Ron Padgett

Virtual reading for theYale Literary Magazine, November 1,2022

In celebration ofDot (Coffee House Press, 2022).

Complete recording (52:24):MP3

1. Introduction (2:35):MP3
2. Tea for You, Too (0:55):MP3
3. Presto (0:20):MP3
4. Starry Night (0:36):MP3
5. The Great Divide (0:44):MP3
6. Philosophy (1:10):MP3
7. Start (6:48):MP3
8. Free at Last (0:42):MP3
9. The Sunny Side of the Street (1:07):MP3
10. I’ll Get It (14-part series)(8:41):MP3
11. The Dream of the Cadillac (1:57):MP3
12. Flashcards (1:05):MP3
13. Peppermint Air (0:50):MP3
14. Knockouts (4:42):MP3
15. Post-Reading Q&A (20:12):MP3

Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, November 18, 2013

Conversation withJohn Ashbery, Oral History Initiative: On Frank O'Hara, Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard, April 5, 2011

1. introduction (1:41):MP3
2. Ashbery describing how het met Frank O'Hara (5:21):MP3
3. discussing his years at Harvard with Frank (7:14):MP3
4. Frank's time at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the Poets Theater, and his piano playing (5:29):MP3
5. Frank's return to NYC after Michigan, his job at MoMA, and John Latouche's salons (4:32):MP3
6. The Living Theater and acting in "Desire Caught by the Tail" with Frank (2:22):MP3
7. Ashbery on the inspiring, friendly competition between himself, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch (2:16):MP3
8. on Jane Bowles (2:14):MP3
9. retelling the story of Frank becoming the victim of a holdup (2:23):MP3
10. Frank's letter-writing and modesty (4:24):MP3
11. Frank at the Poets Theater in Cambridge and as a reader of poetry (4:21):MP3
12. Frank's generosity and willingness to entertain everyone and the difficulty of talking to him alone (1:57):MP3
13. reading two letters from Frank O'Hara (8:21):MP3

• Complete recording (53:46):MP3

Reading forDouble Change, Paris, Nantes, and Angers, April 15-20, 2010

• Audio recording available fromDouble Change archives.

ReadingThe Big Something at his NYC home, July 4, 2009

1. Introduction (0:10):MP3
2. American Cowslip (0:51):MP3
3. First Drift (1:31):MP3
4. Greetings from Dalmatia (2:58):MP3
5. Greetings from Dalmatia, part 2 (2:41):MP3
6. The Little Past Midnight Snack (1:12):MP3
7. Dog (0:41):MP3
8. The Human Being and the Human Nothingness (3:38):MP3
9. Extra Star (1:17):MP3
10. A Brief Correspondence Course (0:42):MP3
11. Snow (1:44):MP3
12. How to be a Woodpecker (3:32):MP3
13. Goethe (0:46):MP3
14. The Rue de Rennes (1:30):MP3
15. The Way of All Handwriting (0:42):MP3
16. Oklahoma Dawn (1:43):MP3
17. Poem (0:47):MP3
18. Tom and Jerry Graduate from High School (3:10):MP3
19. Euphues (1:26):MP3
20. My Room (3:55):MP3
21. Famous Flames (3:41):MP3
22. Popular Mechanics (5:24):MP3
23. At Apollinaire's Tomb (2:17):MP3
24. The Salt and Pepper Shakers (1:51):MP3
25. M'sieur Tarzan (3:37):MP3
26. To Woody Woodpecker (0:31):MP3
27. Who and Each (2:05):MP3
28. Coors (1:58):MP3
29. Light as Air (8:11):MP3
30. Indian Territory (1:36):MP3
31. Smoke (0:48):MP3

Reading forDouble Change, Paris, February 20, 2007

• Film available fromDouble Change archives.

Reading as part ofThe Line Reading Series, April 8, 2003

1. Lytle Shaw's Introduction (2:05):MP3
2. Padgett's Opening Remarks (1:36):MP3

fromOklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003):

3. Chapter 1 fromOklahoma Tough (6:15):MP3
4. Opening Remarks on Nice People Among the Pint Pitchers (1:53):MP3
5. Nice People Among the Pint Pitchers (12:35):MP3

Complete reading (24:27):MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,February 26, 2003

1. Chapter 1 ofOklahoma Tough (7:36):MP3

poems fromYou Never Know (2002):

