Robert Grenier

Robert Grenier lives in a sometime ecstatic state, but sometimes not, in Bolinas, California where he extends the tradition of the pastoral poem in ways entirely his own. One of the most influential poets of his generation, Grenier has, over the past forty years, pushed poetry into constantly new frontiers of practice and utterance. Over the past decade, Grenier has created handwritten poems that cross the upper limit of inscription to be both writing and drawing.

Grenier in conversation with Charles Bernstein, Oct. 20, 2006 - two programs:

Close Listening -- readings and conversations at WPS1.Org; Clocktower Studio, New York, October 20, 2006

program one:

Grenier discusses his development as a poet, his breaking away from conventional book format, his movement toward handwritten or "drawn" poems, and his relation to Larry Eigner.

Complete Recording (26:57): MP3

program two:

Grenier reads from and discusses Sentences, a digital version of which is linked to his EPC page.

Complete Recording (27:34): MP3

A guide to the reading of Sentences in this recording:

WPS1 engineer: Lucy Sinanjuntak

Interview and Discussion on 1959-1964 with Grenier, Al Filreis, Ron Silliman, and Bob Perelman at the Kelly Writers House, on October 27, 2009

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 27, 2009