Alice Notley

PoemTalk #25, discussing Notley's "I The People," November 7, 2009

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

Reading at Boise State University, Hemingway Center, October 27, 2023

1. Introduction (7:47): MP3
2. From "Speak Angel Series" Book One (5:12): MP3
3. From "Speak Angel Series" Book One, continued (6:29): MP3
4. From "Speak Angel Series" Book Two, Opera (6:08): MP3
5. From "Speak Angel Series" Book Three, Healing Matter (6:27): MP3
6. From "Speak Angel Series" Book Five (7:53): MP3
7. From "Speak Angel Series" Book Six (4:38): MP3
8. What Is The Form, Love Is The Form (9:56): MP3

Complete recording (55:02): MP3

Reading Poetry at the American Book Review (ABR) Reading Series, University of Houston-Victoria, Victoria, Texas, Alcorn Auditorium, April 23, 2015

Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, March 8, 2014

1. Introduction (4:41): MP3
2. From “Negativity’s Kiss” (12:09): MP3
3. Leader (0:49): MP3
4. Lily Hill (1:43): MP3
5. The Rules Of Improvisation Versus The Creation (1:34): MP3
6. The Life Of The Mind (1:19): MP3
7. Samson (1:15): MP3
8. Victorious (7:09): MP3

Complete Recording (32:54): MP3

Reading for the MFA Reading Series, Boise State University, Boise, April 5, 2013

1. Introduction (1:31): MP3
2. To Anselm Hollo (1:08): MP3
3. From "The Descent of Alette" (7:33): MP3
4. From "Introducing Carthage" (6:05): MP3
5. Gloria (2:15): MP3
6. Millions Of Us (7:35): MP3
7. The Nothing (1:14): MP3
8. Individual Time (1:37): MP3
9. In Mind (3:08): MP3
10. The Story (5:40): MP3
11. From "I Went Down There" (13:50): MP3

• Complete reading (52:30): MP3

Reading for the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Art Foundation, New York:Chelsea, November 10, 2011

with Brenda Coultas

• Complete reading (32:46): MP3

Luncheon at the Kelly Writers House, November 3, 2011

• Complete reading (1:09:18): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, December 14, 2010

• Audio available from Double Change archives.

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, May 1, 2010

• Complete reading (35:10): MP3

In discussion with Rachel Blau DuPlessis and class, Temple University, February 20, 2001

• Complete discussion (2:08:11): MP3

from textsound Issue #2, Fall 2008

• Judgment in Rosy Quartz (7:44): MP3
• The Cross (6:24): MP3

Appearing at The New Freedoms, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, April 9, 1994

• Notley reading (17:44): MP3
• Complete Recording (1:57:29): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, November 6, 2006

• Introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (6:49): MP3
• Complete Recording: Video
• Complete Recording (1:04:41)MP3
• Discussion (11:51): MP3

Reading from Grave of Light

• Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice (3:00): MP3
• The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books (0:55): MP3
• So Much (0:37): MP3
• I the People (1:46): MP3
• More important than having been born is your city (0:22): MP3
• "A car" "awash with blood" (1:46): MP3
• Help Me Corpus Sagrada (3:48): MP3
• Enuma Elish (0:34): MP3
• Grave of Light (7:02): MP3

"I the People" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 25.

Reading from Alma, or the Dead Women

• Answer if You Can (3:22): MP3
• Ballad (3:05): MP3
• Pollen (2:11): MP3

More Readings from Grave of Light

• "What she reports against you isn't" (1:09): MP3
• "The city I founded I will found again" (0:43): MP3
• "What were you doing when I thought you were dead" (1:30): MP3
• "If you meet me here I was Lady" (0:30): MP3
• "I stand here in whose eyes" (1:02): MP3
• "Woman with antlers, deer-headed antlered woman" (1:07): MP3
• from In the Pines, 14 (7:40): MP3

from Frequency Audio Journal, First Issue, 2004

• c. 81 (from Mysteries of Small Houses) (2:48): MP3

Discussing Mysteries of Small Houses & Disobedience on Cross-Cultural Poetics #28, "EuroNorthAmerica," 2004

• Complete program (28:36): MP3

Discussing The Descent of Alette on Cross-Cultural Poetics #10, "American in Paris," January 7, 2004

• Complete program (54:42): MP3

Reading in Paris, Steel Bar, July 24, 2000

• Complete Reading and Q&A (54:06): MP3

Interview at the Kelly Writers House, October 29, 1998

• Complete Recording (53:20): MP3

Writers Institute, Albany, November 2, 1995, recorded by Chris Funkhouser

Complete Reading (46:05): MP3

Reading from "The Descent of Alette" on WKCR, NYC, 1992

Complete recording (13:43): MP3

Courtesy of Simon Pettet

Reading at October Gallery, London, February 22, 1991, from the Eric Mottram collection

Complete recording (35:46): MP3

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

Watch on Media.sas

Complete Recording (55:16): MP3

Reading in Buffalo, New York, April 10, 1987

1. Comments (0:26): MP3
2. Love Song (1:23): MP3
3. In Ancient December (2:16): MP3
4. Get Away (1:26): MP3
5. All My Life (0:15): MP3
6. Songbook (1:29): MP3
7. Homage to Marianne Moore (2:45): MP3
8. Margaret and Dusty (0:44): MP3
9. Sweetheart (3:45): MP3
10. Fate (0:15): MP3
11. I Was Born (0:49): MP3
12. Corpus Sagrada (1:29): MP3
13. In This Paradise (2:11): MP3
14. What To Bring (4:24): MP3
15. I The People (2:12): MP3
16. Poem (2:16): MP3
17. Parts of a Wedding (0:40): MP3
18. This Chair (2:14): MP3
19. Amorchord (0:48): MP3
20. At Night The States (8:55): MP3
21. Poem (2:13): MP3

Complete reading (43:04): MP3

"I the People" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 25.

