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CHARLES BERNSTEIN
Department of English
127 Fisher-Bennett Hall
3340 Walnut Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6293
author page: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein
sound recordings and video: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bernstein.html
ESSAY BOOKS
Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
My Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1999)
A Poetics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992)
Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon
Press, 1986; rpt. Sun & Moon Classics, 1994; rpt. Northwestern
University Press, 2001)
Three Compositions on Philosophy and Literature (1972) (Asylum's Press Digital Edition, 2012)
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A Conversation with David Antin (New York: Granary
Books, 2002)
BOOKS
Full-length collections
Recalculating (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013)
All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (New York:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010; Salt Publishing, UK, 2012)
Girly Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)
With Strings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001)
Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Los Angeles:
Sun & Moon Press,
2000)
Dark City (Los Angles: Sun & Moon
Press, 1994)
Rough Trades (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press,
1991)
The Sophist (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press,
1987; rpt. Salt Publishing 2004)
Islets/Irritations (New York: Jordan Davies, 1983; rpt. New York:
Roof Books, 1992)
Controlling Interests (New York: Roof Books, 1980, rpt. 2005)
Legend, with Andrews, McCaffery, Silliman, DiPalma (New York: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E/Segue,
1980)
Poetic Justice [1975-77] (Baltimore: Pod Books, 1979)
Shade (College Park, MD: Sun & Moon Press,
1978)
Parsing (New York: Asylum's Press, 1976)
Asylums (New York: Asylums Press, 1975)
Libretti
Blind Witness: Three American Operas (Queens, NY: Factory School, 2008)
Shadowtime (Los Angeles, Green Integer, 2005)
Pamphlets & Chapbooks
Recantorium (e-pamphlet), in English, French (tr. Abigail Lang), and Italian (tr. Milli Graffi) (Italy: HGH 2013 via Gammm.org)
Last Words from ‘Sentences My Father Used’ (Calgary: No Press, 2012)
Morality (e-pamphlet) (Molossus World Poertry Portfolio #38, 2011)
Umbra (Tucson; Chax Press, 2010)
Three Works (Unpublishable #28, /Ubu, 2008)
Warrant (New Delhi: Aark Arts /
Contemporary World Poetry),
2005
World on Fire (Vancouver: Nomados, 2004)
Let’s Just Say (Tucson: Chax Press, 2003)
Café Buffé [libretto] (Slope E-Chapbook
#2, 2002)
The Subject [libretto] (Buffalo: Meow Press, 1995)
The Absent Father in Dumbo (Canary Islands: Zasterle, 1990)
Four Poems (Tucson: Chax Press, 1988)
Artifice of Absorption (Philadlphia: Paper Air, 1987)
Veil (Madison, WI: Xexoxial Editions, 1987; ms 1976)
Resistance (Windsor, VT: Awede Press, 1983)
Stigma (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1981)
Disfrutes (Boston: Potes and Poets Press, 1981; ms 1974)
Senses of Responsibility (Berkeley: Tuumba Press, 1979; rpt. Providence:
Paradigm Press, 1989)
COLLABORATIONS
Duplexilties (100 text/images) and Pinky's Rule (animated drawing) with Amy Sillman (2011)
The Introvert, with Jill Moser, Yang Yongliang, Carlos Amorales, Jiri Cirnicky, and Dominique Figarella (Collectif Géneration, 2010)
Some of These Daze, with Mimi Gross (New York: Granary, 2005)
Log Rhythms, with Susan Bee (New York: Granary Books, 1998)
Reading Red, with Richard Tuttle (Köln: Walther Konig, 1998)
Little Orphan Anagram, with Susan Bee (New York: Granary Books, 1997)
Technology/Art:
20 Brief Proposals with
James Sherry, Bruce Andrews for
Seminars on Art & Technology,(Meow Press, 1995)
Fool's Gold, with Susan Bee (Tucson: Chax Press, 1991)
The Nude Formalism, with Susan Bee (Los Angeles: 20 Pages [Sun & Moon], 1989)
The Occurence of Tune, with Susan Bee (New York: Segue, 1981; ms 1977)
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With Strings (2000-2001), collaboration with Richard Tuttle: poem-sculpture composed of letters strung from a spiraling brass line and grounded in a terra-cotta filled with the poem’s roots.
TRANSLATED BOOKS
Forthcoming:
GEDICHTE UND ÜBERSETZEN, tr. Versatorium and Peter Waterhouse, Edition Korrespondenzen, Wien (August, 2013)
All the Whiskey in Heaven / German. Lux Books. In press, 2014.
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L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E POETICS, tr. Luo Lianggong, et al. Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, China, 2013
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E ¡CONTRAATACA! Poéticas selectas (1975-2011), ed./tr. Heriberto Yepez,et al., intro. Eduardo Espina (Mexico, Mex: Aldus, 2013)
Pied bot [Shade & The Occurence of Tune]] tr. Martin Richet . Collection Américaine, Editions Joca Seria, Nantes, France. 2012. Afterword by Jean-Marie Gleize.
Shadowtime, tr. Juliette Valery (Droit de Cités, 2011)
Selected Poems, tr. Nie Zhenzhao and Luo Lianggong (first edition: Nanjing Yilin Press, China, 2010; second edition: Wuhan, China: Central China Normal University Press, September 2011)
Parsing / Jäsentäen, tr. Leevi Lehto (Helsinki: Natamo, 2009)
Charles Bernstein: Interviews and Writings, tr. Zeyar Lynn (Rangoon/Yangon, Burma/Myamar: The Eras' Publishing House, July 2009). Edn 500. [Interviews: Manuel Brito, Eric Denut , Hannah Mockel-Rieke, and Tom Beckett; extracts of 'The Value of Sulfur,' 'The Revenge of the Poet-Critic,' and 'Three or Four Things I Know About Him.'
"Artifice of Absorption", tr. into Russian by Patrick Henry, Alexei Parshchikov and Mark Shatunovsky (Moscow: Stella Art Foundation / Poetry Club, 2008). (Also published in Contemporary Poetry (Sovremennaia Poeziia); issue 2 (1 June 2007) and issue 3 (1 September 2007): intro, part one, part two.
Histórias
Da Guerra:
Poema de Charles Bernstein [Portuguese],
tr. Regis Bonvicino (Sao Paulo: Martins Editoria,
2008)
De svåra dikterna anfaller, eller Högtspel i tropi-kerna:
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
( Stockholm: OEI, 2008)
Runouden puolustus. Esseit ja runoja
kahdelta vuosituhannelta (A
Defence of Poetry. Essays and Poems From Two Millennia)
[Finnish], tr./ed. Leevi Lehto (Helsinki: Nihil Interit and Kirja
kerrallaan, Fall 2006)
La
política de la forma poética [The Politics
of Poetic Form, Spanish translation], Néstor Cabrera,
tr. (Habana, 2006; Editorial Thélema, Mexico, 2007)
Un Test de Poésie, tr. collectively at Royaumont (Marseille: Un Bureau
sur L'Atlantique 1995)
Asile, tr. Paol Keineg (Marseille: Un Bureau sur L'Atlantique 1998)
EDITOR
PRINT
- S/N: NewWorldPoetics, with Eduardo Espina (2010- )
- Modern and Contemporary Poetics, with Hank Lazer, a
book series from the University of Alabama Press (1998 - )
- American Poetry after 1975 (Duke University Press, 2009) (Special Issue of boundary
2, 36:3)
- Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems, with introduction
(New York: Library of America, 2006)
- Sibila (São Paolo) (2006- , ed., 2003- , board)
- Poetry Plastique,
ed. with Jay Sanders, exhibition catalog (New York: Granary Books
/ Marianne Boesky Gallery, 2001)
- 99 Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium (Special
issue of boundary
2 – 26:1, 1999)
- Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
- "13 North American Poets",
with Susan Howe, in TXT #31
(Le Mans, France and Brussels: 1993)
- The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy (NY:
Roof, 1990)
- Patterns/Contexts/Time: A Forum: 1989, with Phillip
Foss in Tyuonyi (Sante Fe, 1990)
- "L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
Lines" in The Line in Postmodern Poetry,
ed. Frank/Sayre (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1988)
- "43
Poets (1984)" in Boundary 2 (Vol. 14, No. 1/2, Autumn,
1985--Winter, 1986 (Binghamton, NY)
- The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, with Bruce Andrews (Carbondale:
Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1984)
- "Language Sampler" in Paris Review,
No. 86 (New York: 1982)
- L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, with Bruce Andrews (New York: 1978‑1981);
Vol. 4 copublished as Open Letter 5:1 (Toronto: 1982)
WEB
- Gertrude Stein's War Years: Settig the Record Straight, Jacket 2, 2012
WEB SITES
- Co-Director/Founder, with Al Filreis,
PENNsound (2005 -)
- Editor, & co-founder with Loss Pequeno
Glazier, Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) (1995- )
- Editor and co-founder with Ton van 't Hof, International
Exchange for Poetic Invention
- Editor, Web Log (at EPC 2006-2011, at Jacket2 2011 - )
- Listowner/founder, Poetics listserve (1993 -
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
University of Pennsylvania (2003 - ) SUNY Distinguished Professor, State University of New York–Buffalo (2002-2003)
David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters, Department
of English; Director and Co-founder, Poetics Program (founded 1991); Associate
Member, Program in Comparative Literature; State University
of New York, Buffalo (1990-2003).
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Bain-Swigett Visiitng Profressor of Poetry and English, Princeton University (Fall 2011)
Visiting Professor, Central China Normal Univesity, Wuhan (2011-2013)
Visiting Distinguished Writer, Paul McGhee Division,
New York University (2007)
Visiting professor, Columbia University (2002)
Visiting professor, City College of the City of New York, CUNY (1998)
Butler Chair Professor (Visiting), Department of English, State University
of New York at Buffalo (1989)
Lecturer, Creative Writing Program, Princeton University (1989, 1990)
Visiting faculty /series coordinator, Wolfson Center for National Affairs,
New School for Social Research (1988)
Visiting professor, Department of English, Queens College of the City
University of New York (1988)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Literature, University of California,
San Diego (1987)
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Advisor to the Faculty, Transdisciplinary PhD Program on "Languages,
Identities, and Globalization," Faculty of Arts & Sciences,
University of Coimbra (2005- )
OPERA / MUSIC THEATER
Blind Witness News — libretto for an opera with composer Ben Yarmolinsky:
American Opera Projects, Blue Door Studios (NY), December 3-4, 1990; libretto
published in Ploughshares (1991). Revival at Cantiamo Opera Theater, New York, December 2005.
The Subject — libretto
for an opera with Yarmolinsky, excerpts performed at "Friends &
Enemies of Music", Greenwich House, NY, Nov. 1991 & Feb. 1992;
full reading Feb. 1992; libretto published by Meow Press (1995).
The Lenny Paschen Show — libretto for an opera
with composer Ben Yarmolinsky American Opera Projects, Blue
Door Studios (NY), Nov. 1992; libretto published as
Abacus #86, 1994
Cafe Buffe — libretto commissioned for composer Dean Drummond's New
Band Tour; “My Data’s Gone” and “It Must Be Time” premiered at Washington
Square Church, 6/4/99. Libretto published as Slope e-book. New Band unstaged perormance of full opera on 9/10/09 at The John J. Cali School of Music, Montclair State University (NJ).
Shadowtime – libretto for Brian Ferneyhough (1998-2005).
Co-producers: Munich Biennale – International Festival of New Music Theatre; RuhrTriennale 2005; Festival d’Automne à Paris; Lincoln Center Festival New York. In association with Sadler's Wells Theatre, London. Commissioners: Score and libretto;commissioned by the City of Munich for the Munich Biennale. Additional commissions for the score: Carnegie Hall Corporation, Flanders Festival & Ian Pace,Musée d’Orsay & Ensemble InterContemporain, Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant for Ircam
Performances: Munich Biennale at the Prinzregententheater, Munich: 25, 27 & 28 May 04; Festival d'Automne at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris: 26 & 27 Oct 04; Lincoln Center Festival, New York, 21 & 22 July 04, RuhrTriennale at the Jahrhunderthalle, Bochum: 20 Sept, 1 & 2 Oct 05
Breathtails for Anne LeBaron (2009-2011)
RADIO PRODUCTION
- LINEbreak, poetry interviews, host/co-producer. Twenty-six
30-minute programs, dist. Public Radio Satellite Program and
on the internet (1995-96)
- Close Listening, readings and conversations, on WPS1
(PS1/Museum of Modern Art) (2005-2008 ) and on Art International
Radio (ArtOnAir.org) (2009- )
CDs
- Shadowtime, music by Brian Ferneyhough, Libretto by Ch.B., NMC (London, 2006)
- Blind Witness News, music by Ben Yarmolinky, Libetto
by Ch.B. BenYar (forthcoming)
- Live at the Ear, editor (Pittsburgh: Elemenope / Oracular
Lab Recordings, 1994): anthology of Ear Inn readings
AUDIO & VIDEO of READINGS
See PennSound author page
CURATOR
/ COORDINATOR
Jerome Rothenberg at 80: A Celebration (2011) (with Pierre Joris), CUNY Graduate Center and Center for the Hamanities
Dialog on Poetry and Poetics: 1st CAAP (Chinese/American poetry) conference (2011), China Central Normal University (organizing committee)
North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival (2011) (with Sarah Dowling), Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania
Louis Zukofsky Centennial, Columbia/Barnard (2004) (with Serge Gavronsky
and Michael Golston)
Post-Invasion Poetics (2004), (with Susan Stewart and Bob Perelman), Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania
“Poetry Plastique”, Marianne Boesky Gallery (2001) (with Jay Sanders)
Wednesdays at 4 Plus: Readings and Lectures, SUNY-Buffalo (1990-)
St Mark's Talks, The Poetry Project, New York (1984‑86)
New York Talk (talks/lecture series), Segue Foundation (1984)
Jackson Mac Low Sixtieth Birthday Tribute. With Anne Tardos. (1982)
Segue Book Distribution Service (1981‑1986)
Ear Inn Poetry Reading Series, New York, Co-founder (1978‑79)
Asylum's Press (Publisher) (1976‑1980)
"With Words: An Assembling of Visual Work from New York", Mercato
del Salle Gallery, Milan (1978)
BOARDS, COMMITTEES
Vice-President and co-founder, Chinese/American Association for
Poetry and Poetics (CAAP) [University of Pennsylvania / China Centra Normal
University, Wuhan]
Boards of organizations
Ontological Hysteric Theatre
Ubuweb Foundation
Kenning Foundation
Editorial and Advisory Boards of Publications
boundary 2
Foreign
Literature Studies (Wuhan, China)
Arizona Quarterly Review (Tucson)
Jounral of British and Irish Experimental Poetry
Futurepoem Books (New York)
The International Literary Quarterly
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (Tenerife)
"il verri" (Milan)
Association for the Arts for the Present
Ugly Duckling Presse
Penn: Chair, Personnel Committee (2007-2008)
Executive Committee, MLA Discussion Group for the Bibliography
and Textual Studies (2004-2009).
Executive Committee, Poetry
Division, Modern Language Association (1998-2002)
Correspondent, Sulfur (Los Angeles: 1985‑2000)
Boards and Advisory Boards (past service): Ugly Duckling Presse board (founding-2012), Chain, The
Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, Gertrude Stein
Awards (Los Angeles); Syntax Project for the Arts (Pengrove,
CA); Poems
for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern
and Postmodern Poetry, ed.
Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris; Boxkite (Australia);
New York City Poetry
Calendar;
Postwar American Poetry, ABES (Annotated Bibliography
of English Studies); Macdowell Colony (2003-04); New Works panel
(literature and criticism), Massachusettes Council on the Arts
(1987)
ARCHIVE
Manuscripts, letters, and papers, 1962-2000, are housed at the Mandeville
Special Collection library, University of California, San Diego
BOOKS TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
Red, Green, and Black by Olivier Cadiot (Hartford: Potes & Poets, 1990)
The Maternal Drape by Claude Royet‑Journoud (Windsor, VT:
Awede Press, 1984)
ANTHOLOGIES (Poetry)
Forthcoming:
Oxford Anthology of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, ed. Cary Nelson (Oxford University Press, in press); "Foreign Body Sensation, ""The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi Tree," "Riddle of the Fat Face Man"&"The Boy Soprano"
HERE•NOW: The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Found, Visual, E- & Other Hybrid Writings as Contemporary, Conceptual Art. ed. Steve Tomasula (U of Alabama Press).
Hag Sameach -Poems for the Jewish Holidays, ed. Gerd Stern and Judith Sokoloff (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2013): "Oshamnu".
Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, & Stories for Children., ed. Dana Teen Lomax (Black Raddish, 2014): "Emma's Nursery Rimes"
Breaking The Jaws of Silence – Sixty American Poets speak to the World (University of Arkanasas Press, 2013) (announced but apparently delayed)
Mortals and Immortal for 35th Anniversary of the Birchfield Penney Poetry Series (Buffalo), ed. Don Metts (Buffalo: Blaze Vox, 2013): "Buffalo nights,” "The Iron Ring and the Ecstasy," "The Dog is Dead," "Rivulets of the Dead Jew"
American Literature, Vol 2 2/e, ed. Cain, Chiasson, McDermott, Newman, and Wyss ( Pearson Education, July 2013): "Thinking I Think I Think"
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Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, ed. Paul Hoover, 2d edn. (2013)
The New Anthoogy of American Poetry, vol. 3, Postmodernisms 1950-Present ,ed. Stephen Axelorod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano (Rutgers University Press, 2012)
Token Entry, ed Gerald LeFemina (New York: Small's Press, 2012): "Dear Mr. Fanellli"
The Book of Villanelles, ed. Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali (New York: Everyman's Library / Knopf, 2012): "Sad Girl's Sad Girl"
Against Expression, edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith (Northwestern University Press, 2011)
A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line, ed. Emily Rosko and Anton Vander Zee (University Of Iowa Press, 201l: short poem "3/4/5"
La alteración del silencio: Poesía norteamericana reciente (The Alteration of Silence: Recent North American Poetry), ed. William Allegrezza and Galo Ghigliotto (Chile, 2011)
Visiting Dr. Williams: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of William Carlos Williams, ed. Thom Tammaro and Sheila Coghill (University of Iowa Press, 2011)
Seriously Funny: Poems About Love, God, War, Art, Sex, Madness,
and Everything Else, edited by Barbara Hamby and David Kirby
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010)
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.(Yale
University Press, 2010)
Our Common Sufferings: An Anthology of World Poets in Memoriam 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, ed. by Nie Zhenzhao and Luo Lianggong (Shanghei Foreign Langaguage Press, 2008): “it cuts so deep”: bilingual, tr. Nie
Modernist Archaist: Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam, edited by Kevin Platt (Miami: Whale and Star Press, 2008)
Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, ed. David Starkey
(Bedford / St, Martin’s, 2009):
Best American Poetry 2008, ed. Charles Wright (Scribner's,
2008)
The Broadview Anthology of Poetry, 2nd edn, eds. Herbert
Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones (Calgary, Alberta: 2008)
The PIP Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry in English
2007, ed. Douglas Messerli (Los Angeles: Green Integer,
2008)
The PIP Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry in English
2005-2006, ed. Douglas Messerli (Los Angeles: Green Integer,
2007)
A Best of
Fence, ed. Rebecca Woolfe (Albany: Fence Books, 2009)
Creative Writing in Four Genres (Bedford/St. Martin's,
2008)
The Thomson Anthology of American Literature,
Volume 5, ed. Jay Parini (Thompson Heilne, 2008)
Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, ed. Laurie
G. Kirszner & Stephen R. Mandell - 6th Edition (Heinle /
Thomson-Wadswoth, 2007)
The Oxford Book of American Poetry, ed David Lehman (2006)
The Longman Anthology of Poetry, ed. Averill Curdy and Lynne McMahon (2006)
The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, ed Jay Parini (Thompson/South Western, 2006)
The Broadview Anthology of Poetry, 2nd edn, eds.
Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones (Calgary, Alberta:
2008)
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Everyday, ed Billy Collins
(New York: Random House, 2005)
Understanding Poetry, ed. Walter Kaladjian (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
Walt Whitman Hom(m)age 2005/1855, ed. Éric Athenot & Olivier Brossard (New York / Paris: Turtle Point Press, éditions
joca seria, 2005)
Leda Tenório da Motta, ed., Céu Acima: para um ‘tombeau’ de
Haroldo de Campos ( São Paulo : Editora Perspectiva,
2005)
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th edition,
ed. Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy (New
York: W. W. Norton, 2004); plus
Shorter 5th Edition.
Best American Poetry 2004, ed. Lyn Hejinian (New York: Scribner’s,
2004)
Understanding Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, ed. Walter Kaladjian, Judith Roof, and Stephen Watt (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, 3d edn., ed.
Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair; Vol. 2, Contemporary
Poetry (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003)
Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, ed. David Lehman
(New York: Scribner’s, 2003).
'In the criminal's cabinet: An nthology of poetry and fiction', ed.
Todd Swift (UK: nthposition, 2004)
Times New Roman: Poets Oppose 21st Century Empire, ed. Tod Swift (Nthposition.com,
2003)
100 Poets Against the War, ed. Todd Swift (Cambridge, UK: Salt, 2003)
Enough, an anthology of poetry and writings against the war, ed. Rick
London and Leslie Scalapino (Oakland: O Books, 2003)
Stars & Stripes - Americka poezija postmodernizma ed. Petar Opacic (Split, Slovenia: Naklada Boskovic, 2003).
Best American Poetry 2002,
ed. Robert Creeley (New York: Scribner’s,
2002)
Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, ed. Todd Swift
and Phil Norton (New York: Rattapallax Press, 2002)
Poécie Américaine: 1950-2000 (Brussels: Le Cri Editions of In’Hui 56/57, 2002)
Voices in the Gallery (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2001)
Amerikansk katalog:Litterature og kunst I det 20. århundrede,
ed. Niels Frank, Tue Andersen Nexø og Thomas Thurah (Copenhagen:
Forfatterskolen, 2001)
An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of
Their Art, ed. Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes (section editor and
contributor) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002)
Novi pesnicki poredak: Antologija novije americke poezije,
ed. Vladimer Kopici & Dubravka Djuric (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia:
Oktoh, 2001)
Crossing, audio CD, ed. Juliette Valéry (Bordeaux:
Format Americaine, 2000)
The Norton Anthology of Jewish American Literature, ed. Jules Chametzky,
Hilene S. Flanzbaum, Kathryne Hellerstein, and
John Felstiner
(2000)
The Body Electric: The Best Poetry from The American Poetry
Review, 1972-1999, ed. Stephen Berg, David Bonanno, and Arthur
Vogelsang (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000).
Á Royaumont, traduction collective (1983-20000) (Asniéres sur Oise,
France: Editions Créaphis, 2000)
Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections, ed. Eric
Selinger and Jonathan Barron (Hanover: University Press of New England,
2000)
Ernst Jandl: Reft and Light, ed. Rosmarie Waldrop (Providence: Dichten,
Burning Deck, 2000)
Poetry Writing: Theme and Variations, ed. David Starkey (NTC, 1999)
Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry, ed.
Jim Elledge and Susan Swartwout (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1999)
Catalyst, ed. John Kinsella (UK: Folio/Salt, 1999)
The Norton Introduction to Literature, Seventh Edn., ed.
by J. Hunter et al,7th edn, (New York: Norton, 1998);
and 8th edn. and “Shorter” (2001)
The Norton Introduction to Poetry, Seventh Edn., ed. J. Paul Hunter
(New York: Norton, 1999)
The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry: 1995-1996,
ed. Douglas Messerli (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1998)
Poems for the Millenium: The University of California Book of Modern and
Postmodern Poetry, vol 2, ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1998)
Four American Poets, tr. and ed. Manuel Brito (Madrid, in press)
Duetos 4 Poetas Norte-Americanos Cantemporâneous, ed. & tr. Régis
Bonvivino (Ponta Grossa, Brazil: Editoria Uepg, 1997)
Novi Glasovi [Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry], ed. & tr. Nina
Zivancevic (Novi Sad: KOV Petro Krdu: 1997)
American Poets Say Goodbye the Twentieth Century, ed. Andrei Codrescu
and Laura Rosenthall (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996)
Amerikanische Poetologie: Lyriker und Lyrierinnen der
USA in Selbstaussagen und Gedichten - Eine zweisprachige Auswahl
[American Poetologics: Statements and Poems by U.S. Poets — A
Bilingual Edition], ed. Helmbrecht Breinig & Kevin Powers
(Bamburger Editionen, University of Bamburg Library, Germany,
1996)
Onward: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, ed. Peter
Baker (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1996)
Experimental–Visual–Concrete:Avant-Garde Poetry Since
the 1960s, ed.
David Jackson (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi Press, 1996)
A Salt Reader, ed. John Kinsella (Applecross, W. Autralia, Salt #6/7, 1996)
The Best Verse: Ten Years of Poetry (Williamsburg, VA: Verse,
12:2, 1995)
The Poetry Dictionary, ed. John Drury (Cincinatti: Story Press, 1996)
The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North American Poetry: 1993,
ed. Douglas Messerli (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1995)
Sam Changed Tense, ed. William Howe and Raymond Federman (memorial
poetry collection for Samuel Beckett (Buffalo: Tailspin Press, 1995)
Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1995/96, ed. Christoph Buchwald and Joachim Sartorius
(Munich: C.H.Beck'sche, 1995)
Poesia Do Mundo: Antologia bilingue, org. Maria Irene
Ramalho de Sousa Sousa (Porto, Portugal: Ediçòes Afrontamento,
1995)
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, ed. Paul Hoover (New
York: Norton, 1994)
Fifty: A Celebration of Sun & Moon Classics,
ed. Douglas Messerli (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994)
From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry 1960-1990,
ed. Douglas Messerli (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1994)
Antologija Americke Poezije: 1945-1994, ed. Srba Mitrovic (Novi Sad,
Yugoslavia: Svetovi, 1994)
Selected Language Poetry, trans. Zhang Ziqing and Yunte Huang (P.R.
China: Sichuan Art and Literature Publishing House, 1993)
The Best American Poetry 1992, ed. Charles Simic (New York: Collier/Macmillan,
1992)
La Lengua Radical: Antologia de la poesia norteamericana contemporanea,
ed. & trans. Esteban Pujals (Madrid: Gramma, 1992)
Out of The World, ed. Anne Waldman (New York: Crown/Random House,
1991)
Language Poetry, ed. Sigi Curnow, intro by Michael Greer, in Meanjin (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 1, 1991.
Broadway 2, ed. James Schulyer and Charles North (New York: Hanging
Loose, 1989)
Americke Poetike, ed. Dubravka Duric et al (Beograd: Delo, 1989)
Language Poetries: An Anthology, ed. Douglas Messerli (New York: New
Directions, 1987)
American Poetry Since 1970: Up Late, ed. Andrei Codrescu (New York:
Four Walls/Eight Windows, 1987)
43 Poets (1984), ed. Bernstein, in boundary 2 (Binghamton,
1987)
New Directions 50: Anniversary Issue, ed. J. Laughlin, et al. (New
York: New Directions, 1986)
21 + 1: American Poetry Today, ed. E. Hocquard and
C. Royet‑Journoud
(Montepellier Cedex, France: Delta, 1986)
Annual Survey of American Poetry (Great Neck, NY: Roth, 1987)
In the American Tree, ed. Ron Silliman (Orono, ME:
National Poetry Foundation, 1986)
Alles Und Noch Viel Mehr: Das Poetische ABC, ed.
G.‑J. Lischka
(Bern: Bentelli, 1985)
Translation: Experiments in Reading, ed. Don Wellman (Cambridge,
MA: O.ARS, 1983)
Realism: An Anthology of "Language Writing", ed. Ron Silliman
(Tucson, AZ: Ironwood, 1982)
"Language Sampler", ed. Bernstein, in Paris Review (New York, 1982)
Views Beside . . ., ed. Fritz Balthaus (Berlin: Editions Vogelsang,
1982)
Perception, ed. Don Wellman (Cambridge, MA: O.ARS, 1982)
L'espace Amerique, ed. Jean‑Pierre Faye et
al. (Paris: Change, 1981)
La Rosa disabitata: Poesia transcendentale americana 1960‑1980, ed. Luigi Ballerini and Richard Milazzo (Milan: Feltrinelli,
1981)
Elementary Poetry in U.S.A. East & West, ed. Julien
Blaine (Marseille: DOC(K)S, 1981)
Sugar, Alcohol, & Meat, ed. John Giorno (LP record) (New York:
Giorno Systems, 1980)
The Big House, ed. Michael Slater (New York: Ailanthus, 1978)
Deciphering America, ed. Michael Gibbs (Amsterdam: Kontexts,
1978)
1980, ed. Paul Vangelisti (Fairfax, CA: 1980)
Terraplane, ed. Brita Bergland and Tod Kabza (Windsor, VT: Annex,
1978)
Knock Knock, ed. V. Hudspith and M. Keller (NY: Bench, 1981)
*
Translation of Olivier Cadiot in The Yale Anthology of Twnetieth Century
Frech Poetry (New Haven: Yale Univerity Press, 2004)
ANTHOLOGIES/COLLECTIONS (Criticism)
Poetry Criticism (Gale): Jackson Mac Low tribute from Bookforum(2013)
A Poet's Sourcebook: Writings about Poetry, from the Ancient World to the Present, ed. Dawn Potter (Pittsburgh: Automn House , 2012): from Daniel Benjamin interview from Chicago Weekly.
Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature, ed. Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale: "The Expanded Filed of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E" (2012)
Switching Codes: Thinking through New Technologies in Humaniteis and Art, ed. Thomas Bartscherer and Roderick Coover (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Practice, ed. Daniel Morris and Stephen-Paul Miller (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010).
The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, ed. Marjorie
Perloff, and Craig Dworkin (University of Chiago Press, 2009)
Counting Each Step of the Sun (Malmö: Edition, 2009)
Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 266 (Gale, 2009: "Hearing
Here: Robert Creeley's Poetics of Duration")
Poetry and Cultural Studies Reader, Maria Damon & Ira
Livingston (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
Teaching Modernist Poetry, ed Peter Middleton and Nicky
Marsh (London and New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010)
The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics, ed.
Craig Dworkin (New York; Roof books, 2008)
Models, ed. Emily Abruzzo, Eric Ellingsen,
Jonathan D. Solomon (New York: 306090 Books, vol. 11 / Princeton
Architectural Press, 2008)
Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and
Literature , ed. David Nicholls (New York: Modern Language
Association, May 2007): "Poetics"
Literature and Its Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry
and Drama, ed. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters, 4th and
5th ed. (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009): "The Difficult
Poem"
Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary,
ed. Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr (New York: Palgrave, 2006): "The
Difficult Poem" and "Creative Wreading: An Introduction"
Dark Horses: Poets on Lost Poems, ed. Joy
Katz and Kevin Prufer (University of Illinois Press,
2006)
Contemporary Poetics, ed, Louis Armand (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, in press, Fall 2006: “How Empty Is My Bread Pudding”
Seance, ed. Christine Wertheim and Matias Viegener (Los Angeles: Make Now Press, 2005): "The Art and Practice of the Ordinary"
Towards a Foreign Likeness Bent: Translation, ed. Jerrold Shirmora
(Duration: Poetics, book 1, 2005): "Breaking the Translation Curtain: The Homophonic Sublime"
Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000, ed. Jon Cook (London:
Blackwell, 2004)
Jewish in America, ed. Sara Blair and Jonathan Freedman (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004)
Lofty Dogmas; Poets on Poetics, ed. Maxime Kumin and Annie Finch
(University of Arkansas Press, 2005)
Ezra Pound, Critical Assessments, ed.Dorsey Kleitz (East Sussex, UK:
Helm Information, 2005)
The Poet's Bookshelf: Contemporary American poets on the Books that Shaped
Their Art, ed. Peter Davis (Selman: Ind.: Barnwood Press.)
Rebound: The American Poetry Book, ed. Michael Hinds and Stephen
Matterson (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi Press, 2004): "Book as Archetecture"
Wild and Whirling Words: A Poetic Conversation, ed. H. L. Hix
(Silver Spring, MD: Etruscan Press, 2004)
The Politics of Information, ed. Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills
(Electronic Book Review, 2003)
110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, ed.
Ulrich Baer (New York: NYU Press. 2002)
Poécie Américaine: 1950-2000. ed. Jacques Darras (Brussels: Le Cri
Editions of In’Hui 56/57, 2002)
The Laugh that Laughs at the Laugh: Writing from and about the Pen Man,
Raymond Federman; Federman
LINEbreak interview , Journal of Experimental Fiction 23 / Writers
Club Press, 2002
Beyond English, Inc., ed. David Downing, Mark Hurlbert, Paula Mathieu
(Portsmith, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 2002)
Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print:,
ed. Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat (University of Wisconsin
Press, 2002)
The Informatics of Resistance, ed. Marc Bousquet and Katherine
Wills
Poetry Speaks: Hear the Voice of the Poet from Tennyson to Plath,
ed. Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby (Chicago: Sourcebooks, Inc.,
2001)
Alternative Library Literature, 2001/2001: A Biennial Anthology,
ed. Sanford Berman and James P. Danky (Jefferson, NC: McFarland &
Co., 2001)
Manifesto: A Century of Isms, ed. by Mary Ann Caws (University
of Nebraska Press, 2001)
M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism,
ed. Susan Bee and Mira Schor (Duke University Press, 2000)
A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections About the Book &
Writing, ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Steve Clay (New York: Granary Books,
2000)
Poetics@, edited by Joel Kuszai (New York: Roof Books, 1999)
Leiturs do ciclo, ed. Ana Luiza Andrade, Maria Lucia de Barros Camargo,
and Raúl Antelo (Santa Catarina, Brazil: Editoria Grifos for abralic,
1999): “Verso Não-Reprenentivo”, tr. Régis Bonvincino
From Artifice to Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics, ed. Christopher
Beach (Tuscaloosa, Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1998)
"Pounding Fascism" in Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound, tr. Yunte Huang [Poetry of Great Poets] (Guilin, China: Lijiang
Publishing House, 1998), pp. 267-275
The Recovery of the Public World: Essays in Honor of Robin Blaser
(Vancouver: Talon Boos, 1999)
Federman, from A to X-X-X-X – An Encyclopedia Narrative, ed. Larry
McCaffery, Thomas Hartl, and Doug Rice (San Diego: San Diego State Press,
1999): “Some Questions for Ray Federman”
“Riding’s Reason”: Introduction to Laura (Riding) Jackson and Schuyler
Jackson, Rational Meaning: Toward a New Foundation of Words (Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 1997)
"An Area of Act": Race and Readings in American
Poetry, ed. Aldon Nielsen (University of Illinois Press, 2000): “Poetics
of the Americas”
Beauty and the Critic: Aesthetics in an Age of Cultural Studies, ed.
James Soderholm (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997) “What’s
Art Got to Do with It” (expanded)
Onward: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, ed. Peter Baker (New York:
Peter Lang Publishing,
1996): “The Parts Are Greater than the Sum of the Whole”
Experimental–Visual–Concrete:Avant-Garde Poetry Since the 1960s, ed.
David Jackson (Rodopi Press, 1996)
Poetry and the Year 2000, ed. Leslie Davis (Xurban Press)
Amerikanische Poetologie: Lyriker und Lyrierinnen der USA
in Selbstaussagen und Gedichten — Eine zweisprachige Auswahl [American
Poetologics: Statements and Poems by U.S. Poets - A
Bilingual Edition], ed. Helmbrecht Breinig & Kevin Powers (Bamburger
Editionen, University of Bamburg Library, Germany, 1996)
American Literary History Reader, ed. Gordon Hutner (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1995)
Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts (Minneapolis:
Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, 1995)
New Approaches to Social Criticism, ed. Graca Capinha (University
of Coimbra, Portugal 1994) [in translation]
The Tribe of John: John Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry, ed. Susan
Schultz (University of Alabama Press, 1995)
Technology/Art: 20 Brief Proposals (1984), by C.B., James Sherry and
Bruce Andrews (Buffalo: Meow, 1995)
A Suite of Poetic Voices, ed. Manuel Brito (Santa Brigida, Spain:
Kaddle Books, 1994).
The Practice of Poetry, ed. R. Behn & C. Twichell (New York: HarperCollins,
1992)
Gertrude Stein Advanced, ed. Richard Kostelanetz (Jefferson,NC: McFarland
& Co, 1990)
Conversant Essays, ed. James McCorkle (Detroit: Wayne State Univ.
Press, 1990)
The Politics of Poetic Form, ed. Bernstein (New York: Roof, 1990)
The Stiffest of the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader, ed. Andrei
Codrescu (San Francisco: City Lights, 1989)
"Video Games" catalog essay for the American Museum of the Moving
Image (Queens: 1989)
Americke Poetike, ed. Dubravka Duric et al (Beograd: Delo, 1989)
Contemporary Literary Criticism, ed. Daniel G. Marowski and Roger
Matuz (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1988)
The Line in Postmodern Poetry, ed. Robert Frank and Henry Sayre (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1988)
Nice to See You‑‑Homage to Ted Berrigan (Minneapolis:
Coffee House Press,1989)
Louis Zukofsky, ed. Harry Gilonis (London: North and South Press,1988)
What Is a Poet?, ed. Hank Lazer (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press,
1987)
Robert Creeley: The Poet's Workshop, ed. C.F. Terrell (Orono, ME:
National Poetry Foundation, 1985)
New Critical Perspectives, ed. Bruce Boone (San Francisco: Soup, 1985)
Writing/Talks, ed. Bob Perelman (Carbondale: Southern Il. Univ. Press,
1984)
Postmoderna Literatura: Recent Trends in American Criticism, ed. Peter
Carrevetta and Paolo Spedicato (Milan: Bompiani, 1984)
The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, ed. Bruce Andrews and Bernstein (Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1984)
Code of Signals, ed. Michael Palmer (Berkeley: Io, 1983)
A Critical Assembling, ed. R. Kostelanitz (Brooklyn: Assembling,1979)
A Symposium on Clark Coolidge, ed. Ron Silliman (Milwaukee: Membrane,
1978)
PREFACES, INTRODUCTIONS, &c
"Foreword," Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies.ed. Matthew Rubery (Routledge, 2011)
"Preface": Federman’s Fictions: Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust, ed.
