Web Log Index — 2006

Chronological index. Dates link to the post’s permalink; descriptions are drawn from the nearest meaningful line before the “link”.

June 2006

1. 06-13-06 — image: Susan Bee Some Recent Reviews of Shadowtrime Richard Deming on the Green Integer libretto (Rain Taxi) Anne Ozorio on the CD (Music Web ) —— & also: Paul Driver on the CD ( The Sunday Time--London) Classical Source.Com (Andrew Toovey) Music Web (Hubert…
2. 06-15-06 — Richard Foreman on Close Listening Three new Close Listening radio shows, with Richard Foreman. Richard Foreman Links: EPC Author Page Ontological Hysteric Theater home page Charles Bernstein in conversation with Richard Foreman (TDR, 1992) at Ubu.Com
3. 06-18-06 — Sunday Brunch Links Audio of the New Poetics Colloquium, Vancouver,1985 Kootenay School of Writing. KSW is in the process of upgrading the files on this site, but as it is now: talks and readings by Howe, Perelman, Silliman, Brossard, Hejinian, Thesen, Gay,…
4. 06-19-06 — The Dada show is now open in New York at the Museum of Modern Art (through Sept. 11) Caudio Amberian, "LSMFT: This Is not a Pope" (2006)

July 2006

1. 07-10-06 — Apostrophes & Things The Apostrophe Engine This is the little engine that could ... the source for Apostrophe: The Book by Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry, by means of which it is possible to create your own version of the work. One of the most…
2. 07-13-06 — Hail, Ossian! Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson Ossian Receiving the Spirits of the French Heroes, 1801 Now there was time when poets got some respect. Ossian, who many of us consider the authentic poetic voice of the British Isles, is greeted by none other than…
3. 07-18-06 — New at PennSound Ezra Pound reading from The Cantos at Spoleto in 1967 Allen Ginsberg reading Howl, Kaddish and much else in San Francisco in 1956 and 1959 in San Francisco and in New York in 1995 Barbara Guest in Buffalo in 1992: reading and a lecture, "How…
4. 07-21-06 — Present Tense: Literary Artists & Performers Engaging Chaucer A special presentation of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the New Chaucer Society Friday, July 28 at 8pm Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus (113 West 60th St., in Manhattan) Lowenstein…
5. 07-24-06 — Susan Bee & Charles Bernstein Dumbstruck 2006
6. 07-27-06 — Speaking of the Modern and Contemporary Poetics series ... just in the mail are our two newest books: Rachel DuPlessis, Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work & Andrew Dubois, Ashbery's Forms of Attention
7. 07-28-06 — Croniópios Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro Photo © José Eduardo Barros During my visit to Brazil in July, I spent the afternoon in Rio with the very engaging poet and psychoanalyst Solange Rebuzzi. We took a whirlwind trip through the city on a very rainy…
8. 07-29-06 — Louise Bennett 1919-2006

August 2006

1. 08-01-06 — Doping Scandal Rocks Poetry
2. 08-03-06 — The University of Alabama Press Modern and Contemporary Poetry series has just published Rachel DuPlessis's The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice, which brings back into print her influential collection of essays. We are publishing this as a companion…
3. 08-06-06 — New at PennSound Jerome McGann Performance of 'Dialogue on Dialogue' recorded at SUNY Buffalo, April 3, 1991 Additional Resources: McGann home page at UVa
4. 08-07-06 — text from "How Empty Is My Bread Pudding" [published in No 4 (2005)] image: Susan Bee, detail from Babe
5. 08-10-06 — Waveform Prosody
6. 08-11-06 — Four Brief Reviews Colin Browne, Ground Water (Vancouver: Talon Books, 2002) Browne’s book, written from the late 80s to 2001, operates more like a succession of strata, in the Robert Smithson sense, than a conventional collection of poems. Ground Water…
7. 08-16-06 — forthcoming the University of California Press Fall 2006: & back in print this Fall: ——— On Words: A Symposium on the Life and Work of Robert Creeley SUNY-Buffalo, Oct. 12-14 ——— Reconsidering Robert Creeley (1926–2005) 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom…
8. 08-17-06 — forthcoming the University of California Press Fall 2006: & back in print this Fall: ——— On Words: A Symposium on the Life and Work of Robert Creeley SUNY-Buffalo, Oct. 12-14 ——— Reconsidering Robert Creeley (1926–2005) 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom…
9. 08-19-06 — In its final stages of construction, the new Kootenay School of Writing audio archive is a treasure trove. Donato Mancini has been working on this for a couple of years and has done a terrific job. It includes the complete recordings from both the New Poetics…
10. 08-20-06 — A day at the beach Is a peach of a day To run & sing & play We'll swim 'till 4 And go home for some snores Then go back to the beach again from "Emma's Nursery Rimes" forthcoming in Girly Man Race Point, August 18, 2006
11. 08-26-06 — George Lakoff George came to visit Susan Bee and me on the Fourth of July. He was in town to promote his new book, Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Ideal. I asked him why John Kerry had failed to respond forcefully to the Swift Boat…
12. 08-30-06 — The Paraliterary The Kootenay School of Writing has sent out a call for “paraliterary" work for W magazine & they give this great list of possibilities: 1. informational texts (surveys; polls; maps; statistical charts; chronologies; diagrams; 2. conspiracy…

September 2006

1. 09-01-06 — Anne-Marie Albiach Anne-Marie Albiach, Figured Image, tr. Keith Waldrop ( Sausalito: Post-Apollo 2006) _______, Figurations de l'image (Paris: Flammarion, 2004) Anne-Marie Albiach's words are never alone on the page, having each other for company, just as…
2. 09-04-06 — FUTUREPOEM BOOKS OPEN READING PERIOD Futurepoem books will hold an open reading period for manuscripts during the month of September 2006. Manuscripts must be postmarked during the month of September to be considered. Editors for this reading period will be…
3. 09-07-06 — photo from Jacket Michael Palmer receives the Wallace Stevens Award from the American Academy of Poets from the Poets.Org Press Release: The $100,000 prize recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry. The judges for the award were poets…
4. 09-08-06 — Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Bob Dylan and the Adolescent Sublime from The Brooklyn Rail (Sept. 2006) Bobby Zimmerman done good. From 1962, when, at the age of 22 he invented himself as Bob Dylan, and for the next 13 years, ending with one his many…
5. 09-13-06 — Segue Reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York Fall Reading Schedule ——— Chris Westcott is organizing a select New York City Poetry Calendar to add to the Columbia New Poetry web site. Says Chris: I am writing to ask for your help & submissions to…
6. 09-14-06 — Cooking by Number (Holiday Recipes) EPC Archive PublicationNew issue of Drunken Boat features Jean-Jacques Poucel's Oulipo compendium which includes both historical material and much new poetry in the wake of ... & also "Canadian Strange" a section of new…
7. 09-16-06 — Archive Publication
8. 09-18-06 — Jean Daive, Anne-Marie Albiach L’Exact Réel (Marseille: Éric Pesty Éditeur, 2006) This volume collects a number of linked interviews by Daive of Albiach. In the first, she discusses État in a transcription of a 1978 radio broadcast. The next section comes…
9. 09-21-06 — I have made a web page of some poems and essays of the Beograd poet and translator Dubravka Djurić. Dubravka is pictured above with Juliana Spahr, in a photo from 2003. Dubravka and Misko Suvakovic edited Impossible Histories: Historic Avant-Gardes,…
10. 09-30-06 — photo: Turun Sanomat Today I am at the Turku, Finland, Book Fair for the release of A Defence of Poetry: Essays and Poems from Two Millennia translated, and with an introduction by, Leevi Lehto and Markku Into, Teemu Manninen, Tuomas Nevanlinna, Tommi…

October 2006

1. 10-09-06 — Now @ PennSound Henry Hills's A New Life photo: Charles Bernstein (2006) A New Life, 1988-1998 now available at PennSound in .mov A New Life Several other Hills films are also distributed by PennSound.
2. 10-10-06 — Leevi Lehto (on his web site) has provided a link to writing in English by Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist who was assassinated this week Leevi writes: Yesterday's "candle manifestation", organized by the Finnish PEN, in front of the Russian…
3. 10-11-06 — Robert Creeley Collected Poems in two volumes is now out from the University of California Press There is no poetry more vivid, immediate, or telling than Robert Creeley’s. His Collected Poems extends the achievement of Dickinson, Whitman, and Williams into…
4. 10-12-06 — =================== Ask Gertrude postmodern advice avant la lettre ========================= Cal Arts Experimental Writing Fesitival =========================== Lara Odell has a new website of her work which includes a clip from my performance in Incident at…
5. 10-13-06 — Mimi on the Beach video portrait Mimi Gross Mimi believes the key thing about doing portraits is the relationship you have with the subject. A couple of years ago, she did a portrait of Felix and me. We were at New Beach and Mimi, as always, had brought a…
6. 10-14-06 — PernSound's First Podcast with host Al Filreis featuring selections from the readings of Jerome Rothenberg MP3 (15:41) Rothenberg Resources EPC Page & PennSound page
7. 10-15-06 — New Paintings by Susan Bee now on-line Après le Déluge (detail) Après le Dèluge At Sea Blue Ladies Childhood's End The Flood Happy Anniversary The Joker Meteoric Blooms Triangle Noir Unbridled Dawn
8. 10-16-06 — Richard Foreman's new production is now in rehearsal & today he has started a new blog. . In this first posting he provides some notes on the production and his thinking in/around/through it: What I do in my theater is simply to layer different self contained…
9. 10-17-06 — La política de la forma poética [The Politics of Poetic Form], tr. Jorge Miralles, Néstor Cabrera, Nora Leylen, and Beatriz Pérez, with intro by Cabrera (La Habana: Torre de Letras, 2006). I just received a copy of this book, which was published in an edition…
10. 10-17-06 — pdf of poster text of poster
11. 10-19-06 — Really Hearing Eigner immediacy and force take priority photo: Kit Robinson Listen to Larry Eigner read his classic 1967 poem & follow along with the text of the poem. MP3 (0:29) Again dawn the sky dropped its invisible whiteness we saw pass out nowhere empty…
12. 10-20-06 — Archive of the Now is a major new poetry audio site featuring the work of more than 65 UK-based poets with many of the readings recorded especially for this site. Includes biographical and bibliographical information on the poets. Created by Andrea Brady at…
13. 10-22-06 — photo: © C. Bernstein 2006 Close Listening readings and conversations at WPS1.Org Clocktower Studio, New York October 20, 2006 Robert Grenier lives in a sometime ecstatic state, but sometimes not, in Bolinas, California, where he extends the tradition of the…
14. 10-24-06 — Worth a Detour Catherine Walsh, City West (Exeter, UK: Shearsman Books, 2005) Walsh’s fourth book extends, relays, and replays the larcenies of space, syntax and rime that made her earlier work stand out as among the very best poetry from Ireland, or anywhere…
15. 10-25-06 — My advise to young poets is always: start your own magazine or press, & publish your own work and those of your contemporaries whose poems seem most crucial for the art. And if possible, respond as much as possible, through poetics and reviews, to this work.…
16. 10-28-06-PM — cover image by Francie Shaw new from Roof distributed by SPD IFLIFE presents some of the wittiest, politically prescient and best American poems of this new century. The scope of the collection is prodigious, from the war in Iraq to domestic life, from the…
17. 10-28-06 — photo of Blaser, ©2006, Mark Goldstein
18. 10-29-06 — The Taste Is What Counts Judith Goldman, DeathStar/Rico-Chet (Oakland: O Books, 2006) Like a Situationist armed with a search engine, Judith Goldman provides a homeopathic cure for a polis drowning in news feeds that starve instead of inform. Listen, O,…
19. 10-30-06 — Parsing @ 30 G A M M M ::: an Italian poetry website has just released a translation by Gherardo Bortolotti with Alessia Folcio of sections from Parsing & Rimbaud's Illuminations tr. Michele Zaffarano available both on the site & as a pdf ebook FRASI =…
20. 10-31-06-pm — Fantasy on Nightmare on Elm Street Theme [from Girly Man] There is a place not here nor near nor far Goes and comes wherever you are Don’t go don’t go don’t go [Written to the tune of composer Charles Bernstein’s theme for Nightmare on Elm Street]…
21. 10-31-06 — Blue Tile/Azulejo Régis Bonvicino translated by Charles Bernstein featured in the November issue of Green Integer Review along with Armantrout, Matlin, Andrade tr. Caws, Middleton, Fernandez, Toby Olson, Evenson, and Wittner Blue Tile My pa & mine ma dead no…

November 2006

1. 11-02-06 — A montage (variations on a theme) from Joseph Kosuth's October 2006, show at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York a labyrinth into which I can venture (a play of works by guests and foreigners)
2. 11-03-06 — Poetry and Other Englishes: A Forum Edited by David Buuck and Juliana Spahr for boundary 2 Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 2006 David Buuck and Juliana Spahr Introduction Lasana Sekou shiphole II winternights M. NourbeSe Adams-Philip Zong! #25 and Zong! #26…
3. 11-04-06-pm — New York Art Walk Another great Fred Tomaselli show at James Cohan Gallery (through Nov. 11) (photos don't get to what is so good about this work) but new to me, and stunning, is the Nick Cave show through Nov. 11 at Jack Shainman (at which link some good…
4. 11-04-06 — New on PennSound/Classics OLD SONGS (archaic Greek poems put to music) Translated & sung by Mark Jickling and Chris Mason We have made available four CDs: "19 Old Songs," featuring translations from Sappho, Archilochus, Xenophanes, Alcaeus, Praxilla, Solon,…
5. 11-06-06 — Anthologies of Note Stephanie Young, ed., Bay Poetics ( Newton, Mass.: Faux Press, 2006). See also Tom Orange’s blog related to the anthology. Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, & Thomas Travisano, eds., The New Anthology of American Poetry: Modernisms…
6. 11-07-06 — Election Day 2006 Blues & Reds The truth is hidden in a veil of tears The scabs of the mourners grow thick with fear the full post is now HERE
7. 11-10-06-PM — ==== I am pleased to announce Leevi Lehto's EPC author page now open for business first 100 customers get free admission & then the next 100 & then the next 100 ...
8. 11-10-06 — Christina Makris and Catherine Martinby , as well as to by December 8, 2006. ===================================================== HOWE on the WEB: EPC author page PennSound…
9. 11-12-06 — As we look back, post-election, over the past few years it says a lot about who we are as a country that Lynne Stewart is going to jail on the John Ashcroft Stop the First Amendment Express Paul Chan has made an on-the-mark video about Stewart in which she…
10. 11-13-06 — Recommended Reading Rabaté, Jean-Michel, ed., Architecture Against Death / Architecture Contre Mort, a special double issue (two books: No 21/22) of Interfaces: Image Texte Language (Worcester, Mass. and Paris, 2003) A collection of essays on the recent work…
11. 11-13-06 — Girly Man meets Ballimore/DC signing & reading i.e. reading series Saturday, November 18th 4 pm - 6pm I will be reading with Rod Smith Clayton & Co. Fine Books 317 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 410-752-6800 ++++++++ & then Rod will be my host at Bridge…
12. 11-15-06 — Mullen’s Murmur: Murder, Mayhem, Memory, Madness, Motherhood, Menace [Laura Mullen Introduction at Futurepoem book party, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, New York, Nov. 14, 2006] At 4 o’clock this afternoon Susan came home a handed me a package from Dan…
13. 11-16-06-PM — Nathaniel Mackey 2006 National Book Award for Poetry for Splay Anthem New Directions photo: ©Chris Funkhouser/EPC Mackey@PennSound Mackey@EPC
14. 11-16-06 — Nicole Brossard on PennSound Segue Reading at Double Happiness in New York, May 5, 2001 Introduction (4:35) Fleche, Songe, et Promenade (7:07) If We Perform (1:55) Si Ceci Est Mal (2:48) Installations (6:27) Le Cou de Lee Miller (3:31) Complete Recording…
15. 11-17-06 — Tonight's the final event of the Festival of Contemporary Japanese Women Poets in New York presented by Belladonna, Poets House, Bowery Poetry Club, & Litmus Press. Last night, there was delightfully energetic reading at BPC. The five visiting poets very much…
16. 11-18-06 — Tom Devaney's PennSound MP3 picks for Winter 2006-2007 Kiss Me Deadly - Elizabeth Willis Dream On - James Tate Excerpt from I Remember, recorded GPS, February 11, 1974 - Joe Brainard Basic Science - Fanny Howe Praise Poem Elizabeth Murray - Bob Holman Oh - CK…
17. 11-20-06 — Henry's Dilemma Henry Hills I turned the tables on Henry, who has been filming me for thirty years. He was briefly in New York, on his way back to Prague, where he has been living for the past year. July 26, 2006 download: 30 sec., 4mb
18. 11-21-06 — David Antin Some Questions about Modernism David Antin's essay, "Some Questions of Modernism" was published in Occident, from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. I read the essay at the time with great interest, as did many of my friends. Xerox…
19. 11-22-06 — The Sound of Poetry at the MLA Convention Philadelphia/2006 This year's Presidential Forum at the MLA Annual Convention organized by Marjorie Perloff, is called "The Sound of Poetry, the Poetry of Sound." There will be both the main forum, three affiliated…
20. 11-25-06 — Festival of Contemporary Japanese Women Poets (NY, November 15-17, 2006) drawings by Mimi Gross Kyong-Mi Park Takako Arai

December 2006

1. 12-03-06 — A Conversation with Henry Hills On April 4, 1985, Henry Hills and I walked through the park and talked and talked. Henry was putting together his book Making Money, based on his film Money. from Making Money HH: With film, when you deal with the shoots you…
2. 12-06-06 — photo: EPC Robin Blaser author page The Fire Collected Essays of Robin Blaser Edited and with a commentary by Miriam Nichols University of California Press Robin Blaser’s best known essay is “The Practice of Outside,” his extended introduction to the poetry…
3. 12-07-06 — Susan Bee / Miriam Laufer review Dec. 2006 Art in America
4. 12-08-06 — photo: Gerard Melanga James Schuyler EPC author page edited by Jack Krick with a selection of Schuyler poems selected by Charles North
5. 12-09-06 — PEPC is pleased to announce the digital edition of More Works by Wystan Curnow at Jack Books ------------------------------------ Wystan at Penn Wystan Curnow Wystan had just come to town from the Creeley conference. In 1993, he had spent a semester in…
6. 12-11-06 — EHON The Artist and the Book in Japan October 20, 2006 through February 4, 2007 Humanities and Social Sciences Library, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street New York Another great show from the New York Public Library at 42nd Street. This one is a tribute to the legacy…
7. 12-13-06 — Pink Kid Gloves Curated by Jinnine Pak Susan Bee, Sarah Blackwelder, Fay Ku, Deborah Wasserman presented by the alternative art producer chashama 112 West 44th Street (between 6th & 7th Aves) December 4 - December 22, 2006 Gallery Hours are Friday through…
8. 12-15-06 — This review appears in the December/January issue of The Brooklyn Rail. The Weatherwomen’s Terror Sing a Battle Song: Poems by Women in the Weather Underground Organization (Factory School/Southpaw Culture, 2006; originally published in 1975 by the Red Dragon…
9. 12-18-06 — Richard Tuttle on Close Listening photo: ©2006 Charles Bernstein/PennSound Close Listening readings and conversations at WPS1.Org Clocktower Studio, New York, December 4, 2006 Program One Tuttle reads two texts, "Close to Art" and "Differentials and Service"…
10. 12-20-06 — Ploughshares & me: An Interview Douglas Messerli on Djuna Barnes via BBC James Sherry on The Grand Piano project preview at Jacket Stephen Fredman: Introduction to Edward Dorn also linked at the EPC Dorn Page, which includes a new set of Dorn material…
11. 12-20-06 — The University of Alabama Press & the Modern and Contemporary and Poetics series, edited by Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer are pleased to announce these upcoming events at the 2006 MLA conference in Philadelphia. On Thursday, Dec 28th from 5 to 6 p.m.…
12. 12-21-06 — Extra: Girly Man Rattles Chains Rattling the Chains of American Poetry Charles Bernstein’s unique blend of polemic, parody and just plain invention a review of Girly Man by David Kauffman in this week's FORWARD Girly Man web site: poems, MP3s, notes *…
13. 12-23-06 — Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination By Issue By Author See, for example, Stanley Aronowitz in issue 2 on why there is no Left political party in the U.S. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contemporary Literature Fall 2006 has the most comprehensive…
14. 12-26-06 — Otto Dix: Over the Top Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s November 14, 2006–February 19, 2007 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Art Dealer Alfred Flechtheim, 1926 Dr. Hans Koch, 1921 To Beauty, 1922 (self-portrait)2 The Otto Dix…
15. 12-27-06 — Bill Lavender I of the Storm (New Orleans: Trembling Pillow, 2006) It’s as if a Greek chorus had found its way into the mouth an everyman in the local bar of the mind, recounting the inner life of America from the assassination of Kennedy to catastrophe of…
16. 12-31-06-pm — International Exchange for Poetic Invention is a multilanguage webblog started by Netherlands poet Ton van 't Hof & myself with links and information on poetic invention – our term for exploratory/ investigative/experimental/radical/ conceptual poetry. We…
17. 12-31-06 — PennSound is pleased to announce the release of The Complete Recordings of William Carlos Williams

 

Web Log Index — 2007

 

January 2007

1. 01-02-07 — D.S. Marriott Incognegro (Salt, 2006) In and around 1990, D.S. Marriott published a few startling chapbooks that while identifiable with a kind of Cambridge (UK) style, seemed to eviscerate the very grounds of their own expression. As some of these works…
2. 01-04-07 — Ann Lauterbach on Close Listening photo: ©2006 Charles Bernstein/Pennsound Close Listening Readings and conversations at WPS1.Org Clocktower Studio, New York, December 4, 2006 Program One: Poetry Reading Full program (27:45) Program Two Lauterbach in…
3. 01-10-07 — The Yellow Pages Ads Filmed in Hollywood, Dec. 10, 1998 courtesty UBU.Com & Notre Dame Review Radio Ads (Charles Bernstein) Draperies (0:32) Readings (0:31) Yellow Pages Ads outtake: Charles Bernstein interviews Yellow Pages author Jon Lovitz Outtake (11:33)…
4. 01-15-07 — Chax Press New York City Book Launch a report Charles Alexander NEW NEW YORK BOOKS A CHAX Press Book Party and Reading with special guest Junction Press Sunday, January 14 at 2 PM Bowery Poetry Club New York Celebrating the publication of Certain Slants, by…
5. 01-16-07 — Opens January 18th, 2007 (New York City) Tickets on sale now. show info (incuding Richard Foreman's notes) show blog Foreman at EPC Foreman at PennSound
6. 01-17-07 — Alan Davies photo: © 2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound Close Listening WPS1 Reading and Conversation. January 5, 2006 Program One: Interview with Charles Bernstein (27:02) Program Two (Selected Poems) Complete Program (26:56) Singles: From "Book" 2 (19:36)…
7. 01-21-07 — The Reproduction of Profiles : Twentieth Anniversary Rosmarie Waldrop's The Reproduction of Profiles has just been reissued by New Directions as part of Curves to the Apple, which includes the two later parts of her trilogy, Lawn of the Excluded Middle and…
8. 01-22-07 — Rod Smith at PennSound photo ©2006 Charles Bernstein/PennSound
9. 01-23-07 — New at PEPC Library This is the last poem in John Yau's Paradiso Diaspora Penguin Books. 2006: In the Kingdom of Poetry (after Carlos Drummond de Andrade) Don’t write poems about yourself. Don’t call attention to your revelations or make confessions. Even if…
10. 01-27-07 — photo: Paula Court Last week, I got to see the new Richard Foreman show Wake-Up Mr. Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind is Dead! I've seen every Foreman show since Rhoda in Potatoland in 1975 & am now on the board of the Ontological Hysteric Theater, so you can say…
11. 01-28-07 — Robert Pinsky writes on Girly Man in his "Poet's Choice" column in today's Washington Post ==== Susan Bee's and Jerome Rothenberg's The Burning Babe from Granary Books is one of many collaborations featured in Your New Face: Poet/Artist Collaborations…
12. 01-31-07 — Leslie Loses Her Breath Leslie Scalapino Leslie was in New York for the Poetry Project panels on her work. She came by our place for lox & bagels. I asked her about the time she literally lost her breath in Tibet. November 12, 2006 (video mp4, 48 seconds, 7.8…

