Fred Moten

Reading at The Mackey Sessions, Durham, NC, September 20, 2018

1. Introduction (2:13): MP3
2. come on, get it! - 13 (5:05): MP3
3. come on, get it! - 14 (3:13): MP3
4. come on, get it! - 15 (6:56): MP3
5. come on, get it! - 16 (5:26): MP3
6. come on, get it! - 17 (5:31): MP3
7. Nathaniel Mackey (1:26): MP3

Complete reading (29:56): MP3

Reading at Segue at Zinc Bar, NYC, March 10, 2018

1. come on, get it! - 18 (2:24): MP3
2. come on, get it! - 19 (1:45): MP3
3. come on, get it! - 20 (3:34): MP3
4. come on, get it! - 21 (1:12): MP3
5. come on, get it! - 22 (5:50): MP3
6. come on, get it! - 23 (7:05): MP3

Complete reading (22:39): MP3

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

Complete reading (11:28): MP3

October 9, 2017: Belladonna* Reading with Simone White at Abrons Art Center, New York

curated by Ana Paula and Asiya Wadud, with guest curator Marcella Durand. Introductions by Marcella Durand.

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1. Introduction (3:42): MP3
2. A Turn With John Akomfrah (6:04): MP3
3. Bob Coleman on the Steps of Wheeler (2:12): MP3
4. Untitled (2:40): MP3
5. The General Balm (1:54): MP3
6. Notebook Poems, Part 1 (6:16): MP3
7. Notebook Poems, Part 2 (9:05): MP3
• Complete Reading (33:42) MP3
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• Complete Discussion (31:40) MP3

WHAT I SAY panel on innovative African American Poetry at the American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 27, 2016

Featuring Tyrone Williams, C.S. Giscombe, Fred Moten, giovanni singleton

1. Introduction (3:19): MP3
2. Tyrone Williams reads (15:33): MP3
3. C.S. Giscombe reads (14:16): MP3
4. Fred Moten reads (14:42): MP3
5. giovanni singleton reads (15:11): MP3
6. Post-Reading Q&A (7:12): MP3

Full Panel Discussion (1:10:30): MP3

Fred Moten reading at the American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 27, 2016

1. Introduction (6:02): MP3
2. Opening Remarks (5:47): MP3
3. Hard Enough to Enjoy (6:50): MP3
4. All-School Crit (16:01): MP3
5. A Commonplace Flaw (4:58): MP3

Fred Moten reading on the occasion of being presented with the Stephen Henderson Award by the African American Literature and Culture Society at the American Literature Association in San Francisco, May 27, 2016


Full Reading (45:23): MP3

WHAT I SAY Anthology Reading at AWP, Los Angeles, CA, March 31, 2016

Reading with poets featured in What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America anthology.

1. Introduction (1:41): MP3
2. Dawn Lundy Martin (8:23): MP3
3. Harryette Mullen (2:57): MP3
4. Duriel Harris (6:04): MP3
5. Will Alexander (3:37): MP3
6. C.S. Giscombe (6:38): MP3
7. Harmony Holiday (2:45): MP3
8. Erica Hunt (7:43): MP3
9. Geoffrey Jacques (7:48): MP3
10. Doulas Kearney (5:17): MP3
11. Tracie Morris (11:15): MP3
12. Fred Moten (6:38): MP3
13. Julie Patton (13:49): MP3
14. giovanni singleton (9:21): MP3
15. Ronaldo Wilson (10:07): MP3
Complete reading (1:54:16): MP3

Lute & Drum Reading Series, the Brown Hotel, Louisville, KY, February 27, 2015

• Complete reading (32:07): MP3
1. Introduction (5:04): MP3
2. Nothing even more in another (0:33): MP3
3. AJ, this is for underneath your beautiful proof of concept (1:10): MP3
4. Eve is a texture and Dave is centering (2:52): MP3
5. Mudede waters like Jose Munificent (2:26): MP3
6. The Gramsci Monument (3:55): MP3
7. All topological last friday evening (1:06): MP3
8. All (1:36): MP3
9. All up on that t-shirt (0:34): MP3
10. Dance warm (0:43): MP3
11. I lay with Francis in the margin (1:42): MP3
12. Grad grind, gentles, till the park is gone (1:18): MP3
13. oo (3:15): MP3
14. O2 (1:22): MP3
15. Michael's dog (1:41): MP3
16. That's who (0:42): MP3
17. The derosures of severe (1:49): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, February 23, 2013

• Complete recording (38:03): MP3
1. Introduction (5:52): MP3
2. Fortran (6:40): MP3
3. Eve is a texture Dave is centering (1:13): MP3
4. Hand up to your ear (5:42): MP3
5. For underneath your beautiful proof of concept (1:31): MP3
6. Hard enough to enjoy (5:36): MP3
7. I lay with Francis in the margin (2:46): MP3
8. Test (8:33): MP3

