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David Bromige Memorial Reading, Kelly Writers House, September 25, 2018

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Complete Recording: MP3

Reading at Kelly Writers House, Univserity of Pennsylvania with Rochelle Owens, October 17, 2013

Complete Reading (1:29:46): MP3

Reading at Jerome Rothenberg's 80th Birthday Tribute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, December 9, 2011

from "The Least Ancient Greek Poet" at The University of Michigan, November 23, 2009

• Reading from Ananios of Kleitor (5:55): MP3
• on the process of writing Ananios of Kleitor (13:58): MP3

Reading from Poems for the Millennium III, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 7, 2009

Complete reading (13:33): MP3

From A Celebration of George Oppen's 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008

"Inside a Tale that is Full of Eyes;" Economou's poem, "Identified;" Oppen's poem, "Psalm" (13:20):MP3

William Langland's Piers Plowman: The C Version, Kelly Writers House, May 17, 2007:

• Introduction (1:17): MP3
• Passus 5 (6:30): MP3
• Glutton's Confession, Passus 6 (5:57): MP3
• The Harrowing of Hell (3:49): MP3
• Complete Reading (21:34): MP3

Studio 111 recording session at the University of Pennsylvania, February 24, 2006

1. “Day of Disembarkation,” The Charioteer, 43 (2005), p. 9. (0:55): MP3
2. “Ameriki, Book One, Part III,” Ameriki: Book One and Selected Earlier Poems (New York: Sun, 1977), pp. 8-9; harmonies & fits (Norman, OK: Point Riders Press, 1987), pp.32-33. (1:55): MP3
3. “Ameriki,Book One, Part V,” Ibid., pp. 12-13; pp. 35-36. (1:38): MP3
4. “Ameriki, Book One, Part VII,” Ibid., pp. 16-17; pp. 39-40. (2:08): MP3
5. “Ameriki, Book Two, Part IV,” harmonies & fits, pp. 52-53. (2:03): MP3
6. “Orange Light Over Blue Expression,” Landed Natures (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969), pp. 25-27; Ameriki, Book One, pp. 79-81. (2:55): MP3
7. “Voluntaries, 3,” Century Dead Center (Kingston, NY: Left Hand Books, 1997), pp. 58-59. (1:55): MP3
8. “Voluntaries, 13,” Ibid., pp. 70-71. (1:48): MP3
9. “Sestina du Crépuscule,” Ibid., pp. 52-53. (3:47): MP3
10. “An Evening in Kingfisher,” Ibid., pp. 119-121; harmonies & fits , pp. 5-7. (4:25): MP3
11. “Kassandra’s Story,” 45/46 (2000), pp .91-92. (1:10): MP3
12. “The Amorous Drift of the First Hoplite on the Right Wing, The Battle of Mantinea, 348 B.C.,” American Poetry Review (May/June 2004), p. 31. (2:21): MP3
13. From Ananios of Kleitor: Poems & Fragments and their Reception from Antiquity to the Present, Collected and Translated by George Economou (unpublished manuscript). (16:02): MP3

Translations from the works of C. P. Cavafy:

• “Days of 1908” (1932), I’ve Gazed So Much (London: Stop Press, 2001), n.p. (2:10): MP3

Forthcoming in Half and Hour, Poems by C. P. Cavafy (London: Stop Press):

• “Half an Hour,” (1917) (1:00): MP3
• “The Bandaged Shoulder,” (1919) (1:00): MP3
• “He Asked about the Quality,” (1930) (1:51): MP3

From Acts of Love, Ancient Greek Poetry from Aphrodite’s Garden (New York: Random House/Modern Library, 2006):

• Archilochos 6:, pp. 6-8., (3:03): MP3
• Sappho 5, pp. 9-10. (1:44): MP3
• Straton 5, p. 94. (1:30): MP3
• Anonymous 20, p. 104. (0:41): MP3
• “Sappho, A Recently Discovered Poem (2004),” (unpublished). (1:23): MP3

Poet's Corner recording sessions with Joe Gouveia at WOMR, Provincetown, MA. September 14 and September 21, 2006

• First Session: Interview and Reading of Poems and Translations from Acts of Love (14:47): MP3
• Second Session: Interview and Reading of Poems and Translations from Acts of Love (14:27): MP3

Old English Live: Reading of Old English and Old English-inspired poems at the Kelly Writers House, November 4, 2003

With Herman Beavers, Bob Perelman, Kathy Lou Schultz, George Economou, Greg Djanikian, Emily Steiner, and Susan Stewart

Complete recording (1:22:23): MP3

Reading at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania with Rochelle Owens, introduced by Randall Couch, November 18, 2002

Complete reading (35:20)MP3

Wednesday Night Series: George Economou, Rochelle Owens, Kazuko Shiraishi, St. Mark's Church, April 17, 2002

Library of Congress recording (1:45:14): link

Reading at National Poetry Festival, June 14-24, 1973

Poetry Workshop: Various Poets; "Translation Workshop"

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