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Norman Finkelstein

Reading at Alan Golding's Home for the 40th University of Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900, Heatstrings, February 25, 2012

  • reading poems by Paul Bray (5:09): MP3
  • complete reading (2:52): MP3

Reading with Brian Teare for Whenever We Feel Like It, Kelly Writers House, February 15, 2012

  • complete reading (26:35): MP3

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Reading at Alan Golding's House, University of Louisvulle Conference, February 26, 2011

  • complete reading (5:47): MP3

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

complete reading (2:58): MP3

Poetry in the Garden Reading at the Cincinnati Public Library, April 20, 2010

  • complete reading (23:57): MP3

"The Deed of Presence: Belief & Modern Poetry," Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Xavier University, March 9, 2010

  • complete lecture (46:12): MP3

Reading at Alan Golding's House, Louisville, KY, February 20, 2010

MLA Off-Site Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009

  • complete reading (2:36:46): MP3

Scribe Launch Reading at Xavier University, September 22, 2009

  1. introduction by Tyrone Williams (4:33): MP3
  2. opening comments by Finkelstein (1:46): MP3

    3. from Scribe (Dos Madres Press, 2009)

  3. Like Dates and Almonds, Purple Cloth & Pearls (in memory of Robert Rethy) (2:21): MP3
  4. Scribe (1:54): MP3
  5. Valentine (1:09): MP3
  6. Lamp (0:45): MP3
  7. At the Threshold (for Robert Murphy) (4:48): MP3
  8. from "An Assembly" (11:00): MP3

    9. New Poems

  9. Tour (3:00): MP3
  10. Untitled ("It is a dark matter, said the clock maker") (1:33): MP3
  11. Untitled ("Banners, trumpets, tumblers, angels on stilts") (0:40): MP3
  12. Untitled ("These are like rags sewn together") (1:18): MP3
  13. Is This Okay? (1:32): MP3

    14. complete reading (37:49): MP3

The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium at Poets House, New York, April 8, 2008

  • Unteachable: Ideology and Identity in Oppen's Late Poems (22:58): MP3
  • Finkelstein reads Oppen's "From Disaster" (0:36): MP3
  • Finkelstein reads Oppen's "Of Being Numerous," Section 14 (1:04): MP3

from Cross-Cultural Poetics, episode #152, "Iphigenia and Other Dramas," November 11, 2007

  • Finkelstein reads from and discusses Passing Over (19:02): MP3

Reading and Discussion with Harvey Shapiro at the Kelly Writers House, September 29-30, 2005

  • Finkelstein's reading (25:01): MP3
  • Q&A Session (6:38): MP3
  • discussion of Objectivist Poetics, moderated by Bob Perelman (50:01): MP3

  • (be sure to visit PennSound's page for this event for Shapiro's reading, thematically segmented tracks from the discussion and more)

from the 2004 MLA Offsite Reading