Harvey Shapiro

Panel celebrating Harvey Shapiro's last poems at the Strand, September 30, 2014, moderated by Susan Shapiro

• Complete Panel (1:02:04): MP3
• permission to use audio from Susan Shapiro and Norman Finkelstein.

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, September 29, 2005

• Harvey Shapiro's poetry reading (31:32): MP3

1. Italy 1996 (2:48): MP3
2. Brooklyn Heights (2:11): MP3
3. Brooklyn Nights (0:34): MP3
4. Three Flights Down the Stairs (1:11): MP3
5. Where I Am Now (0:46): MP3
6. Desk (0:33): MP3
7. To Nature (2:00): MP3
8. The Librarian (0:56): MP3
9. Requiem (0:28): MP3
10. Busride (0:56): MP3
11. God Poem (0:52): MP3
12. Commentary (0:59): MP3
13. According to the Rabbis (0:46): MP3
14. The Generations (0:27): MP3
15. Madeline (3:10): MP3
16. Night in the Hamptons (0:59): MP3
17. Excerpt from Autobiography (2:09): MP3
18. Telling the Muse What its Like After 70 (0:41): MP3
19. Sky (0:38): MP3
20. Poem for Gabriel Preil (2:07): MP3
21. Colors (1:07): MP3
22. Landscape (0:12): MP3
23. The Uses of Poetry (0:38): MP3
24. Nights (0:52): MP3
25. At the Seminar (1:11): MP3
26. The Old Poet Sums Up (1:11): MP3
27. The Sun's Clear Light (0:44): MP3

Discussion at the Kelly Writers House, focusing on the objectivist poets, moderated by Bob Perelman, September 30, 2005

1. Introduction to the objectivists (7:05): MP3
2. On determining poetic connections between Charles Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky, and George Oppen (5:16): MP3
3. On Jewishness and the objectivists (1:39): MP3
4. On discovering Oppen, Reznikoff and Zukofsky (6:13): MP3
5. The influence of objectivist work on Norman Finkelstein's own work (1:15): MP3
6. On reading Zukofsky (6:41): MP3
7. On the trajectory of the objectivists (4:34): MP3
8. On success, Jewishness, and Reznikoff (6:32): MP3
9. On Lorine Niedecker (1:30): MP3
10. On Reznikoff's "Holocaust" and writing about the Holocaust (9:17): MP3

Complete discussion (50:01) MP3

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

KWLS Audio Archives, Clearing the Sill of the World, 2010

• Complete Recording (32:44): MP3 - (more information on Littoral)

Harvey Shapiro Singles, from Cat Radio Cafe
"The Old Man Has One Thought and then Another," c. 2004 (3:53): MP3
"War Stories," c. 2005 (3:53): MP3