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January 6, 2017

At The Rotunda, Philadelphia, Recording courtesy of A.L. Nielsen and the Heatstrings Blog

Readers include:

1. Seth Perlow (3:57): MP3
2. Diana Hamilton (3:40): MP3
3. Timothy Yu (3:15): MP3
4. Crossley Simmons (4:37): MP3
5. Anna Maria Hong (2:17): MP3
6. Danny Snelson (4:06): MP3
7. Angela Hume (3:33): MP3
8. Zhimin Li (6:03): MP3
9. Alexa Smith (4:24): MP3
10. Faye Marie Chevalier (2:30): MP3
11. Evie Shockley (3:53): MP3
12. Eric Keenaghan (1:51): MP3
13. Zack Arrington (3:38): MP3
14. Pattie McCarthy (3:12): MP3
15. Chris McCreary (3:29): MP3
16. Tsitsi Jaji (2:57): MP3
17. Ryan Eckes (4:22): MP3
18. Sean Collins (3:12): MP3
19. Ted Rees (4:49): MP3
20. Gabriel Ojeda-Sague (3:28): MP3
21. James Ingoldsby (3:34): MP3
22. Andrew Dieck (6:10): MP3
23. Michelle Taransky (1:52): MP3
24. Sue Landers (4:15): MP3
25. Frank Sherlock (2:04): MP3
26. CAConrad (2:38): MP3
27. Anne Boyer (6:07): MP3
28. Laynie Browne (3:50): MP3
29. Andrew Gorin (1:50): MP3
30. Rachel Milligan (3:36): MP3
31. Raquel Salas-Rivera (5:55): MP3
32. Nicole Stemberg (2:29): MP3
33. Tung-Hui Hu (4:38): MP3
34. Oki Sogumi (3:53): MP3
35. Trisha Low (5:34): MP3
36. Emily Abendroth (3:45): MP3
37. Connie Yu (3:38): MP3
38. Paul Gorman (2:33): MP3
39. Mark Scroggins (4:21): MP3
40. Pierre Joris (5:09): MP3
41. Habib Tengour (3:09): MP3
42. Marion Bell (2:50): MP3
43. Kristen Case (3:50): MP3
44. Orchid Tierney (5:29): MP3
45. Herman Beavers (5:29): MP3
46. Thomas Devaney (5:06): MP3
47. Steven Kleinman (3:52): MP3
48. Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach (2:55): MP3
49. Lauren Samblanet (2:59): MP3
50. Jason Zuzga (3:43): MP3
51. Leonard Schwartz (6:09): MP3
52. Christy Davids (4:49): MP3
53. Jim Krull (2:56): MP3
54. Amanda Silberling (3:52): MP3
55. A.L. Nielsen (1:52): MP3
56. Mel Bentley (3:18): MP3
57. Sara Jane Stoner (4:06): MP3
58. Knar Gavin (5:30): MP3
59. Meg Pendoley (2:39): MP3
60. Amish Trivedi (4:33): MP3
61. Maya Arthur (4:50): MP3
62. Davy Knittle (5:27): MP3
63. Anna Strong (1:59): MP3

Complete reading (4:08:15): MP3

January 7, 2012

At Town Hall Downstairs, Seattle, Recording courtesy of A.L. Nielsen and the Heatstrings Blog

Readers include:

1. Jasper Bernes and Joshua Clover (6:03):MP3
2. Julia Bloch (1:29): MP3
3. Amaranth Borsuk (1:54): MP3
4. Rebecca Brown (1:52): MP3
5. Don Mee Choi (1:36): MP3
6. Merrill Cole (1:52): MP3
7. Matthew Cooperman (4:05): MP3
8. Crystal Curry (2:25): MP3
9. Maria Damon (1:16): MP3
10. Christine Deavel (1:53): MP3
11. Sarah Dowling (2:10): MP3
12. William J. Harris (3:09): MP3
13. Rachel Blau DuPlessis (2:09): MP3
14. Joel Felix (2:02): MP3
15. Jaime Gusman (2:00): MP3
16. Joseph Harrington (2:09): MP3
17. Jeanne Heuving (2:59): MP3
18. Anna Maria Hong (1:48): MP3
19. Yunte Huang (2:56): MP3
20. Grant Jenkins (3:18): MP3
21. Erica Kaufman (2:51): MP3
22. Myung Mi Kim (2:53): MP3
23. Gregory Laynor (2:07): MP3
24. Karen An-hwei Lee (3:37): MP3
25. Alex Leslie (4:29): MP3
26. Stacey Levine (2:46):MP3
27. Suzanne Jill Levine (2:46): MP3
28. Sarah Mangold (3:24): MP3
29. Ezra Mark (2:40): MP3
30. John Marshall (1:56): MP3
31. Bryant Mason (2:33): MP3
32. Joe Milutis (3:32): MP3
33. Robert Mittenhal (2:43): MP3
34. Laura Moriarty (4:14): MP3
35. Laura Mullen (3:04): MP3
36. Paul Nelson (3:13): MP3
37. Melanie Noel (1:09): MP3
38. A.L. Nielsen (2:38): MP3
39. Doug Nufer (2:42): MP3
40. Vanessa Place (1:56): MP3
41. James Reed (2:35): MP3
42. Summer Robinson (2:56): MP3
43. Judith Roche (3:20): MP3
44. Linda Russo (2:48): MP3
45. Leonard Schwartz (0:49): MP3
46. Kathy Lou Schultz (1:58): MP3
47. Evie Shockley (2:21): MP3
48. Monica Storss (4:19): MP3
49. Daniel Tiffany (6:14): MP3
50. Nico Vassilakis (2:30): MP3
51. Catherine Wagner (2:10): MP3
52. Christine Wertheim (4:15): MP3
53. David Wolach (5:05): MP3
54. Deborah Woodard (2:08): MP3
55. Maged Zaher (2:55): MP3
56. Julie Brown (4:05): MP3

• Complete reading (2:56:18): MP3

January 8, 2011

Organized by Andrew Maxwell, Mathew Timmons, Joseph Mosconi, Ara Shirinyan and Brian Kim Stefans at ArtShare, LA. Recording courtesy of Mathew Timmons.

Full list of readers

Complete recording part 1 (53:12): MP3
Complete recording part 2 (2:51:10): MP3

December 29, 2009

"Coming in from the Cold: Celebrating Twenty Years of the MLA Off-Site Poetry Reading," at the Philadelphia Mariott

organized by Aldon Nielsen, featuring: Elizabeth Willis, Tyrone Williams, Rodrigo Toscano, Rod Smith, Evie Shockley, Jennifer Scappettone, Bob Perelman, Laura Moriarty, Patrick Durgin and Charles Bernstein

1. Elizabeth Willis (4:24): MP3
2. Tyrone Williams (3:43): MP3
3. Rodrigo Toscano (6:52): MP3
4. Rod Smith (6:16): MP3
5. Evie Shockley (5:23): MP3
6. Jennifer Scappettone (7:12): MP3
7. Bob Perelman (6:37): MP3
8. Laura Moriarty (8:56): MP3
9. Patrick Durgin (8:11): MP3
10. Charles Bernstein (8:20): MP3

• Complete reading (1:08:24): MP3

Off-Site Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, organized by Julia Bloch and Michelle Taransky

Featuring: Matthew Landis, Rodrigo Toscano, Carlos Soto Román, Kim Gek Lin Short, Jacob Russell, Angel Hogan, Ish Klein, Gregory Laynor, Nava EtShalom, Ryan Eckes, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, David Larsen, Norma Cole, Rod Smith, Frank Sherlock, CA Conrad, Aldon Nielsen, Bob Perelman, Suzanne Heyd, Emily Abendroth, Laura Moriarty, Evie Shockley, Pattie McCarthy, Ron Silliman, Thomas Devaney, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Tyrone Williams, Jenn McCreary, Carla Harryman, Kate Lilley, Steve Dolph, Chris McCreary, Jennifer Scappettone, Lisa Howe, Bill Howe, Charles Cantalupo, Julie Phillips Brown, Norman Finkelstein, Mel Nichols, Aaron Kunin, Jamie Townsend, Michael S. Hennessey, Chris Carrier, Eric Selland, Barrett Watten, James Shea, Sandra Lim, Mecca Sullivan, Danny Snelson, Michelle Taransky, Herman Beavers, Adrian Khactu and Julia Bloch

