Lonely Christopher

Reading with Alan Gilbert and Stephen Motika for the Imaginary Elegies Reading Series, Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY, July 11, 2025

Hosted by Iris Cushing.

Complete recording (1:00:41): MP3

Reading Voyages, Torn Page, NYC, February 2, 2025

With Dante Fuoco as Hart Crane, featuring Tony Torn, Cecilia Corrigan, Hilary Dennis, Rezarta Seferi, Ry Cook, Lambert Tamin, Stu Watson, and Kit James

• Vimeo mirror (high quality): External link
• Media.SAS direct URL: MP4

Reading for the launch of chapbook Lavender Silk, Dear Friends Books, Brooklyn, NY, November 19, 2023

Hosted by Ryan Skrabalak.

Complete reading (30:57): MP3

Reading at Fabulosa Books, San Francisco, CA, November 3, 2022

Introduction by Richard Loranger.

Complete reading (26:38): MP3

Reading for Segue at Zinc Bar, NYC, February 2, 2019

Complete reading (26:29): MP3

Reading Voyages for the Experiments Play Reading Series, La MaMa Galleria, NYC, December 17, 2018

With Gore Abrams as Hart Crane. Second draft.

Complete recording (2:50:06): MP3

Reading for the Enclave Reading Series, Club Cumming, NYC, March 31, 2018

Reading from THERE (15:18): MP3

Book Launch for Samuel R. Delany's The Atheist in the Attic and Chrisopher’s THERE, at Philly AIDS Thrift at Giovanni’s Room, Philadelphia, hosted by Gregory Laynor, March 3, 2018

Readings and Q&A (1:16:11): MP3

Reading for Bryant Park’s Word for Word series featuring “HIV Here & Now”, as programmed and hosted by Michael Broder for Indolent Books, Kinokuniya, NY, February 16, 2016

Christopher reads three of his own poems and two poems by others.

1. “All Good Years”
2. “His Lips Were on that Glass”
3. The Year of Mercy” by Patricia Spears Jones
4. “Does It Hurt to Have ‘It’?” by Steven Cordova
5. “Lost Metropolis”

Reading on Bay 2 Brooklyn, Episode 1, Brooklyn, NY, January 18, 2016

Christopher's segment (9:37): MP3

Reading (with Alina Gregorian and Ben Pease) at Berl's Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY, September 20, 2014

• Complete recording (57:36): MP3

The Queer Gaze, Bureau of General Services, Queer Division, Manhattan, NY, April 1, 2014

• Panel with Samuel R. Delany, Ana Bozicevic, Saeed Jones, and Trace Peterson; moderated by Lonely Christopher; presented by Kristiana
• Complete recording (1:13:15): MP3

Reading at Woolsey Heights, Berkeley, CA, March 24, 2012

• Complete recording (19:14): MP3

Reading for the Segue Series, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, 2011

• Complete recording (20:49): MP3

High Volumes Radio Show, hosted by Joelle Jameson, July 5th, 2010

1. “The Mythological Poet” by John Ashbery (2:51): MP3
2. High Volumes Intro (2:13): MP3
3. Opening Remarks (9:53): MP3
4. “Magic Bridge” by Lonely Christopher (2:46): MP3
5. “How Do You Know This Is For Real?” by Lonely Christopher (3:22): MP3
6. “A Singer Must Die” by Leonard Cohen (3:14): MP3
7. Remarks (5:29): MP3
8. “Anselm Berrigan” by Lonely Christopher (2:10): MP3
9. “A Portrait of Christian Berard, A Painter” by Gertrude Stein (1:49): MP3
10. A Substance in a Cushion” from “Tender Buttons” by Gertrude Stein (3:00): MP3
11. “Roseability” by Idlewild (3:33): MP3
12. “Grown-Ups” by Lonely Christopher (1:03): MP3
13. “Is This What You Wanted” by Leonard Cohen (4:10): MP3
14. Remarks (7:25): MP3
15. “Poets to Come” by Walt Whitman (0:57): MP3
16. “One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong” by Leonard Cohen (6:07): MP3

• Complete recording (1:00:02): MP3

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2018 Lonely Christopher. Used with permission of Lonely Christopher. Distributed by PennSound.