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Discussion on George Oppen, Robert Creeley, and Larry Eigner at the University of Alabama, March 20, 2013

Complete Recording (2:22:17): MP3

Reading at the Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX, October 25, 2012

Complete Reading (43:42): MP3

Reading at the Joynes Reading Room, the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, October 23, 2012

  1. Introduction by Robert Bertholf (5:42): MP3
  2. Introduction to Show and Tell/Robert Creeley (5:39): MP3
  3. Show and Tell/Robert Creeley (5:09): MP3
  4. Introduction to The Drum Thing (0:51): MP3
  5. The Drum Thing (1:04): MP3
  6. Introduction to Slow Song for Mark Rothko (4:17): MP3
  7. Slow Song for Mark Rothko (7:04): MP3
  8. Introduction to Pastorelle 7 and Pastorelle 8 (5:43): MP3
  9. Pastorelle 7 (0:56): MP3
  10. Pastorelle 8 (1:04): MP3
  11. Introduction to Pastorelle 14 and 15 (4:37): MP3
  12. Pastorelle 14 (4:56): MP3
  13. Introduction to Pastorelle 15 (0:55): MP3
  14. Pastorelle 15 (0:46): MP3
  15. Introduction to Unveiling/Marianne Moore (9:09): MP3
  16. Unveiling/Marianne Moore (8:53): MP3
  17. At the Counter's Ball (1:24): MP3
  18. Introduction to Plinth (2:226): MP3
  19. Plinth (1:06): MP3
Complete Reading (1:17:17): MP3

Holloway Series in Poetry, Berkeley, CA, October 19, 2011

Complete Reading (1:08:08): MP3, YouTube

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #225, December 8, 2010

Complete recording (33:41): MP3

From Wave Books' PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008

  1. comments on Twenty-One Times (1:28): MP3
  2. Twenty-One Times (4:25): MP3

The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium at Poets House, New York, April 8, 2008

  1. "On Singing and Thinking" (27:54):MP3
  2. Taggart reads Oppen's "Song, the Winds of Downhill" (1:16): MP3
  3. Taggart reads Oppen's "The Poem" (1:48) MP3

Poetry, Politics, Proximity at the Kelly Writers House, April 27, 2006

from "Pastorelles" and "Unveiling Marianne Moore" (26:48): MP3

Offpage at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, March 30, 2004

presented in collaboration with audibleword.org
  1. Introduction by Kenneth Sherwood (5:10): MP3
  2. Talk Introduction (1:54): MP3
  3. Talk Leader: Rhythm and Blues Singer (0:45): MP3
  4. Rhythm and Blues Singer (2:38): MP3
  5. Talk Leader: Pastorelles (0:40): MP3
  6. Pastorelle Part 1 (1:02): MP3
  7. Pastorelle Part 2 (0:56): MP3
  8. Talk Leader: Pastorelle Part 3 (0:11): MP3
  9. Pastorelle Part 3 (1:13): MP3
  10. Talk: Zukofsky Williams (12:54): MP3
  11. Talk Leader: Not Egypt (4:37): MP3
  12. Talk: Not Egypt (4:15): MP3
  13. Talk Trailer: Not Egypt (0:45): MP3
  14. Pastorelle 7 (1:12): MP3
  15. Pastorelle 8 (1:11): MP3
  16. Poem with German (0:57): MP3
  17. At The Counters (1:33): MP3
  18. Talk Leader: Car Museum (1:36): MP3
  19. Car Museum (4:02): MP3
  20. Talk Leader: Kitaj Dancer (2:03): MP3
  21. Kitaj Dancer (0:57): MP3
  22. Talk Leader: Why Trees Weep (1:21): MP3
  23. Why Trees Weep (0:37): MP3
  24. Talk Trailer: Why Trees Weep (0:18): MP3
  25. Talk Leader: Plinth (1:05): MP3
  26. Plinth (1:08): MP3
Complete recording (55:03): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #43, September 1, 2004

Complete recording (1:00:06): MP3

Reading at the Centre international de poésie Marseille, June 1990

The Rothko Chapel Poem (6:56): MP3

Reading at San Francisco State University, 1987

Complete recording (40:02): MP3, RealAudio

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