Jeffrey DiLeo ( State University of New York Press, 2008)
"Preface," Jerome Rothenberg, Triptych (New
Directions, 2007)
Introduction, Body of Work by Maggie O'Sullivan (London:
Reality Street Editions, 2007)
"Afterword,"
Collected Poems of Robin Blaser (University of California Press, forthcoming)
“Preface” to
Jerome Rothenberg, Writing Through: Translations and Variations (Wesleyan Poetry, 2004)
In Parts, written for the catalog for Richard Tuttle, In Parts,
1998-2001, Institute for Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania,
catalog poem in collaboration with Tuttle (2002)
“A Conversation with Robert Creeley” in Just in Time: Poems 1975-1994 by Robert Creeley (New York; New Directions, 2001)
Introduction, Prepositions by Louis Zukofsky (Wesleyan, CT: Wesleyan
University Press, 2001)
TV, FILM, VIDEO
Incident at Wal-Mart, or, Where's My Daughter (1999) and Unmaking Whoopee, Or, The Text is Thus a Gas (2006), videos by Lara Oddel
The Answer (2003), video by Niels Plenge
Something Wonderful May Happen, film directed by
Lars Movin & Niels Plenge on NY School: interview and reading
(Copenhagen, 2001)
Finding Forrester (2000), a film by Gus Van Sant; cameo role of
Dr. Jack Simon
Yellow Pages TV commercials (1998), directed by Jeff Preiss, with
Jon Lovitz
A New Life (1989/1999), video by Henry Hills
Plagarism (1981), Radio Adios (1982), and Money (1985), films by Henry Hills
PERIODICALS (Poetry)
2013
Conjunctions: "Elfking," "As If by Moonlight" and from Duplexities: "I'm no more here..." and "If anything ..."; Double Room, issue ed. Tan Lin: "I Used To Be a Plastic Bottle", Golden Handcuffs Peter Quartermain issue: "You Say Insispit" (#17); Kulturen und Werte (Berlin): "Sign Under Test," "How Empty Is My Bread Pudding" "Thank You for Saying Thank You"; The Battersea Review #2: "Catachresis, My Love,""The Lie of Art"; Manor House Quarterly: "H Marks the Spot"; Plume #20: "Armed Stasis"; Mandorla: "And Quiet Flows the Soane," "Double Blind," "Spring," and "Why I am Not a Hippie"; Poetry Daily: "Pompei"
2012
Hobo Magazine (Vancouver): "The Moment Is You"; Joyland Poetry:"Evaluation"; Rampike (Windsor, Ontario, vol. 21/No.2): "Last Words"; Plume #1 & included in The Plume Anthology of Poetry 2012: "Fold"; Virginia Quarterly Review, special issue ed. David Caplan: "Chimera"; Sentence: "Unready, Unwilling, Unable"; Island (Tasmania): "Misfortune," "Long Before the Rain"; Tick Journal #1: "And Aenigma Was His Name, O!; The O-G vol. 5: DVD with "Pinky's Rule" including text of the poem; lyric@:"Last Words from 'Sentences My Father Used'"; Plume: "Prose" (tr from Bonvicino) & "Armed Stasis"; Harper's: "The Jew" (Dec.); Poem-A-Day (Oct. 15) – Academy of American Poets: "High Tide at Race Point"; Poetry Project Newsletter: "Catachresis, My Love" (#233, Dec. 2012 / Jan. 2013); EOAGH: "Also Rises the Sun" (#8)
2011
Conjunctions #56: "Recalculating"; Caliban on-line #3: "It's Not My Bag," "Sea Drift," "And Quiet Flows the Soane"; 1913: A Journal for Forms:"Poem Loading," "For [Name Redacted]," "Jatte"; Jerusalem Review: "Fold," "Loneliness in Linden," "Saphics," '
Poetry Trading Cards: "And Aegniga ..."; Half-Circle #1: "Charon's Boat"; freq.uenci.es a collaborative genealogy of spirituality: "Flawed Design," "Deathbed Conversation," "Observant Jew";ArtCritical.Com: "Before You Go": PoetsArtists #30: 13 short poems, The Claudius App # 1: "Autospsychographia"
2010
Blackbox Manifold #4 (Cambridge Univ.): Hugo tr.; Golden Handcuffs: " "To a Begging Redhead"; International Literary Quarterly: "Incantation by Laughter"; Phoebe: two poems by Regis Bonvicino ("Tatoo" and "Image Impossible"; Esque #1: "Stupid Men, Smart Choices", Geist: "You Never Looked So Simulating"(Summer, #77); Geist #78/79: 20 Year Retrospective: 9/11 post; The Capilano Review (3:12): early poems, Weekday #1: "Poems for Rehab" Suzanne Bocanegra recipe issue of Esopus: "Recipe for Disasater"; Critical Quarterly 52:2: Fold
2009
E.G. Reader, ed Michael Ball (Baltimore):"I Can't
Believe ...," "The Honor of Virtue"; Prairie
Schooner:
"On Election Day", Coal Hill Review: "Be
Drunken"; Oracle (Unv.
Southern Alabama, vol. VII): from The Subject; Wag Revue #3: “Words Used 5 Times in Girly Man"; if p then q (UK) & RealPoetik (Aug. 30): "The 100 Most Frequent Words in The Sophist"; Blackbox Manifold (Ambridge Univ.): The recluse, Hugo tr. "Tomorrow, Dawn"
2008
The Nation (Feb.): ""All the Whiskey in Heaven";
West Coast Line (Roy Miki Tribute): "You
Never Looked So Simulating"; Conjunctions:: "Won't
You Give Up This Poem to Someone Who Needs It," "Loneliness in
Linden," and "Dea%r Fr~ien%d"; Ubu Unpulishable #28: "Letter
from Washington," "747 Poem"; Hotel Amerika: "Brush
Up Your Chaucer"; Electronic Poetry Review #8: "You Say
Insipid, I say Inscripsit," "What makes a Poem a Poem?" and "Up
High Down Low Too Slow"; Poetry: "Pomepii" and "Two
Stones with One Bird"; Exquisite Corpse: "Work
in Progress"; Harper's (August): "Pompeii", Shofar:
Four Mandelstam poems tr. with Kevin Platt; onedit #12:
"Morality";Poems & Poetics (Jerome
Rothenberg's blog): Transegmental Drift,
The Sixties - with Apologies,
Death on a Pale Horse,
No Hiding Place; Fulcrum 7: "Talk to Me"; Barrow
Street: "Evaluation"; Work #10 (Oakland): "Work in Progress," "No Hiding Place," Cattulus #85, "Irreconcilable Disrepair," "You Never Looked So Stimulating" in#10
2007
Tikkun (May/June): "Every True Religion Is Bound
to Fail"; Poetry: "Sad Boy's Sad Boy," and "Design"; Poetry
Daily: "Thank You," Didn't We"; Absent:
"Definitions of Brazil"; MiPoesis (David
Trindad issue): "Charmless Vector," "In the Next
Issue"; W13: "Words Used Five Times in Giry
Man," "Most Freq. Words in With Strings," "Most
Freq. Words in The Sophist"; Barrow Street:"Ku-na-hay," "Open
Echo"; "Irreconcilable
Disrepair", Brooklyn Rail (July/Aug.): "Truth
Be Told"; Reconfigurations #1: "Great Moments
in Taches Blanches"; Zen Monster #1: "War Stories" ; NO: A Journal of the Arts #6: "The Truth in
Pudding"; Boog City: "A Long Time till Yesterday";
2006
Hambone #18 (Santa Cruz, CA): "The Duck Hunters"; Atlas #1
(New Dehli):"Language, Truth and Logic," "Questionnaire," "There's
Beauty ..."; Coconut 4: "Open Echo" & "Further
Color Notes"; DCPoetry Antnology/2005: "Window's End"; MiPoesias: "The
Twelve Tribes of Lacan"; Brooklyn
Rail (June) & Torch (New York): "Girly Man":; Cordite (Austraila): "Ku(na)hay"; Nthposition: "Theory
of Flawed Design"; Rampike (Windsor, Ont.: 14:2): Shaodwtime synopsis;
Fulcrum Annual #5: tr. Baudelaire, Apollinaire,
Drummond; Argotist
Online: three poems form Girly Man ("Bridges," Nightmare
on Elm." "If then") (UK), Green Integer Review #5: "Blue Tile"
2005
Verse: 25th Anniversary Issue (Athens, Ga.): "Explicit
Version Number Required," "In Particular," Make
It Snappy ..."; Milk Magazine, Vol 6: "The Ballad
of the Girly Man"; EOAGH (#2): "Poem Composed
for Jackson Mac Low"; LA
Review: "Secrets of a Clear Hand"; Notre
Dame Review
#19: Yellow Pages ads; Chain: "Likeness"; Dandelion
(Calgary): "Warrant."; Shampoo #24: "In
Res Robin; Peregrene (Penn: #1): "Let's Just Say"; Fulcrum: "Warble
of the ..."; No (New York): "How Empty Is My
Bread Pudding"; DC Annual: "Window's End"; Cricket
OnLine Review I:2: "Bricklayer's Arms"
2004
Brooklyn Rail: "Self-Help"; Saint Elizabeth Street (New
York): “Bridges Freeze before Roads”; Long Shot (Hoboken): “When
Well We Weep”; Rattapallax (New York): “The Bricklayer’s Arms”;
Vallum (Montreal): “A une Mendiate Rousse”; Barrow Street:
“Evening Sail with Prawns”, “"Blown Wind," and "All
Set"; Modern Poetry Review: “For Bill Charley Bill on Memorial
Day”; 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry: “If You Lived
Here …”; PomPom: “Pomegranates”,
Dandelion (Calgary): "Warrant", Call: Review (New York): "In
Parts"; OEI (#s18-21, Stockholm): Veil; Drexel Online Journal: "Emma 99", "A Poem Is Not a Weapon", "Action Figure"
2003
Philadelphia Inquirer (3/31/03): “War Stories”; Triquarterly:
“Every Lake” (#116, Winter); Verse (copublished with Jacket):
“In Particular”; Interim: “Death Fuge (Echo)”; Hotel Amerika
(#3): from “World on Fire”; Fulcrum #2: from “World on Fire”;
Golden Handcuffs #2, from “World on Fire”; Van Gogh’s Ear
#2: “Should We Let Patients Write Down Their Own Dreams”, Electronic Poetry
Review #5: “Slap Me Five, Cleo”, The Canary #2 (Eugene, OR): "Jacob's
Ladder" and "A Poem Is Not a Weapon", Chain: “A
Test of Poetry” , The Muse Apprentice Guild: “… at Dia”; Golden
Handcuffs: from World on Fire, Fulcrum: from World on Fire,
Dandelion (#28, vol. 2): “Language, Truth, and Logic”; Barrow
Street (Winter): “sorrow where there is no pain”.
2002
Michigan Quarterly Review – Jewish in America: “Sign Under
Test” (Fall: XLI:4); Green Mountain Review – Comedy in Contemporary
American Poetry: “Warrant” (XV:1&2); Colorado Review: “Castor
Oil” (Fall); Teachers & Writers: “Johnny Cake Hollow” and
“Empty Biscuits” (33:4, March/April); Washington Square: “Thank
You for Saying Thank You” (Spring); Boog City: “Comforting Thoughts
(#3, New York); Performance Research: “Seven Tableau Vivant”,;Dandelion:
“Language, Truth, and Logic” (Vancouver); Trope_5: “There’s Beauty”;
The Spook: June: “In Between”; nthposition.com: “Memories”;
Traffic East (#2: Buffalo): “In Particular”; Boog #3: “Comforting
Thoughts; Can We Have Our Ball Back #13: “Pocket in the
Hole”; Primary Writing, Dec.: “Jacob’s Ladder” (Washington, DC);
As editor: Swedish Poetry and Poetics: A Gathering; boundary
2 - Volume 29, Issue 1
2001
Notre Dame Review (#11); Poetry New Zealand (#22); “Funny
Business” issue, The Eastvillage (vol. 11);; Princeton Library
Chronicle, Mantis (Stanford), Teachers & Writers (New
York), Slope , Drunken Boat, aufgabe #1 (Provincetown),
Arc (#15: Tel Aviv). Journal of Literature and Aesthetics (1:1,
Kollam, India)
2000
boundary 2, Sulfur (45/46), Salt (vol. 12), The Courtland
Review (www.courtlandreview.com), West Coast Line (#31 / vol.
34, no. 1), Agni (#52), Boston Review (25:2), Facture (1),
Conjunctions (35: American Poetry: States of the Art), Art Issues
(#63, Summer: “Haikucriticism”), slope (www.slope.org), “abs
TruCt heh GarBagt” CD in Cabinet #1.
1999
New American Writing (Mill Valley, CA: #17), Queen Street Quarterly
3:2 (Toronto), King Log (Internet), Open Letter, Hunger
Magazine (#6: Rosendale, NY), Verse (16:3/17:1), Lipstick
Eleven , Salt Hill (Syracuse: #7), the Journal (Dublin: #2),
“Editor’s Picks” WebDelSol.Com (Internet)¸ Barrow Street, Dietsche
Warande & Belfort (Alsemberg, Belgium: #4, August; “An Mosaic”
on CD-Rom), Fracture (#1), Harper’s (Oct.), Kiosk (Buffalo)
1998
Fence (New York: 1:2), Sulfur, Synasethetic (New
York: 4/5), l'Esprit créateur (Lexington, KY: Vol. XXXVIII, No.
4), Passages, Larry Eigner Issue (ezine), Hunger Magazine
(Rosendale, NY: I:3), TOOL (Albany: 1), American Letters &
Commentary (NY: 10), The End (Sommerville: 1), Kenning
(#3), Poetry in Performance (NY: 26)
1997
Sulfur (Ypsilanti: #41), Verse (UK/US: 14:2), Long Shot
#19 (Hoboken), Bellingham Review (Bellingham, Wash.: XX:1),
Misc. Project (Atlanta: #4); Green Mountains Review: 10th Anniversary:
American Poetry at the End of the Millenium (Johnson, VT: IX:2/X:1);
Cabso (Quebec), Radical Poetics (Stanmore, Middlesex, UK:
#1), Boxkite (NSW, Australia: #1), Together (Sao Paolo),
Jacket (Internet, #1, Australia), Salt (Australia/UK: #10, #11),
Bathos Journal (#1), non (Internet: #1, SF)
1996
Tinfish (Honolulu: #2), boundary 2 (Pittsburgh: Fall,
23:3), Michigan Quarterly Review (Ann Arbor: XXXV:4, Fall), Diacritics
(Ithaca: 26: 3/4), Chloroform (Buffalo), Sulfur (Ypsilanti:
#38 and #39), The Iowa Review (Iowa City: 26:2, Sept.), Colorado
Review (Denver: XXIII:1, Spring), Big Allis (New York #8)
, Talisman (Jersey City: #15), Private Arts (Chicago, #10),
Flashpoint (DC: 1:1), New American Writing (Mill Valley,
CA: #14), Chain (Buffalo: #3), Salt (Applecross, W. Australia,
#6/7, #8), Arras (Rutherford, NJ: #3), River City (Memphis:
Winter, 16:1), Capalano Review (Vancouver: 2:17/18), Mudfish
(New York), Valentine (New York: special edition), Poetry New
York (#8), Prosodia: A Journal of the New College Poetics Program
(#6, San Francisco), First Offence (UK, #10) , Parataxis
(UK, #8/9), Kiosk (Buffalo: 9), Little Magazine (#21b, WWW,
Albany), Political Diction (DC, issue 1996), M/E/A/N/I/N/G
(New York: #19/20), Sulfur (Ypsilanti: #39)
1995
The Little Review (CD-ROM, Albany: Vol. 21,), Tinfish (Honolulu:
#2), Hambone (Santa Cruz, #12), And (London: #9), Lingo
(W. Stockbridge), Avec (Pengrove, CA: #10), The Baffler
(Chicago: #6), Ribot (Los Angeles,#3), River City (Memphis:
Fall/Winter), Poetry Project Newsletter (New York), New American
Writing (Chicago, #13), Tongue to Boot (London: #1), A Brief
Description of the Whole World (Auckland, NZ: #1), Sulfur (Los
Angeles: #36) , Rif/t (Buffalo: #3), 99: Turn of the Century
Magazine (New York)
1994
Sulfur (Los Angeles: #34), Conjunctions (New York), Postmodern
Culture (5:1, Sept.), I Am a Child (Buffalo), Words Worth
(Somerset,UK:#4), River City (Memphis: 14:2,
Spring), Object Permanence (Glasgow: #3), Kiosk (Buffalo)
1993
Avec (Pengrove,CA:#6), Rif/t (Buffalo:#1), Elephant
(Los Angeles: #1), Common Knowledge (Dallas: 2:3, Winter), Mirage/Periodical
(San Francisco), Object (New York: #1), Object Permanence(Glasgow:
#1), Washington Review (D.C.: XIX:1, June/July), Notus (Ann
Arbor), Situation (Buffalo: #4), O.Ars (Weare, NH), The
World (New York), Turbulence (Hockessin, Del. :#1), Long
News (Brooklyn), No Roses Review (Chicago), River Styx
(St. Louis: #39), Wallace Stevens Journal (Potsdam, NY), Texture
(Norman,OK)
1992
Talisman (Hoboken), New Madrid , Columbia
Poetry Review (Chicago), Lyric & (San Francisco), Uprising
(Buffalo), Co-Lingua/NRG (Portland), O.blek (Stockbridge,
MA), To (Philadelphia), Generator (Mentor, OH)
1991
Hambone (Santa Cruz, #12), Object Permanence (Glasgow: #4),
Hot Bird Mfg (New York), O.blek (Stockbridge,MA), Generator
(Mentor, OH), Ploughshares (Boston), Colorado North Review
(Boulder), Verse (UK/US), Tyuonyi (Sante Fe), Barscheit
(Vancouver, #2), Pataphysics (Melbourne), Aerial (Washington,
DC), Uprising (Buffalo)
1990
Sulfur (Ypsilanti: #32), Big Allis (New York #3), Conjuctions
(New York), Washington Review (D.C.), Talisman (Hoboken),
Verse (UK/US), New American Letters and Commentary,(New
York), Buffalo Broadsides (Buffalo), Stele (New York), Carrionflower
Writ (Melbourne), Contemporanea (New York), 90 (Buffalo),
World Letter (Iowa City), Serie D'Ecriture (UK), Screens
and Tasted Parallels (Palo Alto)
1989
New American Writing (Chicago), Conjunctions (New York),Object
Permanence (Glasgow: #2), O.Ars (Weare, NH), Tailisman
(Hoboken), O.blek (Stockbridge,MA), Archeus (London), Epoch
(Ithaca), Minnesota Review (Stony Brook), Screens and Tasted
Parallels (Palo Alto), Caliban (Ann Arbor), American Poetry
Review (Philadelphia), Generator (Mentor,Ohio), American
New Writing (Leland, MI), Poetry New York, Writers and Books
(Rochester), Oovrah (New York) , Sulfur (Los Angeles)
1988
Poetry Project Newsletter (New York), Conjunctions (New
York), Notus (Ann Arbor), Talisman (Hoboken), Tyuonyi
(Sante Fe), Caliban (Ann Arbor), Witness (Farmington Hills,
MI), Rethinking Marxism (Amherst), The Newspaper (Westfiled,
NJ), Clown War (Brooklyn), Santa Monica Review
1987
New American Writing (Chicago), Notus (Ann Arbor), O.blek,(Stockbridge,MA),
Temblor (Los Angeles), Generator (Mentor,Ohio), Central
Park (NY), First Offence (London), Talus (London), Raddle
Moon (Vancouver), Los Angeles Weekly, Sulfur (Los Angeles),
Cheap Review (New York),
SMARTS Poetry on the Busses (Santa Monica), Alternative Press
(Grindstone City, MI),
1986
Orange Export Ltd.(Paris), Notes(Paris), Oink (Chicago),
Archive for New Poetry Newsletter (San Diego), Tramen (San
Francisco), Sink (San Francisco), Sulfur (Los Angeles),
Black Mountain II Review, Human Means (Boulder) (Buffalo),
Post Neo (Victoria, Australia), Rampike (Toronto), Writing
(Vancouver),
1985
Sulfur (Los Angeles), Poetry Project Newsletter (New York),
Tyuonyi (Sante Fe), Temblor (Los Angeles), Tramen
(San Francisco), Abacus -- solo issue (Elmwood:CT.), Mandorla/Minetta
Review (New York), Southern Humanities Review (Auburn,AL),
Aphros (New York), Gandhabba (New York), African Golfer
and Popular Poetix and Multiples (Missoula)
1984
Private Arts (Brooklyn), The World (New York), Gandhabba
(New York), Splash (New Zealand), Rampike (Toronto), The
Brooklyn Review (Brooklyn), Writing (Nelson,BC), Acts
(San Francisco), Reality Studios (London), Gallery Works
(Bronx), New Wilderness/Wch Way (San Diego, Los Angeles, Albany),
Ear (New York), Writing (Vancouver)
1983
Sulfur (Los Angeles) #32, Conjuctions (New York), Washington
Review (D.C.), S.5.W (Missoula), Obligatory Hug (Santa
Rosa, CA), Important Poetry Press (Santa Cruz), Hills (San
Francisco, CA), Boxcar (Los Angeles), Issue (Los Angeles),
Sapiens (Millburn, NJ), Parallax (Auckland, New Zealand),
Wch Way (Albany and Los Angeles, African Golfer and Popular
Poetix and Multiples (Missoula), Los Angeles Weekly
1982
The World (New York), Oink (Chicago), Parallax (Auckland,
New Zealand), Paris Review (New York), Paper Air
(Blue Bell, PA), Benzene (New York), Oink! (Chicago), QU
(Oakland), Credences (Albany), African Golfer and Popular
Poetix and Multiples (Missoula), Assassin (New York), Annex
(Ithaca), The Difficulties (Kent,OH),
1981
The Difficulties (Kent, OH), Unmuzzled Ox (New York), Sun
& Moon (College Park, MD), This (San Francisco), Clown
War (Brooklyn), Rocky Ledge (Boulder), Rawz (London),
Periodics (Vancouver), Poetry Project Newsletter
(New York), Words Worth (Someset, UK: #4)
1980
The World (New York), Benzene (New York), Zone (New
York), This (San Francisco), Text (New York), Mag
City (New York)
1979
Sun & Moon (College Park, MD), This (San Francisco),
Out There (New York), Lost Paper (Barrytown, NY),
Ah Noi (N. Bergen, NJ), Periodics (Vancouver), Trumps
(Barrytown, NY), Miam (San Francisco), Roof (New York),
Paper Air (Blue Bell, PA)
1978
Reality Studios (London), Hills (San Francisco, CA.), Sun
& Moon (College Park, MD), Text (New York), DOC(K)S
(Marseilles), Blank Tape (Brooklyn), Shuttle (Mamaroneck,
NY), Dodgems (New York), E Pod (Baltimore), Telephone
(New York), Bezoar (Gloucester), Roof (New York), Flute
(New York), Tottel's (San Francisco), A Hundred Posters
(Boston and New York and Boulder)
1977
Poetry Project Newsletter (New York), Assembling (Brooklyn),
City (New York), EEL (D.C.), Roof (New York), La
Bas (College Park,MD), Flute (New York), Shell (Boston),
A Hundred Posters (Boston and New York and Boulder), 432 Review
(New York)
1976
Washington Review (D.C.: XIX:1, June/July), Tottel's
(San Francisco), A Hundred Posters (Boston and New York
and Boulder), Black Box (D.C.), NRG (Portland)
PERIODICALS (Criticism/Essays)
2013
Critical Inquiry, "Disfiguring Abstraction" (Spring)
2012
PAJ (Performance Art Journal) 100: on being contemporary; Jacket2: "This Picture Intentionally Left Blank: Rob Fitterman's "Holocaust Museum," Heimrad Backer's "Transcript," Christian Boltanski's "To be a Jew in Paris in 1939," and the documentary poetics of Raul Hilberg
2011
Harper's: "Sounding the Word" (March); Brooklyn Rail: George Kuchar's Otherworldly Humanity (co-author: Susan Bee); Jacket 2: You Can't Evit and Idea: The Poetics of Occupy Wall Street (with Jane Malcolm)
2010
The Beckett Circle newsletterr (Spring, 33:1): "Answers for Raymond Fedeman"; Proceedings of the International Conference on the 20th Twentieth-Century American Poetry, ed. Nie Zhenzhao and Luo Lianggong (Wuhan: Central China Normal University Press: "The Practice of Poetics")
2009
Poetry: "ManifestAversions"; Parkett (Winter):
"Is Art Critisism 50 Years Behind Poetry?"; Critical
Inquiry: "Recantorium" (35:2, Winter); Haper's: "Recantorium" (Jan.);
Textual Practice, Volume 23, Issue 6 December: "Making AudioVisible"
2008
American Literry History, 20th Anniversary Issue (20:1/2):
"Objectivist Blues"; Textual Practice (22:2): "Fraud’s
Phantoms"; "Anythng Goes" (on Filreis's Counter-Revolution
of the Word): Boston Review (33:4, July-Aug); "Tonya's Place" --
intro to Tonya Foster, American
Poet (vol. 35, Fall)
2007
Brooklyn Rail (April): Foreword to Jerome Rothenberg's Triptych;
Poetry Project Newsletter Robin Blaser "Afterword" (Jan./Feb.); Conjunctions: "The
Meandering Yangtze" (on Ashbery)
2006
Open Letter (12:8 Spring): "The Poet
in the University or the Ends of Sinecure: The Task of Poetics,
the Fate of Innovation, and the Aesthetics of Criticism"; Text
16: An Interdisciplanry Annual of Textual Studies, ed. W.
