MLA Off-Site Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009

  • Complete reading (2:37): MP3
  • Introduction (1:31): MP3
  • Complete reading (9:16): MP3
  1. introduction (4:50): MP3
  2. Industry and New Clothes (1:51): MP3
  3. One Hour October (0:52): MP3
  4. William James and the Giant Peach (2:32): MP3
  5. Sonnet (1:19): MP3
  6. Origami Headphones (4:58): MP3
  7. Obi-Wan Kenobe (1:38): MP3
  8. The Thousand Year Storm (1:16): MP3
  9. Poem (2:52): MP3
  • Complete reading (23:56): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, April 4, 2007 with John Coletti

Complete reading with introduction by Julia Bloch (49:31): MP3

Reading from Letters to Ernesto Neto at the Kelly Writers House, January 27, 2005

  1. First Letter (1:14): MP3
  2. Second Letter (1:31): MP3
  3. Third Letter (0:47): MP3
  4. Fourth Letter (3:03): MP3
  5. Fifth Letter (1:26): MP3
  6. Sixth Letter (0:48): MP3
  7. Seventh Letter (0:42): MP3
  8. Eighth Letter (1:04): MP3
  9. Ninth Letter (2:45): MP3
  10. Tenth Letter (1:06): MP3
  11. Eleventh Letter (1:16): MP3
  12. Twelfth Letter (3:29): MP3

The Rat and the Flowerpot (1:01): MP3

  1. Not a Ralph (0:43): MP3
  2. Obi Wan Kenobi (1:46): MP3
  3. Trying to Live as if it Were Morning (2:48): MP3
  4. They're Fighting in Atlantic City, in Atlantic City (1:23): MP3

The Philly Sound Weekend reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, August 9, 2003

  1. Trying to Live As If It Were Morning (2:59): MP3
  2. A free for all ends at AC airport (2:30): MP3
  3. The Stink of Nothing (3:52): MP3
  4. Frog Song (1:33): MP3

Three Philadelphia Poets (with Gil Ott and Jessica Lowenthal) at the Kelly Writers House, April 3, 2003

Complete recording (bad audio) (1:06:18): MP3

Complete reading (24:47): MP3

At the "Finding the Words" post-9/11 program, November 7, 2001

Fireman's Song (1:04): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, February 7, 2000

Poems from The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press, 1999)

  1. "The American Pragmatist Fell in Love" (1:27): MP3
  2. "Obi-Wan Kenobi" (1:53): MP3
  3. "Sonnet" (0:53): MP3
  4. "More than usual state of motion, with more than usual order" (2:09): MP3
  5. "The Heartbeat of America Makes Its Own Gravy" (1:27): MP3
  6. "Everyone I know" (1:27): MP3
  7. "Sunday Big Movie Sonnet" (1:20): MP3
  8. "Getting to Philadelphia" (3:55): MP3
  9. "Kill-Spray" (3:45): MP3

Segue Series Reading at Double Happiness, March 18, 2000

  1. introduction (4:15): MP3
  2. Bag Pipes (1:29): MP3
  3. Mr. Glinting as Seen Off the Atlantic Seaboard (1:54): MP3
  4. How Do You Say "Funky Chicken" in Spanish, Poppy? (0:47): MP3
  5. More Than Usual State of Motion With More Than Usual Border (2:10): MP3
  6. At and Near the Georgia Guidestone (1:56): MP3
  7. Everyone I Know (1:44): MP3
  8. No One I Know and the Tree (1:19): MP3
  9. When Things Shake (1:02): MP3
  10. Trying To Live As If It Were Morning (3:28): MP3
  11. This Blues is Bullshit (5:53): MP3
  12. Bee Beard Sonnet (1:27): MP3
  13. The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (1:32): MP3
Complete reading (33:50): MP3

Monday Series: with Greg Fuchs, St. Mark’s Church, NY, May 10, 1999

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

  1. Side A (48:49): link
  2. Side B (52:11): link
  1. No One I Know and the Tree (1:24): MP3
  2. Obi Wan Kenobe (1:41): MP3
  3. Sonnet (0:54): MP3
  4. The Heartbeat of America Makes Its Own Gravity (1:21): MP3

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