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Myung Mi Kim

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Appearing on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein and Penn students, March 15, 2007

Program One: Reading

  1. From Under Flag (7:14): MP3
  2. From The Bounty (4:52): MP3
  3. From Dura (2:41): MP3
  4. From Commons (4:19): MP3
  5. River Antes (5:27): MP3

Complete program (26:14): MP3

Program Two: Conversation

Complete conversation (56:22): MP3

Transcript of conversation at Jacket2.

Student participants: Pauline Baniqued, Damien Bright, Julie Charbonnier, Heather Gorn, Johnathan Liebembuk, Nicholas Mayer, Adam Tabor, and Sarah Yeung.

Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1 (Clocktower Radio). © 2007 Myung Mi Kim and Charles Bernstein

PoemTalk Podcast #167, Discussing Myung Mi Kim's "And Sing We" from Under Flag, feat. erica kaufman, Jen Jack Gieseking, and Jonathan Dick

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

Belladonna* Reading Series, December 4, 2017: And/With Litmus Series at the Abrons Arts Center, New York

Complete reading (25:01): MP3

Segue Series reading at the Zinc Bar, New York, February 20, 2016

  1. Introduction by Sophie Seita (2:17): MP3
  2. The Oceans Held Up a Snarling Dog (1:31): MP3
  3. Definitions (6:30): MP3
  4. Excerpts from her upcoming book, Civil Bound (11:49): MP3
    1. Excerpt 1 (1:28): MP3
    2. Excerpt 2 (1:10): MP3
    3. Excerpt 3 (4:20): MP3
    4. Excerpt 4 (4:32): MP3

Complete reading (22:51): MP3

EPC@20 Celebration, September 12, 2014

Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, NYC, October 6, 2012

  1. Introduction (3:38): MP3
  2. "Main trough..." (0:14): MP3
  3. "Wicked..." (0:29): MP3
  4. "Bent..." (0:11): MP3
  5. "Spar..." (0:30): MP3
  6. Talking about her book "Penury" (1:37): MP3
  7. "As by one's ear..." (2:00): MP3
  8. "Sleep..." (1:25): MP3
  9. "Cherry..." (1:33): MP3
  10. Talking about broken sentences (2:09): MP3
  11. "Autophony" (2:30): MP3
  12. From "Civil Bound" (0:44): MP3
  13. "Leaning rustle..." (1:58): MP3
  14. Warbler (0:07): MP3
  15. "Charmed gunpowder, iron maverick..." (0:47): MP3
  16. "Corruption balked..." (0:35): MP3
  17. "it is conceded..." (0:19): MP3
  18. "Beasts" (0:26): MP3
  19. "Torsos circled red..." (0:46): MP3
  20. "Volubly" (1:06): MP3
  21. "Speech minus sound" (0:14): MP3
  22. "The idea of forgetting..." (0:39): MP3
  23. "Persons to appear" (0:08): MP3
  24. "Great Lake stations" (0:50): MP3
  25. "To whom I am returned..." (0:43): MP3

Complete recording (28:54): MP3

Reading for the MFA Reading Series, Boise State University, Boise, September 28, 2012

  1. Introduction (2:30): MP3
  2. "The oceans held up a snarling dog" and prefatory comments (2:08): MP3
  3. from Cosmography (6:22): MP3
  4. from Pollen Fossil Memory (5:16): MP3
  5. from Lamenta (8:31): MP3
  6. from Works (6:20): MP3
  7. from Penury (10:45): MP3
  • Complete reading (41:51): MP3

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

Complete reading (2:53): MP3

Reading as part of the Whenever We Feel Like It series, Kelly Writers House, March 1 2010

  • Introduction by Michelle Taransky (4:02): MP3
  • Complete reading (49:11): MP3

Reading at The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ, November 21, 2009 - on POG Sound

Photograph © Barbara Henning

Complete reading (21:57): MP3

On Cross Cultural Poetics #180, hosted by Leonard Schwartz, December 22, 2008

Program section with Myung Mi Kim (27:08): MP3

Complete program (56:28): MP3

From Wave Books' PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008

  • From Dura (2:38): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, March 14, 2007

  1. Introduction by Josephine Park (2:37): MP3
  2. From Commons (13:48): MP3
  3. From Penury (19:22): MP3
  4. Conversation Following the Reading (30:04): MP3

