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PoemTalk #78, Discussing Muriel Rukeyser's "Ballad of Orange and Grape", feat. Amy King, David Abel, and Mytili Jagannathan

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

PoemTalk #74, Discussing Walt Whitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" as performed by Basil Bunting

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


Reading of Flow Chart, John Ashbery 90th Celebration, 2017

Complete reading (14:32): MP3

Reading with Brenda Coultas at Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York, September 17, 2016

  1. Introduction (01:54): MP3
  2. PUSSY PUSSY SOCHI QUEER PUSSY PUTIN SOCHI QUEER QUEER PUSSY (02:31): MP3
  3. Ode to the artist in his natural habitat (04:38): MP3
  4. Perspective (01:09): MP3
  5. Drive by (01:31): MP3
  6. Understanding the poem (07:36): MP3
  • Complete reading (41:22):MP3

Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, December 8, 2015

Full recording available here.

Reading at Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn, September 12, 2008

    From new manuscript I Want to Make You Safe

  1. Introduction (3:09): MP3
  2. Some Pink In Your Color (1:12): MP3
  3. The Identity in My Crisis (1:07): MP3
  4. Follow the Leader of My Silken Teeth (1:28): MP3
  5. The Destiny You Choose Is the One You Live Through (1:50): MP3
  6. A Bruise That Stains the Teeth (1:00): MP3
  7. The Statue In the Field (1:19): MP3
  8. How Our Feet Moved Past the World & Into Everything (1:19): MP3
  9. Two If By Land, I Do (0:55): MP3
  10. From I'm the Man Who Loves You

  11. Mildly Free (4:28): MP3
Complete reading (20:02): MP3

Leukemia Fundraiser at the KGB Bar, NYC, September 5, 2008

  1. Lidia Dimkovska Has Made a Bomb of My Eyes (3:20): MP3
  2. A Hole In My Name (2:27): MP3
  3. I Hear Like Names Falling (1:16): MP3
  4. This Opera of Peace (9:56): MP3
Complete reading (15:44): MP3

From miPOradio

  1. The Art of War With Myself (1:19): MP3
  2. Lip-Synching Day Into Night (1:48): MP3
  3. Declarative Substance (0:50): MP3
  4. Autobiographical Encounter (2:02): MP3
  5. The Marriage of Birthdays (0:46): MP3

From Queering Language

"Never is Less", "On the Way to Dinner, an Objective Remark Written Down", and "?Sometimes Black" (5:27): MP3

Also of Interest:

The miPOradio page on PennSound
Race and Poetry: Integrating the Experimental, September 21, 2008 (moderated and curated by King)

Amy King on PennSound Daily


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