Tyrone Williams

Photo credit: Al Filreis

Appearing on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, February 7, 2017

Complete recording (44:32): MP3

PoemTalk #152, Discussing Wallace Stevens' "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain," feat. Kate Colby, Tyrone Williams, Mónica de la Torre

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PoemTalk #148, Discussing Erica Hunt's "Should You Find Me," feat. Tyrone Williams, William J. (Billy Joe) Harris, Aldon Nielsen

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PoemTalk #126, Discussing Amiri Baraka’s “Something in the Way of Things (In Town),” feat. Tyrone Williams, William J. Harris, and Aldon Nielsen

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PoemTalk #115, Discussing Lorenzo Thomas' "An Arc Still Open", feat. William J. Harris, Tyrone Williams, and Aldon Nielsen

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PoemTalk #86, Discussing Tyrone Williams' "Written By H'Self" and "Cant," feat. Alan Golding, Lily Applebaum, and Herman Beavers

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PoemTalk #73, discussing Steve Benson's "Did the Lights Just Go Out?" from Open Notes

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PennSound #72: Al Young in conversation with Tyrone Williams, William J. Harris, and Al Filreis

Complete recording (1:14:03): MP3 [ info ]

Panel on the Work of Aldon Nielson, ALA Boston, 2023

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Featuring Jean-Philippe Marcoux, Evie Shockley, Susan Weeber, Justin Melette, Richard Flynn, Kathy Lou Schultz, Laura Vrana, Mark Scroggins, Tyrone Williams, James Smethurst, Keith Leonard, Anette Debow, Laura Hinton and Shirley Moody Turner

Reading at Stephen Henderson Award Ceremony, May 27th, 2022

Full Recording (20:55): MP3

American Launch for Ariel Resnikoff's Unnatural Bird Migrator with erica kaufman and Tyrone Williams, December 20, 2020

Tyrone Williams reading, with introduction by David Brazil, at Zaza Performance Series, New Orleans, August 7, 2020

Tyrone Williams & Julie Patton Reading and Discussion at CAAPP, University of Pittsburgh, September 30, 2019

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A Poetry Reading at the Kelly Writers House, February 7, 2017

• Complete Reading (36:30): MP3

1. Introduction by Al Filres and Charles Bernstein (4:10): MP3
2. Serapis (2:30): MP3
3. Serapeum (1:22): MP3
4. Grave (1:01): MP3
5. Baraka (3:52): MP3
6. Circumflex (2:08): MP3
7. Syrian Wheel (1:09): MP3
8. ËË (1:36): MP3
9. Charon on the Potomac (3:37): MP3
10. Inmate (0:50): MP3
11. Joseph Kennedy: passing goods (1:56): MP3
12. It was easy, they sank my boat (1:39): MP3
13. Save as water (2:00): MP3
14. Melinde Melindi (2:26): MP3
15. Xcedilla (1:33): MP3
16. In the wake of a storm to come (1:22): MP3
17. Tashkil (1:59): MP3

Reading for Heatstrings at WHAT I SAY Roundtable, Louisville, KY, February 19, 2016

William's Segment (15:41): MP3

Reading for Heatstrings at Modernism Studies Association, Boston, MA, November 20, 2015

Complete reading (03:34): MP3

South(West) Ohio Poets Summer Gathering at Chase Public, Cincinnati, June 20, 2015

• Complete set (with Pat Clifford) (11:59): MP3

Reading at Xavier University with Sueyeun Juliette Lee, April 15, 2015

• Complete reading (9:58): MP3

Reading for Heatstrings at Modernism Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, November 7, 2014

• Tyrone Williams (05:48): MP3
• Complete recording (1:08:37): MP3

Reading as part of the St. Bonaventure Visiting Poets Series, November 15, 2013

Keynote Reading for the St. Bonaventure University English Graduate Conference

1. introduction by Kaplan Harris (4:17): MP3
2. from Howell (2:10): MP3
3. In Line At The Neighborhood Grocery Store (3:14): MP3
4. Homesick for Heaven (8:49): MP3
5. Limbo (0:51): MP3
6. Written By H'Self (1:55): MP3
7. Pulp Fiction (1:44): MP3
8. Mayhem (3:47): MP3

Complete reading (23:38): MP3

"Written By H'Self" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 86.

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

• Tyrone Williams: "Force x Distance = Time" (14:03): MP3
• Complete recording (1:55:03): MP3


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Reading at the Chapter & Verse Series, with Travis Macdonald and Carlos Soto-Román, April 28th, 2012

1. Introduction (1:21): MP3
2. See Above (1:57): MP3
3. Setnet (0:49): MP3
4. Square (1:07): MP3
5. After Art by Yasmina Reza (1:46): MP3
6. A Day to Remember, October 25, 1997 (0:59): MP3
7. Strummer and Spike (1:11): MP3
8. A Tornado and an Eggshell (0:59): MP3
9. Book of Mormon (0:52): MP3
10. The Blind Factory Book (1:08): MP3
11. Farm Stock and Crop Data (1:17): MP3
12. Book of 13B (1:35): MP3
13. The Vennus Virus (1:40): MP3
14. Angel Face (1:38): MP3
15. Stakes Is High (1:56): MP3

• Complete recording (21:17): MP3

Reading at Alan Golding's Home for the 40th University of Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900, Heatstrings, February 25, 2012

