Laynie Browne

PoemTalk #187, Discussing Mina Loy's "Love Songs," feat. Hoa Nguyen, and Maya Pindyck

PoemTalk #141, Discussing Rosmarie Waldrop's "Memory Tree," feat. Laynie Brown, Kate Colby, and Mónica de la Torre

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PoemTalk #95, Discussing Rob Fitterman's Sprawl, feat. Laynie Browne, Rodrigo Toscano, and Michelle Taransky

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PoemTalk #81, Discussing Fanny Howe's “The Descent” and "The Source," feat. Laynie Browne, Rae Armantrout, and Kerry Sherin Wright

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PoemTalk #64, Discussing Caroline Bergvall's "VIA"

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PoemTalk #63, Discussing Laynie Browne's "Daily Sonnets"

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Reading with Rosmarie Waldrop at Kate Colby's home in Providence, RI, March 5, 2019

• Introduction by Lee Ann Brown
• Complete recording (19:06): MP3
• Video mirror: Media.SAS server

A Reading with Laynie Browne, Bianca Stone, and Connie Yu, Kelly Writers House, November 27, 2018

Complete reading (1:02:15): MP3

1. Opening Remarks (3:00): MP3
2. Owl Pages (4:21): MP3
3. New York with No Address (2:19): MP3
4. Excerpt from Periodic Companions (15:31): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading, Philadelphia, January 6, 2017

Complete reading (3:50): MP3

Segue Series reading at the Zinc Bar, New York, November 14, 2015

1. Introduction (4:24): MP3
2. Scorpion Odes (3:44): MP3
3. Practice (2:50): MP3
4. Your Absense Grows Bright and Weary (2:56): MP3
5. Instant Amulet (0:53): MP3
6. Distraction Amulet (0:55): MP3
7. Mistress Amulet (1:01): MP3
8. Inseperable Amulet (0:49): MP3
9. Ogre Amulet (0:45): MP3
10. Aperture Amulet (1:08): MP3
11. Ambidextruous Amulet (2:00): MP3
12. Acta Diurna (11:09): MP3

• Complete reading (33:24): MP3

Tender Buttons at 100 Celebration, Kelly Writers House, October 1, 2014

Laynie Browne reading (9:18): MP3

On Cid Corman: A Celebratory Reading, Kelly Writers House, September 16, 2014

Laynie Browne on Cid Corman (8:12): MP3

Reading with Lisa Jarnot at the Kelly Writers House, April 22, 2014

• Introduction by Julia Bloch (2:29): MP3
• Lisa Jarnot (19:51): MP3
• Introduction to Laynie Browne by Julia Bloch (2:05): MP3
• Laynie Browne (24:37): MP3

Complete reading (49:04): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, May 14, 2011

1. Introduction (4:25): MP3
2. Sea Secret (7:18): MP3
3. I'm Leaving Tasawasa (1:01): MP3
4. Letter of Eclipses (0:48): MP3
5. Quish the Pider (0:53): MP3
6. Riding Astride (3:46): MP3
7. The Bottom of Her Dress, Dipped in Light (1:48): MP3
8. Lunar Air (3:38): MP3

