Ed Roberson

Reading at The Mackey Sessions, Durham, NC, September 20, 2018

1. Song of the Andoumboulou: 6 (4:02): MP3
2. Song of the Andoumboulou: 7 (3:22): MP3
3. Dear Angel of Dust (3:27): MP3
4. Medallion (7:04): MP3
5. The Light (6:39): MP3
6. Numbers (3:10): MP3
7. What Really is There? (5:42): MP3
8. What Did I Just See? (5:32): MP3
9. On Absence (5:44): MP3

Complete reading (44:38): MP3

Reading for Heatstrings, Reading and Presentation of the Stephen Henderson Award for Literature by the African American Literature and Culture Society, Boston, May 27, 2011

1. Introduction by A.L. Nielsen (4:50): MP3
2. Roberson Introduction (2:18): MP3
3. Etai-Eken (2:32): MP3
4. A Slim Volume Taken Into the Provinces (2:30): MP3
5. To See The Earth Before the End of the World (1:53): MP3
6. Topoi (3:29): MP3
7. Lunar Eclipse (1:52): MP3
8. The World, Then (2:35): MP3
9. Teapot Boiling, How to Begin the Day (0:56): MP3
10. Darkly (1:45): MP3
11. The Metaphor of Impressionsm-your skin (0:57): MP3
12. What the Tree Took, On the Table (1:32): MP3
13. Man with Three Degrees (1:24): MP3
14. Of the Earth (1:09): MP3

Complete Reading (31:29): MP3

Ed Roberson at PSU, March 22, 2016

1. Introduction by A.L. Nielsen (3:54): MP3
2. Preface to MPH (13:12): MP3
3. MPH: 1970, Part 1 (1:21): MP3
4. MPH: 1970, Part 2 (1:26): MP3
5. MPH: 1970, Part 3 (1:11): MP3
6. MPH: 1970, Part 4 (1:55): MP3
7. MPH: 1970, Part 5 (1:03): MP3
8. MPH: 1970, Part 6 (1:12): MP3
9. MPH: 1970, Part 7 (2:27): MP3
10. MPH: 1970. Part 8 (1:51): MP3
11. MPH: 1970, Part 9 (1:46): MP3
12. The Motorcycle Crossing (5:13): MP3
13. Fog (1:44): MP3
14. The Ephemeral Universal (1:04): MP3
15. The Original Foundation (0:58): MP3
16. Picture (1:06): MP3
17. Funny Sense (3:19): MP3
18. The Iceman (2:31): MP3
19. The Beginning (2:29): MP3

Full Reading (53:05): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, episode #225, "Two Poets," December 8, 2010

• Complete segment (26:21): MP3

"Scattered Images," with the Ways & Means Trio (from their 2006 album, Fire of Dream)

• Scattered Images (19:26): MP3


• the Ways & Means Trio is Jayve Montgomery, Joel Wanek and Dan Godston

Eco-Panel at the Bowery Poetry Club, January 21, 2006

• presentation (14:38): MP3


• (listen to the complete event, also featuring Jill Magi, Laura Elrick, Karen Anderson and Brenda Iijima here)

Segue Series Reading at Double Happiness, December 18, 1999

• Complete reading (24:51): MP3

1. Introduction (2:04): MP3
2. Ask for a Higher Moon (3:28): MP3
3. By the Riverside (6:14): MP3
4. Blue Bottle Glass Tree (4:14): MP3
5. Inside the Waters (1:21): MP3
6. Chromatic Spaciality (1:16): MP3
7. Cornerstone for Jake (3:51): MP3

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, December 4, 1993

• Complete recording (26:59): MP3

1. Introduction (2:11): MP3
2. Lucid Interval
   1. Begninning (4:09): MP3
   2. This Week's Concerts... (1:04): MP3
   3. The Note... (4:54): MP3
   4. Blood... (1:16): MP3
   5. I Pull the Curtain and the Great Cats Surround Me... (1:54): MP3
   6. You Have to Run Forward... (3:53): MP3
   7. The Step Within Itself isn't Difficult... (2:02): MP3
   8. The Notebooks are Where the Footsoldiers are Buried (0:41): MP3
   9. Final Section... (1:03): MP3
3. First Poem from The Aerialist Narrative (1:06): MP3
4. Second Poem from The Aerialist Narrative (0:50): MP3
5. Third Poem from The Aerialist Narrative (1:50): MP3

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