February 2007

1. 02-03-07-PM — Call for Papers The Poetry of the Americas April 12, 13 and 14, 2007 An International Symposium on recent trends in Hispanic poetry; new directions in criticism on poetry; and the relationship between Hispanic and American poetry Keynote Speaker MARJORIE…
2. 02-03-07 — Norman Fischer photo: © 2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound Close Listening WPS1 Reading and Conversation. January 5, 2006
3. 02-04-07 — M /E / A/ N /I /N /G Online # 4 (February 2007) Feminist Art: A Reassessment Edited by Susan Bee & Mira Schor A forum including writing and images by artists and art historians from three generations Irina Aristarkhova, Susan Bee, Emma Bee Bernstein, Johanna…
4. 02-04-07 — Tuesday, February 6. 7:30PM Department of English / School of Mass Communications / School of the Arts Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond An NEH Year Program Funded by the VCU Honors College Commons Theater VCU Student Commons (907 Floyd Ave) Blogging…
5. 02-07-07 — Thomas Fink on Girly Man at Verse ========= Philadelphia Inquirer on PennSound ================== Kelly Writers House Hart Crane panel from last week with Samuel Delany and Brian Reed now on PennSound ======== Thanks to Eric Baus PennSound has now made…
6. 02-07-07 — Ferneyhough wins 2007 Siemens Prize for Music Brian Ferneyhough has been awarded the 2007 Ernst von Siemens Prize for Music ( the so-called Nobel Prize for Music). This award is made to a composer, performer, or scholar who has made outstanding contributions…
7. 02-10-07 — Afterword to The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser (Revised and Expanded Edition) Edited by Miriam Nichols, University of California Press, 2006 This piece is being published simultaneously in The Poetry Project Newsletter (Feb/March issue) &…
8. 02-14-07 — Susan Howe @ Kelly Writers House University of Pennsylvania Weds. 2/14 at 6:30 poetry reading Thursday 2/15 at 6:30 (sponsored by Theorizing) "What Is This Crackling of Voices in the Mind" Edwards, Stevens, Howe more information: Susan Howe EPC page PennSound…
9. 02-16-07 — In today's New York Times Holland Cotter reviews "AGENTS OF CHANGE Women, Art and Intellect" at the Ceres Gallery & features this image by Mimi Gross Cotter ends his review this way: "Other shows are on the way, and be sure to check out the online journal…
10. 02-18-07 — Marvin Miller as Michael Anthony in The Millionaire. Anthony is the narrator of "Slap Me Five, Mark's History" in Girly Man In today's Philadelphia Inquirer Thomas Devaney reviews Girly Man Girly Man on-line: reviews images for poems notes & extensions…
11. 02-19-07 — Loss & Beans Loss Pequeño Glazier I was back in Buffalo and at one my favorite spots, Ted's Red Hots (the one on Niagara Falls Boulevard). We got to talking about Cuba, which we had visited, together with Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Johanna Drucker, Susan Bee, and…
12. 02-21-07 — In "What Is to Be Done" — in Jacket's still in-process issue 32 — Douglas Messerli rakes Official Verse Culture over the coals with the kind of institutional critique of poetry reviewing practices that is too rare. ====+++==== New on PennSound Flarf Poetry…
13. 02-22-07 — High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975 February 15 - April 22, 2007 curated by Katie Siegel in consultation with David Reed at the National Academy Museum in New York great exhibition not to be missed if in town a revision of the official history…
14. 02-25-07 — NOW OUT from Reality Street Editions (UK) from the publisher: Body of Work brings together for the first time all of Maggie O'Sullivan's solo collections of poetry and visual texts published before her 1993 Reality Street book In the House of the Shaman.…
15. 02-27-07 — Charles North's new book CADENZA is just out from Hanging Loose Press Charles North has the wry, sparkling wit of a poet who has been around the aesthetic block more than a few times but keeps the trips as fresh as a new morning in an old town. In Cadenza, he…
16. 02-28-07 — I will be reading on Monday, March 5, 7pm Downcity Poetry Series Tazza Cafe 250 Westminster St., Providence, RI ========== NEW @ PennSound Susan Howe at Kelly Writers House __________ ++++ Marjorie Perloff's 2006 MLA Presidential Address is now available from…

March 2007

1. 03-04-07 — Charles Reznikoff on PennSound .
2. 03-07-07 — Caroline's Norwegian Speakin' Get the Flash Player to see this player. Caroline Bergvall In June, 2005, I was invited to read at poetry festival in Norway. I couldn't go, but I urged the organizers to invite Caroline, who grew up, at least partly, in Norway,…
3. 03-08-07 — Rockdrill Rockdrill's series of selected poems on CD from Birkbeck (UK) — most recent releases are — Robert Creeley: 'I Know a Man', poems 1945-1975 Robert Creeley: 'Just in Time', poems 1976-1998 Lee Harwood: 'The Chart Table', poems 1965-2002 Tom Raworth:…
4. 03-10-07 — SEMINA CULTURE: WALLACE BERMAN & HIS CIRCLE Closes March 31, 2007 New York University Grey Art Gallery Semina Culture focusses on the artist/editor Wallace Berman (1926–1976) & his LA circle. The full set of Semina (nine issues from 1955 to 1964) are on…
5. 03-13-07 — NEW @ PennSound Bern Porter ++++=====++++++ PennSound Extra Rebecca Sheehan's introduction to Susan Howe (2007) text
6. 03-16-07 — Gordan Tapper reviews Girly Man in the March issue of The Brooklyn Rail Poetry Daily has just published two poems from Girly Man: "Thank You for Saying Thank You" & "Didn't We" William Watkin writes about "Thank You for Saying Thank You" on his blog March 15,…
7. 03-17-07 — Hannah Weiner’s Open House Edited and with an introduction by Patrick F. Durgin. POETRY/ART/PERFORMANCE ISBN 0-9767364-1-1 $14.95 Order from SPD or your local independent bookstore This is a magnificent tribute to the enduring work of Hannah Weiner. All of…
8. 03-19-07 — Ted Greenwald photo: Ch.Bernstein/2007 Almost 20 years ago, Ted interviewed me for a series he was running in the Poetry Project Newsletter INTERVIEW: CHARLES BERNSTEIN by Ted Greenwald originally published in the Poetry Project Newsletter April/ May 1988…
9. 03-20-07 — INTERVIEW: CHARLES BERNSTEIN by Ted Greenwald originally published in the Poetry Project Newsletter April/ May 1988 Greenwald on PennSound
10. 03-21-07 — Speech-to-Text Alignment: A PennSound project under construction by James J. Fiumara Sample text: "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso" Speech to text alignment is a process of creating a correspondence between a speech-unit and a text-unit (i.e.,…
11. 03-23-07 — NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON
12. 03-25-07 — 30% PRE-PUBLICATION DISCOUNT x THE POINT IS TO CHANGE IT Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present Jerome McGann University of Alabama Press Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series “A very fine collection. . . . McGann’s writing will help to re-situate…
13. 03-27-07 — Johanna Printing Get the Flash Player to see this player. Johanna Drucker Johanna, Susan, and I were on a Chelsea art walk. When she is at home in Charlottesville, Johanna will sometimes spend hundreds of hours typesetting and printing a book. The results are…
14. 03-29-07 — Myung Mi Kim on PennSound ©Charles Bernstein/PennSound
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16. 03-31-07 — NEW: PEPC DIGITAL EDITION La política de la forma poética [The Politics of Poetic Form] translated by Néstor Cabrera & Jorge Miralles, Nora Leylen, Beatriz Pérez with introduction by Néstor Cabrera La Habana: Torre de Letras, 2006 PEPC Digital Edition 2007

April 2007

1. 04-01-07 — Elaine Equi launched RIPPLE EFFECT: New and Selected Poems (just out from Coffeee House Press) at Cue Art Foundation in New York & few of us celebrated after March 30, 2007 Photo©2007 Star Black back row: Charles Bernstein, Stephen Paul Miller, Bob Perelman,…
2. 04-02-07 — photos: Ch.Bernstein/2007 2007
3. 04-03-07 — I am happy to announce the PEPC publication of Surrealism Meets Kabbalah: The Place of Semina in Mid-Century California Poetry and Art by Stephen Fredman some excerpts from Fredman's essay and related images: .. Fig. 3. Untitled (Multi-color shuffle), 1967,…
4. 04-08-07 — NEW at PennSound Ezra Pound Complete Poetry Recordings Photo: Franz Larese, Erker-Galerie, Easter 1971, Burano, Italy Ezra Pound's Cantos is published by New Directions Publishing Corp They can be contacted at editorial @ ndbooks.com or permissions @…
5. 04-10-07 — THE POETRY OF THE AMERICAS International Symposium April 12, 13 and 14, 2007 DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES Texas A &M University College Station, Texas full schedule +++++++++ The Boston Review features a review of the Juliana Spahr / Joan Retallack Poetry…
6. 04-17-07 — cover image: Susan Bee Two MP3s of poems from The Sophist read at the Bowery Poetry Club in 2004: From "Entitlement" (7:21) Dysraphism (9:19) === The first 20 pages of the book including Ron Silliman's introduction & "The Simply," "Entitlement," "Fear and…
7. 04-18-07 — CAConrad, hassen, Jenn McCreary have organized a poetry auction to help cover the cost of Philadelphia poet Frank Sherlock's crisis medical care the site is worth looking at just for the manuscripts scanned & you make bids till May 13. Here's mine: & here's…
8. 04-21-07 — photo: © Ch. Bernstein, 2006 My preface to Jerome Rothenberg's Triptych forthcoming in two weeks from New Directions is in the April Brooklyn Rail This material will appear as a preface to Triptych. Imre Kertesz’s quotation appeared in the Hungarian weekly…
9. 04-22-07 — New York Spring Readings Saturday, April 28, 4-6pm Tenney Nathanson Charles Bernstein Segue at Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (Bleecker/Houston) Saturday, May 5, 3:45-4:45pm Susan Bee Johanna Drucker showing slides & reading their text/image collaborations…
10. 04-26-07-PM — "Thank You For Saying Thank You" (from Girly Man) translated into Icelandic by Eiríkur Örn Norðda from http://tregawott.net/ Þetta er fullkomlega aðgengilegt ljóð. Það er ekkert í þessu ljóði sem á nokkurn hátt er erfitt að skilja. Öll orðin eru einföld &…
11. 04-26-07 — Incident at Wal-Mart, or Where's My Daughter (1999) with Charles Bernstein A Film by Lara Odell (8:02) download mp4
12. 04-28-07 — James at home Get the Flash Player to see this player. James Sherry James moved to his loft on the Bowery (at Houston) about 30 years ago. At the time, it was still skid row. Roof books and Segue Distributing were run out of the space and from time to time we…
13. 04-29-07 — Sean Cole's radio feature on National Poetry Month on Weekend America (4/28)
14. 04-30-07 — L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E the hypertext index thanks to Craig Dworkin and Eclipse Acker, Kathy [Vol. II, Nos. 9-10] Agosti, Stefano [Vol. III, No. 12] Albiach, Anne-Marie [Vol. I, No. 3] Amirkhanian, Charles [Vol. III, No. 13] Andre, Carl [Vol. I, No. 6] Andre, Michael…

May 2007

1. 04-31-07 — photos: Curnow by Bernstein, 2006 / Kuszai by Lungfill/Lorber Saatchi & Saatchi and the Segue Foundation present a reading by Wystan Curnow & Joel Kuszai introduced by Charles Bernstein Tuesday, May 8 6.30 reception 7.00pm reading Saatchi & Saatchi HQ 375…
2. 05-02-07 — Douglas Dunn, choreographer Mimi Gross, costumes presented last week at Dance Theater Workshop in New York photos © 2007 by Holly Fisher
3. 05-03-07 — The “Eye” and the “Company”: Robert Creeley’s Collaborations, 1953-2004 by Barbara MONTEFALCONE (on-line doctoral thesis in French) Thèse de doctorat d’Études anglophones Faculté des Langues Département d’Études anglophones Centre d’Études et de Recherches…
4. 05-04-07 — Sergei Gandlevsky Close Listening readings and conversations produced in cooperation with WPS1.Org recorded at Studio 111, University of Pennsylvania March 21, 2007 Program One: Sergei Gandlevsky in Conversation with Charles Bernstein also with Eugene…
5. 05-05-07 — photos by Ch. Bernstein ©2006
6. 05-07-07 — "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams: five versions compiled by Steve McLaughlin for PennSound's WCW Page "This is Just to Say," read in Rutherford, New Jersey, June 1950 MP3 (1:19) "This is Just to Say," read in Rutherford, New Jersey, August…
7. 05-09-07 — An AP article on PennSound in The International Herald Tribune ====== Heriberto Yepez on new Mexican Poetry at International Exchange for Poetic Invention ==== Now on-line Swedish Poetry and Poetics: A Gathering announcement posted at IEPI The selection…
8. 05-14-07 — A late Abbie Hoffman interview at Ken Jordan's new magazine, Reality Sandwich ====== Nick Piombino on the recent NY reading by Wystan Curnow & Joel Kuszai ======= PennSound on News Radio?! two short interviews: ======= Nancy Shaw bibliography via KSW ========…
9. 05-15-07 — more of my periodic citations of the exceptional, eccentric, & electrifying Ron Silliman, The Age of Huts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007) This book looms so large in my writing life I can't imagine a writing life without it. Aram Saroyan,…
10. 05-16-07 — Dubravka Djurić photos ©2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound Close Listening: Private Edition #1 April 29, 2007, New York the streaming links were not working properly when first posted, but the problem is now fixed. so stream or download. 1. REMEĆENJE: MP3…
11. 05-17-07 — In January 2002, Joshua Beckman, an editor of Radical Society, asked several people to respond to this quote from Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz We've just seen in Afghanistan one way of getting a state out of the business of supporting terrorism.…
12. 05-19-07 — photo: © 2006 Charles Bernstein Leslie Scalapino Close Listening: Private Edition #2 May 14, 2006 Scalapino reads selections from Day Ocean State of Stars’ Night: Poems and Writings 1989 & 1999-2006 (Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2007) 1. from ‘Can’t’ is…
13. 05-20-07 — Coolidge's "Oflengths" a work made up entirely of prepositions has long been a favorite of mine. Craig Dworkin's Eclipse has now made this available as part of the full set of Ron Silliman's Tottel's now in final production (pdfs to come). Tottel's was for me…
14. 05-23-07 — "Queering Language" Reading Launch A Poetry Reading to celebrate the publication of EOAGH Issue 3: Queering Language Hosted by Tim Peterson and Nathaniel Siegel Recorded at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York. February 10, 2007 Issue 3 of EOAGH, Queering…
15. 05-24-07-PM — Segue-BPC Readings 2006-2007 now on PennSound
16. 05-25-07 — Poet's Prose new and recommended Juliana Spahr The Transformation Atelos Rae Armantrout Collected Prose Singing Horse Nick Piombino Fait Accompli Factory School order from SPD
17. 05-26-07 — Grenier on the Subway Get the Flash Player to 05-26-07 this player. Robert Grenier Bob, Mimi Gross, and I met at Pecan's, in Tribeca, just before taping Close Listening at WPS1's Clocktower studio on Leonard Street. We walked across the street and Bob sat on…
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June 2007

1. 06-02-07 — Eclipse has made available two of my early books both of which are collected in Republics of Reality The Occurrence of Tune pictures by Susan Bee & Shade cover by Susan Bee The man behind Eclipse is Craig Dworkin who has a somewhat hidden page on the site…
2. 06-03-07 — photo ©2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound John Yau Close Listening -- readings and conversations at WPS1.Org Clocktower Studio, New York, May 30, 2007 John Yau in conversation with Charles Bernstein (29:02): MP3 WPS1 Poetry Reading Entire Program (28:00): MP3…
3. 06-04-07 — NEW POUND on PennSound a recent addition to the Ezra Pound PennSound page The Bayrischer Rundfunk Recordings Recorded at Schloss Brunnenburg, Tirolo di Merano, Italy, December 1959 Impressions of François-Marie Arouet (de Voltaire), I (“Phyllidula and the…
4. 06-06-07 — Photo: Charles Bernstein Kenneth Goldsmith & the Poetics of Everyday Life Kenneth Goldsmith's Traffic is just out from Make Now Press & also on-line at Eclipse Goldsmith transcribed this material, presumably from tapes, from 1010 WINS all news all the time…
5. 06-12-07 — Susan Howe's WBAI (NY)-Pacifica Radio shows are being available on PennSound in collaboration with the Archive for New Poetry at the University of California, San Diego. Our digital copies were made from recordings housed at the archive. Helen Adam, 1977-1978…
6. 06-12-07 — photo ©2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound Abigail Child Close Listening -- readings and conversations at WPS1.Org Clocktower Studio, New York, May 30, 2007 Abigail Child in conversation with Charles Bernstein (28:52): MP3 WPS1 Reading Entire Program (27:07):…
7. 06-14-07 — Bruce Andrews on PennSound +++++++++============+++++++++++ Bob Perelman Segue Series reading at the Bowery Poetry Club New York, March 24, 2007 (37:54): MP3 Book release party in celebration of IFLIFE, Kelly Writers House, Penn, January 9, 2007 at Perelman's…
8. 06-15-07 — New issue of nypoesi is out with Øyvind Berg // Charles Bernstein // Jörgen Gassilewski // Leevi Lehto // Lars Mikael Raattamaa Niemi // John Swedenmark Angela Rawlings / Hjorvar Peturssons / Hugh Thomas // Cia Rinne // Joar Tiberg // Heriberto Yepéz // Espen…
9. 06-17-07 — Hannah Weiner reads from Spoke Ear Inn, New York October 10, 1983 (38:01): MP3 ======= Jack Spicer The Holy Grail July 15, 1965 thanks to Eric Baus and Peter Gizzi Spicer PennSound page (includes streaming links) =========== Ted Berrigan Interview and reading…
10. 06-19-07 — photo: Charles Bernstein/PennSoud, 2007
11. 06-20-07 — Ann's Goodbye ____ Ann Lauterbach Ann had come to town to pack up her loft on Duane Street. She had lost her lease. I talked to her at the Clocktower studios of WPS1. December 4, 2006 (39 seconds, 7.7 mb)
12. 06-23-07 — Öyvind Fahlström ESSO-LSD, 1967 was my favorite work in Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era at theWhitney Museum, New York (through Sept. 16) which might better have been subtitled The fist time as tragedy, the second as farce. Self-Portrait in Summer…
13. 06-24-07 — This interview appears in the new issue of Kaurab Online Aryanil Mukherjee contacted me in September 2005, with the idea of increasing the exchange between contemporary American and Bengali poets who might find, so far unbeknownst to themselves, some shared…
14. 06-26-07 — NEW on PennSound Joe Ceravolo Home Recording, Bloomfield, NJ, Spring 1968 1. Rain (0:26): MP3 2. White Fish In Reeds (0:48): MP3 3. Funny Day (0:38): MP3 4. A Song Of Autumn (0:46): MP3 5. Autumn Time, Wind, And The Planet Pluto (0:46): MP3 6. A Story In…
15. 06-28-07 — (39 seconds, 7.8 mb)
16. 06-30-07 — We are pleased to announce that PENNsound will be hiring a MANAGING EDITOR. This is a part-time job - 20 hours per week. The job will begin in August or early September, depending on the successful candidate's availability. The position will run 48-50 weeks…

July 2007

1. 07-04-07 — More Susan Howe Pacifica/WBAI radio shows on PennSound Elizabeth Bishop, 1979 with Susan Howe and Charles Ruas April 19, 1979 (1:09:11): MP3 Part One (32:47): MP3 Part Two (36:32): MP3 Barbara Guest, 1978 April 13, 1978 (1:06:31): MP3 Bernadette Mayer, 1979…
2. 07-14-07 — I am travelling in China this month with limited internet access, but did just get a notice that my collaboration with Tracie Morrie, "Truth Be Told" is now out in The Brooklyn Rail summer issue.
3. 07-19-07 — Hotel elevator, Chongqing
4. 07-22-07 — Steve McCaffery Steve McCaffery It was Steve's 60th birthday and he had come to New York with Karen to celebrate. January 28, 2007 (52 seconds, 10.1 mb) Note: download video for best viewing. Portrait Series One: Scalapino, Bergvall, Lakoff, Gross, Bonvicino,…
5. 07-29-07-PM — Steve McCaffery Steve McCaffery It was Steve's 60th birthday and he had come to New York with Karen to celebrate. January 28, 2007 (52 seconds, 10.1 mb) Note: download video for best viewing. Portrait Series One: Scalapino, Bergvall, Lakoff, Gross, Bonvicino,…
6. 07-29-07 — Steve McCaffery Steve McCaffery It was Steve's 60th birthday and he had come to New York with Karen to celebrate. January 28, 2007 (52 seconds, 10.1 mb) Note: download video for best viewing. Portrait Series One: Scalapino, Bergvall, Lakoff, Gross, Bonvicino,…
7. 07-31-07 — Steve McCaffery Steve McCaffery It was Steve's 60th birthday and he had come to New York with Karen to celebrate. January 28, 2007 (52 seconds, 10.1 mb) Note: download video for best viewing. Portrait Series One: Scalapino, Bergvall, Lakoff, Gross, Bonvicino,…

August 2007

1. 08-02-07 — Wuhan conference: group picture (click on image for full size)
2. 08-06-07 — Leevi Lehto performing in Wuhan Leevi Lehto has two new books out Lake Onega and Other Poems from SALT & Jyrki Pellinen, Kuuskajaskari, tr.& notes by Lehto (bilingual) a crucial work of Finnish Modernist poetry, original Finnish publication 1964, now together…
3. 08-08-07 — Leevi Lehto performing in Wuhan Leevi Lehto has two new books out Lake Onega and Other Poems from SALT & Jyrki Pellinen, Kuuskajaskari, tr.& notes by Lehto (bilingual) a crucial work of Finnish Modernist poetry, original Finnish publication 1964, now together…
4. 08-09-07 — Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms ed & tr Matvei Yankelevich Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press forthcoming, Fall 2007 Daniil Kharms, the key figure of second-wave Russian radical modernism, extends, distorts, and renews the…
5. 08-13-07 — ALAN DAVIES EPC AUTHOR PAGE portrait by Charles Bernstein, 2007 Alan Davies Book 2 & Book 3 [PEPC Library] thanks to Jack Krick for his work on this page +++++++++++++ Haroldo de Campos Galáxias new web site with introduction and translations by Odile…
6. 08-20-07 — Mei-mei's Mesa Get the Flash Player to see this player. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge I met Mei-mei about 30 years ago and we have been talking ever since. December 3, 2006 (38 seconds, 7.5 mb)
7. 08-22-07 — from around 1900
8. 08-27-07 — Bard press release

September 2007

1. 09-04-07 — Mary Rising was born February 29, 1944 in Minnesota, the fourth child of Lucille and Forrest Raymond Rising. She attended Napa College in California. She earned both a B.S. degree in 1970 and an M.A. in English (with distinction) in 1988 at the University of…
2. 09-05-07 — Claude Royet-Journoud on PennSound Reading with Keith Waldrop (on translations) at the Ear Inn, New York I recorded this reading on November 3, 1984 1. La Notion d'Obstacle (Gallimard, 1978) (31:38) Keith Waldrop reads from his translation,The Notion of…
3. 09-16-07 — Ladies and gentlemen. Please welcome John Ashbery
4. 09-19-07 — Bernadette Mayer and Lee Ann Brown photos©2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound reading together at the Kelly Writers House September 13, 2007 complete reading (1:10:56): MP3 Bernadette Mayer's Close Listening Conversation with Charles Bernstein (28:09): MP3 Lee…
5. 09-26-07 — The Noulipian Analects edited by Christine Wertheim and Matias Viegener Los Angeles: Les Figues Press. 2007 (available from SPD) starring Caroline Bergvall, Christian Bök, Johanna Drucker, Paul Fournel, Jen Hofer, Tan Lin, Bernadette Mayer, Ian Monk, Joseph…

