Ron Padgett

Appearing on or featuring in PoemTalk:

PoemTalk #195, Discussing Ron Padgett's “Joe Brainard’s Painting Bingo” & “The Austrian Maiden” feat. James Berger, Richard Deming

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

Virtual reading for the Yale Literary Magazine, November 1, 2022

In celebration of Dot (Coffee House Press, 2022).

Complete recording (52:24): MP3

1. Introduction (2:35): MP3
2. Tea for You, Too (0:55): MP3
3. Presto (0:20): MP3
4. Starry Night (0:36): MP3
5. The Great Divide (0:44): MP3
6. Philosophy (1:10): MP3
7. Start (6:48): MP3
8. Free at Last (0:42): MP3
9. The Sunny Side of the Street (1:07): MP3
10. I’ll Get It (14-part series)(8:41): MP3
11. The Dream of the Cadillac (1:57): MP3
12. Flashcards (1:05): MP3
13. Peppermint Air (0:50): MP3
14. Knockouts (4:42): MP3
15. Post-Reading Q&A (20:12): MP3

Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, November 18, 2013

Conversation with John Ashbery, Oral History Initiative: On Frank O'Hara, Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard, April 5, 2011

1. introduction (1:41): MP3
2. Ashbery describing how het met Frank O'Hara (5:21): MP3
3. discussing his years at Harvard with Frank (7:14): MP3
4. Frank's time at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the Poets Theater, and his piano playing (5:29): MP3
5. Frank's return to NYC after Michigan, his job at MoMA, and John Latouche's salons (4:32): MP3
6. The Living Theater and acting in "Desire Caught by the Tail" with Frank (2:22): MP3
7. Ashbery on the inspiring, friendly competition between himself, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch (2:16): MP3
8. on Jane Bowles (2:14): MP3
9. retelling the story of Frank becoming the victim of a holdup (2:23): MP3
10. Frank's letter-writing and modesty (4:24): MP3
11. Frank at the Poets Theater in Cambridge and as a reader of poetry (4:21): MP3
12. Frank's generosity and willingness to entertain everyone and the difficulty of talking to him alone (1:57): MP3
13. reading two letters from Frank O'Hara (8:21): MP3

• Complete recording (53:46): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, Nantes, and Angers, April 15-20, 2010

• Audio recording available from Double Change archives.

Reading The Big Something at his NYC home, July 4, 2009

1. Introduction (0:10): MP3
2. American Cowslip (0:51): MP3
3. First Drift (1:31): MP3
4. Greetings from Dalmatia (2:58): MP3
5. Greetings from Dalmatia, part 2 (2:41): MP3
6. The Little Past Midnight Snack (1:12): MP3
7. Dog (0:41): MP3
8. The Human Being and the Human Nothingness (3:38): MP3
9. Extra Star (1:17): MP3
10. A Brief Correspondence Course (0:42): MP3
11. Snow (1:44): MP3
12. How to be a Woodpecker (3:32): MP3
13. Goethe (0:46): MP3
14. The Rue de Rennes (1:30): MP3
15. The Way of All Handwriting (0:42): MP3
16. Oklahoma Dawn (1:43): MP3
17. Poem (0:47): MP3
18. Tom and Jerry Graduate from High School (3:10): MP3
19. Euphues (1:26): MP3
20. My Room (3:55): MP3
21. Famous Flames (3:41): MP3
22. Popular Mechanics (5:24): MP3
23. At Apollinaire's Tomb (2:17): MP3
24. The Salt and Pepper Shakers (1:51): MP3
25. M'sieur Tarzan (3:37): MP3
26. To Woody Woodpecker (0:31): MP3
27. Who and Each (2:05): MP3
28. Coors (1:58): MP3
29. Light as Air (8:11): MP3
30. Indian Territory (1:36): MP3
31. Smoke (0:48): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, February 20, 2007

• Film available from Double Change archives.

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, April 8, 2003

1. Lytle Shaw's Introduction (2:05): MP3
2. Padgett's Opening Remarks (1:36): MP3

from Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003):

3. Chapter 1 from Oklahoma Tough (6:15): MP3
4. Opening Remarks on Nice People Among the Pint Pitchers (1:53): MP3
5. Nice People Among the Pint Pitchers (12:35): MP3

Complete reading (24:27): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, February 26, 2003

1. Chapter 1 of Oklahoma Tough (7:36): MP3

poems from You Never Know (2002):