1. introduction (1:34): MP3
2. Matthew Landis (2:56): MP3
3. Rodrigo Toscano (4:14): MP3
4. Carlos Soto Roman (2:32): MP3
5. Kim Gek Lin Short (4:51): MP3
6. Jacob Russell (2:10): MP3
7. Angel Hogan (2:37): MP3
8. Ish Klein (3:45): MP3
9. Gregory Laynor (3:01): MP3
10. Nava EtShalom (3:50): MP3
11. Ryan Eckes (1:16): MP3
12. Sueyeun Juliette Lee (1:52): MP3
13. David Larsen (2:56): MP3
14. Norma Cole (3:37): MP3
15. Rod Smith (3:13): MP3
16. Frank Sherlock (1:55): MP3
17. CA Conrad (3:21): MP3
18. Aldon Nielsen (2:20): MP3
19. Suzanne Heyd (5:13): MP3
20. Emily Abendroth (3:06): MP3
21. Laura Moriarty (3:47): MP3
22. Evie Shockley (1:50): MP3
23. Pattie McCarthy (2:23): MP3
24. Ron Silliman (2:10): MP3
25. Thomas Devaney (2:37): MP3
26. Rachel Blau DuPlessis (2:28): MP3
27. Tyrone Williams (3:31): MP3
28. Jenn McCreary (2:43): MP3
29. Carla Harryman (3:09): MP3
30. Kate Lilley (2:44): MP3
31. Steve Dolph (1:57): MP3
32. Chris McCreary (2:21): MP3
33. Jennifer Scappettone (3:20): MP3
34. Lisa Howe (3:45): MP3
35. Bill Howe (1:32): MP3
36. Charles Cantalupo (3:24): MP3
37. Julie Phillips Brown (1:58): MP3
38. Norman Finkelstein (2:57): MP3
39. Mel Nichols (2:39) MP3
40. Aaron Kunin (3:05): MP3
41. Jamie Townsend (1:46): MP3
42. Michael S. Hennessey (3:18): MP3
43. Chris Carrier (2:43): MP3
44. Eric Selland (2:59): MP3
45. Barrett Watten (7:08): MP3
46. James Shea (2:08): MP3
47. Sandra Lim (1:52): MP3
48. Mecca Sullivan (2:25): MP3
49. Danny Snelson (3:29): MP3
50. Michelle Taransky (2:00): MP3
51. Herman Beavers (4:05): MP3
52. Adrian Khactu (2:26): MP3
53. Julia Bloch (0:53): MP3

• Complete reading (2:36:46): MP3

December 28, 2008

• Taking place at the Forum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
• Recording courtesy of Aldon Nielsen (read his account of the reading and see photos of the event on HeatStrings, his blog)

Featuring:

Noah Eli Gordon, Lorraine Graham, Rob Halpern, Durriel Harris, Carla Harryman, Elizabeth Hatmaker, Jeanne Heuving, Paul Hoover, Bill Howe, Lisa Howe, Javier Huerta, Paolo Javier, Kevin Killian, Aaron Kunin, Joseph Lease, Walter Lew, Bill Luoma, Philip Metres, Kasey Mohammad, Bill Mohr, Rusty Morrison, Aldon Nielsen, Tom Orange, Craig Perez, Donna de la Perriere, Kristin Prevallet, Lisa Robertson, Jeffrey Robinson, Kit Robinson, Jerry Rothenberg

• (in)complete recording (1:31:09): MP3

December 28, 2007

• Organized by Robert Archambeau and Patrick Durgin at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recorded by Aldon Nielsen.

Featuring:

Joe Amato, Robert Archambeau, Ray Biancht, Tisa Bryant, Dodie Bellamy, Charles Cantaloupo, Stephen Cope, Josh Corey, Joel Craig, Elizabeth Cross, Garin Cycholl, Michael Davidson, Patrick Durgin, Joel Felix, Kass Fleischer, C.S. Giscombe, Renee Gladman, Chris Glomski, Steven Halle, Duriel Harris, Bill Howe, Pierre Joris, Jennifer Karmin, Kevin Killian, David Lloyd, Nicole Markotic, Cate Marvin, Philip Metres, Laura Moriarity, Simone Muench, Aldon Nielsen, Mark Nowak, Kristy Odelius, Bob Perelman, Kristin Prevallet, Jen Scappetone, Robyn Schiff, Susan Schultz, Don Share, Ed Skoog, Chuck Stebleton, Mark Tardi, Catherine Taylor, Tony Trigilio, Nick Twemlow, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Barrett Watten, Tyrone Williams, Tim Yu