Speed Hill and Edward M. Burns: "Making Audio Visible"; "Composing
Herself (on Barbara Guest), Bookforum Apri/Mayl; "Brooklyn
Boy Makes Good" (on Charles Reznikoff), Brooklyn Rail, March;" Zukofsky:
An Introduction," Foreign Literature Studies (28:2,
April, Wuhan, China) ; Brooklyn Rail: "Knockin' on
Heaven's Door: Bob Dylad and the Adolescent Sublime"
2005
Milk Magazine vol. 6: "A Letter to Arkadii Dragomoshchenko";
The Brooklyn Rail (May), Golden Handcuffs, Textual Practice, American Poet #28: "Hero of the Local: Robert Creeley and the Persistence of American
Poetry"; Ecopoetics: "Maggie O'Sullivan's Medleyed Verse"; Publishers Weekly (12/19) and Brooklyn Rail (Feb.) on Reznikoff's Collected; Rail piece expands on PW review; on Mac Low, Bookforum Feb/March
2004
On Haroldo de Campos (PSA Crossroads, #61, Spring); “Celan’s
Folds and Veils”, Textual Practice
2003
“The Difficult Poem,” Harper’s (June); Salt 15 (“For Claude Royet-Journoud);
“Electronic Pies in the Poetry Skies,” Contexts (Ireland), “How
Empty Is My Bread Pudding” (Prague Literary Review; vol.
1 issue 6, December)
2002
“Some of These Daze” (9/11 aftermath): boundary 2 (29:2, Spring
2002); “Report from Liberty Street”, University of Chicago web site; Bridge:
“Creeley’s Eye” (2:1); Sagetrieb: “Our Celan”; Theater
(New Haven: 32:2): “Stein's Legacy in Language”; Hotel Amerika (#1: Ohio
University, Athens): Stein Induction Intro.; Kiosk (no. 1: Lauterbach
and Notley intros); Salt 14 / Jacket 14 (“Poetry and the
Sacred”); Pen America: “Conspiracy of Us” (reprint) (#3:
New York)
2001
boundary 2 (28:2): “A Conversation with Geoffrey O’Brien”, Jacket
14: “Poetry and the Sacred”; The Review of Contemporary
Fiction: “A Conversation with David Antin” (Spring, XXI:I): Chase
Park (Oakland: 1:1); American Letters & Commentary (NY:
13): Poetry Plastique introduction; Geist: “It’s 8:23 in New York”
(Vancouver: Vol. 42, Fall)
1999
Toronto Globe and Mail (4/12/99, C1): “Against National Poetry
Month as Such”; University of Chicago Press Web Site (4/99): same; Poetry
Project Newsletter April/May, #174): e-space and utopias; Shark
(New York: #2): “Speed”, Dialectical Anthropology (24: 3&4,
Dec.), Stand (Leeds, UK: New Series 1:4, Dec.): Zukofsky’s Prepositons,
“Foreword”.
1998
l'Esprit créateur (Lexington, KY: Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4): “Breaking
the Translation Curtain”; American Literary History (Madison: 10:1):
symposium on intellectuals, Imago (10:1, Brisbane): dialog with
John Kinsella.
NOTE: An interview of the editors of Mike & Dale’s Younger
Poets (Spring), attributed to me, is a fabrication of the editors.
1997
Edinburgh Review 97 (Scotland), Chloroform (Buffalo),
Theater Magazine 28:1 (New Haven), The Poetry Project
Newsletter (Dec./Jan. ’97-’98, #167), Daedalus 126:4 (Cambridge)
1996
Diacritics 26: 3/4(Ithaca), Modernism/modernity (Chicago:
3:3), Michigan Quarterly Review (Ann Arbor: XXXV:4, Fall), Modern
Fiction Studies (MFS) (West Lafayette, Ind.: 42:3, Fall), Arachne
(Laurentian University, Ontario: 3:1), Object Lesson (Providence
#13, Fall), Collapse (Vancouver: #2, December), Reden: Revista
Española de Estudios Norteamericanos (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain:
#11, año 7)
1995
Modernism/modernity (Chicago: 2:3), Arizona Quarterly Review
(Tucson: 51:1,Spring), West Coast Line (Barnaby, B.C.: 29:2,
Fall), Review of Contemporary Fiction (XV:3), The Baffler
(Chicago:#6), Amerika Studien/American Studies (Munich: 40:1),
West Coast Line (Vancouver: #17, 29:2)
1994
College Literature, West Chester,PA: #21.2, June), Witz
(Pengrove, CA), Common Knowledge (3:2), Sulfur (Ypsilanti:
#35, #34), Conjunctions (New York: #23), M/E/A/N/I/N/G (New
York: #s 15 & 16)
1993
Texture (Norman, OK), Sulfur (Los Angeles), Open Letter
(London, Ont. and Toronto), Poetic Briefs Interview Issue
(Buffalo), American Literary History (Madison: 5:4,Fall)
1992
TDR (New York: Fall v 36 #3 T135), Harvard Book Review
(Cambridge), Aerial (Washington, D.C.), Sulfur (Ypsalanti),
Waste Paper (Denver)
1991
Open Letter (London, Ont. and Toronto: 8:1, Fall), Conjunctions
(New York), M/E/A/N/I/N/G (New York: #9), Poetics Journal
(Berkeley), Postmodern Culture (Sp & Fall), Sulfur (Yipsalanti),
Motion Picture (New York)
1990
Critical Inquiry (Chicago), Notes (Paris), Central Park
(New York), InHouse/Poet's House (New York), Nassau Review
(Princeton), intent (Buffalo), Margin (London) , Sulfur
(Ypsilanti), M/E/A/N/I/N/G (New York: #7)
1989
Aerial (Washington, D.C.), M/E/A/N/I/N/G (New York: #5),
Writing (Vancouver), Harper's (New York), Temblor
(Los Angeles), Fiction International (San Diego), Minnesota
Review (Stony Brook), The Difficulties (Kent,OH), Poetry
Project Newsletter (New York)
1988
Arts (New York), Persona Magazine (Tucson), Caliban
(Ypsilanti, MI), Poetry Project Newsletter (New York), Sulfur
(Los Angeles), M/E/A/N/I/N/G (New York: #3)
1987
Sulfur (Ypsilanti), Open Letter (London, Ont. and Toronto:
6:9, Fall), Socialist Review (Oakland), Abacus --solo issue
(Elmwood, CT), The Difficulties (Kent, OH)
1986
boundary 2 (SUNY, Binghamton), Social Text (New York),
The Yale Review (New Haven), American Poetry (University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque), Sulfur (Los Angeles), M/E/A/N/I/N/G
(New York: #1), XDREAM (Boston)
1985
Southern Humanities Review (Auburn University, AL), Ottotole
(San Francisco, CA), Credences (SUNY, Buffalo), Jimmy and Lucy's
House of K (Oakland), Poetry Project Newsletter (New York)
, Sulfur (Los Angeles: #32), Open Letter (London, Ont. and
Toronto), Ironwood (Tucson, AZ),
1984
The Difficulties (Kent, OH), Jimmy and Lucy's House of K
(Oakland), Sagetrieb (University of Maine, Orono), Sulfur
(Los Angeles: #32), Exquisite Corpse (Baltimore)
1983
Poetics Journal (Berkeley), Sagetrieb (University of Maine,
Orono), Washington Review (D.C.), Sulfur (Los Angeles:
#32), The Lobby Newsletter (Cambridge, UK)
1982
Open Letter (London, Ont. and Toronto), The Difficulties
(Kent, OH), Poetry Project Newsletter (New York), Sagetrieb
(University of Maine, Orono), The Paris Review (New York), Wch
Way (Albany and Los Angeles), Zone (New York)
1981
boundary 2 (SUNY, Binghamton), Reality Studios (London),
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (New York)
1980
Sun & Moon (College Park, MD), Small Press Review (Paradise,
CA), L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (New York), Paper Air (Blue Bell, PA)
1979
New Wilderness Letter (San Diego), L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (New
York)
1978
Open Letter (London, Ont. and Toronto), Poetry Project Newsletter
(New York), L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (New York), American Book Review
(New Brunswick, NJ), A Hundred Posters (Boston)
1977
Open Letter (London, Ont. and Toronto), Poetry Project Newsletter
(New York), Red M (New York)
1975
Stations (Milwaukee)
PERIODICALS/Collections (in translation)
2013
Kulturen und Werte (Berlin): "Thank You for Saying Thank You" (tr. Tobias Amslinger); Schreibheft, tr. into German Versatorium & also by Norbert Lang (Peter Waterhouse et al) (#80, Feb.)
2012
Il Verri (Milan): "Recantorium" tr. Milli Graffi (Italian); Periodica del Poesia: 4 poems tr. Román Luján (Spanish) ("Gracias por decir gracias," "Cuestionario, cada lago," "Por qué no medito," "Todo el whiskey del cielo"); two poems from Shade, French tr. Martin Richaet in Poezibao (2012); Il Manifesto (Rome) an interview and article by Daniel Daniele; Formes Poétiques
Contemporaines, #9 (France), "Semblace" tr. Martin Richaet and montage tr. Vincent Broqua; 4 poems tr. Abigail Lang in Recours au Poème (July 2012); Randnummer – "Whose Language" tr. Norbert Lang (German), "The Dollar Value of Poetry" and "Comedy and the Politics of Poetic Form" tr. Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich (German) in #5: (September); Kaungkin (Burma): "Thank You for Saying Thank You," tr. Ko Ko Thet (who also tr. "Johnny Cake Hollow); Der Hammer (Vienna) "Attack of the Difficult Translations" – 8pg folio. tr. into German Versatorium (Peter Waterhouse et al) (#60, Nov.)
Russian translation by Ian Probstein:
The Journal of POets [Zhurnal POetov]: 4 issues:
No. 12 (33) (2011): "Strike!" in #6 , PP. 14-16
No. 4 (36) (2012): Susan Bee painting (p. 9), no Bernstein poem
No. 6 (38) (2012): Suan Bee painting (p. 49) no Bernstein poem
No. 9 (41) (2012): "Chimera" and "Whose Language" (p. 20)
Okno [Window]: "Thank You for Saying Thank you," "Poem," "Verdi and Postmodernism," "Human Abstract" in #10 (November 13)
2011
Longues files de voitures revenant de la plage, tr. Martin Richet, pamphlet, Contrat Maint, Toulouse, O Globo (Brazil): "Questionaire" tr. Luiza Franco Moreira (June 25, 2011); "The Italian Border of the Alps" from Controlling Interests (and All the Whiskey in Heaven) in English and a new German translation by Tobias Amslinger / Norbert Lange / Léonce W. Lupette in Karawa.Net #003; "You Can't Evict and Idea: The Poetics of Occupy Wall Street" in Jacket2
Russian translation by Ian Probstein:
Innostrannya Literatura [Foreign Literature]: "War Stories," in #6 (June)
New Literary Observer (Novie Literaturnoie Obozreniye) 110 (April): – "Introductory essay by Probstein,
"Introjective Verse," 11 poems: "The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi Tree," "How to Disappear," "Gertrude and Ludwig's Bogus Adventure," "Thinking I think I think," "But Pharaoh Did Not Listen to Moses," "The Throat," "Anaffirmation," "Low Regrets," "These Horses Do Not Move Up and Down," "Why We Ask you Not to Touch," and "Make It Snappy & That’s Final."
2010
Polja #461 Jan./Feb. (Novi Sad, Serbia): "The Practice of Poetics"; Multiple German tr. of "Catabolism" in Karawa.Net #1: Hugo Ball issue; New Literary Observer 105 - (Novie Literaturnoie Obozreniye): Dragomochenko tr. of note of Olson's "The Kingfishers"; Russian Gulliver, Ian Probstein, tr: "Sign Under Test" intro essay early version, "Beyond the Valley of the Sophist," "The Impunity of Garden Flowers," and "Ruminative Ablution"
2009
Nioque #5 (Lyon, France): "Recantorium," tr. Abigail Laing; Revue Grumeaux #1(France): Close Listening intro, PennSound manifesto; Vacarme #49 (Paris, France): "All the Whiskey in Heaven," "The Bricklayer's Arms," "Lost in Drowned Bliss," and "Stranger in Paradise," tr. Abigail Laing
2008
Tregawott.net: issue #1, tr into Icelandic, tr. Eirkur
rn Nordahl: "The Revenge of the Poetics-Critic"; Vagant
3 (Bergen), Norweigan by Audun Lindholm: "Our
Americas"; New #4, on-line supplement, French tr. Abigail Laing: "Poetry
Baliout."
2007
Contemporary Poetry (Sovremennaia Poeziia), issue 2
(1 June 2007) and issue 3 (1 September 2007): "Artifice
of Absorption," tr. into Russian by Patrick
Henry, Alexei Parshchikov and Mark Shatunovsky; Mir (Paris,
France: #1, pub. IKKO), from Parsing,
tr. (anthology), Eirkur
rn Nordahl (Iceland), pub. Helsinki:: Ntamo: "Thank
You for Saying Thank You"; "The
Difficult Poem" tr. Romina Freschi, Plebella #11,
Argentina, August, 2007; "Johnny Cake Hollow" tr. Leevi
Lehto
& Jörgen
Gassilewski & "Breaking the Translation Curtain:
The Homophonic Sublime" tr. Sigurd Tenningenin in nypoesi1/07;
"Introjective Verse" in Sibila #12 (Portuguese); Perché New
York, ed.Luidi Ballerini and Federica Santini (Italy: Edizioni
Scitture)
2006
"Professing
Sten/Stein Professing" tr. Norwegian by Paal
Bjelke Andersen & "A
Defence of
Poetry, tr Norwegian by Øyvind Berg, in Nypoesi; "Beyond
the Valley of the Sophist, tr.
Dubravka Djuric in Think
Tank #7-8/May-June (Beograd); "Thank You for
Saying Thank You," tr. Regis Bonvicino, Folio (Sao
Paulo,
Folha 13 August) and in Sibila 11. "Use No
Flukes,"
"War Stories," "Definitions of Brazil," (tr.
Bonvicino) & "Our
Americas" (tr. Odile Cisneros, Sibila 10); Introductory essay by Rita Dahl, tr. Leevi Lehto of "The Throat" in Saro (#3-4, Helskinki).
2005
"Thank You for Saying Thank You," "Slap Me Five,
Cleo," & "Frequently Unasked Questions," tr. into Dutch
by Ton van 't Hof for Poëziepamflet.nl; "In Particular," "Lets Just Say," "Gertrude
and Ludwigs Bogus Adventure," & "The Harbor of Illusion," tr. Luigi Ballerini, Almanacco Odradek (Italy); Experiments list, Tuli & Savu
(Helsinki: #3/2005); Interview with Romina Freschi, plabella #6 (Buenos Aries); "Riding's Reason," in Laura Riding, Mindscapes: Poemas, Selected, translated into Portuguese, and introduced by Rodrigo Garicia Lopes ( Sao Paulo : Editora Iluminuras , 2004).
