Leslie Scalapino

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

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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

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

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.
(mp4, 48 seconds, 7.8 mb)

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

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

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

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Leslie, Cecilia Dougherty, Bard College, 1998

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• Leslie Scalapino, Text: "As: All Occurrence in Structure, Unseen (-Deer Night)" from The Public World/Syntactically Impermanence (Wesleyan, 1999)
• Cecilia Dougherty, Video

Seminar with Mark Rudman for the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice 1997–1998 Readings and Talks Series, Georgetown, October 16, 1997

• Complete recording (52:10): MP3
• Archive.org mirror: external link

Reading for Subtext Reading Series, Speakeasy Cafe, Seattle, WA, June 19, 1997

Complete reading (59:32): MP3

Reading at the Ear Inn, May 24, 1997

• Reading from "Zither" (30:17): MP3



Reading for Wednesday @ Four Plus, SUNY Buffalo, October 23, 1996

1. Introduction (4:27): MP3
2. From "Front Matter, Dead Souls" (13:57): MP3
3. From "New Time (16:31): MP3
4. From "Deer Night" (10:11): MP3
5. From "Green and Black" (6:29): MP3

Complete reading (52:11): MP3

Prospects Reading, Hoboken, May 23, 1996 recorded by Chris Funkhouser

from New Time (7:49): MP3

Reading at The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, June 5, 1995

Part 1 (19:42): MP3

1. Introduction (0:27): MP3
2. rain through huge red leaves (0:53): MP3
3. there's still on the rim of night (0:52): MP3
4. him—having—an action (0:28): MP3
5. structure in reverse is the black sky (0:24): MP3
6. interpretative—blue destroying—itself (0:13): MP3
7. traveling as entering into (0:10): MP3
8. interpretative is the fixing (0:26): MP3
9. they think of it (0:23): MP3
10. enervated—extended (0:10): MP3
11. it's enervating to make (0:15): MP3
12. he's not interested in anything (0:09): MP3
13. the pressure is violent (0:22): MP3
14. bow-encrusted trees (0:23): MP3
15. there's nothing outside (0:18): MP3
16. the movement in the frame (0:33): MP3
17. pressure that's on the rim of surface (0:37): MP3
18. not (at) one's frame (0:10): MP3
19. not abandoment (0:53): MP3
20. silk black iris that's chest (0:32): MP3
21. they appear there—recurring (0:03): MP3
22. cubicles, of only city, from high up (0:24): MP3
23. having to be ground under (0:24): MP3
24. the place is always. (0:15): MP3
25. bud—outside (0:16): MP3
26. 'Undermining' this (0:34): MP3
27. economic poverty (0:12): MP3
28. from the waist—so that (1:15): MP3
29. there's no time to oneself (0:26): MP3
30. flowering trees float the sky (0:22): MP3
31. we can not speak (0:26): MP3
32. sleep is to compress (0:12): MP3
33. not struggling is not doing the small jobs (0:12): MP3
34. there is no work (0:29): MP3
35. people don't listen (0:08): MP3
36. distraction on the horizontal plane (0:30): MP3
37. all building is pressed to the sky (0:26): MP3
38. indentation of one (0:20): MP3
39. translating is inner (0:22): MP3
40. white azalea blooming (0:42): MP3
41. walking person who has sky flowing (0:55): MP3
42. the neck cut out (0:24): MP3

Part 2 (31:08): MP3

1. Introduction (0:15): MP3
2. "From far away the man..." (7:17): MP3
3. Epilogue (12:12): MP3
4. "situations, the characteristic of..." (6:55): MP3
5. "As when I was in a rage..." (4:10): MP3

Goya's L.A., New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, February 25, 1995

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• Leslie Scalapino, Text
• Carla Harryman, Director
• Amy Tratchenberg, Artistic Director
• Larry Ochs, Musician/Composer
• Mikio Hirata, Michelle Rollman, Rebecca Levi, Pamela Norris, Actors

Alternate video from Feb. 26



Segue Series reading at the Ear Inn, with Charles Bernstein, NYC, April 2, 1994

1. from Defoe (13:55): MP3
2. from The Front Matter, Dead Souls (11:56): MP3
3. from Objects in the Terrying Tense / Longing from Taking Place (13:48): MP3

Complete reading (39:40): MP3



Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, July, 1991

From Orion (18:25): MP3



Reading for Wednesday @ Four Plus, SUNY Buffalo, March 6-7, 1991

March 6

Complete reading (46:58): MP3

1. Introduction (2:02): MP3
2. from "Waking Life" (27:58): MP3
3. Ochre (16:51): MP3

March 7

Complete seminar (1:40:45): MP3

1. Reading from O'Hara's "Second Avenue" (3:43): MP3
2. Reading "To Be An Old Friend of Verlaine" and discussion of "Second Avenue" (12:58): MP3
3. Reading "Secretion of the Life Experience" and thoughts on the image (26:44): MP3
4. Examining Duncan and O'Hara (4:06): MP3
5. Discussions of the Present (5:58): MP3
6. More on Duncan and O'Hara (13:15): MP3
7. Eroticism and the poet (11:50): MP3
8. "Political" poems (1:22): MP3
9. Poets, poetry, and critical discourse (15:36): MP3



Reading at Reed College, 1991

1. The Fans on Stocks (11:04): MP3
2. Hannah (19:15): MP3
• Complete reading (30:14): MP3 , RealAudio

Memorial Reading for Robert Duncan, San Jose State University, Incognito Lounge, November 1990

Complete reading (8:49): MP3

1. Reading from Duncan's "Caesar's Gate" (0:30): MP3
2. "Aurora Rose" (1:46): MP3
3. Reading from "Considering how exaggerated music is" (6:04): MP3



Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn December 13, 1986

1. Bum Series (6:38): MP3
2. No Setting (12:53): MP3
3. Hoofer (8:00): MP3
4. Roll (12:12): MP3
• Complete reading (39:42): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn November 17, 1984

1. That they were at the beach — aeolotropic series (29:21): MP3
2. Chameleon Series I (7:09): MP3
3. Chameleon Series II (1:36): MP3
• Complete reading (38:12): MP3

Reading in the USCD New Poetry Series, May 9, 1979

Complete reading (42:44): MP3

Tape made by Michael Davidson

Leslie Scalapino Production of Flow-Winged Crocodile

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Also of Interest:

Click here for: Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lectures

Click here for: Live at the Ear CD

"At Once Yet Separate: Poet-Artist Collaboration and the Work of Leslie Scalapino" (panel, with Marina Adams, Petah Coyne, Konrad Stein, Charles Bernstein) — 10/23/13: Poetry Project/YouTube

Lyn Hejinian remembers Leslie Scalapino (essay): link

Leslie Scalapino on PennSound Daily

• February 13, 2011: "New PennSound Featured Resources Selected by Marcella Durand"
• September 3, 2010: "Leslie Scalapino: Five Newly Segmented Readings, 1986-2008"
• August 2, 2010: "New at the EPC: 4 Early Books by Leslie Scalapino"
• July 5, 2010: Lyn Hejinian Remembers Leslie Scalapino, 2010"
• July 14, 2010: "POG Sound: Nine New Readings Added"
• June 14, 2010: "Leslie Scalapino: Two New Videos"
• May 29, 2010: "In Memoriam: Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010)"
• November 13, 2007: "Leslie Scalapino Reading at the KWH Tonight"



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