chasing the long white cloud

Rationale: The purpose of this list is to provide context for my analysis of Caldiero. It incorporates a range of performance poetries from contemporary poets living in the United States and Canada, including hip hop, jazz poetry, slam poetry, and sound poetry. The anthologies section includes works that provide a general overview of the field, while the single poets section looks more deeply at representative poems from a sampling of noteworthy performance poets. This list also provides secondary texts that are useful for understanding and interpreting the contexts and social functions of contemporary performance poetries and poetics.

(** means I've read/listened to the text)

i. Anthologies

Pow, Whit, ed. TextSound: An Online Audio Publication 8 (2010): n. pag. Web. 9 Dec. 2010. (12 poems)

Cotner, Jon, and Andy Fitch. Improvisations 2006–2010: Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch. Spec. issue of TextSound: An Online Audio Publication 9 (2010): n. pag. Web. 9 Dec. 2010. (15 poems)

**Barbour, Douglas, and Stephen Scobie, eds. Carnivocal: A Celebration of Sound Poetry. Markham, Ontario: Red Deer Press, 2002. CD. (22 poems)

Eleveld, Mark, ed. The Spoken Word Revolution: Redux. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2007. Print. (138 poems)

**Eleveld, Mark, ed. The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop, & the Poetry of a New Generation. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2004. Print. (90 poems)


ii. Single Poets

**Baraka, Amiri. “‘Wooden Negroes Appear at a Slam’ and Several ‘Low Coup.’” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2008. MP3.

**Baraka, Amiri. “Amiri Baraka ‘Somebody Blew Up America.’” YouTube. YouTube, 16 Dec. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Baraka, Amiri. “Amiri Baraka ‘The Way of Things (In Town).’” YouTube. YouTube, 9 Dec. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Baraka, Amiri. “Amiri Baraka ‘Un Poco Loco.’” YouTube. YouTube, 9 Dec. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Baraka, Amiri. “Amiri Baraka ‘Why’s/Wise.’” YouTube. YouTube, 9 Dec. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Baraka, Amiri. “Black Dada Nihilismus (DJ Spooky Mix).” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2008. MP3.

**Baraka, Amiri. “Class Struggle in Music II.” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2008. MP3.

**Baraka, Amiri. “The X is Black (Spike Lie).” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2008. MP3.

**Bissett, Bill. “Bill Bissett @ The Calgary Spoken Word Festival.” YouTube. YouTube, 19 Oct. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Bissett, Bill. “Bill Bissett Gypsy Dreamers.” YouTube. YouTube, 26 Mar. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Bissett, Bill. “Bill Bissett Sound Poem at Artword Artbar, Hamilton October 18 2009.” YouTube. YouTube, 19 Oct. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Bissett, Bill. “Bill Bissett.” YouTube. YouTube, 10 Jan. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Caldiero, Alex. “Alex Caldiero–Flowers.” YouTube. YouTube, 19 Feb. 2009. Web. 4 Oct. 2010.

**Caldiero, Alex. “Bite-Sized Poem: Alex Caldiero [‘Beautiful / Idyllic / Isn’t it?’].” YouTube. YouTube, 23 July 2009. Web. 26 Aug. 2010.

**Caldiero, Alex. “Poetry: Alex Caldiero [Seeing a Body].” YouTube. YouTube, 31 Oct. 2009. Web. 4 Oct. 2010.

**Caldiero, Alex. “To Harpo Marx in Heaven.” Sound Weave. By Theta Naught and Caldiero. Salt Lake City, UT: Differential Records, 2006. MP3.

F’loom (Robert Kulik, Bess Phillips, Rick Scott). Uvula Rasa. Rochester, NY: F’loom, n.d. CD. (20 poems)

**Howard, Jean C. “Harley and the Hill–A Poetry Video by Jean Howard.” YouTube. YouTube, 22 Aug. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Howard, Jean. “Bite Size Poet for February 2010: Jean Howard Performs ‘In the Rearview Mirror (of a Harley).’” YouTube. YouTube, 28 Jan. 2010. Web. 26 Aug. 2010.

