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PoemTalk #91, Discussing Gil Ott's "The Forgotten," feat. Jenn McCreary, Frank Sherlock, and Pattie McCarthy

For complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2.

PoemTalk #90, Discussing Gertrude Stein's "How She Bowed to Her Brother," feat. Maxe Crandall, Julia Bloch, and Sarah Dowling

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

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Reading in the Wexler Studio, Kelly Writers House, September 30, 2021

  1. "Tastes like something on fire..." (0:40): MP3
  2. "Subpuncted crow holed..." (0:41): MP3
  3. "Do you know what you're doing..." (0:46): MP3
  4. "Meet me in the park..." (0:43): MP3
  5. "The good wife will call you back..." (0:37): MP3
  6. "This is labor too..." (0:41): MP3
  7. "What's this domestic thing..." (0:34): MP3
  8. "This year aged me 20..." (0:37): MP3
  9. "Mercy a midden or a crown..." (0:38): MP3
  10. "Mercy only good wives from the other side..." (0:41): MP3
  11. "Mercy you have to relearn hunger..." (0:46): MP3
  12. "Mercy no one wants to just dissapear..." (0:44): MP3
  13. "Mercy enters the story like a wolf..." (0:38): MP3
  14. "Mercy said that she told her..." (0:42): MP3
  15. "Mercy learn in a permanent lockdown..." (0:37): MP3
  16. "Mercy we midden we accumulate we relearn..." (0:36): MP3
  17. "Mercy you're a metaphor for everything..." (0:41): MP3
  18. "Mercy mercy mercy worry some sport..." (0:49): MP3
  19. "Mercy here's a list of things I can fix..." (0:42): MP3
  20. "Mercy mary is arrested..." (1:16): MP3
  21. "Mercy I smell like a wet iron rail tastes..." (0:49): MP3
  22. "Mercy upon second examination..." (0:50): MP3
  23. "Mercy upon her oath did own this here..." (0:49): MP3
  24. "Mercy leaves no architecture..." (0:43): MP3
  25. "Mercy versus mercy versus..." (1:17): MP3
  26. "Mercy of the many who gave evidence..." (0:49): MP3
  27. "A cure for mercy a case history..."(0:42): MP3
  28. "Oh cotton thou pluckest me out..." (0:43): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading, Philadelphia, January 6, 2017

Complete reading (3:12): MP3

On Cid Corman: A Celebratory Reading, Kelly Writers House, September 16, 2014

Pattie McCarthy on Cid Corman (5:17): MP3

Reading with Jena Osman as part of the Whenever We Feel Like It series, Kelly Writers House, January 23, 2013


Reading as part of A Celebration of the Poetry and Criticism of Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, October 21, 2011

  • Complete reading (3:51): MP3

Chapter & Verse Series Reading at the Chapterhouse Cafe, PHL, with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, January 30, 2010.

  • Complete recording (20:56): MP3

Reading as part of the MLA Off-site Reading, the Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009

  • Complete reading (2:23): MP3

Reading at "William Carlos Williams and the Women" at the Kelly Writers House, November 11, 2008

With Sarah Dowling, Jena Osman and Michelle Taransky

Reading as part of the MLA Off-site Reading, Philadelphia, December 29, 2004

  • Part one (1:01:09): MP3
  • Part two (1:01:42): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, April 17, 2004

  • Complete reading (25:07): MP3
  1. Introduction (3:06): MP3
  2. alibi [that is: elsewhere] (11:29): MP3
  3. Wonder: a velocity of signs (10:29): MP3

The Philly Sound: New Poetry Weekend, KWH, August 9, 2003

  • Complete reading (6:56): MP3

Reading for the Segue Series at Double Happiness, New York, April 1, 2000

  1. Introduction (1:40): MP3
  2. Sext (2:21): MP3
  3. None (1:54): MP3
  4. Vespers (2:04): MP3
  5. Compline (2:04): MP3
  6. Hours for Parish Use (6:22): MP3
  • Complete recording (16:24): MP3

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