Catherine Wagner

PoemTalk #88, Discussing Kathy Acker's "The Diseased," and "The Slave Trader", feat. Maria Damon, Catherine Wagner, and Kaplan Harris

Full episode (41:18): MP3

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

PoemTalk #67, discussing Catherine Wagner's "This Is A Fucking Poem," May 20, 2013

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

South(West) Ohio Poets Summer Gathering at Chase Public, Cincinnati, June 20, 2015

• Complete set (11:16): MP3

Segue Series Reading at Zinc Bar, NYC, February 1, 2014

Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #270, Reading from and discusses her new book of poetry Nervous Device (City Lights Books), 2013

• Complete program (29:11): MP3

from textsound Issue #17, Fence Books Mixtape, 2013

• Fowls in the Frith (1:06): MP3
• Now Goth Sun Under Wode (0:38): MP3
• The Stern of Heaven (0:33): MP3
• Western Wind (0:45): MP3

Poetry in Performance: National Poetry Foundation Conference on the 1980's

Recorded June 29, 2012; Featuring A.L. Nielsen, Catherine Wagner, Laura Hinton, Evie Shockley and Linda Russo.

• Catherine Wagner-A Well Is A Mine (partial) (03:07): MP3
• Catherine Wagner-Capitulation to the Total Poem (01:09): MP3

Cy Press Reading Series, Cincinnati, OH, May 17, 2012

1. Unclang (2:39): MP3
2. If (0:47): MP3
3. Rain Cog, "Think about cold genial" (0:42): MP3
4. Innocent Money (0:57): MP3
5. A Pattern (0:35): MP3
6. Recent Male Intervention (0:57): MP3
7. Capitulation to the Total Poem (1:09): MP3
8. Never Mind (0:52): MP3
9. Rain Cog, "One who could not smell came up to the other’s apartment" (0:38): MP3
10. Rain Cog, "Then when I found in my starbuckle a new ire" (0:35): MP3
11. Blink Whole Head in Identificatory Trance (2:36): MP3
12. The Autonomy of Art Has Its Origins in the Concealment of Labor (0:26): MP3
13. Make a Machine for Mastering Self (1:13): MP3
14. Spell (1:22): MP3
15. Another Human Made Me Come (1:34): MP3
16. Regarding the Use-Value and Exchange Value of Orgasms, with a List of Orgasm Analogues (2:30): MP3
17. Do Fairly Pleasant Thing (1:11): MP3
18. Resume Consciousness Every Day Feelin' Danke (0:53): MP3
19. The Ugly Neck, or Making Bank (0:49): MP3
20. Infrares (2:52): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading, Town Hall Downstairs, Seattle, January 7, 2012

Complete reading (2:10): MP3

Reading at Alan Golding's House, University of Louisville Conference, February 26, 2011

• Complete reading (6:11): MP3

Reading at Xavier University, Cincinnati, April 15, 2010

1. introduction (3:26): MP3
2. Exercise 6 (1:08): MP3
3. Exercise 28 (0:13): MP3
4. Exercise 31 (0:50): MP3
5. Exercise 25 (0:24): MP3
6. Exercise 41 (0:34): MP3
7. Exercise 3 (0:46): MP3
8. Birth of Wieners (0:31): MP3
9. On the Half Shell in the Brain (0:19): MP3
10. Benefits of Metaphor (1:06): MP3
11. A word expresses intention accident (0:55): MP3
12. The Argument (1:23): MP3
13. Well in the Chasm of Your Faith Opportunity Why Don't You Crampon Up (0:40): MP3
14. Oh (2:04): MP3
15. De profundis clamavi, or Did I seek (1:45): MP3
16. Articulate How (1:11): MP3
17. This Is a Fucking Poem (0:54): MP3 [text]
18. Coming and I Did Not Run Away (0:39): MP3
19. Among the Orders (1:29): MP3
20. Bridge or Tunnel (1:42): MP3

Complete reading (23:41): MP3

"This Is a Fucking Poem" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 67.

Reading in London, May 27, 2009 (video courtesy of Openned)

"On Writing with Catherine Wagner," Podcast Interview with Tom Orange, Vanderbilt University, February 18, 2008

• Complete program (1:15:05): MP3

from textsound Issue #1, Winter 2008

• Coming and I (0:43): MP3
• Well and you (0:46): MP3

from POG Sound: Reading at the Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, October 14, 2006

• Complete reading (12:08): MP3

Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #102, "These Archipelagos," February 26, 2006

1. Introduction (0:23): MP3
2. about the title and procedures behind "Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large" (2:33): MP3
3. reading "Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large: The Siamese Sextuplets" (1:06): MP3
4. the figure of the Siamese sextuplet and having a child (2:51): MP3
5. reading "Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large: I was flying a mountain into a sunny path" (0:51): MP3
6. the many-worded title as a prompt (0:51): MP3
7. the way in which language moves in these poems and the interaction between outside and inside (1:51): MP3
8. reading "Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large: There is a formula for success and interaction" (2:48): MP3
9. what happens when you write in a crowd and how people interact (2:13): MP3
10. reading "Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at large: Your servant and oppressor, son" (1:46): MP3
11. playing with the readers' expectations and reconfirming analogies that cut against the grain (3:48): MP3
12. reading "Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large: Will you trust me with the child" (1:04): MP3
13. the anger becoming a mother invokes in one's own body (1:58): MP3

Complete program (24:17): MP3

Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #98, "Macular Hole and Other Oralities," January 22, 2006

• Complete program (29:13): MP3

Reading at the SoundEye Festival, Cork, Ireland, July 6, 2005

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Catherine Wagner on PennSound Daily

• April 23, 2010: "Catherine Wagner: New Author Page"

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