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Radio Poetique presents Poetic Brooklyn, which is a feature of brooklynheightsradio.com.
The show is committed to promoting the work, career, and presence of poets from and visiting the Brooklyn community.

November 3, 2003

Alexandra Van de Kamp:

  • The State of the Soul (3:10): MP3
  • The Smoker (3:52): MP3
  • Arachnoid (3:35): MP3
  • When I Walk Sideways (2:06)MP3
  • The Porcelain Gallery: a Study of Figurines (5:49): MP3
  • The Lemons (4:53): MP3
  • Scientific Theory (3:14): MP3

    November 8, 2003

    Garrett Kurai:

  • Hallmark Greeting; Hababo; The Return; Milk; Funk; Word-Up (7:36): MP3
    Pyramids; Fall Flowers; Smells Like Holy Spirit (7:08): MP3

    Ada Limon:

  • A Little Distantly as One Should (4:55): MP3
  • Evolution (1:02): MP3
  • The Great Erector of Invisible Pets (2:28): MP3

    Jennifer Knox:

  • What I Said To My Favorite Poet After His Reading (3:12): MP3
  • What I Got Out of The Art Opening (1:24): MP3
  • Delightful Companion (3:56): MP3

    November 16, 2003

    James Hoff:

  • Berlin #1 (2:05): MP3
  • Anticipation of Morning; Intermission #1 (4:04): MP3
  • Intermission #9 (5:01): MP3
  • Notes on the Passing of Cars (6:14): MP3

    December 23, 2003

    Yuko Otomo:

  • Joseph Cornell in his Garden; Studio Details of Storage Racks; Cornell's House at 37-07 Utopia Parkway (9:38) MP3
  • Progression; Couple (2:57): MP3

    Steve Dalachinsky:

  • Trial & Error: Museum (14:00): MP3
  • The Lynching (7:14):MP3
  • The Phone Call (First) (4:05): MP3

    January 22, 2004

    Joelle Hann:

  • A Picture of You (1:33): MP3
  • Cardboard (1:30): MP3
  • Secrets (3:08): MP3
  • Getting to the Whale (1:24): MP3
  • The Spell (2:09): MP3
  • A Diary and Two Letters; Day After Day (3:28): MP3
  • Animals (2:30): MP3
  • Busy Isolation (3:14): MP3
  • By the Highway on Foot (1:45): MP3
  • Arctic Circle, Meteorologist (2:11): MP3
  • January 25, 2004

    Anja Mutic:

  • It's All the Same (4:29): MP3
  • Turkish Coffee (1:20): MP3
  • Transit (3:02): MP3
  • Left and Right (1:16): MP3

    February 1, 2004

    Matvei Yankelevich:

  • Family Tree (2:37): MP3
  • The Tree of Heaven Grows Downwards (3:10): MP3

    Anna Moschovakis:

  • Testimony of Finneus Gage: in his face exploded a stick of dynamite: MP3
  • sending an iron rod through the brain and relieving him of his morality... (6:23): MP3

    February 15, 2004

    Brian Boyles:

  • I Know I Was There (1:20): MP3
  • Kim Jong Il's Letters to Fidel Castro (3:23): MP3
  • Napoleon Ave. Shuffle (7:23): MP3
  • Ulysses Clinton (1:10): MP3
  • You're Not the King They Named the Bible After (3:52): MP3

    February 21, 2004

    Steve Fried:

  • Selfless Falseface; Sonnet for Margaret Trig; Hextory II (5:55): MP3

    March 24, 2004

    Arielle Greenberg:

  • Selfless Falseface; Sonnet for Margaret Trig; Hextory II (5:55): MP3
  • Teaching English at a Two Year College (2:32): MP3

    May 1, 2004

    Wanda Phipps Interview:

  • Introduction by Susan Brennan (3:07): MP3
  • Morning Poem #2 (1:05):MP3
  • Discussion (21:22): MP3
  • Morning Poem #6 (0:18): MP3
  • Morning Poem #10 (0:58): MP3
  • Discussion 2 (4:41): MP3
  • Morning Poem #51 (0:41): MP3
  • Discussion 3 (4:01): MP3
  • Morning Poem #50 (0:48): MP3
  • Discussion 4 (3:29): MP3
  • Woman Among Us (1:01): MP3
  • Discussion 5 (3:46): MP3
  • excerpt from Journal of Emotional Sensation (4:28): MP3
  • Discussion 6 (1:08): MP3
  • excerpt 2 from Journal of Emotional Sensation (6:08): MP3
  • Final Discussion (2:52): MP3

  • Full Interview (1:01:07): MP3 , RealAudio

    May 15, 2004

    Dennis Nurkse Interview at Prospect Park (55:09): mp3

    May 24, 2004

    Michael Ruby:

  • Among the Crepusculars (3:52): MP3
  • Only on Tuesday (4:52): MP3
  • Before; Text for Kupka's "Black and White Abstraction" (4:01): MP3
  • First Names (3:23): MP3
  • Among Senses (1:38): MP3
  • Glimpsed from a Car; The Train in the Distance (2:55): MP3
  • Pinchbacks - Take 'Em Away (for Bessie Smith) (4:19): MP3
  • Interview with Susan Brennan (1:11:57): MP3

    June 6, 2004

    Jeffrey Ethan Lee Interview:

  • Introduction by Susan Brennan (2:07): MP3
  • Sex Ed Blues (1:44): MP3
  • Discussion (2:29): MP3
  • Peace Valley Elementary School During the Vietnam War (5:44): MP3
  • Discussion 2 (27:02): MP3
  • Invisible Sister (4:51): MP3
  • Discussion 3 (3:56): MP3
  • Iris's Painter Hears the Rain Music Return Off-Broadway (3:52): MP3
  • Final Discussion (5:28): MP3

  • Full Interview (57:33): MP3 , RealAudio

    June 20, 2004

    Vijay Sheshadri:

  • Lifeline (19:52): MP3
  • The Day of the Sun (0:51): MP3
  • Ailanthus (2:16): MP3
  • The Long Meadow (6:34): MP3

    July 3, 2004

    Julien Poirier:
  • Mouth to Mouth (4:37): MP3
  • The Mad Dummy (8:17): MP3

    July 20, 2004

    Filip Marinovich:

  • Cleaning Lady of the Pentagon (13:46): MP3

    September 13, 2004

    Sarah Gambito:

  • Paloma Loves (3:53): MP3
  • Scene: A Loom (1:18): MP3
  • Paloma's Church in America (1:00): MP3
  • Untitled (1:54): MP3
  • A Thousand and One Nights (2:20): MP3
  • Tora (1:48): MP3

    Charles Bernstein:

  • The Years as Swatches (from The Sophist) (1:43): MP3
  • Like DeCLaraTionS in a Hymie CEMetArY (from The Sophist) (2:05): MP3
  • Acquiescence (from The Sophist) (1:15): MP3
  • Likeness (from Girly Man) (7:44): MP3
  • The Warble of the Ammonia-Bellied Barkeep (from Girly Man) (2:01): MP3
  • The Ballad of the Girly Man(from Girly Man) (4:03): MP3

    October 11, 2004

    Adam Williams:

  • False Summits (3:24): MP3
  • Not Writing You a Letter (1:53): MP3
  • Star Gazing (2:35): MP3
  • Thirteen (0:25): MP3
  • Angels and Potatoes (0:44): MP3
  • The Flaw (0:31): MP3
  • Syllables (1:30): MP3
  • Opening My Grandfather's Cabin (1:22): MP3

  • Full reading (14:46): MP3

    Shafer Hall:

  • I Predicted It Like It Was Tomorrow (2:56): MP3
  • The Pirate's Dream of a Love Undone (0:51): MP3
  • Never, Ever Talk to Me Like a Pederast Again (0:35): MP3
  • It's Just Like Talking to Me But Weirder (0:50): MP3
  • Holiday in Mt. Kisco (0:41): MP3
  • The Rent in My Mouth (0:19): MP3
  • Arbor Vitae; The Coin That Never Caught On (1:40): MP3
  • Urgently; 40 Days & 4 Nights; Help Keep It Dry (1:38): MP3
  • Institute of Nautical Archeology (0:55): MP3
  • Vagaries of Format (0:34): MP3
  • Rick Ruben Produces Something That Isn't a Record; Ernest and Julio: MP3
  • Gallo's Respected Hangovers; The Daughter of Frankenstein Hopes Her New: MP3
  • Lover Won't Notice Her Bolts (2:20): MP3
  • The Throat Slitter Always Sits Second From the End (0:36): MP3
  • How to Sneak Up on Someone (0:23): MP3
  • Around the World in 80 Shaves (0:37): MP3
  • Caminiti, You Hardly Know Me; I'll Bring One Over to You (0:50): MP3

  • Full reading (16:08): MP3

    Jeni Olin:
  • Tom Brokoff (3:11): MP3
  • Lithium; Thanks to Mayakovsky Suicide Notes Are Harder to Write (2:54): MP3
  • The Para-Olympic Legacy (1:01): MP3
  • Don't Send Me Flowers (1:06): MP3
  • Depakote (1:37): MP3
  • No Matter What Sign You Are (0:48): MP3
  • Ho Chi Minh (1:21): MP3
  • Blue Collar Holiday (1:51): MP3
  • Larry Kept Saying Primo Levi Was An Accident (0:54): MP3
  • Meryl Streep; The Correction (2:30): MP3

  • Full reading (20:04): MP3

    October 25, 2004

    Brendan Downing:

  • Joan D'Arc (2:35): MP3
  • Napoleon (2:16): MP3
  • GWB (1:41): MP3
  • Lincoln Pulsate (1:07): MP3
  • The Movie of Hair (1:24): MP3
  • Heat (0:58): MP3
  • GWB (1:12): MP3
  • A&E Biography-Serial Killers (4:25): MP3
  • Peace on Easter (3:32): MP3

  • Full reading (20:44): MP3

    Jordan Davis:

  • 729 (4:06): MP3
  • Poems by Orhan Veli (4:13): MP3
  • Blue Coal, When I was the Subject, Blog Poem (7:59): MP3
  • Google Poems (13:26): MP3

  • Full reading (30:30): MP3


    November 2004

    Jennifer Moxley:

  • The State (1:17): MP3
  • In One Body and One Soul (0:50): MP3
  • Awake (0:49): MP3
  • The Line (0:51): MP3
  • Institutional Scenes (0:59): MP3
  • The Endless Conscription (0:49): MP3
  • The Sadness of Old Mammals (1:18): MP3
  • The Spoilt Male Child (1:11): MP3
  • The Lost Bird (0:37)MP3
  • The Atrophy of Private Life (1:18): MP3
  • The Pitiful Ego (1:06): MP3
  • >Reading Glasses (0:41): MP3
  • A New Measure (0:42): MP3
  • The Erosion (0:39): MP3
  • The Local (1:05): MP3
  • The Railing (1:03): MP3
  • Mimology (0:57): MP3
  • The Apophatic Present (1:12): MP3
  • Old Systems of Enrollment (1:15): MP3
  • You Are Traveling (1:25): MP3
  • The New Constant (1:15): MP3

    Robert Kelly:

  • Keynote Reading CCCP (25:54): MP3
  • Statement to CCCP; Experience (3:29): MP3
  • The Secret Orator (2:16): MP3
  • Meditation on the Pope (1:54): MP3
  • Identity; Theology of Mind (2:21): MP3
  • Walking to Auschwitz (6:47): MP3
  • Sermo (2:16): MP3
  • My Hair (3:12): MP3