October 2007

1. 10-01-07 — photo: ©2007 Charles Bernstein Friday night, Bill Corbett turned over the terrific series he has been curating at CUE Art Foundation, in Chelsea (NY), to Marshall Reese. These events often pair a musician with a poet, and Friday we heard the spectacular tuba…
2. 10-02-07 — Announcing the latest volume in the Modern and Contemporary Poetics University of Alabama Press An Archaeology of Forms, 1959–1995 C.T. Funkhouser Here's my comment: "In Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, Chris Funkhouser provides a…
3. 10-07-07 — photos ©2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound
4. 10-10-07 — Sigmund Laufer (Feb. 3, 1920 - October 9, 2007) Get the Flash Player to see this player. Sigi's Berlin I met Susan’s father Sigi in 1968. He had grow up in Berlin, left for Palestine on a youth aliyah in 1936, and then come to New York, with Susan’s mother…
5. 10-15-07 — Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson (reissue) & Souls of the Labadie Track (new collection of poems just out) both from New Directions are reviewed in the new Bookforum by John Palattella but: Hey! when will Bookforum feel it can use the "P" word (poetry) instead…
6. 10-18-07 — Emma & Nona on the Road Emma Bee Bernstein & Nona Willis-Aronowitz are on a road trip across America to ask young women of their generation & women of their mothers' generation about their engagements with feminism. & they've just started a blog called…
7. 10-20-07 — Richard: Living Latin, Dying English Richard Tuttle I talked to Richard right after taping our Close Listening show at WPS1 at the Clocktower studios. December 4, 2006 (49 seconds, 7.8 mb)
8. 10-25-07 — BENEFIT READING FOR WILL ALEXANDER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST, 6-8PM BOWERY POETRY CLUB 308 Bowery / F to 2nd Ave, or 6 to Bleecker $10 suggested donation, more if you can Poet and artist Will Alexander has become seriously ill and has no health insurance. In…
9. 10-28-07 — photo: ©2007 Charles Bersntein

November 2007

1. 11-03-07 — A Helen Adam Reader ed. Kristin Prevallet (Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 2007) Helen Adam makes the strange beautiful and the beautiful strange. With echoes of the Rossettis and Poe, Adam is the most exuberantly anachronistic of Second Wave modernist…
2. 11-04-07 — from SoundEye by Adam Wyeth and Keith Walsh. made at the SoundEye festival in Cork, Ireland in the summer of 2005 ... reading "Thank You for Saying Thank You" (Girly Man) intercut with short interview about Shadowtime
3. 11-09-07 — DEEP TRANCE BEHAVIOR IN POTATOLAND (A RICHARD FOREMAN THEATER MACHINE) opening January 17, 2008 Foreman's complete production notes (120pp pdf) Foreman @ EPC Foreman Close Listening conversation (28:30): MP3 PennSound Daily featuring Will Alexander NY Benefit…
4. 11-11-07 — photo:© 2007 Bernstein/PennSound Leslie Scalapino read on Tuesday at the Kelly Writers House at Penn. Her selected poems IT'S GO IN HORIZONTAL is due out this Spring from the University of California Press. Introduction by Charles Bernstein (3:33): MP3…
5. 11-15-07 — photo:© 2007 Bernstein/PennSound Leslie Scalapino read on Tuesday at the Kelly Writers House at Penn. Her selected poems IT'S GO IN HORIZONTAL is due out this Spring from the University of California Press. Introduction by Charles Bernstein (3:33): MP3…
6. 11-17-07 — In early 2006, IPCF introduced a battery of blood and psychological tests to detect poetic doping. An IPCF study group is now investigating whether the use of certain computer programs and search engines also should be banned from poetry.
7. 11-18-07 — photo: ©2007 Charles Bersntein
8. 11-19-07 — Conjunctions #49 features a John Ashbery tribute in honor of his 80th birthday edited by Peter Gizzi and Bradford Morrow Reginald Shepherd on Some Trees (1956) Peter Straub on The Tennis Court Oath (1962) Charles Bernstein on Rivers and Mountains (1966) Brian…
9. 11-20-07 — I will be reading with Charles North on Sunday, December 2, 2007, 7pm at Zinc Bar 90 W. Houston St New York ——————— Art Theory Now: from Aesthetics to Aesthesis Johanna Drucker School of Visual Arts: Tuesday, December 11, 7pm Amphitheater 209 East 23rd…
10. 11-22-07 — This is one of my first collaborations with Susan Bee from 1971.
11. 11-23-07 — PennSound's new Bob Cobbing page was curated in conjunction with the Cobbing show "Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You" at the Van-Pelt Dietrich Library University of Pennsylvania While she was at Penn, Maggie O'Sullivan made available for the PEPC Library…
12. 11-24-07 — Just in — Jackson Mac Low Thing of Beauty New and Selected Works Edited by Anne Tardos University of California Press In this generous selection of Jackson Mac Low's work, we can see, first hand, the poet's profound understanding of the physics of language…
13. 11-25-07 — now out CONTEMPORARY POETICS Redefining the Boundaries of Contemporary Poetics, in Theory & Practice, for the Twenty-First Century Edited by Louis Armand ISBN 0-8101-2359-2 (paperback). 384pp. Northwestern University Press, Evanston. from the publisher:…
14. 11-26-07 — Harry Partch’s Delusion of the Fury Dean Drummond, Musical Director, with Newband John Jesurun, Stage Director Japan Society (NYC) info Tuesday, December 4 and Thursday through Saturday, December 6 - 8 at 7:30 pm First restaging of this major work by Second…
15. 11-29-07 — I saw the figure H in silver & gold (2007, dumpster, New York)
16. 11-30-07 — Arakawa where death cannot find him

December 2007

1. 12-01-07 — Here is my essay from Lori Emerson's EBR poetics feature Speed the Movie or Speed the Brand Name or Aren't You the Kind that Tells: My Sentimental Journey through Future Shock and Present Static Electricity. Version 19.84 [Note this document is best heard…
2. 12-03-07 — OCHO # 14 guest edited by Nick Piombino. Featuring Charles Bernstein, Alan Davies, Ray DiPalma, Elaine Equi, Nada Gordon, Kimberly Lyons, Gary Sullivan, Mitch Highfill, Brenda Iijima, Sharon Mesmer, Tim Peterson, Corinne Robins, Jerome Sala, Mark Young and…
3. 12-08-07 — Yellow Pages: Outtakes Nine years ago I went to Los Angeles to shoot the Yellow Pages ads with Jon Lovitz (radio and TV) Here are the complete outtakes for the Yellow Pages Ads note: for best playback, click on links below each image to download Get the Flash…
4. 12-11-07 — Sigmund Laufer on-line
5. 12-12-07 — PEPC Library Robert Kelly Earish (homeophonic translations of Paul Celan) = = = ANGER IMPELLED by faun gone from eye on the lass: greened and shore up, shore up and greened. In this laugh’s wretched gain, o eye mill. = = = UNLICKED AT they came, he did each…
6. 12-13-07 — L=A=N-G=U=A=G=E Lines L=A=N-G=U=A=G=E Lines L=A=N-G=U=A=G=E Lines L=A=N-G=U=A=G=E Lines L=A=N-G=U=A=G=E Lines L=A=N-G=U=A=G=E Lines L=A=N-G=U=A=G=E Lines edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein [pdf here] from The Line in Postmodern Poetry edited by…
7. 12-15-07 — Rod's Postal Poetics Get the Flash Player to see this player. Rod Smith Every time I publish a book I go to Bridge Street Books, in Washington, to do a reading at one of the most amiable and intimate spaces around. And I hang out with Rod, who has made the…
8. 12-16-07-PM — CHICAGO MARATHON READING an off-site event coinciding with the 2007 Modern Language Association convention FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28th from 7-9:30pm at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 S. Michigan Avenue, in the Ballroom FREE and ADA accessible to the…
9. 12-16-07 — Early Bob Perelman at Eclipse a.k.a. Braille; Primer To The Reader.
10. 12-17-07 — Two not very good shots of a marvellous artist's book by Louise Bourgeois Hours of the Day now on display in New York at the Carolina Nitsch Project Room. 25 cloth panels 17.5' x 27" published in 2006 by Carolina Nitsch and Lison Editions, NY The show is up…
11. 12-19-07 — Two not very good shots of a marvellous artist's book by Louise Bourgeois Hours of the Day now on display in New York at the Carolina Nitsch Project Room. 25 cloth panels 17.5' x 27" published in 2006 by Carolina Nitsch and Lison Editions, NY The show is up…
12. 12-21-07 — Thom Donovan on the New York celebration of Hannah Weiner's Open House in Fanzine »»»»»»»»»»» Steve McCaffery interview in Rain Taxi »»»»»»»»»»» Maggie O'Sullivan evening reading at Penn on Oct. 11 (note: this has been recently added to the Close Listening…
13. 12-22-07 — DEFINITIONS OF BRAZIL Charles Bernstein and Régis Bonvicino Brazil is located on the southern tears of the Americas Brazil is a jungle with snakes who eat cakes Brazil speaks Lebanese, Portuguese, Japanese, Guarnaríse, Tupiese, Inglese Brazil is an…
14. 12-25-07 — Guan Shan Yue (Mountain Pass Moon)' by Dai Shulun (732-789), translated word-for-character & in seeded-elaboration by John Cayley for 2007/8. Calligraphy by Gu Gan from the book 'Tangshi Shufa'. John Cayley author page
15. 12-26-07 — Henry Parland Ideals Clearance translated from Swedish by Johannes Gõransson Ugly Duckling Press Brooklyn: 2007 Second-Wave modernist Henry Parland's centennial is coming up this new year, though his work will be new to most English language readers.…
16. 12-28-07 — Brent Cunningham Interview with Robert Creeley [May 1992, Buffalo] (Oakland: Hooke Press, 2007). Creeley talks about Pound and Olson, meeting Penelope, creative writing workshops, the anthology wars (in which he recounts some anecdotes from his Harvard days).…
17. 12-29-07 — The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen Wesleyan University Press 2007 932 pp.& with 92 "doodles" Michael Rothenberg, ed. Gary Snyder, forword Leslie Scalapino, introduction sorrow where there is no pain what marks here? score skids, fill up like the ice-tea…
18. 12-30-07 — Kurt Schwitters from the PennSound Schwitters Page The Ursonate (or: Sonate in Urlauten) 1922-1932 "Ur Sonata" performed by Kurt Schwitters at Ubu & PennSound: sound files and score View just the score Other recordings of the work by Christian Bok mp3…
19. 12-31-07 — Susan Bee Childhood's End ( 20 x 16")

Web Log Index — 2008

January 2008

1. 01-04-08 — PEPC Edition 2008. Used by permission of the author.
2. 01-05-08 — Stanley Aronowitz at 75 Stanley among friends last night in New York
3. 01-06-08 — Peter H. Hare (1935-2008) Peter H. Hare, philosopher and educator, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, died peacefully in his sleep in the early morning hours of Thursday, January…
4. 01-07-08 — Douglas & the Big Apple (First Bite) Douglas Messerli Douglas grew up in Iowa, where New York was as close as his Broadway musical LPs, which he collected even though he didn’t have a record player. Sun & Moon, and now Green Integer, sales reps meetings bring…
5. 01-10-08 — photo: Bernstein/PennSound
6. 01-12-08 — Celebrate THING OF BEAUTY: New and Selected Works by Jackson Mac Low edited by Anne Tardos University of California Press with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Joan Retallack, Katie Degentesh, Drew Gardner Mitch Highfill, Chris Mason , Charles Bernstein, Anne Tardos…
7. 01-17-08 — The Kind of Poetry I Like Bruce Andrews Swoon Noir (Tucson: Chax Press, 2007) Designated Heartbeat (Salt, 2006) Tan Lin ambivalence is a novel with a logo (Cambridge: Katalanche Press, 2007) "Forgetting is more beautiful than any photograph." Michael Kelleher…
8. 01-18-08 — Reading at Anthology Film Archives, New York April 3, 1977 Full reading : mp3 (25:39) 1. "Latex Dummy," sec. 7 from "A Person Is Not an Entity Symbolic.." (from The Sophist) (0:57) 2. "People should love and approve of me," sec. 13 from "A Person Is Not an…
9. 01-21-08 — photo: Bernstein/PennSound 2008
10. 01-22-08 — Photo:Charles Bernstein
11. 01-24-08 — Publishing The Unpublishable Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith has just published Three Works an e-pamphlet the last of the three works is this one: Amalgamated Writing Programs Announces Morally Repugnant Poets-and-Theorists Exhibit by Mike Freakman New York, Dec.…
12. 01-24-08 — Burt Hatlen 1936-2008 Bangor Daily News Obituary —————— Ton van 't Hof. has started an essential blog of poetry news (links to reviews, essays, interviews, &&) The Morning Line available also by email subscription. (Ton & I edit the International Exchange for…
13. 01-28-08 — photos: Charles Bernstein

February 2008

1. 02-02-08 — Launch Party Kate Valk, Kiki Smith, Martha Wilson, Linda Yablonsky, Linda Chapman, Deborah Thomas, Howie Seligman, Eve Biddle, Mary Smith, Ulla Dydo invite you to come be our Valentines and celebrate the launch of The Relationship a performance group directed…
2. 02-03-08 — Robert Duncan died twenty years ago today. PennSound (thanks to Mike Hennessey and Danny Snelson) has just released a new set of Duncan recordings for the occasion read the intro on PennSound daily But one to listen to now which we've had available for a…
3. 02-05-08 — Barbara Guest "Blurred Edge" pdf (from Miniatures) new at PEPC library (courtesy Guest estate) ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© Leslie Scalapino IT'S GO IN HORIZONTAL Selected Poems University of California Press 2008 Leslie Scalapino’s poems probe politics, memory,…
4. 02-09-08 — Douglas Messerli has just started a Green Integer blog Meanwhile Messerli is making available on-line a number of entries from My Year: 2007 ---- & this just in from Steve Evans — Dear Friends on the NPF, Though we at the National Poetry Foundation have had…
5. 02-10-08 — A 1970s colllage by John Ashbery on view at ZieherSmith Gallery in New York
6. 02-16-08 — photos: Ch. Bernstein
7. 02-25-08 — I knew About the split identity Of the People's Poet— The bifacial nature of his poetry: The racial ballad in the public domain And the private poem in the modern vein. —Melvin Tolson, Harlem Gallery Objectivist Blues Scoring Speech in Second-Wave Modernist…

March 2008

1. 03-02-08 — Chinese / American Association for Poetry and Poetics （ CAAP ） Founded The Chinese/American Association for Poetry and Poetics (CAAP), initiated by leading scholars including Marjorie Perloff, Charles Bernstein and Nie Zhenzhao, was established in January…
2. 03-03-08 — Ubu Web in collaboration with PEPC has recently made available Bern Porter's Wisdom of the Questioning Eye: Five books from the 1960s a set of remarkable collage books pictured here: three spreads from Aphasia
3. 03-06-08 — photos © 2008: Al Filreis by Bernstein Silliman-DuPlessis-Bernstein by Filreis
4. 03-07-08 — ©2006 Niels Plenge and Charles Bernstein.
5. 03-13-08 — photo: Bernstein/Jacket
6. 03-15-08 — Last Sunday, The New York Times Book Review made an error in citing L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E as Language, which is the name of a different publication. Responding to a request for a correction, the Times stated that the error was deliberate “The Times's style, for…
7. 03-16-08 — Sunday, March 30, 2008 3:00 - 5:00 PM "Beyond the Waves; Feminist Artists Talk Across Generations" a panel Susan Bee Emma Bee Bernstein Mira Schor Carolee Schneemann, Brynna Tucker at The Sackler Center for Feminist Art Brooklyn Museum, New York Free & Open…
8. 03-17-08 — photos:of Smith (top) & Gordon ©2008 Bernstein
9. 03-18-08 — Norman the Baker Norman Fischer Norman sat out on the bench in front of Pecan on Franklin, just before walking west to the Clocktower to tape Close Listening. We met up with Alan Davies, whose Close Listening shows I was taping right before Norman’s. After…
10. 03-19-08 — A democracy once proposed Is slimmed and grimed again By men with brute design Who prefer hate to rime None None Dare Call It Treason 2000 Florida Presidential election fraud Invasion of Iraq under false pretenses Abu Ghraib Falsification of scientific record…
11. 03-22-08 — What Makes a Poem a Poem? 60-Second Lecture, University of Pennsylvania April 21, 2004 (mp4, 1:23, 4.2 mb) (RealMedia, 1:23, 11.9 mb)
12. 03-23-08 — just out ... in the new issue of Exquisite Corpse poetry section edited by Bill Lavender Work in Progress for Eliot Spitzer all work and no play makes jack a dull boy ALL WORK and NO play makes Jack a DULL boy ALL work and NO play MAKES jack a DULL boy all…
13. 03-25-08 — Filreis discusses the book with me on Close Listening: MP3 Filreis reads these excerpts at Penn: MP3 My introduction at the book launch: MP3
14. 03-28-08 — Conceptual Interview In Response to Some Questions from the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Advance of the Conceptual Poetry & Its Others Symposium Much of your work suspends or refuses the privilege to any one reading. That's true of poetry generally,…

April 2008

1. 04-01-08 — The Conceptual Poetry Interviews responses by Craig Dworkin, Kenneth Goldsmith, Susan Howe, Marjorie Perloff, and Cole Swensen as well as my response posted here last week in/about/around the Universty of Arizona symposium SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE ROUNDTABLE…
2. 04-03-08 — January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968 ------- PEN PETITION We Are Ready: Petition to the Chinese Government On August 8, 2007, China launched a publicity campaign proclaiming “We Are Ready” to host the Olympic Games in August 2008. We, the undersigned members of…
3. 04-04-08-pm — The University of Sussex's School of Humanities in conjunction with the Centre for Modernist Studies announces the following conference scheduled for Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th of May 2008: [I will post more detailed info as available. This is the…
4. 04-04-08 — January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968 ------- PEN PETITION We Are Ready: Petition to the Chinese Government On August 8, 2007, China launched a publicity campaign proclaiming “We Are Ready” to host the Olympic Games in August 2008. We, the undersigned members of…
5. 04-05-08 — photos © 2008 Charles Bernstein/PennSound
6. 04-07-08 — Hannah Weiner under discussion Joeyelle McSweeney in Boston Review Patrick Durgin replies -------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Hills from Emma's Dilemma (1997-2004) "An Lee Ann-thology of Concrete Poetry" with Lee Ann Brown…
7. 04-16-08 — George Oppen: A Centenary Conversation SUNY Buffalo: Wednesday April 23 – Friday April 25, 2008 --- New at the PEPC Library Roberr Creeley Introduction to the Selected Poems of George Oppen PEPC Library Edition with the permission of the Penelope Creeley…
8. 04-17-08 — Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) Clayton Eshleman reading Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, Part One Clayton Eshleman reading Notebook Part Two courtesy PennSound AP news report International Herald-Tribune Times of London
9. 04-19-08 — photo: ©2007 Bernstein/PennSound
10. 04-23-08 — cover image: Susan Bee
11. 04-25-08 — My reading in The Line Reading Series, January 15, 2002
12. 04-27-08 — Robert Cignoni 16 August 2007 Xul/Argentina video by Eresto Livon-Grosman
13. 04-29-08 — new at Sibila EM PARTICULAR (In Particular, from Girly Man) Charles Bernstein Tradução: Régis Bonvicino e Maria do Carmo Zanini (Brazil) Audio in English from Mills College 2005 (MP3) “Admito que a beleza me inala, mas não que eu inale a beleza.” – Felix…

May 2008

1. 05-08-08 — Nerys Williams Reading Error: The Lyric and Contemporary Poetry Poetry Series: Modern Poetry Vol. 1 Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007 265 pp. ISBN 978-3-03911-025-4 pb. from the publisher’s information: This book considers the development of the lyric form in recent…
2. 05-09-08 — Peter Middleton Download MP4 to see see video. Peter Middleton Peter was on his way back from Creeley Buffalo conference, which I had missed because of the devastating snow storm in Buffalo that weekend. The first time I met with Peter in New York was in the…
3. 05-11-08 — Peter Gizzi Photo: Robert Seydel Close Listening Readings and Conversations at Art Radio WPS1 with Charles Bernstein recorded March 17, 2008 Conversation (23:23): MP3 Reading (26:30): MP3 from Periplum and other poems (1987-1992) Thirty Sentences for No One…
4. 05-19-08 — Yesterday, I spent the morning with Lio and Martin Spinelli, mostly on the Brighton pier. Martin produced the LINEbreak and RadioRadio series (available on PennSound). He has an EPC author page. BBC News artilce on Lio's recovery Martin's blog for Lio
5. 05-20-08 — Francie Shaw at A.I.R. A.I.R. Gallery Friday, May 23rd @ 7 pm 511 W 25th St. suite 301 NYC for the reading of POETRY NOIR readers will be Charles Bernstein Lee Ann Brown Miles Champion Tom Devaney Erica Hunt Susan Howe Bob Perelman in honor of FRANCIE SHAW's…
6. 05-22-08 — New at EPC author pages for Paul Blackburn (plus PennSound audio) Tony Towle Jonathan Williams edited by EPC Associate Editor Jack Krick ______________ New on PennSound the best way to keep up with new additions on PennSound is PennSound Daily Rachel Zolf new…
7. 05-23-08 — The Center for Book Arts (New York) Broadsides Reading Series Organized by Rachel Levitsky Friday, June 6, 6:30pm Stacy Szymaszek and Charles Bernstein. First forty entrants will receive one free letterpress printed broadside created by artists at the Center…
8. 05-27-08 — Call for poems about Sichuan Earthquake Dear colleagues and friends, We are writing to solicit you for contribution to an anthology of poetry dedicated to all those who died from or survived the tragic Sichuan Earthquake. This earthquake, also known as the…

