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PoemTalk #153, Discussing Daphne Marlatt's "Arriving," feat. Meredith Quartermain and Fred Wah

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

PoemTalk #117, Discussing Larissa Lai's "Nascent Fashion", feat. Fred Wah, Daphne Marlatt, and Colin Browne

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

PoemTalk #44, discussing Fred Wah's "Race, to go"

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

Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, February 21, 2010

Art International Radio, operating at ARTonAIR.org. Recorded at The Banff Center as part of "IN(TER)VENTIONS: Literary Practice At The Edge," with thanks to Steven Smith and engineer Piper Payne.

  • Program One: reading from Is a door (28:37): MP3
  • Program Two: conversation with Charles Bernstein (29:23): MP3

Segmented Reading:

  1. Introduction (0:46): MP3
  2. Music at the Heart of Thinking, 108 (1:09): MP3
  3. To the Dogs (0:44): MP3
  4. Isadora Blew (0:56): MP3
  5. Sheet Music (1:25): MP3
  6. The Marlin Seafood Grill (3:25): MP3
  7. Double Dutch (0:54): MP3
  8. Hey Man (0:38): MP3
  9. I need to apply Canclini here (1:00): MP3
  10. Is a Door (0:33): MP3
  11. Mr. In-between (0:37): MP3
  12. From the "Discount Me In" series: "Race, to go" (1:12): MP3 [text]
  13. Count (1:15): MP3
  14. Me (0:49): MP3
  15. In (0:42): MP3
  16. Writing (1:12): MP3
  17. Public (1:24): MP3
  18. Between You and Me There is an I (0:47): MP3
  19. Reverence (0:32): MP3
  20. Selves (0:50): MP3
  21. Naturalized Citizen Peeled (0:24): MP3
  22. Rubble (0:16): MP3
  23. Abdijection (1:32): MP3
  24. Aporia (0:40): MP3
  25. Class (0:40): MP3
  26. Defend the Zero (0:27): MP3
  27. Head Smashed in (0:55): MP3
  28. Household (0:49): MP3
  29. Loki Sniffs the Floods (0:26): MP3

"Race, to go" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 44.

Reading for What Is Undug Will Be: A Digital Archive Launch for XCP (1997–2010), Virtual Program, February 27, 2021

For full list of readers and more information, see complete listing.

Reading from "is a door" and others with Colin Browne and Daphne Marlatt the Penn Book Center, March 15, 2017

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Complete Recording (54:47): MP3

  • Introduction (2:06): MP3
  • Colin Browne Introduction and Reading (17:27): MP3
  • Fred Wah Introduction and Reading (14:06): MP3
  • Daphne Marlatt Introduction and Reading (21:08): MP3

Third Annual Convergence on Poetics

Held at the University of Washington Bothell, North Creek Events Center, September 25-27, 2014

THINKING LIVENESS PANEL I: John Boucher, Bob Glück, Tiare Mathison, Fred Wah

  • Jeanne Heuving and Ted Hiebert, Introductions (3:52): MP3
  • John Boucher (21:44): MP3
  • Bob Glück (21:07): MP3
  • Tiare Mathison (15:13): MP3
  • Fred Wah (18:13): MP3
  • Q&A With Panelists (16:08): MP3

Standing in the Doorway - the Hyphen in Chinese-Canadian Poetry, hosted by Richmond Public Library, March 25, 2013

Complete Recording (01:44:01): MP3

YouTube Link (01:44:01): here

Summary of the lecture: here

Appearing at North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival, Kelly Writers House, January 20-21, 2011

  • Complete reading (26:40): MP3

  • complete presentation (59:42): MP3

Appearing on Phillytalks Episode 7, with Brian Kim Stephens, November 2, 1998

  1. Untitled Narrative (2:44): MP3
  2. excerpt from "Grass the Sparrows Tail" (3:32): MP3
  3. excerpt from "Music of the Heart of Thinking Series" (1:04): MP3
  4. excerpt from "Music of the Heart of Thinking 94" (0:39): MP3
  5. Response to Roy Kiyooka (4:20): MP3
  6. Art Knot 81 (0:36): MP3
  7. Art Knot 58 (0:28): MP3
  8. Art Knot 56 (0:38): MP3
  9. Warp Body (0:25): MP3
  10. Nosehill One (0:49): MP3
  11. Untitled (0:19): MP3
  12. excerpt from "Music of the Heart of Thinking 127" (0:54): MP3
  • Complete discussion (49:54): MP3
  • Complete recording (1:28:55): MP3

  • Text of this program is available here.

At The Kootenay School of Writing, 1987, 1991

  • Music at the Heart of Thinking on December 25, 1987 (26:19): MP3
  • Reading on October 26, 1991 (31:42): MP3

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