PennSound: Kelsey Street Press (original) (raw)

Sabrina Dalla Valle reads from 7 Days and Nights in the Desert (Tracing the Origin) (2013)

Winner of the Kelsey Street Press FIRSTS! Contest judged by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, this book inaugurates a series of first books by emerging writers.

Recorded by Ross Craig, April 25, 2014, Berkeley, CA

Cecilia Vicuña chants fragments of her poem Instan (Kelsey Street Press 2002), improvising on a Tibetan dramyin

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, February 17, 2012

  1. alba del habla/mother of time (4:38): MP3
  2. luz y del qué/cúal es nuestra verdad? (8:20): MP3
  3. Instan, a journey inside words, an oral improvisation (5:27): MP3

Hazel White reading from Peril As Architectural Enrichment (Kelsey Street Press 2011)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, October 5, 2011

  1. Introduction to Peril As Architectural Enrichment (0:19): MP3
  2. Truant (3:57): MP3
  3. Pollen Carrier (1:52): MP3
  4. Prospect (3:18): MP3
  5. Gravity, Ignobly (4:53): MP3

Rena Rosenwasser reading from Elevators (Kelsey Street Press 2011)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, August 8, 2011

  1. Introduction to the book and Gurgling in the Monster Depths (0:49): MP3
  2. Gurgling in the Monster Depths (5:46): MP3
  3. Introduction to Elevators (1:42): MP3
  4. Elevators (6:15): MP3
  5. Introduction to Triptych (0:39): MP3
  6. Triptych (12:52): MP3

Susan Gevirtz reading from Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger (Kelsey Street Press 2010)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, June 3, 2009

Patricia Dienstfrey Interviews Hadley Guest about Barbara Guest, Berkeley, May 23, 2008

Elizabeth Robinson, recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, April 15, 2008

Bed of Lists (Kelsey Street Press 1990)

  1. Introduction (0:46): MP3
  2. Salisbury Plain (1:17): MP3
  3. Coal (1:20): MP3
  4. Dust Bowl (2:01): MP3
  5. The Array of Orthodoxy (1:42): MP3
  6. Norte (0:53): MP3
  7. Mexican Rain (2:59): MP3
  8. For Karen (0:38): MP3
  9. Meshes (1:40): MP3
  10. The Sleep (2:56): MP3

House Made of Silver (Kelsey Street Press 2000)

  1. Introduction (0:34): MP3
  2. Its Excess (0:51): MP3
  3. Its Companion (0:53): MP3
  4. Return (2:31): MP3
  5. Term (1:30): MP3
  6. The Ferry (3:11): MP3
  7. Emitted Adoration (6:18): MP3

Bhanu Kapil reading from Humanimal (Kelsey Street Press 2009)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, February 16, 2008

  1. Introduction and Opening Notes (1:57): MP3
  2. Humanimal (16:23): MP3

Kathleen Fraser Interviews Hadley Guest about Barbara Guest, Berkeley, July 17, 2007

  1. Introduction (0:23): MP3
  2. Hadley Guest reading "The Next Floor" by Barbara Guest (0:51): MP3
  3. Kathleen Fraser on being introduced to Barbara Guest and her work (13:46): MP3
  4. Barbara Guest's friendship with painters (9:33): MP3
  5. Hadley Guest on growing up around poets and painters (5:15): MP3
  6. the division between uptown and downtown in the New York art world in the 60s (12:31): MP3
  7. Barbara Guest's refusal to be pigeon-holed (2:23): MP3
  8. the cruelty of the downtown scene and Barbara Guest's intentional erasure (18:31): MP3
  9. Hadley Guest on living with Barbara during the last few years of her life and hearing about her first marriage to John Dudley (7:18): MP3
  10. Trumbull Higgins and social position in relation to money (11:33): MP3
  11. Barbara's uptown studio and her strong family feelings (16:55): MP3
  12. Barbara's shared apartment with Perdita Schaffner and her experience working and walking around Union Square (5:00): MP3
  13. productivity, freedom, and moving west (4:15): MP3
  14. Stephen Guest and introducing Barbara Guest to H.D. (15:35): MP3
  15. Barbara's work on H.D. (12:27): MP3
  16. Barbara's awareness of women writers, her relation to feminism, and her commitment to being a wife and mother as well as a poet (15:29): MP3 Complete recording (2:31:56): MP3

