Ted Berrigan

PoemTalk Podcast #5, discussing Berrigan's "3 Pages," April 3, 2008

From Anne Waldman's 2001 album, Alchemical Elegy - Selected Songs and Writings

Excerpt of Memorial Day (with Anne Waldman) (5:00): MP3

1. Introduction (0:52): MP3
2. discussing his writing (15:09): MP3
3. A City Winter (0:13): MP3
4. A Certain Slant of Sunlight (1:29): MP3
5. Give Them Back, Who Never Were (4:02): MP3
6. Now that I (0:34): MP3
7. Okay. First. ... (1:38): MP3
8. Every day back & forth (1:07): MP3
9. Turk (0:56): MP3
10. Let No Willful Fate Misunderstand (2:01): MP3
11. Warrior, Warrior (1:22): MP3
12. To Sing the Song, That Is Fantastic (1:39): MP3
13. In Your Fucking Utopias (4:26): MP3
14. XIII (2:08): MP3
15. The School Windows Song (3:22): MP3
16. Without Scruple (2:07): MP3
17. Ass-face (0:29): MP3
18. Natchez (2:01): MP3
19. Space (3:31): MP3
20. To Book-Keepers (3:58): MP3
21. Stars & Stripes Forever (0:38): MP3
22. Down on Mission (0:44): MP3
23. Dice Riders (0:39): MP3
24. The Way It Was in Wheeling (0:58): MP3
25. Sleeping Alone (2:54): MP3
26. Blue Galahad (0:52): MP3
27. Sweet Iris (3:54): MP3
28. Creature (1:43): MP3
29. Providence (3:29): MP3
30. Wantonness (1:53): MP3
31. You'll do good if you play it like you're (1:30): MP3
32. Pillow Talk (1:35): MP3
33. Interstices (1:27): MP3
34. To Be Serious (2:07): MP3
35. Mutiny (1:49): MP3
36. Ode (0:48): MP3
37. Poets Tribute to Philip Guston (0:44): MP3
38. The Who's Last Tour (1:17): MP3
39. Red Shift (2:11): MP3

From Exact Change Yearbook, no. 1 (ed. Peter Gizzi)

