Ron Padgett

Virtual reading for the Yale Literary Magazine, November 1, 2022

In celebration of Dot (Coffee House Press, 2022).

Complete recording (52:24): MP3

1. Introduction (2:35): MP3
2. Tea for You, Too (0:55): MP3
3. Presto (0:20): MP3
4. Starry Night (0:36): MP3
5. The Great Divide (0:44): MP3
6. Philosophy (1:10): MP3
7. Start (6:48): MP3
8. Free at Last (0:42): MP3
9. The Sunny Side of the Street (1:07): MP3
10. I’ll Get It (14-part series)(8:41): MP3
11. The Dream of the Cadillac (1:57): MP3
12. Flashcards (1:05): MP3
13. Peppermint Air (0:50): MP3
14. Knockouts (4:42): MP3
15. Post-Reading Q&A (20:12): MP3

Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, November 18, 2013

Conversation with John Ashbery, Oral History Initiative: On Frank O'Hara, Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard, April 5, 2011

1. introduction (1:41): MP3
2. Ashbery describing how het met Frank O'Hara (5:21): MP3
3. discussing his years at Harvard with Frank (7:14): MP3
4. Frank's time at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the Poets Theater, and his piano playing (5:29): MP3
5. Frank's return to NYC after Michigan, his job at MoMA, and John Latouche's salons (4:32): MP3
6. The Living Theater and acting in "Desire Caught by the Tail" with Frank (2:22): MP3
7. Ashbery on the inspiring, friendly competition between himself, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch (2:16): MP3
8. on Jane Bowles (2:14): MP3
9. retelling the story of Frank becoming the victim of a holdup (2:23): MP3
10. Frank's letter-writing and modesty (4:24): MP3
11. Frank at the Poets Theater in Cambridge and as a reader of poetry (4:21): MP3
12. Frank's generosity and willingness to entertain everyone and the difficulty of talking to him alone (1:57): MP3
13. reading two letters from Frank O'Hara (8:21): MP3

• Complete recording (53:46): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, Nantes, and Angers, April 15-20, 2010

• Audio recording available from Double Change archives.

Reading The Big Something at his NYC home, July 4, 2009

1. Introduction (0:10): MP3
2. American Cowslip (0:51): MP3
3. First Drift (1:31): MP3
4. Greetings from Dalmatia (2:58): MP3
5. Greetings from Dalmatia, part 2 (2:41): MP3
6. The Little Past Midnight Snack (1:12): MP3
7. Dog (0:41): MP3
8. The Human Being and the Human Nothingness (3:38): MP3
9. Extra Star (1:17): MP3
10. A Brief Correspondence Course (0:42): MP3
11. Snow (1:44): MP3
12. How to be a Woodpecker (3:32): MP3
13. Goethe (0:46): MP3
14. The Rue de Rennes (1:30): MP3
15. The Way of All Handwriting (0:42): MP3
16. Oklahoma Dawn (1:43): MP3
17. Poem (0:47): MP3
18. Tom and Jerry Graduate from High School (3:10): MP3
19. Euphues (1:26): MP3
20. My Room (3:55): MP3
21. Famous Flames (3:41): MP3
22. Popular Mechanics (5:24): MP3
23. At Apollinaire's Tomb (2:17): MP3
24. The Salt and Pepper Shakers (1:51): MP3
25. M'sieur Tarzan (3:37): MP3
26. To Woody Woodpecker (0:31): MP3
27. Who and Each (2:05): MP3
28. Coors (1:58): MP3
29. Light as Air (8:11): MP3
30. Indian Territory (1:36): MP3
31. Smoke (0:48): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, February 20, 2007

• Film available from Double Change archives.

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, April 8, 2003

1. Lytle Shaw's Introduction (2:05): MP3
2. Padgett's Opening Remarks (1:36): MP3

from Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003):

3. Chapter 1 from Oklahoma Tough (6:15): MP3
4. Opening Remarks on Nice People Among the Pint Pitchers (1:53): MP3
5. Nice People Among the Pint Pitchers (12:35): MP3

Complete reading (24:27): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, February 26, 2003

1. Chapter 1 of Oklahoma Tough (7:36): MP3

poems from You Never Know (2002):

