Recorded in conjunction with Mayer's reading with Lee Ann Brown
at the Kelly Writers House.

The Mayer/Brown reading here.

Pacifica Radio with Susan Howe, April 22, 1979 (57:51): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn May 26, 1979 (37:33): MP3


Catullus #48
Catullus #48 (studio recording with Latin):MP3
Catullus #48 Naropa (1987): MP3


Bernadette Mayer reading at the Ear Inn with Lee Ann Brown, October 15, 1988

Complete Recording (37:45)
1. Introduction (0:55)
2. Alone (0:53)
3. Presidential Platform (5:24)
4. Ten Three Line Poems ((2:07)
5. Do You Have Sex in the Bed or on the Floor? (0:42)
6. The Tragic Condition (1:54)
7. Who Is the Elegant What of the Something (1:57)
8. Period of the Delaware Water Gap (3:04)
9. Titles- Turtles for Clark (4:03)
10. Marie, You Must Meet Kristina At Music School Tomorrow and Not Her Home (2:15)
11. Diary Kept Everyday for Ten Weeks (6:56)
12. Food that we would not normally be eating... (5:50)
13. Complete Introductory Lectures on Poetry (2:02)
14. Spooky Action From a Distance (1:07)
15. Holding the Thought of Love (1:03)
16. A Marriage of Cut Flowers (0:51)
17. Love is a babe and when you put your startling hand on my cunt... (0:50)
18. Clap Hands (1:29)


Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, October 1991
Complete Reading (27:50): MP3

Rattle Up A Deer
Live at Penny Lane, 1989
Bernadette Mayer & Anne Waldman

1. Introduction by Tom Peters (1:55)
2. Catullus 6 #48 (0:41)
3. On Catullus #2 (1:09)
4. Horace's fourth Ode (1:23)
5. DWI (after Horace's fourth Ode) (1:57)
6. Epigram: I am the six-pack of Coke... (0:12)
7. Poor John Egan epigram (0:17)
8. Epigram: La Clinica Dental (0:13)
9. Sepulchral God the Father Epigram (0:15)
10. Two from the Greek Anthology (1:58)
11. Laundry, School and Food Epigrams (2:56)
12. Catullus #99 (1:16)
13. After Catullus and Horace (1:32)
14. Epigram: Some men think... (0:30)
15. A Philosophy for Boys (1:12)
16. Epigram after Auden (0:15)
17. Epigram: I'm the pen your lover writes with... (0:14)
18. Epigram: I was the song I sang... (0:16)
19. Epigram: I'm an old known paint... (0:17)
20. Toy Epigrams (3:00)
21. Catullus #67 (4:12)
22. Man and Woman Epigrams (1:28)
23. American Imitation Amatory Epigrams (1:36)
24. Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33 (0:48)
25. Catullus #42 (1:39)

Sound engineers: Micheal Zangari & Tom Peters
Recorded on portable 4 track directly through non-amplified music.
Original master tapes property of "So. You're a Poet," Archives/Tom Peters, all rights reserved. © 2004.
(Recording courtesy of Farfalla Press and Gary Parrish)

Bernadette Mayer Celebration at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,
October 1, 1998

1. Introduction (4:27)
2. Shawn Walker (15:29)
3. Ange Mlinko (24:18)
4. Bernadette Mayer (36:57)


Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, April 18, 2000

1. Lytle Shaw's Introduction (1:56): MP3
2. March 20, 2000 - April 17, 2000 Diary Entries (7:14): MP3
3. Jackie Strumpendairy & Celestia St. Auvin at the College of New Rochelle (3:01): MP3
4. Walmart Epigrams (0:46): MP3
5. Epigram on Epigrams: A collaborative epigram (0:16): MP3
6. LeeAnn Brown: Starbucks Epigram, Andrew's Epigram, Too Many Epigrams (1:27): MP3
7. Various Epigrams (including: Epigram, I am the rope used to tie Marinza up; David Letterman Epigram; John Fisk Epigram; Louis Anemone Epigram; Dollar Bill Epigram; I ate my Macoroni & Cheese; Birdfeeder Epigram; Garden Epigram; I am Bernadette Echo Hawk; Epigram on Being Alone) (5:27): MP3
8. Poem for Jackson (2:03): MP3
9. Objectivity (0:17): MP3
10. This is a list of fruit and vegetables (1:09): MP3
11. Amatory Epigrams (0:18): MP3
12. What It Means to Be Human (1:09): MP3
13. Short Poems (2:21): MP3
14. List of names (1:50): MP3
15. Marie Makes Fun of Me at the Drawer (1:21): MP3
16. April 18, 2000 Diary Entry (written during the reading) (2:49): MP3

Complete Reading (33:33): MP3

Also on PennSound:
on Exact Change Yearbook 1995 no. 1 (ed. Peter Gizzi)
(Mayer reads "Blondie" from Studying Hunger, 1971)
Line Series Reading, May 11, 2004 (36:19): MP3


Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 22. 2008
Complete Reading (31:07): MP3

More Mayer at Meshworks/Miami University


Bernadette Mayer on PennSound Daily

• January 17, 2009: "Bernadette Mayer and Lee Ann Brown: KWH 2007, Now Segmented"
• January 21, 2009: "Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh: Segue Series Reading, 1979"
• November 12, 2007: "Bernadette Mayer and Lee Ann Brown Visit UPenn"

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