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Leslie Scalapino


at Kelly Writers House, 2007 / photo: Bernstein

Close Listening: Private Edition  #2 May 14, 2007, New York

Scalapino reads selections from Day Ocean State of Stars’ Night: Poems and Writings 1989 & 1999-2006
(Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2007)

  1. from ‘Can’t’ is ‘Night’ (3:19): MP3
  2. from It’s go in/quiet illuminated grass/land (4:40): MP3
  3. from The Forest is in the Euphrates River (5:00): MP3
  4. from DeLay Rose (12:02): MP3

Recorded by Charles Bernstein.

Leslie Scalapino on LINEbreak

Recorded at SUNY, Buffalo in 1996. Complete recording (30:07): MP3

  1. Introduction by Charles Bernstein (0:30): MP3
  2. Poetry as a Category (1:34): MP3
  3. Poetry in Newspapers (4:08): MP3
  4. Excerpt from "The Front Matter, Dead Souls" (1:40): MP3
  5. Poetry and Politics (0:49): MP3
  6. Serial Poetry (3:42): MP3
  7. Excerpts from "New Time" (2:24): MP3
  8. Discussion of "New Time" (1:10): MP3
  9. Sumo Wrestlers (1:43): MP3
  10. Scalapino's Plays (1:48): MP3
  11. Passage from "The Front Matter, Dead Souls" and "Goya's LA" (0:54): MP3
  12. "Seeing inside" from "Deer Night" (3:14): MP3
  13. Excerpts from "Deer Night" (4:15): MP3
  14. Outro and Acknowledgemnets (0:32): MP3

Flow - Winged Crocodile / The Trains: A Noh Play, Oberlin Dance Collective, San Francisco, CA, December 21, 2010

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  • Leslie Scalapino, Text
  • Fiona Templeton, Direction
  • John Jesurun, Video
  • Joan Jeanrenaud, Music: “Strange Toys”
  • Molissa Fenley, Dance Choreography
  • Molissa Fenley, Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver, and Julie Troost, Performers

Final Reading, Small Press Traffic, Recorded by Cloud House Poetry Archives, San Francisco, March 20, 2010

Complete video (36:19): MOV

  1. Introduction by Samantha Giles; written by CAConrad (2:40): MP3
  2. Introduction to "Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows" (0:33): MP3
  3. "a hartel" (2:23): MP3
  4. Explanation of word choice (0:30): MP3
  5. "asleep the dag appears" (3:26): MP3
  6. "hammer of horse ship" (3:53): MP3
  7. "sub-herculean" (2:36): MP3
  8. "a woman whorled" (1:37): MP3
  9. "becomes floats" (1:40): MP3
  10. "no" (2:06): MP3
  11. "tea trees stars" (2:19): MP3
  12. "the workers from the hartel" (1:10): MP3
  13. "note" (0:38): MP3
  14. "cannonin" (8:16): MP3
  15. "memory" (1:02): MP3


Readings recorded and produced by Konrad Steiner, February, 14, 2010

From Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows

Complete video (32:27): MOV

From The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom

Complete video (23:39): MOV

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz

  • Episode #35: Making It Happen (59:53): MP3
  • Episode #95: New Time/The Long Moment (28:52): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, December 6, 2008

  1. Introduction (5:14): MP3
  2. Hmmmm (3:27): MP3
  3. from Considering How Exaggerated Music Is (4:23): MP3
  4. New Time (3:09): MP3
  5. 'Can't' is 'Night' (3:20): MP3
  6. from Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows (9:55): MP3
  7. Tea, Trees, The Stars (13:02): MP3
  • Complete reading (42:49): MP3

From POG Sound: Scalapino reading at The Drawing Studio, Tuscon, AZ, May 3, 2008

Photograph © Barbara Henning
  1. Considering How Exagerrated Music Is (10:53): MP3
  2. New Time (22:42): MP3
  3. 'Can't' is 'Night' (6:01): MP3
  4. The Forest is in the Euphrates River (1:09): MP3
  5. from DeLay Rose (4:36): MP3
  • Complete reading (45:22): MP3

From textsound Issue #1, Winter 2008

  • from that they were at the beach — a sequence (7:06): MP3
  • from It's go in / quiet illuminated grass /land (6:40): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, November 13, 2007,

  1. Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows (18:45): MP3
  2. 'Can't' is 'Night' (11:08): MP3
  3. DeLay Rose (11:36): MP3
  • Introduction by Charles Bernstein (3:33): MP3
  • Complete reading (41:28): MP3
  • Discussion with Penn Students (1:25:43): MP3

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Leslie Loses Her Breath, November 12, 2006

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Leslie Scalapino was in New York for the Poetry Project panels on her work. She came by our place for lox & bagels. I asked her about the time she literally lost her breath in Tibet.
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Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, February 18, 2006

  • Introduction (1:42): MP3
  • from The Forest is in the Euphrates River (11:14): MP3
  • from Delay Rose (22:20): MP3

  • Complete reading (36:42): MP3

  • Way on Kenning CD (c. 2004)

    Complete recording (58:08): MP3

    • Reading for the Belladonna* Series, NYC, December 5, 2003

    1. introduction (3:52): MP3
    2. Dahlia's Iris — Secret Autobiography and Fiction (21:08): MP3
    3. 'Can't' is 'Night' [recording cuts out at end] (5:39): MP3
    • Complete recording (30:42): MP3

    MLA Poetry Reading, with David Bromige and Lyn Hejinian, 1998

    1. Introduction (2:47): MP3
    2. from As: All Occurrence in Structure, Unseen (11:53): MP3
    3. from Sight (1:09): MP3
    • Scalapino recording (15:48): MP3

    Complete recording (1:06:36): MP3

    Reading for the Segue Series at HERE, New York, February 14, 1998

    1. Introduction (1:37): MP3
    2. Essay on the Comic Book (17:53): MP3
    3. Detective Novel from Clear Land (14:05): MP3
    • Complete recording (34:28): MP3

    Performing New Time, Zen Center, San Francisco, CA, April 4, 1998

    A collabration with June Watanabe

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    Leslie, Cecilia Dougherty, Bard College, 1998

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