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Rae Armantrout

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Photo credit: Charles Bernstein/PennSound ©2007

Close Listening — Armantrout in conversation with Charles Bernstein, May 10, 2006

  • Complete conversation (28:18): MP3
  • Armantrout discusses the poem "The Way" (4:10) MP3
  • text-audio alignment of "The Way": link

WPS1 reading

Full program (27:08): MP3

Individual poems:

  1. from True (Atelos Press) (6:05): MP3
  2. From Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan, 2001)

  3. Generation & View (0:36): MP3
  4. Xenophobia (1:49): MP3
  5. Double (0:25): MP3
  6. The Creation (0:31): MP3
  7. The Way (0:27): MP3 [ discussion of this poem from interview ] [text-audio alignment]
  8. Piecemeal (0:30): MP3
  9. Manufacturing (0:50): MP3
  10. From Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2003)

  11. Form (0:59): MP3
  12. Once (0:47): MP3
  13. Another Sense (0:38): MP3
  14. From Next Life (forthcoming in Jan. 2007 from Wesleyan)

  15. Tease (0:47): MP3
  16. Two, Three (0:44): MP3
  17. The Subject (0:34): MP3
  18. The Ether (0:28): MP3
  19. Yonder (0:28): MP3
  20. Parse (0:31): MP3
  21. Make It New (0:43): MP3
  22. Shine On (0:35): MP3
  23. Again (0:56): MP3
  24. Twizzle (0:41): MP3
  25. Next Life (0:39): MP3
  26. From Versed (ms. in progress)

  27. Results (0:45): MP3
  28. Fetch (0:35): MP3
  29. Outer (0:58): MP3
  30. Name Calling (0:25): MP3
  31. Locality (0:40): MP3
  32. Amplification (0:39): MP3
  33. Scumble (0:29): MP3
  34. Translation (0:25): MP3

  • Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1
  • ©2006 Rae Armantrout and Charles Bernstein
  • Studio Engineer: Darrell McNeill

PoemTalk #81, Discussing Fanny Howe's “The Descent” and "The Source," feat. Laynie Browne, Rae Armantrout, and Kerry Sherin Wright on October 2, 2014

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PoemTalk #67, discussing Catherine Wagner's "This Is A Fucking Poem," May 20, 2013

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PoemTalk #29, discussing Kit Robinson's "Return on Word," March 3, 2010

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

PoemTalk #8, discussing Armantrout's "The Way," July 7, 2008

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Grand Piano Reading: Episode 3, September 22, 2022

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Rae Armantrout: I read some new material I wrote in asynchronous conversation with Bob’s #5. We were both trying to situate ourselves in past and present time. Then I read my #10 essay and finished with a new poem called “Finally."

Reading and Discussion with Bob Perelman, Zoom, The San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books, August 28, 2020

Segue Reading at the Zinc Bar, NYC, October 20, 2018

Complete Recording (21:38): MP3

Poetry Reading by Rae Armantrout, Kelly Writers House, October 17, 2018

Complete Recording (37:27): MP3

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Segue Reading at the Zinc Bar, NYC, March 12, 2016

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Complete audio recording (38:05): MP3

Conversation at Kelly Writers House, Fellows Program, April 29, 2014

  1. on the sources of Armantrout's interest in disjunction, juxtaposition, and semi-non-narrativity (4:55): MP3
  2. reading Generation (0:10): MP3
  3. discussing Generation and the stories of her childhood (5:55): MP3
  4. reading Remaining (1:07): MP3
  5. discussing Remaining (5:17): MP3
  6. reading Missing Persons (0:30): MP3
  7. discussing Missing Persons (2:54): MP3
  8. comparing Traveling Through the Dark (Stafford) with Traveling Through the Yard (Armantrout) (8:57): MP3
  9. on the sentimentality and overwriting of the Stafford poem (3:25): MP3
  10. on her use of quotation marks (5:15): MP3
  11. feminism in relation to her poetry and uncertainty as sexy (3:05): MP3
  12. reading Scumble (0:33): MP3
  13. on indirection, desire, and an erotics of language (3:31): MP3
  14. on the ephemeral in Armantrout's poetry (1:39): MP3
  15. on her aphorisms (4:17): MP3
  16. on disjunction and the relationship of San Diego to Tijuana (2:36): MP3
  17. reading Overhearing (0:45): MP3
  18. discussing Overhearing (5:41): MP3
  19. reading Mother's Day (0:35): MP3
  20. discussing Mother's Day (8:24): MP3

