Reyes, Shenoda, Dungy, Hummel, & Book at City Lights
Barbara Jane Reyes, Matthew Shenoda, Camille T. Dungy, Maria Hummel, and Shane Book recorded live at City Lights Books in San Francisco, California, May 17, 2007.
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V. Penelope Pelizzon & Patrick Rosal at Bowdoin College
V. Penelope Pelizzon & Patrick Rosal recorded live at Bowdoin College, April 19, 2007, made possible by grants from Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Colleges, and the Davis Family Foundation. Pelizzon and Rosal read What He Thought by Heather McHugh together. Pelizzon reads her poems Post Script; Grown; The Better Half of Man; Adagio Ma Non Troppo; Villa of the Mysteries (from The Menongahela Book of Hours); USA, 1980-something. Rosal reads Tito's Field; When You Haven't Made Love in a Long Time; Poem for My Extra Nipple; from his novel in verse, The Lovers of Paz y Pelea Bridge; and The Boulevard Trilogy.
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Sherwin Bitsui at Portland Public Library
Sherwin Bitsui reading Asterisk, Atlas, Conquistador, Umbilicus, and from The Northern Sun, and answering audience questions, recorded live at Portland Public Library, Portland, Maine, March 7, 2007, and made possible by a grant from the Davis Family Foundation.
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Ross Gay at Colby College
Ross Gay reading Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to My Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue; Within Two Weeks, The African American Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken For Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes, and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, None of Whom Looks Anything Like the Other; The Marionette; Unclean. Make Me.; Poem Beginning With a Line Overheard In the Gym; Broken Mania; The Truth; Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow; Song of the Pig Who Gave the Poet, Age Three, Worms; Bringing the Shovel Down; Praising the Snake; For Some Slight I Can't Recall; Prayer For My Unborn Niece or Nephew; A Beautiful Day; Two Bikers Embrace on Broad Street; and answering audience questions, recorded live at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, on February 7, 2007, sponsored by From the Fishouse and the creative writing program at Colby College, with additional support from the Davis Family Foundation, and Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Colleges. Introduction by Ira Sadoff.
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Tracy K. Smith at Bates College
Tracy K. Smith reading A Hunger So Honed, Shadow Poem, The Searchers, Astral, Minister of Saudade, One Man at a Time, Theft, Slow Burn, Flores Woman, Duende, and The Nobodies, and answering audience questions, recorded live at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, on December 7, 2006, part of a collaboration between Fishouse and faculty at Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Colleges, with additional support from the Davis Family Foundation.
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April Ossmann at Messalonskee High School
April Ossmann reading Arrested Saturday Night by Stephen Dobyns; One; I Could Be Driving; The Music We Travel By; Whose Fragile Lips; Sure; Fog; The Point; and Living Without, recorded live at Messalonskee High School, Oakland, Maine, December 5, 2006, and made possible by a grant from the Davis Family Foundation.
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Eugene Ostashevsky at Bowdoin College, Part One
Eugene Ostashevsky reading DJ Spinoza Talks to Flipper; DJ Spinoza Fights the Begriffon; DJ Spinoza Fights
Joseph Bédier; Myopia is Youropia; DJ Spinoza Fights Che Bourashka; The Last DJ Spinoza; Now the Lord said to DJ Spinoza; DJ Spinoza Does Not Fight the Begriffon; Two Poems on the Sad Effects of Adultery; The Battle of Lepanto, 1571; Remember the Cogito; Are You There, God? It's Me, DJ Spinoza; First Peepeesaurus; Second
Peepeesaurus; and Third Peepeesaurus, recorded live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, November 30, 2006, sponsored by Bowdoin's Russian Department.
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Eugene Ostashevsky at Bowdoin College, Part Two
Eugene Ostashevsky reading Infinite Recurser Or The Bride of DJ Spinoza, recorded live at Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, Maine, November 30, 2006, sponsored by Bowdoin's Russian Department.
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Kevin A. González at Bowdoin College
Kevin A. González reading Flat American Waltz; 1978; Cultural Slut; Cultural Sitcom Or, Poet Laureate
Guest-Stars on The Simpsons; Cultural Strumpet; Cultural Solilquy; Cultural Scope; The Night Tito Trinidad
KO’ed Ricardo Mayorga; Fire Ghazal; and Skin, recorded live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine,
November 16, 2006, and made possible by a grant from the Davis Family Foundation.
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Kazim Ali at Bowdoin College
Kazim Ali reading Dear Rumi; Rhyme; Flight; Graffiti; Renunciation; Source; Thicket; Ash and Dust; The Mushroom Hunt; Ramadan; Pip; Sleep Door; Studio; July; and August; and answering audience questions, recorded live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, October 19, 2006, and made possible by a grant from the Davis Family Foundation.
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Sarah Messer at Bowdoin College
Sarah Messer reading Looking at Satan; Falling Asleep While Reading; State of the Union; Rabid Dog;
The Animal Groom; America the Hallelujah; and I am the Real Jesse James; and answering audience questions,
recorded live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, October 5, 2006, and made
possible by a grant from The Davis Family Foundation.
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Tyehimba Jess at Bowdoin College
Tyehimba Jess reading leadbelly's lessons; sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn; mistress stella speaks; bud russel, louisiana prison transfer man, 1920; sing out; freedom; leadbelly in angolo prison: down again; leadbelly sings to his #1 crew; martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935; Ethnogropher John Lomax Speaks of His Vocation; John Lomax Visits Leadbelly in Angola Prison: July 1933; five year sentence; lomax v. leadbelly in new york: letters to home, 1934; and stella: diminuendo; and answering audience questions, recorded live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, September 7, 2006, and made possible by a grant from The Davis Family Foundation.
