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PoemTalk #60, discussing Clark Coolidge's "Blues for Alice," December 16, 2012

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Whenever You Feel Like It Reading at the Kelly Writers House, February 15, 2017



  • Complete audio reading (32:36): MP3
  1. Introduction (1:05): MP3
  2. "Fact", read twice (4:59): MP3
  3. Discussing his addition of a chapter to Laurence Stern's "Tristam Shandy" (2:20): MP3
  4. Dworkin's chapter for "Tristam Shandy" (3:58): MP3
  5. Concluding passage of "Deaf" (20:11): MP3

Reading at the Long Poem Conference at Columbia University, NYC, April 13, 2016

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Complete recording (17:54): MP3 [TEXT]

Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, New York City, December 14, 2013

  1. Introduction (3:21): MP3
  2. Reading Roget's Thesaurus (12:43): MP3
  3. From Unfinished Work (12:47): MP3
  • Complete reading (28:58): MP3

Appearing at Poetry Communities and the Individual Talent, Kelly Writers House, April 13, 2012

  • Complete recording (2:04:14): MP3



Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, May 22, 2010

  • Complete reading (34:42): MP3

Reading with Mary Rising Higgins, Albuquerque, NM, February 11, 2006

Published in the VOX Audio collection.

  1. Legion (6:24): MP3
  2. Shift (5:57): MP3
  3. Ar (3:38): MP3
  4. Ar, "Arcadia" (2:31): MP3

Segue Series reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, December 11, 2004

  1. Introduction (3:31): MP3
  2. from Barnesbook: Four Poems Derived from Sentences by Djuna Barnes (Sun & Moon, 1996)

  3. An Homage to Jackson Mac Low from "Barnes 1" (1:49): MP3
  4. sections of "Shift" from Strand (Roof, 2005)

  5. "An Explanation of Crustal Provinces..." (3:57): MP3
  6. "Compositional Inhomogeneities in Dilutants..." (1:23): MP3
  7. "Cyril Method" (6:32): MP3
  8. from Words to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Aconcci (MIT, 2006, ed. Craig Dworkin)

  9. "Act 3, Scene 4" (from 0 to 9) (7:08) : MP3
  10. "REMOVAL, MOVE (LINE OF EVIDENCE): the grid location of streets, alphabetized, Hagstrom's maps of the boroughs: 3. Manhattan." (6:12): MP3

Complete reading (30:53): MP3

from A Night of New Translations at the Kelly Writers House September 17, 2003

"Paradisiacal Signifiers" (19:27): MP3

Dworkin reads his translation of Haroldo de Campos' "Signantia Quasi Coelum" published in Novas: Selected Writings of Haroldo de Campos (Northwestern, 2006) Special thanks to Danny Snelson for his help in segmenting this reading.

Reading his translation of "Signantia quasi coelum / signância quase céu" as part of a celebration of the work of Haroldo de Campos, Guggenheim Museum, New York, January 12, 2002



Also appearing on Ceptuetics Radio, October 15, 2008

Complete Recording (32:23): MP3

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