Speaking in Cummington, MA, June 28, 1987

Introduction by Ed Foster

From Exact Change Yearbook, in Buffalo, NY, April 10, 1987

At Night the States (7:49): MP3

Alice Notley Interviewed by Stevens Institute of Technology Students, from the Ben Tripp Tapes, 1980

Complete recording (39:18): MP3

Courtesy of Simon Pettet

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

• A Woman Comes Into the Room (recorded February 21, 1979) (1:06): MP3

1. Introduction (1:33): MP3
2. The Chairs Lean Closer and the Shoes Move (1:09): MP3
3. Welcome to Boulder (0:38): MP3
4. Manhattan Luck (25:31): MP3

• Complete reading (28:55): MP3

Appearing on Public Access Poetry with Rochelle Kraut, Barbara Barg, Jim Brodey, Bob Holman, Daniel Krakauer, Steve Levine, Greg Masters, Simon Pettet, Michael Scholnick, Jeff Wright, and Gary Lenhart, July 27, 1978

Reading at The West End, New York City, February 5, 1978, from the Eric Mottram collection

Complete recording (30:09): MP3

Appearing on Public Access Poetry with Eileen Myles, June 16, 1977

Reading at The Body Politic, Chicago, February 26, 1973

1. Introduction (3:07): MP3
2. From Bertrand Russell writing to Constance Malleson (0:30): MP3
3. Poem (1:43): MP3
4. Sonnet One (From 165 Meeting House Lane) (0:49): MP3
5. Sonnet Two (0:50): MP3
6. Sonnet Four (0:32): MP3
7. Sonnet Five (0:37): MP3
8. Sonnet Six (0:45): MP3
9. Sonnet Eight (0:44): MP3
10. Sonnet Nine (0:43): MP3
11. Sonnet Ten (1:26): MP3
12. Sonnet Fifteen (0:44): MP3
13. Sonnet Sixteen (0:48): MP3
14. Sonnet Twenty (2:26): MP3
15. Dear Dark Continent (1:00): MP3
16. The Day (1:54): MP3
17. Vowing (1:39): MP3
18. Angel X (2:29): MP3
19. Expanding Room (1:36): MP3
20. Poem (3:30): MP3

Reading at Lines Radio, Detroit, c. 1980

1. Lines Radio Introduction (2:28): MP3
2. From “Waltzing Matilda” (24:52): MP3
3. Lines Radio Outro (1:21): MP3

Complete recording (Body Politic/Lines Radio)(57:37): MP3

Reading from "Songs for the Unborn Second Baby," University of Essex, England, March 8, 1974

1. Songs For The Unborn Second Baby, One (8:30): MP3
2. Two (10:58): MP3
3. Three (8:08): MP3
4. Four (9:21): MP3
5. Five (12:20): MP3

Complete recording (49:25): MP3

Courtesy of Simon Pettet

1. Introduction by ??:Ted Berrigan (2:19): MP3
   
2. Conversation (1:21): MP3
3. Creatures (2:59): MP3
4. April (0:33): MP3
   
5. Echoes Others (1:26): MP3
   
6. Cold Poem (0:22): MP3
   
7. Once More (0:09): MP3
   
8. Poem (1:29): MP3
   
9. December (0:34): MP3
   
10. Free (0:09): MP3
    
11. We Arrived and What We Did (0:52): MP3
    
12. Sonnet 1 (0:55): MP3
    
13. Sonnet 2 (0:53): MP3
    
14. Sonnet 5, take 1 (0:50): MP3
    
15. Sonnet 5, take 2 (0:39): MP3
    
16. Sonnet 8 (1:14): MP3
    
17. Sonnet 10 (0:39): MP3
    
18. Sonnet 12 (0:44): MP3
    
19. Sonnet 15 (0:44): MP3
    
20. Sonnet 16 (0:51): MP3
    
21. Sonnet 22 (0:38): MP3
    
22. Sonnet 23 (0:46): MP3
    
23. Sonnet 24 (1:04): MP3
    
    

    Complete Reading (23:31): MP3

    (Sonnets from 165 Meeting House Lane, C Press)

Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project

• "Conversation" (1:22): MP3
• "A Woman Comes Into the Room" (1:56): MP3

Recording of "The Descent of Alette," from the Ben Tripp Tapes, Date and Location Unknown

Complete recording (13:43): MP3

Reading, date and location unknown

1. Journal Work January 6-31 (15:58): MP3
2. Waltzing Matilda (December 2-21, 1980) (25:44): MP3
3. Dear Her (0:46): MP3
4. Streetwalker Song (0:48): MP3
5. I watched the 1977 Academy Awards (2:42): MP3
6. Bus Stop (1:49): MP3
7. From “When I Was Alive” (2:34): MP3

Complete recording (51:33): MP3

Reading, date and location unknown

1. The Descent of Alette, Book One (30:49): MP3
2. The Descent of Alette, Book One, Continued (16:48): MP3

Complete recording (47:29): MP3

Courtesy of Simon Pettet

Also of interest:

Alice Notley's Electronic Poetry Center page: EPC

Alice Notley on PennSound Daily:

• November 10, 2009: "PoemTalk 25: Alice Notley's "I The People"
• February 20, 2009: "Alice Notley on PennSound"
• March 21, 2008: "Alice Notley Reading in Bolinas, 1971"

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