Rob Fitterman

PoemTalk Podcast #95 Discussing Rob Fitterman's Poem "Sprawl"

Listen to the complete recording and read the program notes at Jacket2

Whenever We Feel Like It Reading with Katie Price and Michael Sosnick, Kelly Writers House, April 13, 2016

• Complete Reading (29:42): MP3

1. Fitterman's Adaptation of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (7:23): MP3
2. Dave (11:19): MP3
3. No Wait, Yep, Definitely Still Hate Myself (10:42): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, NYC, April 27, 2013

Complete reading (32:17): MP3

1. Introduction (4:50): MP3
2. First Customer Chat (7:38): MP3
3. Second Customer Chat (8:05): MP3
4. Final Customer Chat (11:43): MP3

Reading for the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Art Foundation, New York:Chelsea, March 4, 2013

with Ron Silliman

1. Stoked: Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (7:50): MP3
2. from No, Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself. (16:44): MP3

• Complete reading (24:40): MP3

Koch-Dupee Poetry Series at Columbia University, October 25, 2012

1. Introduced by Paul Stephens (4:06): MP3
2. from Rob's Workshop (26:02): MP3

Complete Reading (30:22): MP3

Reading for The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, East Village, May 26, 2010

1. Introduction (2:09): MP3
2. Dear Editors (1:01): MP3
3. Fez (3:18): MP3
4. The American Poetry Review (0:20): MP3
5. Beloit Poetry Review (0:15): MP3
6. The Yale Review (0:14): MP3
7. Poetry (0:14): MP3
8. Actonel, Advair, Avodart, Crestor, and Flomax from Pill Box (1:32): MP3
9. Circuit City from Sprawl (0:51): MP3
10. Excerpts from Epigraph and Ben Kessler(s) from Now We Are Friends (1:23): MP3
11. Paxil from Pill Box (0:25): MP3
12. Burger King from Sprawl (0:45): MP3
13. Excerpt from Ben Kessler(s) from Now We Are Friends (1:55): MP3
14. Levitra from Pill Box (0:26): MP3
15. The Nature Poetry of Matvei Yankelevich (0:22): MP3
16. Excerpts from Ben Kessler(s) and Ben's Friends from Now We Are Friends (1:34): MP3
17. Red Lobster from Sprawl (0:39): MP3
18. Lipitor from Pill Box (0:16): MP3
19. Excerpt from Ben Kessler(s) from Now We Are Friends (0:22): MP3
20. Bacon and Egg on a Roll on Bleecker Street (2:38): MP3
21. Payless Shoes from Sprawl (0:33): MP3
22. Excerpt from Ben Kessler(s) from Now We Are Friends (0:21): MP3
23. Cinnabon from Sprawl (0:23): MP3
24. Viagra from Pill Box (0:24): MP3
25. Excerpt from Ben's Friends' Friends from Now We Are Friends (0:58): MP3
26. Zelnorm from Pill Box (0:19): MP3
27. The Nature Poetry of Matvei Yankelevich (0:20): MP3
28. Failure: A Post-Conceptual Poem (8:03): MP3

Complete reading (33:31): MP3

"Sprawl" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 95.

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, April 24, 2010

1. Introduction (5:28): MP3
2. from Holocaust Museum (22:00): MP3

• Complete reading (27:28): MP3

At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 2008

Reading at the N 49 15.832 – W 123 05.921 Positions Colloquium on August 22, 2008 (22:28): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #153, "Three from NY," with host Leonard Schwartz, November 18, 2007

1. Introduction (0:37): MP3
2. on Sprawl (1:53): MP3
3. Reading from Sprawl (13:49): MP3
• J.Crew (p. 30) (0:40): MP3
• The Body Shop (0:13): MP3
• Banana Republic (p. 67) (0:40): MP3
• Arby's (p. 67*) (0:30): MP3
• H&M (p. 31) (0:34): MP3
• Sbarro (p. 65*) (0:37): MP3
• Bath & Body Works (p. 33) (0:44): MP3
• JC Penny (p. 45*) (0:48): MP3
• Kate Spade (p. 31*) (1:05): MP3
• LensCrafters (p. 43*) (0:34): MP3
• China Buffet (p. 65*) (0:38): MP3
• Sharper Image (p. 44*) (0:53): MP3
• Kay Jewelers (p. 40*) (0:35): MP3
• Panda Express (p. 64*) (0:30): MP3
• American Eagle (p. 40) (0:39): MP3
• Taco Bell (p. 67*) (0:52): MP3
• Cinnabon (p. 60*) (0:24): MP3
• Eddie Bauer (p. 35*) (0:40): MP3
• Zen 5 (p. 64*) (0:38): MP3
• Sears (p. [?]) (0:57): MP3

Page citations: Sprawl: Metropolis 30A (Los Angeles, Make Now Press, 2010). Asterisks indicate that the audio recording and text as published in Sprawl mostly or entirely align.