2004
from "Artifice of Absorption" tr. Manuel Brito, in La Pagina 58 [XVI:4]; “Solidarity Is the Name” and “Thank You for Saying Thank You”: diwan,
tr. Dubravka Djuric (Bosnia); Interview with Eric Denut, Musica
Falsa #20 (Paris); selection of A Poetics tr. and introduced
by Lionel Cuillé, Formule (France); from Artifice
of Absorption, tr. Lionel Cuillé, Formes Poétiques
Contemporaines, #2 (France); Apparatur 10 (Denmark): "Thank
You for Saying Thank You," "Let's Just Say," "Every
Lake"; Vinduet #2 (Oslo) "A Defence of Poetry," tr. translated by Øyvind Berg
2003
Regis Bonvicino interview, el poeta y su trabajo (#14:
Mexico); “Dear Mr. Fanelli”, tr. Jorge Perednik, Clarin, Suplementos,
Cultura y Nación, June 14 (Buenos Aires); Nypoesi (Norway): "The
Only Utopia Is in a Now," "Virtual Reality",
and set of short poems from Rough Trades, tr. into Swedish
by Jörgen
Gassilewski; Nuovi
Argomenti: “Report from Liberty Street” (Rome,
Italy: No. 19 – Quinta
Serie - September), Lotek64: “Play It Again
Pac-Man” (Graz, Austria:
Nr. 2, August); Sibila: Interview with Régis
Bonvicino (#3: Sao Paulo), Tuli&Savu (#5: March,
Helsinki): “A Test of Poetry”;
"Manufacture of Negative Experience," tr.Dubrvka
Djuric, ProFeminia
(33/24 Belgrade, received 2005)
2002
Il Verri (Milan): "Objectvist Blues," essay tr. Milli
Graffi.
2001
Sibila: Revista de Poesia e Cultura #o (Ganja Viana, Cotia, SP,
Brazil): from Parsing, tr. Régis Bonvincion; Legenda #2
(Denmark): “Stray Straws and Straw Men”; Kulttuurivihkot (#5 Finland):
"At the Reading" 1-3, tr. Leevi Lehto; sebastião (Brazil):
“Me Tranform, O!”; Nuorivoima 4-5 (Helskinki): “Mao-Tsung Wore
Khakis”, “Salute”, “Harbor of Illusion”; Aujourd’hui Poème #24
(Dec. 2001, Paris): “Of Course” (from Shade),
2000
“Reznikoff’s Nearness” (excerpts), if (Marseille: #16); “Experiments”
list, Chung Wai Literary Monthly, vol. 29, no. 1 (National Taiwan
University)
1999
je te continue ma lecture: Mélanges pour Claude Royet-Journoud
(Paris: P.O.L, 1999); “Warning—Poetry Area”, Ord&Bild (Göteborg,
Sweden: #1 and #2); “Defence of Poetry” and “Artifice of Absorption”,
OEI (#1, Göteborg); “From and Ongoing Interivew”, tr. R. Federman,
quaderno (Nante, France: #4, Automne); “Warning—Poetry Area”, kultura:
Review for the Theory and Sociology of Culture and Media (Beograd: #99);
“Introjective Verse”, Nerter, tr. Johan Amador Bedford (#1,
La Laguna, Tenerife); “Pounding Fascism”, obaje (Yugolsavia), “In
the Middle of Modernism”, in Poesis, tr. Lia Zougrou and Panos
Stogianos, issue #13, pp.63-80 (Greece).
*
Régis Bonvicino, Me tranformo ou O filho de Sêmel (Sao Paolo: Tigre
de Espelho): incorporates CB’s homophonic translation of RB’s poem
1998
Cult: Revista Brasileira De Literatura, “Poetics of the Americas”
(Sao Paulo: Ano II, 17), Ord&Bild, tr. Jörgen Gassilewski
(Göteborg, Sweden: # 1-2), Monturo , “Unrepresentative Verse”
(Sao Paulo: #2)
1997
Revista Critica de Ciências SociasI, tr. Graça Capinha and
Maria Irene Ramahlo (Coimbra, Portugal, Feb. 1997, #47), Ord&Bild,
tr. Jörgen Gassilewski (Göteborg, Sweden: #5)
1996
Revue Générale de Litérature, “Introjective Verse” tr. Jean-Paul
Auxemary and Pierre Alféri (Paris); Pro-Femina, “Professing
Stein”, tr. Ana Gorobinski (Beograd); Gendai-Shisou, Arakawa/Gins
issue (“revue de la pensèe aujourd’hui) (Tokyo: vol. 24-10), Cult
(Sao Paolo: #3, Oct. 1997)
1995
Xul , “The Conspiracy of `Us’”, tr. Jorge Santiago Perednick (Buenos
Aires: #11, Sept.); Japanese Poetry Review, tr. Toshi Ishihara;
Contemporary World Literature, “State of the Art” (Seoul); Transkatalog
, “Poetics of the Americas” (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia: Broj 2/3, Leto); Mandorla,
“Dysraphism” tr. Ernesto Grosman (Mexico City: #4)
1994
Le Discours Psychoanalytique (Paris, #12, Oct.); Portti, tr.
Leevi Lehto (Tampere, Finland, 4)
1993
Nuori Voima (Helsinki), TXT (Le Mans, France and Brussels,
#31), Helsingen Sanomat (Helsinki)
1992
Vendredi 13 (Paris), Nuovi Argomenti (#40 & #43; Milano),
Obaje (Yugoslavia), Osvit (Yugoslavia), Gradina (Novi
Sad, Yugoslavia)
1991
Syntaxis (Spain), Polja (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia)
1990
Republika (Zagreb), Quorum (Zagreb), Notes (Paris),
La Pagina (Tenerife, Canary Islands)
1989
Revista canaria de estudios inglesses (Canary Islands), Delo
(Belgrade), Digraphe (Paris), AGRIPPA/Fifth International
Poetry Festival in Tarascon (Le Reveste-les-Eaux, France)
1987
Polja (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia), Gendaishi Techo (Tokyo), ZUK
(Paris), Poetic Function (Leningrad)
1985
II Cobald (Genoa, Italy), Per Approssimazione (Palermo,
Italy)
1984
Per Approssimazione (Palermo, Italy)
1981
Change (Paris)
INTERVIEWS
"Experimental Poetries in the 21st Century" by Larissa Shmailo at Drunken Boat (2012)
"Poetry' club foot: process, faktura, intensification"; interviewed by Penelope Galey-Saks: Études anglaises (#2, 2012)
PoetsArtists #30, with Grace Cavaleri (Dec. 2011)
The Capilano Review (3:12, 2010): interview with Susan Bee on British Columbia period
Thom Dovan, 2 parts, The Poetry Fundation's Harriet (April 2010)
Alan Gilbert, FSG Poetry blog (April 2010)
Bomb interview with Jay Sanders (only small part on-line) (Spring 2010)
Chicago Reader interview with Daniel Benjamin (2010)
12 or 20 Questions from Rob McLennan (2009)
Interview with Nie Zhenzhao, Convolution Journal, No. 1 (2011)
Interview with Yubraj Aryal, The Humanities at Work:
International Exchange of Ideas in Aesthetics, Philosophy and
Literature
(Kathmandu: Philosophical
Society of Nepal, 2008)
Interview by Nie Zhenzhao, Foreign Literarature Studies,
Wuhan, China, Vol. 29, No. 2 April 2007.
Interview with Aryanil Mukherjee, Kaurab 105 Feb.
2008; also Kaurab on-line
A Conversation with Henry Hills (from 1985), Midway #1
(2006)
Interview by Romina Freschi, plabella #6 (Buenos Aries)
(translated into Spanish); English version: Green Integer
Review #1; repinted, Healing Matrix (2006)
Conversation with Solange Rebuzzi, Croniópios (Brazil,
2006)
Interview with Eric Denut, Musica Falsa (Paris) (2004) & in
English, The Argoist Online and All About Jewish Theatre (2005)
Fulcrum interview (2005)
Interview with Omar Barada, Lettres françaises (Paris)
(2004)
Chicago Modern Poetry (on-line) (2004)
“Conversation with Marjorie Perloff”, Fulcrum #2 (2003)
“Conversation with David Caplan” (on Prosody), Antioch Review 62:1
(Winter, 2003)
Monitor, interview with Aleksandar Becanovic, Montenegro (in Montenegrin),
Monitor, 24 May 2002 (Godina XIII, Broj 605), pp. 44-46
With James Shivers, interviewing Susan Bee and CB on collaborations, Artkrush
(2002)
With Jeff Hansen, Rain Taxi, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2002)
With Régis Bonvincino: Sibila #3 (2002: Sao Paulo)
and, together with essay and translation, “Sabado”, Sao Paulo, jornal de tarde,
August 19, 2000, p. 3
“Conversation with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge,” Conjunctions (#35, 2000:
American Poetry: States of the Art)
Contemporary Literature interview with Allison Cummings and Rocco
Marinaccio (vol. 41, no 1, Spring 2000)
r e a d . m e, issue #1, 1999
The Front Table, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, February/March 1999
New York City Poetry Calendar on Close Listening Feb. 1999
(vol. 23, no. 2)
“What Sharp Ears You Have”: two-part interview, Writer on Line, with
Dana Luther, 1998
“Pour une critique de l’ordinarie,” Études Françaises (University
of Guelph, Quebec), 33:2, 1997
“On Poetry, Language, and Teaching: A Conversation with Charles Bernstein“
with Paul Bové, Stephen Heath, Lynn Emmanuel, David Bartholmae, boundary
2 (23:3; Fall, 1996)
Conversation with J. Monroe, A. Lauterbach, B. Perelman: Diacritics (26: 3/4,
1996)
Neil Gladstone, “20 Questions for Charles Bernstein”, Philadelphia
City Paper (Oct. 24, 1997)
Autobiographical Interview with Loss Glazier: boundary 2 (23:3;
Fall, 1996); Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Gale Research,
1996; reprinted in My Way
Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, Vozes e Visões: Panorma da Arte e
Cultura Norte-Americans Hoje (São Paolo: Illuminuras, 1996);
also printed in OccaM: Jornal
da Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, Curitiba (Brazil), #1, May 1996.
Interview with Hannah Möckel-Rieke: Amerikastudien/American Studies
(Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag), vol. 40, 1995, pp. 59-67; reprinted in
My Way.
Interview with Manuel Brito, A Suite of Poetic Voices, ed. Manuel
Brito (Santa Brigida, Spain: Kaddle Books, 1994); reprinted in My Way.
Interview with Jefferson Hansen: Poetic Briefs , 1993
Interview with Scott Fennessey, “M=I=X=I=N=G Genres”, The Book Press
(Ithaca, NY) Vol. 2, No. 2, March 1992
“A Conversation with Henry Hills”: Abacus #27, 1987
Interview with Douglas Messerli and CB by Nina Zivancevic: Sagetrieb
(1983 / 1984)
Interview with Bruce Andrews and CB by Susan Howe, WBAI‑FM‑‑Pacifica
Radio, NY (1979); printed in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Supp. #3, 1980
*
Three Interviews with Tom Beckett, in Content’s Dream, A Poetics,
My Way
RADIO APPEARANCES
"Poetica: Charles Bernstein" on Austrailian Broadcasting Company (ABC), Radio National on June 12, 2010.
Tre poeter från New York (Tardos, Goldsmith, Bernstein),
Swedish Radio (June 2008)
American Public Media, "Weekend America": reading
of "Thank
You" (April 7), interview
France Culture, with Omar Berrada, "La nuit la poésie," November
1, 2004
BBC Radio 3, “The Verb” with Ian MacMillan, July 12,
2003
Radio Radio, produced by Martin Spinelli (2003)
NPR – “Morning Edition” and “Studio 360”, WNYC, “Poet’s Voices,” produced
by Sara Fishko (2003)
NPR – “All Things Considered,” commentary, “Against National Poetry Month
as Such”, April 2001
"To the Best of Your Knowledge", Wisconsin Public
Radio, April 1995; September 1996 (Program #96-07-14-C: Uses
of Radio)
BBC 3 on Pound (5/26/99)
Radio Reading Project, with Ernesto Grosman, c. 1999
BBC Radio: "Soundwaves", April 1995 and October
1996
CORRESPONDENCE
With Steve McCaffery, 1976-1977, Line 5 (Simon Fraser University,
BC: 1985)
READINGS (featured readings only)
1975-1991
Harvard College‑‑Farnsworth Poetry Room, The Poetry Project
of St. Mark's Church, The Poetry Center of San Francisco State University,
University of California at San Diego, Beyond Baroque Foundation (Venice,
CA), The Public Theater of the New York Shakespeare Festival, Temple University,
Sonoma State University (CA), Painted Bride Arts Center (Philadelphia),
Anthology Film Archive (NY), Corcoran Gallery of Arts (DC), Institute
for Arts and Urban Resources at PS 1 (NY), WBAI‑FM‑‑Pacifica
Radio (NY), KPFT‑FM‑‑Pacifica Radio (Houston), 12th
International Sound Poetry Festival (NY), Ear Inn (NY), Grand Piano (San
Francisco), 80 Langton Street (San Francisco), Droll‑Kolbert Gallery
(NY), Viridian Gallery (NY), Columbia College (Chicago), Russian River
Series at Copperfields (Sebastapol, CA), Desire Productions (Baltimore),
10 Leonard Street (NY), Ithaca Poetry Festival at the Arts Cooperative
(NY), El Centro (NY), Greenwich Books (NY),Locale (NY), The Placecenter
(NY), City University of New York Graduate Center Auditorium, Folio Books
(D.C.), McGlinchey's (Philadelphia), State University of New York at Binghamton,
State University of New York at Buffalo, Detroit Institute of the Arts,
University of Southern California (Los Angeles), California Institute
of Technology (Pasadena), California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles),
The Village Gate (NY), Woodland Pattern Book Center (Milwaukee), Victoria
University (Wellington, NZ), University of Auckland (Auckland, NZ), The
Glue Pot (Auckland, NZ), The Cable Gallery (NY), Salute at Michael Bennet
Gallery (NY), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Geraldine R.
Dodge Poetry Festival (Waterloo, NJ), State University of New York at
Oneonta, Queens College of C.U.N.Y., Canessa Park (San Francisco), Bookworks/Pannikan
(San Diego), San Diego State University, Poetry Center of the University
of Arizona (Tucson), Writer's Center at S.U.N.Y. at Albany, Art on the
Beach (Creative Time, Hunter's Point, Queens), Pallson's (New York), Brown
University (Providence), University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), Eastern
Michigan University (Ypsilanti), PEN American Center (NY), Fifth International
Festival of Contemporary Poetry (Tarascon, France), New School for Social
Research (NY), Spoken on the Tongue‑‑WKCR radio (NY), Kootenay
School of Writing (Vacouver, BC); Radiofree Rainforest on Co‑op
Radio (Vancouver), City University of New York Academy of the Humanities
and Sciences/Graduate English Department, ARC at the Museum of Modern
Art of the City of Paris, FNAC (Marseille), Red Flannel Reading Series
at Central Park Grill (Buffalo), Arts District Bookstore (Tucson), Gallery
Lelong (New York), UC‑Riverside, Pomander Bookshop
(New York), The Living Theater (New York), The University of
Rochester, Club Lower Links (Chicago)
1991
Ear Inn, The Naropa Institute (Boulder), MilanoPoecia (Milan), Alte Schmeide
(Vienna), Serbian Literary Society (Beograd), Novi Sad (Yugloslavia) Public
Library, Beograd Public Library, Canterbury Books (Calgary), Birchfield
Art Center (Buffalo), EWG Poetry Series at Gallery 101 (Ottawa)
1992
Rhode Island School of Design (Providence), Ear Inn (New York), Litterisches
Colloqium (Berlin), University of Coimbra International Poetry Festival
(Portugal); Books, Books, Books (WBFO, Buffalo), Northeast Modern Language
Association (Buffalo), Aerial Benefit at The Poetry Project (New York),
Bard College (Annandale), La Libraire Village Voice (Paris); Radical Jewish
Culture Festival at the Knitting Factory (New York)
1993
The Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y (New York); Ear Inn (TO
magazine benefit); Earwitness/Poet's League of Greater Cleveland
at Spaces (Cleveland); University of Manoa / Hawaii Literary
Society (Honolulu); University
of Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands); University of Maine (Orono); (Eigner
Tribute at University Art Museum (Berkeley); New Langton Arts (San Francisco);
Binghamton Community Poets "Big Horror" series,
Amsterdam Tavern (Binghamton); Nordic Poetry Festival (NY)
1994
University of Southampton (UK), Subvoicive series and Poets and Writers
series (London), The Academy of American Poets at Alliance Francaise,
Miami University of Ohio, Center for Book Arts (Minneapolis), Kootenay
School of Writing (Vancouver), Geoff Young Gallery (Gt Barrington, Mass.),
University of Virginia (Charlottesville), University of Pennsylvania,
Cornell University.
1995
University of California, Berkeley; 20th Century Literature Conference,
Keynote Poet, University of Kentucky, Louisville; Stanford University;
The Poetry Project of St. Mark's Church, New York; Writer's Center
of Indianapolis; UB Literature Society Atmosphere Benefit Reading,
Unitarian Church, Buffalo; Yale University, "The End of Language: Experimental,
Visual, Concrete Poetry since 1960"; Poets for Choice
at Ceres Gallery, New York; Bumbershoot: The Seattle Arts Festival,
Featured Performer; University of Chicago ; Museum of Contemporary
Art (Chicago)
1996
University of Pittsburgh, University of Wisconsin — Madison, University
of New Hampshire (“Assembling Alternatives” conference), Pennsylvania
State University, Ear Inn (NYC), Ichor Gallery (NYC), Bridge Books (D.C.),
The Poetry Project “Poems for the Millenium” Reading
(NYC), Just Buffalo Literary Center, Segue Space (NYC)
1997
University of Western Ontario (London), University of Southern Florida,
Posman Books (NYC), Word of Mouth (Waltham, Mass.), DIA Art Foundation
(NYC), University of Oregon, Temple Gallery – Temple University, University
of South Carolina, Here (NYC), DIA Center for the Arts
1998
Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA), Contemporary Arts Education Project
(Los Angeles), University of Oregon (Eugene), Small Press Traffic at New
College (San Francisco), University of California – San Diego, University
of Alabama, York University (Toronto), position.com (Toronto), Livraria
DUAS CIDADES (Sao Paolo), KGB (NY)
1999
Bridge Street Books (DC), 57th Street Books (Chicago), Columbia College
(Chicago), The Tucson Poetry Festival, UCSD: Pearce Prize Reading, Postmodern
Piracy Conference (Salem, Ohio), Just Buffalo Literary Center, Poets for
Choice/Ceres Gallery (NYC), Walt Whitman Cultural Art Center (Camden),
New School Graduate Writing Program (NYC), Notre Dame University, Geoff
Young Gallery (Gt Barrington, Mass.), Museum for Franco-American Relations
(France)
2000
College of William and Mary, Southeast Oklahoma State University, Southern
Christian University (Ft. Worth), Writer’s Garret (Dallas), The Poetry
Project/St. Marks Church (NYC), Butler University, Damien College (Amherst,
NY), Goddard College (Plainfield, Vermont), NEMLA Conference (Buffalo),
University of Pennsylvania, De Montfort University, UK
2001
Harvard University (Woodberry Poetry Room), New York University (The Fales
Library), University of Georgia, Double Happiness (NY), Ceres Gallery
(NY), "Bad Language"—University of Auckland, NZ (teleconference),
Glyptothek museum (Copenhagen), Helsinki arts center, University of Colorado—Denver,
University of Denver, Brown University
2002
Subvoicive (London), Royal Holloway (UK), LitCity (New Orleans), Berks
Poetry Festival (Pennyslvania), Oglethorpe University (Atlanta), University
of Southampton (UK), Drawing Center (NYC), New School University , Georgetown
University, Cartier Foundation (Paris)
2003
The Tower (Havana), Birchfield-Penny Art Center (Buffalo), Segue@Bowery
Poetry Club (NY), People’s Poetry Gathering (NY), University of Calgary,
Arts & Ideas: 8th International Festival of Arts & Ideas (New
Haven), University of Virginia, Kelly Writers House (University of Pennsylvania),
Prague International Poetry Festival
2004
Zinc Bar (New York), Casper Jones (Brooklyn), Green Integer Salon (Los
Angeles), Chapman University (Orange, CA), University of Minnesota (Minneapolis),
Blake School (Minneaplois), Prague International Poetry Festival, Fifth
International Meeting of Poets --University of Coimbra (Portugal), Birbeck
College -- London University (UK), Helsinki International Poetry Festival,
Analogous series (Cambridge, Mass.), Pete's Big Salmon (Brooklyn), University
of California -- Davis, Mills College (Oakland), Discete Reading Series
(Chicago), Notre Dame University, Double Change series at Gallerie Eof
(Paris), Seance in Experimental Writing -- Cal Arts (Los Angeles), George
Mason Univerity -- Fall for the Book Festval.