Complete recording (1:06:30): MP3

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Reading at Kelly Writers House, Fellows Program, April 28, 2014

  1. opening remarks by Al Filreis (3:26): MP3
  2. introduction (6:01): MP3
  3. presentation of broadside (1:30): MP3
  4. Dusk (1:41): MP3
  5. Necromance (1:25): MP3
  6. Context (0:43): MP3
  7. The Creation (0:44): MP3
  8. A Pulse (0:57): MP3
  9. Confidential (1:06): MP3
  10. Greeting (0:39): MP3
  11. Manufacturing (1:05): MP3
  12. Result (0:57): MP3
  13. Versed (0:35): MP3
  14. A Resemblance (0:40): MP3
  15. Scumble (0:42): MP3
  16. Around (0:56): MP3
  17. Unbidden (0:36): MP3
  18. Integer (0:49): MP3
  19. Spin (1:48): MP3
  20. Answer (1:19): MP3
  21. Autobiography: Urn Burial (1:25): MP3
  22. Soft Money (0:46): MP3
  23. Exact (0:45): MP3
  24. Scripture (1:25): MP3
  25. Instead (0:37): MP3
  26. Dress Up (1:23): MP3
  27. Accounts (1:31): MP3
  28. Arrivals (1:03): MP3
  29. Transactions (0:51): MP3
  30. Scale (1:07): MP3
  31. Meant (0:37): MP3
  32. Chirality (1:23): MP3
  33. A Conceit (0:38): MP3
  34. Itself (0:33): MP3
  35. Flow (1:09): MP3
  36. Sponsor (0:32): MP3
  37. Believing (0:42): MP3
  38. Control (0:57): MP3
  39. Rituals (0:40): MP3
  40. Expression (0:40): MP3
  41. Legacy (1:29): MP3
  42. Exchange (1:16): MP3
  43. The Difficulty (0:32): MP3
  44. The Ether (0:43): MP3
  45. Word Problems (0:34): MP3
  46. Particular (0:42): MP3
  47. Lie (0:50): MP3
  48. Making (0:45): MP3
  49. Torn (0:40): MP3
  50. Transport (0:40): MP3
  51. Before (0:54): MP3
  52. Followers (0:37): MP3
Complete reading (1:00:17): MP3

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Appearing on Bookworm with host Michael Silverblatt, KCRW, May 30, 2013

Complete recording (28:33): MP3

Reading in the California Writers Series at Walter Stiern Library, CSU Bakersfield, April 11, 2013

  1. Introduction by Marit MacArthur (1:56): MP3
  2. Scripture (2:29): MP3
  3. Dress Up (1:16): MP3
  4. Account, for Brian Keating (1:33): MP3
  5. Haunts (0:54): MP3
  6. The Look (0:39): MP3
  7. My Apocolypse (0:58): MP3
  8. Arrivals (0:52): MP3
  9. The Thinning (0:48): MP3
  10. Scale (1:06): MP3
  11. Treatment (0:42): MP3
  12. Experts (0:55): MP3
  13. Progress (0:50): MP3
  14. New Intelligence (0:51): MP3
  15. Sonnet 3 [from The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare] (2:18): MP3
  16. Itself (0:35): MP3
  17. Chirality (0:57): MP3
  18. Flow (1:01): MP3
  19. Occurrence (0:52): MP3
  20. Believing (0:42): MP3
  21. Will (0:56): MP3
  22. Difficulty (0:41): MP3
  23. Self (0:56): MP3
  24. Our World (1:01): MP3
  25. The New Zombie (0:54): MP3
  26. Home (0:52): MP3
  27. Q&A Discussion (14:05): MP3
  • Complete Reading (43:39): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, March 22, 2013