Appearing on Rabbit Light Movies, Winter 2011

Reading at Brown University's Contemporary Writers Series, March 11, 2009

1. from "Radiolarian Atlas" (5:33): MP3
2. from Daily Sonnets: "Pirates attack ships in Malacca Strait" (1:03): MP3
3. from Daily Sonnets: C Dictionary Sonnet ["Tailcoat take a sharp pointed"] (1:08): MP3
4. from Daily Sonnets: "Events don't change time" (0:42): MP3
5. from Daily Sonnets: Sonnet of Baron Marc Selys Longchamps ["Ascidian Heart, Ancestry of Vertebrates"] (1:28): MP3
6. from Daily Sonnets: Protector #1: Against Ungainly Events ["Against terror implicit in color alerts"] (1:17): MP3
7. from Daily Sonnets: Protector #2: Your Personal Amulet ["This sonnet is your personal amulet"] (0:44): MP3, PDF
8. from Daily Sonnets: Rilke Translation ["Do anchor wren dice mandate mal"] (0:47): MP3
9. from Daily Sonnets: Two-Fourteenths Sonnet ["This undressing at security checkpoints"] (0:11): MP3, PDF
10. from Daily Sonnets: Love Sonnet To Light ["I write myself this nightly"] (0:41): MP3
11. from Daily Sonnets: Six-Fourteenths Donne Sonnet ["I am a liturgy worsted"] (0:50): MP3, PDF
12. from Daily Sonnets: Sonnet of Baron Marc Selys Longchamps ["Ascidian Heart, Tiny only"] (0:42): MP3
13. on The Scented Fox (1:32): MP3, PDFhttp://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Browne-Laynie/Browne-Laynie_Daily-Sonnets.pdf
14. Letter I (0:50): MP3
15. The Crystal Letter (0:44): MP3
16. Letter III (1:26): MP3
17. "Where arst thought this spellt" (1:04): MP3
18. Palimpset (0:28): MP3
19. Interlude (0:45): MP3
20. Sentencing (1:19): MP3
21. from "Tales in Miniature" (1:12): MP3
22. from "Festoon Dictionary" (2:26): MP3
23. Scorpyn Ode ["I prayed the dictionary"] (1:43): MP3
24. Departure ["I speak from another vantage"] (0:48): MP3
25. Scorpyn Ode ["I watched the reader read"] (0:32): MP3
26. Departure ["Everything will be clean and uncluttered"] (1:09): MP3
27. Scorpyn Ode ["At the edge of night"] (0:12): MP3
28. Departure ["Sleep as departure"] (0:22): MP3
29. Scorpyn Ode ["What is your scorpyn name"] (0:43): MP3
30. Departure ["From I may not speak to the mountain"] (1:43): MP3
31. Scorpyn Ode ["Another name for Aconite"] (0:53): MP3
32. Departure ["From numbers"] (0:49): MP3
33. Scorpyn Ode ["She disarmed me with a promise"] (0:38): MP3
34. Departure ["Not from this world"] (1:40): MP3

Daily Sonnets is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 63.

On POG Sound, Reading at St. Andrew's Church, December 6, 2008

1. Cronewort (Artemisia vulgaris) (1:37): MP3
2. from Daily Sonnets: Sonnet of Baron Marc Selys Longchamps ["Ascidian Heart, Garbed in green"] (1:35): MP3
3. from Daily Sonnets: Sonnet of Baron Marc Selys Longchamps ["Ascidian Heart, Tiny only"] (0:33): MP3
4. from Daily Sonnets: "In Chinese astrology you are a snake" (1:08): MP3, PDF
5. from Daily Sonnets: "I'm a bunny in a human suit" (0:31): MP3, PDF
6. The Traveling Crystal (1:43): MP3
7. Palimpset (0:24): MP3
8. Sought (0:31): MP3
9. Scorpyn Ode ["I prayed the dictionary"] (1:24): MP3
10. Departure ["I speak from another vantage"] (0:53): MP3
11. Scorpyn Ode ["I watched the reader read"] (0:36): MP3
12. Departure ["Everything will be clean and uncluttered"] (1:13): MP3
13. Scorpyn Ode ["At the edge of night"] (0:13): MP3
14. Departure ["Sleep as departure"] (0:22): MP3
15. Scorpyn Ode ["What is your scorpyn name"] (0:45): MP3
16. Departure ["From I may not speak to the mountain"] (2:10): MP3
17. Scorpyn Ode ["Another name for Aconite"] (0:53): MP3
18. Departure ["From numbers"] (1:00): MP3
19. Scorpyn Ode ["She disarmed me with a promise"] (0:41): MP3
20. Departure ["Not from this world"] (1:37): MP3

Complete reading (21:26): MP3

Daily Sonnets is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 63.