**Howard, Jean. “Nazi Youth in Brugge.” YouTube. YouTube, 11 Feb. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Howard, Jean. “The Light.” YouTube. YouTube, 11 Feb. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Howard, Jean. “Ville De CascineWEB.” YouTube. YouTube, 3 May 2010. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Howard, Jean. “Women without Children.” YouTube. YouTube, 20 Aug. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Kemp, Penn. “Bass On the Grass.” The Elements. Chicago: Scars Publications and Design, 2003. MP3.

**Kemp, Penn. “Cogito Ergo Sum.” Torture and Triumph. Chicago: Scars Publications and Design, 2001. MP3.

**Kemp, Penn. “Night Orchestra.” Torture and Triumph. Chicago: Scars Publications and Design, 2001. MP3.

**Kemp, Penn. “Poem for Peace in Many Voices.” Poetry Visualized. Poetry Visualized–The Visual Poetry Network, 23 Mar. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Kemp, Penn. “SinTax.” Torture and Triumph. Chicago: Scars Publications and Design, 2001. MP3.

**Kemp, Penn. “When the Art Starts.” Torture and Triumph. Chicago: Scars Publications and Design, 2001. MP3.

**Koyczan, Shane, and the Short Story Long. A Pretty Decent Cape in My Closet. Penticton, British Columbia: Shane Koyczan and the Shorty Story Long, 2008. CD. (11 poems)

**Koyczan, Shane. “Shane Koyczan’s Grandma’s Got it Going On.” YouTube. YouTube, 12 Apr. 2007. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Koyczan, Shane. “Shane Koyczan–Beethoven.” YouTube. YouTube, 18 May 2007. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Mali, Taylor. “‘I Could Be a Poet,’ by Taylor Mali.” YouTube. YouTube, 14 Aug. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Mali, Taylor. “‘I’ll Fight You for the Library’ Performed by Taylor Mali.” YouTube. YouTube, 11 July 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Mali, Taylor. “4 Ways We Love Each Other by Taylor Mali.” YouTube. YouTube, 11 July 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Mali, Taylor. “Depression Too Is a Type of Fire by Taylor Mali.” YouTube. YouTube, 16 Mar. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Mali, Taylor. “For the Life of Me by Taylor Mali.” YouTube. YouTube, 16 Mar. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Mali, Taylor. “Taylor Mali Performs ‘Any Language, Much Less English.’” YouTube. YouTube, 28 June 2010. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Mali, Taylor. “The The Impotence of Proofreading.” YouTube. YouTube, 14 Aug. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Morris, Tracie. “Africa(n).” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004. MP3.

**Morris, Tracie. “Coda.” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004. MP3.

**Morris, Tracie. “Getaway.” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004. MP3.

**Morris, Tracie. “Hard Kore.” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004. MP3.

**Morris, Tracie. “Heroine.” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004. MP3.

**Morris, Tracie. “Love in 2010.” Sexualities and Politics in the Americas. Spec. issue of e-misférica 2.2 (2005): n. pag. Web. 9 Dec. 2010. Real Audio file.

**Morris, Tracie. “Money.” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004. MP3.

**Morris, Tracie. “My Great Grand Aunt Speaks to a Bush Supporter.” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004. MP3.

**Morris, Tracie. “Petro.” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004. MP3.

**Morris, Tracie. “Pretty Feet.” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004. MP3.

**Morris, Tracie. “The Mrs. Gets Her Ass Kicked.” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004. MP3.

**Morris, Tracie. “Tracie Morris at WHNY09 [Performing ‘Project Princess’].” YouTube. YouTube, 4 Nov. 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Olson, Alix. “Alix Olson: America’s On Sale.” YouTube. YouTube, 16 Dec. 2006. Web. 9 Dec. 2006.

**Olson, Alix. “Dear Mr. President (Alix Olson).” YouTube. YouTube, 18 Dec. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Olson, Alix. “Eve’s Mouth.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 22 Aug. 2008. MP3.

