Berkson Tapes
Reading "The Skaters" at Washington SquareGallery, with introduction by Bill Berkson, Sugust 23, 1964
The Skaters I-III (45:50): MP3
The Skaters IV (18:35): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete reading (5:45): MP3
James Baxter
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete reading (6:50): MP3
complete recording (6:49): MP3
Discussion on Jackson Pollock on "The Forum" program with Ed Harris and Whitney Chadwick, hosted by Michael Krasny, for KQED, San Francisco, January 18, 2001
Part One (43:16): MP3
Part Two (10:08): MP3
Reading for the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, New York, May 17, 1978
Complete Reading (39:58): MP3
Reading "Young Manhattan" by Bill Berkson and Anne Waldman, 1974
Complete Recording (5:57): MP3
Reading with Kenward Elmslie at Loeb S.C., New York City, February 7, 1969
Complete Recording (1:12:37): MP3
Reading at MacCombe Community College
Complete Recording (43:00): MP3
Reading at Grand Piano, San Francisco, November 9, 1976
Complete Recording (43:00): MP3
Reading for Intersection, San Francisco, December 20, 1976
Complete Recording (24:38): MP3
Unknown Reading, Unknown Date
partial recording (4:30): MP3
Reading at the San Francisco Poetry Center, February 11, 1976
Part One (31:19): MP3
Part Two (31:23): MP3
Reading "Journals" and "Van Gogh" for the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, New York, and "Train Ride" at SFSU, mid 1970's
Complete Recording (24:59): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (3:17): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (26:42): MP3
Reading "Landscape Do Not Enter" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (2:19): MP3
Reading "Oracle Night" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (19:20): MP3
complete recording (22:49): MP3
complete recording (22:52): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (21:09): MP3
Reading "Briggflatts," Carlisle, April 15, 1977
Briggflats I-IV (43:01): MP3
Briggflatts V and Coda (12:10): MP3
John Cage
"Questions and Answers," Harvard, 1990
Side A (28:21): MP3
Side B (25:49): MP3
Reading "Mesostic IV," Harvard, 1990
Side A (32:13): MP3
Side B (24:39): MP3
"Overpopulation and Art," Stanford Humanities Center, January 28, 1992
complete recording (26:42): MP3
Steve Carey
Reading "A Movie for Liz Palmer" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (0:53): MP3
Jim Carroll
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (4:20): MP3
Unknown Date, Unknown Location
complete recording (23:26): MP3
Tom Clark
Reading at Body Politic, Chicago, November 1973
complete recording (17:11): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (7:03): MP3
Reading "The Color of Stepped on Gum" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (0:49): MP3
Polaroid, S -Press Cassette
Side A (59:02): MP3
Side B (44:59): MP3
Reading at the Poetry Center, San Francisco, May 20, 1956
Part One (46:19): MP3
Part Two (7:10): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (9:00): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (12:37): MP3
Reading "North Atlantic Turbine" in London, 1967
complete recording (53:52): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (8:05): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York
complete recording (8:01): MP3
Reading "Half in the Vast Distance" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (3:27): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (10:09): MP3
Reading with Kenneth Deifik as part of the "Town Hall," St. Mark's Poetry Project, April 19, 1980
complete recording (5:47): MP3
Reading "Saga of Skunk's Misery" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (5:24): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, November 16, 1992
complete recording (50:33): MP3
Larry Fagin
Reading in Bolinas, March 6, 1974
complete recording (22:11): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (10:14): MP3
Reading at Intersection, San Francisco, August 17, 1971
complete recording (58:06): MP3
Reading "Popeye and Blake" with Kenneth Koch at St. Mark's Poetry Project, May 9, 1979
complete recording (8:18): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1977
complete recording (35:44): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (1:33): MP3
Reading at Grand Piano, San Francisco, November 9, 1976
partial recording (18:50): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, NY
complete recording (7:39): MP3
Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, NY
complete recording (10:38): MP3
Reading "The Elevation of Terre Haute is 50 Feet" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (4:37): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (1:19): MP3
Steve Katz
Reading "William Reichert" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (2:37): MP3
Sam Kashner
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (2:23): MP3
Reading "Toothpaste" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (0:42): MP3
Reading "Boiling Water" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (9:45): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (5:17): MP3
Rochelle Kraut
Reading the Third Poem from "A Book of Airs," by Thomas Campion, at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (2:28): MP3
Reading at Intersection, San Francisco, December 20, 1976
complete recording (18:15): MP3
Reading from "Visit to Marlyand" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (2:20): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York
complete recording (11:43): MP3
Gary Lenhart
Reading "My Bellacina" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (0:59): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (2:57): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1977