Reading at the Chax Press Cushing Street Series, Tucson, Arizona, November 13, 2007

1. Psalm Dream (4:28): MP3
2. Psalm for Self Ruin (0:40): MP3
3. Psalm for Departure (0:53): MP3
4. Psalm for Honest Sadness (0:43): MP3
5. Psalm for a Mournful Siren (0:37): MP3
6. from Daily Sonnets: Love Sonnet To Light ["I write myself this nightly"] (1:09): MP3
7. from Daily Sonnets: Protector #1: Against Ungainly Events ["Against terror implicit in color alerts"] (0:51): MP3
8. from Daily Sonnets: Protector #2: Your Personal Amulet ["This sonnet is your personal amulet"] (0:59): MP3, PDF
9. from Daily Sonnets: Six-Fourteenths Donne Sonnet ["I am a liturgy worsted"] (0:48): MP3
10. from Daily Sonnets: New York Sonnet ["Offered a couch on 7th street"] (0:51): MP3
11. from Daily Sonnets: "In Chinese astrology you are a snake" (1:02): MP3, PDF
12. from Daily Sonnets: "I'm a bunny in a human suit" (0:28): MP3, PDF
13. from Daily Sonnets: "The queen ant flew off of our roof" (0:51): MP3
14. epigraphs from The Scented Fox (1:49): MP3
15. Letter I (0:53): MP3
16. The Forest At Night (2:33): MP3
17. Letter II (0:49): MP3
18. The Book of Slowly (2:54): MP3
19. from "Tales in Miniature" (1:11): MP3
20. from "Festoon Dictionary" (2:28): MP3
21. Lullaby (0:50): MP3

Complete reading (29:29): MP3

Daily Sonnets is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 63.

On A Voice Box, Reading at Pegasus Books, Berkeley, May 3, 2007

1. from Bernadette Mayer's Note on Sonnets (1:09): MP3
2. Sonnet ["Nothing to wake up to"] by Bernadette Mayer (0:56): MP3
3. Marie Makes Fun of Me at the Shore by Bernadtte Mayer (0:33): MP3
4. from Daily Sonnets: Bernadette Sonnet (0:51): MP3
5. from "First Sea" (4:32): MP3

Complete reading (8:21): MP3

Daily Sonnets is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 63.

Reading from Rebecca Letters (Kelsey Street Press 1997)

Recorded by Ross Craig, Berkeley, February 7, 2007

1. Introduction (3:34): MP3
2. Page 11 (0:51): MP3
3. Page 12 (0:47): MP3
4. Page 13 (0:35): MP3
5. Page 16 (1:02): MP3
6. Page 17 (0:36): MP3
7. Page 18 (0:57): MP3
8. Page 19 (1:10): MP3
9. Page 20 (0:41): MP3
10. Page 21 (2:04): MP3
11. Page 23 (1:20): MP3
12. Page 24 (1:01): MP3
13. Page 25 (1:37): MP3
14. Page 26 (0:42): MP3
15. Page 28 (0:32): MP3
16. Page 30 (1:56): MP3
17. Page 33 (0:35): MP3
18. Page 34 (1:01): MP3
19. Page 35 (0:55): MP3
20. Page 37 (1:20): MP3
21. Page 38 (0:42): MP3
22. Page 39 (0:43): MP3
23. Page 42 (0:39): MP3
24. Page 45 (0:54): MP3
25. Page 47 (1:04): MP3

Also from Rebecca Letters, 2007:

• Acres of Sound (0:09): MP3

1. Introduction (2:52): MP3
2. Eyes open among a berth of shadows (2:03): MP3
3. Enamel perchance toils (0:41): MP3
4. Influence is the type of cloth I wrap around my shoulders unknowingly (0:56): MP3
5. I wrote a series of apologies to a landscape (0:41): MP3
6. The silence was longitudinal (0:46): MP3
7. The red center of a sea angel is an embroidered, lockable diary (0:42): MP3
8. I wished for the devices of the squid (0:50): MP3
9. The Name of the House (6:37): MP3
10. A Mother Wears a Verb (7:04): MP3
11. Dear Dear Antiquated Housewyfe, Takes a New Name (1:41): MP3

