Dorothea Lasky

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PoemTalk #209, Sadie Dupuis's “Cry Perfume” ft. Sadie Dupuis, Dorothea Lasky, and Hannah Albertine

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Reading in the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House, December 4, 2024

• from ROME (3:48): MP3
1. Hunters (1:11): MP3
2. Why Poetry Can Be Hard for Some People (1:31): MP3
3. Complainers (0:58): MP3


• from Milk (8:35): MP3
4. Do You Want to Dip the Rat (1:06): MP3
5. Ghost Flight to the Moon (1:34): MP3
6. The Start of the Free and Natural (1:34): MP3
7. The Way We Treat Them (1:46): MP3
8. Me and You (0:57): MP3
9. Twin Peaks (1:28): MP3


• from The Shining (16:05): MP3
10. Self Portrait in the Hotel (2:21): MP3
11. Blue Christmas (0:52): MP3
12. Twins (0:52): MP3
13. Red Rum (1:07): MP3
14. Blue Hallway (2:56): MP3
15. Snow Maze (1:10): MP3
16. A Lovely World (0:56): MP3
17. The Green Maze (1:20): MP3
18. After the Party (1:38): MP3
19. Framed Pictures (1:20): MP3
20. Closing Scene (1:21): MP3


• from Mother, Green Lake, and Roses (15:15): MP3
21. These Lovely Flowers (0:40): MP3
22. The Hunters Enter the Scene (2:16): MP3
23. The Star (0:45): MP3
24. Red Death (1:12): MP3
25. The Golden Hour (2:25): MP3
26. The Endless Garden (0:43): MP3
27. Green Moon (1:04): MP3
28. Love Is Like a Butterfly (1:03): MP3
29. The Wordless Ocean (2:09): MP3
30. Roses (1:06): MP3
31. Mother (1:31): MP3

Complete Recording (43:44): MP3

Reading for Whenever We Feel Like It with Emily Pettit and Meeree Orlandini, November 5, 2019

Reading of Flow Chart, John Ashbery 90th Celebration, 2017

Complete Reading (12:34): MP3

Whenever We Feel Like It, José Pistola's, Philadelphia, January 19, 2013

1. Baby of Air (02:52): MP3
2. Why It Is A Black Life (01:52): MP3
3. The World Doesn't Care (00:50): MP3
4. How I Started Off (01:25): MP3
5. To Be the Thing (03:030: MP3
6. To Dream (01:30): MP3

Complete reading (12:12): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 30, 2010

1. Introduction (03:04): MP3
2. None of it matters (03:10): MP3
3. Outside Chattanooga, TN (01:40): MP3
4. Boobs Are Real (01:02): MP3
5. Even Dirty Birds (02:22): MP3
6. Some People Do It (01:47): MP3
7. Ever Read a Book Called Awe (01:06): MP3
8. The Devil and the Infinite Night (01:52): MP3
9. It's a Lonely World (01:53): MP3
10. The Enemy (03:00): MP3
11. Death and Sylvia Plath (01:38): MP3
12. Why It Is A Black Life (01:52): MP3
13. You Are Beautiful (02:07): MP3

Emergency Series reading at the Kelly Writers House, January 17, 2008

1. Introduction (02:22): MP3
2. Awe: A Dialogue (02:21) : MP3
3. Whatever You Paid For That Sweater, It Was Worth It (01:26) : MP3
4. Poem for My Best Friend (02:12) : MP3
5. The Fire That Burns the Bird (01:26) : MP3
6. Your Heart (00:45) : MP3
7. What is this Journey I am On (00:28) : MP3
8. Boobs are Real (00:58) : MP3
9. I Was Once Very Smart (01:03) : MP3
10. The Clouds in the Morning Sun (01:50) : MP3
11. Tornado (01:36) : MP3
12. Two Assholes (02:19) : MP3
13. I Hate Irony (02:14) : MP3
14. Some People Do It (02:02) : MP3
15. Complete reading (24:03) : MP3
16. in conversation with Matthew Rohrer (23:39) : MP3

Reading on Live at the Writers House, February 26, 2007

1. Introduction (01:17) : MP3
2. On Old Ideas (1:19) : MP3
3. Outside Chattanooga, Tennessee (1:25): MP3
4. Portrait of Me and Vladimir Mayakovsky (1:45) : MP3
5. The Fire That Burns the Bird (1:11) : MP3
6. Memories (1:15) : MP3
7. The Process of Explication (1:21) : MP3
8. The Animal (1:13) : MP3

Also of Interest:

• Dorothea Lasky reads at the launch of Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven, March 28, 2010

Dorothea Lasky on PennSound Daily

• January 30, 2009: "Dorothea Lasky on PennSound"

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