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At SUNY-Buffalo, Sept. 22, 1993 also of interest:
* I caught a bird which made a ball These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial
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Joan Retallack
Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, Feburary 15, 1987
Complete Recording note: incomplete (32:23): MP3
Full Reading (40:20)
1. Existence is an Attribute (5:28)
2. Not a Cage (3:33)
3. Strange Attractors (7:55)
4. Here's Looking At You, Francis Bacon
(3:22)
5. Autobiographia Literaria II (11:55)
6. from Errata 5uite (7:29)
Reading as part of the Kelly Writers House program "9 Poets Read Themselves through Modernism," October 12, 2000
1. Introduction (2:16)
2. from Tractacus Logico Philosophicus (3:21)
3. Woman in a Chinese Room (2:09)
4. Various pieces by Gertrude Stein (4:19)
5. from Gertrude
Stein's "Stanzas in Meditation," first stanza (*see text below) (1:17)
6. SteinZas in Meditation (6:10)
7. Art is Either a Complaint or Something Else (2:53)
8. Mem-noir (3:58)
complete reading MP3
Alternative Poetries and Alternative Pedagogies Reading and Discussion at the Kelly Writers House, February 28, 2001
1. introduction by Al Filreis (4:36): MP3
2. reading "What is This?" from Gertrude Stein's "Useful Knowledge" (1:50): MP3
3. reading "Memnoir" (12:43): MP3
4. reading Errata 5uite (10:41): MP3
5. reading "Here's Looking at You, Francis Bacon" (5:55): MP3
6. Kerry Sherin discusses the Bard conference on poetry and pedagogy (4:34): MP3
7. on the importance of contextualizing experimental writing texts (4:54): MP3
8. on what makes reading experimental writing difficult (5:09): MP3
9. on techniques to teach experimental poetry (12:06): MP3
10. on writing into texts (13:50): MP3
11. the student's perspective on dialogues with text (1:45): MP3
12. on interesting non-humanities students in humanities (2:25): MP3
13. Bob Perelman on experimental poetics as a pedagogy (3:27): MP3
14. on the necessity of "reconfiguring the geography of our attention" (7:59): MP3
15. on the aftermath of the Bard conference on poetry and pedagogy (4:40): MP3
16. on teaching criticism (4:41): MP3
17. on taking cues from the text (5:08): MP3
18. on the interaction of the contemporary poet with the contemporary world (7:02): MP3
19. on experiential learning (9:52): MP3
20. on experiencing Tender Buttons, and closing remarks (2:58): MP3
complete reading and discussion (2:05:00): MP3
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Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, February 5, 2005
1. introduction (4:20): MP3
2. To Find the Light (12:25): MP3
3. A Box, from Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (1:08): MP3
4. A to Z (8:18): MP3
5. #25, from Jackson Mac Low's The Twenties (2:40): MP3
6. poem composed from the phonemes in "Jackson Mac Low" (3:27): MP3
Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, December 9, 2006
1. introduction (3:40): MP3
2. Ex Post Animo (3:18): MP3
3. Here's Looking at You, Francis Bacon (4:57): MP3
4. The Reinvention of Truth (8:20): MP3
5. A to Z (17:05): MP3
complete reading (39:07): MP3
Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, May 9, 2009
Complete Reading (28:14): MP3
Lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 22, 2009
"John Cage's Anarchic Harmony: A Poethical Wager" (55:16)
Reading at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 23, 2009
Full Reading (68:40)
1. Introduction by Prof. Lynn Keller (7:19)
2. Joan's Introductory Remarks (4:47)
3. Present Tensed (3:11)
4. The Woman in the Chinese Room (8:49)
5. Introduction to The Reinvention of Truth (1:32)
6. The Reinvention of Truth (8:57)
7. A Boy and Her Dog (5:24)
8. Introduction to "Bosch Bookshelf" (1:16)
9. Bosch Bookshelf (10:40)
10. Post-reading Q&A (12:00)
This project was made possible with generous funding provided by the Brittingham Foundation, the University Lectures Committee, and the Department of English.
"Theorizing" presentation at the Kelly Writers House (October 6, 2004)
And they thought better of it.
But it is all of which they taught
That they were in a hurry yet
In a kind of a way they meant it best
That they should change in and on account
But they must not stare when they manage
Whatever they are occasionally liable to do
It is often easy to pursue them once in a while
And in a way there is no repose
They like it as well as they ever did
But it is very often just by the time
That they are able to separate
In which case in effect they could
Not only be very often present perfectly
In each way whichever they chose.