James Schuyler

PoemTalk #85, Discussing James Schuyler's "February," feat. Bernadette Mayer, Julia Bloch, and erica kaufman on February 20, 2015

For complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2

PennSound #64: William Corbett and Davy Knittle on James Schuyler

Complete recording (44:47): MP3 [ info ]

James Schuyler Memorial Reading, St. Mark's Church, NYC, February 26, 1992

• Part 1, Side A (44:55): MP3
• Part 1, Side B (44:47): MP3
• Part 1 includes introductions by Ed Friedman and Eileen Myles, and features John Ashbery, Patricia Jones, Ron Padgett, Father Ousley, Raymond Foye, Anne Dunn, Bob Rosenthal, Ed Friedman, Jane Freilicher, Joe Brainard, Douglas Crase, Frank Polach, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Rochelle Kraut, Tom Carey, Geoffrey Young, Elinor Nauen, Honor Moore, Vincent Katz, William Corbett, and Frank Bidart
• Part 2 (44:20): MP3
• Part 2 features Susan Baran, Gerritt Henry, Marc Cohen, Morris Golde, and Jonathan Galassi, and includes a reading of "Hymn to Life" by Tom Carey, Eileen Myles, Nathan Kernan, Charles North, Ann Lauterbach, and Darragh Park

From the archives of John Ashbery:
James Schuyler reads "The Morning of the Poem," 1982

• Complete Reading (18:56): MP3

Hymn to Life & Other Poems, recorded at the Chelsea Hotel, November 9, 1986

1. Hymn to Life (34:00): MP3 , RealAudio and also Text
2. Unlike Joubert (1:35): MP3
3. Now and Then (for Kenward Elmslie) (8:35): MP3
4. Freely Espousing (1:44): MP3
5. Mood Indigo (for David Trinidad) (1:39): MP3
6. The Crystal Lithium (10:44): MP3 and also Text

Special thanks to Barbara Guest.

STAFF:
Producer: Anne Becker
Engineer: Anne Becker
Executive Producer: Alan D. Austin
Originally issued as a cassette tape by Watershed Intermedia, 1989.
Selections 1-4 and 6 from Selected Poems.
Production of this recording was made possible in part by a grant from the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts.

1. Opening comments (2:14): MP3
2. Introduction by John Ashbery (4:55): MP3
3. Salute (1:03): MP3
4. Light Blue Above (1:38): MP3
5. Empathy and New Year (4:17): MP3
6. February (2:14): MP3
7. Unlike Joubert (1:59): MP3
8. Closed Gentian Distances (0:32): MP3
9. Eyes at the Window (3:20): MP3
10. Light from Canada (1:21): MP3
11. A Stone Knife (2:00): MP3
12. A Man in Blue (3:31): MP3
13. December (2:11): MP3
14. Verge (1:30): MP3
15. Money Musk (2:39): MP3
16. Song (1:29): MP3
17. What Ails My Fern (1:22): MP3
18. Procession (0:51): MP3
19. Suddenly (0:23): MP3

Complete reading: MP3

"February" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 85.

• Complete recording (53:32): MP3

Complete video (54:52): MP4

1. Introduction by Bill Berkson (6:18): MP3
2. Salute (0:36): MP3
3. Today (1:49): MP3
4. Empathy and New Year (4:17): MP3
5. Light Blue Above (1:41): MP3
6. February (2:14): MP3
7. A Man in Blue (3:20): MP3
8. Verge (1:36): MP3
9. Eyes at the Window (3:10): MP3
10. The Bluet (1:13): MP3
11. Light from Canada (for Charles North) (1:23): MP3
12. Closed Gentian Distances (0:35): MP3
13. Now and Then (9:36): MP3
14. Evening Wind (1:32): MP3
15. Fauré's Second Piano Quartet (1:03): MP3 (partial recording)
16. Korean Mums (2:05): MP3
17. What Ails My Fern? (1:28): MP3
18. Song (1:38): MP3
19. Procession (0:50): MP3
20. Suddenly (1:17): MP3

"February" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 85.

Reading at 92nd Street Y with John Ashbery in New York, November 23, 1989

1. Introduction by Jonathan Galassi (3:19): MP3
2. Salute (0:32): MP3
3. A Man in Blue (3:18): MP3
4. Empathy and New Year (4:15): MP3
5. Fauré's Second Piano Quartet (1:07): MP3
6. Korean Mums (2:09): MP3
7. Advent (0:27): MP3
8. Shaker (0:54): MP3
9. Rain (0:54): MP3
10. The Light Within (1:00): MP3
11. Horsechestnut Trees and Roses (4:43): MP3
12. Mood Indigo (1:54): MP3
13. Let's All Hear it for Mildred Bailey (2:29): MP3
14. A View (1:41): MP3
15. Birds (1:32): MP3
16. Shadowy Room (0:59): MP3
17. Haze (1:00): MP3
18. Untitled (This Soft October) (0:55): MP3
19. White Boat, Blue Boat (1:04): MP3
20. Noon Office (0:41): MP3
21. A Chapel (0:45): MP3
22. Yellow Flowers (1:12): MP3
23. A Cardinal (1:15): MP3

• Schuyler reading (45:39): MP3
  
• Complete Recording with John Ashbery (1:21:34): MP3

1. Interview (cut) (25:23): MP3
2. Complete Interview (uncut) (42:13): MP3

• Presenter: Adam Philips
• Producer: Rachel Yorke
• Distributed by BBC © 1989

Semina Culture Poetry Reading, Berkeley Art Museum, November 12, 2006

• Part One (45:54): MP3
• Part One (38:59): MP3

• Complete recording (45:22): MP3

Reading and interview with Tom Savage on Mitch Corber’s Radio Thin Air, from the Ben Tripp Tapes, Date Unknown

• Side A (20:52): MP3
• Side B (20:45): MP3

Also of Interest:

• 10 Year Memorial honoring Frank O’Hara, from the Ben Tripp Tapes, St. Mark’s Church, 1976
• Side A (29:50): MP3
• Side B (49:29): MP3

Features Joe LeSeuer, Patsy Southgate, Jane Freilicher (reading James Schuyler), Anne Waldman as MC, Kenneth Koch (reading "Awake in Spain"), Carter Ratcliffe, Tony Towle, Patsy Southgate, David Shapiro, and Peter Schjedahl

Note: Some unintentional background music and sound from earlier tape recording can occasionally be deciphered in the background. Kenneth Koch’s reading features particularly distracting interruptions.

James Schuyler on PennSound Daily

• October 23, 2009: "John Ashbery Week, Day 5: With James Schuyler at the 92nd Street Y, 1989
• October 26, 2009: "James Schuyler: Six New Recordings Added"
• March 13, 2009: "James Schuyler on PennSound"

Thanks for Nathan Kernan for help with complilation of PennSound page for James Schuyler.
© 2004 - 2015 Estate of James Schuyler. These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author and his estate. Used with permission of Darragh Park and subsequently Raymond Foye. Distributed by PennSound.