4. On working with appropriated language (1:28): MP3
5. The responsibility and seduction of using the technology at hand (2:33): MP3
6. Found language in relation to the reality of overproduction (2:49): MP3
7. The place of Sprawl in the larger structure of Metropolis (2:13): MP3
8. Upcoming projects and closing comments (1:46): MP3

Complete recording (27:41): MP3

"Sprawl" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 95.

Reading and Interview on Ceptuetics Radio, October 30, 2007

Hosted by Kareem Estefan. Fitterman reads from two new projects: Sprawl: Metropolis 30A (forthcoming, Make Now Press) and rob the plagiarist (forthcoming, Roof Books). Also discussed: Fitterman's use of appropriated language, his development towards the long poem/book format, and his recent collaboration with the visual artist Dirk Rowntree, War: the Musical (Subpress).

Complete recording (28:24): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 27, 2007

1. Introduction (2:45): MP3
2. from Sprawl (23:38): MP3
• J. Crew (1:00): MP3
• The Body Shop (0:14): MP3
• Banana Republic (0:47): MP3
• Arby's (0:56): MP3
• H&M (0:34): MP3
• Sbarro (0:38): MP3
• Bath & Body Works (0:46): MP3
• JC Penny (0:47): MP3
• Burger King (0:20): MP3
• Kate Spade (1:07): MP3
• LensCrafters (0:42): MP3
• China Buffet (0:45): MP3
• Sharper Image (1:02): MP3
• Kay Jewelers (0:28): MP3
• Coach (0:57): MP3
• Panda Express (0:30): MP3
• American Eagle (0:56): MP3
• Taco Bell (0:39): MP3
• Where Have You Bean (0:59): MP3
• Cinnabon (0:47): MP3
• Charley's Steakery (0:34): MP3
• Hickory Farms (0:49): MP3
• Lacoste (0:25): MP3
• Eddie Bauer (0:55): MP3
• Limited Express (0:40): MP3
• Barnes & Noble Booksellers (1:10): MP3
• GNC (0:16): MP3
• Zen 5 (1:11): MP3
• Sears (1:16): MP3

Complete recording (26:23): MP3

"Sprawl" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 95.

At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 2007

Reading on March 9, 2007 (28:36): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, April 8, 2006

1. Monica de la Torre's Introduction (1:22): MP3
2. Fitterman's Opening: On Sprawl and Metropolis (2:07): MP3
3. Father to Daughter (1:16): MP3
4. The Left Wing (1:10): MP3
5. Zoomburg (1:11): MP3
6. Father to Son (1:10): MP3
7. Privatopia (1:10): MP3
8. The Right Wing (0:26): MP3
9. Lacoste (0:26): MP3
10. Oakley (0:34): MP3
11. Mother to Daughter (0:55): MP3
12. Mother to Father (1:18): MP3

Complete recording (13:05): MP3

Reading as part of the Line Reading Series, May 14, 2002

1. Lytle Shaw's Introduction (1:11): MP3
2. Cedar's Estate (0:38): MP3

from Metropolis 30, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

3. 17 Rubber Ducks for Sale (4:15): MP3
4. 1 Guide 8Z (1:10): MP3
5. 7 Conventions Center Expo Guide Booths 1-10 (0:43): MP3
6. 26 Airbrush (0:56): MP3
7. 11 Welcome to My Guest Book (1:23): MP3
8. 7 Mini Golf, the Front Nine (0:56): MP3
9. 10 B9D (2:00): MP3
10. Booths 42 - 32 (0:38): MP3
11. 12 Bubble Wrap (1:11): MP3
12. 20 Welcome to My Guest Book, A Detail (1:37): MP3
13. 5 Airbrush (2:03): MP3
14. Booths 99 - 107 (0:38): MP3
15. 21 B9 D (1:11): MP3
16. 25 Mini Golf, 1 Promised Land (1:20): MP3
17. 19 Bubble Wrap, What We Do (0:39): MP3
18. Booths 411 - 420 (0:37): MP3
19. 30 Guide 1 - 99 (1:25): MP3

Complete recording (29:40): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Double Happiness, New York, October 7, 2000

1. Introduction (02:13): MP3
2. Metropolis 16-29: after Medici: a transaction (09:11): MP3
3. Metropolis 16-29: samples from 16, 27, 24, and "A National History of Popular Music & Letters, Vol. 1" (20:08): MP3

• Complete reading (32:32): MP3

Monday Series: Pamela Lu, Rob Fitterman, St. Mark’s Church, NY, April 26, 1999

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (48:45): link
2. Side B (48:28): link

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, October 7, 1995

from Metropolis 1-15

1. 13 (04:17): MP3
2. 8 (06:39): MP3
3. 1 (08:09): MP3
4. 4 (03:31) MP3

• Complete recording (first part not recorded)(23:27): MP3

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