roarshock read 2020
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ROARSHOCK READ 2020
A catalogue of works read by D. A. “Roarshock” Wilson from March through December 2020 live before
global audiences via online streaming events. These readings originated from Martinez, California and
San Francisco, California. Most recordings are archived on Roarshock Channel on the YouTube platform.
There were additional readings during this period which were not noted or recorded.
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Poems by D. A. Wilson
Asilomar Beach Meditations
Sticks Talking in Code
Moments Become Months
Fear
Weed Killer
The Wild Haired Phantom
The Rooms
Selection from The Asbestos Files
First Hours of a Rainy Day
Druidic Chores/Chorus
Clay Tablets
The First Annual/Animal Jack Kerouac Poem of Not-Doing
A Desperate Inspiration
Frustration
The Age of Zombies
The Way Dylan Looked
High Sierra
Saxmar the Unholy
Untitled (Loudly)
Blue Pyramid
The Return to Feather River
New Health Plan Work Poem
All Healing is Self-Healing
A Poem Unbidden
Alaska Was Sinking
The Grey Whale of Idaho
Grinning Skulls
Flow Poem
Summer Solstice Poem
Hoga For Yaga
Much Blood
Chernobyl Fright Poem
Off the Bus in Berkeley
Contact!
Cave Dweller
Fire Bird
Silence for John Lennon
Work Poem
Chairman of the World
The Misinterpretation of Paradise
Die, Pass Bye
Sky High Pie
Screaming Punk Blues
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Original Fragment
Twining Curling Threadbare
Perhaps the Start of Something Good
Paper Words
The Real Inventory
Garcia's Death
Ode to the Dead
What Is This Line For?
Words to the Soil, August 18 version
Roarshock Test: What Does It Look Like to You?
The Quest, Feast or Famine
Hide
To Fritz
Troll Troll
A Recipe for Trolls
Sticks Talking in Code
Troll Hole
Almost Another Berkeley Autumn
Sometimes the Roses Fade
On the Edge, Afraid to Leap
Shadow Boxes
High Sierra
To Make Things Grow on Earth
Sailors Sailing
Computer Dreams 2020
Shakespeare's Coffee
Poet's Economy
The Good Mister Wilson
Lands’ End
The News Stand
Only October
Halloween
More Excerpts from The Asbestos Files
Spirit Catcher
This Poem Is Marked Graveyard
Speedy Delivery
Atom Insects
A True Patriot
Wasted Face
The Night John Lennon Died
Winter Solstice Poem
Mabel's Fable
We Are the Pomegranate
Moderate Lee
The Funny Face Gang
Hong Kong Transfer
In The Reading Room with Two Poets
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Other Poems
In A Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
A Sinister of Siamese by Margo Skinner
To Sister Mary by Margo Skinner
The Span of Life by Robert Frost
Bread vs. Mozart's Watch by Lew Welch
The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens
Passed Druid Guards by Fritz Leiber
Poor Little Ape by Fritz Leiber
The Grey Mouser I by Fritz Leiber
The Grey Mouser II by Fritz Leiber
The Jumblies by Edward Lear
The Stone Troll by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Mewlips by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pumpkin Head by Chip Roberts
Real Replica Watches Revolution 9 by Anon of Ibid
The Adventures of Mythic the Snake by Chip Roberts
Real Replica Watches Eight Hour by Anon of Ibid
Waiting for Persephone by Esther Fishman
Winter is icumen in by Ezra Pound
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
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Life in 2020 Photographs by D. A. Wilson
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List of Readings
Spoken Word Online
Hosted by David Barnes
Monday, March 23, 2020
Top of the Hill, Martinez, California
Asilomar Beach Meditations
Sticks Talking in Code
Moments Become Months
Spoken World Online
Week 3
Monday, March 30, 2020
Top of the Hill MTZ
In A Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
Fear
Weed Killer
The Wild Haired Phantom
The Rooms
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Spoken World Online
Week 4
Monday, April 6, 2020
Selection from The Asbestos Files
Spoken World Online
Week 5
Monday, April 13, 2020
A Sinister of Siamese by Margo Skinner
To Sister Mary by Margo Skinner
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Spoken World Online
Week 6
Monday, April 20, 2020
Roarshock Reads to Turkeys
@ 420
Top of the Hill MTZ
Spoken World Online
Week 7
Monday, April 27, 2020
First Hours of a Rainy Day
Druidic Chores/Chorus
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Spoken World Online
Week 8
Monday, May 4, 2020
Clay Tablets
The First Annual/Animal Jack Kerouac Poem of Not-Doing
A Desperate Inspiration
Frustration
Spoken World Online
Week 9
Monday, May 11, 2020
The Age of Zombies
The Way Dylan Looked
High Sierra
Saxmar the Unholy
Untitled (Loudly)
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Spoken World Online
Week 10
Monday, May 18, 2020
Blue Pyramid
The Return to Feather River
Spoken World Online
Week 11
Monday, May 25, 2020
New Health Plan Work Poem
All Healing is Self-Healing
A Poem Unbidden
The Span of Life by Robert Frost
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Spoken World Online
Week 12
Monday, June 1, 2020
Alaska Was Sinking
The Grey Whale of Idaho
Spoken World Online
Week Lucky 13
Monday, June 8, 2020
Grinning Skulls
Flow Poem
Spoken World Online
Week 14
Monday, June 15, 2020
Summer Solstice Poem
Hoga For Yaga
Spoken World Online
Week 15
Monday, June 22, 2020
Much Blood
Chernobyl Fright Poem
Off the Bus in Berkeley
Spoken World Online
Week 16
Monday, June 29, 2020
First Hours of a Rainy Day
All Healing is Self-Healing
Contact!