June 2008

1. 06-04-08 — East & West 1978-1979 My reading at the West End Upper West Side, Manhattan March 12, 1978 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…
2. 06-05-08 — L E G E N D reading by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma and Ron Silliman recorded March 10, 1981 at Andrews' New York City apartment 1. "This has a veil . . ." (Andrews, Silliman) (12:23): MP3 text 2. "Chronology" (Silliman) (6:30): MP3 text 3.…
3. 06-06-08 — Tina's House Download mp4 or go to web site to to get video. Tina Darragh We were in a bar somewhere in Baltimore after my i.e. reading with Rod. The bar was noisy and dark but I found a small red alcove to ask Tina about her red housing.. November 18, 2006…
4. 06-07-08 — photo:Ch.Bernstein Erica Hunt speaking on Thursday at the new Harlem home of the Twenty-First Century Foundation of which she is President. —————— GIRLdrive Update Emma Bee Bernstein & Nona Willis-Aronowitz are working on the GIRLdrive book for Seal Press. In…
5. 06-08-08 — Below I present Danny Snelson's selection from PennSound and his accompaning essay (audio and text). But first, I wanted to recommend: Danny Snelson (text) & Phoebe Sprinstubb (images) The Book of Ravelling Women Aphasic Letters, 2008 (digital/on-line) A…
6. 06-09-08 — the first of three poems of mine from CONJUNCTIONS:50, Spring 2008 Dea%r Fr~ien%d, I sa%w yo%r pixture on wehb si;t; no.t su%re whhc one & w~ant to tal^k or mee.t ver~y so.on I am old ma%n 57 year$ ba%d tooth & sme.ll ma.ke vr,y hr.d t mee%t people. I a,m…
7. 06-10-08 — author photo: courtesy Salt Publishing
8. 06-11-08 — What, Me Conceptual? Video and audio recordings of the University of Arizona Poetry Center symposium Conceptual Poetry & Its Others now on-line
9. 06-11-08 — OPENNED the London reading series has just made available videos of the reading I did on May 14, 2008 with Maggie O'Sullivan & also an earlier reading by Sean Bonney Steaming video here. Or download .mov files: O'Sullivan // Bernstein +++++++++++++++++++++++…
10. 06-12-08 — the third of three poems of mine from CONJUNCTIONS:50, Spring 2008 Loneliness in Linden —After Wallace Stevens The fear and the hum are one. Monuments of show gumming the works Until the weather grows tired of the people And the people grow tired of the…
11. 06-13-08 — full schedule
12. 06-14-08 — Art in New York worth a detour At Tibor de Nagy JESS +++++++++++++++ At the Morgan Library Philip Guston: Works on Paper including seven of Guston's collaborations with Clark Coolidge & one with Musa McKim (above) see UBU archive (the catalogue does not…
13. 06-18-08 — the second of two poems of mine in the June issue of Poetry Two Stones with One Bird Re- demption comes & redemp- tion goes but trans- ience is here for- ever.
14. 06-19-08 — Truth Be Told collaboration with Tracie Morris (11:24): MP3 Tucson, May 31, 2008 text (from The Brooklyn Rail) Tracie Morris on PennSound
15. 06-22-08 — Recantorium a bachelor machine after Duchamp after Kafka Conceptual Poetry & Its Others, Poetry Center, University of Arizona Tucson, May 29, 2008 (34:30): MP4 (89 mb)
16. 06-24-08 — Susan Bee, "Unbridled Dawn" You are invited to: an Opening Reception at A.I.R. Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, #301 on Thursday, June 26, 6pm to 8pm Shows on view from June 24 through July 19 Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 6 pm A group show with…
17. 06-25-08 — from Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, ed. anthology of poetry in translation of English poetry to Icelandic. 131.839 slög með bilum English tr. of Norðdahl's introduction here. published 2007 by ntamo order "Thank You for Saying Thank You" [from Girly Man] This is a…
18. 06-26-08 — Charles Bernstein De svåra dikterna anfaller, eller Högtspel i tropik-erna: Dikter, essäer, samtal i urval, översättning & montage [The Attack of the Difficult Poems: A Tropics of High Stakes] ed. & tr. Anders Lundberg, Jonas (J) Magnusson, Jesper Olsson…
19. 06-27-08 — What, Me Conceptual? a talk & reading May 31, 2008 Conceptual Poetry & Its Others Poetry Center, University of Arizona PennSound page of full event featuring video of "Recantorium: a bachelor machine after Duchamp after Kafka" A brief primer on bachelor…

July 2008

1. 07-04-08 — The new issue of the Dutch magazine Parmentier (17:2, June 2008), is devoted to a dossier called T=A=A=L, featuring Rae Armantrout, Bruce Andrews, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer, Bob Perelman, Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten, and myself along with Ton…
2. 07-06-08 — J. M. W. Turner Norham Castle, Sunrise, ca. 1845 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY) through September 21 awesome
3. 07-07-08-pm — you say conceptual, I say models ...don't you know that models are what we are inside of ... that's no model, that's my life .One way to read this collection, on the poetics of architecture, from the point of view of poetry, is to see how much it offers for…
4. 07-07-08 — Myung & the heaviness of the snow Go to web log home page for streaming video. Myung Mi Kim The great snowstorm of 2006 had done serious damage to Buffalo. Myung moved to the city about a year before I moved to Penn. So our plan to work together got scuttled.…
5. 07-08-08 — photo: ©2008 Bernstein/PennSound
6. 07-09-08 — Susan Bee, "Framing the Rosenbergs" (1983, 28 x 32"), oil on linen “You know, I seldom use the word sister anymore; I’ve just wiped it out of my mind.” – David Greenglass (brother of Ethel Rosenberg). The New York Times reported today on the recent death of…
7. 07-10-08 — OEI launch for De svåra dikterna anfaller, eller Högtspel i tropik-erna: Dikter, essäer, samtal i urval, översättning & montage [The Attack of the Difficult Poems: A Tropics of High Stakes] Weld, Stockholm, 2008 below: Susan Bee; Jörgen Gassilewski. &…
8. 07-11-08 — Sketch of Roberts by Wyndham Lewis, 1948 Lynette Roberts Collected Poems ed. Patrick McGuinness Manchester: Carcanet, 2005. Embrowns himmel hokushai. Manure seeps In long rags, pavilions hut, camouflages Arsenical veins with a sprouting Febrifuge and serial…
9. 07-12-08 — photo from OEI launch by © Susanne Christensen Leevi Lehto: Aeons Swish In Eden’s Sway For Charles Bernstein and Jörgen Gassilewski Author’s Note. ”Aeons Swish In Eden’s Sway” is based on Charles Bernstein’s ”Johnny Cake Hollow”, together with variations of…
10. 07-13-08 — The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
11. 07-14-08 — Broadside by Jeremy James Thompson made for reading at the Center for Book Arts June 2008 *click on image for high res*
12. 07-15-08 — David von Schlegell artist's web page is now up. von Schlegell met Susan Howe in the late 1960s and their marriage lasted until his death in 1992
13. 07-17-08 — JULY/AUGUST 2008 The new issue of the Boston Review is on-line & features Marjorie Perloff on Mayakovsky Short reviews of Friedlander, Mlinko, & Laynie Brown. Free verse Counter-Revolution of the Word:The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960 Alan…
14. 07-20-08 — Jo Stafford (1917-2008) "Long Ago & Far Away" (1944) (Jerome Kern/Ira Gershwin) ____________________________________________ Robert Grenier & Stephen Ratcliffe in conversation Nov. 19, 2001 new at EPC __________________________ Zhang Huan Memory Door Series…
15. 07-21-08 — Cecilia Vicuña Sabor a mí Ediciones Universidad Diego Portale Santiago de Chile 2007 Reproduces Vicuña's groundbreaking 1973 artist's book, with collages, images of her early & powerful paintings, tipped-in artifacts, journal entries, manifestos, political…
16. 07-22-08 — photo: ©2008 Charles Bernstein
17. 07-24-08 — photo: ©2008 Bernstein/Pennsound
18. 07-26-08 — Tracie Morris at Conceptual Poetry & Its Others Poetry Center, University of Arizona May 30, 2008 Tucson new at PennSound full video and two clips, including ...
19. 07-27-08 — VANCOUVER N 49 15.832 - W 123 05.921 :: POSITIONS COLLOQUIUM :: } some details of this schedule may still change { August 19 - 24, 2008 at/with VIVO Media Arts Centre 1965 Main St, Vancouver TUESDAY 19 August Afternoon-Evening Session only *not* at VIVO,…
20. 07-30-08 — Rev. Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping on Fox News "Capitalism isn't necessarily the same as freedom."
21. 07-31-08 — The Kind of Poetry I Want Caroline Bergvall Alyson Singes New York: Belladonna Books, 2008 Bergvall overlays Chaucerian sound patterning onto contemporary sites; a dazzling realization of diachronic vernacular, the old emerging from the new like mist from a…

August 2008

1. 08-03-08 — New Ted Greenwald EPC author page including from Common Sense 'Anyway' from 3 from In Your Dreams Ride the Big Airplane (unpublished) page edited by Kye Schlessinger ----- Some newspaper reviews in Swedish of my OEI selected poems & essays De svåra dikterna…
2. 08-05-08 — Jerome Rothenberg's new blog Poems and Poetics features 4 Poems, with a Note on Escape, from Rousseau to Bernstein The four new posted poems are Transegmental Drift The Sixties, with Apologies Death on a Pale Horse No Hiding Place ("I thought language poetry…
3. 08-09-08 — Charles Bound Go to web log main page for video stream Charles Alexander The esteemed poet-bookmaker speaks about the significance of binding. January 15, 2007 (mp4, 33 seconds, 6.6 mb)
4. 08-11-08 — Czernin & Schmatz: Die Reise (This is a short excerpt from “Fraud’s Phantoms: A Brief Yet Unreliable Account of Fighting Fraud with Fraud (No Pun on Freud Intended), with Special Reference to the Poetics of Ressentiment,” which appears in the new issue of…
5. 08-14-08 — New EPC author pages Donato Mancini rob mclenanan Gustave Morin A couple more newspaper reviews of OEI selected poems & essays De svåra dikterna anfaller, eller Högtspel i tropik-erna: Dikter, essäer, samtal i urval, översättning & montage Klassekampen…
6. 08-22-08 — Blind Witness Three American Operas Blind Witness brings together three libretti written in the early 1990s by poet Charles Bernstein for composer Ben Yarmolinsky. Bernstein & Yarmolinsky's trilogy combines vernacular American lyrics with vernacular social…
7. 08-26-08 — Artists' Books Online Johanna Drucker's remarkable digital archive of about 200 artists' books is now open for viewing. Full digital versions of the books together with bibliographic information and commentary. A treasure trove, including a full set of…
8. 08-28-08 — Charles Bernstein HISTORIAS DA GUERRA - POEMAS E ENSAIOS POESIA War Stories: Poems and Essays translated from Portuguese, and with an introduction by Régis Bonvicino with the collaboration of Maria do Carmo Zanini ISBN: 9788599102572 250 pages MARTINS EDITORA…
9. 08-29-08 — This is a list of rhetorical and other features of individual poems that I have used for many years in teaching and which I discuss in several essays on poetry and pedagogy. PEPC library link to the Poem Profiler (and also to an "EZ" version format).

September 2008

1. 09-01-08 — The Humanities at Work: International Exchange of Ideas in Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature Editor: Yubraj Aryal Publisher: Sunlight Publication, Kathmandu, Nepal (2008) Interviews (in English) with American philosophers, literary theorists and…
2. 09-02-08 — Here is my contribution to the Aryal anthlology from Nepal. Charles Bernstein interviewed by Yubraj Aryal (May 2007) from The Humanities at Work: International Exchange of Ideas in Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature Editor: Yubraj Aryal Publisher: Sunlight…
3. 09-03-08 — 25 years ago Douglas Messerli gave a talk on "Rhythms of the `Language' Poets" at the MLA Annual Convention, New York (1982). He's now published the essay on his Green Integer Blog. _____ In 1968 Jerome Rothenberg published his anthology Technicians of the…
4. 09-04-08 — Support Factory School order the book direct The Lenny Paschen Show(1992) Sound files and video for Blind Witness: Three American Operas (Blind Witness News, The Subject, and The Lenny Paschen Show) at PennSoound
5. 09-05-08 — Mike Hennessey reviews Blind Witness: Three American Operas on PennSound Daily * Sound files and video for Blind Witness News, The Subject, and The Lenny Paschen Show at PennSoound (corrected link from yesterday's post ) ------ George Lakoff on Palin as…
6. 09-07-08 — New EPC author pages photo credit: unknown Deanna Ferguson Photo: Ruby and Dan, Trout Lake, 2008. Photo by Aaron Vidaver Dan Farrell ------ There was an error in the address for the hard copy of the Nepal anthology The Humanities at Work, ed. Yubraj Aryal but…
7. 09-09-08 — Zen Monster is alive at The Bowery Poetry Club. September 24, 6-7:30 p.m 308 Bowery, New York New Zen, leftist, secular, jewish-buddhist. african art & literature magazine Zen Monster kicks off with an inaugural reading at the Bowery Poetry Club September 24,…
8. 09-12-08 — pdf of this offer here
9. 09-13-08 — "Chutes and Ladders I (for Joe Brainard)," 2008 11 collages from John Ashbery's Tibor de Nagy show are now on-line at the The New York Times, along with an essay on the work (based on an interview with Ashbery) by Holland Cotter. �Apres un Reve� (c. 1977)
10. 09-14-08 — A.I.R Gallery. has moved to Dumbo (Brooklyn). Manhattan was New York's 20th century art (and poetry) hot spot but for some time Brooklyn has been gaining an edge. (Perhaps this is because our sometimes Republican mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has made his major…
11. 09-16-08 — Alan Davies Draws a Blank Download mp4 or go to main web log page to see this video. Alan Davies Alan sat in front of Pecan's just before the Close Listening taping. January 5, 2007 (mp4, 29 seconds, 5.8 mb)
12. 09-17-08 — University of California Press is having a huge sale till the end of Ocotber that includes most of their poetry books. Not to be missed. Information on how to get a discount code here.
13. 09-18-08 — permalink to full exchange here
14. 09-23-08 — Come join us as we begin our 41st season, with two reasons to celebrate! You are invited to a reception celebrating the release of the current issue of PAJ: a journal of performance and art Bonnie Marranca, Editor Published in cooperation with MIT Press AND…
15. 09-23-08 — New at EPC Canadian Portal author pages, journals and magazines, presses, author-run centres & author pages for Sina Queyras Peter Culley Gregory Betts author page Colin Smith authr page Margaret Christakos author page with thanks to Donato Mancini for…
16. 09-26-08 — Poetry Bailout Will Restore Confidence of Readers my emergency announcement at last night's launch for The Best American Poetry 2008 has just been published by Harper's.
17. 09-27-08 — Pierre Joris has put up some clips from the Technicians of the Sacred 40th Anniversary reading at his Nomadics blog. My version of the opening Cato genesis poem is above; Jerome Rothenberg (Three Yaqui Deer Dance Poems) and Nicolle Peyrafitte (Sumerian "Vulva…
18. 09-30-08 — from With Strings, 2001 --------------------------------------------------- Common Stock Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and that there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken…

October 2008

1. 10-01-08 — PennSound stats: we now have about 15,000 media files and over the past year we've had about 20 million downloads of those files. ^^^^^ Dorothy Trujillo Lusk EPC author page Patrick Durgin EPC author page ^^^^^^^^^ Eiríkur Örn Norðdah's translation of The…
2. 10-08-08 — Ted and me at KGB bar (Michael Lally / Terry Winch reading) on Monday. Photo © Star Black Ted Greenwald, In Your Dreams (Buffalo: Blaze Vox, 2008) Ted Greenwald’s 30th book consists of 79 72-line poems, each with his trademark recombinatory drop-stitch weave.…
3. 10-08-08 — A Letter from Paul Zukofsky Dear Pa-fressor Smarty-Pants as a Charter Member of the vast Right-Leg Conspiracy to Restore Sanity, Probity and the Pentameter to the World of Poetry (RLCRSPPWP), I have read with great interest your message of Sept 26, 2008, to…
4. 10-09-08 — Modernism & Unreadability (Difficulty) Colloquium Lyon, France 23-25 octobre 2008 Colloque "Modernisme et Illisibilité" organisé par Isabelle Alfandary (PU Lyon 2, CEP), Axel Nesme (MCF Lyon 2, CEP) et Lacy Rumsey (ENS LSH) salles F08 et F01 Le colloque «…
5. 10-13-08 — if in NY George Tooker & the Unknown Blakelock at the National Academy till Jan. 4 The early Tooker and the late Blakelock are not to be missed (above: Tooker, Government Bureau, 1956) * Alfred Kubin at Neue Gallery (through Jan. 29)…
6. 10-15-08 — My reading from Girly Man & Shadowtime at the CUE Art Foundation, New York January 16, 2007 courtesy PennSound click to launch Quicktime plugin or copy link and open stream in media player or download from link Video Introduction by William Corbett:(1:47):…
7. 10-16-08 — Robert Shepperd has a new web incarnation of his UK-based Pages (fourth series) with a discussion of innovative" poetry and/as the mainstream ||||||||||||||| PennSound's own Danny Snelson curates Radio Noise at the Ontological (NY) Friday night (Oct. 17) at…
8. 10-17-08 — Info on Federman 80th birthday in Buffalo on Saturday 10/18/08 (below) Federman at EPC Federman on LineBreak (30 min.): MP3 "Dada 2" Federman & Bernstein,1996 (based on a poem by Federman, digitally edited by Bernstein) (0:45): MP3 This essay of mine will…
9. 10-27-08 — My book recommendations for Obama, Palin, McCain, & Biden at the Poetry Foundation
10. 10-27-08 — Anne Tardos has sent us a new EPC author photo for Jackson Mac Low, from 1943 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| photo by Claude Bondy Abigail Laing read her translations with me at Double Change in Paris on Saturday, Oct. 25 at La Bellevilloise (21, Rue…
11. 10-29-08 — P. Inman: Which Side Are You On? Go to web log or download mp4 to see this video. Peter Inman video portrait It was after my Baltimore i.e. reading with Rod. I found a red alcove in the noisy bar. I’d first met Peter and Tina almost thirty years before in…

November 2008

1. 11-01-08 — Rod Smith & Friends Nov. 16, 4pm, The Lyceum, Alexandria, Virginia Charles Bernstein - Anselm Berrigan - Nada Gordon - Tom Raworth - Gary Sullivan - Rodrigo Toscano - Croniamantal (the band) - Mel Nichols - Chris Nealon - Doug Lang - Bonnie Jones - Adam Good…
2. 11-02-08 — Artic Ice Caps Iraq New Orleans Justice Department Wall Street Civil Rights Freedom to Choose Supreme Court United Nations Just Let Us Finish the Job! Vote Republican on Nov. 4
3. 11-05-08 — it's like a nightmare is ending but I can't wake up
4. 11-06-08 — © 2007 Charles Bernstein/PennSound Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim new at EPC Edited by Michael Cross and Andrew Rippeon CONTENTS Sueyeun Juliette Lee | "shaped like relation suggested like progress":…
5. 11-07-08 — Poetry Foundation Poems for President Obama Charles Bernstein, Patricia Smith and Forrest Gander offer presidential advice. Produced by Curtis Fox.
6. 11-09-08 — Art and China's Revolution at the Asia Society in New York through January 11 note also excellent web site for the show WU Yunhua 吴云华 (born 1944) Mao Inspects Wushun Opencut Coal Mine 1972 Oil on Canvas 167 1/4 x 72 7/8 in. Chen Yanning 陈衍宁 (born 1945)…
7. 11-10-08 — Craig Dworkin, ed. The Consequences of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics (New York: Roof Books, 2008) Highlights include Dwokin’s introduction, Jed Rasula’s fascinating continuation of his approach in The American Poetry Wax Museum and a related piece on…
8. 11-12-08 — Vladimir Maiakovskii: Tragediia (Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy): Moscow, 1914 Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910 - 1917 November 18, 2008-April 19, 2009 Getty Research Institute Exhibition Gallery Curators: Nancy Perloff with Allison…
9. 11-14-08 — photos: Charles Bernstein
10. 11-14-08 — KWH Art, Penn English Department, & Penn Creative Writing Program present an opening for TAPEWORM a collaborative exhibition based on Darren Wershler-Henry's The Tapeworm Foundry (andor the dangerous prevalence of imagination) Thursday, 11/20 at 7PM Kelly…
11. 11-15-08 — NY Art Walk Petah Coyne Vermilion Fog Galerie Lelong though Dec. 15 another of Coyne's excursions into the thickness of animalady Beatriz Milhazes James Cohan Gallery through Nov. 15 An inventive Brazillain collagist Djordje Ozbolt 303 Gallery through…
12. 11-17-08 — photo Charles Bernstein, 2006
13. 11-18-08 — New at PennSound thanks to Don Share Dante Inferno XV — “Bruno Latini” — tr. Lowell (1964-Rapallo) (3:02) which is now our final recording on the PennSound Pound page, right after another recording of the same work. Not to be missed. ----------------------…
14. 11-19-08 — Louis Zukofsky at PennSound
15. 11-20-08 — On the new PennSound Zukofsky page you will find my 2007 reading of Zukofsky's "A Foin Lass Bodders," Zukofsky's ideolectical translation of Cavalcanti's "Donna mi Prega," from his1940 study for "A"-9, the privately printed "First Half of "A"-9" (included in…

December 2008

1. 12-04-08 — photo: Charles Bernstein, 2006
2. 12-10-08 — Critical Inquiry Volume 35, Number 2 (Winter 2009) Recantorium (a Bachelor Machine, after Duchamp after Kafka) Charles Bernstein Critical Inquiry Winter 2009, Vol. 35, No. 2: 351-360. Citation | Full Text | PDF Version (69 KB) A Response to Recantorium Jerome…
3. 12-12-08 — My reading in the Woodberry Poetry Room Harvard College Library December 11, 1980 (50:54) MP3 Introduction by Stratis Haviaris Palukaville (from Poetic Justice) (time marker 2’24”) Poem (from Shade) (8’33”) For – (from Shade) (10’44”) Simple Pleasures (from…
4. 12-12-08 — 25 years ago, I gave this reading The Poetry Project, St Mark's Church, New York October 17, 1983 (39:50) MP3 Fear and Trespass (from The Sophist) (time marker: 2’34”) from Resistance (9’56”) Searchless Warrant (from The Sophist) (19’15”) Prosthesis (from The…
5. 12-14-08 — Tom Raworth's Season's Greetings
6. 12-15-08 — photo by Chris Funkhauser Nathaniel Mackey Splay Anthem (New York: New Directions, 2006) Bass Cathedral (New York: New Directions, 2008) Bedouin Hornbook, published in 1986 by Callaloo, is the first volume of From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still…
7. 12-19-08 — more MLA .... SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28th from 7-10:00pm the Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission Street, San Francisco FREE and ADA accessible to the public Co-sponsored by Small Press Distribution and the Poetry Foundation Over 60 POETS reading…
8. 12-19-08 — If you're going to San Francisco for MLA please consider dropping by the University of Alabama Press's booth, #307, for a book signing: Sunday, December 28, 3pm Jerome Rothenberg signing copies of his newly published Poetics & Polemics: 1980-2005 And please…
9. 12-24-08 — Go to blog to see this player. We were on Herring Cove Beach. I asked Emma about the conflict between art and fashion, but the wind drowned out my question. August 29, 2007 (mp4, 29 seconds, 5.8 mb) Emma Bee Bernstein (May 16, 1985- Dec. 20, 2008) Emma our so…

Web Log Index — 2009

January 2009

1. 01-13-09 — Call for Papers The Philosophical Society of Nepal, and its reviewed Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry, seeks articles in a wide range of philosophical topics and from a wide range of perspectives, methodologies, and traditions within…
2. 01-17-09 — Susan Bee Eye of the Storm: New Paintings A.I.R. Gallery 111 Front Street, #228 Brooklyn, NY February 4 to March 1, 2009 Reception: Thursday, February 5, 6-8 pm Gallery hours: Wed. – Sun., 11am to 6pm. A.I.R. Gallery is located in the DUMBO neighborhood of…
3. 01-19-09 — Boris Drucker 1920-2009 Your son just ran away with his secret love - the treasury. Johanna Drucker's father, a cartoonist, died last week. Philadelphia Inquirer Obituary
4. 01-20-09 — The Triptych web site now has a digital version of "The Blue Divide" from Controlling Interests my 1980 collection which has recently been reissued by Roof Books. I will be kicking off the new New York Triptych series on Monday, Jan. 26 at 7pm reading with…
5. 01-25-09 — Judith Hoffberg (1934 - 2009) Judy died on January 16. One of the great actitvist/archivists for artist's book and the visual text. Editor of Umbrella
6. 01-26-09 — Richard Foreman and John Zorn ASTRONOME: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA February 5-April 5 ONLY Purchase Tickets & DVD forthcoming in March Sophia:The Cliffs 35+ Year Retrospective Compilation edited by Jay Sanders from Tzadik ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Museum…
7. 01-27-09 — Belladonna Books | 925 Bergen Street, Suite 405 | Brooklyn, NY 11238 | www.belladonnaseries.org
8. 01-30-09 — New York Art Walk Susanna Heller "Grand Central" from On The Heel - Toe Express January 8th - February 14th 2009 ManganProjects, Chelsea this show is dedicated to Emma --- Nick Cave Jack Shainman, Chelsea closes Feb. 7 ---- Nancy Spero Le Couple (Lovers XVI),…
9. 01-31-09 — Web Log’s 2009 Purple Globe Awards for Poetry Tan Lin HEATH (PLAGIARISM/OUTSOURCE), NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE, UNTITLED HEATH LEDGER PROJECT, A HISTORY OF THE SEARCH ENGINE, DISCO OS (Tenerife: Zasterle, 2006) nominated for 15 Purple Globe…
10. 01-31-09 — I have a piece in the "manifesto" section of the new Poetry Manifest Aversions, Conceptual Conundrums, & Implausibly Deniable Links the issues includes a potfolio of Tony Fitzpatrick's great work: .
11. 01-31-09 — Fred Sandback David Zwirner Gallery (Chelsea) closes Feb. 14

