Joanne Kyger

PoemTalk #110, Discussing Philip Whalen's "Life at Bolinas. The Last of California," feat. Stephen Ratcliffe, Joanne Kyger, and Julia Bloch

For complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2.

PoemTalk #79, Discussing Joanne Kyger's "It's Been a Long Time: Notes from the Revolution," feat. Julia Bloch, Stephen Ratcliffe, and Pattie McCarthy on July 18, 2014

For complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2.

PennSound #21, Creeley and Kyger in conversation, 1972

Complete recording (17:54): MP3

Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, May 12, 2015

Hosted by Nadine Maestas. With Jeanne Heuving, Stephen Collis), and George Stanley

1. Introduction (4:50): MP3
2. On San Francisco (9:46): MP3
3. Excerpt from letters (4:56): MP3
4. Reading of Spicer's "Psychoanalysis" (3:06): MP3
5. On identity (0:44) MP3

Complete recording (1:12:11): MP3

Reading with Donald Guravich, Stephen Ratcliffe, and Robert Grenier, Bolinas Library, January 18, 2011

• Complete reading (1:01:20): MP3

Reading with Donald Guravich, Duende Reading Series, Placitas, NM, September 13, 2009

Published in the VOX Audio collection.

1. "How Does one attain that popular narrative tone" (1:18): MP3
2. Lo & Behold, 1980 (1:29): MP3
3. Lo & Behold, 1982 (2:38): MP3
4. Lo & Behold, 1983 (2:24): MP3
5. Lo & Behold, 1984 (0:35): MP3
6. Lo & Behold, 1985, 1986 (2:33): MP3
7. Lo & Behold, 1987 (0:44): MP3
8. Lo & Behold, 1988 (1:09): MP3
9. Lo & Behold, 1989 (1:40): MP3
10. Lo & Behold, 1990 (1:41): MP3
11. Lo & Behold, 1991 (0:40): MP3
12. Lo & Behold, 1992 (4:10): MP3
13. Myoko Dream (0:58): MP3
14. Memories Of The Future (1:10): MP3
15. No Escape (0:28): MP3
16. From a Phil Whalen Dharma Talk (0:53): MP3

Reading for "A Voice Box," SPD Open House, April 12, 2008

• Complete reading (10:30): MP3

Wednesday Night Series: Joanne Kyger, Janine Pommy Vega, St. Mark's Church, NY, April 10, 2002

Library of Congress recording (1:04:18): link

Reading at the Ed Dorn Memorial Tribute, San Francisco, Cloud House Poetry Archives, February 17, 2000

Also readings by Steve Dickison, Gordon Brotherston, Bob Callahan, Tom Clark, Stephen Emerson, Duncan McNaughton, and Tom Raworth

Complete video (1:53:19): MOV

Wednesday Series: Joanne Kyger and Gerrit Lansing, St. Mark’s Church, NY, March 3, 1999

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

1. Side A (48:35): link
2. Side B (48:42): link

Reading by Joanna Kyger and Charles North, St. Mark’s Church, NY, November 29, 1989

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

1. Side A (26:23): link
2. Side B (32:02): link

Appearing on Public Access Poetry, March 28, 1978

1. Introduction (1:37): MP3
2. Lord Ganesha (4:43): MP3
3. Padma Sambhava visits a Dakini (1:14): MP3
4. Place Called Tuesday (2:09): MP3
5. Tuesday, October 28 (0:31): MP3
6. October 28, Take It Easier (0:30): MP3
7. October 29, Wednesday (3:00): MP3
8. October 31 (0:25): MP3
9. November 12 (0:42): MP3
10. Thursday, 13 November (0:26): MP3
11. Monday, November 17 (0:40): MP3
12. Well, rise this time, and leave the body (2:00): MP3
13. My vision is a large golden room (0:19): MP3
14. Back in Time (0:08): MP3
15. Too Much (1:28): MP3
16. Memory Stick (1:14): MP3
17. In the middle of the day, you searched to find it (1:13): MP3
18. How Horrible I Am (0:38): MP3
19. Notes from the Revolution (1:28): MP3
20. News Bulletin from Keith Lampe (0:37): MP3
21. I don't want to repeat the same mistakes over again (0:56): MP3

Complete reading (26:53): MP3

"Notes from the Revolution" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 79.