2. "The Drink" (1:09): MP3
3. "Morning" (0:54): MP3
4. "To Myself" (0:42): MP3
5. "The Missing Lips" (0:39): MP3
6. "Not Particularly" (0:39): MP3
7. "Fairy Tale" (1:36): MP3
8. "J and J" (0:57): MP3
9. "For a Moment" (0:32): MP3
10. "Fixation" (0:31): MP3
11. "Obit Backlash" (1:07): MP3
12. "The Austrian Maiden" (0:57): MP3
13. "Mountains are a Feeling" (0:46): MP3
14. "The County Fair" (0:59): MP3
15. "The Sweeper" (0:52): MP3
16. "Bluebird" (0:36): MP3
17. "Medieval Salad Dive" (0:37): MP3
18. "You Never Know" (0:36): MP3
19. "Poet as Immortal Bird" (0:29): MP3
20. "My Trip to Italy" (1:20): MP3
21. "Haiku" (0:08): MP3
22. "Bob Creeley Breakthrough" (1:03): MP3
23. "Feathers" (0:26): MP3
24. "The Love Cook" (0:27): MP3
25. "Penser Juste" (1:04): MP3
26. "Sacred Heart" (1:39): MP3
27. "Amy" (1:13): MP3

Interviewed on miPOradio by Amy King

• Part one (42:41): MP3
• Part two (33:20): MP3

Wednesday Series: Ron Padgett, St. Mark’s Church, NY, May 28, 1997

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (56:15): link
2. Side B (57:38): link

Thin Air Lectures with Ron Silliman, Alice Notley, and Bernadette Mayer, St. Marks Church, May 1988

Watch on Media.sas

Complete Recording (55:16): MP3

Ed Friedman and Ron Padgett for the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, May 18, 1988

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (45:35): link
2. Side B (38:20): link

Discussing collaboration, UCSD, November 18, 1980

• Complete Recording, (1:03:27)MP3
• Recording courtesy of Michael Davison

Reading, UCSD, November 19, 1980

• Complete Recording, (42:30)MP3
• Recording courtesy of Michael Davison

1. Introduction (0:36): MP3
2. Joe Brainard's Painting Bingo (1:35): MP3
3. The Farmer's Head (0:40): MP3
4. Detach, Invading (2:02): MP3
5. Poema del City (1:35): MP3
6. Poema del City 2 (1:15): MP3
7. Wilson '57 (15:03): MP3

• Complete recording (23:03): MP3

Recording from the Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry, at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

1. After Lorca (1:14): MP3
2. Déjà Vu (0:38): MP3
3. Framed Picture (0:34): MP3
4. Poem for El Lissitzky (1:03): MP3
5. Blue Bananas (1:25): MP3
6. Red Bendix (0:42): MP3
7. High Heels (0:57): MP3
8. Postcard (0:54): MP3
9. Love Poem (1:18): MP3
10. Lessons in Things: The Beings of Nature (2:09): MP3
11. Lessons in Things: The Uses of Metals (0:45): MP3
12. Lessons in Things: Precious Materials (0:53): MP3
13. Lessons in Things: Our Houses (1:03): MP3
14. Lessons in Things: Lighting (1:12): MP3
15. Lessons in Things: Vacations (0:52): MP3
16. Lessons in Things: Milk (1:44): MP3
17. Lessons in Things: Food (1:21): MP3
18. Lessons in Things: Flowers (0:32): MP3
19. Lessons in Things: The Vegetable Garden (2:10): MP3
20. Lessons in Things: The Banana Tree (1:25): MP3
21. Lessons in Things: Coffee (1:42): MP3
22. Lessons in Things: The Races of Men (0:57): MP3
23. Lessons in Things: The Human Body (1:20): MP3
24. Lessons in Things: Animals (2:21): MP3
25. Lessons in Things: Insects (1:12): MP3
26. Lessons in Things: The Air and Wind (1:26): MP3
27. Lessons in Things: Water (1:08): MP3
28. Lessons in Things: Clouds, Thunder and Lightning (1:01): MP3
29. Lessons in Things: Steam and Electricity (1:12): MP3
30. Lessons in Things: The Telegraph and Telephone (1:14): MP3
31. Lessons in Things: Time (0:57): MP3

• Complete recording (37:21): MP3

Appearing on Public Access Poetry, February 16, 1978

from The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980

The Music Lesson (7:33): MP3

Reading at the Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, April 15, 1975

Unknown Location, May, 1973

• Complete recording (46:37): MP3

Reading at Bolinas Community Center, August 26, 1972

• Complete recording (30:45): MP3

Ron Padgett on PennSound Daily

• March 10, 2010: "Ron Padgett: 'The Big Something,' Recorded in Its Entirety, 2009"
• May 4, 2009: "Ron Padgett and Tom Veitch: Antlers in the Treetops (1970)"
• January 25, 2007: "Ron Padgett on PennSound"

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