Erica Hunt

Appearing on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein at WPS1 Clocktower Studio, New York, June 20, 2005

1. Introduction by Charles Bernstein (0:45): MP3
2. On Poetry as social praxis (14:20): MP3
3. On The influence of jazz (2:33): MP3
4. On The sources for her works (2:50): MP3
5. On Identity poetics and the Twenty-First Century Foundation (5:32): MP3
6. On The Cave Canem Workshop (2:32): MP3

Complete recording (28:34): MP3

Program Two: Reading

From Piece Logic

1. The small print (1) (0:56): MP3
2. The small print (2) (0:53): MP3
3. "The great reigns are only the enlarged projections of little thieves" - Augustine (6:07): MP3
4. Invisible Hands (3:18): MP3
5. Proof (1:55): MP3
6. Poem for a Second (1:36): MP3
7. Poem for the Future (1:30): MP3
8. There's Living Done (1:31): MP3

From Arcade

9. Ecstasy (1:24): MP3
10. The Voice of No (1:01): MP3
11. Arcade (3:12): MP3
12. (parabola) -- from The Long View (2:04): MP3
13. #4 ("not a branch stirred") from Piece Logic (1:42): MP3

Complete recording (30:39): MP3

"The Voice of No" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 11.

• Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1
• © 2005 Erica Hunt and Charles Bernstein
• WPS1 Studio Engineer: Darrell McNeill

Appearing on or featuring in PoemTalk:

PoemTalk #208, Discussing Tyrone Williams' “Charon on the Potomac” feat. Erica Hunt, Simone White, Alson Nielsen, Al Filreis

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

PoemTalk #148, Discussing Erica Hunt's "Should You Find Me," feat. Tyrone Williams, William J. (Billy Joe) Harris, Aldon Nielsen

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

PoemTalk #155, Discussing Lorenzo Thomas' 'Souvenir of the Manassah Ball', feat. Tonya Foster, Lorenzo Thomas, Bob Perelman, and host Al Filreis, Dec 21, 2020

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

PoemTalk #148, Discussing Erica Hunt's 'Should You Find Me', feat. Aldon Nielsen, William J. Harris, Tyrone Williams, and host Al Filreis, May 26, 2020

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

PoemTalk #11, Discussing Erica Hunt's "The Voice of No", feat. Elizabeth Willis, Julia Bloch, and Jessica Lowenthal

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

Reading for the New York Poets Series at Bowery Poetry, New York City, February 24, 2026

Full reading (36:35): MP3

Reading with Marty Ehrlich, Brooklyn, June 16, 2022

Natural Mathematics

Media.SAS mirror: MP4

from "Veronica" Series

Media.SAS mirror: MP4

Poetry Project Celebration for Jump the Clock, May 19, 2021

Brooklyn Rail, The New Social Environment, conversation with Charles Bernstein, March 30, 2020: MP4 & audio only MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, November 4, 2019

1. Introduction (7:25): MP3
2. Mood Librarian (4:58): MP3
3. Woman with Wings (1:59): MP3
4. From Veronica (2:40): MP3
5. Ghost Names (1:27): MP3
6. Lamenations (4:43): MP3
7. A Thousand Birds' Dispute (2:22): MP3
8. Choreography of Grief (2:12): MP3
9. Broken English (5:43): MP3
10. We (0:41): MP3
11. Handbook of Quarrels (1:42): MP3
12. This is Where Love Comes In (1:54): MP3
13. More, Another Place Where Love Comes In (3:07): MP3

• Complete Recording (42:42) MP3

Reading at Segue at the Zinc Bar, NYC, March 2, 2019

1. Introduction (6:39): MP3
2. Sorrow Songs (3:19): MP3
3. Instructions for Waking (1:55): MP3
4. About (3:32): MP3
5. On Black Music (2:18): MP3
6. We (1:27): MP3
7. For Sally Silvers (2:28): MP3
8. This is Where Love Comes In (2:15): MP3
9. What Could Go Wrong? (6:51): MP3
10. Imagining the End of the World (15:42): MP3

