David Meltzer

"Generations: Avant-Garde Jewish Poetry with David Meltzer & Jake Marmer" at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, CA, April 3, 2016

1. Joel Stanley Intro (0:48): MP3
2. Reading (15:51): MP3
3. Discussion with David Meltzer (19:18): MP3

Reading with Michael Rothenberg, The Outpost, Albuquerque, NM, October 12, 2007

Published in the VOX Audio collection.

1. Introduction (2:45): MP3
2. From the Dream (1:05): MP3
3. Life on Line (2:46): MP3
4. Chains (2:14): MP3
5. The Blackest Rose (2:12): MP3
6. A Rent Tract fow Lew Welch (1:34): MP3
7. Lamentation for Zap the Zen Monk (1:02): MP3
8. The Argument 1 (0:41): MP3
9. The Argument 2 (0:33): MP3
10. The Argument 3 (0:31): MP3
11. Sonnet: 6 (1:29): MP3
12. Introduction to No Eyes: Lester Young (3:22): MP3
13. from No Eyes: Lester Young (6:28): MP3
14. The Red Shoes (5:56): MP3

POG Sound reading at the "Z" Mansion Tuscon, AZ, October 8, 2007

• Complete reading (39:02): MP3

1. Untitled Poem (2:58): MP3
2. Revelation (2:230: MP3
3. 15th Raga: For Bella Lugosi (1:19): MP3
4. The Black Silk Cat Stretches (1:16): MP3
5. I'm In My Room (0:50): MP3
6. It's Simple (1:56): MP3
7. Lamentation for Hank Williams (1:44): MP3
8. Poems from The Art/The Vale: Inside (4:27): MP3
9. Poems from The Art/The Vale: Outside (2:03): MP3
10. Darn That Dream (6:00): MP3
11. Bolero (7:29): MP3
12. The Red Shoes (6:35): MP3

Reading for Auerhahn Press at International Music Hall, November 26, 1963

• Baby's Hands (0:35): MP3
• Rain Poems (1:30): MP3
• Nerve Root Poem (1:46): MP3
• Two Poems to My Wife (1:01): MP3
• Poem for Lew Welch (1:07): MP3

National Poetry Festival, June 14-24, 1973

• (numerous readings, workshops, and talks can be found here)

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