uber Pooch (with Tina Darragh) (8:22): MP3

Complete recording (25:13): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading, Town Hall Downstairs, Seattle, January 7, 2012

Complete reading (2:51): MP3

Reading from "Instant Classic" at the Least Weasel chapbook series launch, June 25, 2011

Complete Recording (9:08): MP3

Poetry in 1960 - A Symposium at The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, December 6, 2010

(with Al Filreis, Danny Snelson, Bob Perelman, Mel Nichols, Ron Silliman, Judith Goldman, Chris Funkhouser, Kristen Gallagher, Michael S. Hennessey, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Charles Bernstein)

on The Location of Things by Barbara Guest (6:17): MP3
Complete program (2:20:13): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, May 9 2009

  1. Introduction (2:45): MP3
  2. From "Censory Impulse" (3:04): MP3
  3. From "Turn to Odor For Incarnation" (4:28): MP3
  4. From "Take All This Belie" (6:18): MP3
  5. From "Instant Classic" (14:13): MP3
Complete Reading (30:35): MP3

Frost Valley Poetry Retreat, June 24, 2008

Sponsored by the Kelly Writers House

  1. Central (0:43) MP3
  2. Facially Speaking (1:21) MP3
  3. Grammatology (1:06) MP3
  4. Launderama (0:50) MP3
  5. Middle (0:38) MP3
  6. Inner (0:41) MP3
  7. Outer (0:36) MP3
  8. To Tell You (1:07) MP3
  9. Censory Impulse, selections (11:25) MP3
  10. Situation Haptics (3:33) MP3
  11. To The Zoo (1:22) MP3

Emergency Reading Series at the Kelly Writers House, November 15, 2007

  1. Introduction (2:28): MP3
  2. Manipulations for a somatic collaboration with CA Conrad (3:44): MP3
  3. Architect Tonic Improvisation (0:41): MP3
  4. 4.8 and selections from part 4 of Censory Impulse (4:54): MP3
  5. Selections from part 6 of Censory Impulse (5:35): MP3
Complete reading (17:28) MP3

Reading at Queering Language Launch Reading at Robin's Bookstore, Philadelphia March 24, 2007

From "Censory Impulse" (3:25): MP3

Barbara Guest Praise Day Tribute at The Bowery Poetry Club, October 21, 2006

(with Lytle Shaw, Lewis Warsh, Marcella Durand, Charles Bernstein, Africa Wayne and Charles North; hosted by Kristin Prevallet)

  1. Introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:45): MP3
  2. from Seeking Air (4:35): MP3
  3. on Barbara Guest's work (0:51): MP3
  4. from The Confetti Trees (1:27): MP3

Complete reading by erica kaufman (7:42): MP3

Complete program (1:18:40): MP3

Reading for the Belladonna* Reading Series, NYC, January 11, 2004

complete reading (13:14): MP3

Also on PennSound:

Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club; May 12, 2007: Language Poetry and the Body, featuring Maria Damon, Steve Benson, Leslie Scalapino, Bruce Andrews, moderated by erica kaufman & Trace Peterson (1:20) MP3

Charles Bernstein, Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club; December 20, 2004, Introduction by erica kaufman (41:51) MP3, Text of introduction

Barbara Guest Praise Day - Tribute at the Bowery Poetry Club; October 21, 2006 (1:18:40) MP3

Conversation with Reb Livingston (15:12) MP3

Kari Edwards Memorial Reading, Zinc Bar, New York City; June 24, 2007 (6:47) MP3

PoemTalk #5, Ted Berrigan's "3 Pages", with Randall Couch and Linh Dinh

Reading from the MiPO reading series at Stain Bar, New York City; July 29, 2006 MP3

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