Charles Bernstein


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Full Readings (some segmented readings have their own linked page)

Anthology Film Archives, New York, April 3. 1977
Full reading (25:39): MP3
1. "Latex Dummy," sec. 7 from "A Person Is Not an Entity Symbolic.." (from The Sophist) (0:57): MP3
2. "People should love and approve of me," sec. 13 from "A Person Is Not an Entity Symbolic.." (from The Sophist) (1:06): MP3
3. "Sentences" (from Parsing) (1:11): MP3
4. "Asylums" (from Islets/Irritations) (8:26): MP3
(30 seconds of music bleeds in midway)
5. "Of course ..." (from Shade) (2:32): MP3
6. from "Three or Four Things I Know about Him" (from Content's Dream) (2:29): MP3
7. "Palukaville" (from Poetic Justice) (8:59): MP3

Place Center, New York, Dec. 18, 1977
This reading was organized by Phil Smith (Demise); Bernstein read with Kathy Acker.
Full reading (44:41): mp3
1. As If the Trees By Their Very Roots Had a Hold of Us (from Senses of Responsibility) (3:33)
2. Loose Shoes (from Sense of Responsibility) (3:06)
3. "Likening then..." (from Poetic Justice) (0:46)
4. St. McC. (from Shade) (1:16)
5. from "Faculty Politics" (from Poetic Justice) (2:19)
6. Soul Under (from Shade) (2:12)
7. Long Trails of Cars Return From the Beach (from Shade) (3:31)
8. Lapidary Entropy (from Islets/Irritations) (8:23)
9. from The Occurrence of Tune (19:08)

Folio Books, Washington, DC, 1978
complete reading (38:52): MP3
Introduction by Doug Lang
As If the Trees by Their Roots Had Hold of Us (from Senses of Responsibility) (time marker 2’36”)
Loose Shoes (from Senses of Responsibility) (6’17”)
“Likening Then” (9’43”) Shade?
St.McC (from Shade) (10’29”)
For – (from Shade) (12’00”)
from Faculty Politics (from Poetic Justice) (22’00”)
Roseland from Parsing (12’43”)
Soul Under (from Shade) (27’42)
Palukaville (from Poetic Justice) (30’25”)

West End bar, New York, March 12, 1978
Full reading (34:33): mp3
1. Epigraphs for "Stray Straws and Straw Men" (from Content's Dream): mp3
2. "of a sort" (unpublished): mp3
3. Resistance (from Senses of Responsibility): mp3
4. Nudge (from Shade) mp3
5. "So really not visit a ..." (from Controlling Interests): mp3
6. Hotel Empire (from Poetic Justice) mp3
7. eLecTrIc (from Poetic Justice) mp3
8. Kiff-Kiff (from Shade): mp3
9. Matters of Policy (from Controlling Interests): mp3

Six Fillious Reading (with McCaffery, Higgins, et al), February 7, 1979

Reading at the Grand Piano, San Francisco, with Barrett Watten, February 20, 1979 (46:29)
complete reading (46:29): MP3
1. Introduction (3:10): MP3
2. "The Italian Border of the Alps" (from Controlling Interests) (10:20): MP3
3. "Poem" (from Shade) (2:33): MP3
4. "To Which I Never Wanted" (from Senses of Responsibility) (1:55): MP3
5. "For ------" (from Shade (9:50): MP3
6. "Soul Under" (from Shade) (2:50: MP3
7. "As Is the Trees by Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us" (from Senses of Responsibility) (3:14): MP3
8. "Matters of Policy" (from Controlling Interests) (12:25): MP3
(recording courtesy of Ron Silliman)

Reading in the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard College Library, December 11, 1980
complete reading (50:54): MP3
Introduction by Stratis Haviaris: MP3
Palukaville (from Poetic Justice) (2’24”): MP3
Poem (from Shade) (8’33”): MP3
For – (from Shade) (10’44”): MP3
Simple Pleasures (from Controlling Interests) (19’37’): MP3
March (from Stigma) (25’28”): MP3
Sprocket Damage (from Islets/Irritations) (26’53”): MP3
Islets/Irritations (31’10”): MP3
Island Life (from Controlling Interests) (37’20”): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, Spring 1980, reading with Hannah Weiner and James Sherry from Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal
(20:06): MP3

