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Charles North

Reading for the William Corbett Poetry Series, MIT Comparative Media Studies, Virtual Event, April 21, 2022

Media.SAS mirror URL: MP4

On Cross-Cultural Poetics with Leonard Schwartz, April 26, 2009

  • Complete Interview (19:25): MP3

Selections from Sienese Shredder 2, 2008

  1. Elizabethan & Nova Scotian Music, 1970 (0:55): MP3
  2. A Few Facts About Me, 1970 (1:18): MP3
  3. Madrigal: Another Life, 1972 (0:26): MP3
  4. From "Lineups: Vegetables," 1972 (0:41): MP3
  5. From "Lineups II: All-Stars" (Series II) 1988 (0:33): MP3
  6. Little Cape Cod Landscape, 1980 (0:38): MP3
  7. A Note to Tony Towle [After WS] c. 1981, (1:01): MP3
  8. Tinker to Evers to Randomness, 1981 (0:42): MP3
  9. Poem for Trevor Winkfield, c. 1982 (0:23): MP3
  10. From "Building Sixteens," 1986 (2:08): MP3
  11. The Dawn, 1989 (3:02): MP3
  12. From "Shooting for Line," 1991 (3:46): MP3
  13. Day After Day, the Storm Mounted. Then It Dismounted., 1995 (12:34): MP3
  14. Words from Robert W. Service, 1995 (2:00): MP3
  15. Note on Fog, 1997 (0:41): MP3
  16. Disrobing [On the Same Theme], 1997 (1:17): MP3
  17. The Nearness of the Way You Look Tonight 1997, (1:41): MP3
  18. The Philosophy of New Jersey, 2000 (1:12): MP3
  19. Song, 1990 (1:18): MP3
  20. Translation, 2001 (1:26): MP3
  21. Cadenza, 2003 (11:43): MP3
  22. How About Stopping with the Syllepses--or Whitman!, 2003 (0:41): MP3

Barbara Guest Praise Day Tribute at The Bowery Poetry Club, October 21, 2006

(with Lytle Shaw, Lewis Warsh, Marcella Durand, Charles Bernstein, Africa Wayne and erica kaufman; hosted by Kristin Prevallet)

  1. introduction by Kristin Prevallet (0:44): MP3
  2. on his relationship with Barbara Guest (3:09): MP3
  3. Another July (1:01): MP3
  4. Roses (1:19): MP3
  5. The Location of Things (2:20): MP3

Complete reading by Charles North (8:53): MP3

Complete program (1:18:40): MP3

Reading for the Segue Series at Double Happiness, May 20, 2000

  • Introduction (1:34): MP3
  • Study (3:07): MP3
  • Day After Day The Storm Mounted And Then It Dismounted (12:57): MP3
  • The Nearness of the Way You Look Tonight (1:58): MP3
  • The Philosophy of New Jersey (1:53): MP3
  • October (1:20): MP3
  • Landscape (3:36): MP3

Complete Recording (26:25): MP3

Wednesday Series: Charles North and Martine Bellen, St. Mark’s Church, NY, January 6, 1999

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

  1. Side A (48:12): link
  2. Side B (49:03): link

Reading by Tony Towle and Charles North, St. Mark’s Church, NY, October 6, 1993

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

  1. Side A (52:22): link
  2. Side B (42:59): link
  3. Alternate link with Side A and B combined (1:26:31): link

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, April 25, 1992

  • Scenes From Montolieu (2:20): MP3
  • Little Cape Cop Landscape (0:50): MP3
  • Sunrise With Seamonster (1:10): MP3
  • Tinker to Evers to Randomness (1:05): MP3
  • The Dawn (3:50): MP3
  • Song (1:35): MP3
  • Detail (1:00): MP3
  • Shooting For Line (8:35): MP3
  • Cloud Studies (7:42): MP3
  • Urban Landscape (1:28): MP3

Complete Reading (29:36): MP3

Poetry 1991 : The State of the Art, St. Marks Symposium, New York, May 3, 1991

Reading by Joanna Kyger and Charles North, St. Mark’s Church, NY, November 29, 1989

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

  1. Side A (26:23): link
  2. Side B (32:02): link

Reading for the Droll/Kolbert Gallery Series, January 17, 1980

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, October 28, 1978

Complete reading (with Bruce Andrews) (1:20:20): MP3

Recordings available for non-commercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2009 Charles North. Used by permission of Brice Brown and Trevor Winkfield. Distributed with permission by Pennsound.