Alice Notley Readings

I'll post more background info on Alice Notley in the near future, but for now, here's the reading schedule for our unit on her, including the poems that were already announced for tomorrow (though I expect we'll spend much of Friday's class discussing Ted Berrigan's final poems). This photo, by the way, is of the three editors of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan: Notley with the two sons she had with Berrigan, Anselm and Edmund, who're both poets as well. I've always found it kind of sad that there are no photos of Berrigan and Notley together (on the web, at least . . . the Berrigan tribute anthology, Nice to See You [which was edited by Anne Waldman] has a handful of photos from throughout their relationship . . . perhaps I should scan some).

When MP3s are available, I've provided links below, and you can hear many more recordings on Notley's PennSound author page, including what she identified as her second reading ever, dating from the winter of 1971 in Bolinas, CA.


Friday, February 20th:

• Cold Poem (3) MP3
• I Hope I'm Not Here Next Year (4)
• Dear Dark Continent (8)
• Incidentals in the Day World (9)
• Your Dailiness (19)
• But He Says I Misunderstood (25)

Monday, February 23rd:

• from Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (26)
• "Alice Ordered Me to be Made" (33)
• 30th Birthday (42)
• January (44)
• Sonnet (60)
• Poem (63)
• When I Was Alive (64)
• Untitled (68)
• Bus Stop (70)
• Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice (71) MP3
  
• Postcards (135)
• Margaret and Dusty (141) MP3
• The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books (148) MP3
  

Wednesday, February 25th:

• Waltzing Matilda (116)
• So Much (149)
• Poem (150)
• At Night the States (153) MP3
• As Good As Anything (234)
• Choosing Styles — 1972 (237)
• I Must Have Called and So He Comes (239)
• The Trouble With You Girls (240)

Friday, February 27th:

• Hematite Heirloom Lives On (Maybe December 1980) (242)
• Mid-80's (244)
• Sept 17/Aug 29, '88 (248)
• 1992 (251)
• Lady Poverty (253)
• Love (302)
• Radical Feminist (317)
• Oath (322)
• Ballad (320) MP3