New Langton Arts Residency, San Francisco, January 28, 1981
"Characterization," a talk, was also presented as part of this residency

tape one (42:11): MP3
from Resistance
0:39 Consideration
2:57 But Boxes Both Boats
3:36 Dunvegan
4:40 Playing with a Full Deck
6:50 The Sheds of our Webs
7:39 If There Were a God
9:03 Misty
9:36 Forefright
11:00 The Land and Its People
12:05 Stunment
12:55 Airshaft
13:23 You
14:10 Forensic Gastronomy
15:23 Ideopathic Pathenogenesis
from The Sophist
16:22 intro
16:42 The Years as Swatches
18:12 Outrigger
23:28 Foreign Body Sensation
31:03 Prosthesis
33:49 Brain Side View
40:27 introduction to Entitlement (cut off)
tape two (50:09): MP3
introduction to Entitlement (continued)
2:00 Entitlement: with Lyn Hejinian as Liubov Popova, Jean Day as Jenny Lind and Bernstein as John Milton
<<<"Entitlement": (11:51): MP3
[tape flip near beginning; Larry Eigner's voice at end]>>>
10:27 Amblyopia
discussion
34:02 to 50:09

Legend, read by Andrews, Silliman, DiPalma, Bernstein — March 10, 1981

Ithaca, NY, May 8, 1982,
Full Reading with Alan Davies (1:26): MP3
    from Resistance (collected in Republics of Reality 1975-1995):
1. Consideration (2:19): MP3
2. But Boxes Both Boat (0:40): MP3
3. Dunvegan (1:03) : MP3
4. Playing with a Full Deck (1:59): MP3
5. The Sheds of Our Webs (0:43): MP3
6.  If There Were a God (1:08: MP3 )
7.  Forefright (1:11): MP3
8.  The Land and Its People (1:08): MP3
9. Air Shaft (0:20): MP3
10. You ((0:38): MP3
11. Ideopathic Pathenogenesis (0:50): MP3
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12. Entitlement from The Sophist ((9:42): MP3
13 Sprocket Damage from Islets/Irritations (4:17): MP3
14. The Simply from The Sophist (13:22): MP3

The Poetry Project, St Mark's Church, New York, October 17, 1983
(39:50): MP3
Fear and Trespass (from The Sophist) 2’34”
from Resistance (9’56”)
Searchless Warrant (from The Sophist) (19’15”)
Prosthesis (21’35”) (from The Sophist)
Preface to Content’s Dream (24’04”)
The Voyage of Life (28’00”) (from The Sophist)
Dysraphism (from The Sophist) (30’13”)

Reading with Maureen Owen at the Ear Inn, NYC - March 11, 1984, (36:00): MP3

Reading at the Village Gate, NY, June 18, 1984. Featuring Steve McCaffery, Diane Ward, and Erica Hunt. (24:35): MP3
0:00 3 FIFTHS EQUALS (from Legend, read with Steve McCaffery)
15:18 Introduction to "Entitlement"
16:49 "Entitlement" (Charles Bernstein as John Milton, Diane Ward as Jenny Lind, Erica Hunt as Liubov Popova)

Ear Inn, NYC, March 23, 1985: MP3
(0:00 From lines of Swinburne
1:05 Foam Post
4:17 Like DeCLaraTionS in a Hymie CEMetArY (from The Sophist)
6:13 Salt Mines Regained
7:01 Rowing with One Oar
8:05 The Harbor of Illusion
9:27 Safe Methods of Business
24:06 Romance
24:55 The Poet from Another Planet
25:59 Of Time & the Line
28:45 Fear of Flipping
38:42 Verdi and Post-modernism

Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, New Poetics Collqueum, August, 1985

Pallson's, NYC - October 17, 1987, (35:14): MP3
0:11 Mr. Matisse in San Diego
1:28 How to Disappear
2:18 Targets of Opportunity
3:01 Nina's Party to Judy's Jim
3:56 Force of Feeling
4:55 I'll Call When I Get There
6:22 Untitled
8:28 Plausibly Deniable Link
9:56 Hard Copy
11:03 Mall at Night
11:57 Reprensible Privilege
13:18 Catabolism
14:40 Critic's Chair
15:47 Soapy Water
18:08 The Lives of the Toll Takers

WKCR-FM (NY) studio recording (unedited)
1. Desalination (Dark City) (first two words ["suddenly without"] are cut off
2. (7:04) Kiwi Bird in Kiwi Tree (Rough Trades)
3. (8:36) Of Time and the Line (Rough Trades)
4. (12:21) The Lives of the Toll Takers (Dark City)
(31:23): MP3

Ear Inn, January 9, 1988, with Bruce Andrews
Pinch hitting for Susan Howe (initial announcement by Bernstein), Andrews & Bernstein read their collaboration from Legend (10:59): MP3

