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PoemTalk #156, Discussing Steve Dalachinsky's "with shelter gone," feat. Bonny Finberg, Julien Poirier, and Jake Marmer

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


A Reading of Cosmic Diaspora by Jake Marmer at the Sussman Poetry Program, October 14, 2020

Watch the complete recording of the evening below

Part One: Reading

  1. Introduction (6:09): MP3
  2. Anima (1:25): MP3
  3. Turbine (3:36): MP3
  4. Testimony (5:00): MP3
  5. Circle Maker (2:49): MP3
  6. Warp Soliloquy (2:32): MP3
  7. Transcription no. 29 (1:12): MP3
  8. Transcription no. 23 (0:55): MP3
  9. Please Don't Panic at the Disco (2:28): MP3
  10. Content (1:58): MP3
  11. Borscht (2:23): MP3

Part Two: Conversation

  1. Discussing "Circle Maker" (7:55): MP3
  2. Discussing "Anima" (6:24): MP3
  3. Discussing "Warp Soliloquy" (7:24): MP3
  4. Discussing "Content" (6:01): MP3
  5. Discussing "Testimony" (2:25): MP3
  6. Tohu Bohu (6:58): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #121, Discussing Jerome Rothenberg's "Galician Nights" and "Poland/1931", feat. Jake Marmer, Frank London, and Maria Damon

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Reading for Great Books Summer Program at Stanford University, July 3, 2018

Complete Recording (57:03) MP3

Performing with Frank London at Kelly Writers House's Poetry and Music Festival, September 17, 2017

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Jake Marmer and Frank London (28:24): MP3

For full performance list, see the Poetry and Music Festival calendar entry at Kelly Writers House.

"Generations: Avant-Garde Jewish Poetry with David Meltzer & Jake Marmer" at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, CA, April 3, 2016

  1. Joel Stanley Intro (0:48): MP3
  2. Reading (15:51): MP3
  3. Discussion with David Meltzer (19:18): MP3

"Jake Marmer & John Schott: Law of Returning Lost Objects (Responding to Roman Vishniac)" at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, CA, March 11, 2016

  1. Natalia's Intro (1:03): MP3
  2. Jake's Intro (1:53): MP3
  3. Nigun Methodology (2:09): MP3
  4. The Law of Returning Lost Objects (12:12): MP3
  5. Amphibian Nigun (1:39): MP3

Performing Frank Lima’s poem “Plena,” Palo Alto, CA, January 16, 2016

  • Plena (0:29): MP3

Interviewing David Antin & Jerome Rothenberg in San Diego, CA, December 23, 2015

  • Full recording (1:35:55): MP3

    "All Points East" reading at Liminal in Oakland, CA on May 10, 2015

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    Performing Hermeneutic Stomp at the Kelly Writers House, January 20, 2015

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    1. Painters' Nign: MP3, Video
    2. The Laws of Dreamcooking: MP3, Video
    3. LunchSong: MP3, Video
    4. Lines For Yom Kippur 5774: MP3, Video
    5. Change of Weather: MP3, Video
    6. Concept Score #36: MP3, Video
    7. Poetics of Emerging - A Panel: MP3, Video
    8. (Poem Than Needed a Title and Was Named at the Gig As) "Give Me My Mute Please": MP3, Video
    9. DogCat Riff: MP3, Video
    10. 3 AM Nign: MP3, Video
    11. Facts: MP3, Video

    Complete Performance (01:03:12): MP3

    Musicians: Frank London (Trumpet), Greg Wall (Saxophone), Eyal Maoz (Guitar) and Uri Sharlin (Keys/Accordion)

    from Hermeneutic Stomp (Blue Thread Music, 2013)

    Mishnah of Loneliness (3:46): MP3

    Concept Score #31 (2013)

    Concept Score #31 (2:09): MP3

    Remixed and accompanied on bass by Jean Claude Jones. Based on a shape-poem.



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