Now available online or in print featuring INTERIOR MINISTRY, LOUIS ARMAND, RICHARD MAKIN, DARYA KULBASHNA, RAREŞ GROZEA, VÍT BOHAL, DAVID VICHNAR, MARK DIVO, TATIANA LEBEDEVA, ELIZAVETA ARKHIPOVA, VADIM ERENT, MS MEKIBES, DMITRII SOBOLEV, GEORGIE CHEERS-ASLANIAN, GERMÁN SIERRA, VINCENT DACHY, ANDREW HODGSON, THOR GARCIA, JEROEN NIEUWLAND, VANESSA PLACE, STEWART HOME, ALAN SONDHEIM, MARK AMERIKA, NICOLA MASCIANDARO, DEREK SAYER, OLGA STEHLÍKOVÁ, MICHEL DELVILLE, KAREL PIORECKÝ, DOMINQUE HECQ, SIMONE DE BOURGEOIS, CHARLES BERNSTEIN, PIERRE JORIS, JOSEF STRAKA, ALI ALIZADEH, PHIL SHOENFELT, STEPHANIE GRAY, JAROMÍR TYPLT, FEMEN
Charles Bernstein
Living Literature
An article by the British Council in India about live literature in Manchester, with a mention of The Other Room as “one of the most wonderfully unpredictable programmes that Manchester has to offer”. Read the article here.
Charles Bernstein video from The Other Room, October 2016
Maggie O’Sullivan sound recording
We will put up our films of our October event, featuring Susan Bee, Charles Bernstein and Maggie O’Sullivan in due course. In the meantime, you can listen to a sound recording of Maggie, courtesy of Charles, here.
The Other Room tonight
Readings from Susan Bee, Charles Bernstein and Maggie O’Sullivan at The Castle Hotel in Manchester. 7 PM start, free entry. Hope to see you there.
Charles Bernstein – a preview
The next Other Room is on Monday 3rd October at The Castle Hotel, Manchester, featuring Susan Bee, Charles Bernstein and Maggie O’Sullivan. 7 PM start, free entry, as always.
This clip is of v’s University of Pennsylvania 6o second lecture What Makes a Poem a Poem?
Charles Bernstein is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. He holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania and is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets, having co-edited (and co-founded) L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine with Bruce Andrews between 1978 and 1981. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published 17 major books of poetry including Legend, with Bruce Andrews, Steve McCaffery, Ron Silliman and Ray DiPalma (New York: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E/Segue, 1980), Controlling Interests (Roof Books, 1980), Islets/Irritations (Roof Books, 1992), Rough Trades (Sun & Moon, 1991) The Sophist (Sun & Moon, 1987) and many others, including two selected volumes: Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Sun & Moon, 2000) and All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010). Bernstein is also an important critic and editor of contemporary poetry and this year the University of Chicago press published his Pitch of Poetry. His other remarkable critical writings include: Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (University of Chicago Press, 2011), My Way: Speeches and Poems (University of Chicago Press, 1999), A Poetics (Harvard University Press, 1992) and Content’s Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Sun & Moon Press, 1986). Other notable projects include A Conversation with David Antin (Granary Books, 2002) and Shadowtime: a libretto for an opera about Walter Benjamin with music by Brian Ferneyhough (Green Integer, 2005). Find out more about his work at the Electronic Poetry Center and Penn Sound.
Storm and Golden Sky
Susan Bee and Charles Bernstein will be reading for us at the Other Room on Monday 3rd October, along with Maggie O’Sullivan. There’s another chance to catch Susan and Charles on their rare visit to the north-west of England on the Friday before, in L:iverpool. Details below.
Storm and Golden Sky
Friday 30th September 2016
Susan Bee and Charles Bernstein
7.30 (entrance £5)
At The Caledonia (in the Georgian Quarter on the edge of Catharine Street and Cadedonia Street: up the steep stairs at the back of the bar room)
SUSAN BEE is an artist who lives in Brooklyn. She has had seven solo shows at A.I.R. Gallery, NY, and solo shows at Southfirst Gallery, Accola Griefen Gallery, and Lisa Cooley Gallery in NY. She has a BA from Barnard College and a MA in Art from Hunter College. Bee has published sixteen artist’s books. She has collaborated with poets including: Johanna Drucker, Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, and Jerome Rothenberg. She is the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online. Bee received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2014. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
CHARLES BERNSTEIN is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. He holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania and is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets, having co-edited (and co-founded) L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine with Bruce Andrews between 1978 and 1981. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published 17 major books of poetry including Legend, with Bruce Andrews, Steve McCaffery, Ron Silliman and Ray DiPalma (New York: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E/Segue, 1980), Controlling Interests (Roof Books, 1980), Islets/Irritations (Roof Books, 1992), Rough Trades (Sun & Moon, 1991) The Sophist (Sun & Moon, 1987) and many others, including two selected volumes: Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Sun & Moon, 2000) and All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010). Bernstein is also an important critic and editor of contemporary poetry and this year the University of Chicago press published his Pitch of Poetry. His other remarkable critical writings include:Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (University of Chicago Press, 2011), My Way: Speeches and Poems (University of Chicago Press, 1999), A Poetics (Harvard University Press, 1992) and Content’s Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Sun & Moon Press, 1986). Other notable projects include A Conversation with David Antin(Granary Books, 2002) and Shadowtime: a libretto for an opera about Walter Benjamin with music by Brian Ferneyhough (Green Integer, 2005).