University of Arizona, Poetry Center, Tucson, Feb. 3, 1988

Tucson, 1988
recording courtesy Poetry Center
1. Lois Shelton Introduction (5:52): MP3
2. Island Life (from Controlling Interests) (16:04): MP3
3. Epiphanies of Suppression 3 (from Rough Trades) (1:06): MP3 : : text
4. Of Time and the Line (from Rough Trades) (2:52): MP3 : : text
5. Targets of Opportunity (from Rough Trades) (1:15): MP3 : : text
6. Hard Copy (from Residual Rubbernecking [collected in Republics of Reality] (1:20): MP3
7. [Untitled] (from Residual Rubbernecking) [collected in Republics of Reality] (:58): MP3
8. Mall at Night (from Residual Rubbernecking) [collected in Republics of Reality] (1:17): MP3
9. Foreign Body Sensation (from The Sophist) (10:05): MP3
10. Blow Me Down Etude (from Rough Trades) (incomplete recording) (7:58): MP3   ::text


Reading with Steve Farmer, Ear Inn, NY, February 20, 1988 (41:06): MP3
0:0" Desalination
6:41 Beginning with Lines torn from Irby (from Absent Father in Dumbo )
7:45 Reperfusion (from Absent Father in Dumbo )
8:44 Mall at Night (from Residual Rubbernecking)
10:19 The Years as Swatches (in memoriam Robert Duncan)
12:36 Common Stock
17:00 House of Formaldehyde
19:30 Polynesian Days (after Brossard)
24:20 The View from Nowhere
28:44 from an ongoing interview with Tom Becket

SUNY Buffalo - April 4, 1988
part 1 (47:17): MP3
part 2 (48:48): MP3

Temple University, Philadelphia - November 15, 1988:
(54:20): MP3
1. The Blude Divide ("Then suddenly ...")

Kootenay School of Writing -- 1989 reading

MLA Off-Site Reading, Bick's Books, Washington D.C., December 28, 1989
complete recording (28:58): MP3
from The Nude Formalism unsegmented: (14:39): MP3
from The Nude Formalism segmented:
1. Opening Comments (1:31): MP3
2. Fragments from the 17th Manifesto of Nude Formalism (1:17): MP3
3. Gosh (1:27): MP3
4. The Cost of Doing Business (2:10): MP3
5. Emma: (0:42): MP3
6. Ding Dong You Are Wrong (1:34): MP3
7. No Way (0:26): MP3
8. Thrush (1:39): MP3
9. Freud's Butcher (1:22): MP3
10. Water Poem (0:45): MP3
11. Vault and Volley (:52): MP3
from Dark City:
12. How I Painted Certain of My Pictures (7:36): MP3 [N.B. first five words cut off: "You say I'm like a ..."]
(recording courtesy of A.L. Nielsen / the Heatstrings Archive)


Segue Series reading at the Ear Inn, NYC, with Gil Ott, February 19, 1989
(43:48): MP3

Living Theater, NYC, with Jackson Mac Low and Nick Piombino, March 28, 1990
from The Absent Father in Dumbo (27:14): MP3
"Slowed Reason," collaboration with Piombino (1:37): MP3
Mac Low's Free Gatha 1, performed with Mac Low and Piombino (5:36): MP3


Naropa Institute, Boulder, Co. - July 11, 1991
introduction (2:26): MP3
not even sure I can represent myself (0:17): MP3
"Reveal Codes" (from Dark City) (13:01): MP3
"Reading the Tree" (from Rough Trades) (15:19): MP3
"The Influence of Kinship Patterns upon the Perception of an Ambiguous Stimulus" (from Dark City) (6:40): MP3
complete reading (35:39): MP3

Reading with Keith Waldrop, Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, NYC - 1992 (44:28):

photo © Lawrence Schwartzwald, just beore this reading with Ann Lauterbach.

