Sawako Nakayasu

PoemTalk #128, Discussing Sueyeun Juliette Lee's Perfect Villagers, feat. Sawako Nakayasu, Donato Mancini, and Gabriel Ojeda-Sague

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PoemTalk #174,Discussing poems from Sawako Nakayasu’s book Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From feat. Bethany Swann, Henry Steinberg, and Caroline Bergvall

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Home Recordings, March 1, 2022

1. Girl A's Peanuts and Girl D's Mouthful (0:58): MP3
2. Girl in a Field of Flowers (1:24): MP3
3. Gun (1:15): MP3
4. Ten Girls in a Bag of Potato Chips (1:08): MP3
1. Dix filles dans un paquet de chips (translated into French and performed by Genève Chao) (1:00): MP3
2. ポテチの袋の中に十人のお女の子 (translated into Japanese and performed by Miwako Ozawa) (1:24): MP3
5. Context is All [by Erica Hunt] (3:24): MP3

A Poetry Reading at Kelly Writers House, Febuary 19, 2018

Complete recording (49:21): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, January 20, 2018

• Complete recording (23:04): MP3

Belladonna* Reading Series, December 4, 2017: And/With Litmus Series at the Abrons Arts Center, New York

Readings by Sawako Nakayasu and Jai Arun Ravine (53:00): MP3

From Kenning, Vol 4. No. 3, Autumn/Winter 2002-2003, Issue #12

Capacity (1:34): MP3

Segue Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club

1. Introduction (0:22): MP3
2. Ice Event (3:10): MP3
3. Tokyo Advantages (1:01): MP3
4. A Trail of Anything (0:31): MP3
5. Nightmare About Hamburgers (1:23): MP3
6. Umbrella Poem (0:46): MP3
7. Human Texture (2:12): MP3
8. So We Have Been Given Time Or (7:50): MP3
9. Pure Poem 2 (2:22): MP3
• Complete reading (20:08): MP3

Amherst Books, 2004

1. Comments (1:09): MP3
2. Texture Notes: September 2nd (1:24): MP3
3. Texture Notes: August 22nd (0:46): MP3
4. Texture Notes: November 12th (1:11): MP3
5. Texture Notes: Texture of A Conductor... (1:50): MP3
6. Texture Notes: Oyster... (0:34): MP3
7. Texture Notes: November 16th (1:25): MP3
8. Comments (0:40): MP3
9. Hurry Home Honey (2:57): MP3
10. Translations from Factorial 3 (3:45): MP3
11. Comments (0:34): MP3
12. from So We Have Been Given Time Or (15:30): MP3

Complete reading (31:49): MP3

Reading on miPOradio

• Units (1:41): MP3

Appearing on LA-Lit 18, December 10, 2006

Part A (51:43): MP3

1. Introduction (0:52): MP3
2. From "Nothing Fictional But the Accuracy Or Arrangement (she" (9:10): MP3
3. On female Japanese poetry (1:01): MP3
4. On female modernists (6:03): MP3
5. On translation (2:33): MP3
6. On difference between languages (4:26): MP3
7. On performance experience (3:13): MP3
8. On performance space (2:59): MP3
9. On thematics (5:55): MP3
10. On research (1:12): MP3
11. On the small (5:14): MP3
12. On inspiration (4:59): MP3
13. Ant Breath (1:27): MP3
14. An Ant in the Mouth of Madonna, Behind Locked Doors (2:22): MP3
Part B (1:02:11): MP3
1. Introduction (1:46): MP3
2. From "So We Have Been Given Time Or" (11:11): MP3
3. On structure (1:17): MP3
4. On time (3:14): MP3
5. On performance (3:05): MP3
6. On languages (3:29): MP3
7. On story (3:02): MP3
8. On autobiography (1:44): MP3
9. On the female voice (4:13): MP3
10. On theme (3:19): MP3
11. Girl Talk (0:28): MP3
12. On subjects (2:57): MP3
13. Battery (1:23): MP3
14. Desert Ant (2:00): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #138: In Translation: Japan/Turkey, April 22, 2007

• Complete recording (29:04): MP3

Reading for LA-Lit: Clouds, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, November 22, 2008

1. Nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement (5:41): MP3
2. Language Barrier (2:07): MP3
3. Motherfucking cop (1:30): MP3
4. The New Predicament (1:35): MP3

Complete reading (11:05): MP3

Sawako Nakayasu on PennSound Daily

• July 21, 2010: "LA Lit: New Programs, PSAz and Clouds Conference"

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