Reading at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, February 24, 2010

special thanks to Ben Cartwright

1. B Jenkins (1:25): MP3
2. Fishbone / Joseph Jarman (0:43): MP3
3. Elvin Jones, Malachi Favors, Steve Lacy (0:36): MP3
4. Alexander Weheliye, lygia clark, ed roberson (0:33): MP3
5. Sherrie Tucker, francis ponge, sun ra (0:31): MP3
6. James Baldwin (1:49): MP3
7. Tony Oxley / frederick douglass (1:29): MP3
8. Aose Munoz (0:55): MP3
9. Ann Evetkovich / kathleen stewart (0:46): MP3
10. Nathaniel Mackey (0:55): MP3
11. Q.B. Bush (1:07): MP3
12. Cove (1:06): MP3
13. Sleater-Kinney (1:27): MP3
14. Eric Dolphy (0:58): MP3
15. General Baker (1:18): MP3
16. Chrisshonnah Grant / Victor Feldman (1:01): MP3
17. Elizabeth Cotton / nahum chandler (7:27): MP3
18. Julian Djibril (0:56): MP3
19. Lorenzo Bird (2:09): MP3
20. Fred Hopkins (1:00): MP3
21. B Jenkins (1:25): MP3

Complete recording (54:35): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, January 16, 2010

1. Introduction (5:07): MP3
2. B jenkins (2:03): MP3
3. Gayl Jones (1:13): MP3
4. Michael Hanchard / Woody Guthrie (1:44): MP3
5. Thelma foote / Lindon Barrett (1:13): MP3
6. Frank Ramsay / Nancy Wilson (0:57): MP3
7. Arthur Jafa and Greg tate (1:37): MP3
8. Piet Mondrian (1:31): MP3
9. Carrie Tirado Bremen (1:33): MP3
10. B Jenkins (1:23): MP3
11. Block chapel (17:06): MP3
Complete Recording (38:00): MP3 (note: recording cuts off prematurely at the end)

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, February 28, 2008

1. Introduction by Tracie Morris and Jessica Lowenthal (8:10): MP3

From B Jenkins


2. Gary Fisher (3:42): MP3
3. Walter Benjamin/Julian Boyd (1:57): MP3
4. William Parker/Fred McDowell (2:21): MP3
5. Almeida Ragland/Cecil Taylor (1:22): MP3
6. Peck Curtis (1:47): MP3
7. John Thompson (1:51): MP3
8. George Gervin/Michael Fried (0:25): MP3
9. Adrian Piper (0:28): MP3
10. Mike Davis and Glynda White (1:29): MP3

From Hughson's Tavern


11. Metoike (4:01): MP3
12. Jazz (as ken burns) (1:56): MP3
13. The Club (0:54): MP3
14. There is Blackness (0:52): MP3
15. Here It Is (2:08): MP3
16. Abduction Song (0:45): MP3
17. Look at the Death of All These White People in Baltimore County (1:26): MP3
18. Fugitivity is imminent to the thing but is manifest transversely (2:18): MP3
19. The Various Project (1:02): MP3
20. The Salve Trade (4:12): MP3
21. Code and Tone (1:39): MP3

From I ran from it and was still in it.


22. "I come from around..." (1:56): MP3
23. "I pray to the elegant string..." (0:46): MP3
24. "I burn communities..." (0:48): MP3
25. "I want to work each other remotely..." (0:41): MP3
26. "I wish for other singing..." (0:48): MP3
27. "I saw tschibumba blue all blue..." (0:44): MP3
28. "I need to get closer to Jesus..." (0:45): MP3
29. "I thought about you as the new science..." (0:42): MP3
30. "I got something that makes me want to shout..." (0:46): MP3
31. "I carry the particles from market to market..." (0:47): MP3
32. "I like to enjoy myself..." (0:55): MP3
33. "I am foment..." (0:49): MP3
34. Q & A (16:01): MP3

Complete Recording (1:12:46): MP3

Black Kant (Pronounced Chant): a Theorizing Lecture at the Kelly Writers House, February 27, 2007

"Black Kant (Pronounced Chant)" concerns itself with the relationship in Kant's late philosophy between race and the imagination. The paper attempts to mobilize the poetry of Norman H. Pritchard as a theoretical lens and amplifier through which to see and hear Kant more imaginatively, which is to say accurately. The paper is predicated on the notion that attention to the nexus of race and imagination opens up a particular way of understanding blackness as political and aesthetic fugitivity and on the hope that such an understanding might offer a corrective to tendencies to pathologize blacks and blackness.

• Complete Recording (1:13:28): MP3
1. Introduction (1:44): MP3
2. Opening remarks (1:44): MP3
3. Kant's deployment of race as constitutive of the teleological principle (5:44): MP3
4. The aesthetic experience of blackness in relation to a natural history of inequality, and the question of breaking the law in relation to the desire to be free and an original lawlessness (4:53): MP3
5. Blackness as activated in the work of its own self-destruction (5:22): MP3
6. The black radical tradition in relation to the paradoxs of Kantian regulation, sense and nonsense in relation to poetry (7:43): MP3
7. The poetry of Norman H. Pritchard, race in Kant as incantatory gesture (4:28): MP3
8. Considering a new black studies and aesthetic (6:07): MP3
9. The work of blackness as inseperable from the violence of blackness, the movement towards/against death, and blackness as modality of life's constant escape (9:48): MP3
10. Q&A Discussion (25:40): MP3

Recorded Poems on Harry's House Vol 2 CD

• I lay with francis in the margin - Fred Moten (0:56): MP3
• nothing even more and another - Fred Moten (0:26): MP3

Fred Moten on PennSound Daily

• February 13, 2011: "New PennSound Featured Resources Selected by Marcella Durand"
• March 19, 2010: "Fred Moten: Two New Recordings, 2010"
• March 19, 2008: "Fred Moten: New Author Page Added"

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