February 2009

1. 02-01-09 — Visual Poetry and Advertizing a PEPC digital exhibition Pond's Extract advertisement, Century magazine, 1887.
2. 02-04-09 — Susan Bee's show opens today Reception Thursday 6-8 at A.I.R. Gallery note new location in Brooklyn! (111 Front St., #228, Dumbo) through March 1 Paradise Lost 2008 12 x 16", oil and collage on linen Fallen Angel 2008-2009, 12" round
3. 02-06-09 — New York Readings Segue Series at the BOWERY POETRY CLUB Winter/Spring 2009 Download the schedule in Acrobat format. 308 BOWERY, JUST NORTH OF HOUSTON SATURDAYS FROM 4 - 6 PM $6 admission goes to support the readers Funding is made possible by the continuing…
4. 02-09-09 — Phong's New York Go to main blog page to see this video, or download from link. Phong Bui We went up to the roof of the Clocktower and I asked Phong —. the publisher of the Brooklyn Rail — that age old New York question about art and real estate. June 4, 2007…
5. 02-10-09 — Michael Davidson, Charles Bernstien, James Sherry, Peter Straub, Deborah Thomas, Susan Bee in DUMBO (Brooklyn Bridge in background) on Sunday. Photo: Susan Straub
6. 02-12-09 — Tribute to Emma Bee Bernstein and book release for Belladonna Elders Series 4 NEW DATE: Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. A.I.R. Gallery: 111 Front St., #228, Dumbo, Brooklyn This event will be a tribute to Emma Bee Bernstein and a book release for…
7. 02-15-09 — Here's the schedule for Friday's MoMA Futurism event in collaboration with Poetry magazine on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the publishing of the Futurist Manifesto Museum of Modern Art (NY) Friday, February 20, 2009 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Modern…
8. 02-16-09 — Class 1976 (10:30) Originally issued on cassette as part of Class (Widemouth, 1982) and subsequently digitized by Ubu, "Class" (1976) is now available in a remasterd stereo version (thanks to Danny Snelson), part of a remastering of several audio works fo…
9. 02-22-09 — Double Change has just published two sets of DVDs of their Paris poetry readings series: Double Change 1 — Archive filmée de poésie — 2004-2005 (9 DVDs) Double Change 2 — Archive filmée de poésie — 2005-2006 (9 DVDs) Double Change 1 — Archive filmée de poésie…
10. 02-23-09 — Carolee Schneemann Painting, What it Became Curated by Maura Reilly PPOW Gallery (New York) (through March 28) Sphinx 1962, mixed media, 50 x 28 x 4 inches One Window is Clear- Notes to Lou Andreas Salome 1965, mixed media, 77 1/2 x 48 x 3 1/2 inches
11. 02-24-09 — photo: © 2008 Bernstein/PennSound Ron Silliman on PennSound The Alphabet Reading at the Kelly Writers House February 17, 2009 1. Introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (3:09): MP3 2. Statement by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (10:44): MP3 3. Introduction by Charles…
12. 02-25-09 — CFP: "ASAP 1: Arts of the present (10/22-25/2009) A.S.A.P. Launch Conference: "ASAP 1: Arts of the Present" Paper proposals will be accepted starting February 1, 2009. October 22-25, 2009 / Knoxville, TN NOTE: All Proposals should be should be submitted at…
13. 02-26-09 — Charles North Complete Lineups; art by Paula North (Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 2009). as in baseball lineups, eg .... Wittgenstein lf Heidegger 2b Aristotle 1b Kant rf Hegel cf Hume ss Sartre 3b Plotinus c Plato p
14. 02-26-09 — Michael Davidson Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008) Davison has written a foundational text for the poetics of disability. The collection includes essays on Eigner, ASL and “deaf…
15. 02-26-09 — photo: © 2007 Bernstein/PennSound Norman Fischer Charlotte’s Way (Tinfish, 2008) Here’s the first stanza of this long poem: Charlotte’s way: window, ocean, sky, Hills with birds splayed across them scooping irregular in cluttered clots Black against clouds,…
16. 02-27-09 — Belladonna Celebrates the Elders with readings and events guest-hosted by some of our favorite writers who've invited writers who influence and inspire them Jennifer Scappettone hosts Lyn Hejinian Tuesday, March 3 7:30PM SHARP! (doors at 7PM) @ Dixon Place…
17. 02-28-09 — Some reviews by John Herbert Cunningham in The Quarterly Conversation Saga/Circus by Lyn Hejinian Souls of the Labadie Tract by Susan Howe It’s go in horizontal by Leslie Scalapino Thing of Beauty by Jackson Mac Low Girly Man by Charles Bernstein The Alphabet…

March 2009

1. 03-01-09 — Photos: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times I'll be going to the show next week, but meawhile my son Felix sent me his response. Felix Bernstein on Richard Foreman / John Zorn Astronome (now playing at the Ontological Hysteric Theater in New York) Foreman shows…
2. 02-29-09 — III Puheita ja avauksia (Speeches And Initiatives) 11. Usein esitettyjä kysymyksiä (Päivä) (FAQ for my conceptual prose work, Päivä) 12. Runouden antologia? (Foreword to “En antologi av (mestadels) översättningar från (mestadels) finska till (mestadels)…
3. 03-02-09 — Chris Funkhouser's pictures from yesterday's tribute to Emma (March 1, 2009) and book launch for the new Belladonna collection at A.I.R. Gallery. Erica Kaufman and Rachel Levitsky introducing the event Lyn Hejinian with a Susan Bee painting. Lyn read a poem…
4. 03-02-09 — From Dame Quickly poetry & collage-works Jennifer Scappettone just out from Litmus Press (Brooklyn, 2009) Quickly: it’s neither fish nor flesh, Falstaff nor Faust. "I became again, I learned to taste." Translation, collage, prose poem, lyric invention,…
5. 03-03-09 — Accused (1975 audiotape work) (45:06): MP3 In 1974, City College’s History Department erupted into a bitter political dispute in which older faculty members Stanley Page, Edward Rosen and others accused their younger colleagues of disruptive leftist…
6. 03-05-09 — The Rent Collectors after Ye Yushan and Sichuan Academy of Arts Rent Collection Courtyard
7. 03-05-09 — Mary Ann Caws talks about the MoMA Futurist Manifesto centennial on the new Poetry Foundation podcast, which includes some excerpts from my performances
8. 03-05-09 — Vincent Katz on Emma's Belladonna book & Susan's show
9. 03-07-09 — Susan Bee's A.I.R. show is reviewed by Craig Olson in the March, 2009 Brooklyn Rail ... Bee seems to suggest there is no position, materially or spiritually, that we can use to understand the totality of our fate. There are only fragments and ruptured…
10. 03-08-09 — Some images from this past weekend's Armory Show at the west side piers in New York Alice Neel's portrait of Adrienne Rich Carolee Schneemann's "Parallel Axis" from 1973 A remarkable refusal to write the body out of geometric abstraction. Also on view at the…
11. 03-10-09 — Onedit #12 includes my poem "Morality" and lots of other good things ...
12. 03-10-09 — Rodrigo Toscano on MoMA Futurist Manifesto at the Poetry Foundation --- Art in America on the event ----- I will be reading with Adeena Karasick on Saturday, March 14, at 4pm Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York 308 Bowery just north of Houston
13. 03-11-09 — Michael Davidson photo: ©2009 Charles Bernstein/PennSound Close Listening Art International Radio, operating at ARTonAIR.org March 6, 2009 Program 1: Reading by Michael Davidson of selected poems: (26:31): MP3 from Prose of Fact: Title, Summer Letters,…
14. 03-11-09 — OULIPO New York April 2009
15. 03-12-09 — Richard Foreman’s and John Zorn’s Astronome: A Night at the Opera (an initiation) is an exuberant romp through the noise of time, a carnivalesque phantasmagoria of Foreman’s repertoire of ghoulish masks and veils, alluring Hebrew inscriptions, dangling…
16. 03-13-09 — Felix Bernstein, 2008 Mildred Pierce full set of Felix's films on Blip.TV
17. 03-15-09 — PennSound stats: PennSound users downloaded 4 million mp3 sound recordings and related media files in the past month. At this point, we are projecting 50 million downloads for 2009.
18. 03-15-09 — Here is a video version of "War Stories" from the Brazillian collection of my poems translated by Régis Bonvicino (link is to bilingual version). The video is by "ciscozappa":
19. 03-16-09 — Alan Loney photo ©2009 Charles Bernstein/PennSound Close Listening Alan Loney is a poet and printer from New Zealand who currently lives in Australia. Loney had his first book of poems published in 1971 and began work as a printer in 1974. He was co-winner of…
20. 03-16-09 — Magnificent installation of Paul Sharits's four-projector "locational" film installation Shutter Interface (1975) plus drawings for the installation and a wide assortment of Sharits's works on paper> through March 21 Greene Naftali Gallery (New York) (lots of…
21. 03-17-09 — Photo: Bernstein/PennSound ©2007
22. 03-19-09 — Doug Lang posted this on Facebook from right: Doug Lang, Douglas Messerli, Charles Bernstein, Howard Fox, unknown after Folio Books reading, DC in 1977
23. 03-20-09 — Photo ©2008 Bernstein/PennSound
24. 03-23-09 — Ron Silliman on Emma's Belladonna book Ron writes about this photo by Emma of Marjorie Perloff from the book © Emma Bee Bernstein, October 2007 & he posts this picture: Emma with Lyn Hejinian, Ron, Susan Bee, Bruce Andrews, & Susan Howe. I took this in 1988…
25. 03-27-09 — Editorial Board Professor Peter Barry (University of Wales at Aberystwyth) Dr Caroline Bergvall (University of Southampton) Professor Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania) Dr Andrea Brady (Queen Mary College, University of London) Dr Ian Davidson…
26. 03-28-09 — Reading Pierre Joris's Nomadics blog this morning was reminded to post this announcemnent: Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery New York (Between Houston and Bleecker) A launch and reading for Poems for the Millennium, volume 3 The University of California Book of…
27. 03-29-09 — Sally Silvers Yessified! (March 29 is last night) text and a sound design by Bruce Andrews original music by Michael Schumacher. New York Times review Times feature article
28. 03-29-09 — Art Walk art that walks the walk, talks the talk Mira Schor Momenta Art (Brooklyn) (closes April 20) Suddenly (view image for wider view) (review at NewsGrist includes comment on this work) Night Driver -------------------------- Simon Evans at James Cohan…
29. 03-30-09 — BRUCE PEARSON Ronald Feldman Gallery (NYC) stretching the alphabet beyond recognition or into new recognitions *a beautiful show*

April 2009

1. 04-02-09 — Akilah Oliver A Toast in the House of Friends Minneapolis: Coffee House, 2009 The ceremony of sorrow is performed with a measured, defiant acknowledgement that makes words charms, talismans of the fallen world. This poetry is a holding space, a folded grace,…
2. 04-04-09 — Alyosha (Alexi) Parshchikov March 25, 1954 - April 3, 2009 Word just in from Eugene Ostashevsky, who also sent this photo, from Eugene's wedding last year. Probably best know in the U.S. for Blue Vitriol tr. Michael Palmer, Michael Molnar, and John High…
3. 04-05-09 — Poets & Writers Interview with Nick Piombino I knew Alexi Parshchikov was involved with translating "Artifice of Absoprtion" into Russian but I only now learned that it was pubished — "Artifice of Absorption" tr. into Russian by Patrick Henry, Alexei…
4. 04-05-09 — photo: ©Charles Bersntein 2009
5. 04-07-09 — Portraits Series 5 (corrected link) Bob's Theory of the (Aging) Avant-Garde Go to blog to see this player. Bob Perelman It was the first week of classes at Penn and Bob stopped by my office for a drink. I asked how his liked his new neighborhood in Manhattan,…
6. 04-09-09 — This central work in the Guggenheim Museum’s “The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989 (January 30–April 19, 2009) is hidden from the view of many museum goers on the staircase at the second floor. The unmarked and anonymous piece…
7. 04-18-09 — Adeena Karasick's new video "I Got a Crush on Osama" is a parody of "I Got a Crush on Obama" from the Press Release -- Satire of Obama Girl Video Released on YouTube to Promote New book Amuse Bouche “Today’s politics have reached such a completely absurd…
8. 04-19-09 — Thursday, April 23 David Antin Charles Bernstein Lynne Tillman 7:30pm Writing in the Dark Series curated by Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch Amie and Tony James Gallery CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets) NYC .
9. 04-21-09 — Ron Silliman Wins Pulizer Prize by Mike Freakman New York, April 21 (AHP2 News) – Ron Silliman’s The Alphabet is the winner of the 2009 Pulizer Prize for Poetry. The Pulizer jury wrote, “Regardless of one’s position on the various strains of American poetry,…
10. 04-21-09 — Miriam Atkin reviews Susan Bee's A.I.R. show at Sputtering Regularity Drowsy, uncertain memories form the substrate of Susan Bee’s luminous dream-dramas, where hellfire nightmares interrupt the amorous gestures of courtly paramours, and prim little girls…
11. 04-21-09 — Futurism and the New Manifesto program Museum of Modern Art / New York February 20, 2009. On the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Mehigan, Alicia Stallings, and I read…
12. 04-23-09 — Close Listening my conversation with Jean-Michel Rabaté Rabaté explains what literary theory is, how he came to teach it, and how he thinks of it as a kind of conceptual or performance art. He also discusses Duchamp and Pound, the differences between U.S. and…
13. 04-24-09 — photo ©2007 by Emma Bee Bernstein Eileen Myles on Close Listening, March 24, 2009 Art International Radio Program One: Reading: MP3 Program Two: Our conversation: MP3
14. 04-28-09 — Faculty of English University of Cambridge You are invited to The Judith E Wilson Poetry Lecture by Charles Bernstein a poetry reading / performance / talk, entitled On Election Day (for Emma) 7 May 2009, 5.00 pm Little Hall, Sigdwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue…
15. 04-30-09 — New at PEPC Library Antlers in the Treetops full text, 132 pp: pdf (11mb) lower res pdf files, about 1mb each: part one, part two, part three Ron Padgett and Tom Veitch Coach House Press, 1970 (rpt. 1973) PEPC Edition 2009 cover: George Schneeman PEPC…

May 2009

1. 05-05-09 — photo ©2004 Emma Bee Bernstein Ellen Kennedy Michel reviews Belladonna Elders Series #4 Tribute to Emma Bee Bernstein also featuring Susan Bee, Marjorie Perloff, and Nona Willis Aronowitz Belladonna Books ($15) In the new issue of Rain Taxi on-line Belladonna…
2. 05-07-09 — photo ©2006 Mark Goldstein
3. 05-10-09 — Cambridge University Tom Raworth photos slide show | May 7/8 2009. Maggie O'Sullivan, Peter Middleton, Alan Fisher, Redell Olsen, Romana Huk, Emily Critchley, Drew Milne (intro to my reading), & finally Tom by Sam Ladkin. In stream: David Nowell-Smith, Ian…
4. 05-11-09 — from Parkett 84 (2009) Is Art Criticism Fifty Years Behind Poetry? In Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie1, Lytle Shaw’s ostensive subject is how “coterie” works in the poetry and poetics of Frank O’Hara. The opening chapters provide a cogent discussion of…
5. 05-12-09 — Steve McCaffery reading from Carnival, Panel 2, @ Instal 09, Glasgow. 21.03.09 (excerpt: full reading 40 min.)
6. 05-17-09 — MoMA (New York) TANGLED ALPHABETS Mira Schendel (Brazil, b. Switzerland, 1919–1988) & León Ferrari (Argentina, b. 1920) (closes June 15) is one of the most significant shows of alphabetic/lettrist art to appear in a major New York museum. The show focusses…
7. 05-17-09 — Richard Baker book covers at Tibor de Nagy (New York) closes May 22
8. 05-18-09 — Tan Lin suggested I use Twitter in my English 111 "Experimental Writing" seminar. All 13 participants signed up to 111-only Twitter feeds and used the lines generated to create a variety of collaborative poems. The Twitter poems are here. The 111 site is…
9. 05-20-09 — photo: ©2008 Charles Bernstein/PennSound f rom American Poet (vol. 35, Fall 2008) Tonya’s Place Charles Bernstein In Harlem, one can never get a room dark enough to lose sight of things. In Harlem, one can or can seem to make peace with a tour bus of eyes. I…
10. 05-21-09 — My reading at Segue/BPC March 14, 2009 full reading (42:35):MP3 1. Manifest Aversions, Conceptual Conundrums, & Implausibly Deniable Links (8:58): MP3 2. Pompeii (1:08): MP3 3. Fold (3:44): MP3 4. The Sixties, with Apologies (2:01): MP3 5. Stupid Men, Smart…
11. 05-22-09 — from The Fire Collected Essays of Robin Blaser Edited with an Introduction by Miriam Nichols Univeristy of California Press, 2006 The Violets: Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead (1983) “a cosmological reading of a cosmology”<1> The American poet who has…
12. 05-24-09 — Emma Bee Bernstein Emerging Artists Fellowship DONATIONS HERE
13. 05-25-09 — War Stories MP3 read with Emma Bee Bernstein Dec, 20, 2004 at the Charles Morrow Studios from Girly Man War is the extension of prose by other means. War is never having to say you're sorry. War is the logical outcome of moral certainty. War is conflict…
14. 05-25-09 — New Blog from Douglas Messerli Introductory Statement from EXPLORINGfictions Exploratory fiction, at least in the United States, is arguably near death. Determinedly mediocre American publishing aligned with tepidly written and rapidly disappearing critical…
15. 05-29-09 — Class Remasters Now Complete Mike Hennessey on PennSound Daily In February, we announced that three tracks from Charles Bernstein's 1982 Widemouth Tapes release, Class had been made available in newly remastered stereo versions, as overseen by PennSound…
16. 05-30-09 — Photi Giovanis has opened a new gallery Callicoon Fine Arts in the Catskills (upstate New York) All Suffering Soon to End! is gallery's first exhibition (closes August 15), with artworks by: Susan Bee, Paul Brainard, Glen Fogel, Elise Freda, Alicia Gibson,…
17. 05-31-09 — Bay Area trip On Sunday, June 21, at 6:30pm I will be reading with Judith Goldman at the New Reading Series at 21 Grand Gallery 415 25th St @ Broadway, Oakland * &, briefly, on Monday, June 22 at 7:30pm with Scalapino, McClure, Berssenbrugge, Newman, Goldman,…

June 2009

1. 06-01-09 — Henry Hills : Selected Films 1977-2008 Cat. # 3009 Released June 2, 2009 US Price $31.00 Henry Hills writes: I am pleased to announce the release of 11 of my 16mm films as a TZADIK DVD. SELECTED FILMS (1977-2008) is available from Amazon.com and Tzadik.. In…
2. 06-02-09 — Adam Pendleton performs "Hannah Weiner – An Argument for Black Dada" a new work commissioned for the opening night of Talk Show at London's ICA, May 5, 2009 video here In this work Pendleton gives a thoughtful introduction to Hannah Weiner's work, two actors…
3. 06-05-09 — Last week I had the pleasure to go on a "hardhat" tour of the new Poets House in Battery Park City (New York), which is opening this Fall: It's a magnificent space, with spectacular views of the Hudson, majestic library / reading room, seminar room,…
4. 06-05-09 — Poesia Ultima / Italian Poetry Now Istituto Italiano di Cultura, May 26, 2009, New York photos by Mongibeddu Marco Giovenale, Giovanna Frene, Carla Billitteri, Milli Graffi, the organizers: Carla Billitteri and Jennifer Scappettone here I am with Millli…
5. 06-06-09 — The Kind of Criticism I Want ... Ming-Qian Ma Poetry as Re-Reading: American Avant-Garde Poetry and the Poetics of Counter Method Northwestern University Press, 2008 Structural, philosophical, and phenomenological readings of Zukofsky ("Poem Beginning…
6. 06-07-09 — Susan Bee review by Meredith Mendelsohn in Art News (June 2009)
7. 06-12-09 — The Lenny Paschen Show reading: Bernstein Silvie Jensen, mezzo-soprano Yarmolinsky, vocal and guitar Get the Flash Player to see this player. Blind Witness: Three American Operas published by Factory School, 2008 order book here PennSound page
8. 06-12-09 — Jane Sprague, Diane Ward, Tina Darragh at Dixon Place (NYC) for the Elders Series Belladonna book launch Tuesday, June 9, 2009
9. 06-13-09 — my reading from Girly Man & Shadowtime at the CUE Art Foundation, New York January 16, 2007 click to launch Quicktime plugin or copy link and open stream in media player or download from link Video Introduction by William Corbett:(1:47): .mov Reading (42:31):…
10. 06-14-09 — from Jared McDonald (Penn student from English 111) thought you might find this interesting: a current trending topic on twitter is #iremember (see: http://twitter.com/#search ?q=%23iremember), after which people are putting memories.. for example, someone…
11. 06-15-09 — Dominique Fourcade Citizen Do Paris: P.O.L, 2008 In his new book, published in November, Do[minique] Fourcade is both fiercely aesthetic and irreconcilably political, moving from discursive engagements with the War on Iraq (which extends En Laisse [P.O.L.,…
12. 06-24-09 — WAR AND PEACE 4: VISION AND TEXT Judith Goldman and Leslie Scalapino, Eds. Devoted to collaborations between visual works and poetry, includes collaborative works of Charles Bernstein with Susan Bee, Amy Evans McClure with Michael McClure, Kiki Smith with…
13. 06-24-09 — photo © 2008 Charles Bernstein/PennSound HENRY HILLS DVD RELEASE EVENT Filmmaker in person. Reception to follow. at Anthology Film Achive New York Sunday, June 28 at 7:30. Order DVD from Tzadik Moving to New York in 1978, filmmaker Henry Hills formed a strong…
14. 06-24-09 — While in the Bay Area this past week ... my reading at New Reading Series 21 Grand, Oakland June 21, 2009 (46:16) MP3 (recorded by Andrew Kenower) I read with Judith Goldman, but don't yet have a recording of her reading. & "No Hiding Place" my statement for…
15. 06-25-09 — from Emma's Belladonna book Lost in Space Susan Bee In June 2007, Emma graduated from the University of Chicago with honors in Art and Art History. Our whole family went to Chicago to attend her graduation. In October 2007, her beloved grandfather and my…
16. 06-26-09 — Henry Weinfield
17. 06-26-09 — Reconfiguring Romanticism (30): Victor Hugo Translated by Charles Bernstein from Victor Hugo, Les Contemplations (1856) at Jerome Rothenberg's Poems and Poetics blog with commentary by Rothenberg
18. 06-26-09 — from Emma's Belladonna book Lost in Space Susan Bee In June 2007, Emma graduated from the University of Chicago with honors in Art and Art History. Our whole family went to Chicago to attend her graduation. In October 2007, her beloved grandfather and my…
19. 06-27-09 — PEPC Digital Edition Liquid Perceptions by Susan Bee 9 plates
20. 06-28-09 — The logic of hybridity seems to pave the way for language poetry to fit smoothly into this anthology—the work of Rae Armantrout, for example, can be seen as a kind of model for the new lyric that American Hybrid espouses. However, it is important to note that…
21. 06-28-09 — The Hispanic Society of America-Dia Art Foundation Tuesdays on the Terrace — Summer Program 2009 Audubon Terrace Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets, New York City The Collection of Silence A project by Eileen Myles (from Press Release) Eileen Myles will…
22. 06-29-09 — chaturangik/SQUARES is a delightfully inventive work of multilectical poetry: Bengali warping into English, English hopscotching into Bengali. An elegant realization of cross-cultural dialog at the level of the tongue, chaturangik/SQUARES resists linguistic…