• Red Shift (3:01): MP3
• Recorded July 25, 1982, at the Naropa Institute

The Sonnets, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, June 24, 1981

1. Sonnet 1 (0:39): MP3
   
2. Sonnet 2 (0:43): MP3
   
3. Sonnet 3 (0:45): MP3
   
4. Sonnet 4 (0:44): MP3
   
5. Sonnet 5 (0:45): MP3
   
6. Sonnet 6 (2:06): MP3
   
7. Poem in the Traditional Manner (1:42): MP3
   
8. Poem in the Modern Manner (1:32): MP3
   
9. From a Secret Journal (1:15): MP3
   
10. Sonnet 10 (1:40): MP3
    
11. Sonnet 11 (0:42): MP3
    
12. Penn Station (0:56): MP3
    
13. Sonnet 13 (0:37): MP3
    
14. Sonnet 15 (1:37): MP3
    
15. Sonnet 16 (0:47): MP3
    
16. Sonnet 17 (0:42): MP3
    
17. Sonnet 18 (0:48): MP3
    
18. Sonnet 19 (0:53): MP3
    
19. Sonnet 21 (0:42): MP3
    
20. Sonnet 23 (1:18): MP3
    
21. Sonnet 26 (1:51): MP3
    
22. Sonnet 27 (0:55): MP3
    
23. Sonnet 30 (0:44): MP3
    
24. Sonnet 31 (0:44): MP3
    
25. Sonnet 32 (0:51): MP3
    
26. Sonnet 34 (1:15): MP3
    
27. Sonnet 36 (1:34): MP3
    
28. Sonnet 37 (0:57): MP3
    
29. Sonnet 38 (0:49): MP3
    
30. Mess Occupations (1:29): MP3
    
31. Sonnet 40 (1:33): MP3
    
32. Sonnet 41 (0:41): MP3
    
33. Sonnet 42 (0:54): MP3
    
34. Sonnet 43 (0:43): MP3
    
35. Sonnet 44 (1:01): MP3
    
36. Sonnet 45 (0:44): MP3
    
37. Sonnet 46 (0:43): MP3
    
38. Sonnet 47 (1:16): MP3
    
39. Sonnet 48 (0:52): MP3
    
40. Sonnet 49 (0:49): MP3
    
41. Sonnet 50 (1:24): MP3
    
42. Sonnet 51 (0:51): MP3
    
43. Sonnet 52 (0:35): MP3
    
44. Sonnet 53 (0:53): MP3
    
45. Sonnet 54 (0:56): MP3
    
46. Sonnet 55 (0:58): MP3
    
47. Sonnet 56 (0:45): MP3
    
48. Sonnet 57 (0:39): MP3
    
49. Sonnet 58 (0:55): MP3
    
50. Sonnet 59 (0:41): MP3
    
51. Sonnet 60 (0:43): MP3
    
52. Sonnet 61 (0:52): MP3
    
53. Sonnet 62 (0:44): MP3
    
54. Sonnet 70 (1:21): MP3
    
55. Sonnet 71 (1:04): MP3
    
56. Sonnet 72 (2:00): MP3
    
57. Sonnet 73 (1:21): MP3
    
58. Sonnet 74 (1:12): MP3
    
59. Sonnet 75 (0:49): MP3
    
60. Sonnet 76 (1:15): MP3
    
61. Sonnet 77 (0:59): MP3
    
62. Sonnet 78 (1:24): MP3
    
63. Sonnet 81 (0:53): MP3
    
64. Sonnet 82 (1:20): MP3
    
65. Sonnet 83 (1:59): MP3
    
66. Sonnet 84 (1:06): MP3
    
67. Sonnet 85 (0:54): MP3
    
68. Sonnet 87 (0:55): MP3
    
69. Sonnet 88 (0:55): MP3
    

• Complete Reading, with Introduction (1:22:42): MP3
• Complete Reading, without Introduction (1:13:14): MP3

These selections are available in the following publications:

Reading at the Naropa Institute, June 1980

• Complete Reading (30:14): MP3

• Complete Reading (36:55): MP3

Two Readings: March 5, 1975 and April 25, 1979

• Complete recording (59:50)

Interview and Reading on In The American Tree, hosted by Lyn Hejinian & Kit Robinson, KPFA, Berkeley, August 11, 1978

1. Comments (0:28): MP3
2. Whitman In Black (1:09): MP3
3. Buddha on the Bounty (1:28): MP3
4. Here I Live (2:00): MP3
5. Comments (10:39): MP3
6. Chicago Morning (1:53): MP3
7. New Town (1:09): MP3
8. The End (1:20): MP3
9. From a List of Delusions of the Insane (What They are Afraid Of) (1:10): MP3
10. Comments (9:14): MP3
11. Personal Poem #9 (1:15): MP3
12. Crystal (1:43): MP3
13. Comments (1:50): MP3
14. Three Pages (0:44): MP3
15. Remembered Poem (0:25): MP3

Full Interview and Reading (36:33): MP3

Reading The Sonnets, New York City, December 10, 1978

Art gallery/space in the area of First Avenue near Houston. Organized by Jim Brodey

• intro by Ron Padgett and Rochelle Kraut singing (14:09): MP3
• complete reading (bad audio from about 11:00-30:00) (1:17:51): MP3

This recording is from the collection of Robert Creeley

From The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980

1. Things to Do in New York City (0:48): MP3
2. Landscape with Figures (Southampton) (0:40): MP3
3. Frank O'Hara (1:17): MP3

Appearing on Public Access Poetry with Harris Schiff, August 4, 1977

1. Introduction (0:35): MP3
2. Boulder (1:08): MP3
3. A Little American Feedback (1:09): MP3
4. Picnic (1:07): MP3
5. Carrying a Torch (1:09): MP3
6. A Note from Yang-Kuan (1:09): MP3
7. Work Postures (0:50): MP3
8. A Meeting at the Bridge (1:34): MP3
9. In 4 Parts (0:55): MP3
10. Erasable Picabia (1:55): MP3
11. From A List of the Delusions of the Insane, What They Are Afraid Of (0:40): MP3
12. Late November (0:44): MP3