The Vennus Virus (2:31): MP3

Group Reading at Modernist Studies Association, Hallwall's Contemporary Art Center, Heatstrings, Buffalo, October 7, 2011

The Green Bridge (4:08): MP3

MLA Off-Site Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009

Coming in from the Cold: Celebrating Twenty Years of the MLA Off-Site Poetry Reading at the Philadelphia Mariott, December 29, 2009

1. Apocryph (0:33): MP3
2. Character (0:50): MP3
3. Mortal Facts (2:01): MP3

• Complete reading (3:43): MP3

Reading with Thom Donovan at Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, January 24, 2009

1. introduction by Brenda Iijima (2:02): MP3
2. Incant (1:58): MP3
3. Cant (0:47): MP3
4. Cant (0:46): MP3
5. Descant (0:33): MP3
6. Incant (0:52): MP3
7. Descant (0:31): MP3
8. Recant (0:39): MP3
9. Recant (1:36): MP3
10. Preface 3 (5:39): MP3
11. Mortal Facts (1:44): MP3
12. Character (0:44): MP3
13. Stumble Misread (2:12): MP3
14. How to Live Between the Camel and the Needle (1:55): MP3
15. How to Live Between N Minor (1:36): MP3
16. A Captivating Story (4:50): MP3
17. A Species of Cruelty That Wants a Name (3:10): MP3

"Cant" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 86.

Complete Reading (33:59): MP3

At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 2008

Reading at the Positions Colloquium on August 23, 2008 (13:34): MP3

Tyrone Williams on A Voice Box

At SPT Aggression, CCA, Oakland, May 29, 2008

1. introduction by Chris Chen (5:46): MP3
2. on Adrian Piper and Glenn Ligon (10:46): MP3
3. M. NourbeSe Philip reciting "Discourse on the Logic of Language" and "Meditation on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheekbones" (8:01): MP3
4. A Frame House (4:49): MP3

Complete reading (29:29): MP3

At David Buuck's House, Oakland, CA, May 31, 2008

1. Introduction by Chris Chen (5:53): MP3
2. The signature public (0:54): MP3
3. No Contessas (1:25): MP3
4. Outsource Corrections Facilities (1:42): MP3
5. Recant (0:47): MP3
6. Angel Face (2:58): MP3
7. If A Black Man Is Not (Yet) Survived By (2:10): MP3
8. Is He Still Black Qua Charged (0:45): MP3
9. Or Is He Not (1:02): MP3

Complete reading (12:29): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, December 28, 2007

• Two Days in Chicago (1:41): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, December 1, 2007

1. Introduction (3:30): MP3
2. Written By H'Self (1:30): MP3
3. Cant (0:57): MP3
4. The Mercantile Library (1:13): MP3
5. Commentary (0:22): MP3
6. A Glass of Water at Hand (from "The Lost Weekend") (0:58): MP3
7. Hand at the End of an Arm (from "The Lost Weekend") (0:36): MP3
8. Arm Extended Through the Legs (of A) (from "The Lost Weekend") (0:58): MP3
9. Bar Stool Upside Down on a Bar (From "The Lost Weekend") (1:04): MP3
10. Square (from "Sunset Boulevard") (1:04): MP3
11. Way of Washington (from "Sunset Boulevard") (3:21): MP3
12. Back to the Typewriter By (from "Sunset Boulevard") (1:07): MP3
13. What Do You Call That Strip of Grass (from "Property Lines Written On An Annex") (1:13): MP3
14. Between the Curb and the Sidewalk (from "Property Lines Written On An Annex") (1:14): MP3
15. Between the Sidewalk and the House (from "Property Lines Written On An Annex") (1:20): MP3
16. Between the House and the Houses Desired (from "Property Lines Written On An Annex") (1:08): MP3
17. Between the Houses Desired and Another City (from "Property Lines Written On An Annex") (1:41): MP3
18. Between Another City and Their Villages (from "Property Lines Written On An Annex") (0:47): MP3
19. Between their Villages and the Return of Savannah, Tundra, Desert...? (1:14): MP3

Complete Reading (26:23): MP3

"Written by H'Self" and "Cant" are also featured on PoemTalk Episode 86.

From POG Sound: Reading at The Stone Ave. Gallery, Tuscon, AZ, September 23, 2007

1. How Do I Cross Out the X from Malcolm? (3:18): MP3
2. Meanwhile (0:25): MP3
3. El Negro (1:07): MP3
4. Study of a Negro Head (0:44): MP3
5. Right Over Right (0:53): MP3
6. Happy Fought (1:18): MP3
7. The First Time I Struck a Woman by Sharon Olds, Donald Goines, and Eve Kosofsky (0:31): MP3
8. I Am Not Proud To Be Black (11:59): MP3
• Complete Reading (21:12): MP3

  MLA Offsite Series Reading December 26, 2006

  • How Do I Cross Out the X from Malcolm? (2:04): MP3

  On Cross-Cultural Poetics with Leonard Schwartz

  • Episode #262: "Three Poems," November 15, 2012: (15:49): MP3

  Tyrone Williams on PennSound Daily

  • July 14, 2010: "POG Sound: Nine New Readings Added"
  • : "Newly Segmented Readings from Trace Peterson, Tyrone Williams"
  
  
  

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