Readings

Rachel on PennSound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/DuPlessis.php

Studio 111 Session, December 8, 2010

Draft 89: Interrogation (7:42): MP3

Draft XC: Excess (4:30): MP3

Draft 91: Proverbs (8:43): MP3

Draft 92: Translocation (5:21): MP3

Draft 93: Romantic Fragment Poem (2:27): MP3

Draft 96: Velocity (7:21): MP3

Draft 98: Canzone (12:36): : MP3

Draft 99: Intransitive (11:02): MP3

Draft 104: the Book (5:49): MP3

Studio 111 Session produced by Michael S. Hennessey & Jeffrey Boruszak

Studio 111 Session, October 12, 2007

from Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt, 2007)

Draft 58: In Situ (8:03): MP3

Draft 60: Rebus (7:26): MP3

Draft 72: Nanifesto (5:59): MP3

Draft 75: Doggerel (14:07): MP3

Draft 85: Hard Copy (41:10): MP3

epigraph (0:26): MP3

Section 1: 17 May 1986 (0:26): MP3

Section 2: Things are very bright tonight (0:27): MP3

Section 3: Emotions wash up and across (1:44): MP3

Section 4: It’s a question of “among” or some (0:53): MP3

Section 5: You and I had crossed that bridge (1:21): MP3

Section 6: Civitas uncanny (0:36): MP3

Section 7: Bewildering what happened (1:02): MP3

Section 8: It is astonishing (0:55): MP3

Section 9: And in this space a birth of enigma (1:22): MP3

Section 10: The watchers are struggling (1:36): MP3

Section 11: So—what is the normal? (1:04): MP3

Section 12: Any consolation that the only typo was in “the father”? (0:47): MP3

Section 13: A postwar lasts far longer than they think (1:27): MP3

Section 14: She had asked for photocopies (1:22): MP3

Section 15: I want polyphony (0:58): MP3

Section 16: I won’t quote a word (1:32): MP3

Section 17: Who registers deep lakes of darkness (0:39): MP3

Section 18: Stet atrocity (0:17): MP3

Section 19: Or another answer (0:51): MP3

Section 20: If we destabilized (1:35): MP3

Section 21: If one began: it (0:49): MP3

Section 22: Some topographies and folds (0:48): MP3

Section 23: Snow blowing from the north plasters the route signs (0:49): MP3

Section 24: To resuscitate (0:26): MP3

Section 25: Walking up and down in it (0:59): MP3

Section 26: Feeling that pulsation as if in vigil (0:59): MP3

Section 27: It’s hard for me to talk about poetry (2:29): MP3

Section 28: The antics of the waning moon at dawn (0:27): MP3

Section 29: So she stole her father’s teraphim (1:24): MP3

Section 30: The distant water (1:01): MP3

Section 31: There is a space beyond (0:51): MP3

Section 32: What is important and what is not (1:11): MP3

Section 33: That dazzling blue teardrop (0:27): MP3

Section 34: To mothers who cannot (1:23): MP3

Section 35: The terrible political moment, after the demo (0:14): MP3

Section 36: Rain cloud caught in the valley (0:18): MP3

Section 37: A little breath, a bird (1:38): MP3

Section 38: The sofa holds a wrinkled nude (0:26): MP3

Section 39: Once again a sense of occurrence (0:30): MP3

Section 40: Can only write hungry (0:57): MP3

See Also: DuPlessis’ readings of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats, recorded that same day

Studio 111 Session produced by Michael S. Hennessey


Close Listening recording session at Studio 111, the University of Pennsylvania, April 27, 2005

A Conversation with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, with host Charles Bernstein (36:02)

From Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan University Press, 2001)

Draft 20 – Incipit (5:35): MP3

excerpt from Draft 19: Working Conditions (4:16): MP3 (from LIVE KWH/WXPN radio show)

Draft 25 – Segno (5:34): MP3]

From Poker 4 (Summer 2004)

4. Draft 63 – Dialogue of Self & Soul (6:49): MP3

From: Drafts. Drafts 39-57, Pledge with Draft, unnumbered (Salt, Cambridge, England, 2004) & Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt, 2007)

Draft 46 – Edge (9:18): MP3

Draft 64 – Forward Slash (5:05) (unpublished): MP3

4 Sections from Draft 51 – Clay Songs (12:34): MP3

Draft 61 – Pyx (5:21): MP3

produced by Charles Bernstein

recording engineer: Chris Mustazza

Reading at St. Mark’s Poetry Project, with Tony Lopez. November 7, 2012. DuPlessis is introduced by Rachel Levitsky.

