Rob Halpern

Reading at St. Bonaventure University, November 3, 2015

• Complete Recording

1. Introduction by Kaplan Harris (4:20): MP3
2. Post Script (4:05): MP3
3. Part 1: A Square, a Cell, a Sentence (4:05): MP3
4. Part 2 (3:35): MP3
5. Part 3: And So I Sing This Body on a Table (3:30): MP3
6. Part 4: Cavities of Light (5:44): MP3
7. Part 5 (2:04): MP3
8. Part 6: As for Myself in the Present (3:58): MP3
9. Part 7: Dear Hashim-Bin-Attash (1:24): MP3
10. Part 8: First Dream Poem (4:07): MP3
11. Part 9: Second Dream Poem (3:07): MP3
12. To Burn With Love: First Lyric Poem (1:01): MP3
13. To Burn With Love: Second Lyric Poem (0:38): MP3
14. To Burn With Love: Third Lyric Poem (1:12): MP3
15. To Burn With Love: Fourth Lyric Poem (2:23): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, September 30, 2015

• Complete Reading (46:25): MP3

1. Introduction (3:34): MP3
2. Introduction to the Post Script (Poetry Reading
3. A Square, a Cell, a Sentence (3:08): MP3
4. And So I Sing This Body on a Table (MP3
5. Cavities of Light (4:52): MP3
6. Third Excerpt from Post Script (6:10): MP3
7. Now Render This Fantasy as a Commonplace Whose Structure of Feeling We Share (3:32): MP3
8. Even Bruce Notices (3:44): MP3
9. Dear Abu el-Dahab (2:29): MP3
10. Autopsy Poems (7:00): MP3
11. To Burn With Love: Part 1 (1:13): MP3
12. To Burn With Love: Part 2 (0:34): MP3
13. To Burn With Love: Part 3 (0:57): MP3
14. To Burn with Love: Part 4 (2:01): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, NYC, March 22, 2014

1. Introduction (4:31): MP3
2. Hocus Pocus (7:34): MP3
3. Cavities of Light (4:46): MP3
4. Intimate Obscenity (3:01): MP3
5. The Ligature (4:52): MP3
6. Late-Night Emissions (6:59): MP3
7. Abundance Washed (11:25): MP3

• Complete Reading (45:06): MP3

Group Reading at Modernist Studies Association, Hallwall's Contemporary Art Center, Heatstrings, Buffalo, October 7, 2011

• Rob Halpern (4:15): MP3

1. Introduction (5:19): MP3
2. Rob Halpern (35:17): MP3
3. Taylor Brady (51:45): MP3

• Complete reading (1:32:21): MP3

1. Introduction (6:40): MP3
2. Taylor Brady (11:09): MP3
3. Rob Halpern (51:46): MP3

• Complete reading (1:09:35): MP3

1. Introduction (3:25): MP3
2. On "This is the Public Domain" (19:23): MP3
3. On utopia (3:48): MP3
4. On use (10:07): MP3

• Complete reading (36:47): MP3

"Nonsound, A Musical," Recorded by Christian Passera, Paris, June 2010

• Complete reading (1:41): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, June 7, 2010

• audio available from Double Change archives.

Rob Halpern on Segue Series at BPC: January 23, 2010

• Complete reading (27:57): MP3

1. Introduction (1:14): MP3
2. from Music for Porn (3:48): MP3
3. from Disaster Suites (5:19): MP3
4. Weak Link (17:22): MP3

Reading from Disaster Suites at Modern Times Bookstore, on A Voice Box, July 9, 2009

1. Introduction (1:28): MP3
2. Introduction to talk (2:27): MP3
3. False Start 1 (2:22): MP3
4. Community History: Sex, Writing and Activism in the New Narrative (26:27): MP3

• Complete recording (35:23): MP3

Long Beach Notebook from Imaginary Politics and Disaster Suites, July 2008

• Complete reading (37:22): MP3

1. Introduction (3:34): MP3
2. This Evolved, Bearing No Resemblance to Love (7:06): CMP3/a>
3. Post Disaster (5:58): Complete Reading
4. Wetlands and Marshes Slow (0:32): MP3
5. Pit Sand and River Sand (0:22): MP3
6. Then His Voice Just Petered Out (0:30): MP3
7. Over and Above the Market (0:33): MP3
8. Poem for Tom Donovan (3:02): MP3
9. This One (4:52): MP3
10. Poem for Marcus Sibbons (6:26): MP3
11. Poem for Yetta Morrison (1:21): MP3
12. Poem for Carrie Edwards (2:28): Complete Reading

Wild Horses of Fire Audio, Recorded at 166 Avenue A, June 2008

1. Notes on Porn (3:46): MP3
2. The Restoration of China, or a Secret History of LANGUAGE Bashing (28:47): MP3

On A Voice Box, SPT Aggression Conference, CCA, Oakland, May 31, 2008

• Complete reading (32:51): MP3

'Peace On A' Events Series, May 2008

1. Introduction (6:20): MP3
2. Community History Selection (4:22): MP3
3. A series from Music for Porn: My Operatives (6:28): MP3
4. A series from Music for Porn: Imaginary Politics (20:38): MP3

On A Voice Box, at SPD Open House, Berkeley, April 12, 2008

• Complete reading with Taylor Brady (from their collaboration, Snow Sensitive Skin) (15:28): MP3

Rob Halpern on Segue Series Reading at BPC: March 3, 2007

• Complete reading (38:49): MP3

1. Introduction (9:14): MP3
2. Selections from Disaster Suites (5:27): MP3
3. Selections from Music for Porn (7:12): MP3
4. Selections from Reconciliation Under Duress (from Rumored Place) (15:32): MP3

Also of interest:

• Bev Dahlen, Tribue and Reading, hosted by Small Press Traffic in Timken Hall CCA, San Francisco, December 13, 2008

© 2015 by Rob Halpern. These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the authors. Used with permission of the authors. Distributed by PennSound.