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Bill Berkson
PoemTalk #61, Discussing Bill Berkson's "Signature Song," feat. Marci Nelligan, David Kaufmann, and Thomas Devaney
Listen to the complete recording and read program notes at Jacket2.
Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, at Kelly Writers House, February 10, 2015
- Conversation with Charles Bernstein (36:55): MP3
Conversation with Bernstein undergraduate seminar (34:49): MP3
The Air You Breathe, 2017
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Director and Producer: Mitch Temple
Editor: Mikiko Sasaki
Directors of Photography: David Walter Lech and Chris Tipton King
Original Music by Aiko Fukushima
Sound by David Norfleet
Graphics by Taku Hazeyama
Citizen Film: Bill Berkson, School of Poets
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Executive Producer: Kenward Elmslie
Producers: William Blackburn Weir, Margaret Weir
Director: Sophie Constantinou
Editor: Mike Fuller
Artwork courtesy of Kenward Elmslie and the Estate of Joe Brainard
Historical footage courtesy of Prelinger Archives
A production of Citizen Film Inc.
c. 2016 Kenward Gray Elmslie Revokable Trust
A celebration for New York School Painters & Poets: Neon in Daylight and reading of his own work at Moe's Books, Berkeley, March 11, 2015
- Introduction (2:19): MP3
- Opening Remarks (8:15): MP3
- Paragraph from "Working with Joe" (1:13): MP3
- Foreword from "New York State of Mind" (3:55): MP3
- The Designs on the Sidewalk Bill Pointed Out (3:01): MP3
- Excerpt from Edwin Denby's Memoirs of Willem de Kooning (1:25): MP3
- Crone Rhapsody (4:33): MP3
- The Secret of Jane Bowles (3:38): MP3
- The Infinity of Always (0:15): MP3
- The Ballad of Popeye and William Blake (3:06): MP3
- If Things Are... (0:30): MP3
- When We Meet (2:03): MP3
- The Big Store (1:50): MP3
- Anything Between Us Becomes Money and Manners (0:20): MP3
- Poetry and Sleep (0:22): MP3
- Decal (0:48): MP3
- Excerpt from "Bernese Mistress" (7:23): MP3
- Premises of the Solstice (0:23): MP3
- To You (1:21): MP3
- Complete recording (47:23): MP3
Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, February 17, 2015
Full recording available here.
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- Introduction by Charles Bernstein (6:37): MP3
- Introductory Comments (1:39): MP3
- Premises of the Solstice (0:46): MP3
- Strangers When We Meet (2:20): MP3
- Accounts Payable (1:43): MP3
- Poetry and Sleep (0:42): MP3
- Exogeny (0:39): MP3
- Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea (0:55): MP3
- Reprise (1:34): MP3
- Lady Air (1:10): MP3
- Anhedonia (4:45): MP3
- Birthday Greetings (0:41): MP3
- Double Valentine (0:40): MP3
- from Not an Exit (6:49): MP3
- from Songs for Bands (1:58): MP3
- from Snippets (4:27): MP3
- First Thing (1:05): MP3
- Monogram (1:32): MP3
- Brick (1:10): MP3
- Surface Codex (1:00): MP3
- Room Tone (1:38): MP3
Complete Reading (43:47) MP3
Recorded at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, UPenn, April 3, 2013
- Business (0:41): MP3
- Rendition (0:38): MP3
- Without Penalty (0:51): MP3
- A Lady at Her Writing Table (0:54): MP3
- Heine Song (0:44): MP3
- Landscape with Calm (1:33): MP3
- As if You Didn't Know (2:10): MP3
- For the Heart of the Second Floor (1:54): MP3
- Costanza (5:25): MP3
- Poetry and Sleep (0:26): MP3
- Exogeny (0:31): MP3
- Lady Air (0:37): MP3
- Omar Little (0:37): MP3
- Dress Trope (0:29): MP3
- Last Lines with George (1:03): MP3
- Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea (1:16): MP3
- The Prophet (2:37): MP3
- With Impunity (0:50): MP3
- Anhedonia (2:01): MP3
- Reprise (0:48): MP3
Complete Reading (26:03): MP3
PoemTalk #61, discussing Bill Berkson's "Signature Song," January 10, 2013
Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.
