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Interview & Reading Archive
Interviews
Click on the News page for links to Beth’s most recent interviews. Below is the interview archive:
“Elegy, Silence, Catharsis”
Listen to Beth at Fishouse
“The Lyric You, God-intoxication, Big Fetuses”
Devil’s Lake
“voices and shadows and fireflies and after-images and debris”
In Verse the Feet Went Bare
“I’ve never been fishing but I know what it means to try to hook things, how to lure.”
Watch Beth on Connie Martinson Talks Books
“I’d like to see Swan Lake.”
12 or 20 questions @ rob mclennan’s blog
“imminent danger and the threat of dog-on-dog violence, things wild, things bred.”
Nashville Review
“glass: blown animals, a body to breathe into, heat and shaping.”
Chapter 16
Audio (click on Soundcloud for the latest)
Summer 2010 Reading at the The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
00:00 through 13:30
Poems and Q & A @ Fishouse
Click here to listen
Listen to Beth on L.A.’s Classical KUSC *Arts Alive*
(WS Merwin @ 24:30; Beth @ 28:00)
Click here to listen
Past Events
Temper Book Launch Reading with Lorraine Lopez
Vanderbilt University; September 9, 2009
NYC Book Launch w/ Nick Flynn & Alex Lemon
Pete’s Candy Store; Brooklyn, NY; October 10, 2009
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Reading with Alex Lemon
Ramapo College NJ; October 12, 2009
AWP Award Series Reading
AWP Denver; April 7-10, 2010
Emerging Writers Festival with Jericho Brown
Franklin & Marshall College; April 14-16, 2010
Kingsley and Kate Tufts Award Reading with D.A. Powell
Pasadena Museum of California Art; April 22, 2010
DO NOT RISE Book Launch w/ Tony Earley
Vanderbilt University, TN; January 29, 2015 Furman 114 7pm
Sarah Lawrence College, NY; February 3, 2015
The Rumpus Late Night Poetry Show presents
David Roderick, Beth Bachmann & Nick Flynn w/ special guest Stephen Elliott
Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC; February 4, 2015 6-7:30pm $8 incl one drink
College of Charleston, SC; February 26, 2015 7pm
Panel on the extreme w/ Nick Flynn, Jamaal May & Tarfia Faizullah
AWP 2015; MN; Friday April 10, 2015 Room 211 C&D, Level 2 10:30am
A Reading w/ the Pitt Poetry Series: New Voices
AWP 2015; MN; Friday April 10, 2015 Room 101 B&C, Level 1 3pm
A Reading w/ Nick Flynn, Mass Poetry Festival
Saturday May 2, 2015 11am-12pm PEM Morse Auditorium
A Reading w/ David Baker Friday Sept 25, 2015 6:30pm Parnassus Books
Miami Book Fair, Nov 21, 2015
Loyola University in Baltimore, MD; Feb 18, 2016
15th Rosenberry Writers’ Conference (Featured Poet), CO; Mar 1-2, 2016
Washington University in St. Louis, MO; March 24, 2016
Panel on Sex, Drugs n’ Rock n’ Roll w/ Nick Flynn, Saeed Jones, Kristin Naca
AWP 2016; Los Angeles
Kate/Kingsley Tufts Awards Reading w/ Afaa Weaver, Yona Harvey, Michael Ryan
AWP 2016; Los Angeles
Brooklyn Book Festival with Cynthia Cruz, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Patrick Rosal
Sunday September 18th 2pm North Stage
Hunger and Hallelujah: An Afternoon of Poetry w/ Rico Frederick, Cynthia Manick, David McLoghlin Sunday October 16, 4:00PM; BookCourt, Brooklyn
Poets Out Loud: w/ Laurie Ann Guerrero Monday November 14, 7:00PM; Fordham University
Beth
Currently at work on a book of poems about peace called Cease, Beth Bachmann teaches in the MFA program at Vanderbilt University.
Temper
Beth Bachmann’s first book,Temper (2009), won the AWP Donald Hall Poetry prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award
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