2. "The Drink" (1:09):MP3
3. "Morning" (0:54):MP3
4. "To Myself" (0:42):MP3
5. "The Missing Lips" (0:39):MP3
6. "Not Particularly" (0:39):MP3
7. "Fairy Tale" (1:36):MP3
8. "J and J" (0:57):MP3
9. "For a Moment" (0:32):MP3
10. "Fixation" (0:31):MP3
11. "Obit Backlash" (1:07):MP3
12. "The Austrian Maiden" (0:57):MP3
13. "Mountains are a Feeling" (0:46):MP3
14. "The County Fair" (0:59):MP3
15. "The Sweeper" (0:52):MP3
16. "Bluebird" (0:36):MP3
17. "Medieval Salad Dive" (0:37):MP3
18. "You Never Know" (0:36):MP3
19. "Poet as Immortal Bird" (0:29):MP3
20. "My Trip to Italy" (1:20):MP3
21. "Haiku" (0:08):MP3
22. "Bob Creeley Breakthrough" (1:03):MP3
23. "Feathers" (0:26):MP3
24. "The Love Cook" (0:27):MP3
25. "Penser Juste" (1:04):MP3
26. "Sacred Heart" (1:39):MP3
27. "Amy" (1:13):MP3

Interviewed onmiPOradio by Amy King

• Part one (42:41):MP3
• Part two (33:20):MP3

Wednesday Series: Ron Padgett, St. Mark’s Church, NY, May 28, 1997

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

1. Side A (56:15):link
2. Side B (57:38):link

Thin Air Lectures withRon Silliman,Alice Notley, andBernadette Mayer, St. Marks Church, May 1988

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Complete Recording (55:16):MP3

Ed Friedman and Ron Padgett for the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, May 18, 1988

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

1. Side A (45:35):link
2. Side B (38:20):link

Discussing collaboration, UCSD, November 18, 1980

• Complete Recording, (1:03:27)MP3
• Recording courtesy of Michael Davison

Reading, UCSD, November 19, 1980

• Complete Recording, (42:30)MP3
• Recording courtesy of Michael Davison

1. Introduction (0:36):MP3
2. Joe Brainard's PaintingBingo (1:35):MP3
3. The Farmer's Head (0:40):MP3
4. Detach, Invading (2:02):MP3
5. Poema del City (1:35):MP3
6. Poema del City 2 (1:15):MP3
7. Wilson '57 (15:03):MP3

• Complete recording (23:03):MP3

Recording from the Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry, at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

1. After Lorca (1:14):MP3
2. Déjà Vu (0:38):MP3
3. Framed Picture (0:34):MP3
4. Poem for El Lissitzky (1:03):MP3
5. Blue Bananas (1:25):MP3
6. Red Bendix (0:42):MP3
7. High Heels (0:57):MP3
8. Postcard (0:54):MP3
9. Love Poem (1:18):MP3
10. Lessons in Things: The Beings of Nature (2:09):MP3
11. Lessons in Things: The Uses of Metals (0:45):MP3
12. Lessons in Things: Precious Materials (0:53):MP3
13. Lessons in Things: Our Houses (1:03):MP3
14. Lessons in Things: Lighting (1:12):MP3
15. Lessons in Things: Vacations (0:52):MP3
16. Lessons in Things: Milk (1:44):MP3
17. Lessons in Things: Food (1:21):MP3
18. Lessons in Things: Flowers (0:32):MP3
19. Lessons in Things: The Vegetable Garden (2:10):MP3
20. Lessons in Things: The Banana Tree (1:25):MP3
21. Lessons in Things: Coffee (1:42):MP3
22. Lessons in Things: The Races of Men (0:57):MP3
23. Lessons in Things: The Human Body (1:20):MP3
24. Lessons in Things: Animals (2:21):MP3
25. Lessons in Things: Insects (1:12):MP3
26. Lessons in Things: The Air and Wind (1:26):MP3
27. Lessons in Things: Water (1:08):MP3
28. Lessons in Things: Clouds, Thunder and Lightning (1:01):MP3
29. Lessons in Things: Steam and Electricity (1:12):MP3
30. Lessons in Things: The Telegraph and Telephone (1:14):MP3
31. Lessons in Things: Time (0:57):MP3

• Complete recording (37:21):MP3

Appearing onPublic Access Poetry, February 16, 1978

fromThe World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980

The Music Lesson (7:33):MP3

Reading at the Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, April 15, 1975

Unknown Location, May, 1973

• Complete recording (46:37):MP3

Reading at Bolinas Community Center, August 26, 1972

• Complete recording (30:45):MP3

Ron Padgett onPennSound Daily

• March 10, 2010: "Ron Padgett: 'The Big Something,' Recorded in Its Entirety, 2009"
• May 4, 2009: "Ron Padgett and Tom Veitch: Antlers in the Treetops (1970)"
• January 25, 2007: "Ron Padgett on PennSound"

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