July 2009

1. 07-03-09 — Coming in January ... this book grows our of the program I organize with Stephen Paul Miller at the Center for Jewish Culture video here here is the University of Alabama Press catalog announcement. Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture ed. by Stephen P.…
2. 07-05-09 — Early Poems (4:15): MP3 to be an married (0:40): MP3 Asylum (from Asylums) (11:35): MP3 Lo Disfruto (from Poetic Justice) (8:04): MP3 My/My/My (from Asylums) (11:13): MP3 [single track feed for Class version] Three-voice Performance of "Sentences" from…
3. 07-07-09 — Becca Claver on Emma's Belladonna book Kevin Killian on Susan's and my vist to Oakland (or was it Berkeley?) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art blog Omnidawn on War & Peace reading --------------------- Last night, when we were young .... Two…
4. 07-08-09 — (my photo of Tan from 2007) Tan Lin from an email interview with Chris Alexander, Kristen Gallagher, and Gordon Tapper in Galatea Resurrects I think the idea of what is "neutral" in a reading experience, and how to make what is "neutral" in a reading visible…
5. 07-16-09 — What Is A Poet? October 18-20, 1984 organized by . Hank Lazer PEPC Digital Edition, 2009 Introduction by Hank Lazer Final Panel (pdf) Photos Bernstein, Vendler, Jay, Perloff, Altieri, Stern, Ignatow, Simpson, Lazer, Levertov, Burke
6. 07-18-09 — August 14, 2009 Bernice Lever Maria Hindmarch George Bowering Daphne Marlatt Robert Hogg Michael Palmer Jamie Reid Judith Copithorne Fred Wah Clark Coolidge Pauline Butling Lionel Kearns Harbour Centre SFU sponsored by Simon Fraser University ENGLISH and THE…
7. 07-19-09 — Trailer for Girldrive by Emma Bee Bernstein and Nona Willis Aronowitz
8. 07-22-09 — The University of Alabama Press is proud to offer a RECESSION SPECIAL on many of the titles found in its Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series. Purchase any of the following books at 50% off the regular retail price. (See below for pricing in USD and ISBNs…
9. 07-26-09 — John Ashbery conference in Paris March 2010 call for papers * Grumeaux new French magazine
10. 07-27-09 — Paul Auster’s Travels in the Scriptorium (Holt, 2007) was something of a companion to his delightful and ingenious movie, The Inner Life of Martin Frost, which, more than any other film I can think of, centered on the acts of writing the movie unfolding…
11. 07-29-09 — POETRY AND CULTURAL STUDIES: A READER edited by Maria Damon and Ira Livingston University of Illinois Press, 2009 PRECURSORS 1. Wordsworth’s "Preface” was first published in his Lyrical Ballads of1800 and revised substantially in 1802 (the version used here)…

August 2009

1. 08-01-09 — Kenny's Desire We met for lunch on West 72nd Street, just a couple of block from where I grew up. 2007 (mp4, 19 sec., 4.6 mb)
2. 08-05-09 — Helen Adam at EPC Helen Adam at PennSound
3. 08-07-09 — My tribute to Budd Schulberg, "Class" audio work from 1976: "Class" uses improvised repetitions by way of the rewind button on a mono cassette player; its primary sources being Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan's "On the Waterfront" (1954), screenplay by Budd…
4. 08-08-09 — Futurepoem call for poetry mss
5. 08-08-09 — ... and you heard it on Fox!
6. 08-10-09 — DNA Gallery 288 Bradford St Provincetown, Mass. Friday, August 14 6pm Poetry reading with Gordon Faylor, Liz Fodaski, and Eddie Hopely Sunday, August 16 7:30pm A night of film, poetry, and art with Mimi Gross, Charles Bernstein, & George Kuchar
7. 08-13-09 — 1 - How did your first book or chapbook change your life? How does your most recent work compare to your previous? How does it feel different? Hard to say. 2 - How did you come to poetry first, as opposed to, say, fiction or non-fiction? Poetry is…
8. 08-16-09 — Introduction Fragment 1 Fragment 2 Fragment 16 Fragment 31 Fragment 94 Fragment 96
9. 08-18-09 — Program #1: Mónica de la Torre reads "The Crush," from Public Domain (Roof Books, 2008) profile.php(27:49): MP3 Program #2 Mónica de la Torre in conversation with Charles Bernstein (28:45): MP3
10. 08-22-09 — "The Kinghisers" is collected in Collected Poems, ed. Geoerge Butterick (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1987). A great deal has been written about this poem, documenting its sources line for line, see especially: Ralph Maude, What Does Not…
11. 08-23-09 — Douglas Dunn on Merce Cunningham
12. 08-24-09 — PoemTalk [copy from PoemTalk blog announcment] a podcast series sponsored by the Poetry Foundation | the Kelly Writers House | & PennSound totally indivisible (PoemTalk #21) LISTEN TO THE SHOW In PT #21 we talk about a poem by Charles Bernstein written in…
13. 08-26-09 — My conversation with Bruce Pearson. Pearson describes his method of making a painting. He also discusses his use of language as a base element for his paintings and notes how this confutes traditional dichotomies such as figuration versus abstraction and…
14. 08-30-09 — cast list, instrumentals, and synopsis at the New Band site buy tickets now
15. 08-31-09 — The Joys and Sorrows of Evanescent Cinema (27:29): MP3 Note: The text for this 2003 autobiographical essay is available from Millennium Film Journal, here.

September 2009

1. 09-04-09 — Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry The first issue is out now, 112 pp: Scott Thurston and Robert Sheppard, Eds. Dragging at the haemorrhage of uns : Maggie O Sullivan s excavations of Irish history Mandy Bloomfield Democratic consensus in J. H.…
2. 09-04-09 — grumeaux [from Caen, France; Yoann Thommerel, ed.] n° 1 VOICE 8 Mladen Dolar : Vox 53 Ian Monk : Lire à haute voix 61 Jérôme Game : L'agencement lecture/perf. Mousse 69 Gwenaëlle Stubbe : Une réponse concise Adélaï-ïde 81 Benoît Casas : Vous lire 87 Sonia…
3. 09-06-09 — Beth Griffith as Hilda Honey
4. 09-09-09 — Café Buffé final rehearsal September 9, 2009 tickets here Thursday September 10, 2009 7:30PM The John J Cali School of Music Montclair State University World Premiere of Café Buffé comic farce - chamber opera (concert performance) for six soloists, 18-piece…
5. 09-13-09 — Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde by Tyrus Miller Northwestern University Press, 2009 Singular Examples provides acute readings John Cage, Gilbert Sorrentino, David Tudor, Stan Brakhage, Samuel Beckett, with special and very welcome…
6. 09-14-09 — Nona Willis-Aronowitz has launched the new GirlDrive web site which replces the blog. GirlDrive -- the book -- coauthored by Emma Bee Bernstein will be out in about 6 weeks ±±±±±±±±±± Newark Star-Ledger review of Café Buffé ±±±±±±±±±± Poets House's Fabulous…
7. 09-15-09 — David Arnold Poetry and Language Writing Objective and Surreal 256 pages Liverpool University Press publisher's blurb: Language Poetry, Language Writing, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing—no matter the moniker, the impact of the movement and its particular pedigree of…
8. 09-18-09 — Proposals 31. Commentary. Stratospheres are spreads of surfaces with boundaries and stimulate the discussion of identity and category.
9. 09-19-09 — Segue Reading Series Saturdays ar 4:00p to 6:00p at Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY Oct 3: Zhang Er & Trey Sager Oct 10: Laura Moriarty & Paul Foster Johnson Oct 17: Keith Waldrop & John Keene Oct 24: Catherine Wagner & Amy King Oct 31: Kim Lyons & James…
10. 09-20-09 — Collected Poems by Larry Eigner edited by Curtis Faville and Robert Grenier Stanford University Press is forthcoming December 2009 (four cloth volumes, 1848 pages) There is no 20th century American poet more present, more pertinent, more necessary than Larry…
11. 09-25-09 — I will be reading at Harvard on Monday, October 5 at 5pm in the Kresge Room in Barker Center (12 Quincy St)
12. 09-25-09 — Girldrive Emma Bee Bernstein & Nona Willis Aronowitz now out! Girldrive reading at KGB Bar in NYC on Oct 29 at 7 p.m. Girldrive launch at A.I.R. Gallery in NYC on Oct 30 at 7:30 p.m. from Seal Press Nona and Emma have done what I suspect many women, young and…
13. 09-27-09 — As we near the close of our High Holy Day services for 5770, in these last hours of the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, let us say the litanies of confession, oshamnu: We are filled with guilt, we have been in bad faith, we have transgressed against others and…
14. 09-28-09 — 2009 UC Press Online Book Sale. Many of their key poetry book including Blaser, Silliman, Mullen (both), Spahr, Bersssebrugge, Creeley, Olson, Vallejo Stein, Waldrop, Antin, Clover, Darwish, Myung Mi Kim, Berrigan, O'Hara, Neidecker, Césaire Poems for the…
15. 09-28-09 — George Kuchar at PEPC: The Kiss of Frankenstein (2003)
16. 09-30-09 — note also The exhibition, through October 31, features the work of poet/artists including Octavio Paz, Vicente Huidobro; illustrated books and periodicals by Torres-García; pre-Columbian ceramics, a Quipu fragment; a site specific sculpture by Cecilia Vicuña;…

October 2009

1. 10-02-09 — Schor is a painter living in New York. She is the author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism and Art Culture and co-editor with Susan Bee of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory and Criticism and M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online. She is the editor of The…
2. 10-02-09 — Peter Seaton on Eclipse Agreement Crisis Intervention The Son Master
3. 10-03-09 — Introduction (0:56): MP3 Self-Organizing Networks (0:58): MP3 This Is One Way to Begin (0:23): MP3 Halcyon Road (0:32): MP3 The News (0:11): MP3 Unsub (027): MP3 The Virginia Monologues (6:06): MP3 Petirroja (1:15): MP3 My Dinner with Andrea (1:34): MP3 1/2 a…
4. 10-03-09 — Leigh Davis (1955-2009) New Zealand poet, a critic, an artist and a publisher There is a good selection of Leigh's writing at www.jackbooks.com ----- Ocotber 3, 2009 Dear Charles, Leigh died this morning. There was no pain, indeed at no stage had there been…
5. 10-03-09 — Leigh Davis (1955-2009) New Zealand poet, a critic, an artist and a publisher A selection of his writing may be found at www.jackbooks.com Ocotber 3, 2009 Dear Charles, Leigh died this morning. There was no pain, indeed at no stage had there been any. We have…
6. 10-04-09 — Wednesday, October 14, 7:00pm CORRESPONDENCES: A Reading & Conversation with Charles Bernstein & Régis Bonvicino Charles Bernstein speaks with Brazilian poet and editor Régis Bonvicino about contemporary Brazilian poetry, translation and, more generally, the…
7. 10-05-09 — then I will be appearing at Oslo Poetry Festival October 23 and 24 giving a reading and delivering the keynote in their annual "Attack on Poetry" lecture series introduced by Caroline Bergvall, who will be performing in the festival. also Ellen Ugelvik will…
8. 10-07-09 — photos ©Charles Bernstein, at Buffalo 10/18/08
9. 10-09-09 — Bonvicino will present this talk on Weds.Oct. 14 at the Poets House in NY at 7pm, along with a bilingual reading (details at my post last week). He will also be reading and talking with me at the Kelly Writers House at Penn on Tuesday, October 13.
10. 10-10-09 — The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound Edited by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin 352 pages, paper $26.00 ISBN: 9780226657431 Published November 2009 -- now out! Sound—one of the central elements of poetry—finds itself all but ignored in the current…
11. 10-11-09 — Charles Bernstein, "Manifest Aversions, Conceptual Conundrums & Implausibly Deniable Links" (2008) MP3 audio MP4 video for downloading
12. 10-16-09 — Tickets and more info
13. 10-16-09 — New York Book Launches for Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism There will be two events in NYC to celebrate Emma Bee Bernstein and Nona Willis Aronowitz's new book about young women and the future of feminism. Girldrive reading at KBG Bar…
14. 10-19-09 — Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein. Seal, $19.95 paper (256p) ISBN 9781580052733 Embarking on a road trip across the U.S. to engage with contemporary women, writer Aronowitz and the late artist…
15. 10-19-09 — Nancy Spero (1926 - 2009)
16. 10-19-09 — “Bettridge offers a dare. He dares you to read the notorious Language poets as if they professed a faith. What faith? A faith that creative readers, residing in the gap between words and the world, can constantly remake themselves and what they know.”—Stephen…
17. 10-25-09 — N.B. cut 4 [(12:12): MP3] is a montage For Emma: After Edward Lear’s “The Old Man of Whitehaven” My tr. of an 1847 poem from Hugo’s Les Contemplations From Swinburne, “The Ballad of Burdens” My tr of Heine’s "Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht" followed by my…
18. 10-26-09 — from Girly Man every lake has a house & every house has a stove & every stove has a pot & every pot has a lid & every lid has a handle & every handle has a stem & every stem has an edge & every edge has a lining & every lining has a margin & every margin has…
19. 10-28-09 — " ... The Poetry Marathon used the idea of “poetry” very loosely, nearly archaically. It is more to do with doing and making (language) than with applying the stricter and formal bounds of any art form per se. Indeed the remit for “poetry” this weekend is…
20. 10-28-09 — FREE, with museum admission.
21. 10-30-09 — For Love Has Such a Spirit that if It Is Portrayed it Dies (from Controlling Interests)(6:01): MP3 The Simply (from The Sophist)(15:58): MP3 from Lines of Swinburne (from The Sophist)(1:15): MP3 A Foin Lass Bodders Me by Louis Zukofsky (6:04): MP3 Don't Get…

November 2009

1. 11-01-09 — click on image for readable version; or go to hi-res "Paradise Lost," New York Post Nov. 1, 2009
2. 11-02-09 — Norman Fischer Questions/Places/Voices/Seasons San Diego: Singing Horse Press Fischer's most rhetorically expansive book. In the four works that comprise this this book, Fischer absorbs the energies from his great translations of the Psalms and the narrative…
3. 11-02-09 — The New York Public Theater October 27 - December 6 $65/$75 Saturday evenings. But for readers of this site: $40 tickets. Valid performances are 10/27--11/15. The code is SAVANT4
4. 11-03-09 — The Gaze (12 x 16")
5. 11-06-09 — When I was in Århus, Denmark, last month Jean-Marie Gleize and I noticed this paining of a private poetry reading in the Århus museum. Jens Ferdinand Willumsen Sophus Clausssen Reading Poems 1915
6. 11-07-09 — recommended: David Antin "Words to the Wise" (2009)
7. 11-07-09 — Program 1: Keith Waldrop: full reading of selected poems (25:51): MP3 Program 2: Keith Waldrop in conversation with Charles Bernstein (30:13): MP3
8. 11-13-09 — Charles Bernstein / American Poetry After 1975: Editor’s Note / 1 Jim Rosenberg / Bios / The Logosphere / The Finite-Made Evolver Space /3 Peter Gizzi / Eclogues / 9 Christian Bök / Two Dots Over a Vowel / 11 Lytle Shaw / Docents of Discourse: The Logic of…
9. 11-16-09 — Pierre Joris Justifying the Margins Salt, 2009 frontmatter & "Nimrod in Hell Contents: Nimrod in Hell I On the Nomadic Circulation of Contemporary Poetics The Seamlessly Nomadic Future of Collage ReadySteadyBlog Interview II A Memoir for Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine…
10. 11-18-09 — Tan Lin Chalk Playground, LitTwitChalk for Performa 09 full set of pictures
11. 11-18-09 — now available at PennSound as part of our current digitizing of the SF talk series from Bob's tapes mp3 (1 1/2 hours)
12. 11-18-09 — translated from Russian by Genya Turovskaya first presented at Contact: A Symposium in Memory of Alexei Parshchikov(1954—2009) Tuesday, November 10, 4:00pm-8:30pm University of Pennsylvania Organized by Kevin Platt (at which I read AD's essay)
13. 11-20-09 — Art International Radio, operationg at ArtonAir.org November 5, 2009 Program 1: Reading "Holderlin Hybrids" from Blindsight (New Directions, 2004) (34:28): MP3 Program 2: Conversation with Charles Bernstein (28:51): MP3
14. 11-21-09 — "Oúvont les chiens" is a talk given by Jean-Marie Gleize at the conference "Poetry Today" on October 20-21 2009 at Aarhus University, Denmark. The talk published here is translated by Louise Højgaard Marcussen & Lasse Gammelgaard.
15. 11-22-09 — ===================
16. 11-22-09 — Vol. I, p. xvii (check dot above “the” (on proof page only?) & delete—not in original). Vol. I, pp. xxvii-11-22-09iv (delete —mistakenly placed here; repeats pp. xxvii-11-22-09iv in Vol. IV). Vol. I, p. 40 (fix broken “e” in “the”—not in original). Vol. I, p.…
17. 11-23-09 — A Celebration of Gerrit Lansing’s new book, Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth at the Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery NYC Sunday, November 29 4 p.m. Featuring: Ammiel Alcalay, Jim Behrle, Charles Bernstein, Donald Byrd, C.A. Conrad, William Corbett, Mike County, Jim…
18. 11-25-09 — New at Sibyl Two essays by Rachel Blau DuPlessis from Blue Studios available from the University of Alabama Press PROPOUNDING MODERNIST MALENESS: HOW POUND MANAGED A MUSE LORINE NIEDECKER, THE ANONYMOUS: GENDER, CLASS, GENRE AND RESISTANCES
19. 11-25-09 — Dmitri Golynko on Close Listening on Art International Radio operationg at ARTonAIR.org & presented as part of the University of Pennsylvania's Writers Without Borders Series at the Kelly Writers House November 10, 2009 Program 1: Reading (30:48): MP3 Program…
20. 11-26-09 — Michael Peverett's review of Leevi Lehto's Lake Onega and Other Poems
21. 11-29-09 — Susan Howe Poems Found in a Pioneer Museum Coracle Press, 2009 32 letterpress cards printed on Canaletto Liscio paper in binders box 130 x 100. 300 copies I copied these poems, almost verbatim, from typed identification cards placed beside items in display…
22. 11-29-09 — see ligoranoreese.net/prospectus
23. 11-30-09 — Bruce Boone's 1980 work has now been republished by Nightboat Books in a beautiful edition., with a thoughtful and engaging introduction by Rob Halpern. Years ago, Michael Amanasan's Ottotole published (in the first issue in 1985), a long conversation I had…
24. 11-30-09 — Earliest Poetry Video Uncovered!: Found in Poe's Tomb [Jim Clark's animation of Poe reading "The Raven"] (thanks to Leevi Lehto for alert)

December 2009

1. 12-04-09 — Editor: Redell Olsen (London) Managing Editor: Kai Fierle Hedrick (New York) Designer / Programmer: John Sparrow (London) Publisher: Kathleen Fraser
2. 12-06-09 — The Body, in Pieces Inaugural exhibition of The Renee & Chaim Gross Center for the Arts Featuring works from the collection of The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation new web site Through February 4, 2010 Thursdays 1-5 pm or by appointment info --at --…
3. 12-06-09 — ------- Martina Kudláček's NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN now available in DVD * my short review of the original release here -------------------------------- pdfs of isues 1 and 2 of Gerrit Lansing's SET magazine [note: now at EPC digital library] 1961 and 1963 via…
4. 12-07-09 — Protect Our America from mob rule PRESERVE THE FILIBUSTER "no public option" paid for by Republicans for Limited Democracy Michael Bloomberg & Hiram Monserrate, Honorary Chairs full set of Fall 2008 Election Placards…
5. 12-07-09 — (5¾ x 12 inches) This is a c. 1976 "Veil" not included in the book Veil which is from the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Collection of Visual Poetry and reproduced in a terrific catalog for the show a show from University of Southern Florida from early 2009 curated by…
6. 12-09-09 — for UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE at the Old American Can Factory 232 Third Street, #E-002 Brooklyn, NY 11215
7. 12-09-09 — Marjorie Perloff on Close Listening readings and conversations at Art International Radio Clocktower Studio, New York, November 11, 2009 Program One:Vienna Paradox reading Perloff reads from her memoir Vienna Paradox (New Directions, 2004) about growing up in…
8. 12-11-09 — The University of Alabama Press Two new books in the Modern and Contemporary Poetry Series 40% Discount on Newest MCP Titles Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture edited by Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller retail price: $39.95 paper | discounted…
9. 12-12-09 — Susan Holbrook Joy Is So Exhausting Coach House 2009 This is guaranteed 100% authentic North American poetry product. Designed as the perfect ludic accompaniment to any mood, Joy Is So Exhausting is the ideal aperitif for your Journey-of-Life-Actual-Everyday…
10. 12-15-09 — The Kind of Poetry I Want .... Will Alexander The Sri Lankan Loxodrome New Directions, 2009 Rob Halpern Disaster Suites Los Angeles: Palm Press, 2009 Maggie O'Sullivan ALTO - London Poems 1975-1984 London: Veer Books, 2009 [Note: New collection of her visual…
11. 12-16-09 — "Thank You for Saying Thank You" from Girly Man performaned by Roberto Azaretto & Matías Giulian (Argentina)
12. 12-17-09 — Susan Howe and David Grubbs Seminar The Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway University of London Wednesday 7 October 2009 Room B35 Birkbeck Main Building Susan Howe and David Grubbs speak about the ideas that have nourished their…
13. 12-17-09 — © 2009, Visual Arts Press, Ltd. All rights reserved. To contact us click here. 209 East 23 Street, NY, NY 10010-3994 Tel: 212.592.2000 Fax: 212.725.3587
14. 12-18-09 — All the Whiskey in Heaven Selected Poems of Charles Bernstein Farrar, Straus and Giroux March 2010 app. 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-374-10344-6 cover photo by Emma Bee Bernstein; cover design by Jeff Clark
15. 12-21-09 — A.I.R. GALLERY NAMES JEE HWANG FIRST RECIPIENT of the EMMA BEE BERNSTEIN EMERGING ARTIST FELLOWSHIP A.I.R. Gallery is honored to announce the first recipient of the Emma Bee Bernstein Emerging Artist Fellowship, 2009-2010 A.I.R. Fellow, Jee Hwang. The Emma…
16. 12-22-09 — Upcoming Readings University of Washington Bothell Wednesday, January 6, 4:00pm Library Room 205 Henry Art Gallery Seattle Thursday, January 7, 7:30pm Henry Auditorium Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver Friday, January 8, 8pm to 10pm Location: W2 Perel…
17. 12-23-09 — photo © 2009 Abraham Ravett recording © Reznikoff Estate and Ravett
18. 12-26-09 — MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia 2009 Sunday, 27 December 23. Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture a launch for our new title in the Modern and Contemporary Poetics series 40 percent discount still available 3:30–4:45 p.m., Commonwealth Hall C, Loews…
19. 12-30-09 — Peter Gizzi Go to blog to see this video in streaming version. Peter's Marigolds The flowering Spring trees amidst the pines. June 4, 2007 (mp4, 30 sec., 6.2 mb)
20. 12-31-09 — Robin Blaser Poems from The Holy Forest at EPC The Hunger of Sound 1 from Cups The Truth is Laughter Anecdote Image Nation 19 As If By Chance Dante Alighiere Robert Duncan Even on Sunday Image Nation 5 In Remembrance of Matthew Shephard with thanks to Miriam…

 

Web Log Index — 2010

Chronological index. Dates link to the post’s permalink; descriptions are drawn from the nearest meaningful line before the “link”.