• Complete Recording (47:30) MP3

Reading with Charles Bernstein Reading at Segue at the Zinc Bar, NYC, January 28th 2018

1. Kate Mcintyre's introduction (1:53): MP3
2. Erica Hunt, sets 1 and 2 (44:50): MP3
3. Complete Recording (1:37:17): MP3
4. Video Excerpt, beginning in progress of Bernstein's first set:
   
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Erica Hunt & Tonya Foster: conversation and reading, March 11, 2017

Reading at the Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York, October 1, 2016

1. Introduction (02:32): MP3
2. Untitled (21:41): MP3

• Complete reading (26:28): MP3

WHAT I SAY Anthology Reading for the 2016 National Black Writers Conference at AWP, Brooklyn, NY, March 31, 2016

Reading by Erica Hunt (7:24): MP3

"I, You, We With An Aside on Zee and They" talk for the Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics Lecture Series, Pratt Institute, MFA Writing Program, Brooklyn, New York City, December 4, 2015

Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, New York City, October 12, 2013

1. Genji Amino’s introduction (02:50): MP3
2. Discourse on method (01:38): MP3
3. The Invention of zero (02:28): MP3
4. You are the second light (01:25): MP3
5. This is no time for nail biting (01:31): MP3
6. From a handbook of quarrels (01:48): MP3
7. How we got here we don’t know (03:55): MP3
8. Maturity (01:43): MP3
9. On occasion we produce history (01:22): MP3
10. Reader we were meant to meet (01:26): MP3
11. Truth by numbers (01:19): MP3
12. Fool for love (01:24): MP3
13. Another hair-raising tale of gadgetry (00:52): MP3
14. And if not for the vowels (01:33): MP3

• Complete reading (31:22): MP3

Appearing at Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism, sponsored by the Belladonna* Reading Series, New York, September 24, 2009

1. Introduction (1:50): MP3
2. Erica Hunt's Keynote Address (18:34): MP3

Complete Reading with Kathleen Fraser (54:44): MP3

Post-reading Q&A (26:53): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, January 17, 2009

1. Introduction (6:37): MP3
2. Stumped by Achilles' infinite steps (2:51): MP3
3. Prime Space (1:06): MP3
4. The statues try to speak but their lips move very slowly (0:43): MP3
5. Curmudgeon (0:05): MP3
6. Privacy (0:07): MP3
7. What part of this present do you like? (0:03): MP3
8. In walk-through attire there's no deliberate fashion (0:31): MP3
9. The approximate metaphor for the way I do my jobs (0:11): MP3
10. No two vowels the same (0:21): MP3
11. There's more than meets the on and on (0:17): MP3
12. All these relays have shortened the time it takes (0:18): MP3
13. Thomas (2:33): MP3
14. What We Do Not Dream We Cannot Manufacture (1:01): MP3
15. The Slippery Slope (1:11): MP3
16. This is no time for nail-biting (1:03): MP3
17. Love (2:47): MP3
18. Rorschach of Race in America (22:00): MP3

Complete recording (45:20): MP3

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: As If We Might Join Our Hearts to Sound, November 16, 2007

Erica Hunt and Marty Ehrlich
Erica and Marty had collaborated once before, at Harvard. Now they brought the show to New York, to Cue Art Foundation in Chelsea. This was their last piece of the set.
(mp4, 3 min. 7 sec., 30.7 mb)

Conversation with Harryette Mullen and Erica Hunt for Pen America, NYC, November 15, 2007

1. Introduction (2:21): MP3
2. On early writing life (4:34): MP3
3. On riddles (1:04): MP3
4. On feminist subtext (5:12): MP3
5. On target audience (5:12): MP3
6. On collaboration in art (7:06): MP3
7. On living in the margins (3:08): MP3
8. On the difficulty of poetry (7:56): MP3
9. Playing a guessing game (8:05): MP3

• Complete Recording (50:25) MP3

Reading with Akilah Oliver, and Tribute to kari edwards, Belladonna* Reading Series, Dixon Place, New York, December 12, 2006