Reading at the Ear Inn, with Ann Lauterbach January 4, 1992
(36:58): MP3
1. Locks without Doors
2. 9:24 from The Subject
3. 24:20 "Dark City"

Radical New Jewish Culture Festival, curated by John Zorn, Knitting Factory, NYC - October 11, 1992
complete reading (42:29) MP3
Introduction (1:20): MP3
"Islets/Irritations" (from Islets/Irritations) (5:49): MP3
"Motion Sickness" (from Islets/Irritations) (5:20): MP3
"Sentences My Father Used" (from Controlling Interests) (12:28) MP3
"March" (from Stigma) (1:40): MP3
"Bought Off" (from Stigma) (1:20): MP3
"Why I Am Not a Christian" (1:57): MP3
from "A Person Is Not an Entity Symbolic but the Divine Incarnate" (4:45): MP3
"The Influence of Kinship Patterns upon the Perception of an Ambiguous Stimulus" (from Dark City) (6:38): MP3

Reading at "The Tenth Muse" at the 92nd Street Y with Clark Coolidge and Susan Howe, introduced by Robert Creeley, 1992. MP3 restricted access until April 2014

Reading at the Ear Inn, with Leslie Scalapino, April 2, 1994

full reading (40:23): MP3

1. "Echo Off (Use Other Entrance)" (10:08): MP3

from Residual Rubbernecking (1995):


2. "Residual Rubbernecking" (1:29): MP3
3. "Are You Being Sarcastic?" (0:35): MP3
4. "Rivulets of the Dead Jew" (0:47): MP3
5. "Swelled by Certainty" (0:32): MP3
6. "Edlin" (0:32): MP3
7. "Revolutionary Poem" (0:26): MP3


8. "Sane as Tugged Vat, Your Love" after Leevi Lehto (2:14): MP3
9. "Nuclear Blanks" after Estaban Pujals (3:20): MP3
10. "Claire-in-the-Building" (4:20): MP3
11. "Low Regrets" (2:17): MP3
12. "Memories" (3:55): MP3
13. "Max Weber's Favorite Tylenol for Teething" (2:20): MP3
14. "The Republic of Reality" (7:39): MP3

Reading in Monterey, Mass., July 27, 1994
(1:33:34): MP3
"Echo Off : Use Other Entrance"
"Pinky Swear Sonnet"
"Memories Custom Blinds"
"Buffalo Nights"
"Dear Mr. Fannelli"
"A Defense of Poetry"
"The Lives of the Toll Takers"
"Emotions of Normal People"


November 6, 1994, SUNY-Buffalo, with Susan Howe & Dennis Tedlock, intro Joseph Conte:
Complete reading (27:12): MP3
Intro by Bernstein
0:37 Claire-in-the-Building (from My Way)
4:44 Lift Jar Agate (from Residual Rubbernecking in Republics of Reality: 1975-1995)
5:57 Sane as Tugged Vat
8:14 Residual Rubbernecking (from Residual Rubbernecking in Republics of Reality: 1975-1995)
9:51 Buffalo Nights (from Residual Rubbernecking)
10:52 Edlin (from Residual Rubbernecking)
11:20 The Ache of the Archivist(from Residual Rubbernecking)
12:17 Rivulets of the Dead Jew (from Residual Rubbernecking)
13:02 Memories (from With Strings)
17:00 Max Weber’s Tylenol for Teething (from With Strings)
19:39 Ms. Otis Regrets (from With Strings)

UC-Berkeley, February 7, 1995, introduced by Douglas Messerli (recorded by A.L. Nielsen)
(35:21) MP3

With Robert Creeley and Susan Howe at SUNY Buffalo - March 31, 1995

MLA Offsite Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996
1. Don't Be So Sure (Don't be Saussure) (0:46): MP3
2. The Knees Have It (0:30): MP3
3. Gertrude and Ludwig's Bogus Adventure (1:37): MP3
4. Ruminative Ablution (0:58): MP3
5. from an ongoing interview with Tom Beckett (2:37): MP3
6. Innappropriate Touching (1:47): MP3
7. He's So Heavy He's My Sokal (2:44): MP3

 Sun & Moon Press salon, Los Angeles, Feb. 28, 1998 (recorded by A.L. Nielsen)
(19:58) MP3
introduction by Douglas Messerli
Pinot Blanco (from With Strings)
Explicit Version Number Required (from My Way)
Inappropriate Touching (from My Way)
Hoods & Scatters (from My Way)
"Residual Rubbernecking" (from Republics of Reality)
"Like This" (from My Way)

