M. NourbeSe Philip

PoemTalk #118, Discussing M. NourbeSe Philip's "Zong!", feat. Alexandria Johnson, Tracie Morris, and Amber Rose Johnson

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

Reading for What Is Undug Will Be: A Digital Archive Launch for XCP (1997–2010), Virtual Program, February 27, 2021

For full list of readers and more information, see complete listing.

Reading for Belladonna*, Poets House, New York City, June 1, 2019

Complete recording (1:49:32): MP3

In conversation with Q (a.k.a Kyoo Lee), Kelly Writers House, December 5, 2017

Complete recording (1:33:19): MP3

GA(S)P: BREATH, COMMUNITY, AND POETRY, Leslie Scalapino Lecture Series, Pratt Institute, October 24, 2017

Part 1: A reading of "The Redemption of Al Bumen (A Morality Play)"

Part 2

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, 2016

Episode #342 Philip, January 20, 2016

Philip returns to read and discuss a second of her books, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (Wesleyan University Press).

Complete recording (28:25): MP3

Episode #341 Zong!, January 20, 2016

Philip reads from and discusses the literary and legal epistemology of her long poem Zong! (Wesleyan University Press).

Complete recording (30:00): MP3

Reading as part of the Contemporary Writers Series at Mills College, March 29, 2011

1. Introduction (with Juliana Spahr) (6:35):MP3
2. Zong #2 (1:55):MP3
3. Zong #3 (1:55):MP3
4. Zong #10 (1:15):MP3
5. Zong #11 (1:48):MP3
6. Zong #12 (2:56):MP3
7. from Sal (4:30):MP3
8. from Ventus (5:22):MP3
9. from Ratio (11:52):MP3
10. from Ferrum (6:40):MP3

• Complete reading (55:40):MP3

Reading at The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, March 8, 2011

Complete reading (59:55): MP3

Presenting and Reading at North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival, Kelly Writers House, January 20-21, 2011

• Complete presentation (47:43): MP3

• Complete reading (36:29): MP3

Reading with Rachel Zolf at the Friends Meeting House, Toronto, ON, April 23 2008

1. Zong 1 (1:49): MP3
2. Zong 2 (0:28): MP3
3. Zong 6 (0:33): MP3
4. Zong 9 (0:56): MP3
5. Zong 11 (0:41): MP3
6. Zong 12 (1:03): MP3
7. Zong 19 (1:14): MP3
8. Zong 21 (1:21): MP3
9. Zong 25 (1:16): MP3
10. Zong 26 (1:09): MP3
11. Sal (5:58): MP3
12. Ventus (5:14): MP3
13. Ratio (5:38): MP3
14. Ferrum (6:05): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, February 17, 2007

1. Introduction (3:55): MP3
2. Opening Remarks (2:41): MP3
3. Zong 2 (0:25): MP3 [text]
4. Zong 3 (0:24): MP3 [text]
5. Zong 4 (0:21): MP3
6. Zong 5 (1:55): MP3
7. Zong 6 (0:24): MP3 [text]
8. Zong 7 (0:21): MP3
9. Zong 8 (0:25): MP3
10. Zong 9 (0:36): MP3
11. Zong 10 (0:31): MP3
12. Zong 11 (0:27): MP3 [text]
13. Zong 12 (0:34): MP3
14. Zong 15 (0:52): MP3
15. Zong 14 (0:22): MP3
16. Zong 19 (0:46): MP3
17. Zong 18 (0:34): MP3
18. Zong 19 (0:23): MP3
19. Zong 17 (0:42): MP3
20. Zong 21 (0:41): MP3 [text: page 1, page 2]
21. Zong 22 (0:30): MP3
22. Zong 24 (1:02): MP3
23. Zong 25 (0:52): MP3
24. Zong 26 (1:17): MP3 [text]
25. Commentary (11:12): MP3
26. from "Sal" (13:20): MP3
27. Q&A Session (3:29): MP3
28. from "Ratio" (4:54): MP3

Reading for Wednesdays @ 4Plus, University at Buffalo, February 22, 1995

1. Introduction (2:26): MP3
2. Discourse on the Logic of Language (6:54): MP3
3. from "Looking for Livingstone" (24:48): MP3

Recorded Poem on Harry's House Vol 2 CD

• Zong #15 - M. NourbeSe Philip (2:46): MP3

Of related interest:
Video of UC-Berkeley reading (2012)

M. NourbeSe Philip on PennSound Daily

• February 16, 2011: "North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival"
• February 13, 2011: "New PennSound Featured Resources Selected by Marcella Durand"

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