Charles Bernstein

Singles
Five Poems from Girly Man, studio recording, December 20, 2004
Raymond Federman & Charles Bernstein, "Dada 2," 1996 (based on a poem by Federman, digitally edited by Bernstein from the Federman LINEBreak show) (0:45): MP3
"Empty Biscuits" (from With Strings) (1:00): MP3
"The Ballad of the Girly Man" on the Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, April 22, 2005: MP3, Text
"The Bricklayer's Arms," recorded in New York City (2004); Text
"Thank You for Saying Thank You," Columbia University, 2001, via Academy of American  Poetry.
"Thank You for Saying Thank You" recorded at the Boston Marathon in 2003
broadcast April 7, 2007 on Weekend America (on American Public Media)
"Solidarity Is the Name We Give to What We Cannot Hold" from My Way, MP3 file, recorded in Bleancourt, France on Dec. 13, 1999; in RealAudio, from Poésie Américaine: 1950-2000. ed. Jacques Darras (Brussels: Le Cri Editions of In'Hui 56/57, 2002)
"Asylum" from Islets/Irritations, MP3 file, recorded in Buffalo by Juliette Valery, Sept. 13, 1998; in RealAudio, from Crossing, audio CD (Bordeaux, France: Format Americaine, 2000)
"Azoot D'Puund" from Poetic Justice (Republics of Reality), MP3 file, recorded for Cabinet #1, Winter 2000; in RealAudio
"A Defence of Poetry" from My Way: Speeches and Poems (rec.1994 by Chris Funkhouser, from Kenning); text (from Cybergraphia)
"Dark City" -- a reading from Dark City recorded for the Live at the Ear project in 1992.
Guess Language. Audio cassette published by Audio Muzixa Qet (Madison: 1986). .Bernstein reads Ambliopia from The Sophist. MP3 (18:32)
"Like This" from With Strings in RealAudio format, mid-90s (7 minutes).
"The Inevitable Flow of Material Things through the Pores of the Years" from With Strings in RealAudio format, miod-90s (7 minutes).
Soapy Water in MP3, from Postmodern Culture. 1994 ; original .au file
Claire-in-the-Building in MP3, from Postmodern Culture 1994; original .au file
Mao Tse Tung Wore Khakis in MP3, from Postmodern Culture 1994; original .au file (Or select "Soapy Water," "Claire-in-the-Building," and "Mao Tse Tung Wore Khakis" as " Three Poems" via a connect to Postmodern Culture.)
"Soul Under" (from Shade), MP3 (via Ubuweb) from Sugar, Alcohol, and Meat (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1980)
Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics [Presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003]
    "How Empty Is My Bread Pudding," Oct. 17th
    "War Stories" (excerpt), Oct. 18th

Readings
Anthology Film Archives, April 3. New York, 1977
Place Center, New York, Dec. 18, 1977
Six Fillious Reading (with McCaffery, Higgins, et al), February 7, 1979
Ithaca, NY, May 8, 1982
Temple University, Philadelphia - November 15, 1988: MP3
Naropa Institute, Boulder, Co., in 1991, in RealAudio (32 minutes)
With Robert Creeley and Susan Howe at SUNY Buffalo - March 31, 1995
"Cortland Review": 1999 New School (NY) Reading and Interview (with David Lehman)
from the libretto to Shadowtime at Kelly Writers House, UPenn, Oct. 13, 2000
Harvard University - February 21, 2001
The Line Reading Series, January 15, 2002
Live at Kelly Writers House, UPenn, September 25, 2003
Brooklyn Poetique, Sept. 12, 2004
From Radio Poetique's Poetic Brooklyn, September 13, 2004
Segue at Bowery Poetry Club, New York, October 2, 2004
Discrete Reading Series,Chicago, November 21, 2004
Mills College, Oakland, November 9, 2004
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, April 11, 2006
Segue at Bowery Poetry  Club, New York, April 28, 2007
Mo Pitkin's, New York, June 6, 2007 (with John Ashbery)
Yale University Beinecke Library, Oct. 16, 2007: MP3 (49:49)
A Celebration of Jackson Mac Low's Thing of Beauty, January 18, 2008

Collected Readings from Girly Man

Audio Works
Class
"Close Listening" introduction performed by synthetic voices (July 2001): MP3 (long version), MP3 (short version); from Drunken Boat (Quicktime)

Radio
Books Books Books - Charles Bernstein & Robert Creeley; pilot for WBFO radio program in mid 1990s, with host Henry Sussman (46:29): MP3 , RealAudio
The Radio Reading Project -- reading from Dark City and interview by Ernesto Grosman, 1998 (60 minutes): Intro (0:55) and Reading (55:05): MP3
"Against National Poetry Month as Such"  -- All Things Considered: NPR - April 19, 2001 (3:23)
Charles Bernstein & Kenneth Goldsmith on WFMU - July 5, 2001 (1:02:43): MP3 , RealAudio
Live at WKCR-FM (New York) on March 8, 2002
"What's the Word?": 2003 MLA Radio Program featuring Steve McCaffery, Bob Perelman, and Charles Bernstein (29:11): mp3
Radio Radio (2003) - program 5 of Martin Spinelli's series (44:59): MP3 , RealAudio
"Poet's Voices" - Sara Fishko interviews Ann Lauterbach and Charles Bernstein for Morning Edition and Studio 360 (July 11, 2003) (6:53): mp3
Cross-Cultural Poetics Interview on The Sophist & World on Fire, 3/15/04: (31:53): MP3 (31MB), RealAudio (17MB)
Cross-Cultural Poetics Interview on Shadowtime. 2005: part one (28:02), part two (30:07)
Cross-Cultural Poetics Interview on Girly Man, April 15. 2007 (32 20:): MP3

Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein
reading their work and in conversation with Susan Howe for Pacifica Radio
March 14, 1979, full program one hour: MP3
Bernstein reads "Matters of Policy" from Controlling Interests (11:31): MP3

The Yellow Pages Ads
The Yellow Pages Ads with Jon Lovits

Radical Jewish Poetry/Secular Jewish Practice

What Makes a Poem a Poem

The Answer

University of Chicago Poem Present series: Nov. 30 / Dec. 1, 2006 

Talk To Me (19:16) from "Impulsive Behavior" at the Whitney Museum, NY,

LINKS

Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1985

"Artifice of Absorption" -- August 25, 1984, New Poetics Colloquium
45 minute talk, the protype for the final poem-in-verse": MP3
August 24, 1984, poetry reading, New Poetics Colloquium: MP3:

June 10, 1989 reading:
Emotions of Normal People (from Dark City)
The Lives of the Toll-Takers (from Dark City)
The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi Tree (from Rough Trades)
Targets of Opportunity (from Rough Trades)
Hard Copy (from Residual Rubbernecking)
Untitled (from Residual Rubbernecking)
Mall at Night (from Residual Rubbernecking)
Internal Loss Control (from The Absent Father in Dumbo)
External Market Constraints (from The Absent Father in Dumbo)
Nina's Party at Judy's Gym (from Rough Trades)
For (from Shade)
Debris of Shock / Shock of Debris (from Dark City)
Of Time and the Line (from Rough Trades
Sunsickness (from Dark City)

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