This is a Liverpool Biennial Fringe Event.
Coming next
Thanks to all who came along last night for a hot and sultry Other Room. Our next event is in the cool of early October and it’s a really special one. We’re very pleased to be hosting Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee, over from the US. Maggie O’Sullivan completes the line-up to make a real power trio. Hope to see you there.
Writing is a body-intensive activity
Charles Bernsteain’s ‘Close Listening’ series, with Maggie O’Sullivan, on Jacket2.
Marjorie Perloff: A celebration at Jacket 2
Essays and tributes to Marjorie Perloff by Jerome McGann, Adelaide Morris, Richard Sieburth, Maggie O’Sullivan, Jan Baetens, Charles Bernstein, Vanessa Place, Caroline Bergvall, Johanna Drucker, Stephen Fredman, Brian Reed, Al Filreis, Jean-Michel Rabate, Peter Nicholls, Peter Middletown, along with an extensive annotated bibliography by Gordon Faylor. All at the Jacket 2 site.
The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein
The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein presents scholarship on one of the U.S.’s best living innovative poets. Scholars explore major themes in his work, and poets present pieces inspired by his poetry. The book is intended for both scholars looking for informed critical insight into Bernstein’s work as well as for students to examine his work.
The scholarship covers many of his major pieces and genres, like sound, stage, and poetry. The authors write about his main themes and influences and give insight into some of the major poetry ideas currently being debated in the U.S., such as the nature and future of experimental poetry, the influences on contemporary poetry, the politics of poetry, and wide variety of techniques currently being used.
This book is valuable to individuals interested in poetry and libraries trying to stay abreast of the most important recent literary criticism/currents.
More at the Salt site.
Poem Talk 50: Tom Raworth
The 50th episode of PoemTalk, a discussion of Tom Raworth’s “Errory” with Marjorie Perloff, Charles Bernstein, and Michael Hennessey:
Poem talk 46 on Jackson Mac Low
Charles Bernstein, Pierre Joris, and Joan Retallack and Al Filreis discuss Jackson’s Mac Low’s Words nd Ends from Ez. This episode was recorded at Bard College, and we are grateful to Joan Retallack and her colleagues for hosting us there.
Robert Grenier poem-talks WCW
Today we are releasing PoemTalk episode #30, which features Robert Grenier, Bob Perelman, and Charles Bernstein discussing two poems by William Carlos Williams selected by Grenier.
– Al Filreis
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 eating corpses in the Euphrates, and so much more – Leslie Scalapino’s FLOATS HORSE-FLOATS OR HORSE- FLOWS is a startlingly beautiful, politically engaged, poetic novel. Narrative moments arrive out of inchoate states – an alexia where unknown words create a future – and the reader is continually and unexpectedly moved by the buoyancy and breathtaking velocity of Leslie Scalapino’s language.”
More here.
Via Charles Bernstein.
Marjorie Perloff on Close Listening
if p then q Issue 4 now available
if p then q issue 4 has finally arrived. To purchase go to THIS LINK
This is the last issue of the magazine and is packed full of all your favourites:
- Caroline Bergvall – Cash for Questions and poem
- Allen Fisher – 60 Second Interview and poems
- Lucy Harvest Clarke – What’s in my Fridge and poems
- Richard Makin – The Writer’s Room and poems
- Joy as Tiresome Vandalism – Summer Sizzlers
- Scott Thurston on Stuart Calton and Ira Lightman
Also poems by:
- Charles Bernstein
- Philip Davenport
- Ray DiPalma
- Andrew Shelley
Allen Fisher – Proposals (pdf Sample) – HIT THIS LINK
Allen Fisher video version of 60 Second interview below
Poem Talk
Poem Talk podcasts available for dedicated close readings, the latest being no 21 where
“We talk about a poem by Charles Bernstein written in 2002, published in World on Fire and eventually collected in Girly Man: “In a Restless World Like This Is.”
Gotta beat Late Night Review.
Early Bernstein at Penn Sound
“In the mid-70s, I made a number of audiotape works, some of which were collected and published as Class. Working with Danny Snelson, and in collaboration with Ubu, I have now made a PennSound page of these works. The PennSound page also includes the restored stereo cuts from Class, which I haven’t listed here. All of the works listed here are being released for the first time.”
Via the Charles Bernstein weblog.
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine
Complete archive of this key magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein and running between February 1978 and October 1981. All thirteen issues are now available online and are well worth your attention.