complete recording (22:44): MP3
Reading "To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage"
complete recording (1:55): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1977
complete recording (18:15): MP3
Midwinter Day
complete recording (29:39): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York
complete recording (33:26): MP3
Reading "The Heart of the Hair" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (3:47): MP3
Reading "Lorna and Vicki" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (3:26): MP3
Reading "Conversation" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (1:22): MP3
Reading "A Woman Comes Into the Room" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (1:56): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (4:56): MP3
Unknown Location, May, 1973
complete recording (46:37): MP3
Reading "Dance of the Bees" at St. Mark's Poetry Project, March 3, 1978
complete recording (0:57): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (10:28): MP3
Unknown Date, Unknown Location
complete recording (3:18): MP3
F.T. Prince
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, May 24, 1978
complete recording (1:11:07): MP3
Reading at the New College, March 1, 1985
incomplete reading (33:31): MP3
Reading for the Poetry Project, St. Mark's, New York, 1972
complete recording (1:00:51): MP3
Bob Rosenthal
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (1:45): MP3
Ed Sanders
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (17:04): MP3
San Francisco Poets, Evergreen Review
Ferlinghetti , Miles, Duncan, and Spicer (25:22): MP3
Broughton, Rexroth, Evanson, Whalen, McClure, and Ginsberg (17:29): MP3
Harris Schiff
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York
complete recording (4:03): MP3
Reading "New York" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (0:15): MP3
Reading "Freedom is Your Dream" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (0:45): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, April 19, 1980
complete recording (5:52): MP3
Peter Schjeldahl
Reading for the "Town Hall" at St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, April 19, 1980
complete recording (2:30): MP3
Hymn to Life & Other Poems, Watershed Tapes
side one (31:05): MP3
side two (29:35): MP3
Semina Culture Poetry Reading, Berkeley Art Museum, November 12, 2006
Part One (45:54): MP3
Part One (38:59): MP3
Six Gallery Reading: Rexroth, Snyder, Whalen, McClure, San Francisco, October 1955
Rexroth, Snyder, Whalen, and McClure (46:22): MP3
McClure (0:51): MP3
Patti Smith
Reading "Poem (Lo, No Lord...)" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (1:45): MP3
Reading "Red Cross Stations" at St. Mark's Poetry Project, November 20, 1979
complete recording (2:26): MP3
Susie Timmons
Reading "Journal Entries" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (1:08): MP3
Reading "Social Poem" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (3:12): MP3
Unknown Recordings
Unknown Location, Unknown Date
North, St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York
complete recording (10:26): MP3
G.S. Carey Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York
complete recording (1:50): MP3
Ryman reading "Since Breakfast" at St. Mark's Poetry Project, NY
complete recording (0:35): MP3
Town Hall with Schiff, Hawkins, and Clark, April 19, 1980
complete recording (35:52): MP3
Unknown Recording, St. Mark's Poetry Project, NY
complete recording (4:27): MP3
Unknown Recording, St. Mark's Poetry Project, NY
complete recording (7:10): MP3
Unknown reading "Guyana" at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (1:56): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (11:52): MP3
Reading as part of "Nurturing in Times of Peril," Naropa, May 24, 1986
complete recording (42:35): MP3
Reading at Intersection, San Francisco, August 17, 1971
complete recording (58:37): MP3
By and Large, Ubik Sound
side one (32:02): MP3
side two (30:15): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, NY, January 6, 1971 (date tentative)
complete recording (42:38): MP3
Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1970 (date tentative)
complete recording (37:22): MP3
Reading from "A Superficial Estimation" (begins in progress) at St. Mark's Poetry Project
complete recording (13:04): MP3
Video Recordings
John Ashbery
Reading as part of the Lunch Poems Series, UC Berkeley, April 8, 2001
Part of the Cloud House Series
Reading at the San Fransisco Art Institute (organized with Small Press Traffic), introduction by Bill Berkson, January 26, 1998
Part of the Cloud House Series
Reading at the San Francisco Art Institute (organized with the American Poetry Archive at San Fransisco State), December 5, 1984
Reading in the American Poetry Archive at San Fransisco State, Introduction by Kathleen Fraser, May 16, 1973
Ted Berrigan
Two Readings: March 5, 1975 and April 25, 1979
Bill Berkson
Reading for "Remember Me to Someone" event at Slaughterhousespace, CA, August 29, 2009
Reading at the CUE Art Foundation, New York, May 3, 2007
Reading with Sarah Riggs, Stephen Rodefer, Andrew Zawacki, Guy Bennet, and Jorie Graham for Double Change Issue 9, July 5, 2005
Reading with Valerie Mrejen for Double Change Issue 8, Paris, June 17, 2005
Reading at Concord Academy Chapel, April 19, 1986
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complete recording (1:34:43)
James Schuyler
Reading at San Francisco Art Institute, co-sponsored by the Poetry Center at SFSU, February 10, 1989
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complete recording (54:52)
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