DuPlessis and Lopez, Poetry Project


Reading at Jerome Rothenberg’s 80th Birthday Tribute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, December 9, 2011

Rachel Blau DuPlessis Celebration, Temple University, October 21, 2011

complete reading (43:49): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #41, discussing Ezra Pound’s “Canto III,” March 15, 2011

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

Reading at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, March 7, 2011

Introduction by Joseph Harrington (2:41): MP3

Draft 95: Erg (9:30): MP3

Draft 96: Velocity (7:44): MP3

Draft 98: Canzone (11:33): MP3

Draft 104: The Book (6:30): MP3

Draft 105: Pilgrimage (read with Joseph Harrington) (7:28): MP3

Complete reading (52:01): MP3

Special thanks to Benjamin Cartwright for making this recording available.

Whenever We Feel Like It, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, March 3, 2011

complete reading (56:32): MP3

Poetry in 1960 – A Symposium at The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, December 6, 2010

(with Al Filreis, Danny Snelson, Erica Kaufman, Bob
Perelman
, Mel Nichols, Ron Silliman, Judith Goldman, Chris Funkhouser,
Kristen Gallagher, Michael S. Hennessey and Charles Bernstein)

on Second Avenue by Frank O’Hara (6:00): MP3

complete program (2:20:13): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #34, discussing Charles Olson’s Maximus poems, July 26, 2010

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

PoemTalk Podcast #28, discussing Jack Spicer’s “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy,” February 3, 2010

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

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

complete reading (2:36:46): MP3

Reading from Poems for the Millennium III, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 7, 2009

Complete Reading (12:04): MP3

Talking and reading to students at the University of Auckland in New Zealand from the National Humanites Center in Durham, NC, April 2009

Complete recording (20:51): MP3

Reading for the Arcade Taberna Reading Series, David Need and Jehanne Gheith’s House, Durham N.C., April 24, 2009

complete reading (41:50): MP3

Reading for the So and So Series, co-curated by Chris Tonelli and Christopher Salerno, Raleigh, N.C., February 21, 2009

complete recording (7:20): MP3

Statement made for the celebration of Ron Silliman’s The Alphabet, February 2009

Complete Recording (10:43): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #8, discussing Armantrout’s “The Way,” July 7, 2008

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

From A Celebration of George Oppen’s 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008

“Section 9: Of Being Numerous” (7:54): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #4, discussing Ginsberg’s “The Garden of Love,” March 4, 2008

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

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, February 5, 2008

Introduction (4:52): MP3

Draft 64: Forward Slash (8:06): MP3

from Draft 74: Wanderer (10:55): MP3

Draft 88: X-Posting (a variation on Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Keine Delikatessen”) (16:25): MP3

from Draft 85: Hard Copy (12:47): MP3

Complete Reading (54:17): MP3

Selected portions of this event were recorded:

PoemTalk Podcast #3, discussing Oppen’s “Ballad,” Kelly Writers House, February 2, 2008

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

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, January 19, 2008

Complete reading (29:55): MP3

MLA Offsite Series Reading in Philadelphia, December 26, 2006

reading from Draft 75: Doggerel (3:08): MP3

 

Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics, presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003

reading Friday, October 17, 2003: from Draft 51: Clay Songs, from Precis (6:27): MP3

reading Saturday, October 18, 2003 (4:28): MP3

on Virginia Woolf, from Nine Contemporary Poets Read Themselves
Through Modernism
at the Kelly Writers House, October 13, 2000

Draft 38: Georgics and Shadow (10:28): MP3

Draft 48: Being Astonished (11:54): MP3

from PhillyTalks Episode #13, November 15, 1999

from Draft 48: Being Astonished (6:47): MP3

Draft 41: Of This (18:56): MP3

Reading for LIVE at the Writers House, Episode 10, University of Pennsylvania, September 14, 1998

