Nada Gordon

PoemTalk #33, Discussing Sharon Mesmer's "I Accidentally Ate Some Chicken and Now I'm in Love with Harry Whittington"

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

PoemTalk #14, Discussing Stevens' "Not Ideas About the Things but the Thing Itself"

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Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, March 31, 2014

Reading at Oh! Sandy: A Remembrance, Industry City, Brooklyn, New York, November 10, 2013, hosted by Phong Bui

• Complete reading (19:24): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, March 26, 2013

1. Introduction by Ron Silliman (6:28) MP3
2. Nada's Remarks (1:36) MP3
3. I'm Truly Searing Dear (0:58) MP3
4. Why Don't You Love Me Blankess (1:04) MP3
5. A Thin Line Which Is Flat (0:53) MP3
6. I Won't Be Adulthoodedness Anymore (2:40) MP3
7. Droop Loss Slave (6:33) MP3
8. Asia (4:45) MP3
9. Wild Cats Can Be Revealed (Vile Lilt) (13:41) MP3
10. Q and A session (12:18) MP3

• Complete reading (50:55): MP3

• Segue Series reading at the Zinc Bar, February 9, 2013

  1. Introduction (4:14): MP3
  2. Poetry is junk (14:29): MP3
  3. Chicken vanishes, heartbreak ensues (2:27): MP3
  4. "A flower moves" (1:47): MP3
  5. Droop loss slave (6:16): MP3
  6. Hovering over his last bed (1:01): MP3
  7. Gordon sings Sarah Vaughan's "All of You" (0:51): MP3
  8. Nightclub singer monkey (13:32): MP3
  • Complete reading (46:03) MP3

  Segue Series reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, April 2, 2011

  1. Introduction (1:27): MP3
  2. Osculation (3:07): MP3
  3. Dramaless (4:00): MP3
  4. Gordon sings Japanese national anthem (0:35): MP3
  5. Burst (1:27): MP3
  6. Gordon sings and talks about a parody of the Japanese national anthem (1:15): MP3
  7. Too undone (2:11): MP3
  8. Melodramatic poem (1:42): MP3
  9. "When we first met I could write pastiche" (0:57): MP3
  10. "No matter your tumescence" (0:28): MP3
  11. The fakery (0:59): MP3
  12. The women flowers (0:26): MP3
  13. The bride (0:25): MP3
  14. Scruples (0:28): MP3
  15. The woman (0:22): MP3
  16. Fucking my husband (2:28): MP3
  17. Audience member plays the drums (2:11): MP3
  18. You can't get a restraining order against a cat for a number of reasons (1:05): MP3
  19. Hearing (2:19): MP3
  20. Frozen dough (1:41): MP3
  21. Form dissolve (4:42): MP3
  22. Gordon eating roses and redoing her lipstick (1:14): MP3
  23. Blastapore (3:32): MP3
  • Complete reading (43:38): MP3

  Reading for Art, Fantasy, and Experience at the Gross Foundation, New York, December 12, 2010

  1. Wherever You Found Our Stain Behind the Moon (1:12): MP3
  2. How Do I Tickle (0:49): MP3
  3. Please Usufruct to Me (1:04): MP3
  4. Foreign Body Sensation Remix (after Charles Bernstein) (1:17): MP3
  5. Frozen Doe (1:23): MP3
  6. Today's Ensemble (0:58): MP3
  7. The Story About Cartoon Sight and Floozy Winds (2:51): MP3
  8. I Need My Frolicking Angst Like a Sweet Elbow (2:27): MP3
  • Complete reading (12:12): MP3
  • Complete discussion (11:27): MP3
  
  

  Appearing on LA-Lit #30, December 2, 2007

  • Part A (35:09): MP3
  • Part B (36:46): MP3

  From the Flarf Poetry Festival at the Kelly Writers House, February 8, 2007

  1. My Favorite Things Redux (3:26): MP3
  2. Lick My Face (4:00): MP3
  3. Fountain (1:34): MP3
  4. I Love Men (4:27): MP3

  Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 4, 2006

  1. Introduction (3:48): MP3
  2. Abnormal Discharge (2:31): MP3
  3. What Air (after Erasmus) (1:07): MP3
  4. Porpo Thang (6:36): MP3
  5. Cooing Pop Huckles (2:32): MP3
  6. You are Freed (1:43): MP3
  7. Statement on Avant-Garde Poetics (1:41): MP3
  8. Sheep Nose (4:13): MP3
  9. Muss (3:10): MP3
  10. play from Folly (5:08): MP3
  11. Coney Island Avenue (6:44): MP3

  Complete reading (40:05): MP3

  Reading as part of the Belladonna* Reading Series, Feburary 6, 2004

  Complete reading (23:41): MP3

  Reading as part of the Line Reading Series, January 15, 2002

  Complete reading (27:38): MP3
  1. Introduction by Lytle Shaw (2:31): MP3
  2. Nothing (4:01): mp3
  3. Low (4:31): MP3
  4. Peonies (2:53): MP3
  5. Fear of Life (3:24): MP3
  6. What is a Man? (1:29): MP3
  7. What is a Woman? (0:45): MP3
  8. Music of the Spheres (0:33): MP3
  9. Inscript (0:48): MP3
  10. Sea-Torn Well (6:35): MP3

  From Cross-Cultural Poetics, Episode #52: From The Sound of It

  1. остранение ("Strangeness") (12:02): MP3
  2. Clova Mowdis (14:00): MP3

  Complete program (29:54): MP3

  Wednesday Series: Adeena Karasick, Nada Gordon, St. Mark's Church, NY, April 19, 2000

  Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

  1. Side A (48:30): link
  2. Side B (49:54): link

  Nada Gordon on PennSound Daily

  • January 28, 2011: "Art, Fantasy and Experience, Moderated by Carla Billitteri, 2010"
  • July 7, 2010: "A Slew of New PennSound Author Pages"

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