Robert Kelly

Reading for Lunar Chandelier Press Salon, November 21, 2021

Introduction by Kimberly Lyons

Reading at Bard Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, November 21, 2019

Recorded by Joel Clark with thanks to Charlotte Mandell

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

Complete recording (13:53): MP3

Reading for "Brian Wood: Paintings" with Charles Stein at Cross Contemporary Art in Saugerties, NY, September 17th, 2017

Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, December 16, 2013

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, February 25, 2006

1. Introduction (3:30): MP3
2. Writing: For Moses Was a Stamerer (3:59): MP3
3. From Shame (11:56): MP3
4. Paul Celan Translations (3:59): MP3
5. Falling Flowers (2:53): MP3
6. Dream (1:16): MP3
7. Measure (2:23): MP3

Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics, Hosted by Leonard Schwartz

Appearing on Radio Poetique's Poetic Brooklyn, November 2004

1. Keynote Reading CCCP (25:54): MP3
2. Statement to CCCP; Experience (3:29): MP3
3. The Secret Orator (2:16): MP3
4. Meditation on the Pope (1:54): MP3
5. Identity; Theology of Mind (2:21): MP3
6. Walking to Auschwitz (6:47): MP3
7. Sermo (2:16): MP3
8. My Hair (3:12): MP3

A Day of Poetry: To Celebrate Robert Kelly's 40 Years at Bard College, performed at Olin Hall, Bard College, New York, November 10, 2001

Part 1a:

Part 1b:

Part 2a:

Part 2b & 3a:

Reading at the Writers Institute, Albany, March 29, 1996, recorded by Chris Funkhouser

Recording provided courtesy of David Levi Strauss.

1. Introduction (1:36): MP3
2. The Dismantle (2:25): MP3
3. Portrait of a Man Alone (2:02): MP3
4. Virgil (1:05): MP3
5. The Death of Lenny Bruce (2:09): MP3
6. A Book of Solutions(2:32): MP3
7. The Shield of Achilles (3:28): MP3
8. Every Poem is a Mirror (1:24): MP3
9. Meaning (2:54): MP3
10. Phone Call From Tennessee (2:28): MP3
11. Untitled (5:30): MP3
12. Elegy for Robert Greene(2:12): MP3
13. Variations (3:27): MP3
14. Wose (2:43): MP3
15. Whose Nature is Like Mine (3:51): MP3
16. Beheading (0:59): MP3
17. Charis (8:49): MP3
18. The Arches (2:44): MP3
19. Morning Anthem (2:26): MP3
20. Experiment with Folktales and Narration (10:01): MP3
21. Yom the Greedy (3:51): MP3
22. Testing By Chickens (4:19): MP3
23. Finding Buried Treasure (2:19): MP3
24. How to Pay Debts (1:58): MP3
25. A Fire Sermon (4:12): MP3

Reading Masada & from the Persephone Series, Bard College, October 26, 1976

Recording (14:08): MP3

Recordings courtesy of Paul Buck.

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