St. Mark's Talks

Curated and Moderated by Charles Bernstien

October 25, 1984

"Politics and Language"

• introduction (2:45): MP3
• Bruce Boone (19:48): MP3
• P. Inman (15:08): MP3
• Erica Hunt (18:36): MP3
• Jackson Mac Low (16:29): MP3
• discussion (1:23:03): MP3

November 11, 1984

• "line music counterpoint disjunction and the measure of mind"


• David Antin, part 1, includes introduction by Bernstein (45:44) MP3
• part 2 (22:45) MP3
• discussion (46:16) MP3

December 9, 1984

• "Various Devices -- Oppositional Poetics"
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• Barrett Warren [unavailable: pending permission of the author]

January 10, 1985

• "Writing as General Economy"
  
  
poster pdf


• Steve McCaffery, part 1 (45:32): MP3
• part 2 (48:03): MP3
• part 3 (26:59): MP3

pdf poster for the next four talks

Feb. 28, 1985

• George-Therese Dickinson and Peter Searton
not recorded at the request of the poets

March 31, 1985

Language and 'Paradise'

• only the last ten minutes of the talk by Lyn Hejinian were recorded


• Lyn Hejinian (9:03): MP3

April 24, 1985

"Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol"

• Nathaniel Mackey (1:18:24): MP3
• discussion (45:28): MP3

May 2, 1985

• "What Takes?"
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• Anne Waldman (54:52): MP3
• discussion (38:35): MP3

June 6, 1985

• "The Tradition of Marginality"


• Kathleen Fraser (31:42): MP3
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis (26:47): MP3
• discussion (1:20:30): MP3

October 4, 1985

• "Condition, Information, and the Paranoia of the New"


• David Bromige (1:34:00): MP3
• discussion (1:01:20): MP3

October 25, 1985

• "Writing from a House of Women"


• Judy Grahn (1:25:46): MP3
• discussion (42:39): MP3

November 11, 1985

• the talks by Robert Glück and Lydia Davis were not recorded


• Nick Piombino (27:21): MP3
• discussion (1:20:30): MP3

January 26, 1986

• on the Black Arts movement, projective verse, and cinema


• Lorenzo Thomas (1:13:19): MP3
• discussion (42:35): MP3

March 23, 1986

• "Mysteriously Speaking of the Mysterious Byzantine Proposals of the Poem"


• introduction (2:48): MP3
• Barbara Guest (24:59): MP3
• discussion (54:21): MP3

April 13, 1986

• "Postmodernism: Sign for a Struggle, the Struggle for the Sign" (draft)


• introduction (3:43): MP3
• Ron Silliman (1:34:33): MP3
• discussion (40:39): MP3


• Silliman pubished the final version of this talk in Poetics Journal, No. 7, September, 1987, pp. 18–39. Reprinted in Contemporary American Poet-Critics, translated into Serbian by Dubravka Djuric and published in Gradina, Vol. 26, No. 2–3, 1991, Nis, Yugoslavia, pp. 162–179

May 25, 1986

• the first half of the talk "Celine, Pound, and Fascism" by Bob Perelman was not recorded


• Bob Perelman (50:18): MP3

Also of Interest

• New York Talk

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