Lorenzo Thomas

PoemTalk #155, Discussing Lorenzo Thomas' "Souvenir of the Manassah Ball," feat. Erica Hunt, Bob Perelman, and Tonya Foster

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

PoemTalk #115, Discussing Lorenzo Thomas' "An Arc Still Open", feat. William J. Harris, Tyrone Williams, and Aldon Nielsen on August 9, 2017

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How We Place African American Poetry, University of Wisconsin, April 2003

Sterling Brown Panel at AWP, Baltimore, March 1, 2003

A. L. Nielsen and Lorenzo Thomas

• Complete panel (1:07:09): MP3

Lorenzo Thomas (59:07): MP3
A.L. Nielsen (33:20): MP3

Reading at University of California San Diego, May 2001

1. introduction (1:34): MP3
2. on Ezra Pound's "The Picture" (2:38): MP3
3. An Arc Still Open (3:56): MP3 TEXT
4. Dangerous Doubts (1:04): MP3
5. You're too old to get a tattoo (0:44): MP3
6. Country Song (0:28): MP3
7. Blues Variation (3:28): MP3
8. Mr. Crump's Revenge (2:01): MP3
9. God Sends Love Disguised as Ordinary People (1:52): MP3
10. Equinox (4:40): MP3
11. Cute girl with a toy monkey (2:30): MP3
12. Dirge for Amadou Diallo (7:34): MP3

Expanding the Repertoire: Continuity and Change in African-American Writing, Participating in Panel Discussions at Small Press Traffic, April 2000

• Panel 1 (2:14:40): MP3
• Panel 2 (1:36:39): MP3
• Panel 3 (1:54:33): MP3

Recordings courtesy of David Buuck, who has dedicated an issue of his journal Tripwire to the conference.

Reading at the SUNY Buffalo, November 13, 1991

1. from Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali Songs, #11 (3:10): MP3
2. Mister Anderson (1:08): MP3
3. L'Argent (1:03): MP3
4. The Gambler (0:48): MP3
5. The Audie Murphy Game (1:23): MP3
6. Now You Can Worry (1:45): MP3
7. Knight to Queen's Pawn (0:40): MP3
8. Grudge Match (1:13): MP3
9. Walking Vicksburg Blues (3:17): MP3
10. Some Streets (0:56): MP3
11. Speed Key (2:07): MP3
12. Souvenir of the Manassah Ball (1:49): MP3
13. Last Call (5:08): MP3
14. The Guards on Privilege (1:52): MP3
15. Chanson (for Karen) (0:50): MP3
16. Tirade (1:04): MP3
17. An excerpt from "Big House Movies" (9:50): MP3
18. Ovidio Martinez's "Salt" (2:23): MP3
19. Back-Ordered Tears (1:33): MP3

Reading for the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, April 13, 1988

Recording hosted by the Library of Congress (23:35): link

St. Mark's Talks, January 26, 1986

• Lorenzo Thomas's talk (1:13:19): MP3
• Discussion (42:35): MP3

Reading "Red Cross Stations" at St. Mark's Poetry Project, November 20, 1979

• complete recording (2:26): MP3

Reading with Kathy Acker at the Ear Inn, New York, November 13, 1978

1. Summer Stock (1:01): MP3
2. Happy New Year (0:44): MP3
3. Lady Lucre (1:31): MP3
4. Al Green's Broken Heart (4:45): MP3
5. Anuresis (3:33): MP3
6. Perry Coma (8:16): MP3
7. Heel and Toe (2:03): MP3
8. My Office (2:44): MP3
9. The Fine Clothes of the Year Before Last (2:38): MP3
10. The Leopard (3:10): MP3
11. Home XXI (1:48): MP3
12. MMVCCXIII 1/2 (1:30): MP3
13. Hat Red (7:34): MP3

• complete reading (41:57): MP3

Performing with the Texas Southern University Jazz Ensemble

from the album 3rd Ward Vibration Society, 1976

• Ego Trip (10:51): MP3

(recording courtesy of A.L. Nielsen)

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

• Reading "Otis" (3:06): MP3, YouTube
• Radio interview from KUHF-FM, Houston, TX, July 23, 2004
• Video of a 2002 reading at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

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