  1. Sonnet 3 (1:23): MP3
  2. Itself (0:37): MP3
  3. Chirality (0:32): MP3
  4. Expression (0:35): MP3
  • Complete Reading (3:08): MP3

Reading at the Bama Theater, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, September 20, 2012

  1. Scumble (1:16): MP3
  2. Prayers (1:18): MP3
  3. Working Models (0:57): MP3
  4. Fuel (0:42): MP3
  5. The Gift (0:42): MP3
  6. Enter (0:57): MP3
  7. Autobiography: Urn Burial (2:03): MP3
  8. Soft Money (0:55): MP3
  9. Advent (0:31): MP3
  10. This Is (0:48): MP3
  11. Money Talks (0:27): MP3
  12. Bubble Wrap (1:43): MP3
  13. Win (0:31): MP3
  14. Scripture (1:29): MP3
  15. Dress Up (0:59): MP3
  16. Account (1:21): MP3
  17. The Look (0:49): MP3
  18. Arrival (0:17): MP3
  19. Action Poem (0:49): MP3
  20. Scale (1:05): MP3
  21. And (0:55): MP3
  22. Treatment (0:47): MP3
  23. Bargos (0:57): MP3
  24. Sonnet 3 (2:00): MP3
  25. Conclusion (1:18): MP3
  26. Itself (0:32): MP3
  27. Chirality (0:49): MP3
  28. Material (0:45): MP3
  29. Flo (1:10): MP3
  30. Sponsor (0:40): MP3
  31. Occurrent (1:00): MP3
  32. End User (0:46): MP3
  33. Believing (0:40): MP3
  34. Head (0:30): MP3
  35. Will (0:42): MP3
  36. The Future (0:28): MP3
  • Complete reading (35:51): MP3

  • (recording courtesy of Aaron Beasley)

Reading at Foster Auditorium, Penn State University, September 11, 2012

  1. Introduction by A.L. Nielsen (4:29): MP3
  2. From Money Shot (Wesleyan, 2011)

  3. Prayers (2:15): MP3
  4. Working Models (0:51): MP3
  5. Fuel (0:46): MP3
  6. The Gift (0:42): MP3
  7. Bubble Wrap (1:41): MP3
  8. Answer (0:40): MP3
  9. Autobiography: Urn Burial (2:05): MP3
  10. Soft Money (1:00): MP3
  11. Advent (0:43): MP3
  12. With (0:42): MP3
  13. Exact (0:46): MP3
  14. Money Talks (0:42): MP3
  15. Long Green (0:49): MP3
  16. From Just Saying (Wesleyan, 2013)

  17. Scripture (1:35): MP3
  18. Dress Up (0:52): MP3
  19. Account, for Brian Keating (1:36): MP3
  20. The Look (0:51): MP3
  21. My Apocalypse (1:07): MP3
  22. Arrivals (0:58): MP3
  23. Action Poem (0:57): MP3
  24. Scale (1:12): MP3
  25. And (1:03): MP3
  26. Treatment (0:46): MP3
  27. Experts (0:59): MP3
  28. Bargos (1:00): MP3
  29. From The Matter (in progress)

  30. Sonnet 3 (2:46): MP3
  31. Conclusion (1:24): MP3
  32. Itself (0:38): MP3
  33. Chirality (1:18): MP3
  34. Material (0:49): MP3
  35. Flo (1:08): MP3
  36. Sponsor (0:50): MP3
  37. Personhood (0:45): MP3
  38. End User (1:00): MP3
  39. Believing (0:47): MP3
  40. Head (0:34): MP3
  41. Well (0:44): MP3
  42. Control (0:54): MP3
  43. The Future (0:45): MP3
  44. The New Zombie (2:04): MP3
  • Complete Reading (48:49): MP3