1. Joe Amato

   • "This poem is...this next one..." (1:59): MP3

2. Robert Archambeau

   • Sheena is a Punkrocker (2:29): MP3

3. Ray Bianchi

   • Glistening Cantos (1:31): MP3

4. Tisa Bryant

   • California Negroes (4:53): MP3

5. Dodie Bellamy

   • Snow Globe (2:08): MP3

6. Charles Cantaloupo

   • Bethlehem (2:47): MP3

7. Stephen Cope

   • 13 Ways of Looking at the Assassination of the President (2:27): MP3

8. Josh Corey

   • Lecture on Modernism (3:28) MP3

9. Joel Craig

   • Ry Cooder (1:36): MP3

10. Elizabeth Cross The Most Desirable Romance in the World (2:29): MP3

11. Garin Cycholl

• Hostile Witness (2:12): MP3

1. Michael Davidson

• Bad Modernism (2:25): MP3

1. Patrick Durgin

• Relay Excerpts (1:58): MP3

1. Joel Felix

• The Geometric Cloves (1:19): MP3

1. Kass Fleischer

• Personality to Configure (1:55): MP3

1. G.S. Giscombe

• Prairie Silo (3:34): MP3

1. Renee Gladman

• The Ravikians (2:21): MP3

1. Chris Glomski

• Infinity (2:27): MP3

1. Steven Halle

• Elegaic Stanzas for K.C. (1:09): MP3

1. Duriel Harris

• "Lord bless you...you certainly are looking fine" (2:26): MP3

1. Bill Howe

• "Collosal reptiles..." (2:26): MP3

1. Pierre Joris

• Lines Written From Returning to These Shores After a Long Absence (1:39): MP3

1. Jennifer Karmin

• "Imaginary, consider whether it moves you..." (1:50): MP3

1. Kevin Killian

• Norwegian Wood (1:50): MP3

1. David Lloyd

• Sill (1:44): MP3

1. Nicole Markotic

• "Joseph Smith lives behind a Magritte painting..." (2:12):MP3

1. Cate Marvin

• Flowers Always (2:06): MP3

1. Philip Metres

• (Sings) (1:51): MP3

1. Laura Moriarity

• "Welcome dear chaos..." (3:53): MP3

1. Simone Muench Dear Leather Face (1:40): MP3

2. Aldon Nielsen

• The Virginia Monologues (2:02): MP3

1. Mark Nowak

• Coal Mountain (1:33): MP3

1. Kristy Odelius

• "Baby, what kind of help do you really want?.." (1:18): MP3

1. Bob Perelman

• Current Poetics; "I toy with you..." (2:31): MP3

1. Kristen Prevallet

• The Day Lady Died: For Benazir Bhutto (1:44): MP3

1. Jennifer Scappetone

• Corcerning Lasts Made in Illinois (1:27): MP3

1. Robyn Schiff

• "Has no fly laid a sac of eggs..." (1:41): MP3

1. Susan Schultz

• "3,900, 1.2 million, god fascism?..." (2:06): MP3

1. Don Share

• At Home (1:56): MP3

1. Ed Skoog

• Funny Narrative; Weird (3:00): MP3

1. Chuck Stebleton

• Frisco Seal; Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1:48): MP3

1. Mark Tardi "the roadsides favor promiscuity..." (1:52): MP3

2. Catherine Taylor

• "Patti Hearst is my mother..." (1:00): MP3

1. Tony Trigilio

• They Sound Bells For Us (2:57): MP3

1. Nick Twemlow

• Topeka Topeka (2:40): MP3

1. Quraysh Ali Lansana

• The Parable of Jacob (3:01): MP3

1. Lina Ramona Vitkauskas

• Erection: A Single Entendre (1:07): MP3

1. Barrett Watten

• Correlation of "Paterson" Book 1 (4:05): MP3

1. Tyrone Williams

• "blast theory can you see me now caption only..." (1:37): MP3

1. Tim Yu

• Love Poem (2:07): MP3
• complete reading (2:07:08): MP3

December 26, 2006

Featuring:

Aaron Kunin, Adam Fieled, Sasha Steensen, Dennis Barone, Aldon Nielsen, Ben Friedlander, Bill Howe (quartet), Bob Perelman, Brent Cunningham (phone call with "Chris"), Brian Kim Stefans, C. A. Conrad, Camille Martin, Cathy Eisenhower, Charles Bernstein, Christian Bök, Eduardo Espina, translation by Loren Goodman, Elaine Terranova, Ethel Rackin, Evie Shockley, Frank Sherlock, Hank Lazer, Herman Beavers, Jena Osman, Jennifer Scappetone, Joan Retallack, Caroline Bergvall, Johanna Drucker, John Wilkinson, Josh Schuster, Kathy Lou Schultz, Lamont Steptoe, Laura Moriarty, Leevi Lehto, Linda Russo, Linh Dinh, Loren Goodman, Matthew Cooperman, Michael Tod Edgerton, Nat Anderson, Nick Monfort, Norma Cole, Patrick Durgin, (Patrick introduces himself as Charles Bernstein), Rachel DuPlessis, Ron Silliman, Susan Schultz, Timothy Yu, Tom Devaney, Tom Orange, Tracie Morris, Tyrone Williams, Carla Harryman, Barrett Watten, Walter Lew, (odd sounds are first, Walter throwing himself across a grand piano, then later rushing out to cut Aldon Nielson's tie in half, then finally throwing himself back over piano), Will Esposito, and Yunte Huang

1. Caroline Bergvall

   • "when you write again..." (1:09): MP3

2. Joanna Drucker

   • Total Wreck (1:27): MP3

3. John Wilkinson

   • "climb the sand horn..." (1:34): MP3

4. Josh Schuster

   • Poem for John Weiners (0:22): MP3
   • reading from One Thousand Recipes (1:12): MP3

5. Kathy Lou Schultz

   • last section of Geneaology (2:20): MP3

6. Lamont Steptoe

   • Spookism (1:19): MP3
   • Passage and Gone (0:59): MP3

7. Laura Moriarty

   • reading from Ultravioleta (3:34): MP3

8. Leevi Lehto

   • reading a sound poem (2:09): MP3

9. Linda Russo

   • "if you experience sudden pain..." (2:47): MP3

10. Linh Dinh

• Rueful Outlay For Conscript (2:11): MP3

1. Loren Goodman

• Life a Game (2:36): MP3

1. Matthew Cooperman

• "there's certain patterns of experience known as habbits..." (2:50): MP3

1. Michael Tod Edgerton

• "Narcissus from beneath the shadow escapes from the body..." (2:10): MP3

1. Nathalie Anderson

• "first night together and he said don't..." (0:50): MP3

1. Nick Montfort

• I Icing Sing (1:13): MP3

1. Norma Cole

• Pluto's Disgrace (3:13): MP3

1. Rachel Blau DuPlessis

• reading from Draft of 75 Doggerel (3:08): MP3

1. Ron Silliman

• "this April eve you do deceive..." (0:29): MP3

1. Susan Schultz

• reading from Dementia Blog (2:56): MP3

1. Timothy Yu

• "in a time of fragrant falling love is something we rarely think of..." (1:57): MP3

1. Tom Orange

• "like the subtle body from the skin of both worlds...." (1:58): MP3

1. Tracie Morris

• My Great Grandaunt (2:06): My Great Grandaunt

1. Tyrone Williams

• How Do I Cross Out the X, Malcolm? (1:47): MP3

1. Carla Harryman

• Devouring (1:44): MP3

1. Barrett Watten

• Dream (1:53): MP3
• Dream of a Post-Soviet MLA (2:40): MP3

1. Will Esposito

• "a heavy foliage..." (1:23): MP3

1. Yunte Huang

• "dot com..." (0:59): MP3

• Various Readers part 2 (32:05): MP3

• Various Readers part 3 (40:05): MP3

December 28, 2005

at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C.

• introduction (1:27): MP3

1. Joel Bettridge reading from Presocratic Blues

   • "At the Grocery..." (1:19): MP3
   • "Philolaus walking through the park..." (0:43): MP3
   • After Treating a Patient for yet Another Unknown Ailment Hippocrates Records a Note to Self (0:34): MP3
   • Eurytus Having Drunk Too Much is Most Himself When Speaking (0:59): MP3

2. Louis Cabri

   • Foamula (2:36): MP3

3. Joshua Clover

   • "Let's talk about space then..." (1:53): MP3
   • Poem Oh Let's Kiss and Make Up (1:36): MP3

4. Michael Cross

   • Cede (3:46): MP3

5. Brent Cunningham reading from Orations of Trillius Petronius

   • 6th Oration: Tulia, My Constant (2:37): MP3
   • 8th Oration: Prometheus Thinks of His Mother (2:40): MP3

6. Richard Deming

   • The Sound of Things and Their Motion (1:35): MP3
   • Political Poem (1:30): MP3
   • From Some Elsewhere (1:23): MP3

