Recordings from Woodland Pattern Book Center

Benjamin Hollander, January 17, 2014

• Full Recording (1:19:06): MP3

• Part 1 (8:11)
  
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Susie Timmons, December 10, 2012

• Full Video (3:04)
  
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  October 14, 2012

  • Piero Heliczer (46:04): MP3
  • Tom Raworth (45:56): MP3

  Chuck Stebelton, July 29, 2012

  • All the Wrong People Are Dreaming of Photography (5:02): MP3
  • After Clarence Ashley (0:34): MP3
  • The Heron (In Just Spring) (1:01): MP3
  • Toluene Summer (0:48): MP3
  • G-D Forsaken Computer (0:54): MP3
  • Which Arrondissement (1:02): MP3
  • A Delay (0:21): MP3
  • A Second Delay (0:21): MP3
  • Futures (0:30): MP3

  Sally Delehant, July 29, 2012

  • On Proclivity (1:28): MP3
  • Oskaloosa (1:05): MP3
  • Put Away (0:47): MP3
  • A Poet at Home (0:56): MP3
  • Earth Doing (0:46): MP3
  • A Conformation of Hands (1:12): MP3
  • In Those Days Ceasar Augustus Issued A Decree (1:28): MP3

  Whit Griffin, July 29, 2012

  • Bacon and Broad Beans (1:40): MP3
  • The New Enûma Eliš (1:00): MP3
  • On the Other Side (1:04): MP3
  • "I know a man who..." (1:04): MP3
  • Shadow of the Sepulcher (1:32): MP3
  • Type O Negative (1:09): MP3
  • Feast of Healing (1:04): MP3
  • Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar (1:39): MP3

  Zach Barocas, July 09, 2012

  • Introduction to the Cultural Society (06:15): MP3

  Jaap Blonk, Alternating Currents Live, March 18, 2012

  • Set 1 (39:10): MP3
  • Set 2 (41:54): MP3

  Michael Heller, March 10, 2012

  • Ok Everybody Let's Do The Mondrian Stomp (05:22): MP3
  • Coral Stanzas (01:42): MP3
  • Asthma (01:57): MP3
  • In the Builded Place (03:03): MP3
  • Heteroglossia On Fifty Third (02:07): MP3
  • Uncle Nat (02:44): MP3
  • A Night for Chinese Poets (02:35): MP3
  • In the Mountains Lines of Chinese Poetry (02:36): MP3
  • Born Into Water (00:55): MP3
  • At the Muses Tomb (07:02): MP3
  • We Can Only Wish Valeat Quantum Valere Protest (04:36): MP3

  Robert Grenier, March 04, 2012

  • Drawing Poems Presentation (1:02:04): MP3
  • End of Reading Questions (21:41): MP3