Reading for the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Art Foundation, New York:Chelsea, October 27, 2011

with Lisa Jarnot

  1. Staging (0:59): MP3
  2. Colony (0:52): MP3
  3. Fuel (0:53): MP3
  4. The Gift (0:44): MP3
  5. Bubble Wrap (1:18): MP3
  6. Answer (0:44): MP3
  7. Ground (0:46): MP3
  8. Soft Money (1:01): MP3
  9. Outage (0:45): MP3
  10. Money Talks (0:34): MP3
  11. Long Green (0:46): MP3
  12. Win (0:27): MP3
  13. Dress-Up (1:24): MP3
  14. Accounts (1:39): MP3
  15. At Least (0:59): MP3
  16. My Apocalypse (0:48): MP3
  17. Arrivals (0:55): MP3
  18. The Thinning (1:04): Mp3
  19. Scale (1:13): MP3
  20. And (1:05): MP3
  21. Treatment (0:47): MP3
  22. Experts (1:01): Pp3
  23. Progress (0:56): MP3
  24. Bardos (1:05): MP3
  25. Still and All (0:48): MP3
  26. Stop and Go (0:24): MP3
  27. Eden (1:39): MP3
  28. A Conceit (0:46): MP3
  29. Sonnet 3 (2:15): MP3
  • Complete reading (28:55): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading at ArtShare, LA, January 8, 2011

Complete reading (2:45): MP3

AWP Offsite Reading, sponsored by Bridge Street Books, Four Seasons Hotel, Washington DC, February 3, 2011

  1. Colony (1:03): MP3
  2. The Agent (0:35): MP3
  3. Working Models (0:45): MP3
  4. The Gift (0:34): MP3
  5. Bubble Wrap (0:55): MP3
  6. Ground (0:44): MP3
  7. Soft Money (0:49): MP3
  8. Outage (0:37): MP3
  9. Exact (0:40): MP3
  10. Money Talks (0:30): MP3
  11. Win (0:22): MP3
  12. Scripture (1:04): MP3
  13. Accounts (1:09): MP3
  14. Spent (0:40): MP3
  15. At (0:35): MP3
  16. Bardos (1:01): MP3
  17. Mother's Day (0:37): MP3
Complete Reading (13:40): MP3

On A Voice Box, Studio One, May 7, 2010

  1. A Resemblance (1:19): MP3
  2. Outer (1:23): MP3
  3. Name Calling (0:50): MP3
  4. Scumble (0:44): MP3
  5. Worth While (0:56): MP3
  6. On Your Way (1:15): MP3
  7. Around (0:56): MP3
  8. Dark Matter (0:32): MP3
  9. Simple (1:03): MP3
  10. Missing Persons (0:33): MP3
  11. Integer (0:42): MP3
  12. Remaining (0:58): MP3
  13. Anchor (0:32): MP3
  14. Colony (0:55): MP3
  15. Money Shot (0:37): MP3
  16. Across (0:33): MP3
  17. Working Models (0:54): MP3
  18. Fuel (0:36): MP3
  19. The Gift (0:46): MP3
  20. Bubble Wrap (0:48): MP3
  21. Answer (0:40): MP3
  22. Ground (0:40): MP3
  23. Warble (0:38): MP3
  24. Soft Money (0:53): MP3
  25. Outage (0:35): MP3
  26. Errands (0:32): MP3
  27. Paragraph (0:36): MP3
  28. Sway (0:24): MP3
  29. This Is (0:37): MP3
  30. Money Talks (0:43): MP3
  31. Scripture (1:14): MP3
  32. Old School (0:42): MP3
  33. Inflection (0:45): MP3
  34. Scale (1:10): MP3
  35. Entry (0:45): MP3
  36. Stop and Go (0:22): MP3
Complete Reading (29:52): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 22, 2009

