Leonard Schwartz

PoemTalk #119, Discussing Fatemeh Shams's "When They Broke Down the Door", feat. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Leonard Schwartz, and Mahyar Entezari

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

PoemTalk #80, Discussing Tom Leonard's “Three Texts for Tape: The Revolt of Islam,” feat. Jenn McCreary, Joe Milutis, and Leonard Schwartz

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

PoemTalk #51, Discussing Linh Dinh's "Eating Fried Chicken", feat. Thomas Devaney, Susan Schultz, and Leonard Schwartz

Listen to the complete recording here.

PoemTalk #40, Discussing Susan Schultz's Dementia Blog, feat. Jamie-Lee Josselyn, Michelle Taransky, and Leonard Schwartz

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

Reading and discussion with Simon Carr for the launch of Horse on Paper, Bowery Gallery, NYC, March 16, 2024

On the occasion of Simon Carr's show Play Ground. Courtesy of the Bowery Gallery.

Media.SAS direct link: MP4

MLA Offsite Reading, Philadelphia, January 6, 2017

Complete reading (6:09): MP3

Reading at Galerie éof, Paris, September 19, 2014 as part of the Double Change series

with translations by Chadian poet Nimrod

Ugly Duckling Presse Cellar Series Reading, Brooklyn, NY, April 19, 2013

from The Library of Seven Readings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008): parts 2, 5, 6, and 7

• Complete reading (21:39): MP3

Convergence on Poetics, University of Washington Bothell, North Creek Events Center, September 27-30, 2012

• Leonard Schwartz (8:46): MP3
• Complete recording (1:55:03): MP3


• listen to the entire event here

MLA Offsite Reading, Town Hall Downstairs, Seattle, January 7, 2012

Complete reading (0:49): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics #240: Around Town, 2011

• Complete segment (7:21): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, September 23, 2010

1. introduction by Al Filreis (5:55): MP3
2. introductory remarks (2:32): MP3
3. Apple, Anyone I (1:40): MP3
4. Apple, Anyone III (1:47): MP3
5. Apple, Anyone VI (1:40): MP3
6. Apple, Anyone VII (1:55): MP3
7. The Red Fog, from A Message Back and Other Furors (6:27): MP3
8. The Sleeptalkers (16:36): MP3
9. Top of the Morning To You (1:38): MP3
10. Exchange (5:07): MP3
11. discussion (14:32): MP3

complete reading (59:44): MP3

from Sudden Orpheus at Evergreen State College, February 20, 2010

from Sudden Orpheus at Poets House, October 24, 2009

A puppet show by Ariel Goldberger and Leonard Schwartz with Diane Ferrer. Voices: Leonard Schwartz and Riva Roller.

Lovers Scene

Orpheus' Head Scene

(Sudden Orpheus was published by Chax Press under the title The Sudden)

Reading from A Message Back and Other Furors at NYU, November 20, 2006

• Complete reading (43:33): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 18, 2006

1. Introduction (4:56): MP3
2. Method (3:06): MP3
3. The Eden Exhibit reading (6:56): MP3
4. Flashlight (2:50): MP3
5. The Conversation (0:38): MP3
6. The Surprise (2:12): MP3
7. A Message Back and Other Furors (9:17): MP3
• Complete reading (31:35): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics

• Episode #45: Would Words What? (1:00:18): MP3
• Episode #62: Takeover (12:33): MP3
• Episode #80: Three Trapped Tigers/Red Gaze (12:41): MP3
• Episode #88: The Takeover (44:48): MP3
• Episode #102: These Archipelagos (17:59): MP3
• Episode #105: Aygi (23:10): MP3
• Episode #122: Civilization (15:55): MP3
• Episode #131: Jubilant Thicket (6:40): MP3
• Episode #134: Love As Such (3:19): MP3
• Episode #136: Poetry of Emergency (16:47): MP3
• Episode #140: The Wind And The Source (8:01): MP3
• Episode #142: Involutia (16:26): MP3
• Episode #144: Readings and Nasarin (20:43): MP3
• Episode #176: Wisdom Of (13:51): MP3
• Episode #214: London to Shanghai (2:39): MP3
• Episode #224: Island Culture (21:08): MP3
• Episode #253: Celan/Bronk (25:25): MP3

English Department Reading series, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2000

1. introduction (1:51): MP3
2. Exiles Ends (7:01): MP3
3. My Dinner with Mingxia (1:27): MP3
4. Feature (1:22): MP3
5. The Bluejay (1:27): MP3
6. Divided Silence (0:49): MP3
7. A Total Work of Art (0:56): MP3
8. Disorder Sun (0:55): MP3
9. Ecstatic Persistence (2:28): MP3
• Complete reading (19:27): MP3

Reading for Incognito Lounge, Cody's Books, Berkeley, June 17, 1992

• Complete recording (25:44): MP3

Also on PennSound:

• Cross-Cultural Poetics, a radio program on Olympia's KAOS-FM, hosted by Schwartz

Leonard Schwartz on PennSound Daily

• March 28, 2011: "Leonard Schwartz at Cody's Books, Berkeley, 1992"
• November 12, 2010: "Leonard Schwartz at the Kelly Writers House, 2010"
• March 20, 2009: "Leonard Schwartz and Zhang Er at NYU, 2006"

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