  Anne Tardos, September 17, 2011

  • Anything (3:03): MP3
  • Everyone (0:57): MP3
  • Everything (1:07): MP3
  • He (1:10): MP3
  • Him (0:52): MP3
  • I (0:33): MP3
  • Myself (0:44): MP3
  • Our (1:02): MP3
  • Several (0:58): MP3
  • She (1:07): MP3
  • Their (1:11): MP3
  • Nine, 1 (1:09): MP3
  • Nine, 2 (0:52): MP3
  • Nine, 3 (0:49): MP3
  • Nine, 4 (0:56): MP3
  • Nine, 5 (0:48): MP3
  • Nine, 6 (0:53): MP3
  • Nine, 7 (1:00): MP3
  • Nine, 10 (0:53): MP3
  • Nine, 11 (0:50): MP3
  • Nine, 12 (0:51): MP3
  • Nine, 13 (0:52): MP3
  • Nine, 15 (0:50): MP3
  • Nine, 16 (1:00): MP3
  • Nine, 17 (0:49): MP3
  • Nine, 18 (0:56): MP3
  • Nine, 19 (0:55): MP3
  • Nine, 20 (0:52): MP3
  Nine, 21 (0:45): MP3
  • Nine, 22 (0:48): MP3
  • Nine, 23 (0:58): MP3
  • Nine, 24 (0:41): MP3
  • Nine, 25 (0:49): MP3
  • Nine, 26 (0:47): MP3
  • Nine, 27 (1:07): MP3
  • Nine, 28 (0:55): MP3
  • Nine, 29 (0:48): MP3
  • Nine, 30 (0:55): MP3
  • Nine, 31 (0:51): MP3
  • Nine, 32 (0:49): MP3
  • Nine, 33 (1:00): MP3
  • Nine, 34 (1:01): MP3
  • Nine, 35 (0:53): MP3
  • Nine, 36 (0:43): MP3
  • Nine, 37 (0:49): MP3
  • Nine, 38 (0:43): MP3
  • Nine, 39 (0:45): MP3
  • Nine, 40 (0:47): MP3
  • Nine, 42 (0:52): MP3
  • Nine, 43 (0:52): MP3
  • Nine, 44 (1:01): MP3
  • Nine, 45 (0:50): MP3
  • Nine, 46 (0:55): MP3
  • Nine, 47 (0:50): MP3
  • Nine, 48 (0:51): MP3
  • Nine, 57 (1:01): MP3
  • Nine, 58 (1:02): MP3
  • Nine, 59 (0:47): MP3
  • Nine, 60 (0:52): MP3
  • Nine, 61 (0:58): MP3
  • Nine, 62 (0:43): MP3
  • Nine, 63 (1:04): MP3
  • Nine, 64 (0:57): MP3
  • Nine, 65 (0:45): MP3
  • Nine, 66 (1:29): MP3
  • End of Reading Questions (12:52): MP3

  Maureen Owen, March 24, 2011

  • Introduction (01:48): MP3
  • Plaudit Or, She Found Herself Mesmerized by the Hand Gestures of the Mourners (01:48): MP3
  • Now This Vague Melancholy (01:52): MP3
  • I'm Not Alone (00:17): MP3
  • A History of English Speaking Peoples Or, Tea in the Shape of a Kite and Medusa's Hairdo (03:34): MP3
  • Now, Even the Jungle Wanted Him Dead Or, She Closed the Door Behind Her (01:35): MP3
  • Her Hat Blew Off, It Happened A Long Time Ago When You Were Small (01:26): MP3
  • I Fell In Love (00:17): MP3
  • Whenever I Snow and Goodbye To the Twentieth Century (02:14): MP3
  • Number 5 (01:55): MP3
  • Flax Straw Broom On A Long Handle Or, Perles Among Hoggs (02:23): MP3
  • Darkness Sprang The Swans From The Shellacked Pond Or, Blue Cerulean, A Kind of Plum, Blue Gum Veins Through Skin Steel At Twilight Thin Milk Vapor Over A Soggy Ground (02:43): MP3
  • Nox Or, The Boys Are Rightly Pale Or, A Study in Snow (01:52): MP3
  • Secrets Of The Cover Girl Or, The Fair and Square Silk Ribbon In The Middle Of The Road (01:38): MP3
  • I Can't Imagine What Is Keeping Me Up Or, A Slab Of Vision (02:31): MP3
  • A Moroccan Sun Visits Connecticut (00:29): MP3
  • Oh Over Every Life Sized Drought Or, A Solid Interval Between Crenels And A Battlemented Parapet Or, Just Say No (01:20): MP3
  • Fvsh'ot Fash'on Fashion (00:32): MP3
  • The Wounded Day (01:25): MP3
  • Introduction to Soap Bubble Set, 1936, Or That's When She Said Does It Matter Which Is Which (0:26): MP3
  • Soap Bubble Set, 1936, Or That's When She Said Does It Matter Which Is Which (2:24): MP3