  1. introduction (5:28): MP3
  2. A Resemblance (1:55): MP3
  3. Outer (1:28): MP3
  4. Operations (0:33): MP3
  5. Pleasure (0:50): MP3
  6. Worth While (0:59): MP3
  7. Inscription (1:26): MP3
  8. Together (0:58): MP3
  9. Dark Matter (0:42): MP3
  10. Solution (0:42): MP3
  11. Like (0:43): MP3
  12. Previews: America (0:32): MP3
  13. Previews: Happening (0:27): MP3
  14. Integer (0:47): MP3
  15. Report (1:02): MP3
  16. Fade (0:37): MP3
  17. Apartment (0:43): MP3
  18. Hoop (0:49): MP3
  19. Fact (0:30): MP3
  20. Staging (0:51): MP3
  21. Colony (0:44): MP3
  22. Money Shot (0:37): MP3
  23. Across (0:35): MP3
  24. Sustained (0:37): MP3
  25. Working Models (0:44): MP3
  26. Deviled (0:38): MP3
  27. Fuel (0:37): MP3
  28. The Gift (0:38): MP3
  29. Spin (0:34): MP3
  30. Bubble Wrap (0:49): MP3
  31. Answer (0:39): MP3
  32. Eyes, After John Milton (0:43): MP3
  33. Ground (0:38): MP3
  34. Autobiography: Urn Burial (1:42): MP3
  35. Second Person (0:33): MP3
  36. Spooks (0:33): MP3
  37. With (0:34): MP3
  38. The Vessicle (0:48): MP3
  39. Exact (0:40): MP3
  40. Sway (0:24): MP3
  41. This Is (0:40): MP3
  42. Money Talks (0:30): MP3
  43. Long Green (0:47): MP3
  44. Win (0:29): MP3
  • Complete reading (39:09): MP3

On A Voice Box, Artifact, July 26, 2008

  • Complete Reading (27:37): MP3

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Rae: Making It New, September 20, 2007

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Rae had come to read at the Kelly Writer's House. Along the way she read "Make It New," from Next Life.
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Reading & Discussion, Kelly Writers House - September 20, 2007

  1. opening comments by Jessica Lowenthal (1:44): MP3
  2. introduction by Bob Perelman (6:47): MP3
  3. From Next Life (2007)

  4. Tease (1:20): MP3
  5. Reserved (0:54): MP3
  6. Two, Three (1:01): MP3
  7. Thing (0:58): MP3
  8. Empty (0:49): MP3
  9. The Subject (0:45): MP3
  10. Yonder (0:46): MP3
  11. Framing (for Robert Creeley) (0:42):MP3
  12. Make it New (0:57): MP3
  13. Yoohoo (0:48): MP3
  14. Next Life (0:53): MP3
  15. from Versed (forthcoming, 2009)

  16. Versed (0:52): MP3
  17. Address (0:39): MP3
  18. Name Calling (0:38): MP3
  19. Bonding (0:53): MP3
  20. Scumble (0:47): MP3
  21. Worth While (0:59): MP3
  22. Presto (0:41): MP3
  23. New (0:41): MP3
  24. Links (0:50): MP3
  25. Own (1:53): MP3
  26. Later (1:03): MP3
  27. Birth Order (0:47): MP3
  28. Translation (0:44): MP3
  29. from Dark Matter (unpublished)

  30. Around (0:58): MP3
  31. Dark Matter (0:32): MP3
  32. Unbidden (0:36): MP3
  33. Had (0:43): MP3
  34. Simple (0:47): MP3
  35. In Place (0:38): MP3
  36. Whatever (0:50): MP3
  37. Resounding (0:37): MP3
  38. The Racket (0:38): MP3
  39. Provenance (0:34): MP3
  40. Hey (0:20): MP3
  41. Concentrate (0:35): MP3
  42. Anchor (0:28): MP3
  43. Pass (0:55): MP3
  44. Passage (0:49): MP3
  45. Fact (0:34): MP3
  46. Q&A session (11:52): MP3

Complete reading (56:17): MP3

At the Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, August 10, 2007

Full Reading (27:31): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, May 26, 2007