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Spoken World Online
Hosted by David Leo Sirois
Week 17
Monday, July 6, 2020
Cave Dweller
Fire Bird
Silence for John Lennon
Spoken World Online
Week 18
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Grinning Skulls
Work Poem
Chairman of the World
The Misinterpretation of Paradise
Die, Pass Bye
Sky High Pie
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Spoken World Online
Week 19
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Screaming Punk Blues
Original Fragment
Twining Curling Threadbare
Perhaps the Start of Something Good
Paper Words
The Real Inventory
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Spoken World Online
Week 20
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Bread vs. Mozart's Watch by Lew Welch
Spoken World Online
Week 21
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Garcia's Death
Ode to the Dead
Spoken World Online
Week 22
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Roarshock Den San Francisco
The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens
What Is This Line For?
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Spoken World Online
Week 23
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
First Hour of a Rainy Day read by David Leo Sirois
Top of the Hill MTZ
Selections from Words to the Soil
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Spoken World Online
Week 24
Tuesday. August 25, 2020
San Francisco
Roarshock Test: What Does It Look Like to You?
The Quest, Feast or Famine
Hide
Spoken World Online
Week 25
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
The Front Garden, Top of the Hill MTZ
Passed Druid Guards by Fritz Leiber
Poor Little Ape by Fritz Leiber
To Fritz
The Grey Mouser I by Fritz Leiber
The Grey Mouser II by Fritz Leiber
Spoken World Online
Week 26
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Troll Poems by Dr. Zoro S. R. Troll
Cave Dweller
Troll Troll
A Recipe for Trolls
Sticks Talking in Code
Troll Hole
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Spoken World Online
Week 27
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Top of the Hill MTZ
Almost Another Berkeley Autumn
Sometimes the Roses Fade
On the Edge, Afraid to Leap
Shadow Boxes
The Wild Haired Phantom
Spoken World Online
Week 28
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Roarshock Den
High Sierra
To Make Things Grow on Earth
Sailors Sailing
The Jumblies by Edward Lear
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Angora Poets World Caffé
Hosted by Moe Seager
Sunday, September 27, 2020
Grinning Skulls
Flow Poem
The Good Mister Wilson
Spoken World Online
Week 29
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
San Francisco
The Stone Troll by J. R. R. Tolkien
Computer Dreams 2020
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Spoken World Online
Week 30
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
San Francisco
Shakespeare's Coffee
Poet’s Economy
Spoken World Online
Week 31
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
San Francisco
Lands’ End
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Roarshock Reading on Periscope
Thursday, October 15,2020
San Francisco
Lands' End
Spoken World Online
Week 32
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Martinez
The News Stand
The Good Mister Wilson
Spoken World Online
Week 33
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
The Front Garden MTZ
Only October
The Mewlips by J.R.R. Tolkien
Halloween
Pumpkin Head by Chip Roberts
Maximus Beast read by Lee Dunlap
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Angora Poets World Caffé
Sunday, November 1, 2020
San Francisco
Only October
Real Replica Watches Revolution 9 by Anon of Ibid
Pumpkin Head by Chip Roberts
The Grey Whale of Idaho
Alaska Was Sinking
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Angora Poets World Caffé
Sunday, November 8, 2020
Martinez
Spirit Catcher
This Poem Is Marked Graveyard
The Adventures of Mythic the Snake by Chip Roberts
Contact!
The Rooms
Spoken World Online
Week 35
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
More Excerpts from The Asbestos Files
Angora Poets World Caffé
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Martinez
Speedy Delivery
Atom Insects
A True Patriot
Spoken World Online
Week 36 Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Martinez
First Hours of a Rainy Day
This Poem is Marked Graveyard
Speedy Delivery
Spoken World Online
Week 37
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
San Francisco
Real Replica Watches Eighth Hour by Anon of Ibid
Waiting for Persephone by Esther Fishman
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Angora Poets World Caffé
Sunday, December 6, 2020
San Francisco
Winter is icumen in by Ezra Pound
Shadow Boxes
Wasted Face
The Night John Lennon Died
Silence for John Lennon
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Spoken World Online
Week 39
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
San Francisco
Nobody Bats a Thousand
The Night John Lennon Died
Silence for John Lennon
Sacred Grounds
Hosted by Daniel Brady
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
San Francisco
The Span of Life by Robert Frost
Hoga for Yaga
A Poem Unbidden
Spoken World Online
Week 40
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
San Francisco
We Are the Pomegranate
Angora Poets World Caffé
Sunday, December 13, 2020
San Francisco
Rain Dreams
Sacred Grounds
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
San Francisco
Asilomar Beach Meditations
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Angora Poets World Caffé
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Martinez
In A Station of the Metro
Druidic Chores/Chorus
Winter Solstice Poem
Mabel's Fable
We Are the Pomegranate
Spoken World Online
Week 41
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Top of the Hill MTZ
Sons of Anacreon
Winter Solstice Poem
Moderate Lee
In The Reading Room with Two Poets read by Lee Dunlap
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Angora Poets World Caffé
Sunday, December 27, 2020
San Francisco
The Funny Face Gang
Hong Kong Transfer
In The Reading Room with Two Poets
Untitled (Loudly)
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
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Spoken World Online
Week 42
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Top of the Hill MTZ
The Funny Face Gang
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
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