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PoemTalk #19, Discussing Bob Perelman's "The Unruly Child", feat. Tom Mandel, Sarah Dowling, and Rodrigo Toscano

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PoemTalk #15, Discussing Lyn Hejinian's "constant change figures," feat. Tom Mandel, Bob Perelman, and Thomas Devaney

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Grand Piano Reading: Episode 5, October 20, 2022

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Tom Mandel: Collaborating on The Grand Piano the ten of us exchanged thousands of emails. A recurrent subject in our correspondence was the question of the absent pianists—those poets & other artists with whom we had been & often still were close but who did not figure among the authors of our project. I decided to read passages from my Grand Piano essays that addressed the experience & significance of absence and those absent in a number of ways: my invention of a fictional poet nonetheless a member of our cohort (#10), a trip to New York with Ron to attend a memorial for Emma Bee Bernstein who had died at 23 some weeks earlier (#8), & one of the last visits Beth & I had from our dear friend the filmmaker Warren Sonbert about a year before his death of AIDS (#7).

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

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Tom Mandel, Studio 111 Session, Recorded June 4, 2008

1. A Garment (by Abraham ibn Ezra) (1:09): MP3
2. Gravity and Grace (3:28): MP3
3. To Music (From Memory) (4:23): MP3
4. No Takers (6:34): MP3
5. Ut Pictura Poesis (5:36): MP3
6. Communication Through Hints (7:25): MP3
7. 1902 (1:50): MP3
8. Spoken Quotation (0:56): MP3
9. Xmas '73 (0:34): MP3
10. Twenty Years War (0:57): MP3
11. Only the Sun (0:18): MP3
12. Biography (1:16): MP3
13. Filmic (0:33): MP3
14. Mandel discusses "Ramah" (0:46): MP3
15. A Revealed Pattern (0:57): MP3
16. Fire of Wandering (0:47): MP3
17. Communication Through Hints (1:02): MP3
18. Ben Siran (0:28): MP3
19. Moscow Metro Station Mosaics (1:33): MP3
20. Moscow Metro Station Mosaics III (1:01): MP3
21. Ancestral Moscow Metro Station Mosaics (4:26): MP3
22. Moscow Metro Station Mosaics: Marginalia (3:14): MP3
23. Mandel discusses To the Cognoscenti (0:52): MP3
24. from "To the Cognoscenti" (2:16): MP3
25. "Persepolis and other hot spots . . ." (0:47): MP3
26. "He has let slip . . ." (3:22): MP3
27. "Blade along incline . . ." (3:34): MP3
28. Part X: "Later the narrator finds himself . . ." (1:08): MP3
29. Part XII: "Introduction" (1:48): MP3
30. The Cave (13:35): MP3

Studio 111 Session Produced by Michael S. Hennessey

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

"Entitlement & Doubt (Postcards & Procrastination)" (11:41): MP3

(click for photos of the postcard [front & back] and envelope Mandel discusses in his talk)

PoemTalk #19, discussing Bob Perelman's "The Unruly Child," July 6, 2009

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

PoemTalk #15, discussing Lyn Hejinian's "constant change figures," March 9, 2009

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Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 20, 2004

1. Introduction (5:00): MP3
2. Education of the Poet, an Autobiography (11:13): MP3
3. Day (1:35): MP3
4. Rust on a New Penny (3:38): MP3
5. Standards of Compression (9:27): MP3
6. Temptation Roofing (7:49): MP3
7. Absence Sensorium (2:35): MP3

Complete Reading (41:17):MP3

From PhillyTalks Episode #5, March 5, 1998

1. Untitled (2:16): MP3
2. Untitled (5:52): MP3
3. Untitled (1:42): MP3
4. Untitled (0:50): MP3
5. Fire of Wandering (0:50): MP3
6. Untitled (6:34): MP3
   Complete Program (also featuring Ammiel Alcalay) (1:38:18):MP3
   A transcript of the complete program (in PDF format) is available here

Logo Daedalus: Issue #6, Autumn 1993

• note: Tom Mandel recorded the first poem, "Palestine 8," on In the American Tree, hosted by Lyn Hejinian, on December 15, 1978

• "A Form is a Fragment of Content, "Philosopher's Song," and "No Takers" were recorded on October 8, 1993

• Tom Mandel (16:20): MP3

• complete recording (1:32:52): MP3

Talk on Spinoza: Philosophy and Poetry. June 24, 1979

• Part One (46:44): MP3
• Part Two (46:52): MP3
• Part Three (11:51): MP3 (Question at beginning cut off due to poor sound quality) Above Recording Courtesy of Bob Perelman

"Blindness," 1220 Folsom Street, San Francisco, October 27, 1977

From the Talk Series curated by Bob Perelman

• Tape 1 (1:31:21): MP3
• Tape 2 (35:43): MP3

Also on PennSound:

Alan Berheimer's Particle Arms (1982), which featured Mandel as a performer.

Tom Mandel on PennSound Daily

• September 18, 2008: "Tom Mandel: New Studio 111 Session, June 2008"
• April 21, 2008: "Tom Mandel: New Author Page"

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