  1. Introduction (2:16): MP3
  2. Two Three (0:57): MP3
  3. Empty (0:49): MP3
  4. The Subject (0:45): MP3
  5. A Distance (0:53): MP3
  6. Reversible (0:47): MP3
  7. Headline Song (0:16): MP3
  8. Remote (0:33): MP3
  9. Make it New (0:53): MP3
  10. Shine On (0:46): MP3
  11. Ins and Outs (0:34): MP3
  12. Yoohoo (0:42): MP3
  13. Next Life (0:47): MP3
  14. Versed (0:34): MP3
  15. Fetch (0:40): MP3
  16. Operations (0:30): MP3
  17. Name Calling (0:30): MP3
  18. Locality (0:48): MP3
  19. Bonding (0:47): MP3
  20. Scumble (0:38): MP3
  21. Worthwhile (0:55): MP3
  22. Equals (0:18): MP3
  23. New Genres (0:43): MP3
  24. New (0:39): MP3
  25. What We Mean (0:51): MP3
  26. Own (1:50): MP3
  27. Birth Order (0:46): MP3
  28. On Your Way (0:42): MP3
  29. Dark Matter (0:33): MP3
  30. Perfect (0:32): MP3
  31. Whatever (0:43): MP3
  32. Resounding (0:36): MP3
  33. The Racket (0:41): MP3
  34. Fact (0:48): MP3

Complete reading (29:54): MP3

Reading for the Belladonna Series, NYC, May 9, 2006

  • Introduction (2:40): MP3
  • Complete Reading (29:07): MP3

Reading at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, November 18, 2004

  1. Introduction (0:54): MP3
  2. The Creation (0:36): MP3
  3. Writing (0:59): MP3
  4. Sets (0:52): MP3
  5. The Way (0:38): MP3 discussion of this poem recorded in 2006]
  6. Manufacturing (1:03): MP3
  7. Up to Speed (1:06): MP3
  8. Form (1:01): MP3
  9. Middlemen (0:37): MP3
  10. Solid (0:59): MP3
  11. Seconds (0:43): MP3
  12. Next Generations (0:57): MP3
  13. Upper World (1:03): MP3
  14. Once (0:53): MP3
  15. Back (0:40): MP3
  16. Tease (0:46): MP3
  17. Two Three (0:50): MP3
  18. Close (0:38): MP3
  19. Thing (0:23): MP3
  20. Empty (0:44): MP3
  21. The Subject (0:40): MP3
  22. A Distance (0:46): MP3
  23. Away (0:41): MP3
  24. Headline Song (0:27): MP3
  25. Clear (0:34): MP3
  26. Yonder (0:38): MP3
  27. Visits (0:42): MP3
  28. Short Story (0:37): MP3
  29. Promise (0:43): MP3
  30. In Part (0:45): MP3
  31. Pronouncements (0:42): MP3
  32. As One (1:20): MP3
  33. Ins and Outs (0:30): MP3
  34. Propensity (0:39): MP3
  35. Twizzle (0:49): MP3

At the Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, August 16th, 2003

Full Reading (33:10): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, September 25, 2002

  1. Introduction (5:31): MP3
  2. From Veil: New and Selected Poems:

  3. Birthmark, the Pretext (3:06): MP3
  4. Writing (0:54): MP3
  5. Stream Of (0:45): MP3
  6. Performers (0:43): MP3
  7. Sets (0:51): MP3
  8. Greeting (0:25): MP3
  9. The Plot (1:15): MP3
  10. Size (0:26): MP3

    From The Pretext

  11. Manufacturing (0:49): MP3
  12. The Plan (0:37): MP3
  13. Inside Out (0:45): MP3
  14. From Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2004)

  15. Up to Speed (1:25): MP3
  16. Form (0:55): MP3
  17. Currency (0:34): MP3
  18. Sake (0:33): MP3
  19. The Fit (0:26): MP3
  20. Middlemen (0:33): MP3
  21. Solid (0:49): MP3
  22. End Times (1:02): MP3
  23. The Cell Phone at Your Ear May Not Exist (1:23): MP3
  24. Next Generations (0:56): MP3
  25. Upper World (0:51): MP3
  26. Once (0:46): MP3
  27. Another Sense (0:35): MP3
  28. Transaction (0:57): MP3
  29. As One (1:01): MP3
  30. In Route (0:35): MP3
  31. Imaginary Places (0:43): MP3
  32. Speaking (0:45): MP3
  33. Gorgons (0:30): MP3
  34. Back (0:36): MP3
  35. Phrasing (1:06): MP3
  36. Now This (0:28): MP3
  37. The Creation (0:42): MP3 (from Veil)

