Ted Pearson

Appearing on or featuring in PoemTalk:

PoemTalk #188, Discussing Ted Pearson's "Catenary Odes," feat. Rachel Blau DuPlessis, William Fuller, Bruce Andrews

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

Ted Pearson's 1995 LINEbreak program with Charles Bernstein

Grand Piano Reading: Episode 2, September 08, 2022

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Ted Pearson: It fell to me to write the opening essay of the final volume, "Etude X: Threads," which I chose to read straight through. I wanted to reflect on issues raised in earlier volumes and to project their continuing relevance. As well, I wanted to locate ours as an actively productive "community of practice," a concept I discuss at some length.

MLA Offsite Reading at ArtShare, LA, January 8, 2011

Complete reading (2:43): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, October 18, 2008

1. Introduction (1:14): MP3
2. Phase Rule (10:06): MP3
3. Dark Matter (10:09): MP3
4. Null Set (6:00): MP3
• Complete Reading (28:38): MP3


Reading at the Kelly Writers House on March 4, 2004

1. Inroduction by CA Conrad (3:10): MP3
2. Introduction by Ted Pearson (3:08): MP3
3. "Hard Science" (8:00): MP3
4. "Parker's Mood" (11:00): MP3
• You can hear a recording of the entire program in mp3 format here.
• To view the text of the introduction by CA Conrad, click here.


MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

• reading first stanza from all of his (then) 13 books (6:09): MP3


Wednesdays at 4Plus, University at Buffalo, November 9, 1994

Complete Reading (27:11): MP3

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, December 4, 1993

1. Introduction (01:58): MP3
2. Catenary Odes (12:20): MP3, TEXT
3. Acoustic Masks (03:20): MP3
• Complete recording (19:07): MP3

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, March 21, 1992

1. Introduction (0:59): MP3
2. Introduction by Pearson (1:16): MP3
3. Descant (07:11) MP3
4. Planetary Gear (14:57) MP3
• Complete recording (25:13): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, February 4, 1989

1. Reaped Figures (5:49): MP3
2. Coulomb's Law (18:12): MP3
3. Descant (8:01): MP3
• Complete reading (33:33): MP3


Appearing on In the American Tree, hosted by Alan Bernheimer, December 21, 1979

1. Introduction (0:48): MP3
2. Reading Sections 2-5 of Refractions (15:07): MP3
   Interview Discussions
3. Structural form of Refractions (2:48): MP3
4. Language and meaning (1:53): MP3
5. Role of the listener's memory (1:14): MP3
   
6. "Ellipsis" (6:35): MP3

Complete Recording (27:18): MP3


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