1. Introduction to reading (2:17): MP3
2. Introduction to Erica Hunt (2:23): MP3
3. The Awful Truth (1:41): MP3
4. The Massacre of Rocks (3:43): MP3
5. Fluent (0:49): MP3
6. For Fern (1:53): MP3
7. Mood Librarian (6:38): MP3
8. Time Slips Right Before the Eyes (6:08): MP3
9. Should You Find Me (3:35): MP3

• Complete reading (26:19): MP3
• Rachel Levitsky, erica kaufman, and Erica Hunt tribute to kari edwards (7:53): MP3

Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics, KWH and ICA, UPenn, October 17-18, 2003

1. Friday, October 17, reading from Piece Logic and The Great Brains (8:40): MP3/li>
2. Saturday, October 18 reading (3:41): MP3

From Nine Contemporary Poets Read Themselves Through Modernism at the Kelly Writers House, October 13, 2000

• Introduction (8:43): MP3
• Arcade (3:03): MP3
• Every once in a while (quote from Baldwin) (2:54):MP3
• What is certain is this (quote from Beckett) (0:49): MP3
• The New Time Squared (2:20): MP3
• Nature disappeared with the first human (1:04): MP3
• Turning now to where (quote from Beckett) (2:44): MP3
• Proof (0:56): MP3

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, October 3, 2000

1. Lytle Shaw’s introduction (01:43): MP3
2. Local History (16:34): MP3
3. Object Authority (06:07): MP3
4. Without You (04:03): MP3

• Complete reading (30:11): MP3

Expanding the Repertoire: Continuity and Change in African-American Writing, Participating in Panel Discussions at Small Press Traffic, April 2000

Erica Hunt on Tonya Foster and Swarm of Bees in Hight Court, April 23, 2016: video

Reading For SUNY-Buffalo Wednesdays @ 4 Plus with introduction by Charles Bernstein, March 2, 1994

1. Charles Bernstein’s introduction (02:53): MP3
2. Imagine yourself, Preface (02:38): MP3
3. In The Corner Of The Eye (01:48): MP3
4. A Coronary Artist (02:51): MP3
5. A Coronary Artist 2 (01:42): MP3
6. A Coronary Artist 3 (01:04): MP3
7. McGreet’s Black Flag (01:34): MP3
8. The Order of the Story (03:02): MP3
9. gloss (a catalogue of feeling) (04:57): MP3
10. The Order Of The Story: Fiction (02:07): MP3
11. Institutional Grid (04:06): MP3
12. Correspondence Theory (19:12): MP3
13. Untitled poem (01:39): MP3
14. What we do not dream we cannot manufacture (00:37): MP3
15. As Orderly As A Catalogue (00:37): MP3
16. Woman, with Wings (01:55): MP3

• Complete reading (53:54) MP3

Lee Ann Brown and Erica Hunt reading for the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, December 8, 1993

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

1. Side A (45:50): link
2. Side B (44:40): same link

Erica Hunt and Susan Howe for the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, January 11, 1989

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

1. Side A (45:50): link
2. Side B (43:42): same link

Reading for Segue Ear Inn Reading Series, June 8, 1985

1. Introduction (01:58): MP3
2. Local History (05:25): MP3
3. Radio Howdy (01:41): MP3
4. Getting Even (03:24): MP3
5. After A Tune (01:22): MP3
6. Move (01:56): MP3
7. Preface (02:20): MP3
8. Reach Extended (09:06): MP3
9. Just Mention Me (10:58): MP3

• Complete reading (39:07) MP3

a video by Phill Niblock

Erica Hunt on PennSound Daily

• October 7, 2008: "Poem Talk 11: Erica Hunt's 'The Voice of No'"

Also of interest

• Sawako Nakayasu performing Erica Hunt's "Context is All," Home Recording, March 1, 2022

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. ©: 2018 Erica Hunt. Used with permission of Erica Hunt. Distributed by PennSound.