Douglas Kearney

PoemTalk #159, Discussing bpNichol's "Dada Lama" and "A Small Song That Is His," feat. Tracie Morris, Douglas Kearney, and Derek Beaulieu

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

Appearing on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, October 22, 2018

Program One: Reading

1. Introduction (2:55): MP3
2. That Loud Ass Colored Silence Protest (2:53): MP3
3. Said (3:43): MP3
4. Freedom, Freedom, Turn Me (8:42): MP3
5. Big Thicket Pastoral (6:25): MP3
6. Introduction to Ecce Enim Lepus (3:26): MP3
7. Ecce Enim Lepus (1:50): MP3
8. Bro Rabbit Cross (1:23): MP3
9. Bro Rabbit Meets Sourful Mother (2:28): MP3
10. Veronica the Face of (1:54): MP3
11. Bro Rabbit is in (1:24): MP3
12. Introduction to Headnote to a Done Poem (3:04): MP3
13. Headnote to a Done Poem (4:22): MP3
14. Introduction to Poems About Prince (1:40): MP3
15. Introduction to 1999 1982 (1:41): MP3
16. 1999 1982 (0:45): MP3
17. Introduction to Thieves in the Temple 1990 (2:04): MP3
18. Thieves in the Temple 1990 (1:25): MP3
19. Introduction to Batdance 1989 (2:04): MP3
20. Batdance 1989 (1:34): MP3

Complete reading (55:41): MP3

Program Two: Conversation

Complete conversation (37:11): MP3

Home recordings for PoemTalk, October 7, 2022

1. Static [take 1] (0:52): MP3
2. Static [take 2] (0:52): MP3
3. Static [take 3] (0:54): MP3
4. Welter [take 1] (1:08): MP3
5. Welter [take 2] (1:05): MP3
6. Welter [take 3] (1:03): MP3

City Planning Poetics Series, The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, October 23, 2018

1. Introduction (13:43): MP3
2. Opening remarks (2:06): MP3
3. F.U.GITIVITY (3:07): MP3
4. On legibility and access to language (8:11): MP3
5. A Breathtaking House (1:17): MP3
6. That Loud Ass Colored Silence (4:29): MP3
7. On Wakanda and the formation of class (4:56): MP3
8. Q&A (27:47): MP3

Complete recording (1:29:32): MP3

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, March 25, 2018

Vocarium Reading Series, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, November 2, 2017

Also featuring Tracie Morris.

The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, September 21, 2017

Reading for LA-Lit, 4 October 13, 2005

1. On his body of work (8:28): MP3
2. On creating a language (3:42): MP3
3. Reading "Poem with Some Sand" (6:13): MP3
4. On repetition and sampling (9:29): MP3
5. Reading "The Orange Alert" (2:26): MP3
6. On anxiety (5:16): MP3
7. On capturing African-American Experiences (7:11): MP3
8. On performativity (9:35): MP3
9. Reading "At the Pink Teacup" (3:23): MP3
10. On the writing process (7:54): MP3
11. Background on the poem "Rallying" (3:41): MP3
12. Reading "Rallying" (4:07): MP3
13. On circling an issue (9:11): MP3
14. (dig) Bloom is Boom, Sucka! (7:51): MP3

• Part A (52:23): MP3
• Part B (36:18): MP3

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