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
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 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan UP, 2001)
2 March 2012
MP3
Drafts 39-57, Pledge with Draft, unnumbered (Salt, 2004)
8 March 2012
MP3
Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt, 2007)
16 March 2012
MP3
Pitch: Drafts 77-95 (Salt, 2010)
23 March 2012
MP3
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