7. Jeff Derksen

   • The Vestiges or a Creative Destruction (3:55): MP3

8. Patrick Durgin

   • To My Imitators (1:15): MP3
   • Was Not Was (1:31): MP3

9. William Howe

   • 716a (0:51): MP3
   • 719 (0:27): MP3
   • 724 (0:33): MP3
   • 722 (0:42): MP3

10. Aaron Kunin

• The Sore Throat (1:54): MP3

1. Nicole Markotic

• "dictate the prose back home..." (1:52): MP3

1. Camille Martin

• "wither and weather the withering weather..." (1:56): MP3
• "ice crystals on a cold surface..." (1:27): MP3
• "even a neutral mood coats the range of surface..." (0:57): MP3
• "no point in the flood..." (0:54): MP3

1. Laura Moriarty

• four minute synopsis of A Tonalist Thinking (4:00): MP3
• "to be of music..." (1:18): MP3

1. Aldon Nielsen

• Inauguration by Lorenzo Thomas (1:10): MP3
• Song by Lorenzo Thomas (0:49): MP3
• "the ear of the behearer..." (1:16): MP3

1. Bob Perelman

• Only One of Us is Henry James (1:31): MP3
• Ideal Reader (0:12): MP3
• Student Publication (0:14): MP3
• Pound's Penis (aside) (0:46): MP3
• Epic Proportions (0:31): MP3
• Theater of Cruelty (0:46): MP3
• Poetic Sex (0:20): MP3
• Enemy Readers (0:46): MP3
• Faith Based Lyric (0:38): MP3
• The Jack Spicer Memorial Neuron (0:14): MP3
• Stein and Miss Murphy (0:35): MP3
• Envoi (0:35): MP3

1. Joan Retallack

• sections from The Reinvention of Truth (4:14): MP3

1. Jennifer Scappettone

• Derrida is Dead 2 (2:17): MP3
• Derrida is Dead 2.009 (1:57): MP3

1. Susan Schultz

• The Last Modernist (1:55): MP3
• Expectant Mother (1:45): MP3

Complete Recording (1:27:35): MP3

December 29, 2004

Featuring:

Will Alexander (Compound Hibernation), Kazim Ali, Rae Armantrout (2,3), Alicia Askenase (Osso Buco), Dennis Barone (Wishbone), Herman Beavers (Taking Up Base, After April 15th This Won't Matter), Steve McCaffery (Part 63), Lee Ann Brown, David Buuck, Mark Wallace, Louis Cabri (from Becoming Kitsch), C.A. Conrad introducing Gil Ott Recording (Stingera), C.A. Conrad (The Department of Refusals and Constant Wartime), Brent Cunningham (City of the Sun, Truth is the Flaw), Michael Davidson (The Public Sphere, Poor Yorick, Arcadia), Tom Devaney (Blindfold), Linh Dinh (Continuous Bullets Over Flat Earth, No Biggies, Holes), Greg Djanikian (Buying a Rug), Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Forward Slash), Patrick Durgin (For Jackson MacLow), Norman Finkelstein (Collage 4), Kristen Gallagher, C.S. Giscombe (The Old Northwest) (cut off), Loren Goodman, Hassen, Bill Howe, Jessica Lowenthal, Pattie McCarthy, Chris McCreary, Jenn McCreary, Mark McMorris, Mike Magee, Camille Martin, "continental sweep",Brigette Byrd, Charles Bernstein, "Ballad of the Girly Man", Laura Moriarty, Eileen Myles, Jena Osman, Bob Perelman, Ethel Rackin, Kathy Lou Schultz, Frank Sherlock, Ron Silliman, Juliana Spahr, Chris Stroffolino, Kevin Varone, Mark Wallace, from "Clowns Against Fences" [working title], Barrett Watten

1. Part One (1:01:09): mp3
2. Part Two (1:01:42): mp3

December 27, 1996

at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C.

