Maureen Owen

Reading at POG Tuscon with Barbara Henning, February 16, 2019

Complete Recording (1:21:14): MP3

Reading with Barbara Henning and Ashley Smith Keyfitz at Malvern Books, Austin, TX, February 2, 2019

Reading for Belladonna* with Barbara Henning at McNally Jackson Williamsburg, January 18, 2019

Complete recording (1:06:10): MP3

No Title: Jazz & Poetry on the Occasion of the Clyfford Still Museum, 2012

1. Days & Nights (1:44): MP3
2. Something happened this weekend (1:12): MP3
3. for Edwin Deby (0:13): MP3
4. She had ruby red lacquer on her fingernails (1:03): MP3
5. sexuality because of sexism is a problem for most women (0:40): MP3
6. Poem to Piss Everyone Off (0:38): MP3
7. The little dwarf boy (0:15): MP3
8. Winter is so      punk. (1:37): MP3
9. in my dream (0:14): MP3
10. "To be without humor is to be
                            without intelligence." (2:44): MP3
11. The inevitability of Gradualism (0:19): MP3
12. In June (1:11): MP3
13. Coming by foot across 109th (1:27): MP3
14. Trash Stars (0:56): MP3

Recorded at the Dikeou Collection, Denver, by Rachel Cole Dalamangas. Mixed by Raphael Fiorda

1. introduction (2:52): MP3


2. The indigo blue head scarf poem (1:35): MP3


3. hear
    sounds of    beads of    sweat       drying
             make sorrow better
   
   (0:55): MP3


4. everything turns on a delicate measure
   
                  was it the same night they were to meet
                  or had the night already passed
   
             how fragile was the night they were to meet
             never mentioned again
   
   (1:36): MP3


5. Whales started small
   
   
   
   blotches of verde
   
   horse carrying in its teeth  resilience    through black
   
   (0:53): MP3


6. the lioness  with a cacophonous fan
   
   or  learning noise
   
   
   that same person over and over
   who we are     in defiance of fools
   sleeping in wisteria
   
   (1:15): MP3


7. Blind         I see you
   Putting on a show
   
              or identity hankers   to reign forever
   
   In the gardener's house there is someone
   entering the house of someone by that name
          entering the house of the garden
   
   (1:25): MP3


8. clothesline (0:37): MP3


9. to our foreheads   shaking
   
   
              poorly built ruckous of howling   abstraction
              or it could be dangerous for me to leave my sight
   
   (1:06): MP3


10. What made the scholar holler
    Was her love of Mozambique
    
    (0:43): MP3


11. Why                        that day
     except that in it we took a walk
                                                              by a choking ocean
    
    (0:44): MP3


12. Star-crossed cermanic lovers end it all
                                                                  or scrubland
    
    (1:00): MP3


13. antecedently
    
    by previously
    born from
    
    before
    
    (1:05): MP3


14. rough boys carried the lilacs in (0:54): MP3


15. Lorine threw the dish at the door
    
    
    That couldn't have been
    
    (0:42): MP3


16.                             my neighbors relax on their flat southwest porch
                                chatting in Spanish           Just
                                like I always wanted my neighbors to do
    
    
       Christian monasteries and Ottoman mosques
    
       or                      there arrives the fitful pinched
    
    (1:37): MP3


17. flowered napkins thrown over baseball caps Lawrence of Arabia style
     riding double on the pinto rocking horse          chanting
    
                   "We are weirdos traveling in a weird world."
                         —Benjamin and Jacob ages 6 and 4
    
    
    
    Consider the skipping
                                              for Wallace Stevens after Anecdote of the Jar
    
    (1:21): MP3


18. she rarely    took the bridge (1:58): MP3


19. howled and   trilling
    
                   Will there be rapids?
    
         or              a fava bean shaped pool
    
                   he mailed the year straight unto the tongue
    
    (1:05): MP3


20. Not a triptych
    not an accidental
    
    
                scrambled on a wrinkled
    
    (0:37): MP3


21. ...the beauty of the air         So tonic draught intensity a liquid         or
    
