Rod Smith

PhillyTalks, December 10, 1998


Segue Series reading at Double Happiness, NYC. April 14, 2001
complete reading (27:02): MP3


Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, January 15, 2002
complete reading (20:47): MP3


Reading at Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics. Kelly Writers House. October 17, 2003.
complete reading (3:34): MP3




Fear the Sky - album from Narrow House Recordings 2005

1. Snips 1 (3:10)
2. Snips 2 (4:57)
3. Identity is the Cause of Warts (2:05)
4. The Spider Poems 1 (3:13)
5. The Spider Poems 2 (2:48)
6. The Spider Poems 3 (3:09)
7. Poem for Stingers - Homage to Homage to Creeley 1 (0:59)
8. Wrong Turnstile - Homage to Homage to Creeley 2 (1:15)
9. Shadows Are Our Friend - Homage to Homage to Creeley 3 (0:57)
10. The Life of a Dime - Homage to Homage to Creeley 4 (1:03)
11. pour le CGT - Homage to Homage to Creeley 5 (0:39)
12. A Grammar Manikin (5:52)
13. Ted's Head (1:46)
14. the love that is truly a refuge for all living beings (1:46)
15. Farlow (1:11)
16. All of It's Gone to Moneyland (w/Alexandra Smith) (0:25)
17. Sweet Sweet Sweet Sweet Sweet Dirt. Susie Asado. (0:47)
18. The Responsibility of Intellectuals - The Classics 1 (1:22)
19. The Sublime Object of Ideology - The Classics 2 (0:48)
20. The American Evasion of Philosophy - The Classics 3 (1:06)
21. The Prison Notebooks - The Classics 4 (0:23)
22. The Body in Pain - The Classics 5 (0:33)
23. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - The Classics 6 (0:36)
24. Clothes Shaver Plus (for Tom Raworth) (1:48)
25. Disgusted Optimistic Lyric Language Poem (0:52)
26. "If a lion could speak..." -- Wittgenstein - Love Poems 1 (2:29)
27. "To become unhinged..." -- Kevin Davies - Love Poems 2 (2:36)
28. "To keep the mixtures revealed..." -- Olson - Love Poems 3 (2:03)
29. The Strength (0:43)
30. The Narrative Quiescence (3:35)
31. from The Good House 1 (6:28)
32. from The Good House 2 (2:51)
33. from The Good House 3 (3:03)
34. from The Good House 4 (3:20)


Segue Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club. NY, November 4, 2006
Complete Recording (31:11)

1. Introduction by Nada Gordon (5:12)
2. from Flare Petals (2:14)
3. Police said (0:58)
4. Milky Gumbo: A Case Study (0:47)
5. Police Poem (2:14)
6. Barnes & Chernobyl (0:12)
7. Oleo (0:28)
8. erf (0:46)
9. flarf-ku (0:23)
10. Farlow (0:56)
11. earth's dirt (0:51)
12. tub ride (0:17)
13. Moist Feelings: A Love Poem (0:38)
14. I Guess That Means You Hate Grover's Puppies (0:47)
15. What is Happening to Grover's Bottom (1:09)
16. Grover Leper (1:09)
17. from Snips (0:19)
18. Ghost Brain (0:54)
19. Ghost Brain & the redoubtable language by which it apprehends a condemned world (1:22)
20. Ghost Brain (0:11)
21. the sad winds (0:35)
22. I was gender isolated... (0:37)
23. Me's Wittl Birdy Bong Stowy (0:56)
24. Novocaine Brain (0:11)
25. Osama Bin Drinkin (2:24)
26. bananas are evil (0:22)
27. War & Pee (1:08)
28. Snip (0:08)
29. Ghost Brain (0:13)
30. raging fur ghost brain #4 spodiodie (0:29)
31. Ghost Brain (0:39)


from the Flarf Poetry Festival at the Kelly Writers House, February 8, 2007
1. No, My Name is Gary Sullivan. I Own a Mansion and a Yacht (0:58): MP3
2. Moist Feelings, a Love Poem (0:31): MP3
3. The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being (4:00): MP3
4. (inaudible) (0:52): MP3
5. This is Such Total Bullshit (4:00): MP3
6. Grover Leper (0:54): MP3
7. War and Pee (1:25): MP3






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