**Olson, Alix. Independence Meal. Northampton, MA: Subtle Sister Productions, 2003. CD. (12 poems)

**Procope, Lynne, and Mary McConnell. “Monument.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 10 Aug 2007. MP3.

**Procope, Lynne. “Beryl/Take This Man.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 18 Feb. 2009. MP3.

**Procope, Lynne. “Butterfly Nut House.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 20 June 2008. MP3.

**Procope, Lynne. “Crisis.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 13 July 2009. MP3.

**Procope, Lynne. “Elemental Woman.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 3 Aug. 2007. MP3.

**Procope, Lynne. “Evidence of Injury.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 16 Oct. 2006. MP3.

**Procope, Lynne. “Heart.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 3 Sept. 2010. MP3.

**Procope, Lynne. “Hurricane Season.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 18 Sept. 2008. MP3.

**Procope, Lynne. “Lace and Knife: A Conspiracy Tale of the South.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 25 Jan. 2008. MP3.

**Procope, Lynne. “Lynne Procope Performs ‘Dear Emily.’” YouTube. YouTube, 6 May 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Procope, Lynne. “Lynne Procope Performs ‘On Second Thought.’” YouTube. YouTube, 6 May 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Procope, Lynne. “Lynne Procope Performs at the Urbana 10^th Anniversary Party.” YouTube. YouTube, 3 Mar. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Procope, Lynne. “The First Boy I Ever Slept with Drives an Ice Cream Truck (and Other Stories for Maureen Benson).” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 7 Mar. 2007. MP3.

**Rothenberg, Jerome, and Charles Morrow. Signature. 2001. PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2010. MP3.

**Rothenberg, Jerome. “Old Man Beaver’s Blessing Song.” PennSound. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2010. MP3.

**Smith, Patricia. “Patricia Smith at the Lizard Lounge.’” YouTube. YouTube, 8 Mar. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Smith, Patricia. “Patricia Smith Performs ‘Building Nicole’s Mama.’” YouTube. YouTube, 8 Mar. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Smith, Patricia. “Patricia Smith Performs ‘Get the Hell Off My Grave.’” YouTube. YouTube, 8 Mar. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Smith, Patricia. “Patricia Smith Performs ‘Medusa.’” YouTube. YouTube, 8 Mar. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Smith, Patricia. “Patricia Smith Performs ‘What You Pray Toward.’” YouTube. YouTube, 8 Mar. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Smith, Patricia. “Patricia Smith Skinhead.” YouTube. YouTube, 28 Aug. 2010. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Smith, Patricia. “Patricia Smith–Blood Dazzler [‘34’].” YouTube. YouTube, 1 May. 2010. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Somers-Willett, Susan B. A. “A Call to Arms.” The Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall 2009): 92-3. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Somers-Willett, Susan B. A. “In the Office of Temporary Assistance.” The Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall 2009): 94-5. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Somers-Willett, Susan B. A. “Page Meets Stage: Susan B.A. Somers-Willett [‘Notes for Living in Nola’].” YouTube. YouTube, 9 Oct. 2010. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Somers-Willett, Susan B. A. “Page Meets Stage: Susan B.A. Somers-Willett [‘Ophelia’s Technicolor G-String’].” YouTube. YouTube, 9 Oct. 2010. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Somers-Willett, Susan B. A. “The Cutting Place.” The Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall 2009): 98-9. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Somers-Willett, Susan B. Anthony. “Holy Roller.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 19 Mar. 2008. MP3.

**Somers-Willett, Susan B. Anthony. “Move.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 24 Nov. 2008. MP3.

**Somers-Willett, Susan B. Anthony. “Tina.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 23 July 2008. MP3.

**Somers-Willett, Susan B. Anthony. “What the Doctors Forget to Tell You About Morphine.” IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. IndieFeed, 29 Oct. 2007. MP3.

**Theta Naught and Alex Caldiero. “Animal.” Sound Weave. Salt Lake City, UT: Differential Records, 2006. MP3.

**Theta Naught and Alex Caldiero. “How Long Did It Last?” Sound Weave. Salt Lake City, UT: Differential Records, 2006. MP3.

