Charles Bernstein

Talks

"On Theatricality" (incomplete); Aug. 23, 1979; Catskill, New York; with Marshall Reese and Kirby Malone; see essay and transcription (from 1981) in Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1989 (15:42)

Bernstein, Bruce Andrews and Ron Silliman - March 6, 1981: in conversation:
1. (44:37) MP3 
2.(44:43) MP3
3. (43:32) MP3

Characterization at 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, January 1983.
 Complete Reading (1:33:17): MP3

"Artifice of Absorption" at Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1985

Naropa Archive: "The Second War and Postmodern Poetry" from A Poetics

"Making Words VIsible" (extended with discussion), University of California, Santa Barbara, Feb. 9, 2004 (poor sound quality): (1:07) MP3

"Thank You for Saying Thank You" [youtube] from SoundEye Fesitival, 2005 (montage of poem and  interview about Shadowtime from film by Adam Wyeth and Keith Walsh

"The Task of Poetics, the Fate of Innovation, and the Aesthetics of Criticism," Dec. 1, 2006, Univeristy of Chiago

"What, Me Conceptual?," Conceptural Poetry & Its Others, Poetry Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, June 2008.

Fulcrum Debate with Frank Bidart, Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Lowell, MA, October 11, 2008:
conversation (ends abruptly) (57:18): MP3   /   glitch coda (12:52): MP3
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