Reading at University of California, San Diego, Spring 1998
complete recording (55:47): MP3
0:00 intro by Rae Armantrout
4:14 intro by Charles Bernstein
3:05 tr. of Giraut de Bornelh (epigrah from "Against National Poetry Month as Such")
3:50 Don't Be So Sure (from "Revenge of the Poet-Critic" in My Way).
4:31 Sprung Monuments (from With Strings)
4:51 Little Orphan Anagram (from With Strings)
10:00 Poem Composed for Jackson Mac Low. . . (from With Strings)
14:37 Johnny Cake Hollow (from With Strings)
15:32 Thinking I Think, I Think (from With Strings)
20:47 Doggy Bag (from With Strings)
24:06 Ruminative Ablution ((from With Strings)
25:19 Dear Mr. Fanelli (from My Way)
29:35 But Pharaoh Did Not Listen to Moses (from With Strings)
30:17 Anaffirmation (from With Strings)
30:54 The Boy Soprano (from With Strings)
31:43 Solidarity Is the Name We give to What We Cannot Hold (from My Way)
35:38 What is the role of the poet in society?, from An Ongoing Interview with Tom Becket (in My Way)
37:53 from "Revenge of the Poet-Critic" (from My Way)
39:04 "Log Rhythms" (text from Granary book with Susan Bee; collected in With Strngs)

"Cortland Review": Dec. 1, 1999 New School University (NY):
Reading and Interview with David Lehman
1. Introduction by David Lehman (4:20)
2. A Defense of Poetry (5:07)
3. Ruminative Ablution (1:03)
4. Poem Composed for Jackson Mac Low... (4:51)
5. Thinking I Think I Think (5:36)
6. Anaffirmation (0:43)
7. Make it Snappy & That's Final (0:45)
8. from Every Which Way but Loose (4:10)
9. Hoods and Scatters (1:10)
10. The Boy Soprano (1:49)
11. Laurel's Eyes (3:01)
12. Death is the Cool Night (0:35)
13. dew and die (2:49)
14. The Impunity of Garden Flowers (1:05)
15. Like This (8:17)
16. Interview with David Lehman (20:56)
Courtesy of The Cortland Review.

from the libretto to Shadowtime at Kelly Writers House, UPenn, Oct. 13, 2000

Harvard University - February 21, 2001
1. Introduction by Don Share (3:15)
2. And they say... (w/ Strings epigraph by Giraut de Bornelh) (1:16)
3. Don't Be Saussure (from My Way) (0:44)
4. Thinking I Think I Think (5:36) text
5. Slap Me Five, Cleo, Mark's History (12:56)   text
      image of Bernard Duvier's "Cleopatra" (subject of poem)
6. Log Rhythms (15:48)  text
7. from Shadowtime (22:00)

Segue Series reading at Double Happiness, NYC - March 3, 2001
(35:00): MP3

The Line Reading Series, January 15, 2002
reading from Rough Trades

Live at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, September 25, 2003
       from Let's Just Say (Girly Man):
In Particular (text published on-line by Jacket)
Thank You for Saying Thank You
Shuffle card poetics
        from World on Fire: (Girly Man)
Didn't We
The Folks Who Live on the Hill
One More for the Road
In a Restless World Like This Is (this poem on PoemTalk at the Writers House); audio / text alignment
Ghost of a Chance
ChoCho Ch'Boogie
Stranger in Paradise
Broken English
Lost in Drowned Bliss
Sunset at Quaquaversal Point
A Flame in Your Heart
         from Let's Just Say:
Let's Just Say
"every lake"
§
Daily Pennsylvanian article on the reading and reception.


From Radio Poetique's Poetic Brooklyn, September 13, 2004
1. The Years as Swatches (from The Sophist) (1:34)
2. Like DeCLaraTionS in a Hymie CEMetArY (from The Sophist) (2:05)
3. Aquiescence (from The Sophist) (1:15)
4. Likeness (from Girly Man) (7:44)
5. The Warble of the Ammonia-Bellied Barkeep (from Girly Men) (2:01)
6. The Ballad of the Girly Man (from Girly Man) (4:30)


Segue at Bowery Poetry Club, New York, October 2, 2004
Complete Recording (46:57)
1. Introduction by Gary Sullivan (3:49)
From The Sophist
2. From "Entitlement" (7:21)
3. Dysraphism (9:19)
From Girly Man
4. Likeness (6:54)
5. If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Now (0:33)
6. Secrets of a Clear Hand (1:49)
7. Self-Help (6:52)
8. The Warble of the Ammonia-Bellied Barkeep (1:41)
9. The Bricklayer's Arms (4:32)
10. The Ballad of the Girly man (3:58) [NOTE: This is the first public reading of this poem]