Susan Gevirtz Interviews Hadley Guest about Barbara Guest, Berkeley, May 9, 2007

Susan Gevirtz reading from Black Box Cutaway (Kelsey Street Press 1999)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, March 22, 2007

  1. Introduction to The 12th of Never (2:18): MP3
  2. The 12th of Never (5:01): MP3
  3. Postscript to The 12th of Never (0:56): MP3
  4. Introduction to Black box Cutaway (3:34): MP3
  5. Black Box CutAway (17:42): MP3
  6. Conversation with Hazel White (10:40): MP3

Myung Mi Kim reading from Under Flag (Kelsey Street Press 1998)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, March 7, 2007

  1. These Fishing (2:21): MP3
  2. Comments 1 (2:55): MP3
  3. Demarcation (2:10): MP3
  4. Comments 2 (1:08): MP3
  5. And Sing We (2:54): MP3
  6. Food, Shelter, Clothing (3:44): MP3
  7. Comments 3 (3:01): MP3

Laynie Browne reading from Rebecca Letters (Kelsey Street Press 1997)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, February 7, 2007

  1. Introduction (3:34): MP3
  2. Page 11 (0:51): MP3
  3. Page 12 (0:47): MP3
  4. Page 13 (0:35): MP3
  5. Page 16 (1:02): MP3
  6. Page 17 (0:36): MP3
  7. Page 18 (0:57): MP3
  8. Page 19 (1:10): MP3
  9. Page 20 (0:41): MP3
  10. Page 21 (2:04): MP3
  11. Page 23 (1:20): MP3
  12. Page 24 (1:01): MP3
  13. Page 25 (1:37): MP3
  14. Page 26 (0:42): MP3
  15. Page 28 (0:32): MP3
  16. Page 30 (1:56): MP3
  17. Page 33 (0:35): MP3
  18. Page 34 (1:01): MP3
  19. Page 35 (0:55): MP3
  20. Page 37 (1:20): MP3
  21. Page 38 (0:42): MP3
  22. Page 39 (0:43): MP3
  23. Page 42 (0:39): MP3
  24. Page 45 (0:54): MP3
  25. Page 47 (1:04): MP3

Also from Rebecca Letters, 2007:

Laura Mullen reading from The Tales of Horror (Kelsey Street Press 1999)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, January 27, 2007

  1. Introduction and Epigraph (3:13): MP3
  2. Overture (1:29): MP3
  3. The Tales of Horror (3:24): MP3
  4. Things Look Better in the Morning (3:22): MP3
  5. (Belated) Prologue (4:02): MP3
  6. A Travel Diary (8:54): MP3
  7. (Muted Sobbing Behind a Closed Door) (5:03): MP3
  8. The Cure (8:16): MP3

Kathleen Fraser reading from Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake (Kelsey Street Press 1984)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, January 17, 2007

  1. Introduction (1:48): MP3
  2. Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake (13:34): MP3
  3. Conversation with Suzanne Stein Part 1 (15:18): MP3
  4. Medusa's hair was snakes. Was thought, split inward. (3:01): MP3
  5. Conversation with Suzanne Stein Part 2 (34:00): MP3

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge reading from Concordance (Kelsey Street Press 2006)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, October 26, 2006

  1. Introduction (0:52): MP3
  2. Concordance (6:47): MP3
  3. Red Quiet (5:55): MP3

Bhanu Kapil reading from The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press 2001)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, October 9, 2006

  1. Intro/Vertical, Notes (8:06): MP3
  2. Twelve Questions (0:52): MP3
  3. 1. What is the shape of your body? (4:26): MP3
  4. 3. Describe a morning you woke without fear. (1:09): MP3
  5. 11. Where did you come from/how did you arrive? (1:40): MP3
  6. 33. Tell me what you know about dismemberment. (1:37): MP3
  7. 42. Tell me what you know about dismemberment. (1:08): MP3
  8. 47. Where did you come from/how did you arrive? (0:44): MP3
  9. 22. Describe a morning you woke without fear. (1:01): MP3
  10. 53. What are the consequences of silence? (0:50): MP3
  11. 54. How will you/have you prepare(d) for your death? (0:49): MP3
  12. 77.How will you live now? (0:57): MP3
  13. 95. How will you begin? (0:58): MP3
  14. 96. What is the shape of your body? (0:08): MP3
  15. 97. Who is responsible for the suffering of your mother? (0:47): MP3

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