Bill Berkson  

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, March 15, 2007
1. Introduction (4:36): MP3
2. Tiffany's Song (0:45): MP3
3. Salad Spinner (0:37): MP3
4. Philip Whalen (0:19): MP3
5. Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently (1:22): MP3
6. "Intentionality . . ." (0:20): MP3
7. AKA The Pantheon is Flooded (1:09): MP3
8. Poem Beginning With A Remark From Richard Tuttle (3:05): MP3
9. What's Your Idea Of A Good Time? (commentary and readings) (10:54): MP3
10. Melting Milk (1:07): MP3
11. By Halves (0:51): MP3
12. The Reader's Lover (5 Poems) (1:03): MP3
13. Baby's Awake Now (0:48): MP3
14. Duchamp Dream (1:26): MP3
15. October (1:53): MP3
16. Out There (for Jasper Johns) (0:52): MP3
17. Gloria (0:21): MP3
18. Extreme Patience (0:26): MP3
19. Merit (0:35): MP3
20. Plot (0:08): MP3
21. After the Medusa (0:42): MP3
22. Tango (1:19): MP3
23. Song for Connie (0:55): MP3

Complete Reading (1:04:02): MP3


Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 19, 2002
1. Introduction (2:36): MP3
2. Red Devil (2:13): MP3
3. After 99 Comes 100 (1:16): MP3
4. No Claim to the Puzzle (0:57): MP3
5. Song Heard Around St. Bridget's (1:25): MP3
6. St. Bridget's Adieu (0:22): MP3
7. A Head at the Covers (1:22): MP3
8. The Obvious Tradition (1:35): MP3
9. Signature Song (1:54): MP3
10. Purgatory (0:26): MP3
11. Stains of Stalin (1:07): MP3
12. The Recital (0:55): MP3
13. La Poesie Blanche (0:39): MP3
14. from "25 Grand View" (4:16): MP3
15. A Lady at Her Writing Table (0:21): MP3
16. After the Medusa (0:29): MP3
17. Within the Silly Sheets (0:17): MP3
18. Reimagined Episode (0:14): MP3
19. Friends (0:19): MP3
20. Extreme Patience (0:28): MP3
21. The Shadow on the Page (0:23): MP3
22. An Unmentionable Painting (0:27): MP3
23. Tango (1:32): MP3
24. Gloria (0:53): MP3

Complete Reading (35:50): MP3


Reading, February 17, 1983 (Location Unknown)
complete reading (39:55): MP3

(recording courtesy of Ron Silliman)


appearing on In the American Tree, hosted by Alan Bernheimer, September 7, 1979
Complete Recording (28:10): MP3


Talk on "Talking," Given at 80 Langton, April 27, 1978
Part One (47:10): MP3
Part Two (47:28): MP3

Recording Courtesy of Bob Perelman


from The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980
Blue is the Hero (1:46): MP3

Also of Interest:
On Cross-Cultural Poetics with Leonard Schwartz: MP3 (43:00)
On Cross-Cultural-Poetics with Leonard Schwartz: MP3 (25:23)



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