Ron Padgett, "Joe Brainard's Painting Bingo" & "The Austrian Maiden"
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Al Filreis brought together James Berger and Richard Deming (who traveled together from Yale) and Sophia DuRose to talk about two poems by Ron Padgett. The poems are “The Austrian Maiden” and “Joe Brainard’s Painting Bingo.” Our recording of “The Austrian Maiden” comes from a February 26, 2003, reading Padgett gave at the Kelly Writers House; the poem had just recently been published in Padgett’s book You Never Know (2002). The recording of “Joe Brainard’s Painting Bingo” — a poem published in Great Balls of Fire (1969) — was performed at a November 20, 1979, reading given at a location that is now (sadly) unknown. That reading in its entirety is available at Padgett’s PennSound page; the recording comes to us courtesy of the Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry, now housed at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
April 17, 2024
Alison Wong comes in
Kia ora ano taku hoa (Hello again my friends.)
I noted in the last conversation-commentary that Alison Wong had had a few pragmatic issues to deal with, including a major house shift and subsequent loss of internet connection for a time. Indeed she has since sent me material via the library!
So let's continue our conversation about Kiwi-Asian poetry...Alison Wong comes in and it is a pleasure to talk to her, for she has been a significant New Zealand author and poet for quite some time now and was also a Robert Burns Fellow.