Complete video (27:50): MOV

Reading from "Visit to Mayaland," The World Record 1969-1980, March 22, 1978

• Complete reading (01:50): MP3

1. October 31 (01:11): MP3
2. Last Night (00:24): MP3
3. My Vision is a Large Golden Room (00:20): MP3
4. Still (01:59): MP3
5. Notes from the Revolution (01:04): MP3
6. Oft have I wondered and climbed (00:17): MP3
7. As usual there are several simultaneous rushes (01:32): MP3
8. Didn't Frank (00:40): MP3
9. On the occasion of smoking our backyard's first female flowers (00:52): MP3
10. Watching second night soup (01:00): MP3
11. I am afraid (00:20): MP3
12. Visit to Maya Land (05:14): MP3
13. Lord Jesus Christ (01:48): MP3
14. Have their spirits commenced to return? (00:32): MP3
15. We look at each other together (00:19): MP3

Complete reading (18:14): MP3

"Notes from the Revolution" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 79.

1. TC and JK reading the play "Tic-Tac-Toe" (05:50): MP3
2. on TC's first books, including Airplanes and Stones (08:39): MP3
3. TC on JK's writing (05:29): MP3
4. on TC's Air, Green, The No Book, Neil Young, SMACK, and John's Heart (07:13): MP3
5. TC and JK performing "SMACK" (23:38): MP3

Discussion with Robert Creeley and Greg Hewlett, June 19, 1972

1. Performing poetry (14:03): MP3
2. The mediums of print and tape (3:38): MP3
3. Space, linearity and puns in poetry (7:32): MP3
4. Gertrude Stein's influence (4:38): MP3
5. Stories (6:16): MP3
6. The format of poetry readings (7:50): MP3
7. Voice (10:48): MP3
8. Bookmaking (3:33): MP3
9. Accessibility (1:48): MP3
10. Listening to recordings of music vs. poetry (2:01): MP3
11. Intention in poetry (7:32): MP3
12. Being attentive to the page and the act of writing (9:04): MP3
13. Keats and neurological change, Olson and stabilized schizophrenia (5:11): MP3

Reading in Bolinas, December 2, 1971

1. Talking by Myself to You (a section of poems) (8:43): MP3
2. Playing on a Saturday Afternoon (0:31): MP3
3. Notes from the Revolution (1:11): MP3
4. Using All My Intelligence and Will (0:41): MP3
5. How Horrible I Am (0:32): MP3
6. April to October '69 to '74 (1:32): MP3
7. May (0:42): MP3
8. Late Spring Earlier than Winter (0:09): MP3
9. News Bulletin from Keith Lampe (0:39):MP3
10. It's Grey Today (2:28): MP3
11. Summer (0:13): MP3
12. Big Whales Rushing up from the Ocean Bottom with Their Families (0:29): MP3
13. A Final Step for Intelligence (1:15): MP3
14. Job (0:09): MP3

• Complete reading (41:37): MP3

"Notes from the Revolution" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 79.

• Complete reading (28:38): MP3

Reading at the University of British Columbia with Brian Fawcett, Stan Perksy, and Colin Stuart, March 11, 1980

• Kyger reading (5:40): MP3

1. Introduction (1:34): MP3
2. The Maze (1:54): MP3
3. from "The Long Poem (4:41): MP3
4. We are in a tighter web than I had imagined (1:27): MP3
5. Pan as the son of Penelope (1:31): MP3
6. A song in the rope taut against the wind (0:49): MP3
7. Waiting again (0:58): MP3
8. It is lonely (0:33): MP3
9. Vision of Heaven & Hell (1:01): MP3
10. Caption for a miniature (0:38): MP3
11. My Sister Evelyne (1:09): MP3
12. Elizabeth (0:16): MP3
13. Tapestry (0:27): MP3
14. The Hunt in the Wood (0:40): MP3
15. The persimmons are falling (1:26): MP3
16. It always begins I can't (0:48): MP3
17. The Odyssey Poems (8:24): MP3
18. She comes up (0:56): MP3
19. The Pigs for Circe in May (3:24): MP3

Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, Date Unknown

• from "Visit to Maryland" (2:20): MP3
• Complete recording (11:42): MP3

Recorded Poems on Harry's House Vol 2 CD

• Night Palace - Joanne Kyger (00:21): MP3
• Slack Key - Joanne Kyger (00:48): MP3

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