  Noah Eli Gordon, November 15, 2008

  1. Introduction by John Koethe (2:18): MP3
  2. Novel Pictorial Noise (2:28): MP3
  3. Dysgraphia (24:02): MP3

  Patrick F. Durgin, March 6, 2008

  • My Human (0:45): MP3
  • Facial Expression (0:25): MP3
  • To My Imitators (0:57): MP3

  Michael Heller and Karl Gartung, November 17, 2007

  • Michael Heller (41:33): MP3
  • Karl Gartung (23:11): MP3

  Clayton Eshleman, Reading Translations of César Vallejo's Poems, December 9 and 10, 2006

  December 9, 2006 - "The Complete Vallejo" Reading with César Ferreira

  1. Introduction (3:22): MP3

  Poems from Los Heraldos Negros (The Black Heralds)

  2. The Black Heralds/ Los Heraldos Negros (in Spanish and English) (2:59): MP3
  3. The Spider (1:37): MP3
  4. The Black Cup (1:29): MP3
  5. Lines (1:36): MP3
  6. Epexegesis (0:54): MP3
  7. I was born on a day (2:02): MP3

  Poems from Trilce

  8. Poem 36 (in Spanish) (2:39): MP3
  9. Poem 36 (in English) (2:20): MP3
  10. Poem 49 (2:06): MP3
  11. Poem 57 (1:26): MP3
  12. Poem 65 (2:37): MP3

  From Poemas Humanos (Human Poems)

  13. Introduction to Poemas Humanos (0:52): MP3
  14. Untitled (in Spanish) ("Considerando en frío, imparcialmente...") (2:07): MP3
  15. Untitled ("Considering coldly, impartially...") (2:20): MP3
  16. Untitled ("Today I would like to be happy willingly...") (1:56): MP3
  17. Untitled ("Chances are I'm another...") (2:13): MP3
  18. Untitled ("There are days there comes to me...") (3:06): MP3
  19. The Wretched (3:54): MP3

  Poems from España, Aparta de mí Este Cáliz (Spain, Take This Cup from Me)

  20. Section from Battles in Spain (4:06): MP3
  21. Poem 10 (2:45): MP3
  22. Poem 12, Masa (in Spanish and English) (3:09): MP3
  
  
  23. Short Question and Answer Session (14:48): MP3

  December 10, 2006 - Lecture and Question/Answer Session

  24. A Translation Memoir: Translating Vallejo as a Poetic Apprenticeship and Lifelong Journey (1:43:09): MP3

  Kiki Anderson, 25th Anniversary, November 19, 2005

  • Complete Reading (15:57): MP3

  Lisa Jarnot, Peggy Hong, and Terri Kapsalis, November 18, 2005

  • Complete Reading (1:01:28): MP3

  Robin Blaser reading, October 2, 2004

  • Introduction (3:13): MP3
  • For Don Allen (5:14): MP3
  • Reading (56:09): MP3, RealAudio

  Robin Blaser, Language is Love - Talk at Woodland Pattern Bookstore, October 3, 2004

  • Part One (10:50): MP3
  • Part Two (22:52): MP3
  • Part Three (7:06): MP3
  • Part Four (5:55): MP3
  • Part Five (7:12): MP3

  Deborah Meadows, Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee Wisconsin, May 14, 2004

  • Part One (25:05): MP3
  • Part Two (1:03): MP3
  • Part Three (2:33): MP3
  
  

  Harryette Mullen and Douglas Ewart, Alternating Currents Live, March 15, 1998

  • Opens Flute (03:28): MP3
  • Opens Voice Then Flute (06:34): MP3
  • Microphone Cuts Out At End (06:52): MP3
  • Poem Continues, Microphone Problem (00:57): MP3
  • Poem, Then Saxophone Enters (02:47): MP3
  • Voice Cuts Out (01:24): MP3
  • Opens Flute Solo With Poem (13:29): MP3
  • Didjeridoo With Nidko Xaba (07:26): MP3
  • Mussette With Ndiko Xaba (06:14): MP3
  • Close of Track (01:06): MP3
  • Tenor Solo With Text by Douglas (08:27): MP3
  • Short Poem With Tenor Solo (02:07): MP3