Wednesday Night Series: Rae Armantrout, Marjorie Welish, St. Mark's Church, NY, December 5, 2001

Library of Congress recording (1:04:31): link

Reading at the University of Pennsylvania, October 14, 2000

Rae Armantrout on Emily Dickinson/ "Reading through Modernism" (Kelly Writers House)

Reading in San Diego, 1998

Reading (22:16): RealAudio

Segue Series Reading at Double Happiness, November 14, 1998

  1. introduction (2:21): MP3
  2. Birthmark: The Pretext (3:06): MP3
  3. Writing (1:00): MP3
  4. Police Business (0:59): MP3
  5. Stream Of (0:54): MP3
  6. Performance (0:47): MP3
  7. Her References (1:16): MP3
  8. The Past (0:41): MP3
  9. Articulation (0:56): MP3
  10. Carriage (0:44): MP3
  11. Our Question (0:44): MP3
  12. Collapse (1:07): MP3
  13. Thinking (0:47): MP3
  14. My Associates (0:41): MP3
  15. About (0:43): MP3
  16. Heart Of It (0:59): MP3
  17. Set (1:03): MP3
  18. Greeting (0:34): MP3
  19. The Plot (1:37): MP3
  20. Here (0:58): MP3
  21. Over (0:15): MP3
  22. Size (0:30): MP3
  23. Light (0:46): MP3
  24. Statement (0:31): MP3
  25. Now (0:43): MP3
  26. True (4:06): MP3
  27. Falling, One (0:34): MP3
  28. Falling, Two (0:47): MP3
  29. Theories (0:45): MP3
  30. As We're Told (0:37): MP3
  31. Systemic (0:45): MP3
  32. Overhearing (0:49): MP3
  33. Ongoing (0:48): MP3
  34. Rehearsal (0:32): MP3
  35. Manufacturing, One (0:30): MP3
  36. Manufacturing, Two (0:29): MP3
  37. Inside-Out (0:55): MP3
  38. Purpose (0:31): MP3
  • Complete reading (36:58): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, November 12, 1998

    Poems from Pretext (Green Integer, 2001)

  1. Birthmark: The Pretext (2:25): MP3
  2. Writing (0:57): MP3
  3. Police Business (1:10): MP3
  4. Stream Of (0:50): MP3
  5. Performers (0:45): MP3
  6. Her References (1:06): MP3
  7. The Past (0:40): MP3
  8. Articulation (0:53): MP3
  9. Near Rhyme (0:48): MP3
  10. Collapse (1:03): MP3
  11. Qualia (0:36): MP3
  12. Thinking (0:41): MP3
  13. My Associates (0:38): MP3
  14. About (0:39): MP3
  15. Part of It (0:53): MP3
  16. Sets (0:57): MP3
  17. Greeting (0:29): MP3
  18. The Plot (1:25): MP3
  19. Here (0:52): MP3
  20. Over (0:10): MP3
  21. Size (0:28): MP3
  22. Light (0:45): MP3
  23. Statement (0:29): MP3
  24. Now (0:43): MP3
  25. Poems from the new section of Veil: New and Selected Poems(Wesleyan, 2001)

  26. Falling (1:35): MP3
  27. Theories (0:42): MP3
  28. As We're Told (0:34): MP3
  29. Systemic (0:42): MP3
  30. Overhearing (0:39): MP3
  31. Ongoing (0:44): MP3
  32. Rehearsal (0:34): MP3
  33. Manufacturing (1:02): MP3
  34. Inside Out (0:48): MP3
  35. Purpose (0:28): MP3

At the Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, February 22, 1997

Full Reading (39:54): MP3

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University at Buffalo, February 15, 1995

  • Introduction by Charles Bernstein (2:05): MP3
  • Complete Reading (31:03): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Albany, February 14, 1995.

