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  • A conversation with Charles Bernstein at WPS1.Org
    Clocktower Studio, New York, May 23, 2005
  • Complete Reading (28:32): MP3
  • Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1
  • Studio Engineer: Darrell McNeill
  • © 2005 Nick Piombino & Charles Bernstein

Reading and Discussion at the University at Buffalo, 1990

December 5

  1. Happenstance (5:41) : MP3
  2. Fantasy (4:12) : MP3
  3. The Broken Angel (2:37) : MP3
  4. Codex (1:43) : MP3
  5. An Odd Reprisal (2:07) : MP3
  6. Interior Demolition (2:19) : MP3
  7. X (published in "Avec", ed. Cydney Chadwick, David Bromige and Jim McCrary, Vol 2, No 1, 1989) (6:34) : MP3
  8. The Silence Spoke (0:53) : MP3
  9. The Frozen Witness (1:28) : MP3
  10. Manhattan (1:39) : MP3
  11. "Any m meant they came to a destination" (1:47) : MP3
  12. "The simple poetry of sleep" (3:13) : MP3
  13. Aphorisms (written in 1987) (5:10) : MP3
  14. Step (6:30) : MP3
  15. Complete Reading (45:52)

Poems from The Frozen Witness, Poems (Sun & Moon, 1988), and Light Street (Zasterle Press, 1996)

December 6

  1. Seminar Part I (46:06)
  2. Seminar Part II (46:00)          
  3. Seminar Part III (46:05)
Reading at the Ear Inn, January 27, 1979

Reading at the Ear Inn, February 16, 1985

Reading at the Ear Inn, February 17, 1988

Reading at the Ear Inn, April 22, 1989

Reading at the Ear Inn, April 7, 1990

Reading at the Ear Inn, February 2, 1991

Reading at the University at Buffalo, September 28, 2000

  • 1. Introduction (5:15) : MP3
  • 2. Opening: Email Responses (2:11) : MP3
  • from Poems (Sun & Moon, 1988)
  • 3. "Somewhere around St. Thomas" (3:04) : MP3
  • from Light Street (Zasterle Press, 1996)
  • 4. The Broken Angel (2:54) : MP3
  • from Theoretical Objects (Green Integer, 1999)
  • 5. 3rd Silent Manifesto (2:46) : MP3
  • 6. Missing (2:40) : MP3
  • 7. Solitaire (2:57) : MP3
  • 8. Submission (3:30) : MP3
  • 9. Cold Comfort (5:45) : MP3
  • 10. Eurydice Pleading with Orpheus to Stay Home (4:03) : MP3
  • from Rhizome #4 (ed. Standard Schaefer and Evan Calbi, 2000)
  • 11. The Wandering Poem (3:43) : MP3
  • 12. With Open Arms (6:21) : MP3
  • Complete Reading (45:08) : MP3

    • Reading at WKCR-FM, New York, on March 29, 2002

    1. 3rd Silent Manifesto (1:50): MP3
    2. Automatic Manifesto #7 (3:38): MP3
    3. Between the Voices (3:39): MP3
    4. Cold Comfort (4:35): MP3
    5. Dust (1:48): MP3
    6. Eurydice Pleading (3:33): MP3
    7. Imbroglio & Frozen Witness (4:56): MP3
    8. Impasse (2:55): MP3
    9. Interior Demolition (2:14): MP3
    10. Introduction & Allegro (1:40): MP3
    11. Missing (2:17): MP3
    12. Perhaps the Dream of Writing (2:27): MP3
    13. Solitaire (2:36): MP3
    14. Submission (3:16): MP3
    15. Broken Angel (3:16): MP3
    16. The Sphynx (2:02): MP3
    17. The Wandering Poem (2:44): MP3
    18. Time Bomb (1:23): MP3
    19. Whoever Listens Lovingly (1:25): MP3
    20. With Open Arms (5:30): MP3

    WKCR reading produced by Charles Bernstein & Tom Kelly

    Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, December 3, 2002

    complete reading (25:30): MP3

    KSDT, UCSD radio, broadcast Sunday, April 24, 2005

    1. Cut Here (published on As/Is) and Drew's Atlantic Sky (After Black Atlantic Sky by Drew Gardner, published in Slope 17) (4:44): MP3
    2. Silenced(published on Fait Accompli 7/12/04) (4:22): MP3
    3. 7/31/97 (published on As/Is poetry blog 7/11/03) (0:30): MP3
    4. Stick Dairyman (published on Stamen Pistel poetry blog 7/5/04) (1:00): MP3
    5. June Behead (published on Stamen Pistel 6/21/04) (0:58): MP3
    6. Sorry for the Delay (published on Stamen Pistel 6/18/04) (0:42): MP3
    7. Sotto Voce and Shelter Angel (published on Shampoo 17 poetry web site) (1:10): MP3
    8. Poems from Hegelian Honeymoon (published by Chax Press in 2004) (4:09): MP3
    9. Who Owns the Words: The Thought and The Poem (published on Fait Accompli) (3:09): MP3
    10. Career of the Poet (published on As/Is poetry blog) (2:54): MP3
    11. History's Echoic Flying Lessons (published on nemski.com) (2:28): MP3

    Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club/Segue Series, Nov. 11, 2006

    1. Introduction (5:19) : MP3
    2. Opening: Nick Piombino on the Contradicta series (1:49) : MP3
    3. Contradicta (various) (6:50) : MP3
    4. Opening: On literary time & Fait Accompli (NY: Heretical Texts, 2007) (2:41) : MP3
    5. Selected Fait Accompli weblog entries:
      5. March 11 (4:24) : MP3
    6. April 26 (6:20) : MP3
    7. May 4 (2:19) : MP3
    8. May 6 (2:05) : MP3
    9. May 8 (3:23) : MP3
    10. Complete Reading (35:10): MP3

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