  Tom Raworth and Steve Nelson-Raney, Alternating Currents Live, March 01, 1998

  • Part 1 (03:47): MP3
  • Part 2 (01:49): MP3
  • Part 3 (07:16): MP3
  • Part 4 (05:59): MP3
  • Part 5, With Music Box (01:41): MP3
  • Part 6 (02:37): MP3
  • Steve Nelson-Raney Solo (05:41): MP3

  Michael Heller, November 14, 1992

  • first part (47:24): MP3
  • second part (16:59): MP3

  Bern Porter, Interview with Dick Higgins and mIEKAL aND, March 16, 1990

  • Part I (47:15): MP3
  • Part II (26:46): MP3

  Ted Enslin, February 18, 1990

  • Part I, "The Weather Within" and "Compassionate" (28:21): MP3
  • Part II, "Science" (31:43): MP3

  Rachel Blau DuPlessis, March 27, 1988

  1. Introduction (2:44): MP3
  2. From H.D.: The Career of That Struggle (1:06): MP3
  3. From Other-how (4:29): MP3
  4. Praxilla's Silliness (7:38): MP3
  5. Rupturing the History of Poetry by the History of Poetry (4:12): MP3
  6. Introduction to Crowbar (3:35): MP3
  7. Crowbar (17:52): MP3

  Complete Reading (42:23): MP3

  8. Discussing Drafts (3:50): MP3
  9. Draft 2: She (13:07): MP3
  10. Introduction to Draft 6 (5:30): MP3
  11. Draft 6 (10:08): MP3

  Complete Reading (42:56): MP3

  Robert Grenier, October 25, 1987

  • Complete reading (1:17:13): MP3

  Lyn Hejinian, February 9, 1985

  1. from "The Guard" (7:05): MP3
  2. from "The Person" (13:50): MP3

  Charles Bernstein, February 9, 1985

  • Complete Reading (47:00): MP3

  Ed Dorn, November 17, 1984

  Courtesy of Cento Magazine and Brian Rosenblum

  from Captain Jack's Chaps

  1. Introduction (on Milwaukee) (0:57)
  2. Essential Introductory Matter (6:02)
  3. Houston: Deplaning and Getting Learnt (1:56)
  4. A Piece of Advice (0:52)
  5. At the Cowboy Panel (2:06)
  6. God Create's Man (0:38)
  7. Sunday Morning in the Murdered Territories (1:00)
  8. Maximum Ostentation (3:45)
  9. More Ostentation (1:54)
  10. Triumph of the Hominids (0:46)
  11. Hotel Hartley (3:10)

  from Abhorrences

  1. Introduction / Here I Go Again (4:51)
  2. There's Only One Natural Death and Even That's Bedcide (2:59)
  3. Hard Boudoir (0:51)
  4. Kansas City Collapse (0:32)
  5. Where's the Pork (0:38)
  6. It Could be Anyone (0:22)
  7. Tuesday was a Fait Accompli, not a Raison d'Etre (0:53)
  8. Flatland (0:24)
  9. Smoke & Cinders: Some Thoughts on the Truckers (0:56)
  10. World View Solipsized (0:27)
  11. Not So Hard Wired but Something to Do (0:29)
  12. Untitled (July 24th 1984) (0:39)
  13. For the Protection of This Whole World and its Contents (0:24)
  14. In Humble Admiration (1:02)
  15. Revenge as an Insufficient Inducement (0:31)
  16. Paralyzing Affability: an Analysis of the Reagan Voice (0:28)
  17. A Critique of Recent Developments in Mezo-America (0:18)
  18. The Tyranny of Food (0:35)
  19. On Rejuvenating the Hotline (0:48)
  20. Of Decadent Californian Tories (0:59)
  21. Wait Till the Christians Hear About This (1:05)
  22. Self-Criticism (2:30)

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