2005
POG readng series (Tucson), La Tazza (Philadelphia), University of Western
Ontario (Frank Davey Poetics conference), Naropa University, Casa Carriego -- Casa de la poesia de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (with translations by Ernesto Grosman), Cork Interantional Poetry Festival (Ireland), Irish Writers's Centre (Dublin), Ohio Wesleyan
2006
Whitney Museum of American Art ("I Love Poets":
reading in honor of Richard Tuttle); Smith College; Indiana University
of Pennsylvania; Eastern Michigan University; Temple University;
Café Engel , Helsinki, OEI Reading at Gallery Milliken,
Stockholm; Renaissance Society and Poem Present at the University
of Chicago; Columbia University; Galapagos: Benefit for Blatt (Brooklyn);
University of Coimbra (Portugal);
Espaço Cultural CPFL (Capinhas, Brazil), Martins Editorio
(Sao Paulo), Bridge Street Books (DC), EG (Baltimore)
2007
Bienecke Library--Yale, CUE art Foundation
(NY), Virginia Commonwealth University, Texas A & M, Segue/Bowery
Poietry Club (NYC), Poetry Project at St. Marks Church (NYC),
Tazza Reading Series (Providence, RI), New York University McGhee
Division, Zinc Bar (NY), Bard College (Ashbery 80th), CHINA:
Beijing Language and Culture University, Northwest Normal University
(Lanzhou), Sichuan Foreign Studies University (Chongqing), Central
China Normal University (Wuhan)
2008
Columbia University (NY), New College (Sarasota, FL),
Sussex University (UK), Openned at the Old Foundry (London),
Weld for OEI Stockholm, Medicine Show (NY), University of Arizona
Poetry Center (Tucson), Center for Book Arts (NY), American Academy
of Poets / New School, Double Change (Paris), Ecole Normale Superiore
(Lyon), University of Southern Alabama (Mobile), Federman 80th
at Medaille (Buffalo)Lyceum Theater / Rod Smith event (Alexandria,
MD)
2009
Tryptich (NY), MoMA (Futurist Manifesto event),
CUNY, Segue / Bowery Poetry Club, Cambridge University
Judith E. Wilson reading/lecture (UK), New Reading Series at
20 Grand (Oalkand), Oslo Poetry Festival (Oslo Poesifestival), Copenhagen Writer's Academey
2010
University of Washington (Bothel), Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Kootenay School of Writing (Vancouver); Interventions Conference Banff Art Center, Performa 09 (at Museum of Chinese in America), Tucson Book Fare, Philadelphia Free Library Book Fare, Zinc Bar (NYC), International Festival of Poets (Coimbra, Portugal), San Francisco State Poetry Center, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center (Auburn, NY), Bard MFA Program, Sixth Street Synagogue (NY: Jewish Art for the New Millennium: Avant-Garde Poetry and Music), Toronto New School of Writing, University of Iowa Writing Program, Washington College (Delaware), Bridge Street Books (DC), Fall for the Book at George Mason University, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea) & related reading in Seoul, Dia Art Foundation (New York)
2011
University of Copenhagen, University of California Los Angeles, Boise State University MFA Program, La Maison de la Poésie (Paris), Stockholm/OEI, Poetry Foundation / Chicago Humanities Festival (2011), Central China Normal University, Xiangyang Univerity (China), University of Pennsylvania German dept. "Un/translatables" conference (read entire Shadowtime), the Poetry Project of St. Marks Church (NY)
2012
Alte Schmiede (Vienna), Lyric Kabinett (Munich), Pomona Uninversity, UCSD, Xavier University, University of Louisville, Gallerie Eof (Paris), La passerelle de Marcel (Nantes), SUNY-Buffalo, Sixth Street Synagogue (Radical Culture series), Univeristy of Maine at Orono Poetry of the 1980s conference (keynote), Concordia University (Montreal), Berlin Literature Festival, Lettrétage (Berlin), Ephemeropterae at Thyssen Bornemisza Art (Vienna), ContemporaryPortland State University, Hatchett Job at Public Assembly (Brooklyn), Whitney Museum of American Art
2013
Poetics versus philosophy symposium at Texas A & M University (keynote)
TEACHING RESIDENCIES
Ida Beam Visiting Professor, University of Iowa Writing Program (2010)
Visiting Poet, Milton Avery Graduate School of Art, Bard
College (1992, 2010)
Distinguished Visiting Poet, New York University's Summer Intensive
in Creative Writing (McGhee Division) (2007)
Poetics Seminars, University of Coimbra,
Portugal (2006)
“Aversive Identities: The Performance of Poetic Politics”, Penn
State Summer Seminar in Theory and Culture: Performative Identities:
Agents, Bodies, Identities (1996)
"Cosmopolitan Workshop", Foundation Royaumont International
Summer Program (France, 1995)
Visiting Professor, Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
(1993)
Visiting Poet, Naropa Institute Poetics Program, Boulder (1991,
2005)
Poet-in-Residence, Kootenay School of Writing,
Vancouver (1989)
Visiting Writer, Graduate Creative Writing Program, Temple University
(1988)
Writer‑in‑Residence, Graduate Writing Program,
Brown University (1988)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, University of Auckland,
New Zealand (1986)
Writing Workshop Leader, The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church
(1980‑81)
DISSERTATION AND TENURE COMMITTEES
(SUNY-Buffalo, unless noted "Penn")
Dissertation Director:
Chris Alexander, “The logic of earth: Nineteenth-century precursors to the poetics of Robert Duncan” (2008)
Joel Bettridge, "Reading Consequences: Ethics, Belief and
the Reader in America's Postwar Avant-Garde." (2002)
Carla Billitteri, “Substantial Logic and Referential Desire:Realism
in the Works of Laura (Riding)Jackson, Charles Olson, and Language
Writing” (2001)
Eung-Gwi Chung, "How to Form: Exploring Poetry as Praxis of
Everday Life, America as Landscape of Language" (2005)
Alicia Cohen, “Seeing Seeing: Vision and Epistemology in the
work of Emily Dickinson, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer and Leslie
Scalapino” (2003)
Barbara Cole, “ No There There: Gertrude Stein’s
Poetics of Negation” (2006)
Sarah Dowling,“Remote Intimacies: Multilingualism in Contemporary Poetry” (2012, Penn, Engish)
Patrick Durgin, “Indeterminacies and the Poetics of Critical
Values” (2004)
Shonni Enelow, "Method Acting and the Limits of Identity in the Mid-century America" (2012, Penn, Comparative Literature)
Logan Esdale, “Paper Routes: Epistolarity and Modern American
Poetry” (2003)
Peter Gizzi, “The Lectures of Jack Spicer, with an introduction
and notes” (1996)
Loss Pequeño Glazier: “The Electronic Poetry Center: A Poetics
of the Web” (1996)
Jefferson Hansen, “The
edge of the local pragmatist aesthetics and objectivist poetry” (1993)
Fred Hertzberg, “Moving
materialities: On poetic materiality and translation, with special
reference to Gunnar Bjorling's poetry (Finland-Swedish) ” (2001)
Bill Howe, “How to Read: or a Collection of Praxical Possibilities” (2002)
Sarah Kerman “Speaking for Americans: Modernist Voices and Political Representation, 1910-1940” (Penn, Comparative Literature, 2010)
Joel Kuszai, "Facing Reality or Utopian Dreaming: Editorial
Collectives as Work-Around for the Boredom of the University" (2004)
Jane Malcolm: “Hard Women, Hard Modernism: Gendering Modernist Difficulty” (2009, Penn)
Douglas Manson, “Pre-Poetic Precursors: Blake, Patchen, Nichol
and the Materials & Ethics of Verbal-Visual Poetry” (2003)
Steve McCaffery, “Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetry” (1997)
Jena Osman: “The Inananimate Animate”: Brecht and contemporary
poetry (1997)
Mark Peters, “Freewriting and Unfreewriting: Using Innovative
Writing To Make New Meanings In Composition” (2002)
Scott Pound, “Textualism: Literary Theory and the Depreciation
of Poetry” (2001)
Linda Russo, “Becoming-Poetic: Women, Gender and Poetic Innovation
in `New’American Poetry” (2004)
Rebecca, Sheehan, "Totality and the Infinite: Paradoxes
of the Visual, Figural and Linguistic" (2008, Penn)
Ken Sherwood , "The Audible Word: Sounding the Range of
20th-Century Poetry" (2000)
Jonathan Skinner, “Language Natures: A Spiral of Essays in Ecopoetics” (2004)
Juliana Spahr: "Re Letter and Read Her: The Reader Centered
Text in American Literature" (1995)
Martin Spinelli: “Communication Technology and Literary Community:
From Utopia to Paralogy”(1998)
Eleni Stecopoulos, "Visceral Poetics: Language, Energy,
and the Chronic Syndrome of the West" (2004)
Greg Steirer, “‘Raise the Black Flag’: The Dystopian Aesthetic in 1970s Britain” (Penn, English, 2010)
Michelle Strizever, “Visible Texture: Artists’ Books, 1960-2010” (Penn, English, 2010)
William Tuttle, “The ‘Never Resting Mind’: The Meditative Mode
in Twentieth Century American Poetry [Stein, Stevens, Ashbery]” (1996)
Mark Wallace: “The End of Time: The Gothic Universe in Bowles
and Burroughs” (1994)
Ellen Whittier: “Concentrated Ground: The Body as Poetic Playspace
in Shakespeare, Byron, Chaplin, and Hugo” (1999)
Elizabeth Willis: "Jael's Hammer: Pre-Raphaelite Vision
and the Apocalypse" (1993)
Dissertation Committees:
A. M. Alcott, “1922: Nomadic Ethics and Novelesque Aesthetics” (c.
1998)
Julia Bloch, "Lyric After Epic: Gender and the Postwar Long Poem" (2011, Penn, English)
Elizabeth Burns, “Around and About Elizabeth Bishop: Subversion
and Stance” (1993)
Aliki Caloyeras, "Maternal Modernism: The Politics and Poetics of H.D.’S Birthing Bodies" (2012)
Thom Donovan, "Sublime responsibilities: Form as ethic" (2009)
Tom Fisher, "Poetry's Forfeiture: The Case of Laura Riding
and George Oppen." (2000)
Gayle Fornataro, Beyond
utopia: An exploration of gendered textual spaces and political
ideals (
1997)
Kristen Gallagher, "No goal; Or, Potentiality in the Life
Writing of Emily Dickinson and Susan Howe" (2004)
Peter Grieco, "Dreams Old and Nascent: Conflict, Continuity,
and Change in Working Class Poetry" (1993)
Bruce Holsapple, “The Birth of Imagination: William Carlos Williams” (1991)
Yunte Huang, “The Poetics of Displacement: Ethnology, Translation,
and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth Century American Literature” (1999)
Toshiko Ishihara, Ran's
notebook and drawing book: Speculations by a Japanese woman on
cultural differences (1993)
Benjamin Kahan, "Modern American Celibacies, 1886-1969" (2008,
Penn)
Greg Kinzer, "Catalys: Experimental Poetry and the Science" (2006)
Seunghyeok Kweon, “The Typewriter and Modernist Poetry” (2001)
Todd Nothstein, "The Civic Self: The Self Made Man and Citizenship
from Franklin to Faulkner" (2004)
Peter Ramos, “Pushing Limits of Language: Ethics and American Literature” (2003)
Kahty Lou Schultz, Melvin Tlolson and African-Ameican Modernisin
(2006, Penn)
Chiaki Sekiguchi, “In Touch with the World: Marianne Moore, Objects, Fantasy,
and Fashion” (2003)
Tim Shaner, "Working Form: The Poetics of Writing Work" (2005)
Marta Werner, “Emily Dickinson’s Open Text"
Robert Zamsky, “Keeping Time: Music. Lyric, and Temporality in the Work
of Gertrude Stein and Nathaniel Mackey” (2002)
MA Thesis Director, Buffalo: Brent Cunningham, Amy King, Vincent Gregory, Wendy
Kramer, Chandler Lewis, Richard Roundy; committee: Terry Cuddy
Outside Reader:
Eugenia Tsai (1994, Columbia University)
Peter Jaeger
(1997, University of Western Ontario)
Kent Lewis (1997, University of
Victoria )
Ann Vickery (1997, University of Melbourne)
Andrew Mossin
(Temple University)
Christian Bök (1998, York University)
Jeff Derksen
(2000, University of Calgary)
Christine Stewart (2005, University of British Columbia)
Tenure and Promotion: University of Pennsylvania, Queens College
(CUNY), Cornell University, Ohio State University (Athens and
Columbus), University of California – San Diego, SUNY-Albany,
Queen’s University, Temple University, Pennsylvania
State University, University of Sussex, Caius
College – Cambridge University, University
of London, CCNY (CUNY), University of California – Santa
Cruz, Mills College, University of Virginia, Florida Atlantic
University, University of Georgia--Athens, University of Colorado-Boulder,
Miami University of Ohio, University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee,
Brooklyn College (CUNY), Georgetown University, University of
Maine, University of California-Berkeley, University of Nevada
-- Las Vegas, University of Arizona -- Tucson, University of
Maine --Orono, Princeton University, University of Chicago, Boston
College, Notre Dame, University of California--Santa Barbara,
University of Marlyland -- College Park, Florida State University,
New Jersey Institute of Technology, St. Johns University, Wesleyan
University,
Simon Fraser University, New York University, SUNY-Buffalo, University of Wisconsin-- Madison, University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, University of Washington ––Seattle, Royal Holloway (UK), D'Youville College, University of Windsor, Temple Universty, Notre Dame, Miam University (Ohio), D'Youville College, among other places
LECTURES/TALKS/CONFERENCES
Disfiguring Abstraction: the sound figures, Museum of Modern Art (NY), part of Kenneth Goldsmith Guerrilla readings series, April 3, 2013
Poetics versus philosophy symposium at Texas A & M University (keynote) (April 2013)
The Pataqu(e)rical Imperative," The Lahey Lecture, Concordia University (Montreal) (Oct. 25, 2012)
"The Pitch of Poetry," Convergence Poetics, University of Washington, Boethel (Sept. 27, 2012)
Poetry and performance, NEH humanities seminar, Amherst College (June 6, 2012)
"The Pitch of Poetry," Poiesis & Techne: Princeton comparative poetics colloquium, Princeton (May 5)
Poets and Critics seminar on Charles Bernstein, Université Paris Est Créteil (March 22 & 23, 2012)
"The Politics of Poetic Form," Atheneum, Claremont College (2012)
"Johnny Cake Hollow": Seminar, University of Vienna (2012)
"The Present of the Word," Ropes Lecture, University of Cincinatti; and seminar with Kenneth Goldsmith, "Adventures in the Digital Trade: Collecting & Distributing the Unpopular Arts, with Special Reference to the Strange Attractors Ubuweb, PennSound, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Web, Baby!" (2012)
"After Tender Buttons, "The Artist's Institute," New York (2012)
"La poétique, l'écriture de la poésie et l'invention du modernisme," with Dominique Fourcade, at the Grand Palais, Paris, as part of the Stein Family Collection show (2011)
"In Unum Pluribis: Toward a More Perfect Invention CAAP Inaugural Address, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China (2011)
Central China Normal University: "Artifice of Absorption" bilingual (2011)
Jianhan Univ, Wuham, China: "Expanded Field of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E," "The Practice of Poetics"
The Present of the Word at the "Litereature in the Expanded Field" Conference, Copenhagen (2011)
Two poetics talks, University of Iowa (2010)
Collaboratons, Poets and Artists collaboration confernece, University of Caen (France) (2011)
"Your Language, My Ear: Russian-American Poetry at Close Quaters" (Penn) (2011)
Penn State"
"Attack of the Difficult Poems: Toward a More Perfect Invention (From Poe, Emerson and Dickinson to Stein, Zukofsky, and Creeley & Beyond": Keynote, American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK) 45th Annual International Conference; related lectures at Yonsei, Dongguk, Korea, and Seoul National Universities (2010)
Attack of the Difficult Poems: Close Encounters with Poetics (Say, Do You Have a Poetics?), Toronto New School of Writing (2010)
Secular Jewish Poetics (with Norman Fischer): San Francisco Jewish Community Center and Jewish Meditation Center of Brooklyn (2010)
PennSound: Hearing Voices in Poetry's Coming Digital Present, “Novas Poéticas de Resistência,” University of Coimbra (2010)
Midrashic Antinomianism and Pataqueerical Inquiry: The Authority of Bent Studies, Tendencies series, CUNY Graduate Center (2010)
Audio Ontologies, Simon Fraser (Burnaby, BC) (2010)
Attack of the Difficult Poems, University of Washington (Bothel) (2010)
Radical Jewish Poetics, MLA Annual Convention (2009)
Audio Ontologies, University of Århus (Aarhus), Denmark "Poetry Today: A Seminar on Critical
Approaches to and New Tendencies within the Study of Poetry," in conjunction with Verbale Puppiler (Oct. 20-21, 2009)
Judith E. Wilson Poetry Lecture, Cambridge University
(UK); part of a conference on the work of Charles Bernstein (2009)
Fulcrum Debate: with Frank Bidart, Lowell, Mass. Poetry
Festival (2008)
Small Press: A Personal History, Community College of Philadephia
Literary Magazine conference (2008)
"Recantroium," Poetry Center, University of
Arizona (Tucson)
Poetry Rules!: The Conept of Poetry,
New College
(Sarasota) (2008)
"Living in a Digital World," WALTIC Conference ( Stockholm)
(2008)
"Fraud's Phantoms," Keynote, Long Poem Conference,
Sussex University ( UK) (2008)
"Poetics," Southampton
"The Meandering Yangtze," John
Ashbery 80th birthday celebration, Bard (2007)
Lectures in China July 2007:
Beijing
Language and Culture University
Northwest Normal University (Lanzhou)
Xi'an International Studies University
Zhejiang University (Hangzhou)
Sichuan Foreign Studies
University (Chongqing)
China Three Gorges University (Yichang)
Central
China Normal University (Wuhan): American Poetry Conference,
keynote
*
"Americas: Still
in Progress," Texas A&M (2007)
"Blogging the Humanities," NEH panel,
Virginia Commonwealth Univeristy (2007)
Ward Phillips Lectures: "The Attack of the Difficult Poems," (three
lectures), Notre Dame University (2006)
Poem Present Lecture, University of Chicago (2006)
Guest Lecture, Univeristy of Helsinki (2006)
Seminário no âmbito do Programa de Doutoramento Transdisciplinar FLUC/FEUC/CES "Linguagens, Identidade e Mundialização" [The
Task of Poetics, the Fate of Innovation, and the Aesthetics of
Criticism] at University of Coimbra, Portugal (2006)
"Poets
on Poetry": Louis Zukofsky, Academy of American Poets, at
NYU (2006)
"Wedding the Word and the World," panel,
Poetry Society of America / New School (2005)
Lincoln Center Festival: panel on Shadowtime and Ferneyhough's music; organizer/moderator, panel on Walter Benjamin with Marjorie Perloff, Jean-Michel Rabate (2005)
"Objectivist Blues: Scoring Speech in Second Wave Modernist Poetry
and Lyrics," Naropa University (2005)
"Poetics of the Americas," Ciclo de Poesia, at La Blanquiada,
Buenos Aires (2005)
"The Poet in the University or the Ends of Sinecure: The Task of
Poetics, the Fate of Innovation, and the Aesthetics of Criticism.," Poetics
and Public Culture in Canada: A Conference in Honour of Frank
Davey; University of Western Ontario, keynote(2005)
"How Empty Is My Bread Pudding," Arizona Quartely Symposium
on American Literarture and Culture (2005)
"Text-Sounds: A Mini-Conference", Notre Dame University
(2004)
”Sound Tools for Sound Listening: Poetry's Coming Digital Presence,” MLA
Annual Convention (2004)
On Stevens, MLA Annual Convention (2004)
Talk, Seance in Experimental Writing -- Cal Arts (Los Angeles) (2004)
"Radical Jewish Culture / Secular Jewish Practice," panel
curator, Center for Jewish History, NY (2004)
On PennSound, Collation, University of Pennsylvania (2004)
”Sound Tools for Sound Listening: Poetry's Coming Digital Present,” Keynote,
Brunel University Conference on Writing Environments (UK) (2004)
”Making Audio Visible”, University of California, Santa Barbara
(2004)
“Poetic Invention’s Objectivist Blues: Second Wave Modernism and the Fate
of Criticism”, University of Virginia (2003)
“The Art & Practice of Immmemmmorabilllllity in the Coming Digital
Present”, Performance Poetry Conference,
University of Bath Spa (UK) (2003)
“This Is Not a Biotext , (K)not!, Alley, Alley Out and Free (Fred
Wah conference), University of Calgray (2003)
“Making Audio Visible: The Lessons of Visual Language for the Textualization
of Sound”, Society for Textual Scholarship,
Plenary, New York (2003)
“Poetry's Coming Digital Present: the Audio Archive and the Textualization
of Sound”, Bath Spa University, UK, Keynote, “International Conference
on the Writing and Practice and Performance Poetry” (2003)
“Americas Still in Progress,” UNEAC, Havana (2003); panel, Bibleotecca
National
“The Internet and the Epic,” People’s Poetry Gathering, Poets
House, New York (2003)
“Objectivist Blues: Scoring Speech in Second Wave Modernist Poetry and
Lyrics”, Harvard University Humanities
Center, Modernism Seminar (2002), MLA (2002)
“Poetic Invention and the Fate of Criticism,” MLA (2002)
“Is There a Poem in This Play?: Poetry's Secret Battle to Liberate Theater”,
Barnard College Poetry and Performance festival (2002)
“Shadowtime”, Opening Program, Humanities and Arts Research Centre,
Royal Holloway (UK) (2002)
“Electronic Pies in the Poetry Skies”, Wesleyan Humanities Center
(2002)
“Poetry and Oppositionality”, Georgetown University
“Partly Writing”, Dartington College for the Arts (UK) (2002)
“Poetic Invention and the Art of Immemorability”, University
of Pennsylvania (2001), Columbia University (2002)
"The Art of Collaboration", Poetry Society of America,
New York (2002)
“Writing Lives” conference, New School University (2001)
“Stein and Relativity”, Gertrude Stein Symposium, NYU (2002)
“Electronic Pies in the Poetry Skies”, CUNY Graduate Center (2001)
“Stein’s literary significance”, Gertrude Stein induction in American
Poets’ Corner, St. John the Divine Cathedral
(2001)
Workshop for On-line Poetry Classroom Summer Institute of the Academy
of American Poets , New York (2001)
Card talk, Copenhagen Kafcaféen
Talk with Richard Tuttle, Yale Summer Art Program, Norfolk, Conn. (2001)
“The Art of Immemorability”, SUNY-Albany (2001)
“Electronic Pies in the Poetry Skies”, E-Poetry 2001 (SUNY-Buffalo)
“Poetry and Performance”, “Poetics of the Book”, People’s Poetry
Festival, NY (2001)
“Book of the Book” panel at MLA (DC), organized and introduced
(2000)
“Poetry and Performance: Conversation with Steve McCaffery”,
De Montfort Univesrity, UK (2000)
“Reading through Walter Benjamin”, Modernist Studies Association,
Univ. of Philadelphia (2000)
“Reviewing Poetry”, Univ. of Penn. (2000)
“Poetics Consciousness”, Poets House, NYC (2000)
“Poetry and the Performed Word”, Poetry Society of America,
NYC (2000)
“Popular Culture/Unpopular Poetry” Southeast Texas State University
(2000)
“Poetics of the Americas”, MLA Annual Convention, Chicago (1999)
“The Poetics of Fraud”, MLA Annual Convention, Chicago (1999)
“The Past 50 Years of America Poetry,” Keynote, University of
Picardy (Amiens, France)
“Popular Culture / Unpopular Poetry”, University of Waterloo (1999) and
Southeast Oklahoma State (2000). At Waterloo, keynote of “Extra/Ordinary:
Popular Delusions: Discourse and the Social”,
1999 LEXIS Graduate Student Conference.
“Translation/Trancreation”, Haroldo de Campos celebration, Yale
(1999)
“Art of Immemorability”, “Globalization of Greek Aesthetics conference”:
University of Missouri, St. Louis (1999) and “Beyond Babel”,
University of California San Diego (1999)
“Talk to Me: Poetry in/as Dialog”, Whitney Museum of American Art at
Philip Morris, “Impulsive Behavior” series
(1999)
Conversation with Lyn Hejinian, “Innovations and Experimentation in Contemporary
Women’s Poetry”, Barnard (1999)
Panel, “The Future of Poetry Publishing”,
Poets House (NYC) (1999)
“Collaborations with Susan Bee”, University of Pennsylvania, Book Seminar,
Annenberg Special Collections (1999)
“American and European Avant Garde Workshop”, U Chicago
“Poetry and the Sacred”, Tuscon Poetry Festival (1999)
“Between the Lines: The Future of Poetry and the Visual“, Museum
of Contemporary Arts, Chicago (1998)
“Speed”, Keywords meeting, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York
(1998)
“Still Unrepresentative Verse”, ABRALIC Congress, Brazil (1998)
“The Parts Are Greater than the Sum of the Whole”, University of Oregon and
University of Alabama (1998)
“Le Gam”, Centre de Poécie & Traductions”, Fondation Royaumont,
France (1997)
“Unrepresentative Verse”, Keynote panel, Poetry & the Public
Sphere, Rutgers University (1997)
“Meaning and Nonsense”, Panel on Richard Foreman, Booth Awards,
CUNY Graduate Center (1997)
“The Academic Profession”, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Daedalus,
Cambridge (1997)
“Riding’s Reason”, MLA Annual Convention, 1996
“French and American Poetry”, panel chair/curator, 10th International
Translation Conference, Barnard College (1996)
"The Homophonic Sublime: Imploding the Translation Curtain",
International Association of Philosophy and Literary, George
Mason University (1996)
“Respondent”, University of New Hampshire “Alternative Poetries” conference
(1996)
"The Dialectics of Ideology", University of Pittsburgh
(1996)
“An Hypertext for the Present of Poetry”, The Poetry Project
(NYC), 1996
“S/he Do Standard English in Voices (Knot)”, University of Wisconsin,
Madison and Penn State (1996)
"The Revenge of the Poet-Critic (2)", MLA Annual Convention,
Chicago (1995)
"Robin at Home", Opening Address, "The Recovery of the
Public World", Robin Blaser conference,
Vancouver (1995)
Radio Interviews/programs: "To the Best of Your Knowledge",
Wisconsin Public Radio (1995, 1996); "Soundwaves", BBC (April
1995); “Lyrikmagasineti I USA: Poery is a show me-/business”, Sweedish
Public Radio (P 1 Riks), produced by Jan Olov Ullén
(3/17/97)
"Warning — Poetry Area: Publics Under Construction",
20th Century Literature Conference, Plenary Panel, University
of Louisville (1995)
"An Mosaic for Convergence", The Convergence of Science
and the Humanities, University at Buffalo (1995)
"A Defense of Poetry", 1994 Peter Rushton Lectures
in Contemporary Literature, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
"The Revenge of the Poetic Critic", The Reinvention
of the Poet-Critic, Miami University (Ohio) Institute for Literary
History (1994); Stanford University (1995)
"Poetries, Communities, Movements", Cornell Univsersity
(1994)
"Questions of History", Writing at the Limits conference,
Department of English and the Center for Language and Cultural
Theory, University of Southampton (UK) (1994)
"The Art Object in an Age of Electronic Technology," symposium,
Parsons School of Design, at the New School (1994)
"Philosophy within the Limits of Poetry Alone", International
Association of Philosophy and Literature, Edmonton (1994)
"Art & Language: Rereading the Boundless Book", Minnesota
Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis (1994)
"Poetics of the Americas", New York University (1994)
"Provisional Institutions: Alternative Presses and Poetic Innovation",
MLA Convention, Toronto (1993)
"Reznikoff's Nearness", "Poets of the 1930s Generation" Conference,
University of Maine, Orono (1993)
"The Local", University of Hawaii at Manoa (1992)
"Frame Lock", MLA Annual Convention, New York (1992)
"What's Art Got to Do with It", Keynote, NEMLA Annual
Meeting in Bufffalo (1992)
Respondant, "The Disappearing Pheasant: Italian Poetry Today," Casa
Italiana, NYU (1991)
Panel, "The Space of Poetry",
Cooper Union, NY (1991)
"A Poetics", Transparency Machine Series, Ottawa (1991)
"Interventing the Text" symposium, University of Calgary
(1991)
"Second War and Postmodern Memory", New School for
Social Research and MLA Annual Convention (1990)
"Visual Language", MLA Annual Convention (1990)
"The State of American Poetry", PEN American Center
(NY) (1990)
"The State of The Art", Poetry Project Symposium (NY)
(1990)
"Optimism, Comedy & The Politics of Poetics", Chax
Press Book Residency, Tucson (1990)
"Reznikoff", Centre Littéraire, Foundation Royaumont (France,
1989); part of a two‑week French tour for "An Office on the
Atlantic"; also presented at Poets
House (New York, 1990)
"Professing Stein, Stein Professing", MLA Convention (Washington,
DC: 1989); Poetry Project's "Stein Saturday" (NY:
1989)
"Tripletalk", SUNY Buffalo (1989)
"Words, Money, Imagination", Rethinking Marxism Conference
(Amherst:1989)
"Optimism and Critical Excess (Process)", Kootenay
Schoool of Writing (Vancouver, 1989)
Summary Address, Radical Poetries/Critical Address, SUNY Buffalo (1988)
"Comedy and the Poetics of Political Form", New School
(1988)
"Absorption, Repellence, and Poetic Excess", Magritte
Sessions, Tucson, AZ (1988)
"Performing Language", SUNY Binghamton Performance
Conf. (1988)
"What Is Poetics?", Brown University (1988), Temple
Univ. (1988)
"Poetry and Liberation", moderator, Poetry Project
of St. Mark's Church 1988 Symposium
"The Value of Sulfur", PEN American Center, NY (1988)
"In the Middle of Modernism, in the Middle of Capitalism, on the
Outskirts of New York",
Socialist Scholars Conference, NY (1987);
"Poetry and Postmoderism", Poetry Project 20th Year
Symposium, NY (1987)
"The Newer American Poetry", PEN American Center, NY
(1986)
"Interpretation, Translation, Performance", University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1986)
"Poetry and the Peripheries", Australian and New Zealand
American Studies Biennial Conference, University of Auckland
(1986)
"Words and Pictures", Art History Dept., Univ. of Auckland (1986);
Barnard College, NY (1986)
"Language Politics", SUNY-Oneonto (1986); Creative
Writing Program, Columbia University, NY (1986)
"Fin de Siecle: Theirs and Ours", MLA Annual Convention,
Chicago (1985)
"Pound and the Poetry of Today", Yale University Pound
Centennial (1985)
"L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E", SUNY Buffalo [Gray Chair] (1985)
"Pound and Fascism", Modern Language Association Annual
Convention, Washington, DC (1984)
"Artifice and Absorption", New Poetics Colloquium,
Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver (1985)
"Living Tissue/Dead Ideas", The Humanities Institute,
U.C. Berkeley (1984)
"What Is a Poet?", 11th Alabama Symposium on English
and American Literature, University of Alabama (1984)
"Part to Whole: The Poetics of the Long Poem", Long
Poem Conference, York University, Toronto (1983)
"Poets Centennial Tribute to W. C. Williams", Modern
Language Association Annual Convention, New York (1983)
Writer‑in‑Residence, 80 Langton
Street, San Francisco (1983)
Participant, "The Humanities and the Moving Image Media",
Astoria Motion Picture and Television Foundation (1983)
"Image Talks", Collective for Living Cinema, New York
(1982)
"Politics and Language", The Institute for Policy Studies,
DC (1982)
"Poetry and Philosophy", The Poetry Project (1981)
and Queens College of C.U.N.Y. (1981)
Respondent, "The Favorite Malice: Italian Contemporary Poetry",
New York University (1979)
COLLECTIONS
Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry
EXHIBITIONS
Shreiner-Concord Cemetery, Lancaster PA, grave of Thaddeus Stevens: "Not on My Watch" (2011)
"Au Plaisir du Livre," Collectif Génération artists books show, Librairie Auguste Blaizot, Paris (2011)
“Between Language and Form,” Yale University Art Gallery, 2002
“Poetry Plastique”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, Feb. 2001
“The Next Word”, curated by Johanna Drucker, Neuberger Museum
of Art, September 20, 1998 to January 31, 1999
A Secret Location of the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960-1980
(Berg Collection, New York Public Library)
PoArtics (NY: BACA, 1987)
Works in Concrete (New York: Pompeii Gallery, 1984)
Destination Paris (Paris: Lara Vincy Gallery, 1979)
With Words (Mercato Del Salle, Milan, 1979)
CRITICAL RESPONSES
Dissertations
Åsa
Arketeg, An Aesthetics of Reistance: The Open-Ended
Practive of Language Writing. Upsala University, 2007
Mark
Cantrell, Poetical investigations: Philosophical
thought as enactive process in twentieth-century American experimental
poetry (Gertrude Stein, John Cage, Joan Retallack, Charles Bernstein),
University of Michigan, 2005
Ronald E. Day, "Beyond Epistemology's "Thesis of the Precedence
of Method": Language Writing As Postmodernism," Ph.D. thesis,
SUNY-Binghamton (1990)
Carlos Gallego. "The
(post) modern spectacle: A study in ideological fantasy and 20th
century American culture" (Wallace Stevens, Charles Bernstein), Stanford,
2003.
Daniel Thomas Glass, "Politaxis: Cognitive Maps of New York City in Grandmaster Flash and Charles Bernstein," ch. 3 in Total Noise: Language Poetry, Hip-Hop, and Urban Collapse, UC-Irvine, c. 2010
Ursula Göricke: "Poetry as Epistemological Inquiry: Reading Bernstein
Reading Cavell Reading Wittgenstein", Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen
Hochschule, Aachen, Germany, 2003
Megan Jewell, A Poetics of Scholarly Inquiry: Susan
Howe, Charles Bernstein, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Dusquesne
University, PhD Dissertation, 2006
Stefan Mônke, "Charles Bernstein's Response to the Postmodern Condition," Faculdade de Letras de Universidae de Coimbra, May 2011 (MA Thesis): link to pdf
Matthew Richardson, "Rhetroical Hybridity: Ashbery, Bernstein and the Poetics of Citation," Ohio
State, 2001
James Shivers, "Charles
Bernstein: American Innovator,"Université de Lausanne,
Switzerland, 2002
Paul Stephens, Beyond the creative/critical
divide: The metapoetics of innovative American writing (Ph.D.
dissertation, Columbia University, 2005)
William Walsh, "Not Measured in Numbers': Politics, Audience,
and Language Poetry's Utopianisms" in Loose Talk and
Literary History: Language Poetry, New Formalism, and the Construction
of Taste in Contemporary American Poetry, Ph.D. dissertation,
Miami University (Ohio), 1994; extended discussion of "Kiwi
Bird in Kiwi Tree"
The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein, ed. William Allegrezza (Salt Publishing, 2012)
Caroline Bergvall, “Charles Bernstein or an Insistence to Communicate”
Tim Peterson, “Either You’re With Us And Against Us: Charles Bernstein’s Girly Man, 9–11, and the Brechtian Figure of the Reader”
Michael Eng, “The Metaphysical Mouth and the Asylum of the Everyday: Charles Bernstein and Contemporary Continental Philosophy ff Language”
Kimberly Lamm, “Girly Men Ballads: (Il) Legible Identities in Charles Bernstein And Gertrude Stein”
Steven Salmoni ,“Spectres of Benjamin”: (Re)Presentation And (Re) Semblance in Charles Bernstein’s Shadowtime
Megan Swihart Jewell, "Taking on The Official Voice: Charles Bernstein’s Poetic Sophistry and Post-Process Writing Pedagogy”
Paul Stephens, “Beyond The Valley of The Sophist: Charles Bernstein, Irony, and Solidarity”
Jason Lagapa , “To Think Figuratively, Tropically: Charles Bernstein’s Post-9/11 Grammar And Pragmatist Lessons in the Age of Baudrillard”
Peter Monacell , “Charles Bernstein’s Anti-Suburban Poetry”
Carlos Gallego , “From A Philosophy Of Poetry To Poetry As Philosophy: The Dialectical Poetics of Charles Bernstein”
Michael Angelo Tata, “Content’s Profusion: Noise, Interruption And Reverse Peristalsis in the Poetics of Charles Bernstein”
Kristen Gallagher, “Charles Bernstein In Buffalo 1999–2004”
Thomas Fink, “Charles Bernstein’s Catalogue Poetry”
Allen Fisher, “Readdressing Constructivism and Conceptual Art: Aspects of Work Factured”
James Shivers, “Visual Strategies: A Line, A Verse, Something On Paper”
Michael S. Hennessey, “A Life, Spliced: On the Early Tapeworks of Charles Bernstein”
Articles/Chapters
Robert Zamsky, “Ezra Pound and Charles Bernstein: Opera, Poetics, and the Fate of Humanism,” in Texas Studies in Language and Literature (55:1; 2013)
Jacob Edmond, "Charles Bernstein and Broken English" in A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Contemporary Literature (Fordham University Press, 2012).
David Micah Greenberg, "When This Becomes That," Boston Review. July/August 2011: responses to this article by Bernstein, Perloff, Susan Stewart and others: March 7, 2012
Marjorie Perloff, "Writing through Walter Benjamin: Charles Bernstein's 'Poem Including History'"[on Shadowtime], in Unoriginal Genius (University of Chicago Press, 2010); earlier version in Poetics Today 30:4 (2009).
Cambridge University
(UK): a conference on the work of Charles Bernstein (2009)
Ming-Qian Ma, "From Innovation to Renovation: Formal Practice and the Politics of Absorption in American Language Poetry" (Formes Poerique Contemporarine [FPC] 7, 2010): PDF
Marjorie Perloff, Leevi Lehto, and Nie Zhenzhao in Proceedings of the International Conference on the 20th Twentieth-Century American Poetry, ed. Nie Zhenzhao and Luo Lianggong (Wuhan: Central China Normal University Press, 2010)
Isabelle Alfandary on "Recantorium," Revue Française d'Etude Américaine, No. 121, Fall 2009 (in French): pdf
Alan Golding, "Charles
Bernstein and Professional Avant-Gardism" (Talisman, 36/37,
2008/2009)
Heinz Ickstadt, “Verbal Abstraction and the Democratic Promise of Natural Speech: Tensions and
Temptations in Contemporary American Poetry” in Another Language: Poetic Experiments in Britain and North America, ed. Kornelia Freitag and Katharina Vester (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2008)
Nerys Williams, Reading
Error: The Lyric and Contemporary Poetry (Oxford: Peter
Lang, 2007): Two
chaps.:
Joel Bettridge, Textual
Practice 21(4):
737–760 (2007); collected in Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith (New York: Palgrave, 2009)
Leevi Lehto, "In
the Un-American Tree; The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetries and Their
Aftermath, with a Special Reference to Charles Bernstein Translated," presented
at the Wuhan American poetry conference (2007)
Michael Hennessey on "From Text to Tongue to Tape: Notes on Charles Bernstein’s '1–100'” in "On Discreteness: Event and Sound in Poetry," special issue of ESC/ English Studies in Canada 33:4 (Dec. 2007) (available via Project Muse).