Complete recording (1:06:27): MP3

Reading from Under Flag, recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, March 7, 2007

  1. These Fishing (2:21): MP3
  2. Comments 1 (2:55): MP3
  3. Demarcation (2:10): MP3
  4. Comments 2 (1:08): MP3
  5. And Sing We (2:54): MP3, PDF of text
  6. Food, Shelter, Clothing (3:44): MP3
  7. Comments 3 (3:01): MP3

Segue Series Reading New York, January 27, 2007

At the Bowery Poetry Club (34:48): MP3

  1. Introduction (4:35): MP3
  2. "Every hook..." (0:42): MP3
  3. Kim talks about how she will structure the reading (1:41): MP3
  4. "Mother confused with earth" (0:36): MP3
  5. "In measure" (0:26): MP3
  6. "Want and oneness" ((0:18): MP3
  7. "Rinsing clear" (0:20): MP3
  8. Excerpt from "DURA" (3:30): MP3
  9. Talking about how she performs her poetry differently for each reading (0:58): MP3
  10. "A small wait..." (2:25): MP3
  11. "Why are so many buildings necessary..." (0:37): MP3
  12. "Helicopters hover" (0:56): MP3
  13. "Severed it..." (0:44): MP3
  14. "The rest buried him..." (0:26): MP3
  15. "My strength" (0:57): MP3
  16. Talking about the theme of displacement in her poetry (1:17): MP3
  17. Poems from "Penury" (10:33): MP3

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Myung & the heaviness of the snow, December 12, 2006

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Myung Mi Kim
The great snowstorn of 2006 had done serious damage to Buffalo. Myung moved to the city about a year before I moved to Penn. So our plan to work together got scuttled.
(mp4, 39 seconds, 6.3 mb)

Reading as part of the Belladonna* Series, NYC, March 14, 2006

  • Introduction (2:59): MP3
  • Complete reading (32:19): MP3
  1. Excerpt from Dura (1:04): MP3
  2. Kim discusses Penury (1:57): MP3
  3. Penury, part 1 (5:48): MP3
  4. Penury, part 2 (7:11): MP3

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, October 1, 2002

Complete Reading (26:06): MP3
  1. Introduction (4:20): MP3
  2. Thirty and five books (4:33): MP3
  3. Kim discusses "Lamenta" (2:36): MP3
  4. Lamenta (2:30): MP3
  5. Work (11:50): MP3

At the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 5, 2000

Discussion of Procedure (1:07:12): MP3

Reading at the University at Buffalo, November 14, 1998

  1. Introduction by Susan Howe (3:55): MP3
  2. Introductory remarks and discussion of Dura (4:24): MP3
    3. From Dura:
  3. Cosmography (6:26): MP3
  4. Thirty and Five Books (19:15): MP3
  5. Discussion of Commons (3:41): MP3
    6. From Commons:
  6. Exordium (5:22): MP3
  7. 229 (1:14): MP3
  8. 312 (0:40): MP3
  9. 315 (0:37): MP3
  10. 317 (0:23): MP3
  11. 322 (0:19): MP3
  12. 312 (0:40): MP3
  13. 328 (0:41): MP3
  14. 401 (0:30): MP3
  15. 404 (0:23): MP3
  16. Recitative (Viselius, 1543) (0:59): MP3
  17. 405 (0:33): MP3
  18. 410 (0:14): MP3
  19. 412 (0:18): MP3
  20. 415 (0:31): MP3
  21. Recitative (da Vinci, The Notebooks) (0:24): MP3
  22. 423 (1:12): MP3
  23. 424 (0:20): MP3
  24. 426 (0:19): MP3
  25. Recitative (August 6, 1945) (0:31): MP3
  26. 508 (1:18): MP3

Wednesday Series: Kim Lyons and Myung Mi Kim, St. Mark’s Church, NY, March 11, 1998

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

  1. Side A (55:22): link
  2. Side B (55:26): link

Reading at San Francisco State University, 1996

  1. Introduction (2:11): MP3
  2. 1443 (5:08): MP3
  3. Excerpt from "DURA" (2:54): MP3
  4. Thirty and five books (5:22): MP3
  5. Excerpts from "Metonic Cycles" (9:56): MP3

Complete reading (26:31): MP3, RealAudio

Reading at the New Coast Festival, Buffalo, April 3, 1993

Complete reading (19:28): MP3

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