Discrete Reading Series,Chicago, November 21, 2004
3030 Arts Space Chicago. Curated by Kerri Sonnenberg & Jesse Seldess
Complete reading (48:39)
1. War Stories (with Emma Bee Bernstein) (5:43): MP3, Text
2. Likeness (6:21)
from With Strings:
3. Why We Ask You Not to Touch (0:24)
4. Lilly's Dream (0:36)
5. The Smell of Cheap Cigars (0:19)
6. Anaffirmation (0:36)
7. Little Orphan Anagram (0:19)
8. Doggy Bag (2:17)
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9. The Bricklayer's Arms (4:41)
10. Castor Oil (with Emma Bee Bernstein) (0:59)
11. Self-Help (7:50): MP3, Text
12. The Ballad of the Girlie Man (3:57): MP3, Text
13. "Stelae for Failed Time" from Shadowtime (6:30)

Mills College, Oakland, November 9, 2004
1. In Particular (4:57);    text
2. Thank You For Saying Thank You (3:43):   text
World On Fire:
3. Didn't We (1:32);   text
4. The Folks Who Live on the Hill (1:15)
5. One More for the Road (0:53)
6. In a Restless World Like This Is (0:52) (this poem on PoemTalk at the Writers House); audio / text alignment
7. Ghost of a Chance (0:53)
8. ChoCho Ch’Boogie (1:29)
9. Stranger in Paradise (1:19)
10. Broken English (2:04)
11. Lost in Drowned Bliss (0:59)
12. Sunset at Quaquaversal Point (2:02)
13. A Flame in Your Heart (2:03)
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14. Self Help (7:04): MP3,  Text
15. The Bricklayer's Arms (4:38);   text
16. Castor Oil (0:52)
17. How Empty is My Bread Pudding (11:15)
18. The Ballad of the Girly Man (3:34): MP3, Text
19. Stelae for Failed Time (6:43)


Five Poems from Girly Man, December 20, 2004
1. Didn't We (from World on Fire) (1:33); text
2. Castor Oil, with Emma Bee Bernstein (from Likeness) (1:28)
3. War Stories, with Emma Bee Bernstein (from Girly Man ) (5:57); text
4. Likeness (from Likeness) (7:11)
5. every lake... (from Let's Just Say) (1:06)
Produced by Charles Morrow Productions
Matt Stine, Engineer; studio recording, New Yor

University of Chicago, Nov. 20, 2006
video and audio of lecture and reading

The Offpage Performance, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, April 11, 2006
presented in collaoboration with aubibleword.com
Complete Recording (61:57)
1. Introduction by Kenneth Sherwood (5:02)
2. Introducation by Charles Bernstein(0:46)
3. Sentences from Parsing(5:43)
4. Talk Leader: Matters of Policy (0:20)
5. Matters of Policy from Controlling Interests(13:37)
6. Azoot d'Puund  (from Poetic Justice/Repulics of Reality) (5:47)
7. Talk Leader: Twelve Tribes of Dr. Lacan (0:58)
8. Twelve Tribes of Dr. Lacan (2:54)
9. Talk Trailer: Twelve Trives of Dr. Lacan (0:15)
10. Talk Leader: Interview in Fulcrum (0:09)
11. Interview in Fulcrum (5:20)
12. Theory of Flawed Design (1:46)
13. Talk Leader: Venereal Muse (0:32)
14. Venereal Muse /Charles Baudelaire (0:54)
15. Le Pont Mirabeu / Apollinaire(1:40)
16. Talk Leader: From The Subject (0:27)
17. Jenny's Song: From The Subject (4:47)
18. Dr. F F's Response , from The Subject(2:01)
19. Talk Leader: Lenny Paschen (0:21)
20. From Lenny Paschen (0:48)
21. Impovisation: based on Likeness (from Girly Man) (3:49)
22. Outro- Ken Sherwood (0:51)
Detailed performance log by Ken Sherwood at audibleword.com
This site mirrors the reading at audibleworld.

Cue Foundation launch/reading for Girly Man, January 16, 2007
audio and video

Segue at Bowery Poetry  Club, New York, April 28, 2007


Poems for Jerome McGannn at 70, May 28, 2007 (private recording session)

1. For Love Has Such a Spirit that if It Is Portrayed it Dies (from Controlling Interests)(6:01): MP3
2. The Simply (from The Sophist)(15:58): MP3
3. from Lines of Swinburne (from The Sophist)(1:15): MP3
4. A Foin Lass Bodders Me by Louis Zukofsky (6:04): MP3
5. Don't Get me Wrong (from Girly Man)(1:30): MP3
6. Shenandoah (from Girly Man)(2:39): MP3
7. Lenny Paschen Redux (1:00): MP3
8. Wherever Angels Go (from Girly Man) (1:37): MP3
9. Sad Boy's Sad Boy (1:25): MP3
10. Loneliness in Linden (1:16): MP3
11. from Canti Antichi (from Girly Man) (1:00): MP3
12. Dea%r Fr~ien%d, (3:38): MP3
13. Shenandoah (2:39): MP3