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Christian Barter at Bowdoin College
Christian Barter, author of The Singers I Prefer (CavanKerry Press, 2005), reading his poems This Life, Band Camp, Poem, On Making Love With You Again With Words Taken From an Article about Wilson's Quest to Form the League of Nations, The Silence Shrouding the Country, Linda Trying on Clothes, To the Unborn, Self Portrait in the Glass of a Painting, If Only this Baroque Music Could Go On, The Brest-Litovsk Treaty, The 24th Motor Machine-Gun Battalion Being Inspected, 1917, Selection of German Weapons Captured by the Canadians in Their Advance to Cabrai, 1918, A Room with a View, The Singers I Prefer, On Hearing that you Feel Bad After Having Sex with Me, The School Bus, and Can You at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, May 4, 2006.
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Camille T. Dungy at Portland Public Library
Camille T. Dungy, author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), reading her poems, black spoon, How She Didn't Say It, Votech, How Quickly He Went, In His Library, The Preachers Eat Out, My Grandmother Takes the Youth Group to Services, Book Smart, Dinah in the Box, Association Copy, Requiem, Preacher was a Stern Woman's Son, At the Alpha Phi Alpha Ball, and Ark, at the Portland (Maine) Public Library (PPL), part of PPL's National Poetry Month Celebration, April 7, 2006.
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Ilya Kaminsky at Bowdoin College
Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa, eading Author's Prayer, In Praise of Laughter, Maestro, Aunt Rose, My Mother's Tango, American Tourist, Dancing in Odessa, Musica Humana, and excerpts from Natalia, recorded live at Donald B. MacMillan House, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, February 2, 2006.
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Rigoberto González at Bowdoin College
Rigoberto González, author of So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks and Other Fugitives and Other Strangers, reading The Soldier of Mietlán; The Guides; The Girl With No Hands; Flor de Muerto, Flor de Fuego; The Slaughterhouse; Horn; The Flight South of the Monarch Butterfly; Mise-en-scène; The Man Who Gives You Nightmares; Perla at the Mexican Border Assembly Line of Dolls; and Black Blossoms, recorded live at Samuel A. Ladd House, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, December 6, 2005.
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil at Bowdoin College
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Miracle Fruit and the forthcoming At the Drive-In Volcano, reading The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer; Swear Words, Mr. Mustard's Dance Club: Ladies' Night; Small Murders; What I Learned from the Incredible Hulk; Clown Fish (by, and in memory of, David Citino); Fugu Soup Blues; Response to a Student Email Asking Why He Received a C Minus in Creative Writing While I Vacation in Bangkok; For Luck: A Seven Day Guide; and Why I Crave Ribs Tonight; recorded live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, October 18, 2005.
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Steve Scafidi at Bowdoin College
Steve Scafidi, author of Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer and For Love of Common Words, reading Ten-letter Word for Lucky Man; The Latitudes of Desire; This Page; To Whoever Set My Truck On Fire; For Maurice Sendak; For the Last American Buffalo; Onlookers with the Burned Body of Jesse Washington, Eighteen-Year-Old African American, Waco, Texas, 1916; Pieta; Who Wants to Know What Love is Worth?; and The Fiddle and the Drum recorded live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, September 22, 2005.
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Ravi Shankar at Bowdoin College
Ravi Shankar, author of Instrumentality, reading Instrumentality; The Flock’s Reply; Exile; Tamil; South of Hebron; The Third of May, 1808; Movements; A Square of Blue Infinity; Pike Place; Heron; Manatee; Willard Pond; The Dark; Buzzards; Sounds; Blood; and Fireflies, recorded live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, June 17, 2005.
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Gabriel Welsch at Bowdoin College
Gabriel Welsch, author of Dirt and All Its Dense Labor, reading Pennsylvania; Pressing Business; A Natural Selection; To Isabella; On the Night of the Moths; A Plantsman’s Confession; Inoculation Time; The Rift; Penance, West Virginia; Two-Hour Delay; Euterpe; The Telemarketer Calls the Merwin Household; The Telemarketer Calls a Poet She’s Actually Heard Once Before on NPR to Talk to Him about Relief from the Burden of High Interest Credit Cards; The Telemarketer Calls Basho about a Cure for the Winter Blues; and
The Telemarketer Means to Call Baker About Erectile Dysfunction but, in a Misdial,
Winds Up With Simic, recorded live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, June 17, 2005.
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Brian Turner at Bowdoin College
Brian Turner, author of Here, Bullet (Alice James Books, 2005), reading Here Bullet, Eulogy, 16 Iraqi Policemen, The Hurt Locker, Last Night's Dream, Cole's Guitar, Night in Blue, Caravan, Alhazen of Basra, AB Negative (The Surgeon's Poem), What Every Soldier Should Know, 2000 lbs., and Jameel, and answering audience questions, recorded live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, November 29, 2005.
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Adrian Blevins at Bowdoin College
Adrian Blevins, author of The Brass Girl Brouhaha, reading Life and Art, November Neurosis, and Waking Up, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005.
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Patrick Rosal at Bowdoin College
Patrick Rosal, author of Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive and My American Kundiman, reading Saint Patrick, As Glass, and Poem, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005.
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Gibson Fay-LeBlanc at Bowdoin College
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc reading Directions for Flight, The Academic's Prayer, Oakland Work Crew, and More Matter, Less Art, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005.