John Taggart

Reading for Ted Enslin Centenary Celebration, Virtual Recording, March 25, 2025

Also featuring Ben Friedlander, Denver Butson, John Phillips, Jonathan Skinner, Margaret Randall, Maria Damon, Mark Nowak, Michael Heller, and Stacy Szymaszek.

Complete recording (48:09): MP3

Discussion on George Oppen, Robert Creeley, and Larry Eigner at the University of Alabama, March 20, 2013

Complete recording (2:22:17): MP3

Reading at the Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX, October 25, 2012

Complete reading (43:42): MP3

Reading at the Joynes Reading Room, the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, October 23, 2012

1. Introduction by Robert Bertholf (5:42): MP3
2. Introduction to Show and Tell/Robert Creeley (5:39): MP3
3. Show and Tell/Robert Creeley (5:09): MP3
4. Introduction to The Drum Thing (0:51): MP3
5. The Drum Thing (1:04): MP3
6. Introduction to Slow Song for Mark Rothko (4:17): MP3
7. Slow Song for Mark Rothko (7:04): MP3
8. Introduction to Pastorelle 7 and Pastorelle 8 (5:43): MP3
9. Pastorelle 7 (0:56): MP3
10. Pastorelle 8 (1:04): MP3
11. Introduction to Pastorelle 14 and 15 (4:37): MP3
12. Pastorelle 14 (4:56): MP3
13. Introduction to Pastorelle 15 (0:55): MP3
14. Pastorelle 15 (0:46): MP3
15. Introduction to Unveiling/Marianne Moore (9:09): MP3
16. Unveiling/Marianne Moore (8:53): MP3
17. At the Counter's Ball (1:24): MP3
18. Introduction to Plinth (2:226): MP3
19. Plinth (1:06): MP3

Complete reading (1:17:17): MP3

Holloway Series in Poetry, Berkeley, CA, October 19, 2011

Complete reading (1:08:08): MP3, YouTube

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #225, December 8, 2010

From Wave Books' PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008

1. comments on Twenty-One Times (1:28): MP3
2. Twenty-One Times (4:25): MP3

The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium at Poets House, New York, April 8, 2008

1. "On Singing and Thinking" (27:54):MP3
2. Taggart reads Oppen's "Song, the Winds of Downhill" (1:16): MP3
3. Taggart reads Oppen's "The Poem" (1:48) MP3

Poetry, Politics, Proximity at the Kelly Writers House, April 27, 2006

Offpage at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, March 30, 2004

1. Introduction by Kenneth Sherwood (5:10): MP3
2. Talk Introduction (1:54): MP3
3. Talk Leader: Rhythm and Blues Singer (0:45): MP3
4. Rhythm and Blues Singer (2:38): MP3
5. Talk Leader: Pastorelles (0:40): MP3
6. Pastorelle Part 1 (1:02): MP3
7. Pastorelle Part 2 (0:56): MP3
8. Talk Leader: Pastorelle Part 3 (0:11): MP3
9. Pastorelle Part 3 (1:13): MP3
10. Talk: Zukofsky Williams (12:54): MP3
11. Talk Leader: Not Egypt (4:37): MP3
12. Talk: Not Egypt (4:15): MP3
13. Talk Trailer: Not Egypt (0:45): MP3
14. Pastorelle 7 (1:12): MP3
15. Pastorelle 8 (1:11): MP3
16. Poem with German (0:57): MP3
17. At The Counters (1:33): MP3
18. Talk Leader: Car Museum (1:36): MP3
19. Car Museum (4:02): MP3
20. Talk Leader: Kitaj Dancer (2:03): MP3
21. Kitaj Dancer (0:57): MP3
22. Talk Leader: Why Trees Weep (1:21): MP3
23. Why Trees Weep (0:37): MP3
24. Talk Trailer: Why Trees Weep (0:18): MP3
25. Talk Leader: Plinth (1:05): MP3
26. Plinth (1:08): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #43, September 1, 2004

Reading at the Centre international de poésie Marseille, June 1990

The Rothko Chapel Poem (6:56): MP3

Reading at San Francisco State University, 1987

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