• Complete Recording (27:36): MP3

1. Introduction (1:15): MP3
2. Wishes (2:09): MP3
3. Ophelia (1:51): MP3
4. Poem (for Larry Fagin) (0:13): MP3
5. Things to Do In Bolinas (1:06): MP3
6. Today in Ann Arbor (3:04): MP3
7. People Who Died (2:27): MP3
8. Three Sonnets and a Coda for Tom Clark (4:09): MP3
9. What I'd Like for Christmas, 1970 (1:15): MP3
10. Southampton Business (3:44): MP3
11. Wrong Train (1:45): MP3
12. Frank O'Hara (1:36): MP3
13. Crystal (1:32): MP3
14. Words for Love (3:39): MP3
15. Things To Do In Providence (7:30): MP3

Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, "Memorial Day," the St. Mark's Poetry Project, May 5, 1971

Complete reading (26:33): MP3

read Michael S. Hennessey's "Recovering 'Memorial Day'" on Jacket2

Reading at Buffalo with Introduction by Robert Creeley, May 6, 1968

1. Introduction (Robert Creeley; cut off) (0:27): MP3
2. Introduction (Berrigan) (0:37): MP3
3. Words For Love (2:08): MP3
4. Personal Poem #7 (0:57): MP3
5. Living with Chris (2:07): MP3
6. Many Happy Returns (1:46): MP3
7. For You (1:04): MP3
8. Things To Do In New York City (0:50): MP3
9. Frank O'Hara's Question (1:30): MP3
10. Resolution (0:37): MP3
11. A Personal Memoir of Tulsa, Oklahoma / 1955-60 (3:11): MP3
12. Long Time No See (0:38): MP3
13. Que Sera Sera (0:16): MP3
14. December (0:17): MP3
15. Tooting My Horn On Duty (0:55): MP3
16. In Four Parts (1:08): MP3
17. A Man Saw a Ball of Gold (0:45): MP3
18. The Groundhog (1:07): MP3
19. Birches (0:24): MP3
20. Poem (1:05): MP3
21. Introduction to The Sonnets (1:00): MP3
22. Sonnet XXXVI (1:21): MP3
23. Sonnet XXXVII (0:53): MP3
24. Sonnet XLVI (0:39): MP3
25. Sonnet XLVIII (0:45): MP3
26. Sonnet L (0:40): MP3
27. Sonnet LI (0:49): MP3
28. Sonnet LII (0:43): MP3
29. Sonnet LIII (0:43): MP3
30. Sonnet LV (0:51): MP3
31. Sonnet LXX (0:56): MP3
32. Sonnet LXXII (0:49): MP3
33. Sonnet LXXIV (0:43): MP3
34. Sonnet LXXV (0:44): MP3
35. Sonnet LXXVI (1:02): MP3
36. Sonnet LXXX (0:49): MP3
37. Sonnet LXXXII (1:06): MP3
38. Sonnet LXXXVII (0:47): MP3
39. A Final Sonnet (Sonnet LXXXVIII) (1:00): MP3

Complete reading (43:30): MP3

Recording thanks to Robert Creeley.

Unknown Reading, Unknown Date

• Partial recording (4:30): MP3

Ted Berrigan on PennSound Daily

• November 15, 2010: "Happy Birthday, Ted Berrigan!"
• August 26, 2009: "Ted Berrigan Reading at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, August 1971"
• April 3, 2007: "PoemTalk #5: Ted Berrigan's '3 Pages'"
• November 15, 2007: "Ted Berrigan on 'In the American Tree', 1978"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to Alice Notley for the Estate of Ted Berrigan. © 2004 Alice Notley. Used with permission of Alice Notley. Distributed by PennSound.