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Michael Heller

  • Photo credit: Lawrence Schwartzwald, 2010.

Reading for Heatstrings, at Alan Golding's Home, Louisville, KY, February 20, 2016

  • Heller's Segment (2:36): MP3

Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, March 10, 2012

  • Ok Everybody Let's Do The Mondrian Stomp (05:22): MP3
  • Coral Stanzas (01:42): MP3
  • Asthma (01:57): MP3
  • In the Builded Place (03:03): MP3
  • Heteroglossia On Fifty Third (02:07): MP3
  • Uncle Nat (02:44): MP3
  • A Night for Chinese Poets (02:35): MP3
  • In the Mountains Lines of Chinese Poetry (02:36): MP3
  • Born Into Water (00:55): MP3
  • At the Muses Tomb (07:02): MP3
  • We Can Only Wish Valeat Quantum Valere Protest (04:36): MP3

Reading at Jerome Rothenberg's 80th Birthday Tribute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, December 9, 2011

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

  • Complete reading (2:43): MP3

Reading for Heatstrings, with music composed by Ellen Fishman Johnson, at the University of Louisville, February 24, 2011

Recording provided courtest of A.L. Nielsen.

Videos of more collaborations between Michael Heller and Ellen Fishman Johnson can be found here.

  • Complete reading (47:47): MP3

The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium; Organized by Poets House at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, April 8, 2008

(Heller provides introductions to the symposium events and reads Oppen's work)

From A Celebration of George Oppen's 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008

"Oppen's Thematics: What Are Poets For?" (12:08): MP3

Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI November 11, 2007

Complete reading (41:33): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, March 16, 2007

Summer Writing Program, Naropa, June 17, 1998

(with
Carl Rakosi, Jenny Penberthy, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis)

Part 1: Panel on the Objectivist poets (1:42:15): MP3
Part 2: Complete discussion (1:32:50): MP3 (note: recording is of extremely poor quality)

Special thanks to Rachel Blau DuPlessis for making these recordings available.

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, February 20, 1993

  • Complete recording (33:41): MP3

Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI November 14, 1992

  • First part (47:24): MP3
  • Second part (16:59): MP3

Freedom After All: Music Composed by Ellen Fishman, Text by Michael Heller

Complete recording (10:51): MP3

Heteroglossia: Music Composed by Ellen Fishman, Text by Michael Heller

Complete recording (11:04): MP3

Lecture on Louis Zukofsky at the Naropa Institute July 8, 1987

  • First part (47:55): MP3
  • Second part (29:41): MP3

Lecture on George Oppen at the Naropa Institute July, 1987

Complete lecture (47:04): MP3

Reading on the Writers Almanac on WNYC 1974

Complete reading: (32:51): MP3

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