Draft Twenty-Five Seigno (4:52): MP3

Excerpt from Draft Nineteen Working C (4:16): MP3

MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

reading from Draft 29: Intellectual Autobiography (4:22): MP3

reading from Draft 23: Findings (3:43): MP3

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, April 24, 1993

complete recording (11:39): MP3

Reading for Wednesday @ Four Plus, University of Buffalo, April 17, 1991

from “Acknowledgments” (3:50): MP3

The Pink Guitar (48:12): MP3

Complete reading (52:04): MP3

Reading at Robin’s Books, Philadelphia, May 11, 1988

Introductory comments (2:54): MP3

Attar (from Tabula Rosa) (1:40): MP3

Introduction to Drafts (1:48): MP3

Draft 2: She (11:54): MP3

Draft 3: Of (9:40): MP3

Draft 6: Midrush (12:46): MP3

Draft 7: Me (6:31): MP3

(this track cuts off prematurely)

complete reading (48:23): MP3

(recording courtesy of the Herschel Baron Collection)

Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI March 27, 1988

Introduction (2:44): MP3

From H.D.: The Career of That Struggle (1:06): MP3

From Other-how (4:29): MP3

Praxilla’s Silliness (7:38): MP3/a>

Rupturing the History of Poetry by the History of Poetry (4:12): MP3

Introduction to Crowbar (3:35): MP3

Crowbar (17:52): MP3

Complete Reading (42:23): MP3

Discussing Drafts (3:50): MP3

Draft 2: She (13:07): MP3

Introduction to Draft 6 (5:30): MP3

Draft 6 (10:08): MP3

Complete Reading (42:56): MP3

St. Mark’s Talks, June 6, 1985

“The Tradition of Marginality”

 

Kathleen Fraser (31:42): MP3

Rachel Blau DuPlessis (26:47): MP3

discussion (1:20:30): MP3

Reading at the Tyler School of Art April 10, 1985

From Wells (2:29): MP3

Writing (7:18): MP3

Crowbar (17:14): MP3

Complete Reading (27:33): MP3

Panel Discussion on Image/ Imaging at the Tyler School of Art April 10, 1985. With Clark Coolidge, Michael Palmer, John Yau, and Geoffrey Young

Part One (32:50): MP3

Part Two (32:35): MP3

Reading at Intersection in San Francisco May 4, 1982

Introduction to Selections from Wells (2:04): MP3

From Wells: Euridice (5:24): MP3

From Wells: Medusa (6:57): MP3

From: A History of Poetry (9:30): MP3

Excerpt from Wells: (2:13): MP3

Ode in Six Parts (15:20): MP3

Complete Reading (43:41): MP3

Writers Talk with Mary Oppen, Anita Barrows and Frances Jaffer, Produced by Norma Smith at KPFA Berkeley, 1985 or 1986

Part One (28:00): MP3

Part Two (26:30): MP3

DuPlessis in Discussion with Susan Howe in DuPlessis’s Class

Part One (49:20): MP3

Part Two (45:45): MP3

See also: The Louis Zukofsky Centennial Conference at Columbia University and Barnard College,
September 17-19, 2004 for video footage of Duplessis’ presentation.

Rachel Blau Duplessis on PennSound Daily

July 25, 2008: “Coolidge, DuPlessis, Palmer, Yau, Young: Readings and Roundtable at Tyler School of Art, 1985”

March 17, 2008: “Vintage Rachel Blau Duplessis: Robin’s Books, 1988”

February 22, 2008: “Rachel Blau Duplessis at the Kelly Writers House”

October 19, 2007: “Rachel Blau Duplessis’ Studio 111”

Rachel on NZ EPC: http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/short-takes/duplessis.asp

DuPlessis reads and discusses her long poem Drafts, begun in 1986 and coming to completion in 2012, in a series of public readings at the University of Auckland.

Drafts 1-38Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan UP, 2001)
2 March 2012
MP3


Drafts 39-57Drafts 39-57, Pledge with Draft, unnumbered (Salt, 2004)
8 March 2012
MP3


Drafts 58-76 cover Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt, 2007)
16 March 2012
MP3

Drafts 77-95Pitch: Drafts 77-95 (Salt, 2010)
23 March 2012
MP3

 

Drafts 96-114 (in preparation)Surge: Drafts 96-114(in preparation)
LOUNGE #24 at the University of Auckland, 28 March 2012-02-14


DuPlessis discusses her recent critical work and the evolution of Drafts.

Reflections on the Long Poem: Autobiography of a Practice
Public lecture at the University of Auckland, 1 March 2012-02-14

Purple Passages: Patriarchal Poetry and Its Ends
English Department seminar at the University of Auckland, 14 March 2012
MP3

Practice, practise, praxis
Presentation at SHORT TAKES ON LONG POEMS, 30 March 2012