From the archives of Chris Funkhouser

Complete Recording (28:36): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York October 24, 1992

  1. Introduction (0:29): MP3
  2. Made to Seem (0:47): MP3
  3. Retraction (0:46): MP3
  4. One Remove (0:23): MP3
  5. Covers (1:25): MP3
  6. The Creation (0:41): MP3
  7. Building (0:35): MP3
  8. The Signs (0:35): MP3
  9. Incident (0:44): MP3
  10. A Pulse (0:55): MP3
  11. Relations (0:48): MP3
  12. Set (0:57): MP3
  13. Spans (0:35): MP3
  14. Native (0:50): MP3
  15. Making it Up (0:59): MP3
  16. Crossing (2:05): MP3
  17. The Known (0:56): MP3
  18. Taking Steps (0:34): MP3
  19. A Story (0:57): MP3
  20. The Daffodills (0:50): MP3
  21. Visibility (1:01): MP3
  22. States (0:54): MP3
  23. Turn of Events (1:28): MP3
  24. The Work (0:57): MP3
  25. Normal Heights (1:23): MP3
  26. Confidential (1:05): MP3
  27. Mapping (0:58): MP3
  28. Leaving (1:22): MP3

Complete Reading (27:27): MP3

Presenting with A.L. Nielsen and Charles Altieri at the American Literature Association, San Diego, May 1992

  1. Rae Armantrout (23:06): MP3
  2. A.L. Nielsen (22:45): MP3
  3. Charles Altieri (28:13): MP3
  4. Q&A (16:57): MP3

Complete reading (1:32:13): MP3

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, October 22, 1988

Poems from Necromance (Sun & Moon, 1991)

  1. Necromance (take one) (2:12): MP3
  2. Necromance (take two) (1:35): MP3
  3. Range (0:43): MP3
  4. Context (0:30): MP3
  5. The Garden (0:24): MP3 [TEXT]
  6. The Panoply of (0:38): MP3
  7. The Picture (0:48): MP3
  8. Family Resemblances (0:22): MP3
  9. Location (0:40): MP3
  10. Mechanism (0:43): MP3
  11. The Mix-up (1:07): MP3
  12. First Person (0:51): MP3
  13. Character Development (1:25): MP3
  14. Basis (2:21): MP3
  15. Labors (1:23): MP3
  16. Sense (0:55): MP3
  17. October (0:51): MP3
  18. Locks (0:40): MP3
  19. Late Returns (Three Parts) (1:14): MP3
  20. Begin (0:46): MP3
  21. Privilege (0:44): MP3
  22. The Unit (0:31): MP3
  23. Wake Up (0:54): MP3
  24. Attention (0:41): MP3
  25. Language of Love (1:28): MP3
  26. Getting Warm (0:44): MP3
  27. Pairs (0:24): MP3
  28. Realism (1:19): MP3
  29. Disown (1:35): MP3

Complete reading (28:25): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York, April 7, 1984

  1. Double (1:19): MP3
  2. Postcards (0:23): MP3
  3. Single Most (1:20): MP3
  4. Shut (2:34): MP3
  5. Traveling Through the Yard (0:51): MP3
  6. Admission (0:39): MP3
  7. Vice (2:02): MP3
  8. Dusk (0:18): MP3
  9. Compound I (0:24): MP3
  10. Compound II (0:18): MP3
  11. Through Walls (1:41): MP3
  12. Fiction (1:39): MP3
  13. Untitled (fiction piece) (1:06): MP3
  14. Entries Look (1:54): MP3
  15. Precedence (0:26): MP3
  16. Quotation (0:26): MP3
  17. Another Tongue (1:57) MP3
  18. Sigh (0:23): MP3
  19. Blocks (0:22): MP3
  20. Secretly (1:27): MP3
  21. Round (0:18): MP3
  22. Home Federal (0:24): MP3
  23. Atmospheric (0:33): MP3
  24. The Music (0:50): MP3

Complete Reading (25:01): MP3

Reading on January 16, 1983

Complete Reading (31:42): MP3

Talk on Silence, January 16, 1983