Bill Berkson and Clark Coolidge on Philip Guston, June 8, 2011
Complete recording (1:10:31): MP3
- Complete recording (1:29:22): MP3
Reading with Gwenaëlle Stubbe, Double Change, Fumoir De China, Paris, April 4, 2011
- Complete recording (16:51): MP3
Collaboration & the Artist’s Book: Vincent Katz, Bill Berkson, Shirley Jaffé, Raphael Rubinstein, Susan Bee & Charles Bernstein, Poetry reading and visual art projection, Maison de la poésie, Paris, April 2, 2011
Reading from Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently, January 15, 2011
- Complete recording (12:21): MP3
Reading for "Remember Me to Someone" event at Slaughterhousespace, CA, August 29, 2009
Reading at Moe's Books, Berkeley, California, March 30, 2009
- Complete Recording (1:10:31): MP3
- Costanza (0:53)
- Last Lines with George (6:23)
- Exogeny (7:11)
- As If You Didn't Know (9:50)
- October (12:10)
- Young Manhattan (14:30)
- Rendition (16:00)
- Traffic (17:25)
- Excerpts from Start Over (19:10)
- Algebra (29:20)
- Russian New Year (32:15)
- Ode (36:40)
- Out There (40:45)
Reading at the CUE Art Foundation, New York, May 3, 2007
- Introduction (1:59): MP3
- Excerpt 1 from What's Your Idea of a Good Time? (3:49): MP3
- Excerpt 2 from What's Your Idea of a Good Time? (7:17): MP3
- Tiffany's Song (1:00): MP3
- Salad Spinner (1:19): MP3
- Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently (2:29): MP3
- Art Diary (1:39): MP3
- AKA the Pantheon is Flooded (2:07): MP3
- Uncertain Pictures by Diane Andrews Hall (2:27): MP3
- Excerpt from "History in Truth" (3:18): MP3
- Excerpt from "The Uneven Phenomenon: What did you expect?" MP3
- Gloria (1:16): MP3
- English Suite (0:36): MP3
- A Lady at Her Writing Table (1:35): MP3
- Song for Connie (0:47): MP3
- After the Medusa (0:49): MP3
- Poem Beginning with a Remark by Richard Tuttle (5:38): MP3
- Complete recording (42:46): MP3
- Introduction (4:36): MP3
- Tiffany's Song (0:45): MP3
- Salad Spinner (0:37): MP3
- Philip Whalen (0:19): MP3
- Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently (1:22): MP3
- "Intentionality . . ." (0:20): MP3
- AKA The Pantheon is Flooded (1:09): MP3
- Poem Beginning With A Remark From Richard Tuttle (3:05): MP3
- What's Your Idea Of A Good Time? (commentary and readings) (10:54): MP3
- Melting Milk (1:07): MP3
- By Halves (0:51): MP3
- The Reader's Lover (5 Poems) (1:03): MP3
- Baby's Awake Now (0:48): MP3
- Duchamp Dream (1:26): MP3
- October (1:53): MP3
- Out There (for Jasper Johns) (0:52): MP3
- Gloria (0:21): MP3
- Extreme Patience (0:26): MP3
- Merit (0:35): MP3
- Plot (0:08): MP3
- After the Medusa (0:42): MP3
- Tango (1:19): MP3
- Song for Connie (0:55): MP3
Complete Reading (1:04:02):MP3
Reading with Sarah Riggs, Stephen Rodefer, Andrew Zawacki, Guy Bennet, and Jorie Graham for Double Change Issue 9, July 5, 2005
Reading with Valerie Mrejen for Double Change Issue 8, Paris, June 17, 2005
Interviewed by Carlos Villa, KUSF, San Francisco, September 4, 2004
- introduction (1:08): MP3
- Domino (0:46): MP3
- Poem (0:40): MP3
- Fourth Street, San Rafael (1:11): MP3
- A Finial (0:42): MP3
- Clerical Workers (1:00): MP3
- Signature Song (1:47): MP3
[text]
- on the interchange between writing and the present (3:18): MP3
- on "Signature Song" (0:58): MP3
- on De Kooning, the "slipping glimpser" and attitude (3:57): MP3
- on New York and Evergreen Review (3:07): MP3
- on Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz (9:44): MP3
- on The Sweet Singer of Modernism (0:57): MP3
- A New York Beginner (3:34): MP3
- on deteriorating Pollock and Kline paintings (1:43): MP3
- on Bay Area arts (10:02): MP3
- on poetry's place in contemporary culture (3:38): MP3
- on being diagnosed with emphysema (10:04): MP3
- Part one (28:55): MP3
- Part two (29:06): MP3
"Signature Song" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 61.