**Theta Naught and Alex Caldiero. “How We Sound Together.” Sound Weave. Salt Lake City, UT: Differential Records, 2006. MP3.

**Theta Naught and Alex Caldiero. “In the Wee Hours.” Sound Weave. Salt Lake City, UT: Differential Records, 2006. MP3.

**Theta Naught and Alex Caldiero. “Memory Sees In Slices.” Sound Weave. Salt Lake City, UT: Differential Records, 2006. MP3.

**Theta Naught and Alex Caldiero. “Parts.” Sound Weave. Salt Lake City, UT: Differential Records, 2006. MP3.

**Theta Naught and Alex Caldiero. “Seven.” Sound Weave. Salt Lake City, UT: Differential Records, 2006. MP3.

**Theta Naught and Alex Caldiero. “Take It.” Sound Weave. Salt Lake City, UT: Differential Records, 2006. MP3.

**Theta Naught and Alex Caldiero. “That One.” Sound Weave. Salt Lake City, UT: Differential Records, 2006. MP3.

**Trudell, John. Bone Days. Decatur, GA: Daemon Records, 2002. CD. (13 poems)

**Williams, Saul. “Def Poetry Jam–Saul Williams (Coded Language).” YouTube. YouTube, 6 Apr. 2007. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

**Williams, Saul. The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust. New York: Fader Label, 2008. CD. (20 poems)



i. Books

**Aptowicz, Cristin O’Keefe. Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam. New York: Soft Skull, 2008. Print.

Beach, Christopher. Poetic Culture: Contemporary American Poetry between Community and Institution. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1999. Print.

Bernstein, Charles, ed. Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. Print.

Brown, Fahamisha Patricia. Performing the Word: African American Poetry as Vernacular Culture. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1999. Print.

**Devlin, Paul, dir. SlamNation: The Sport of Spoken Word. Perf. Williams, Saul, muMs da Schemer, Beau Sia, Taylor Mali, and Jessica Care Moore. New Video Group, 1998. Film.

Harrington, Joseph. Poetry and the Public Sphere: The Social Form of Modern U. S. Poetics. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2002.

Middleton, Peter. Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2005. Print.

Morris, Adelaide, ed. Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997. Print.

Nagy, Gregory. Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1996. Print.

Perloff, Marjorie, and Craig Dworkin, eds. The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2009. Print.

**Pfeiler, Martina. Sounds of Poetry: Contemporary American Performance Poets. Tübingen, Germany: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. Print.

Somers-Willett, Susan B. A. The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2009. Print.

Vincent, Stephen, and Ellen Zweig. The Poetry Reading, a Contemporary Compendium on Language and Performance. San Francisco: Momo’s Press, 1981. Print.

Wheeler, Lesley. Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present. Ithacha, NY: Cornell UP, 2008.


ii.Articles

Cabri, Louis. “On Discreteness: Event and Sound in Poetry.” English Studies in Canada 33.4 (2007): 1-19. Print.

Crown, Kathleen. “‘Sonic Revolutionaries’: Voice and Experiment in the Spoken Word Poetry of Tracie Morris.” We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women’s Writing and Performance Poetics. Ed. Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2002. Print. 213-26.

**DiDiodato, Conrad. “Penn Kemp and the Metamorphosed Ear.” Ascent Aspirations Magazine (2010): n. pag. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.

Fisher, Maisha T. “Open Mics and Open Minds: Spoken Word Poetry in African Diaspora Participatory Literacy Communities.” Harvard Educational Review 73.3 (2003): 363-89. Print.

Hoffman, Tyler. “Treacherous Laughter: The Poetry of Slam, Slam Poetry, and the Politics of Resistance.” Studies in American Humor 3.8 (2001): 49-64. Print.

**Holman, Bob. “Performance Poetry.” An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art. Ed. Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2005. Print. 341-51.

Jones, Meta DuEwa. “Jazz Prosodies: Orality and Textuality.” Callaloo 25.1 (2002): 66-91. Print.

Schmid, Julie. “Spreading the Word: A History of the Poetry Slam.” Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 23-26 (2001-2002): 636-45. Print.