    Lewis Warsh:
  • Consecutive Sentences (4:48): MP3
  • The Song Book (3:20): MP3
  • Suggestion (2:12): MP3
  • Fly Test (10:52): MP3

    December 4, 2004

    Tom Sleigh

    Reading and Interview at Boerum Hill (1:02:45): mp3 , RealAudio

    December 5, 2004


    Jen Bervin:
    A Non-Breaking Space (9:27): MP3
    Nets - Sonnet 8 (1:49): MP3
    Nets - Sonnet 28 (3:30): MP3
    Nets - Sonnet 27 (1:31): MP3
    Nets - Sonnet 134, 135, 136 (4:20): MP3
    Nets - Sonnet 64 (0:08): MP3
    Nets - Sonnet 95, 128, 129, 150 (1:25): MP3

    May 16, 2005

    Maureen Thorson Reading (15:31): MP3

    Paul Muldoon

    Reading (35:03): MP3

    June 18, 2005

    Edward Hanson:

  • Crow Dancing (5:46): MP3
  • Sweet Twang (4:28): MP3
  • Father Stealers (1:34): MP3
  • I Cut My Hair (4:38): MP3

    Andy O:

  • Shoes of the Fisherman (2:13): MP3
    Coltrane (8:01): MP3
    60-40 911 (5:59): MP3
    Left By the Side of the Road (6:19): MP3
    The Day After the Storm (0:33): MP3

    Reality:

    Public Apologies (4:19): MP3
    Cycle of Seasons (4:43): MP3
    Consensual Rape (7:21): MP3

    Barbara Test:

    Poem Drops; Jazz; Mother's Vision (2:36): MP3
    To All the Men I Love (2:54): MP3
    Strawberry Notes (1:38): MP3

    Wang Zen:

    Schism (5:11): MP3
    It's the Real Thing (5:50): MP3
    Double Entendre (6:49): MP3

    December 2005

    Anna Rabinowitz:

    Interview (1:14:43): MP3
    Darkling - a poem (4:54): MP3

    January 24, 2007

    Edmund Berrigan at the Greenpoint Tavern, Brooklyn:

    A Clue of Justice (0:44): MP3
    The Peanut Epiphany (4:15): MP3
    Heredity is Objective (1:56): MP3
    Nature Unit; Who Wilts Keeps Breath Up; The New Formalism (6:21): MP3
    It's a Show (0:22): MP3
    Beautiful Pattern Noise (1:29): MP3
    Horror Poems (4:59): MP3
    Counting on the Loons (1:56): MP3
    Americans Gong As Her Ah Er (1:31): MP3
    The Morning We All Want Make Shift Garage; There Are Three (1:06): MP3
    Who so List As to Leap; Who So Are Some (1:20): MP3
    I Don't Mind I'm Your Polly Speaks (2:00): MP3

    April 14, 2007

    Dan Machlin - Chelsea, NY

    Interview (35:56): MP3
    Fifth Letter (1:41): MP3
    Letter in Which We Typed These Letters (1:19): MP3
    Letter of Critique (1:05): MP3
    selections from: Antebodies (4:39): MP3
    Beautiful Linear Bodies (2:41): MP3
    Dearest Body (3:17): MP3
    Letter to D (1:16): MP3

    March 10, 2007

    Fanny Howe - Burning Chair Marathon at Galapagos Art Space, Williamsburg

    The Lyrics (17:14): MP3

    June 9, 2007

    Thaddeus Rutkowski

    Yardbirds of Vermont (1:03): MP3
    Rehearsal (7:56): MP3
    Pictures at an Exhibition (2:14): MP3
    What's in the Name (2:27): MP3
    Orange Shirt (1:26): MP3
    Dear Daughter (2:26): MP3
    White and Wong (1:53): MP3
    Poetry Offender (1:25): MP3


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