- Introduction (2:36): MP3
- Red Devil (2:13): MP3
- After 99 Comes 100 (1:16): MP3
- No Claim to the Puzzle (0:57): MP3
- Song Heard Around St. Bridget's (1:25): MP3
- St. Bridget's Adieu (0:22): MP3
- A Head at the Covers (1:22): MP3
- The Obvious Tradition (1:35): MP3
- Signature Song (1:54): MP3
[TEXT]
- Purgatory (0:26): MP3
- Stains of Stalin (1:07): MP3
- The Recital (0:55): MP3
- La Poesie Blanche (0:39): MP3
- from "25 Grand View" (4:16): MP3
- A Lady at Her Writing Table (0:21): MP3
- After the Medusa (0:29): MP3
- Within the Silly Sheets (0:17): MP3
- Reimagined Episode (0:14): MP3
- Friends (0:19): MP3
- Extreme Patience (0:28): MP3
- The Shadow on the Page (0:23): MP3
- An Unmentionable Painting (0:27): MP3
- Tango (1:32): MP3
- Gloria (0:53): MP3
Complete Reading (35:50): MP3
"Signature Song" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 61.
Wednesday Night Series: Kenward Elmslie, Bill Berkson, St. Mark's Church, NY, October 17, 2001
Library of Congress recording (1:34:25): link
Discussion on Jackson Pollock on "The Forum" program with Ed Harris and Whitney Chadwick, hosted by Michael Krasny, for KQED, San Francisco, January 18, 2001
- Part One (43:16): MP3
- Part Two (10:08): MP3
Monday Series: Bill Berkson, St. Mark’s Church, NY, March 8, 1999
Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.
- Side A (48:35): link
- Side B (48:42): link
Reading at The Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver
- February 11, 1992 Part 1 (20:45): MP3
- February 11, 1992 Part 2 (20:32): MP3
- Complete recording (47:27): MP3
Berkson Reading:
- Opening Comments (0:58): MP3
- "In an instant the world seems fairly made of wood" (1:56): MP3
- The Head of the Covers (1:35): MP3
- A Hand Not My Own (1:07): MP3
- Chasing the Slip (1:33): MP3
- Andate (2:40): MP3
- (unclear title) (1:25): MP3
Complete reading (11:51): MP3
Reading, February 17, 1983 (Location Unknown)
- introduction (1:56): MP3
- You Sure Do Some Nice Things (0:34): MP3
- Fourth Street, San Rafael (1:17): MP3
- Baby's Awake Now (1:06): MP3
- Slow Curve, Hampton Road (0:28): MP3
- Burkhart's Ninth (1:00): MP3
- Source, To Philip Guston (1:14): MP3
- Ocean and Grove (0:46): MP3
- Stopping is Nothing (0:42): MP3
- From Whence it Came (0:25): MP3
- Red Devil (2:10): MP3
- A Fixture (0:52): MP3
- If I Pray to Anyone it is You (0:58): MP3
- from Young Manhattan (0:48): MP3
- Hoo Book (2:15): MP3
- Incent (1:16): MP3
- Chaloff (2:32): MP3
- Missing (2:57): MP3
- Missing II (1:55): MP3
- On the High Window (0:40): MP3
- Ode, I (2:14): MP3
- Ode, II (2:07): MP3
- The Position (2:07): MP3
- First Turns (1:13): MP3
- End of Century Thrush (1:32): MP3
- Thumos (0:38): MP3
- Poem (How Can Equivocation Happen...) (0:34): MP3
- Annus Mirabilis (0:31): MP3
- After 99 Comes 100 (1:32): MP3
- Complete reading (39:55): MP3
(recording courtesy of Ron Silliman)
Appearing on In the American Tree, hosted by Alan Bernheimer, September 7, 1979
- Introduction (0:34): MP3
- Roots (2:14): MP3
- Booster (1:46): MP3
- Algebra (from Young Manhattan) (2:53): MP3
- Fourth Street (4:23): MP3
- Duchamp Dream (2:40): MP3
- Camera Ready Like a Dream (3:10): MP3
- Poem (3:44): MP3
- Source (3:43): MP3
- Basis (1:00): MP3
- To Marie Cosindas (0:59): MP3
- Two Days (1:11): MP3
Complete Recording (28:10): MP3
Talk on "Talking," Given at 80 Langton, April 27, 1978
- Part One (47:10): MP3
- Part Two (47:28): MP3
- Recording Courtesy of Bob Perelman
Reading for the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, New York, May 17, 1978
- Complete Reading (39:58): MP3
Reading at Grand Piano, San Francisco, November 9, 1976
- Complete Recording (43:00): MP3
Reading "Young Manhattan" by Bill Berkson and Anne Waldman, 1974
- Complete Recording (5:57): MP3
Reading with Joe Brainard at Intersection, San Francisco, June 15, 1971
The Berkson/Brainard reading here.
Reading with Kenward Elmslie at Loeb S.C., New York City, February 7, 1969
- Complete Recording (1:12:37): MP3
Reading at MacCombe Community College
- Complete Recording (43:00): MP3
- Poetry and Sleep - Bill Berkson (0:19): MP3
From The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980
Blue is the Hero (1:46): MP3
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