Simone White

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PoemTalk #186, Discussing Tine Darragh's "Wire Boxes," feat. Joan Retallack, and erica kaufman

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PoemTalk #154, Discussing Elizabeth Willis' "The Similitude of This Great Flower," feat. Simone White, Kate Colby, and Angela Carr

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PoemTalk #150, Discussing Terrance Hayes "MJ Fan Letter" and "RSVP," feat. Simone White, Dixon Li, and Jo Park

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PoemTalk #140, Discussing Barbara Guest's "The Blue Stairs," feat. Kristin Prevallet, Simone White, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

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PoemTalk #114, Discussing Claudia Rankine's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely", feat. Simone White, Kyoo Lee, and Gabriel Ojeda-Sague

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PoemTalk #103, Discussing Simone White's Poem "Of Being Dispersed"

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PoemTalk #101, Discussing Ed Dorn's Poem, "The Sundering U.P. Tracks"

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Reading for the Poetry Project, September 21, 2022

Talk at Hartford Public Library, Hartford, CT, November 5, 2022

I Am Not Wallace Stevens (49:01): MP3

Reading for the Segue Series, Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, March 30, 2019

Complete recording (1:27:19): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, January 18, 2018

Complete reading (56:26): MP3

October 9, 2017: Belladonna* Reading with Fred Moten at Abrons Art Center, New York

Curated by Ana Paula and Asiya Wadud, with guest curator Marcella Durand. Introductions by Marcella Durand.

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• Simone White Reading (28:04)
• Audio recording (32:04) MP3


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• Discussion (31:20)
• Audio recording (31:40) MP3

The Simone White and Erica R. Doyle Poetry Project, February 22nd, 2013

Complete reading (29:31): Complete Recording

1. Introduction (1:10): MP3
2. Dear Tom Krell (9:07): MP3
3. Pestilent (1:44): MP3
4. One Each (0:58): MP3
5. Waters (2:59): MP3
6. You and Me are not Friends, Okay? (0:59): MP3
7. A Monkey Could do This (0:44): MP3
8. Metaphor for the Changing Season (0:50): MP3
9. Was a Flat Breastplate (0:41): MP3
10. Was Old Lion or on the Camino (1:59): MP3
11. They Say They can Fill Me Up with a Baby (1:49): MP3

Reading for ythm, SUNY Buffalo, 2016

"Dog Poem": listen at ythm

Simone White Reading for the Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics, Presented by Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, CA, June 1, 2014

Read the full text of Simone White's speech "Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics, with Divya Victor." [via XPoetics]

Reading at the Launch of Barbaric Vast & Wild, The Poetry Project, Oct. 14, 2015

• Published 2015 by Black Widow Press, ed. Jerome Rothenberg and John Bloomberg-Rissman.
• Information about the anthology can be found at Jacket2.

Simone White, Introduction (03:53): MP3

Reading for the Segue Series, Zinc Bar, New York City, January 11, 2014

Complete reading (38:47): MP3

1. Introduction (5:20): MP3
2. Coltrane Live at Birdland (3:21): MP3
3. Preliminary Notes on Street Attacks (7:29): MP3
4. Comment (3:09): MP3
5. So As Not To Embarrass My Comrades (2:46): MP3
6. Its Principal Theorist (0:24): MP3
7. Windram (1:25): MP3
8. Simone 11 (3:02): MP3
9. Michael 2 (1:37): MP3
10. Arthur 51 (0:26): MP3
11. Planar (0:44): MP3
12. [3 poems] Kettle to Pot, There was a time I hardly went three steps, Don't nuzzle me fucker-maker (2:04): MP3
13. It Must Be Shameless (0:46): MP3
14. Probably Your Soulmate (1:15): MP3
15. Anthony (4:28): MP3

"There was a time I hardly went three steps," "It Must Be Shameless," "Kettle to Pot," and "Don't nuzzle me fucker-maker" are also featured on PoemTalk Episode 103.

Reading for Poetry Project, New York City, May 22, 2013

Introduced by Eileen Myles

Complete recording (29:30): MP3

Reading for the Segue Series, Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, May 31, 2008

Complete recording (28:56): MP3

1. Introduction (2:26): MP3
2. Hair Magic (3:21): MP3
3. Northern Liberties (0:44): MP3
4. Transfiguration (0:33): MP3
5. Surrender (0:41): MP3
6. Black Room (0:59): MP3
7. Almost Understanding (1:21): MP3
8. Hydrangea Peony Madagascar (0:33): MP3
9. New Eye (0:36): MP3
10. How It Works (2:43): MP3
11. Before I Was A Woman (1:53): MP3
12. This Is The Small Hill (3:50): MP3
13. On Occasion In Spring, One Is Really Ecstatic, On The Street Nearest The River, Floating Alone (0:57): MP3
14. Pimp Cup (1:16): MP3
15. Big Time (1:13): MP3
16. Jump Off (0:46): MP3
17. Rig (1:27): MP3
18. Memory For Starling (1:34): MP3
19. Poem That Reminds Me Of Barack Obama (1:48): MP3

Reading for the Belladonna* Series, Dixon Place, New York City, March 11, 2008

erica kaufman introduces Simone White (2:59): MP3

1. World Without End (1:50): MP3
2. Simone de Beauvoir Complains of Illness in Brazil (2:07): MP3
3. Epistolary Left-Handed Poem (5:26): MP3
4. Untitled Poem [I could stand in the neighbor's house…] (3:43): MP3
5. Pimp Cup (1:08): MP3
6. Big Time (1:42): MP3
7. Jump Off (0:46): MP3
8. Rig (2:51): MP3
9. Poem That Reminds Me of Barack Obama (1:46): MP3

• Complete reading (22:19): MP3

Additional Links

• Introductions for The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church: The Poetry Project Soundcloud



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