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John Matthias

Reading at the Poem Present Reading and Lecture Series, University of Chicago, April 27, 2011

with Joyelle McSweeney

Ballet Mécanique: A Spread-Spectrum Ecstasy

Performing "Automystifstical Plaice" (Working Progress, 2002), Notre Dame University, September 8, 2010




Film and Antheil realization by Paul D. Lehrman, for G. Schirmer, Inc.

  • John Matthias, Text
  • Joyelle McSweeney, Stephen Fredman, John Matthias, Voices
  • Chris Jara, Image and Sound

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Reading at the London Centre, University of Notre Dame, June 21, 2010

  1. Introduction by Greg Kucich (5:05): MP3

    2. from Trigons (Shearsman, 2010)

  2. Introduction to Coda (3:07): MP3
  3. Coda (1:51) MP3

    4. from An Unofficial Roy Fisher, Peter Robinson, ed. (Shearsman, 2010)

  4. Introduction to Longs and Shorts (2:32): MP3
  5. Longs and Shorts (2:41): MP3

    6. from Kedging (Salt, 2007)

  6. Hoosier Horologe (3:27): MP3

    7. from Five American Poets, Michael Schmidt, ed. (Carcanet, 2010)

  7. Post-Anecdotal (2:36): MP3
  8. After Years Away (5:47): MP3
  9. Everything To Be Endured (4:02): MP3
  10. A Note on Samuel Barber's Adagio (1:32): MP3

    11. from Trigons

  11. Introduction to Midi (3:56): MP3
  12. Midi (3:12): MP3
  13. Sonnet: Author Note, Revised (2:29): MP3
  14. Sonnet: Trigon Note, Revised (4:22): MP3
  15. Sonnet: Send (2:17): MP3
  16. Sonnet: Delete (1:07): MP3

    17. from Kedging

  17. Introduction to Kedging: MP3
  18. from Kedging in Kedging in Time, pertaining to texts and titles (1:49): MP3
  19. from Kedging in Kedging in Time, pertaining to final narrative passage (4:30): MP3
  20. from Kedging in Time (7:08): MP3
Complete recording (1:05:53): MP3

Reading at the Lunch Poems Series, University of California, Berkeley, October 4, 2007



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