2. "The Drink" (1:09): MP3
3. "Morning" (0:54): MP3
4. "To Myself" (0:42): MP3
5. "The Missing Lips" (0:39): MP3
6. "Not Particularly" (0:39): MP3
7. "Fairy Tale" (1:36): MP3
8. "J and J" (0:57): MP3
9. "For a Moment" (0:32): MP3
10. "Fixation" (0:31): MP3
11. "Obit Backlash" (1:07): MP3
12. "The Austrian Maiden" (0:57): MP3
13. "Mountains are a Feeling" (0:46): MP3
14. "The County Fair" (0:59): MP3
15. "The Sweeper" (0:52): MP3
16. "Bluebird" (0:36): MP3
17. "Medieval Salad Dive" (0:37): MP3
18. "You Never Know" (0:36): MP3
19. "Poet as Immortal Bird" (0:29): MP3
20. "My Trip to Italy" (1:20): MP3
21. "Haiku" (0:08): MP3
22. "Bob Creeley Breakthrough" (1:03): MP3
23. "Feathers" (0:26): MP3
24. "The Love Cook" (0:27): MP3
25. "Penser Juste" (1:04): MP3
26. "Sacred Heart" (1:39): MP3
27. "Amy" (1:13): MP3

Interviewed on miPOradio by Amy King

• Part one (42:41): MP3
• Part two (33:20): MP3

Wednesday Series: Ron Padgett, St. Mark’s Church, NY, May 28, 1997

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

1. Side A (56:15): link
2. Side B (57:38): link

Thin Air Lectures with Ron Silliman, Alice Notley, and Bernadette Mayer, St. Marks Church, May 1988

Watch on Media.sas

Complete Recording (55:16): MP3

Ed Friedman and Ron Padgett for the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, May 18, 1988

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

1. Side A (45:35): link
2. Side B (38:20): link

Discussing collaboration, UCSD, November 18, 1980

• Complete Recording, (1:03:27)MP3
• Recording courtesy of Michael Davison

Reading, UCSD, November 19, 1980

• Complete Recording, (42:30)MP3
• Recording courtesy of Michael Davison

1. Introduction (0:36): MP3
2. Joe Brainard's Painting Bingo (1:35): MP3
3. The Farmer's Head (0:40): MP3
4. Detach, Invading (2:02): MP3
5. Poema del City (1:35): MP3
6. Poema del City 2 (1:15): MP3
7. Wilson '57 (15:03): MP3

• Complete recording (23:03): MP3

Recording from the Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry, at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

1. After Lorca (1:14): MP3
2. Déjà Vu (0:38): MP3
3. Framed Picture (0:34): MP3
4. Poem for El Lissitzky (1:03): MP3
5. Blue Bananas (1:25): MP3
6. Red Bendix (0:42): MP3
7. High Heels (0:57): MP3
8. Postcard (0:54): MP3
9. Love Poem (1:18): MP3
10. Lessons in Things: The Beings of Nature (2:09): MP3
11. Lessons in Things: The Uses of Metals (0:45): MP3
12. Lessons in Things: Precious Materials (0:53): MP3
13. Lessons in Things: Our Houses (1:03): MP3
14. Lessons in Things: Lighting (1:12): MP3
15. Lessons in Things: Vacations (0:52): MP3
16. Lessons in Things: Milk (1:44): MP3
17. Lessons in Things: Food (1:21): MP3
18. Lessons in Things: Flowers (0:32): MP3
19. Lessons in Things: The Vegetable Garden (2:10): MP3
20. Lessons in Things: The Banana Tree (1:25): MP3
21. Lessons in Things: Coffee (1:42): MP3
22. Lessons in Things: The Races of Men (0:57): MP3
23. Lessons in Things: The Human Body (1:20): MP3
24. Lessons in Things: Animals (2:21): MP3
25. Lessons in Things: Insects (1:12): MP3
26. Lessons in Things: The Air and Wind (1:26): MP3
27. Lessons in Things: Water (1:08): MP3
28. Lessons in Things: Clouds, Thunder and Lightning (1:01): MP3
29. Lessons in Things: Steam and Electricity (1:12): MP3
30. Lessons in Things: The Telegraph and Telephone (1:14): MP3
31. Lessons in Things: Time (0:57): MP3

• Complete recording (37:21): MP3

Appearing on Public Access Poetry, February 16, 1978

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

The Music Lesson (7:33): MP3

Reading at the Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, April 15, 1975

Unknown Location, May, 1973

• Complete recording (46:37): MP3

Reading at Bolinas Community Center, August 26, 1972

• Complete recording (30:45): MP3

Ron Padgett on PennSound Daily

• March 10, 2010: "Ron Padgett: 'The Big Something,' Recorded in Its Entirety, 2009"
• May 4, 2009: "Ron Padgett and Tom Veitch: Antlers in the Treetops (1970)"
• January 25, 2007: "Ron Padgett on PennSound"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2013 Ron Padgett. Used with permission of Ron Padgett. Distributed by PennSound.