David Shapiro

Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, November 11, 2014

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 22, 2008

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 19, 2005

1. Introduction (3:10): MP3
2. Don Quixote Reading (2:17): MP3
3. Subject: A Song (3:25): MP3
4. Song for an Envelope (1:51): MP3
5. Song for Another Envelope (0:57): MP3
6. The Foot Speaks (1:20): MP3
7. Colorful Hands (1:36): MP3
8. A Riverdale Address (2:01): MP3
9. After Ryokan (1:14): MP3
10. Mr. Average Viewer (1:07): MP3
11. Doubting the Doubts (0:33): MP3
12. Lion (1:07): MP3
13. Snow at Night (1:49): MP3
14. Stay Stay Stay Stay (0:41): MP3
15. Walter Benjamin (1:19): MP3
16. After Austriana (0:34): MP3
17. For Victims (0:16): MP3
18. House of a Secret (1:00): MP3
19. Lightbulb (1:05): MP3
20. Weequahic Park in the Dark (1:31): MP3
21. A Song for Rudy Burckhard (0:51): MP3
22. Falling Upwards (3:01): MP3

Complete reading (35:47): MP3

Reading and talk for UMass Amherst Visiting Writers Series, Spring 2004

Talk on Porter and Johns (1:14:08): MP3

1. Introduction by Peter Gizzi (3:51): MP3
2. comments (1) (1:15): MP3
3. To The Earth (0:59): MP3
4. Falling Upwards (2:06): MP3
5. comments (2) (0:43): MP3
6. The Index Of First Lines (2:22): MP3
7. After Ryokan (0:48): MP3
8. Funeral For Jan Palach (2:18): MP3
9. About A Farmer Who Was Just A Little Boy (with Renee) (2:14): MP3
10. The Carburetor Of Venice (Villanelle) (1:21): MP3
11. I Haven't (Villanelle) (1:23): MP3
12. comments (3) (0:40): MP3
13. Snow At Night (1:15): MP3
14. comments (4) (0:33): MP3
15. Stay Stay Stay Stay (0:27): MP3
16. comments (5) (0:24): MP3
17. Ode (from Poems From Deal) (1:07): MP3
18. comments (6) (0:28): MP3
19. A Book Of Glass (1:01): MP3
20. comments (7) (0:23): MP3
21. Doubting The Doubts (0:29): MP3
22. comments (8) (0:36): MP3
23. Mr. Average Viewer (1:07): MP3
24. comments (9) (0:34): MP3
25. "The Earth Being Both A Lodestone..." (1:58): MP3
26. You Are The You (0:54): MP3
27. The Boss Poem (0:34) MP3
28. A Lost Poem (0:52): MP3
29. House Of The Secret (1:14): MP3
30. comments (10) (0:34) MP3
31. The Snow Is Alive (0:33): MP3
32. comments (11) (0:22): MP3
33. "On The Road To A Door..." (0:30): MP3
34. comments (12) (1:04): MP3
35. "I Imagine You Dressed Up..." (0:42): MP3
36. The Will (1:12): MP3
37. comments (13) (0:36): MP3
38. Old Poems (0:57): MP3
39. Voiceless (0:47): MP3
40. comments (14) (0:48): MP3
41. Light Bulb (0:38): MP3
42. Prayer For A House (2:11): MP3
43. comments (15) (0:30): MP3
44. Weequahic Park In The Dark (1:17): MP3
45. comments (16) (0:47): MP3
46. A Song For Rudy Burckhardt (0:52): MP3
47. comments (17) (0:26): MP3
48. Winter Work (0:36): MP3
49. "I Covered You And Covered You..." (1:10): MP3
50. "Adam And Eve And Emily Dickinson" (0:26): MP3
51. Don Quixote Reading (1:43): MP3
52. A Riverdale Address (1:16): MP3
53. Colorful Hands (1:03): MP3
54. Subject A Song (2:23): MP3
55. applause (0:25): MP3

Recorded live at WKCR-FM (New York) by Tom Kelly on April 20, 2003

1. After Ryokan, Song For An Envelope & Falling Upwards (21:41): MP3
2. Victims & Prayer for a House (41:18): MP3

10 Year Memorial honoring Frank O’Hara, 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.

Shapiro on PennSound Daily

• February 15, 2008: "David Shapiro: 2005 Segue Series Readings Now Segmented"

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