January 2010

1. 01-11-10 — Prepared for the Inauguration of Daniel Dromm as the representative of the 25th Council District in New York City, this video was produced by Joel Kuszai and Brendan Fay, and edited by Joel Kuszai and makes generous use of "Danny Boy," the 2003 documentary on…
2. 01-12-10 — "Coming in from the Cold" Celebrating 20 Years of the MLA Off-Site Reading & MLA Off-Site & On-Site Reading 2009 ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ PARTS from l'amour fou by Tom Beckett ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ Stephen Ratcliffe's poem a day lookin' out…
3. 01-13-10 — Robert Grenier PENN SCANS from Whalecloth NOTE These 71 drawing poem images were selected/thrown together primarily out of two 2008 notebooks to bring to show (look at, read & discuss in public) at the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania,…
4. 01-16-10 — David Reed ‘Works on Paper’ at Peter Blum (Soho, New York) at one point Reed writes (and shows) "The color Wittgenstein said was impossible ..." The integration of drawing, painting, and writing, under the sign of sketching makes these works marvels of poetry…
5. 01-16-10 — Jeffrey Robinson, Jerome Rothenberg and I discuss Robert Duncan's "Often I Am Permitted to Return" on the new PoemTalk, with host Al Filreis. (I'm the one with grey hair.) MP3 *********************************** Bob Holman's extensive guide to 2009's Poetry…
6. 01-16-10 — Friends: As you know, Haiti - and in particular Port-au-Prince was hit by a devastating earthquake on Tuesday at 5 pm. News reports and early images show a city in which one out of four buildings have collapsed, and the infrastructure has been shaken to…
7. 01-17-10 — Jennifer Bartlett on feminism and disability at Delirious Hem photo: Emma Bee Bernstein ©2008
8. 01-17-10 — Below is the official Kenning announcement of the poets theater anthology, officially being released on January 19. The volume is filled with treasures, not the least is the extensive set of notes in the back, which is detailed and illuminating and chock full…
9. 01-22-10 — Emma Bee Bernstein (1985-2008): Masquerade, A Retrospective (photographs and a slide show) DOVA Temporary Gallery University of Chicago 5228 South Harper Avenue February 5 through February 27, 2010. Co-curated by Kat Griefen and Laura Letinsky. There will be…
10. 01-23-10 — Money Rules! Vote Republican to Safeguard the Rights of Corporations & to Keep the Supreme Court Reactivist Paid for by Mike Bloomberg, Chair, Oligarchs for a Republican Future Ted Kennedy: We spit on your grave Stop Socialized Medicine Now: Health Care Is…
11. 01-30-10 — Rae Armantrout interviewed in The Chicago Weekly by Daniel Benjamin January 29, 2009 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Launch PDF-booklet (34 pp.) contains an introduction by Robert Sheppard and papers by Andrea Brady, Caroline Bergvall and Robert…

February 2010

1. 02-01-10 — Dubravka Djuric Go to blog page to see the Flash stream. Dubravka's Caravan Dubravka was visiting from Belgrade. Just after we taped the Close Listening shows, I asked her about the feminist, non-national caravan through the traumatized lands of the former…
2. 02-02-10 — Spring 2010 Schedule This series of talks by major contemporary poets, titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between contemporary poetic manifesto, practice, queer theory, and pedagogy. All events take place at CUNY Graduate…
3. 02-03-10 — We Need Their Language Skills Repeal the Ban on Gays in Military Service Civil Rights Is a Privilege National Security Is a Necessity Paid for by Hiram Monserrate & His Royal Majesty King Michael of New York Republicans for Limited Democracy full set of…
4. 02-05-10 — Harvard University Barker Center October 5, 2009 my complete reading (59:19): MP3 & segmented: 1. introduction by Stephanie Sandler (1:53): MP3 2. In the Middle of the Way (tr. of Carlos Drummond de Andrade poem) (1:01): MP3 from Recalculating (work in…
5. 02-05-10 — Jacket magazine: An Announcement from John Tranter and Al Filreis Dear friends: We are writing with news of a transition we both deem very exciting. By the end of 2010, John Tranter and Pam Brown will have put out 40 issues of Jacket (jacketmagazine.com). It…
6. 02-07-10 — Leevi Lehto on Translating Joyce's Ulysses into Finnish Blackbox Manifold Alex Houen & Adam Piette's new web journal from Cambridge, England Thin Air Video Mitch Corber's deep archive of poetry readings & lectures now on DVD Robert Creeley's personal library…
7. 02-08-10 — New@Sybil ‘The Something Startled Rise of Birds’: A Tribute to Leigh Davis, 1955-2009 Wystan Curnow ... Leigh’s alignment of his poetry with insurgent visual media may be counted a response to poetry’s serious loss of prestige over his lifetime. (Such shifts…
8. 02-10-10 — Catalog for the DOVA show now available pdf Photographs plus essays by Kate Bussard and Matthew Jesse Jackson.
9. 02-15-10 — Leslie Scalapino Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows Miners, polar bears, insurgents sweeping the desert in Toyota pickups, a detective on the trail of illegal fur traders, Venus Williams' deconstructed forehand, wild horses, blooming chrysanthemums, tadpoles…
10. 02-17-10 — The Fred Wah Digital Archive Compiled and with an Introduction by Susan Rudy
11. 02-23-10 — David Antin Kelly Writers House Talk Rethinking Freud--Taking Freud Out of Psychoanalysis February 16, 2010 Introduction by Charles Bernstein (5:22): MP3 Complete Talk (1:06:09): MP3
12. 02-23-10 — Erín Moure on Close Listening February 21, 2010. Recorded at The Banf Center as part of "IN(TER)VENTIONS: Literary Practice At The Edge," with thanks to Steven Smith and engineer Piper Payne. Program One: reading from 0 Resplandor (22:54): MP3 Program Two:…
13. 02-24-10 — Daniel Benjamin on UChicago reading
14. 02-27-10 — All the Whiskey in Heaven Selected Poems of Charles Bernstein Farrar, Straus and Giroux on sale March 2 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-374-10344-6 new biographical note for the collection All the Whiskey in Heaven brings together some of Charles Bernstein’s best work…
15. 02-28-10 — Contemporary Poetics: Experimental, Avant-Garde, Radical or Conceptual? Guest Editors Clint Burnham and Christine Stewart This special issue will explore works of contemporary poetic experiment and the conditions within which they are produced. This can…
16. 02-28-10 — TAN LIN 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking Wesleyan University Press Tan Lin’s poetry is just way too cool. In 7 Controlled Vocabularies, Lin makes language pop, sizzle, melt, careen, dodge, sparkle, and reform[ulate]. Lin’s poems…

March 2010

1. 03-01-10 — Buller, Rachel Epps "Feminist Threads, or, It's All About the Ladies," eReview, Feb. 22, 2010. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Davy Crockett's Hat (on Marjorie Perloff and her book The Vienna Paradox) Douglas Messerli ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Granary Books…
2. 03-02-10 — FRED WAH Close Listening February 21, 2010 on PennSound Art International Radio, operating at ARTonAIR.org. Recorded at The Banff Center as part of "IN(TER)VENTIONS: Literary Practice At The Edge," with thanks to Steven Smith and engineer Piper Payne. Program…
3. 03-06-10 — “The Thinker”: Fired Clay, Hamangia, Cernavodă (Hamangia/Romania) 5000–4600 BCE Female Figurine, Fired Clay, Cucuteni, Drăguşeni (Hamangia/Romania), 4050–3900 BCE The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley 5000-2500 BC closes April 25 Institute for the…
4. 03-07-10 — The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, Volumes 1-4 Edited by Curtis Faville and Robert Grenier Stanford University Press now out! Robert Grenier's introduction There is no 20th century American poet more present, more pertinent, more necessary than Larry…
5. 03-08-10 — Larry Ochs in New York at The Stone in Manhattan on March 20, 21 ,25 as part of two weeks of shows he has curated.. On March 20: Rova - the 33 year old saxophone quartet, not the German tax agency for Turkish immigrants, and not the Finnish outcropping of…
6. 03-09-10 — All the Whiskey in Heaven Selected Poems of Charles Bernstein (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) reviewed today in -------------------------- Launch & Signing Sunday March 28, 2010, 6:30pm Zinc Bar 82 W. 3rd St, New York, NY Poets & friends read from All the Whiskey…
7. 03-10-10 — There is terrorism from without and then American domestic terrorism against our own people. jjjj from "The Challenge of Mass Incarceration in America" by Bruce Western Bulletin of the American Academy, Winter 2010 commentary by Western and Glenn Loury "Now…
8. 03-16-10 — BOMB 111/Spring 2010 Charles Bernstein by Jay Sanders If poets are said to be “painters with words,” then Charles Bernstein would surely moonlight working in a custom frame shop. With samples lining the walls—from the gaudiest fake-gold scrollwork to the most…
9. 03-21-10 — Francie Shaw, "Weights and Measures" at A.I.R. Gallery II (Brookyn): Opening Reception: Thursday, April 1, 2010, 6-8pm
10. 03-21-10 — Just Say No to Meaningful Health Insurance Reform Listen to the people who brought you U.S. Federal Government Takeover of Iraq The Great Recession Historically Spiking Income Inequalities Election by Auction: Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, & Bloomberg Paid for by…
11. 03-24-10 — CALL FOR PAPERS The Alphabet: A Symposium on Ron Silliman‘s Long Poem 25-26 March 2011 University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario ―"I‘m not writing for 'a small circle of friends,‘ I‘m writing to you." After three decades of composition, Ron Silliman‘s The…
12. 03-24-10 — new from UMBRA Charles Bernstein ISBN 978 0925904 86 7 24 page chapbook letterpress covers with hand painting hand sewn with sage green thread Translations by Charles Bernstein of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Osip Mandelstam, Bernard…

April 2010

1. 04-02-10 — Thursday, April 8 Kelly Writers House at Penn 6pm A poetry reading and book party with Charles Bernstein & friends celebrating the release of All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems & two new reviews of the book Jake Marmer "Fussing on the Cliff, Is This…
2. 04-04-10 — Fanny Howe: Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club Ben Friedlander: Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club
3. 04-07-10 — 1 They say the mind can keep sense alive for about seven seconds and that we can register at most seven things, coins, pebbles, apples, or six, five almost nothing. 2 Maybe that's why we invented the present as a place to live, to keep the things we do know,…
4. 04-10-10 — Free Library of Philadelphia Book Festival Sunday, April 18 reading, q&a, book signing 2:00 p.m.Bob Perelman | IFLIFE 3:00 p.m. Charles Bernstein | All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems 1901 Vine Street(between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)…
5. 04-17-10 — Arforum editor Tim Griffin reviews All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems in Bookforum
6. 04-18-10 — "Dodgems" from All the Whiskey in Heaven read by Sherry and Felix Bernstein (YouTube) at Kelly Writers House, UPenn, April 8 more info/pix via Nicole Peyrafitte -------- R.D. Pohl "Pulizer Surrpises: Small Press and Language Poetry" Buffalo News (April 17,…
7. 04-19-10 — art walk Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz Amy Sillman Sikkema, Jenkins Joachim Koester "My Frontier is an Endless Wall of Points (after the mescaline drawings of Henri Michaux)" (2007) 16 mm film…
8. 04-19-10 — Hands off Goldman-Sachs Stop Socialist Regulation of Markets Big Bonuses Buy Entrepreneurship & Innovative Investing Paid for by the Republican Party Business Family Values® Antonin (“I’ve never met a big business I didn’t like”) Scalia, Chair full set of…
9. 04-21-10 — My contribution to the FSG blog ... The Company … Robert Creeley liked to call those of us who shared his life in, and commitment to, poetry company. Over the last few years, I find the company I keep ever harder to keep up with, just in terms of the sheer…
10. 04-25-10 — Charles Bernstein April 29 at 7:30pm Screening & Reading SCHWEINFURTH MEMORIAL ART CENTER 205 Genesee Street AUBURN, NY 13021 (315)255-1553
11. 04-25-10 — Armies of Compassion Eleni Stecopoulos Palm Press, 2010 This startling work brings something necessary to American poetry: a visceral poetics that transforms diagnosis into a performative linguistic probe in the service of the disturbed body. The body…
12. 04-25-10 — Emma Bee Bernstein on YouTube New YouTube page includes a two-part version of the DOVA slide show, created by Antonia Pocock & also my video portrait of Emma. ++++++++++++++++++++ A.I.R. Gallery is honored to announce the second recipient of the Emma Bee…
13. 04-26-10 — Republicans to Coal Miners: Deregulation Is Salvation Free Markets Rule!
14. 04-28-10 — Reina María Rodríguez, April 14, 2010 Queensborough Community College bilingual reading, video
15. 04-28-10 — Sculpture Center Long Island City (Queens, NY) Charles Bernstein and Josef Strau Sunday, May 16, 2010, 3:00 PM Artist and writer Josef Strau has experimented with the roles of curator, musician and gallerist, co-founding the legendary Friesenwall 120 in…
16. 04-28-10 — From Michael Golston & Bob Perelman .... Announcing the Columbia-Penn Poetics Initiative April 12, 2010 – 12:53 am We are convening a three-day conference at Columbia (June 11-13, 2010), “Rethinking Poetics.” It is our sense that the practices of poetics are…
17. 04-30-10 — Charles Bernstein interview with Thom Donovan in/around/about All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems Poetry Foundation Harriet blog Part One Part Two ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ All the Whiskey Zinc Bar Launch photos, as above, ©2010 Lawrence Schwartzwald & readings…

May 2010

1. 05-03-10 — Bay Area trip Wednesday May 12, 7:30pm reading with Norman Fischer San Francisco State @ Unitarian Center 1187 Franklin (at Geary), SF Tues. May 11, 8pm Jewish poetics talk with Norman Fischer Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California Street,…
2. 05-04-10 — Sibyl Sibila's English Portal announces Catriona Strang Low Fancy Toronto: ECW Press, 1993 pdf of full book
3. 05-05-10 — Worth a detour: Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present at the Museum of Mosdern Art (New York) closes May 31 •••••• Time of Sky & Castles in the Air Ayane Kawata tr. from Japanese Sawako Nakayasu Two mind-bent (pataqueerical) works: the first from 1969…
4. 05-05-10 — transcript Heimrad Bäcker ed. Frierich Achleitner tr. Vincent Kling, Patrick Greaney Dalkey Archive, 2010 Heimrad Bäcker (1925-2003) is an Austrian poet associated with the Vienna Group and also concrete poetry (Heissenbuttel, Gombringer, Jandl, Mayrocker,…
5. 05-05-10 — Charles Bernstein and Josef Strau Sunday, May 16, 2010, 3:00 PM Sculpture Center, Queens, NY Organized and introduced by Jay Sanders Artist and writer Josef Strau has experimented with the roles of curator, musician and gallerist, co-founding the legendary…
6. 05-06-10 — Robert Grenier autobiographical invterviews at PennSound Interview and Discussion on 1959-1964 Al Filreis, Ron Silliman, and Bob Perelman at the Kelly Writers House, on October 27, 2009 Interview Part 1 (1:16:28): MP3 Interview and Discussion on 1964-1970s…
7. 05-07-10 — Shadowtime: the CD now on I-Tunes The libretto is available from Green Integer. Shadowtime web site ----- [from the NMC announcement] NMC is proud to announce the release of Brian Ferneyhough's opera Shadowtime, setting Charles Bernstein's poetic and complex…
8. 05-07-10 — Republicans to Environment: Drill, Baby, Drill! Deregulation Is Sal(i)vation full set of placards
9. 05-08-10 — China Signs I originally posted these nine sign photos in July 2007
10. 05-13-10 — Charles Bernstein at Banff Center (Alberta, Canada) "In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge" Feb. 20, 2010 video by David Jhave Johnston: Part 1: "In the Middle of the Way" and then poems from All the Whisky in Heaven: Selected Poems, starting with…
11. 05-14-10 — Cross-Cultural Poetiics Episode #208 February 4, 2010 Charles Bernstein & Leonard Schwartz discuss All The Whiskey In Heaven: Selected Poems. Complete Recording (36:58): MP3 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ TheZyzzyva May 12, 2010 Asked for a quick definition of…
12. 05-14-10 — May 21 and 22 Translating French and American Poetry Today (Traduire la poésie française et américaine des/aux 20e et 21e siècles) Friday, May 21 10:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Questions de traduction Jean-Marie Gleize Traductions, conversions Charles Bernstein…
13. 05-15-10 — S/N: NewWorldPoetics is a quarterly journal dedicated to the poetries of the Americas and to South/North [S/N] dialog. In each issue we will publish poetry and poetics in English or Spanish translation, introducing North American readers to Latin American…
14. 05-20-10 — Arakawa (July 6, 1936 - May 18, 2010) from The Mechanism of Meaning
15. 05-23-10 — Norman Fischer & Charles Bernstein on Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (University of Alabama Press) a conversation at The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco May 11, 2010 co-sponsored by Small Press Traffic full program (1:18:47): MP3 edited…
16. 05-27-10 — Colóquio Internacional "Novas Poéticas de Resistência" 25 de Maio 2010 CES, Coimbra Sala de Seminários (2º piso) inscrições Seventh International Meeting of Poets "The Tongues of Poetry" Coimbra, Portugal, on 27-29 May 2010
17. 05-29-10 — here is the EPC announcement, sent out by Leslie Scalapino's family: “Scalapino makes everything take place in real time, in the light and air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once.” — Philip Whalen Leslie Scalapino passed away on May…
18. 05-29-10 — from Oslo Poetry Festival 2009 Pär Thörn, 25 October 2010 Jordan Scott 24 October 2010 Charles Bernstein ("Morality)," Jordan Scott (from Blert), and Pär Thörn reading at the Oslo Poetry Festival, 24 October 2010. More video and montage from festival.
19. 05-30-10 — Laurence Housman
20. 05-30-10 — Tan Lin interview Bomb
21. 05-31-10 — Louise Bourgeois 1911-2010 Mira Schor on Bourgeois

June 2010

1. 06-02-10 — Jay Sanders Bomb interview on the occastion of the publication of All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems full interview now on-line BOMB issue 111, 2010 JS You seem to always stand in the doorway, vacillating between theory and practice, criticism and art.…
2. 06-06-10 — Art Walk Yves Klein at Hirschhorn, Washington, DC I'd never fully taken in the full scope of his work until this show (which is not that large but beautifully presented); it is often delightfully satiric but for Klein the satiric or comic is a perspicuous…
3. 06-08-10 — Poetry Project St. Marks Church New York Memorial for Leslie Scalapino Monday, June 21, 2010 8:00 pm Petah Coyne, Simone Fattal, Joan Retallack, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee, Ann Lauterbach, Susan Howe, Paolo Javier, Molissa Foley,…
4. 06-09-10 — Poetry Project St. Marks Church New York Memorial for Leslie Scalapino Monday, June 21, 2010 8:00 pm Petah Coyne, Simone Fattal, Joan Retallack, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee, Ann Lauterbach, Susan Howe, Paolo Javier, Molissa Foley,…
5. 06-09-10 — my favorite Chelsea sign
6. 06-13-10 — Leslie Scalapino reading her new work February 2010 recorded and produced by Konrad Steiner distributed by PennSound PennSound@Blip.TV Leslie Scalapino reads from Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows Leslie Scalapino reads from The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals…
7. 06-18-10 — Hejinian on Scalapino (Academy of American Poets) R.D. Pohl on Scalapino (Buffalo News) Robert Grenier's biographical note on Larry Eigner On All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems: John Herbert Cunningham “Poetry’s Ulysses: All the Whiskey in Heaven" The…
8. 06-22-10 — published by Sybil photo � 2002 Bernstein/PennSound
9. 06-25-10 — Cover to Agreement courtesy Eclipse. Read it here. Also: Crisis Intervention courtesy Eclipse here. The Son Master courtesy Eclipse here. Peter Seaton (December 16, 1942 - May 18, 2010) Seaton died of an apparent heart attack in New York. Seaton@PennSound
10. 06-26-10 — register here
11. 06-26-10 — Teaching Modernist Poetry ed. Peter Middleton and Nicky Marsh Palgrave, 2010 Introduction: Pedagogy and Poetics; N.Marsh The Elusive Allusion: Poetry as Exegesis; P.Nicholls Politics and Modernist Poetics; D.Milne Science and Poetry; M.H.Whitworth “The New…
12. 06-27-10 — Stephen Fredman Contextual Practice Assemblage and the Erotic in Postwar Poetry and Art Stanford University Press, 2010 Stephen Fredman's Contextual Practice provides an in-depth exploration of cultural and aesthetic contexts shared by poets Robert Duncan,…

July 2010

1. 07-13-10 — In addition to playing Minnie Mouse, I have also played Lamb Chop, and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother in films for YouTube. I'm drawn to cartoon characters because they have no independent existence outside of their performed artifice. I look for the…
2. 07-14-10 — Ugly Duckling Press: New Web Site including the beginning of the UDP Digital Archive ___________ It's my pleasure to be on the board of UDP. I hope you will consider contributing the press's current fund drive: Ugly Duckling Presse presents “THE CLAMBAKE”…
3. 07-15-10 — §§§§§§§§§§§§§ §§§§§§§§§§§§§ Two Poems from Phillip Foss Valley of the Cranes New@Sybyl §§§§§§§§§§§§§ Two reviews of All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems The Rumpus Mark Scroggins (July 8, 2010) Provincetown Arts Mary Maxwell Summer 2010 §§§§§§§§§§§§§…
4. 07-16-10 — Tuli Kupferberg Morning, morning Feel so lonesome in the morning Morning, morning Morning brings me grief Sunshine, sunshine, Sunshine left upon my face And the secret of the shining Puts me in my running place Evening, evening Feel so lonesome in the evening…
5. 07-17-10 — Tan Lin Appendix Edit Publications 2010 | Series Editor: Danny Snelson with an Introduction by Danny Snelson and an Afterword by Charles Bernstein free download / 100pp
6. 07-21-10 — He that cannot pay Let him pay committee for a Republican future full set of placards
7. 07-22-10 — Breakthrough Nostalgia: Reading Steve McCaffery Then and Now As Steve McCaffery approaches his mid-60s, his poetic and critical output shows no signs of abating. Within the last decade, in fact, McCaffery has produced five new collections of poetry, a new…
8. 07-24-10 — Felix's Cinderella Musical A video by Felix Bernstein
9. 07-25-10 — In Memoriam Leslie Scalapino on her birthday July 25, 1944 – May 28, 2010 Tribute from the Contemporary Poetics Research Center Birbeck, University of London Leslie Scalapino died in late May this year. We wanted to mark her passing simply, both her loss to…
10. 07-31-10 — Leslie Scalapino early books O and other poems (Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1976) (pdf of complete book) The Woman Who Could Read the Minds of Dogs (Berkeley: Sand-Dollar,1976 (pdf of complete book) This eating and walking at the same time is associated all right…