New Reading Series at 21 Grand, Oakland, Calif., June 21, 2009 (46:16): MP3

photo: Alan Bernheimer

“In the Middle of the Way” (tr. of Drummond, beg. cut off)
Loneliness in Linden
Won’t You Give Us This Poem to Someone Who Needs It
Stupid Men, Smart Choices
Pompeii
Death on a Pale Horse
Sad Boy’s Sad Boy
The Sixties with Apologies
Two Stones with One Bird
Most Frequent Words in Girly Man
Fold
Lenny Paschen Redux
Dear Friend …
On Election Day
Morality
And Aenigma Was His Name, O!
Castor Oil“Tomorrow, Dawn …” (Hugo)
If You Say Something, See Something
Today Is the Last Day of Your Life Til Now
Time Served
Le Pont Mirabeau(Apollinaire)
Sapphics
“Madame Moiselle” from Shadowtime
Be Drunken (Baudelaire)
All the Whiskey in Heaven

Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader Launch Reading, the Bowery Poetry Club, September 19, 2009
from "A Blow Is Like an Instrument" (8:35): MP3

Poems for the Millennium III, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 7, 2009 (12:12): MP3
For Emma: After Edward Lear’s “The Old Man of Whitehaven”; CB tr. of an 1847 poem from Hugo’s Les Contemplations; From Swinburne, “The Ballad of Burdens”; CB tr of Heine’s "Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht" followed by poem after "Der Tod" from Shadowtime; “The Introvert,” after Wordworth’s "The Hermet"; excerpt from Whitman’s “RESPONDEZ!”; CB tr. of Baudelaire’s “Enivrez-vous”: “Be Drunken”; Blake’s “The Sick Rose” from Song of Experience

Harvard University, Barker Center, October 5, 2009
complete reading (59:19): MP3
1. introduction by Stephanie Sandler (1:53): MP3
2. "In the Middle of the Way" (tr. of Carlos Drummond de Andrade) (1:01): MP3
from Recalculating (work in progress):
3. The Sixties with Apologies (1:38): MP3
4. Fold (3:07): MP3
5. The Honor of Virtue (0:14):MP3
6. Sad Boy's Sad Boy (1:10): MP3
7. Loneliness in Linden (1:07): MP3
8. On Election Day (3:45): MP3
9.: Dear%r Fr~ien%d, (3:01): MP3
10. The Twelve Tribes of Dr. Lacan (2:05): MP3
11. The Truth in Pudding (13:19): MP3
12. Morality (1:25): MP3
13. Won't You Give Up This Poem to Someone Who Needs It? (1:07): MP3
14. Stupid Men, Smart Choices (1:25): MP3
15. Two Stones with One Bird (1:12): MP3
from All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems:
16. Dear Mr. Fannelli (4:42): MP3
17. from "The Republic of Reality (0:50): MP3
18. Rivulets of the Dead Jew (0:32): MP3
19. Doggy Bag (1:14): MP3
20: from "Today is not Opposite Day" (0:35): MP3
21: every lake (1:08): MP3
from Recalculating:
22. Catullus 85 (0:10): MP3
23. And Aenigma Was His Name, O! (0:16): MP3
24. tr. of Hugo, Les Contemplations #XIV (Demain, dés l'aube ...) (1:05): MP3
25. If You Say Something, See Something (0:36): MP3
26. Today Is the Last Day of Your Life 'til Now (0:39): MP3
27. Time Served (1:25): MP3
28. The Introvert (O:45): MP3
29. Sapphics (0:34): MP3
30. tr. of Baudelaire, "Be Drunken" (1:10): MP3
31. tr. of Apollinaire, "Le pont Mirabeau" (1:22): MP3
Coda:
32. "Madame Moiselle" from Shadowtime (0:34): MP3
33. “All the Whiskey in Heaven” (1:16): MP3
Recorded by the Woodberry Poetry Room Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard.