                                                                                            when you were dead
    
                                                                                            will I still always   be here
    
    (1:13): MP3


22. losing our sense of nostalgia
    
                                                          or
    
                                  exploding houses
    
    (0:48): MP3


23. ambient
                     or blister chic
    
    (1:04): MP3


24. perforated with apertures for archers
    in coffee and carpet shops
    
    (0:58): MP3


25. created from local materials               like dirt
    
    or visitors sometimes wept   on the bedroom threshold
    
    (1:22): MP3


26. Cricket   katydid        Cicada (0:54): MP3

• Complete reading (33:05): MP3

Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, March 24, 2011

• Introduction (01:48): MP3
• Plaudit Or, She Found Herself Mesmerized by the Hand Gestures of the Mourners (01:48): MP3
• Now This Vague Melancholy (01:52): MP3
• I'm Not Alone (00:17): MP3
• A History of English Speaking Peoples Or, Tea in the Shape of a Kite and Medusa's Hairdo (03:34): MP3
• Now, Even the Jungle Wanted Him Dead Or, She Closed the Door Behind Her (01:35): MP3
• Her Hat Blew Off, It Happened A Long Time Ago When You Were Small (01:26): MP3
• I Fell In Love (00:17): MP3
• Whenever I Snow and Goodbye To the Twentieth Century (02:14): MP3
• Number 5 (01:55): MP3
• Flax Straw Broom On A Long Handle Or, Perles Among Hoggs (02:23): MP3
• Darkness Sprang The Swans From The Shellacked Pond Or, Blue Cerulean, A Kind of Plum, Blue Gum Veins Through Skin Steel At Twilight Thin Milk Vapor Over A Soggy Ground (02:43): MP3
• Nox Or, The Boys Are Rightly Pale Or, A Study in Snow (01:52): MP3
• Secrets Of The Cover Girl Or, The Fair and Square Silk Ribbon In The Middle Of The Road (01:38): MP3
• I Can't Imagine What Is Keeping Me Up Or, A Slab Of Vision (02:31): MP3
• A Moroccan Sun Visits Connecticut (00:29): MP3
• Oh Over Every Life Sized Drought Or, A Solid Interval Between Crenels And A Battlemented Parapet Or, Just Say No (01:20): MP3
• Fvsh'ot Fash'on Fashion (00:32): MP3
• The Wounded Day (01:25): MP3
• Introduction to Soap Bubble Set, 1936, Or That's When She Said Does It Matter Which Is Which (0:26): MP3
• Soap Bubble Set, 1936, Or That's When She Said Does It Matter Which Is Which (2:24): MP3

POG Sound, University of Arizona Writing Center, Tucson, November 17, 2007

• Complete reading (31:58): MP3

Belladonna* Reading Series, New York, March 13, 2007

• Introduction (3:59): MP3
• Complete reading (25:50): MP3

The Poet & Painter Series presents Maureen Owen and Yvonne Jacquette, Kelly Writers House, March 24, 2004

1. Complete reading (24:50): MP3
2. History of Collaboration (8:28): MP3

• Complete recording (51:59): MP3

Reading for the Segue Series at Double Happiness, May 20, 2000

• Complete recording (32:21): MP3

Belladonna* Reading Series, New York, March 30, 2000

• Complete reading (20:42): MP3

Reading from Barbara Guest's Seeking Air, Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, January 25, 1986

1. Seeking Air, 7 (1:19): MP3
2. Seeking Air, 19 (1:43): MP3
3. Seeking Air, 28 (3:12): MP3
4. Seeking Air, 63 (0:49): MP3
5. Seeking Air, 102 (0:21): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, February 8, 1985

• Introduction (2:39): MP3
• Complete reading (32:00): MP3

Reading with Charles Bernstein at the Ear Inn, NYC, March 11, 1984

1. Introduction (1:44): MP3
2. If I had a father (0:22): MP3
3. For Edwin Denby (0:12): MP3
4. Lauren certainly has the right name (0:11): MP3
5. Big John's Lilies (0:23): MP3
6. What Comes In the Mail Will Have Its Affect on the Heart (0:27): MP3
7. Hammer (0:12): MP3
8. It is evening (0:49): MP3
9. To fly into a rage (0:42): MP3
10. We Can't Find The Traitor But Of Course He's Staying Right Here in London at the Windsor Hotel (2:04): MP3
11. Around here the tide consists entirely of water (1:13): MP3
12. Every Day (2:05): MP3
13. It must have been late already when we started (0:28): MP3
14. I thought she said "There's a bullet hole in my skull the size of Detroit" (1:43): MP3
15. Dreamed up over your hair and eyes (2:03): MP3
16. Stone Letter in a Pot (0:55): MP3
17. Poems Without Names, or, Your Plane Takes Off (1:19): MP3
18. from AE (8:29): MP3
19. from Minnesota Maps (4:47): MP3

• Complete reading (30:59): MP3

• Complete reading (32:21): MP3

• Complete reading (27:04): MP3

Reading for Emily Dickinson's Birthday Celebration, St. Mark's Church in the Bowery Poetry Project, December 10, 1979

• Complete reading (10:07): MP3

This recording is from the Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry, at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

• Complete recording (26:50): MP3

This recording is from the Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry, at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Reading for the Segue Series at the Ear Inn, New York, December 9, 1978

1. Introductory comments (0:55): MP3
2. Coco in the Freezer (0:57): MP3
3. To Charles Reznikoff (2:08): MP3
4. Soaring (0:28): MP3
5. The Airplane Story (3:54): MP3
6. Aviation (0:13): MP3
7. In the air (2:19): MP3
8. A Heart That's Been Broken (1:07): MP3
9. Postscript to the Rest of My Life (1:02): MP3
10. The Bed of Tulips and the Electric Firefly (2:53): MP3
11. These are Cottonwoods (2:49): MP3
12. The Kidnapping (0:34): MP3
13. The Origin of Haiku (0:13): MP3
14. The Merry-Go-Round (0:19): MP3

• Complete reading (20:30): MP3

Appearing with Robin Messing on Public Access Poetry, New York, February 28, 1978

Reading in Hartford, CT, June 3, Year Unknown

with Carole Spearin McCauley

• Complete reading (15:42): MP3

This recording is from the Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry, at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, Date Unknown

• Complete recording (4:56): MP3

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2012 Maureen Owen. Used with the permission of Maureen Owen. Distributed by PennSound.