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The Radio Reading Project

Produced by Rosanne Limoncelli and Ernesto Livon-Grosman; hosted by Ernesto Livon-Grosman

In the 1980s, together with Rosanne Limoncelli, I started the Radio 
Reading Project, a series of recordings and interviews in English and 
Spanish with poets from South and North America. The recordings, all 
made at NYU radio studio, were a public extension of some of the 
exchanges that are still so prevalent today.  These readings and 
interviews covered a long range of topics, from the poetics of 
translation to the politics of performance. Today, presented as a 
whole in a new digital format as part of the PennSound archives, 
these readings and interviews lay out a network of artists that in 
some cases never met each other beyond this site yet they all share 
an interest in discussing what a poetics of the Americas might be.
                                                                               —Ernesto Livon-Grosman

 

Jorge Santiago Perednik, January 31, 1998

Complete recording (1:04:03): MP3

Charles Bernstein, 1998

Introduction (0:55): MP3
  1. Emotions of Normal People (22:07): MP3
  2. The Influence of Kinship Patterns Upon Perception of an Ambiguous Stimulus (5:38): MP3
  3. Discussion with Ernesto Livon-Grosman (27:01): MP3

Complete reading (55:05): MP3

Jackson Mac Low, 1998

Intro (0:57): MP3
Reading (51:51): MP3

Hannah Weiner, 1998

Intro (0:47): MP3
  1. Introduction (2:48): MP3
  2. Remembered Sequel (12:47): MP3
  3. Discussion with Ernesto Livon-Grosman (31:16): MP3
  4. Silent Teachers (9:58): MP3
  5. Conclusion (1:00): MP3

Complete program (58:04): MP3

Robert Creeley, 1998

Intro (0:54): MP3
Reading part one (25:54): MP3
Reading part two (31:48): MP3

Susan Howe, 1998

Introduction (0:56): MP3
  1. Thorow: Introduction (5:51): MP3
  2. Thorow: I (3:17): MP3
  3. Thorow: II (5:28): MP3
  4. Thorow: III (3:13): MP3
  5. Introduction to the Europe of Trusts (6:30): MP3
  6. Commentary on "Pythagorean Silence" (1:07): MP3
  7. Pythagorean Silence (5:27): MP3
  8. Discussion with Ernesto Livon-Grosman (24:13): MP3

Complete program (55:26): MP3

Jerome Rothenberg, April 24, 1999

  1. A Paradise of Poets (1:45): MP3
  2. At Tsukiji Market Tokyo, October 19, 1996 (8:40): MP3
  3. 3 Paris Elegies (7:40): MP3
  4. New Improvisations (9:32): MP3
  5. Anger, a Dream & Pain (1:34): MP3
  6. First Night Poem for Jackson Mac Low - Variations & Collage (8:40): MP3
  7. Discussion (14:29): MP3

Cecilia Vicuña, April 24, 1999

Complete reading (51:27): MP3

Bruce Andrews c. 1999

Complete recording (54:29): MP3

Johanna Drucker, c. 1999

  1. from "Naratology," followed by comments (11:03): MP3
  2. Figuring the Word (7:19): MP3
  3. from "Prove Before Laying" (3:47): MP3
  4. from "Dark Decade" (19:35): MP3
  5. Pollution Style (1:14): MP3
  6. Mutant Optics (1:31): MP3
  7. Terminal Data (1:35): MP3
  8. Cyber Sentience (2:52): MP3

Complete recording (52:54): MP3

Arturo Carrera, April 18, 2000

Complete recording (36:35): MP3

Radio Reading Project on PennSound Daily

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the authors.
© 2004 Perednik, Bernstein, Mac Low, Weiner, Rothenberg, Vicuna, Andrews, Drucker, & Carrera. Used with permission of Perednik, Bernstein, Mac Low, Weiner, Rothenberg, Vicuna, Andrews, Drucker, & Carrera. Distributed by PennSound.