Coming in from the Cold: Celebrating Twenty Years of the MLA Off-Site Poetry Reading at the Philadelphia Mariott, December 29, 2009
complete reading (8:20): MP3

University of Washington, Bothel. Jan. 6, 2010
Reading: MP3
Q&A: MP3
recorded by Joe Milutis

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, January 7, 2010
introduced by Jeanne Heuving : MP3
recorded by Joe Milutis

Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver at W2 Gallery, Jan. 8, 2010:
MP3
Recorded by Fred Wah

Reading at the Banff Center (Alberta, Canada)
"In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge," Feb. 20, 2010
audio and video

Launch and Signing of All the Whiskey in Heaven, Zinc Bar, NY, March 28, 2010
a reading of Charles Bernstein's poetry by friends and poets
Photos and full reading at this linked page

PennState University, Dec. 2, 2010: MP3
from All the Whiskey in Heaven and Recalculating. Introduced by Jeffrey Nealon. Roughly: "Unready, Unwilling, Unable," "Palukaville, "from 'Ambliopia," "Loneliness in Jersey City," "Every True Religion Is Bound to Fail," "Poems for Rehab," ""The 60s with Apology," "Theory of Flawed Design," For [Name Redacted], "Evaluation," "The Ballad of the Girly Man," "All the Whiskey in Heaven."

Reading for Art, Fantasy, and Experience at the Gross Foundation, New York, December 12, 2010
complete reading (14:25): MP3
complete discussion (11:27): MP3

Boise State MFA Reading Series, March 18, 2011
(1:04:13): MP3

Copenhagen, Gyldendal, May 8, 2011
(27:53): MP3

University of California, Los Angeles, intro Brian Kim Stefans, May 16, 2011
(1:16:50): MP3

Poetry Project,, St. Mark's Church, New York, October 5, 2011
(44:40): MP3; video

Poetry Foundation, Chicago Humanties Festival, November 13, 2011 – poetry reading only (45:48): MP3; Complete with intro and discussion (1:04): MP3
track list for reading only: 0:00: Chimera; 0:51: Autopsychographia (after Pessoa); 1:40: Unready, Unwilling, Unable; 8:22: In Utopia; 10:09: The Sixties, with Apologies; 11:47: Armed Stasis; 12:24: Pompei; 13:22: Two Stones with One Bird; 13:40: A Theory's Evolution; 15:08: Long Before the Rain, I Wept; 15:49: This Poem Is in Finnish; 18:19: The Bound Listener; 24:09; Dea%r Fr~ien%d; 27:32: The Introvert; 28:28: At Sunset ...; 28:59: Sapphics; 29:45: Before You Go; 34:42: Strike!, 44:14: Misfortune; 44:48 Chimera

Lyric Nation: 3 poems read with Felix Bernstein for The Nation, Jan. 3, 2012: "Chimera," Strike!, "All the Whiskey in Heaven"@The Nation
Three poems ( 10:19): MP3
1. Chimera (1:13): MP3
2. Strike! (7:55): MP3
3. All the Whiskey in Heaven (1:05): MP3

Artist's Institute, Jan. 7, 2012, New York, wirth Paolo Javier
1. "Likeness" (improvisaton, based on poem in Girly Man): (04:02): MP3
2. "Live of the Toll Takers" (Dark City): (17:57): MP3
Discussion with Javier (42:12): MP3

Lyrik Kabinett, Munich, January 25, 2012. Bilungual reading with Norbert Lange.
1. Introduction by Christian Lux: MP3
2. "What Makes a Poem a Poem" (improvisation): MP3
3. comment and intro to "Kiwi": MP3
4. "Kiwi Bird in Kiwi Tree": MP3
5. "Bricklayer's Arms": MP3
6. "Catabolism": MP3
7. "Influence of Kinship Patterns on the Perception of an Ambiguous Stimulus": MP3
8. "Thank You for Saying Thank You": MP3
9. "Let's Just Say": MP3
10. "Verdi and Postmodernism": MP3
11. "Castor Oil": MP3
12. "Johnny Cake Hollow": MP3
13. "All the Whiskey in Heaven": MP3
14. Discussion: MP3
15. "The Elfking" (adaption of Goethe's "Der Erlkonnig"): MP3

Xavier University, Feb. 1, 2012, Cincinnati, OH
(34:06): MP3

University of California, San Diego, May 2, 2012, introduction by Michael Davidson, discussion (cut-off) follows:
(140:59): MP3

Gallery Eof, Paris, reading Pied bot with tr. Martin Richet: "St McC," "Poem," "of course," "Take, Then, These," and at 15:33 "Dodgem" (read simultaneously) (from Shade) and new poems ("Autsopsychgraphia," "Dear Friend," "Strike!"): March 22, 2012
( 32:11): MP3

Convergence on Poetics, University of Washington Bothell, North Creek Events Center, September 27-30, 2012: (10:21): Charles Bernstein MP3 / complete reading (2:02:52): MP3

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