Tender Buttons Press reading at the Kelly Writers House, October 21, 2003

1. Introduction by Lee Ann Brown (2:49): MP3
2. Stop searching the rose (1:16): MP3
3. Your presence in a bottle must be persuaded to let yourself back (0:59): MP3
4. This is where the errand began (0:45): MP3
5. A nightly intiution of precipitation (0:32): MP3
6. Without the notion that one is transparent (0:43): MP3
7. Memory is the vessel a shell becomes (0:40): MP3
8. Spring is in the paper dress; wear carefully, and last, to save trees (0:38): MP3
9. Leaves and needles resemble rain in sound (0:36): MP3
10. Amelia Enters the Room, or Enter Amelia, or the Simple Act of Entering a Room (1:57): MP3
11. A Chorus of Dimly Concentrated Tables (2:48): MP3
12. The Chorus Speculates Far Less Faintly (2:40): MP3
13. Mist Netting (3:37): MP3
14. Dear Alyssum (0:49): MP3
15. Welcome 67946, Looting (4:31): MP3

Wednesday Series: Fanny Howe and Laynie Browne, St. Mark’s Church, NY, March 25, 1998

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

1. Side A (48:22): link
2. Side B (47:07): link

Reading at The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, October 18, 1997

Complete reading (20:08): MP3

Reading for the Segue Series at the Ear Inn, New York, March 29, 1997

• Complete recording (22:37): MP3

Segues Series at the Ear Inn, New York, March 4, 1995

1. Introduction (0:45): MP3
2. Ancestor Alphabets (7:06): MP3
3. Lore (3:21): MP3
4. Odette is the principal divining rod (0:49): MP3
5. A leave has taken the book (0:18): MP3
6. Artemsia, the hanging indention (0:36): MP3
7. City chest, humming lights (2:01): MP3
8. Walk up carying a light (0:39): MP3
9. A farewell was ploughing a field day (0:46): MP3
10. The darker fluid was labeled scent (0:55): MP3
11. Dog star (0:54): MP3
12. In 2000 BC bands of nomadic azure (0:20): MP3
13. This book is midnight bent and folded (0:26): MP3
14. There are no spells to put forward (0:46): MP3
15. Eat two peaches (0:15): MP3
16. Some escape thought through leaves (0:54): MP3
17. Lessons in sand (0:35): MP3
18. Six dark birds taken flight in a dream (1:18): MP3
19. Black haw is the color of my true penny's hallow (0:18): MP3
20. Becoming pliant as bats (0:46): MP3
21. They reached the design where her filmcard gave out (1:14): MP3
22. Damsel in dithers (0:24): MP3
23. The roads are so muddy, we cannot gang about (0:43): MP3

Segues Series at the Ear Inn, New York, March 20, 1993

1. Introduction (1:19): MP3
2. Equinoctis (5:29): MP3
3. Compass Rose (2:10): MP3
4. Pendulum (2:01): MP3
5. Stop searching the rose (1:08): MP3
6. Your presence in a bottle must be persuaded to let yourself back (1:00): MP3
7. This is where the errand began (0:50): MP3
8. A nightly intuition of precipitation (0:37): MP3
9. In order to find your absolute calendar (0:51): MP3
10. Apparition (12:39): MP3

Reading from Rebecca Letters

1. Introduction (3:36): MP3
2. Pages 11–13 (2:12): MP3
3. Pages 16–21 (6:30): MP3
4. Pages 23–26 (4:39): MP3
5. Page 28 (0:31): MP3
6. Page 30 (1:56): MP3
7. Pages 33–35 (2:27): MP3
8. Pages 37–39 (2:45): MP3
9. Page 42 (0:39): MP3
10. Page 45 (0:54): MP3
11. Page 47 (1:04): MP3

Thanks to Ross Craig, sound engineer.
Rebecca Letters (1997) was published by Kelsey Street Press.

Also of interest:

• I'll Drown My Book, a celebration of the I'll Drown My Book anthology held at the Kelly Writers House, October 17, 2012

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2017 Laynie Browne. Used with gracious permission of Laynie Browne. Distributed by PennSound.