1. Charles Bernstein

   • Don't Be So Sure (Don't be Saussure) (0:46): MP3
   • The Knees Have It (0:30): MP3
   • Gertrude and Ludwig's Bogus Adventure (1:37): MP3
   • Ruminative Ablution (0:58): MP3
   • from an ongoing interview with Tom Beckett (2:37): MP3
   • Innappropriate Touching (1:47): MP3
   • He's So Heavy He's My Sokal (2:44): MP3

2. Norma Cole

   • A Poet Enters the Body of Expectation (0:42): MP3
   • Artificial Memory (4:44): MP3

3. Rachel Blau DuPlessis

   • reading from Draft 29: Intellectual Autobiography (4:22): MP3
   • reading from Draft 23: Findings (3:43): MP3

4. Peter Gizzi

   • Pierced (7:24): MP3

5. Loss Glazier

   • Windows 95 (5:28): MP3
   • Ole/ Embedded Object (2:05): MP3

6. Carla Harryman

   • Fairy Tale (7:03): MP3

7. Hank Lazer

   • reading from 3 of 10 (1:02): MP3
   • reading from Days (3:07): MP3

8. Steve McCaffery

   • reading from TeachableTexts (6:47): MP3

9. Douglas Messerli

   • First Words (3:20): MP3
   • Aesthetics (0:41): MP3
   • Never Having to Been Where the Sun Rose (1:18): MP3

10. Jennifer Moxley

• Out of the Cradle Endlessly (1:55): MP3
• Ode to the Man in the Mire of Babylon (1:41): MP3
• Where Was I Going? (3:27): MP3

1. Aldon Nielsen

• Manufacturer's Warning (0:19): MP3
• "when things decay" (0:38): MP3
• After Autumn (0:19): MP3
• Unwieldy Aphorism (0:27): MP3
• Supple Mint (0:32): MP3
• Lafayette Square (0:30): MP3
• American Songbag (1:03): MP3

1. Ted Pearson

• reading first stanza from all of his (then) 13 books (6:09): MP3

1. Bob Perelman

• The Alphabet (0:46): MP3
• In a Nutshell (1:09): MP3
• Lord Randal (2:16): MP3
• The Mask of Rhyme (2:17): MP3

1. Stephen Rodefer

• Imitation W (4:56): MP3

1. Juliana Spahr

• Thrashing Seems Crazy (2:45): MP3

1. Barrett Watten

• Bad History 9 (3:18): MP3

• Part One (57:34): MP3

• Part Two (57:11): MP3

• Part Three (4:50): MP3

December 28, 1989

At Bick's Books in Washington D.C.

Featuring:

1. A.L. Nielsen (30:59): MP3

   • Introduction (0:47): MP3
   • Self-Organizing Networks (0:59): MP3
   • Letter Home (1:18): MP3
   • Half a Poem for David Bromige (0:51): MP3
   • Silent Partners (4:11): MP3
   • The Day Lady Died (0:12): MP3
   • 30 Things About Zebras (2:27): MP3
   • Progasm (0:53): MP3
   • Doc Watter's Residency (3:51): MP3
   • Caldonia Softens (1:15): MP3
   • Snow Over Johannesburg (1:53): MP3
   • from Part Two of "Essays" (6:04): MP3
   • Brown Coeds Nabbed (1:04): MP3
   • Photo Opportunity (1:26): MP3
   • My Dinner With Andrea (2:04): MP3

2. Charles Bernstein (28:58): MP3

   • Opening Comments (1:31): MP3
   • Fragments from the 17th Manifesto of Nude Formalism (1:17): MP3
   • Gosh (1:27): MP3
   • The Cost of Doing Business (2:10): MP3
   • Emma: (0:42): MP3
   • Ding Dong You Are Wrong (1:34): MP3
   • No Way (0:26): MP3
   • Thrush (1:39): MP3
   • Freud's Butcher (1:22): MP3
   • Water Poem (0:45): MP3
   • Vault and Volley (:52): MP3
   • How I Painted Certain of My Pictures (7:36): MP3 [N.B. first five words cut off: "You say I'm like a ..."]

3. Bob Perelman (39:57): MP3

   • Introduction (0:22): MP3
   • Picture Writing (3:54): MP3
   • Chronic Meanings (6:28): MP3
   • Free Prose (6:11): MP3
   • Seduced by Analogy (2:17): MP3
   • Problems of Everyday Life (1:00): MP3
   • from The First World (1:47): MP3
   • Fable (1:28): MP3
   • Back to the Present (2:19): MP3
   • The View from the Dollar Bill (1:34): MP3
   • The Family of Man (1:45): MP3
   • Here (1:38): MP3
   • Ground (1:33): MP3
   • selectiongs from "Clippings," Section 4 of Captive Audience (5:59): MP3

4. Marjorie Perloff (33:20): MP3 (Note: in this talk, Perloff discusses the impotus for and content of her book, "Radical Artifice")

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