August 2010

1. 08-06-10 — Yunte Huang's Charlie Chan like Danny Kaye's duck: swan in soup. Yunte Huang’s book is a tribute to Charlie Chan as a key figure at the heart of what makes American culture most vibrant – cross-cultural miscegenation. While the book offers fascinating details…
2. 08-06-10 — Raphael Rubinstein's SILO is a kind of alternative web encyclopedia of artists. Among the first he features on the new site is the great Julio Galan (image: "The Black Pearl" from 1990) §§§§§§§§§§§§ pianist/composer Kirk Nurock on Felix's Cinderealla…
3. 08-07-10 — John Wieners EPC page Poems selected by CA Conrad Edited & designed by Jack Krick The EPC extends its warm thanks to Bill Corbett, Penelope Creeley, Jim Dunn, Raymond Foye, Jack Kimball and James Maynard for their invaluable assistance.
4. 08-09-10 — Elizabeth Willis Go to blog page to see stream of this video to see this player. Versions of Winter Liz grew up in Northern Wisconsin and spent many years in Buffalo (where she got her PhD), before moving to Western Massachusetts. She and Peter came by my…
5. 08-10-10 — Robert Grenier A TESTAMENT (Martin Richet / Robert Creeley, “Figure of Outward”) new@Sybil ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ Yunte Huang in tomorrow's The New York Times ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶
6. 08-15-10 — Astronome: A Night at the Opera Production: Richard Foreman Music: John Zorn Video: Henry Hills Tzadik Using two HD video cameras, Henry Hills recorded 10 full live performances of this 2009 Zorn-Foreman collaboration, weaving together thousands of Foreman…
7. 08-15-10 — Douglas Messerli's new blog includes scripts from Mac Wellman (Bad Penny), Alfred Kreymborg, Synge (and Barnes on Synge), Ronald Tavel's Hedi Lamar, Stein's What Happened and one of Messerli's own plays and his commentaries. ººººººººººººººººººº (W)reading…
8. 08-17-10 — Tan Lin Go to blog page to see streaming video; links below are corrected! Ambient Tan We met a new Japanese yogurt spot on West 32nd and then over to a Korean place just East of Fifth. The place was empty and we chatted away the afternoon. August 1, 2007…
9. 08-19-10 — Modern Poetry (key intro site for innovative UK poetry) * Ken Edwards interview ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ Time, Text & Echoes Leigh Davis Flag Poems (New Zealand)
10. 08-20-10 — The Capilano Review Issue 3.12 (Fall 2010) will be on the newsstands and in your mailbox in October: it features an interview with American poet and artist duo, Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee, about their early-career sojourn in British Columbia in the…
11. 08-23-10 — The next stop was Edmonton where I got lost in the Fantasyland Mall on the way to one of the demi– keynotes at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature “Thinking Between Poetry & Philosophy” convention & so missed most of the lecture on the…
12. 08-27-10 — The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom Leslie Scalapino The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom is an ekphrastic implosion inside our severed human-body/animal-mind. "Memory isn't the origin of events," Scalapino writes early in this magisterial work, which…
13. 08-28-10 — WILD ORCHIDS vol. 2 Hannah Weiner Coda to Hannah Weiner's The Book of Revelations Marta Werner from The Book Of Revelations Hannah Weiner (excerpts from previously unpublished ms ed. Marta Werner) LINEbreak Hannah Weiner Interview (transcript of undedited…
14. 08-31-10 — Tan Lin EPC home page edited by Danny Snelson

September 2010

1. 09-02-10 — Multiple German tr. of "Catabolism" (from Absent Father in Dumbo & in All the Whiskey in Heaven) in Karawa.Net premiere Hugo Ball issue -------- Larry Eigner Autobiography 1996 compilation of autobiographical writings and interviews by Eigner, with a euology…
2. 09-02-10 — Larry O. Dean on All the Whiskey in Heave: Selected Poems New Pages √√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√√ [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] “Samba de Orly,” Sir Lucious Bernstein: The Son of Herman Joseph
3. 09-04-10 — New at Eclipse Hyperlinked index of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E every essay in the four volumes linked in this author index and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Volume 4 &&&&&&&&&& 7 Works Bob Perelman * many thanks to Craig Dworkin for creating this tremendous resource
4. 09-10-10 — TEMPLE MFA PROGRAM JOB Assistant Professor of Poetry, The Department of English at Temple University invites applications for a tenure-track position as a poet-critic, able to teach writing workshops and tutorials within the Creative Writing MFA Program and…
5. 09-10-10 — “Laura (Riding) Jackson in the Twenty-First Century” a conference at Cornell * Four Sets of Tributes to Leslie Scalapino from Delirious Hem one two three four
6. 09-14-10 — DC/GMU CHARLES BERNSTEIN TWO READING FOR ALL THE WHISKEY IN HEAVEN: SELECTED POEMS THE EDGE READING SERIES at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents Monday, Sept. 20th 7:30 PM 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20007 ph 202 965 5200 Located in Georgetown, next to…
7. 09-20-10 — Steve McCaffery AFTERWORD Verse and Worse Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009 Darren Wershler, editor Wilfred Lanier University Press, 2010 The 1980s proved an important decade for me. In 1986 my critical writings from 1973 through 1986…
8. 09-21-10 — Robert Grenier at Columbia University (NY) 602 Hamilton Hall Tues, Sept. 28 8 PM photo ©2006 Bernstein/PennSound ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜ Jörgen Gassilewski & Anna Hallberg reading their poetry introduced / in conversation with Charels Bersntein Kelly Writers…
9. 09-28-10 — New York University launch for Mary Ellen Solt: Toward a Theory of Concrete Poetry, ed. Sergio Bessa, from OEI Oct. 27 at 6:30

October 2010

1. 10-02-10 — Big Government: Keep Your Dirty Hands Off My Social Security Paid for by Tea Party Refiblicans full set of placards
2. 10-03-10 — Just Say No to healthcare, education economic & immigration reform the middle class, the poor, workers gays democratic elections Just Say No to America Paid for by the Republican Party Our America Not Yours full set of placards
3. 10-04-10 — New@Eclipse: "Language Sampler" Charles Bernstein. editor. Published in The Paris Review, Number 86 (Winter, 1982), this "special 'Language Poetry' Portfolio" was -- along with Ron Silliman's two collections, "The Dwelling Place" [Alcheringa New Series 1: 2…
4. 10-05-10 — Olson & the Century: an Archival and Projective Reconsideration with inaugural reading by Tom Raworth and panels featuring Carla Billiteri, Don Bird, Ken Warren, Kaplan Harris, Mike Boughn, Chris Sylvester and Margaret Konkol, Rich Owens and a marathon…
5. 10-07-10 — Current Issue Buy ISSUE 3.12! The new issue features an interview with American poet and artist duo, Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee, about their early-career sojourn in British Columbia in the 1970s. Their BC history will be surprising to many readers. We…
6. 10-21-10 — Arkadii Dragomoschenko in New York and Phladelphia Segue @ Bowery Poetry Club, New York Saturday, Oct. 30 at 4pm Kelly Writers House, Penn (Philadelphia) Wednesday, Nov. 3 at 6pm Columbia University Thursday, Nov. 4 at 7:30pm Philosophy Hall, Room 301 in…
7. 10-26-10 — Craig Dworkin's Eclipse digital edition of Ron Silliman's 1975 anthology of 9 poets for Alcheringa The Dwelling Place
8. 10-26-10 — Charlie Chan Yunte Huang in conversation with Charles Bernstein Thursday, October 28, 7:00pm @ The Asian American Writers' Workshop 110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600 $5 suggested donation open to the public
9. 10-26-10 — Charlie Chan Yunte Huang in conversation with Charles Bernstein Thursday, October 28, 7:00pm @ The Asian American Writers' Workshop 110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600 $5 suggested donation open to the public-x
10. 10-29-10 — I love America so much I want to lock her in my basement & have her all to myself. Vote the Republican Party line Nov. 2 The tea we’re smoking ain’t pot. The Republican Party Has a Proud History Standing Strong & Proud Against Social Security Labor Unions…
11. 10-29-10 — Marjorie Perloff Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century 224 pages, 44 halftones 2010 from the publisher's announcement: Perloff traces this poetics of "unoriginal genius" from its paradigmatic work, Benjamin’s encyclopedic Arcades…

November 2010

1. 11-02-10 — Hannah Weiner complete transcript of 1995 LINEbreak conversation with Charles Bernstein (courtesty Wild Orchids, #2, 2010) pdf I was intrigued when I discovered, in the course of seeking permission to publish this transcript, that Hannah Weiner’s 1995…
2. 11-04-10 — Three films by George Kuchar at PennSound I, of the Cyclops, a film by George Kuchar, 2006 Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Coven of the Heathenites, a film by George Kuchar, 2008 Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Zealots of the Zinc…
3. 11-04-10 — Leslie Scalapino's Flow (Winged Crocodile) / The Trains Tuesday, November 16 @ Dixon Place 161A Chrystie St New York, NY 10002 7:30 pm $6 (click here to buy advance tickets) The Belladonna* Collaborative invites you to celebrate the life and work of one of…
4. 11-05-10 — Anna Hallberg on Close Listening, Kelly Writers House, October 6, 2010 Program One: Reading English translations by the author and friends, read by Michelle Taransky complete reading (31:24): MP3 / MOV Seven Sprinkler, from Friktion (Friction) (2:26): MP3…
5. 11-07-10 — You are cordially invited to a talk by Susan Bee on her art work at the opening reception of her exhibition at the Brodsky Gallery of the Kelly Writers House University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, November 16 at 6pm. Susan Bee, The Rescue (2005, 28 x 22", oil…
6. 11-08-10 — Mimi Gross Charles Bernstein Some of These Daze (full ppt & pdf of book) (64mb) published by Granary Books 2006, 64 pages 10 1/4" x 11" edition of 65 A powerpoint & pdf file of the entire book is being made available as a PEPC Library selection
7. 11-10-10 — I will be giving a reading at University of Iowa Writers' Workshop Thursday, Nov. 11, 8pm & the next day, Friday, Nov. 12th there will be two discussions at 11:00am and 8pm & finally Saturday, Nov. 12, a group reading of Shadowtime --- Once.More Festival Ann…
8. 11-19-10 — Chaim Gross, Untitled, 1950. Ink on paper, 12 x 9 in. The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, NY. Chaim Gross © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Renee and Chaim Gross Center for the Arts invites you to a special program ART, FANTASY, AND EXPERIENCE: A…
9. 11-20-10 — Charles Bernstein and Tim Peterson (Trace) Readings in Contemporary Poetry at Dia:Chelsea Thursday, December 16, 2010, 6:30pm 535 West 22nd St. New York City $6 general admission; $3 Dia members, students, and seniors Tickets are available at the lecture…
10. 11-21-10 — Translations of Korean Poetry by Brother Anthony of Taizé Ko Un web site Gary Gach on Ko Un (induding poems) Brother Anthony on Ko Un (including poems) Some poems from The Sound of My Waves What Maninbo Ko Un, Ten Thousand Lives, tr. from Korean by Brother…
11. 11-26-10 — Columbia University (NYC) poetry readings EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY Thursday, Dec. 2 304 Hamilton 8:00 PM TAN LIN and MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Monday, Dec. 6 702 Hamilton 8 PM
12. 11-26-10 — Legacies of Modernism: The State of British Poetry Today 9-11 June, 2011 UFR Etudes-Anglophones Institut Charles-V Université Paris Diderot This conference aims to provide a space for a critical reception in France for various currents in contemporary British…
13. 11-26-10 — PENN STATE Poetry Reading: Thursday, December 2, 2010, 7:00 pm 112 Borland Building Lecture: Friday, December 3, 2010, 4:00 pm Grucci Room (14 & 15 Burrowes)
14. 11-28-10 — Charles Bernstein & Youngmin Kim Dongguk University, Seoul, Oct. 19, 2010 152 minutes: video link Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. "Transnationalism and Cultural Translation: Distinguished Lecture Series and Symposium" •Introduced by Brother…
15. 11-29-10 — Charles Bernstein & Youngmin Kim Dongguk University, Seoul, Oct. 19, 2010 152 minutes: video link Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. "Transnationalism and Cultural Translation: Distinguished Lecture Series and Symposium" •Introduced by Brother…
16. 11-30-10 — Make it legal: Christianifaction of U.S. laws Is God’s Will Republican “Tea” Party for Christian Ascent O! Oklahoma! full set of placards

December 2010

1. 12-04-10 — Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Close Listening photo: ©2010 Charles Bernstein/PennSound November 3, 2010 Program One: Reading Translations read by Charles Bernstein. Ludwig Joseph Johann, translation by Thomas Epstein (4:17): MP3 Ludwig Joseph Johann (2:49): MP3 But…
2. 12-07-10 — Defund Government Zero Taxation for the Rich They Give Us Enough in Tips The Republican Party Our America Not Yours Republican Ideas, Democratic Votes full set of placards
3. 12-08-10 — Huffington Post 25 Outstanding Book Covers of 2010
4. 12-09-10 — Eigner Tribute at UC-Berkeley The Holloway Series in Poetry -- Honoring the Life and Work of Larry Eigner November 19, 2010 Robert Grenier, Lyn Hejinian, Richard Eigner, Rebecca Gaydos, Kit Robinson, Michael Davidson, George Hart, Albert Gelpi, Hillary…
5. 12-10-10 — Stop Sabbaticals Now! Research & Knowledge Engender Free Thinkers Tea Party Republicans for Limited Intelligence Our America: Up Yours! O! Iowa first the Supreme Court, now the University
6. 12-10-10 — photo ©2009 Charles Bernstein/PennSound Zhimin Li at PennSound Lecture on New Chinese Poetry: The Origin and the Development from the Prespective of Cultural Exchanges Between China and the West text of the lecture published in International Literary Quarterly
7. 12-10-10 — New@Sibyl "Visiting Edwin Denby’s Mediterranean Cities" by Vincent Katz Mediterranean Cities by Edwin Denby (full sonnet sequence) ?????????????????????????????????? New from Sibila's editor Régis Bonvicino Até Agora (Until Now) poemas reunidos (collected…
8. 12-13-10 — North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival a.rawlings � fred wah � roy miki � m. nourbese philip � stephen collis � nicole brossard � jeff derksen � jordan scott � adeena karasick � lisa robertson 2011 Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania…
9. 12-13-10 — STOP THE DEATH TAX incentivize the rich to hoard capital stimulus a fools' game progressive tax pinko pain Paid for by the Republican Party Our America Not Yours “now that pejorocracy is here” Dec. 13. 2010 full set of placards
10. 12-15-10 — I defund You defund He/she/it defunds we defund you defund they profit
11. 12-15-10 — Tom Leonard on PennSound for example "Unrelated Incidents," recorded at home, 2004 (6:24) MP3 'Unrelated Incidents' - No.3 (follows the reading of 1 and 2!) this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi…
12. 12-15-10 — Lyn Hejinian & Carla Harryman at the marvelous reading last night from The Wide Road just out from Belladonna photo (c) Lawrence Schwartzwald
13. 12-17-10 — Huffington Post Anis Shivani The Most Important Contemporary Poet: 22 Major American Poets Speak Out Charles Bernstein: Poetry's greatest asset may be its unimportance. Which means that what counts as important in poetry is, for much of the culture, unwanted,…
14. 12-18-10 — Kathryne Lindberg (1951- ??) The Detroit News reports that Kathryne Lindberg is missing & the presumption she is dead grows hourly. Lindberg is author of Reading Pound Reading: Modernism After Nietzsche Oxford University Press, 1987 & Bobweaving Detroit: The…
15. 12-21-10 — ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ MCP New Year’s Special The University of Alabama Press is proud to announce its latest offering in the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series: Radical Affections: Essays on the Poetics of Outside by…
16. 12-23-10 — New @ PennSound: Robert Ashley's Music with Roots in the Aether Ashley's 1976 "Opera for Television" in full-screen video. 14 hours of videotaped interviews with seven composers: David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Terry…
17. 12-26-10 — The Introvert Jill Moser poems by Charles Bernstein Collectif Géneration, 2010 four spreads from the book (click for large format)
18. 12-28-10 — All the Whiskey in 2011! TLS All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems Best Books of 2010 Marjorie Perloff Charles Bernstein's name has been so closely linked to the Language Movement he helped to found in the late 1970s, that the poetry itself has too often…

Web Log Index — 2011

Chronological index. Dates link to the post’s permalink; descriptions are drawn from the nearest meaningful line before the “link”.

January 2011

1. 01-01-11 — Thom Donovan on Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture in Zeek.: "This Jewish influence begs the question: could Robert Creeley or John Cage not be considered Jewish practitioners in regards to the qualities expressed by their work (as a student at SUNY…
2. 01-04-11 — Federman's Fictions: Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust Jeffrey R. Di Leo, - Editor Di Leo's intro My Preface ToC *** Manuel Brito Means Matter: Market Fructification of Innovative American Poetry in the Late 20th Century Zasterle Press editor Manual…
3. 01-06-11 — North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival a.rawlings • fred wah •christian bök • m. nourbese philip • stephen collis • nicole brossard • jeff derksen • jordan scott • adeena karasick • lisa robertson Penn Jan. 20/21 / NYJan. 22/23 updated schedule
4. 01-08-11 — Repeal Medical Insurance Reform healthcare is for profit not people! paid for by the Republican Party our America, not yours
5. 01-14-11 — My Own Private Iowa "On the Fly" Interview, Iowa City, Nov. 11, 2011 (video)
6. 01-18-11 — now@sybil "Sixty-Five" a new poem by Norman Fischer "Poetics of the Americas" a pdf of the essay in my collection My Way: Speeches and Poems (1999) (this version corrects several small errors in the book publication)
7. 01-20-11 — centre international de poésie Marseille Claude Royet-Journoud The Times Literary Supplement, peintures 28 Jan. - 19 March 2011
8. 01-24-11 — Printed Project 14 ‘the conceptual north pole’ edited by Lytle Shaw Publisher's description: encompasses new developments in conceptual poetry, meta-documentary; and artists who restage or reframe the idea of literature. Through a series of interviews with a…
9. 01-27-11 — EOAGH issue 6 peripheral writing ed. Tan Lin Steve McLaughlin's contribution above not to be missed: BHO by Alejandro Crawford Tan Lin's Introduction for Peripheral Writing: This issue looks at how and in what spaces writing takes place, i.e. the ambient…
10. 01-30-11 — my essay "Reznikoff''s Voices" on Holocaust CD @ Poems & Poetics Holocaust, Charles Reznikoff’s last book, is, like his great work of the 1930s, Testimony, haunted by the voices of the dispossessed. In Testimony, Reznikoff worked with legal records of violent…

February 2011

1. 02-01-11 — TEMPS D’OMBRE Shaodowtime libretto Charles Bernstein / music Brian Ferneyhough new at Droit de Cités French translation of libretto by Juliette Valéry Synopsis en Française Shadowtime web site: synopsis, reviews The CD is available from NMC & on I-Tunes The…
2. 02-03-11 — Nathaniel Mackey Close Listening Kelly Writers House, UPenn February 1, 2011 Program One: Reading introduction (2:13): MP3 from Nod House Sound and Subsequence (5:30): MP3 Day after Day of the Dead (3:59): MP3 Lullaby in Lagos (5:15): MP3 Ghost of a Trance…
3. 02-09-11 — four of my poems translated into French by Abigail Laing Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 including, now back on-line: Neil Hennessy's Jabberwocky engine pierre joris interview from about three years back, but new to me " ... We all want “true…
4. 02-12-11 — Louis's Back in Town Zukofsky @ New Directions at long last "A" Anew Zukofsky's long poem and short poems are now back in print Eh! News! LZ@EPC LZ@PennSound CB on LZ
5. 02-16-11 — These poems from Frolic Architecture are now available in That This (view image for hi res)
6. 02-16-11 — These poems from Frolic Architecture are now available in That This (view image for hi res)
7. 02-19-11 — We’ve come to take your bodies back. Smash Planned Parenthood Protect the state’s right to choose Our America, Not Yours Paid for by The Republican Party & Sex Offenders Against Choice Let public employees pay For the cost of private profit Stop Unionization…
8. 02-19-11 — We’ve come to take your bodies back. Smash Planned Parenthood Protect the state’s right to choose Our America, Not Yours Paid for by The Republican Party & Sex Offenders Against Choice Let public employees pay For the cost of private profit Stop Unionization…
9. 02-20-11 — 526 LaGuardia Place New York, NY 10012 212-529-4906
10. 02-20-11 — 526 LaGuardia Place New York, NY 10012 212-529-4906
11. 02-22-11 — Charles Bernstein >>>Autobiographical Interview<<< with Loss Pequeño Glazier from My Way: Speeches and Poems with pictures (1995)
12. 02-22-11 — Charles Bernstein >>>Autobiographical Interview<<< with Loss Pequeño Glazier from My Way: Speeches and Poems with pictures (1995)
13. 02-23-11 — "We’ve come to take your unions back!” (he-He-hAh-Hah-hE-Ee-hAH-haHhe-He-hAh-Hah-hE-Ee-hAH-haH) Corporations Rule! AN EVEN PLAYING FIELD EXCEPT FOR THE ONES THAT OWN IT Sponsored by The Republican Party Making the Richer Richer
14. 02-23-11 — "We’ve come to take your unions back!” (he-He-hAh-Hah-hE-Ee-hAH-haHhe-He-hAh-Hah-hE-Ee-hAH-haH) Corporations Rule! AN EVEN PLAYING FIELD EXCEPT FOR THE ONES THAT OWN IT Sponsored by The Republican Party Making the Richer Richer
15. 02-24-11 — Susan Howe Awarded Bollingen Prize Caesura Conversation: Dialogue and Process with Susan Howe in conversation with Stefania Heim Friday February 25, 2011 CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan Building James Gallery
16. 02-24-11 — 43 Poets (1984) edited by Charles Bernstein boundary 2 Volume XIV, No. 1, 2 Fall 1985/Winter 1986 download PDF permanent link for table of contents and pdf Johanna Drucker from Against Fiction 2 Tom Mandel from Realism 5 Lydia Davis The Dog Man 7 The…
17. 02-24-11 — Akilah Oliver (1961-2011) The ceremony of sorrow is performed with a measured, defiant acknowledgement that makes words charms, talismen of the fallen world. Poetry is a holding space, a folded grace, in which objects held most dear disappear, returning as…
18. 02-24-11 — 43 Poets (1984) edited by Charles Bernstein boundary 2 Volume XIV, No. 1, 2 Fall 1985/Winter 1986 download PDF Johanna Drucker from Against Fiction 2 Tom Mandel from Realism 5 Lydia Davis The Dog Man 7 The Great-Grandmothers 7 In the Garment District 8 What…

March 2011

1. 03-01-11 — Emma Bee Bernstein: An Imagined Space Janet Kurnatowski Gallery March 25-April 23, 2011 Brooklyn, NY reception: Friday, March 25, 7-9pm
2. 03-01-11 — Yunte Huang in conversation with Charles Bernstein on Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History Asian American Writers Workshop, New York October 28, 2010 Install the Flash plugin to watch this video.
3. 03-02-11 — S/N NewWorld Poetics launch of our first two issues Viernes 11 de Marzo, 7pm (bilingual) Friday March 11 7pm Erica Hunt, Molly Weigel, Mónica de la Torre, Christine Jung, Ernesto Livón-Grosman, G.J. Racz, and editors Charles Bernstein y Eduardo Espin McNally…
4. 03-02-11 — David Antin's Radical Coherency Selected Essays on Art and Literature, 1966 to 2005 And new Antin video on PennSound "Sky Poem 1" (shown at Poetry Plastique) and "Noise of Time" & "Sky Poem 1," Santa Monica, May 1987 "The Noise of Time," University of…
5. 03-07-11 — Tucson, 1988 Poetry Center University of Arizona February 3, 1988 (Tucson) (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)…
6. 03-09-11 — Sukey's Walks Go to web log page to see this player. Susan Howe I was at Yale for the day and met Sukey at the Museum of Art, now fully restored to Louis Kahn's original design, though Sukey lamented that Kahn had not wanted blinds on the floor-to-ceiling…
7. 03-10-11 — Collective Bargaining Is a Chokehold on Unbridled Capitalism only the elimination of taxation & the accumulation of individual wealth leads to fiscal salvation Dare to Think Different Vote Republican which side are you on? March 10, 2011 full set of placards
8. 03-10-11 — Sukey's Walks Go to web log page to see this player. Susan Howe I was at Yale for the day and met Sukey at the Museum of Art, now fully restored to Louis Kahn's original design, though Sukey lamented that Kahn had not wanted blinds on the floor-to-ceiling…
9. 03-15-11 — “Charles Bernstein’s poems resemble each other only in being unexpected. Simultaneously mad, tragic and hilarious, they seem written to illustrate the truth of his lines: ‘things are / solid; we stumble, unglue, recombine.’ All the Whiskey in Heaven is a vast…
10. 03-18-11 — open letter on race & poetry my response to Claudia Rankine's forum on race and poetry " I take RACE to be the central fact for those born in the Americas. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy. ..."
11. 03-23-11 — The Alphabet: A Symposium Ron Silliman’s Long Poem, 25-26 March 2011 University of Windsor link | 3-23-11-RS

April 2011

1. 04-05-11 — Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the poetry waters ... Attack of the Difficult Poems Essays and Inventions University of Chicago Press April only 30% off ($18.20) if you order direct from University of Chicago order here (note: Amazon does not…
2. 04-07-11 — In 2007, with a journalist-friend Nona Willis Aronowitz, Ms. Bernstein drove across country, interviewing dozens of women. The resulting book, “Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism” (Seal Press, 2009), gives a sampling of her intelligent and…