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Elizabeth Willis

photo © 2007 by Charles Bernstein/PennSound

Close Listening Reading and Conversation at Art Radio WPS1

with Charles Bernstein, March 17, 2008

Conversation (27:17): MP3

  1. Introduction (0:46): MP3
  2. the role of identity in her work (2:31): MP3
  3. on the practice of mining a variety of sources (1:59): MP3
  4. abstraction in relation to radical innovation and modernism, reinvention in relation to a reclaimed past (2:14): MP3
  5. on Christina Rossetti in Kiss Me Deadly (1:20): MP3
  6. on the Darwin of Meteoric Flowers (2:39): MP3
  7. on The Human Abstract (2:39): MP3
  8. on seriality in her poems (2:03): MP3
  9. on discovering line, prosody, and form in the process of writing (1:26): MP3
  10. on literary community and affinities (1:38): MP3
  11. on investigative poetics, and entwining poetry and scholarship (2:56): MP3
  12. on sincerity and artifice (1:38): MP3

Reading (26:30): MP3

  1. Introduction (0:54): MP3
  2. The Human Abstract (9:05): MP3
  3. Sonnet (3:42): MP3
  4. The Similitude of This Great Flower (1:16): MP3
  5. Sympathetic Inks (0:52): MP3
  6. A Description of the Poison Tree (0:59): MP3
  7. Glittering Shafts of War (0:42): MP3
  8. Verses Omitted (0:33): MP3
  9. Pictures Connected by a Slight Festoon of Ribbons (0:43): MP3
  10. Viewless Floods of Heat (0:51): MP3
  11. Address (0:54): MP3
  12. The Oldest Garden in the World (0:39): MP3
  13. Nocturne (1:00): MP3

Close Listening Engineer: Jeannie Hooper

PoemTalk #154, Discussing Elizabeth Willis' "The Similitude of This Great Flower," feat. Simone White, Kate Colby, and Angela Carr

Listen to the full recording and read program notes at Jacket2.

PoemTalk #11, Discussing Erica Hunt's "The Voice of No", feat. Elizabeth Willis, Julia Bloch, and Jessica Lowenthal

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

Reading at Poetics Program @25 Conference, SUNY-Buffalo, April 9, 2016

"Plot" (5:26): MP3

Poetry Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, February 23, 2016

Complete reading (53:35): MP3

  1. Introductory Remarks by Davy Knittle (5:17): MP3
  2. Introduction (0:49): MP3
  3. Plot (4:36): MP3
  4. As Fidel (0:54): MP3
  5. A Species is an Idea (0:53): MP3
  6. Vernacular Architecture (1:18): MP3
  7. Flow Chart (0:47): MP3
  8. Trip Tick (1:32): MP3
  9. The Witch (4:09): MP3
  10. January (0:46): MP3
  11. The Completist (1:13): MP3
  12. Sonnet 63 and a Half (1:35): MP3
  13. About the Author (4:20): MP3
  14. Steady Digression to a Fixed Point (9:20): MP3
  15. Q&A Session (14:55): MP3

Berl's Books Reading in Brooklyn, New York on June 5, 2015

Elizabeth Willis Complete Reading (16:15): MP3

  1. Introduction (0:45): MP3
  2. Asphodel (0:48): MP3
  3. Autobiographia Literaria (0:49): MP3
  4. Ides of February (1:12): MP3
  5. Elegy (0:41): MP3
  6. A Species is an Idea (0:40): MP3
  7. Watertown is 99% Land (10:41): MP3
  8. Steady Digression to a Fixed Point (8:55): MP3

Episode #330 of Cross Cultural Poetics

Talks about and reads from her book of poems Address (Weslyan University Press),

Recorded April 2, 2015

Full Discussion (17:45): MP3

Reading her poem "Survey" from the "Playground of the Americas Arkhive"

Complete Recording (3:32): MP3

EPC@20 Celebration, May 18-21, 2011

"On Wildness and Poetic Form" Talk (Intro by Michael Flatt)

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Audio Recordings:

  1. Introduction (4:29): MP3
  2. On Wildness and Poetic Form (25:43): MP3
  3. On producing wildness (3:10): MP3
  4. On usefulness in poetry (1:17): MP3
  5. On productivity (1:50): MP3
  6. On institutions (2:39): MP3