Thom Donovan

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

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

Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, April 15, 2017

1. Introduction (3:34): MP3
2. Opening Remarks (2:42): MP3
3. From My Students (2:03): MP3
4. Some Anti-Monuments (3:25): MP3
5. But Lose the Feeling (3:20): MP3
6. From the Camp (1:56): MP3
7. Dearest Thom (4:42): MP3
8. From Ressentiment (7:13): MP3

• Complete recording (33:39): MP3

Complete recording (1:21:08): MP3

Reading with Anna Vitale at the Zinc Bar, October 30, 2016

Complete reading (28:05): MP3

Reading for Melissa Buzzeo's BFA Workshop, Pratt Institute, New York City, May 2, 2016

Complete reading (44:02): MP3

Reading with Cassandra Troyan at Sector 2337, Chicago, IL, October 28, 2015

Complete reading (28:02): MP3

"The Art of Withdrawal" Talk for Patrick F. Durgin's "Poetics of Agony" course, Art Institute of Chicago, October 2015

Complete recording (35:29): MP3

"Delays in Glass: Social Media Poetics" Talk at Virginia Commonwealth University, November 2014

Complete recording (1:01:38): MP3

Internal Presentation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, August 2014

Complete recording (58:08): MP3

Cy Press Reading Series, Thundersky, Cincinnati, OH, November 21, 2011

• Complete reading (23:41): MP3

Reading with Joseph Bradshaw and Dana Ward, Crescent Reading Series, Philadelphia, July 9, 2011

1. Joseph Bradshaw (33:36): MP3
2. Thom Donovan (20:55): MP3
3. Dana Ward (25:13): MP3

• Complete reading (1:19:44): MP3

Reading at Zebulon Cafe, featuring CA Conrad, Brooklyn, February 8, 2011

1. Thom Donovan (30:27): MP3
2. CA Conrad (6:41): MP3

• Complete reading (37:08): MP3

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Reading with Steven Farmer at the Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, July 2010

1. Thom Donovan (26:36): MP3
2. Steven Farmer (47:43): MP3

• Complete reading (1:14:19): MP3

On A Voice Box, The (New) Reading Series, July 18, 2010

Complete reading (23:28): MP3

Reading for the Emergency Reading Series, Kelly Writers House, November 24, 2009

• Thom Donovan's reading (18:14): MP3
• Complete reading (1:00:05): MP3

Video excerpt: Thom Donovan reads "Paul Thek, Our Contemporary" and "Walking Through Walls"

Reading with Tyrone Williams at Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, January 24, 2009

1. Introduction by Brenda Iijima (1:53): MP3
2. On Tyrone Williams (8:07): MP3
3. "We gave our limbs..." (1:32): MP3
4. "No one was the wiser..." (0:45): MP3
5. "If that fire would burn..." (0:29): MP3
6. Fuck Death, For CA Conrad (1:32): MP3
7. "I read a white site..." (0:20): MP3
8. Turning the inside in..." (1:22): MP3
9. Blood Noise (0:59): MP3
10. A Formal Feeling (0:34): MP3
11. Sunless (0:17): MP3
12. Nail House (0:32): MP3
13. Loss is the Use (0:27): MP3
14. "Enclosures surety..." (0:26): MP3
15. "We are these mirrors..." (1:00): MP3
16. "Nothing towers here..." (0:46): MP3
17. After Oriental Space (0:55): MP3
18. "On the road for you..." (0:31): MP3
19. "Hold barely this green..." (1:21): MP3
20. "This vol-ume turns up..." (1:33): MP3
21. In Memoriam (1:33): MP3
22. Last Man (0:52): MP3
23. Come Out, Again (1:10): MP3
24. Hole Theory (2:21): MP3

Complete reading (33:36): MP3

Thom Donovan and Nonsite Collective: "Allegories of Disablement," Treat Street, San Francisco, July 2008

Complete discussion (1:34:28): MP3

From The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium, Poets House, April 8, 2008

Donovan reads poems by George Oppen

"Route," Section 9 (1:01): MP3
"Route," Section 10 (0:26): MP3
"Route," Section 11 (0:44): MP3
"Route," Section 12 (0:50): MP3
"Route," Section 13 (1:03): MP3
Semite (1:54) MP3

Reading at the O Books War & Peace Vol. 3 Launch, NYC, November 27, 2007

1. Introduction by Stacy Szymaszek (2:12): MP3
2. Opening Remarks (1:04): MP3
3. True Name -- for Jalal Toufic (0:24): MP3
4. for kari edwards (0:33): MP3
5. for Stacy Szymaszek (0:47): MP3
6. Black Garden Wall III (2:41): MP3
7. Our Number of Wolves -- for Sheila Donovan and Aaron Moore (2:30): MP3
8. A Nonsite -- for Andrew Levy (2:26): MP3
9. Perfumed Nightmare -- for Paolo Javier (2:24): MP3
10. The Spirit of the Beehive, or The Re-fabling of the Bees (2:43): MP3
11. What Beauty -- for Michael Cross (7:11): MP3
12. Devotion V: Karbala on Their Lips (1:55): MP3
13. Meatyard, My Neighbor (7:55): MP3

Complete reading (35:05): MP3

1. Opening Remarks (0:49): MP3
2. Devotion V: Karbala on Their Lips (1:32): MP3
3. Devotion III: Ghost Riding (2:40): MP3
4. Devotion VII: Blood That Stays Bloody (1:59): MP3

Complete reading (7:03): MP3

1. Black Garden Wall III (2:55): MP3
2. Fictions of Surveillance (3:31): MP3
3. For Ozu (3:20): MP3
4. from "Devotions" (12:10): MP3
5. Tears Are These Veils (5:50): MP3
6. A Total Sense of Sense (11:58): MP3
7. Towards Exteriors (3:38): MP3
8. Tranquil Interiors (3:39): MP3

Also of Interest:

• Thom Donovan reads at the launch of Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven, March 28, 2010

Thom Donovan on PennSound Daily

• December 14, 2009: "The Emergency Reading Series: Thom Donovan and Julian T. Brolaski"

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