Fred Moten reads from The Feel Trio. This recording includes an incredible Q&A with commentary on the production of the poems.
0:0 Introductions by Jennifer Jacobson and Ruth Jennsion
6:12 FM takes the stage, speaks to his work generally and the story behind the middle section of the feel trio, “come on get it,” including cecil taylor and james brown (the title as an invitation in to an underworld, enter in to the funk )
11:38 Come on, Get it
32:44 All School Crit, talking about teaching in an MFA program and how it inspired this series
50:30 “I think in little involuntary trios”
51:58 Q&A – talks about Gale Sayers, football, Emily Dickinson, infection of sentences, Renee Gladman, weird jobs, listening to recordings of poets (he recalls hearing in the archive, WCW saying “don’t try to understand the poet, just listen to it, get the tactile sense of what is going on”), reading at Clemson university, ideas about alternative forms or shapes or possibilities for universities
1:0:04 end of reading commentary, personal conversations