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PoemTalk #33, Discussing Sharon Mesmer's "I Accidentally Ate Some Chicken and Now I'm in Love with Harry Whittington"

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PoemTalk #14, Discussing Stevens' "Not Ideas About the Things but the Thing Itself"

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Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, March 31, 2014

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Reading at Oh! Sandy: A Remembrance, Industry City, Brooklyn, New York, November 10, 2013, hosted by Phong Bui

  • Complete reading (19:24): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, March 26, 2013

  1. Introduction by Ron Silliman (6:28) MP3
  2. Nada's Remarks (1:36) MP3
  3. I'm Truly Searing Dear (0:58) MP3
  4. Why Don't You Love Me Blankess (1:04) MP3
  5. A Thin Line Which Is Flat (0:53) MP3
  6. I Won't Be Adulthoodedness Anymore (2:40) MP3
  7. Droop Loss Slave (6:33) MP3
  8. Asia (4:45) MP3
  9. Wild Cats Can Be Revealed (Vile Lilt) (13:41) MP3
  10. Q and A session (12:18) MP3
  • Complete reading (50:55): MP3
    • Segue Series reading at the Zinc Bar, February 9, 2013

      1. Introduction (4:14): MP3
      2. Poetry is junk (14:29): MP3
      3. Chicken vanishes, heartbreak ensues (2:27): MP3
      4. "A flower moves" (1:47): MP3
      5. Droop loss slave (6:16): MP3
      6. Hovering over his last bed (1:01): MP3
      7. Gordon sings Sarah Vaughan's "All of You" (0:51): MP3
      8. Nightclub singer monkey (13:32): MP3
      • Complete reading (46:03) MP3

      Segue Series reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, April 2, 2011

      1. Introduction (1:27): MP3
      2. Osculation (3:07): MP3
      3. Dramaless (4:00): MP3
      4. Gordon sings Japanese national anthem (0:35): MP3
      5. Burst (1:27): MP3
      6. Gordon sings and talks about a parody of the Japanese national anthem (1:15): MP3
      7. Too undone (2:11): MP3
      8. Melodramatic poem (1:42): MP3
      9. "When we first met I could write pastiche" (0:57): MP3
      10. "No matter your tumescence" (0:28): MP3
      11. The fakery (0:59): MP3
      12. The women flowers (0:26): MP3
      13. The bride (0:25): MP3
      14. Scruples (0:28): MP3
      15. The woman (0:22): MP3
      16. Fucking my husband (2:28): MP3
      17. Audience member plays the drums (2:11): MP3
      18. You can't get a restraining order against a cat for a number of reasons (1:05): MP3
      19. Hearing (2:19): MP3
      20. Frozen dough (1:41): MP3
      21. Form dissolve (4:42): MP3
      22. Gordon eating roses and redoing her lipstick (1:14): MP3
      23. Blastapore (3:32): MP3
      • Complete reading (43:38): MP3

      Reading for Art, Fantasy, and Experience at the Gross Foundation, New York, December 12, 2010

      1. Wherever You Found Our Stain Behind the Moon (1:12): MP3
      2. How Do I Tickle (0:49): MP3
      3. Please Usufruct to Me (1:04): MP3
      4. Foreign Body Sensation Remix (after Charles Bernstein) (1:17): MP3
      5. Frozen Doe (1:23): MP3
      6. Today's Ensemble (0:58): MP3
      7. The Story About Cartoon Sight and Floozy Winds (2:51): MP3
      8. I Need My Frolicking Angst Like a Sweet Elbow (2:27): MP3
      • Complete reading (12:12): MP3
      • Complete discussion (11:27): MP3

      Appearing on LA-Lit #30, December 2, 2007

      • Part A (35:09): MP3
      • Part B (36:46): MP3

      From the Flarf Poetry Festival at the Kelly Writers House, February 8, 2007

      1. My Favorite Things Redux (3:26): MP3
      2. Lick My Face (4:00): MP3
      3. Fountain (1:34): MP3
      4. I Love Men (4:27): MP3

      Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 4, 2006

      1. Introduction (3:48): MP3
      2. Abnormal Discharge (2:31): MP3
      3. What Air (after Erasmus) (1:07): MP3
      4. Porpo Thang (6:36): MP3
      5. Cooing Pop Huckles (2:32): MP3
      6. You are Freed (1:43): MP3
      7. Statement on Avant-Garde Poetics (1:41): MP3
      8. Sheep Nose (4:13): MP3
      9. Muss (3:10): MP3
      10. play from Folly (5:08): MP3
      11. Coney Island Avenue (6:44): MP3

      Complete reading (40:05): MP3

      Reading as part of the Belladonna* Reading Series, Feburary 6, 2004

      Complete reading (23:41): MP3

      Reading as part of the Line Reading Series, January 15, 2002

      Complete reading (27:38): MP3
      1. Introduction by Lytle Shaw (2:31): MP3
      2. Nothing (4:01): mp3
      3. Low (4:31): MP3
      4. Peonies (2:53): MP3
      5. Fear of Life (3:24): MP3
      6. What is a Man? (1:29): MP3
      7. What is a Woman? (0:45): MP3
      8. Music of the Spheres (0:33): MP3
      9. Inscript (0:48): MP3
      10. Sea-Torn Well (6:35): MP3

      From Cross-Cultural Poetics, Episode #52: From The Sound of It

      1. остранение ("Strangeness") (12:02): MP3
      2. Clova Mowdis (14:00): MP3

      Complete program (29:54): MP3

      Wednesday Series: Adeena Karasick, Nada Gordon, St. Mark's Church, NY, April 19, 2000

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

      1. Side A (48:30): link
      2. Side B (49:54): link

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