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.