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readings and recordings
Audition any of the following pieces by Dave Awl, audible through RealPlayer.
individual recordings
- Stitching a Dummy, 1min 28sec
- recorded live at Scott Free's Grinder - queer words & music revue, Chicago; March 2001
- A Letter to Mark in Dublin, 5min 7sec
- recorded live at the 2000 annual Pride Reading, Women & Children First Bookstore, Chicago
- A Perfectly Empty Room, 4min 21sec
- recorded at e-poets network studio, Chicago; 2005
- Tommy El and Glass Insects, 4min 33sec
- recorded in April 2001, Chicago; performed for the annual Ginsberg Marathon reading, hosted by the Northwest Spokenword Lab and e-poets.net, Chicago. (Echo in the recording is due to the two open mics and streamed audio networked between two stages, one in Auburn, Washington and one in downtown Chicago.)
- Notes from first trip to San Francisco, 1986, 20 years old: found
scrawled in a spiral notebook fifteen years later, 3min 56sec
- recorded at Women & Children First Books, Chicago; 2001
- The City You Almost Lived In, 3min 13sec
- recorded at e-poets network studio, Chicago; 2005
- Hair Day at Sandie's, 3min 9sec
- recorded at e-poets network studio, Chicago; 2005
- The Idea of You, 1min 37sec
- widely regarded as Dave Awl's signature poem; recorded at e-poets network studio, Chicago; 2005
- What the Sea Means, 2.0, 7min 38sec
- the title poem from Dave Awl's book; recorded live at Scott Free's Grinder - queer words & music review, Chicago; March 2001
The Bestiary:
A cycle of poems developed on an alphabetic catalogue of subjects. This set was recorded at Myopic Books' weekly series of Sunday evening readings, in November 2004. Listen to the introduction. Click for individual passages below, or
listen to the whole reading, in sequence.
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