Jonathan Williams

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Jonathan Williams

Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz, February 25, 2007
complete program (53:21): MP3

Reading at City Lights Books, Sylva, North Carolina, May 27, 2005
complete recording (1:00:06): MP3

Recording courtesy of Jeff Davis / Wordplay — for more information, including production notes, visit Davis' blog

Get Hot or Get Out, originally released by Watershed Tapes in 1984
1. Intro (0:52): MP3
2. A New Nunc Dimittis (TSM 1917-1982) (0:17): MP3
3. Gaius Valerius Catullus (0:11): MP3
4. Jack Spicer (0:17): MP3
5. Sir Edward Elgar (0:11): MP3
6. Leos Janacek (0:08): MP3
7. Bunk Johnson (0:10): MP3
8. Carl Nielsen (0:06): MP3
9. Charlie Parker (0:06): MP3
10. Francis Poulenc (0:09): MP3
11. Erik Satie (0:05): MP3
12. Jean Sibelius (0:15): MP3
13. A Valediction for My Father (0:13): MP3
14. Imitation Cockney Homage to Flaubert (0:13): MP3
15. Philip Hope-Wallace (0:30): MP3
16. Still Water for Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970) (0:32): MP3
17. An Omen for Stevie Smith (0:54): MP3
18. Farmer Beresford on Nobility (0:41): MP3
19. Shepherd (0:12): MP3
20. A.L.B (1917-1978) (0:43): MP3
21. Bea Hensley Hammers an Iron Chinquapin Leaf (0:50): MP3
22. Lee Ogle Ties a Broom (0:46): MP3
23. Daddy Bostain (0:29): MP3
24. A Ride in a Blue Chevy (1:25): MP3
25. The Ancient of Days (1:01): MP3
26. Uncle Iv Surveys His Domain (0:22): MP3
27. Three Sayings from Highlands North Carolina (0:40): MP3
28. Dear Reverend Carl C. McIntire (0:40): MP3
29. Who Is Little Enis? (2:18): MP3
30. Dealer's Choice and the Dealer Shuffles (1:23): MP3
31. The Deracination (1:06): MP3
32. A Blue-Ridge Weather Prophet (2:37): MP3
33. My Quaker-Atheist Friend (1:24): MP3
34. Hawthorne, from A Celestial Centennial Reverie for Charles Edward Ives (1:13): MP3
35. Thoreau, from A Celestial Centennial Reverie for Charles Edward Ives (2:26): MP3
36. The Wreck on the A-222 in the Ravensbourne Valley (1:23): MP3
37. The Triumph of Craft (0:33): MP3
38. "and he hath sown..." (0:18): MP3
39. A Limerick for the Three Peaks (0:20): MP3
40. Blue Ball Blues (0:50): MP3
41. Two Pastorals for Samuel Palmer (1:07): MP3
42. The Fourteen Year Old Samuel Palmer's Watercolour Notations (0:35): MP3
43. Six Misercords (0:53): MP3
44. A Dalesman Considers (0:33): MP3
45. George Fox (0:17): MP3
46. A Glimpse of the Secret Path (0:16): MP3
47. Full-Frontal Card of Mr. E. M. Forster (0:23): MP3
48. Browsing Through Playboy Magazine's Advice Column (0:36): MP3
49. Richard Brathwaite (0:14): MP3
50. Notice in an Irish Garden (0:13): MP3
51. "Four-Way Gay" (0:34): MP3
52. Victoria Wood, in "Talent" (0:08): MP3
53. Les Champs Elysees de la Grande Cuisine (0:10): MP3
54. Rob (0:06): MP3
55. Headmaster (0:15): MP3
56. Kevin (0:05): MP3
57. On the Fuel Tank (0:11): MP3
58. A T-Shirt for the Shock Troops of General Wilde (0:17): MP3
59. Painting the Daisies with Larry (0:12): MP3
60. Ovid, Meet a Metamorphodite (0:51): MP3
61. Benedictine (0:31): MP3
62. O For a Muse of Fire! (1:55): MP3
63. Shotgun Shuba (0:21): MP3
64. The Adhesive Autopsy of Walt Whitman (0:47): MP3
65. A Vulnerary (0:48): MP3
66. Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor (2:44): MP3
67. Intro to Clerihews (1:23): MP3
68. from The 52 Clerihews of Clara Hughes (3:38): MP3

complete reading (49:22): MP3

(recording courtesy of Tom Orange)