Erín Moure
on Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening

Reading & Conversation

 

Matvei Yankelevich
on Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening

Reading & Conversation

Yankelevich’s open letter to Marjorie Perloff
on the Gray Area
between Quietism & Conceptualism

Perloff’s reply

Talking with Kathy Acker,
SUNY Buffalo 1995

Chinua Achebe
talking with K. Anthony Appiah
@ the 92^nd Street Y

Tracy K Smith
on Studio 360

Tomorrow in San Francisco
at the
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

photo by Arielle Brousse

Ron Silliman
in conversation with Alice Jones

3:30 – 5:30 PM
2340 Jackson St (4^th Floor)
at Webster
reservations required

California, here we come

 

Photo by Arielle Brousse

Ron Silliman
is reading or talking
at the following
locations over the next two weeks

 

 

Easter Sunday, April 8, San Francisco
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

3:30 – 5:30 PM
2340 Jackson St (4^th Floor)
at Webster
reservations required

 

 

Tuesday, April 10, UC Berkeley
315 Wheeler Hall

(The Maude Fife Room)
6:30 – 8:00 PM

 

 

Monday, April 16, Cal State Long Beach

The One Day Poetry Festival
University Student Union Auditorium

2:00 pm

 

 

Wednesday, April 18, UC San Diego

Visual Arts Facility Performance Space

4:30 – 6:30 PM

Al Filreis & I
have a chat
at Kelly Writers House,
March 20, 2012

Rae Armantrout
being interviewed
for PBS Newshour

Raúl Zurita,
talking with Forrest Gander
(with thanks to the Poetry Foundation)

Talking with Allen Ginsberg

(with thanks to BBC2, The Allen Ginsberg Project
& Issa’s Untidy Hut)

Neil deGrasse Tyson
interviewed by Stephen Colbert

Talking with Rachel Blau DuPlessis
@ Ryerson University, Toronto
(Margaret Christakos is the interlocutor)

plus

17 pieces for (& by)
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
(being the documenta of
the DuPlessis fest @ Temple
this past October)

Time talks to John Ashbery

© Emma Bee Bernstein, October 2007

Talking with Marjorie Perloff
in Palo Alto, November 11, 1991

Anaïs Nin on anger & the arts

Thanks to Sacrificial Totem

A visionary practice of cultural critique:
Interviewing Rachel Blau DuPlessis 

Photo by Melody Holmes

My thanks to CA Conrad to reprint this from the PhillySound blog where it originally appeared.

Over the years Rachel Blau DuPlessis has written and said things which have struck flint in me, so I was of course happy when she agreed to take time out of her busy schedule for this conversation. There are few people alive today (there's no doubt in my mind that this is more than safe to say) who know as much about poetry as she does, and I don't just mean as someone who catalogs information, but someone who has a true sense of historic, political, social and economic aspects of where poetry emerges in these various contexts of our world. She overwhelms with what she knows, and inspires us TO GET KNOWING MORE and to sharpen our skills. In particular her role as an activist for women's rights and how this rubbed against her poems from the different sides of her earlier years is what I mostly ask her to talk about here, as you will see. Rereading the text today in preparation for publication, it's clear to me that she is talking about many things which have been ignored, BUT ARE VITAL TO our better understanding with a wider lens those various political and literary movements we think we have already figured out for ourselves. This is my way of saying this is important! And I'm happy to say too that it's a very enjoyable read!

CAConrad
Spring Equinox, 2008
Philadelphia

CACONRAD:
Rachel, you've said that when you were starting out in poetry that you were, "Too feminist for the Objectivists, and too Objectivist for the feminists." I've heard similar things from other experimental women poets of your generation, like Alexandra Grilikhes for instance. When I first met Alexandra she was always complaining that she had to chop out her own patch in the feminist and gay and lesbian literary worlds. She also said that in many ways it was her defiance to write what she knew she wanted to and had to write that defined her, as much as it also strengthened her writing, this time of struggle.

Kathy Acker interviews William S. Burroughs