Kristin Prevallet

PoemTalk #140, Discussing Barbara Guest's "The Blue Stairs," feat. Kristin Prevallet, Simone White, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the epsiode at Jacket2.

PoemTalk #113, Discussing Robin Blaser's "A Bird in the House," featuring Kristin Prevallet, Jed Rasula, and Brian Teare, released June 5, 2017

For complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2

“What She Said”: Poem by Kristin Prevallet, Soundscape by Steven Brent, c. 2017

From the album, “Even The Failures are Beautiful” by Steven Brent.

• Complete recording (9:38): MP3

Appearing at Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism, sponsored by the Belladonna* Reading Series, NYC, September 25, 2009

Complete recording (16:31): MP3

The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium at Poets House, NYC, April 8, 2008

1. Lecture: "One Among Rubble" (18:06): MP3
2. Prevallet reads Oppen's "Image of the Engine" (3:06): MP3
3. Prevallet reads Oppen's "Sara in Her Father's Arms" (1:04): MP3

From the MLA Offsite Reading, Chicago, December 28, 2007

The Day Lady Died (for Benazir Bhutto) (1:48): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, December 2, 2006

1. Introduction (2:28): MP3
2. Pop Prop Agit (10:07): MP3
(note: Prevallet screened a short film after reading "Pop Prop Agit")

Complete reading (37:53): 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, Charles North and erica kaufman; hosted by Kristin Prevallet)

Introduction (2:32): MP3
Conclusion (6:19): MP3

Complete reading (1:18:40): MP3


Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #100, "How Remember," with host Leonard Schwartz, 2006

Complete recording (26:51): MP3

Women in the Avant Garde, recorded at St. Mary's College and released by Narrow House Recordings in 2004

1. Introduction (0:54): MP3
2. Lead, Glass and Poppy (6:17): MP3
3. Lines Between Wise Women (1:05): MP3
4. The Final Request (1:47): MP3
5. The People Database (7:01): MP3
Complete reading (17:17): MP3


Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, January 25, 2003

1. Introduction (2:37): MP3
2. Variation for Winds (after Samuel Beckett) (2:39): MP3
3. The Remains of the Wig (after Wallace Stevens) (1:23): MP3
4. a compilation of slogans (3:28): MP3
5. more slogans (0:42): MP3
6. Image - Code - Abstraction (1:54): MP3
7. Memory - Image - Association - Interpretation (2:21): MP3
8. Anger - Fear - Anxiety - Confusion (1:41): MP3
9. "During the Gulf War . . ." (2:05): MP3
10. "The United States has no quarrel with the Iraqi people..." (4:36): MP3
11. Fallen Left Behind (5:11): MP3
Complete reading (34:15): MP3

The Line Reading Series, NYC, September 24, 2002

Complete reading (22:36): MP3

Wednesday Night Series: Renee Gladman, Kristin Prevallet, St. Mark's Church, NY, April 3, 2002

Library of Congress recording (1:00:20): link

Wednesday Series: Kristin Prevallet and Lisa Robertson, St. Mark’s Church, NY, November 18, 1998

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

1. Side A (48:42): link
2. Side B (53:54): link

Also on PennSound:

Prevallet's notes on San Francisco's Burning, from A Helen Adam Reader (2007)
I'll Drown My Book, a celebration of the I'll Drown My Book anthology held at the Kelly Writers House, October 17, 2012


Kristin Prevallet on PennSound Daily

• July 12, 2010: "Don't Miss the Season's Last Segue Series Readings"
• January 11, 2007: "Kristin Prevallet on PennSound"

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