Hélène Aji, "'Writing (as) (and) thinking' ”:
Charles Bernstein’s Work in 'Language" in Etudes
Anglaises (Volume 59 –2006/3)
Jerome McGann, The Point Is to Change It: Poetry
and Criticism in the Continuing Present (Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 2007) cf.: Ch. 6, "Private
Enigmas and Critical Functions, with Special Thanks to the Poetry
of Charles Bernstein (written 1990-1991)";
Appendix to Chapter 6: “The Simply” (written 1991);
ch.
,. From Sight to Shenandoah (written 1996)"
Leevi Lehto, "Against the idea of Poetry," Foreign
Literary Studies, Wuhan, China, Vol. 29, No. 2 April 2007
(English tr. of Lehto's preface
to
Jerome McGann, The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies
in a Managed World (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
Lin Yupeng, "Poeitcs of Charles Bernstein and American
Language Poetry" [in Chinese], Foreign Literary Studies,
Paul Stephens, "The Poet-Critic vs the Poetcritic:
Toward a Metapoietics of Innovative American Writing" PhD dissertation, Columbia
W. B. Worthen, Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama (Cambridge
University Press. 2005): chap. 3:iii, "Lines of Subjection:
Language writng, poetry, and performance"
Logan Esdale, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry (2005)
Ben Friedlander, on Dark City, &c. in Simulcast (Tucaloosa:
U of Alabama Press, 2004)
Susan Schultz, "Of Time and Charles Bernstein’s Lines: A Poetics of Fashion
Statements", Jacket 14 (2001); also chapter in Poetics of Impasse (University of Alabama Press, 2004)
Javant Biarujia, "Charles Bernstein: Creating aive
Disturbance", Boxkite #3 (Australia, 2004)
Henry Sussmann, "Prolegema to any Present and Future Language Poetry," in The
Task of the Critic: Poetics, Philosophy, Religion (2005); also: MLN 118.5 (2003)
Pierre Joris, Rough Trades, American Book Review (Feb./March
1993), also in A Nomad Poetics (Middltetown, Conn.: Wesleyan
University Press, 2003)Garrett
Caples, "A Consumer Guide to Charles Bernstein", Tim Lustre
Mobile (web; 2003)
Dubravka Djuric, chapter on work overall in Jezi, Poexija, Postmodernizam (Beograd: Oktoih, 2002)
Susan Vanderborg, "’A Writing of Absolute Necessity": Charles Bernstein’s
Language Paratexts", Chapter V of PhD dissertation (Stamford, 1996); revised
and published as "’The Constitution of Public Space’: Charles Bernstein’s
Lanaguage Paratexts" in Paratexutal Communities: American Avant
Garde Poetries since 1950 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, 2001)
Seungnam Jeong, "The Repossession of the Word: Charles Bernstein’s Poetics
and Politics", English Language and Literature
[Journal of the English Language and Literature Association of
Korea, Seuol], Vol. 46. No. 4 (2000) 1111-1128
Paul Quinn, "Bernstein’s Republics: The Horizon of Language",
PN Review 136, Nov.-Dec. 2000, 27:2 (2000)
William Gillespie, "Is Charles Bernstein a Political Poet?", ebr 11 <http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev11/gillespie/index.htm> c.
2000
Mike Kelleher, "Charles Bernstein in the 20th Century, A Brief Revue of
Poetic Values" on "Today’s Not Opposite Day", The Transcendental Friend (#11, 9/99): http://www.morningred.com/friend/1999/09/pages/review.html
Robert Sheppard, "The Poetics of Poetics: Charles Bernstein, Allen Fisher
and ‘the poetic thinking that results’. Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American
Literary Relations, 3.1, April 1999 (College of St. Marks and St John,
Plymouth, UK)
Antoine Cazé, "Form as Freedom in the Poetry of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Group"
(on "Dysraphism"), in Freedom and Form: Essays in Contemporary American
Poetry, ed. Esther Giger and Agniezka Salska (Lodz: Wydawnictwo Univwersytetu
Lodzkiego, 1998)
Paul Auster, "Twenty-five Sentences Containing the
Words Charles Bernstein", Why Write? (Providence: Burning Deck, 1996)
Hank Lazer, "Charles Bernstein's Dark City:
Polis, Policy, and the Policing of Poetry", American PoetryReview,
Sept./Oct. 1995, 24:5; also in Opposing Poetries (Northwest Univ.
Press, 1996), vol 2, pp. 123-146.
Bob Perelman, "Error and Power: The Poetry of
Charles Bernstein and Edward Kamu Brathwaite, MLA Annual Convention
(1992); American Literary
History (1994); rpt in The Marginalization of Poetry: Language
Writing and Literary History (Princeton University Press, 1996).
John Shoptaw, "The Music of Construction: Measure and Polyphony in
Ashbery and Bernstein", in The Tribe of John: John Ashbery and
Contemporary Poetry, ed. Susan Schultz (University of Alabama Press,
1995)
Linda Reinfeld, "Bernstein's Pharmacy" in Language Poetry:
Writing as Rescue (University of Louisiana State University Press,
1992)
Ken Edwards, "Three or Four Things I Know about
Charles Bernstein,"The
Many Review (UK; #6, 1990)
Esteban Pujals, "Sentido en excesso: La poesía
de Charles Bernstein,"Zurgai (1989: Spain)
Discussion of individual works within an essay or chapter
Gearld Bruns, What Are Poets For?: Studies in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics: "Should Poetry Be Ethical or Otherwise?," University of Iowa Pres (2011): pdf; originally published in SubStance, issue 120 (Volume 38, Number 3), 2009
Brian Kim Stefans intro at UCLA, May 2011 (Arras.net)
Romana Huk, on Girly Man in ballad chapter in Blackwell Companion to Poetic Genres (2011)
Rae Armantrout, on "Sentences My Father Used" in "Irony
and Postmodern Poetry," in her Collected Prose (San
Diego Singing Horse, 2007); rpt from Moving Borders.
Alan Golding, "Language Writing, Digital Poetics, and
Transitional Materialities," in New Media Poetics,
ed Adelaide Morris and Thomas Swiss (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006)
Chris Goode, “‘These Facts Variously Modified’: American Writers in an Information Economy” (on “In Particular”),
in “The Darkness Surrounds Us”: American Poetry [Issue 114, ed. Robin Purves and Sam Ladkin, The Edinburgh Review #114 (2005)
Karen Alkalay-Gut, “The Poetry of September 11: The Testimonial Imperative” in Poetics Today 26:2 (Summer
2005) Rachel DuPlessis, "Lyric Ambivalence: the 'Aversive' Tradition," presented
at American Comparative Literature Association, March 2005
Gerald Bruns, The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical
Poetics (Athes: University of Georgia Press, 2005)
Jerome McGann, "Beauty, the Irreal, and
the Willing Assumption of Disbelief," Critical Inquiry 30 (Summer 2004)
David Caplan, Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic
Form (New York: Oxford, 2004 [discussion,
in final chapter on ballad, of "Rivulets of the Dead Jew"]
Marjorie Perloff, "Seductive Vienna," Modernism/modernity 10.2
(2003) 221-238; from Vienna Paradox (New
York: New Directions, 2004) [discussion in first chapter of "Gertrude and Ludwig’s Bogus Journey"]
Donald Wessling, Bakhtin and the Social Moorings of Poetry (Lewisburg:
Bucknell University Press, 2003)
John Wilkenson, "Too-Close Reading: Poetry and Schizofrenia", Assembling
Alternatives , ed. Romana Huk (Wesleyan University Press, 2003)
Craig Dworkißn, discussion of Veil in Reading the Illegible (Northwestern University Press, 2003)
Marorie Perloff, 21st-century Modernism: The New Poetics (Blackwell,
2001)
Timothy Yu, "Form and Identity in Language Poetry and Asian American Poetry", Contemporary Literature, 41:3 (Fall 2000)
John Shoptaw, "Lyric Cryptography", Poetics Today 21:1 (Spring
2000)
Antoine Cazé, "Margins of Theory, Theory of Margins" (on "Artifice of
Absorption"), in The Mechanics of the Mirage: Postwar American Poetry,
ed. Michel Delville and Christine Pagnoulle (Belgium: Liège University
English Department Press, 2000)
Peter Middleton, "Patriarchal Poetry: Fathers and Sons in Contemporary Poetry" in Subverting Masculinity: Hegemonic and Alternative Versions of Masculinity in Contemporary Culture , ed. Russell West and Frank Lay (Rodlopi, 2000)
John R. Woznicki, "Poetry of Play, Poetry of
Purpose: The Continuity of American Language Poetry," Moria: A Poetry Journal, vol. 2 Issue
no. 4, (2000) http://www.moriapoetry.com/woznicki.htm
Marjorie Perloff, "Multiple Pleats: Some Applications of Michel Serres’s
Poetics", Configurations 8:187-200 (2000)
Aronson, Béa, Bernstein's 'Dysraphism':
Dysfunction and Thrombolysis: A Twentieth Century Condition, Found Object, 2000 Fall; 9: 89-106
Graca Capinha, " Crane, Duncan,
and the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets",
ASA Conference, Montreal (1999)
Charles Altieri, "Avant-Garde or Arrière-Garde in Recent American Poetry", Poetics Today 20:4 (1999)
Lance St John Butler, Registering the Difference (Manchester
University Press, 1999): on "Live Acts"
Charles Altieri, Postmodernisms Now (Penn State University Press,
1998)
Christopher Beach, "Antiabsorptiveness and Contemporary American
Poetry: New Principles of Pleasure" in New Definitions of Lyri,
ed. Mark Jeffreys (New York: Routledge, 1998)
David Caplan, "Who's Zoomin Who?: The Poetics
of www.poets.org and wings.buffalo.edu/epc."
Postmodern Culture Vol. 8, No. 1 (September,
1997)
Jerome McGann, from Sight to "Shenandoah", Bellingham Review XX:1 (1997)
Edwin Morgan, "Language, Poetry, and Language Poetry", Edinburgh Review 97 (1997)
Loss Glazier, "Jumping to Occlusions," Postmodern Culture 7, no. 3 (1997)
Charles Altieri, "Some Problems about Agency in the Theories of Radical
Poetics", Contemporary Literature 37:2 (1996)
Paul Naylor, "(Mis)Characterizing Charlie: Language and the Self
in the Poetry and Poetics of Charles Bernstein", Sagetrieb 14:3 (1996)
Jeffrey T. Nealon, "Politics, Poetics, and Institution: "Language
Poetry" in Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction (Cornell University Press, 1996)
Kevin Stein, Private Poets, Worldly Acts: Public and Private History
in American Poetry (Ohio University Press, 1996)
Jerzy Kutnik, "Postmodern Language-centered Writing and the Question of
Ideology: A Polish Perspective", Journal of American Studies of Turkey 4
(1996) : 3-13. http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/Number4/Kutnik.html
George Kalamaras, Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension: Symbolic Form in
the Rhetoric of Silence (Albany: SUNY
Press, 1994) Misko Suvakovic, "Primer: jezicka poezij (language poetry)",
in Prolegomena
Za Analicku Estetiku (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia: Cetvrti Talas, 1995)
Hannah Möckel-Rieke, "Die `unvollendendete Moderne": Language
Poetries und die amerikanische Lyrik der 80er Jahre", Amerika
studien / American Studies (Munich), 40:1 (1995)
Geoff Ward, Language Poetry and the American Avant-Garde (British
Association for American Studies Pamphlet 25, 1993)
Norman Finkelstein, "The Utopia of Language",
in The Utopian
Moment in Contemporary American Poetry (Lewisburg: Bucknell University
Press, 1993)
Jerome McGann, Reading "The Simply",
in Contemporary Poetry
Meets Modern Theory, ed. Antony Easthope (Harvester-Wheatsheaf (UK),
1991; University of Toronto Press, 1993)
Jerome McGann, discussion of various poems in Black Riders (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1993)
Vernon Shetley, "The Return of the Repressed: Language Poetry and
New Formalism", concluding chapter in After the Death of Poetry (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993)
Brian McHale, "Making (Non)Sense of Postmodern Poetry" in Language,
Text and Context, ed. Michael Toolan (Routledge: 1992)
Christopher Beach, "Reappropriation and Resistance: Charles Bernstein,
Language Poetry, and Poetic Tradition",
concluding chapter of ABC
of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)
Marjorie Perloff, "How It Means" in Radical Artifice (University of Chicago, 1992); rpt from Ashbery issue of Verse (1991)
Marjorie Perloff, Poetic License (Northwestern University Press,
1990)
Jerome McGann, "Private Enigmas and Critical Functions, with Particular
Reference to the Writing of Ch. Bernstein", New Literary History (1991)
Leslie Scalapino, "Pattern as Qualitative Infinity: The Unit as a
Book,the Book as a Unit", The Sophist, Poetics Journal (1987),
rpt. in How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (Hartford:
Potes & Poets,
1990)
Albert Gelpi, "The Geneology of Modernism: Contemporary American Poetry", Southern Review, Summer 1990
George Hartley, Textual Politics and the Language Poets, Indiana
University Press (1989)
Marjorie Perloff, "New Nouns for Old",
in Exploring Postmoderism,
ed. M. Calinescu and D. Fokkema (Utrecht: John Benjamins Publishing Co.,
1988)
Jerome McGann, "Contemporary Poetry: Alternate Routes", Critical
Inquiry (1987); rpt. in Politics and Poetic Value, ed. Robert
von Hallberg (University of Chicago Press, 1987); rpt. in McGann's Social
Values and Poetic Acts, Harvard University Press (1988)
Marjorie Perloff, "L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry in the '80s", American Poetry Review (1984) (rpt. Dance of the Intellect,
Cambridge University Press, 1985)
Michael Davidson, "Discourse in Poetry: Bakhtin and the Extension
of the Dialogical", Code of Signals/Io (1983)
Tom Beckett, ed., "Charles Bernstein Issue", The Difficulties
(1982):
Beckett, "Note" and "Interview"
James Sherry, letter and "Method of the Self"
Nick Piombino, "Writing Identity and the Self"
Peter Seaton, "Frey's Landing"
Jackson Mac Low, "Charles Bernstein and his Shade"
Alan Davies, "The Difficulty of Writing Charles
Bernstein"
Michael Gottlieb, "Algernon Charles Bernstein"
Diane Ward, "Tentativity"
Ronald Johnson, "Blurb for an Imaginary Book of
Charles Bernstein's"
John Perlman, "Reading Controlling Interests"
Robert Creeley, "Pages for C.B."
Ralph La Charity, "Consortium Medley"
Craig Watson, "Fluid Islands"
Bob Perelman, "A Note on `Sentences My Father Used'"
Rafael Lorenzo, "Fragments of a Refusal"
Barrett Watten, Controlling Interests
Ron Silliman, "For Charles Bernstein Has Such a Spirit...";
reprinted in The New Sentence (New York: Roof Books, 1987)
Reviews
Attack of the Difficult Poems
Jared Demick, The Jivin' Ladybug, April 2011
Joel Brouwer, "In Praise of Promiscuous Thinking", Poetry Foundation, June 2011
Norman Fischer, everyday zen, April/May, 2011
Toronto Globe and Mail, April 23, 2011
Chris Jones, Times Higher Education, June 23, 2011
Douglas Messerli, Los Angeles Review of Books, July 28, 2011
Thomas Fink, press 1, Fall, 2011
Norbert Hirschhorn, Eyewear, Sept. 21, 2011
Michael Hennessey, Attention Span, Sept. 2011
Scott Wilkerson, Word for Word, Feb. 2012
Rachel Abramowitz, "The Importance of Being Difficult: Charles Bernstein’s Attack of the Difficul Poems", The Kenyon Review, Winter 2012
Rosemary Winslow, "A Poetics of Social Acts," American Book Review, Volume 33, Number 2 (January/February 2012)
Stephen Ross, TLS, March 2, 2012
Gerald Bruns, "Anarchic inventions: On making poetry present," Jacket2, July 2012
Václav Paris, "Poetry in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Marjorie Perloff’s Unoriginal Genius, and Charles Bernstein’s Attack of the Difficult Poems," Jourrnal of Modern Literature, 35:3 (2012)
Joshua Weiner, "A Hazard of New Fortunes" in Los Angeles Review of Books (Sept. 19, 2012)
All the Whiskey in Heaven
Publisher's Weekly, 2/20/10 starred review
David Kaufman, "Sensible Swoons," Tablet Magaizne, (Feb.)
TimeOut New York (March)
Jake Marmer, "Fussing on the Cliff, Is This What You Call the Jewish Avant-Garde?", Forward, (March 26, 2010)
Yunte Huang, Santa Barbara News Press (March 28. 2010)
Daisy Fried, The New York Times Book Review (April 11, 2010); jpg clipping
Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly (April 16, 2010
Jeff Simon, Buffalo News (April 11, 2010)
Tim Griffin, Bookforum (April 14, 2010)
The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice (April 18, 2010)
Richard Demming, Boston Review, June 2010
JBunce, Hub Pages (June 2, 2010)
John Herbert Cunningham, The Quarterly Conversation, “Poetry’s Ulysses: All the Whiskey in Heaven"
(June 7, 2010)
Mark Scroggins,The Rumpus (July 8, 2010)
Mary Maxwell,Provincetown Arts (Summer 2010)
New Pages (September 2010)
Tom Lewek, Critical Frame (September 2010)
David Lau, Lana Turner #(3, 2010)
Stephen Ross, The Wolf #24, "Through Fog and Fumbling Shadow" (Spring 2011)
Kaplan Harris, Postmodern Culture (20:3, 2010) "A Zine Ecology of Charles Bernstein's Selected Poems"
Norbert Hirschhorn, Eyewear, Sept. 21, 2011
Benjamin Myers, Connotation Press, October 2011
Stephan Delbos, The Prague Post, May 30, 2012
Fred Dings, World Literature Today, July 2012
Jason Guriel, "Words Fail Him: The Poetry of Charles Bernstein" Parnassus (date/issue unknown) <http://parnassusreview.com/archives/1534>
Girly Man
Allen Mozek, For the Birds blog, Dec.8, 2009
Tim Peterson, "Either You're With Us and Against Us: Charles
Bernstein's Girly Man, 9-11, and the Brechtian Figure of the
Reade," EBR (2008)
Dan Thomas-Glass "The Accessibility of Obscurity" on Girly
Man,
Jacket 33
(2007)
Ange Mlinko & David Yezzi, Poetry
Magazine (May 2007)
Chuck Stebelton, The Poetry Project Newsletter (April-June
2007, #211)
Gordon Tapper, Brooklyn Rail: (March 2007)
William Watkin's Blog (March 15, 2007)
Thomas Devaney, Philadelphia Inquirer:(2/18/07)
Thomas Fink, Verse: (Feb. 2007)
Robert Pinsky's "Poet's Choice," Washinton Post:
(1/28/07)
Robert
Hicks, Girly Man, Kansas
City Star, (12/31/06)
David Kaufman, "Rattling the Chains of American Poetry :
Charles Bernstein’s unique blend of polemic, parody and
just plain invention" Girly Man, Forward
(12/21/06)
R.D.
Pohll, Buffalo News (10/13/06)
Kathleen Rooney, Harvard Review (Spring 2007)
Publishers
Weekly, Girly Man (8/28/2006)
*
Michelle Strizever on Reading Red at Smithsonian Library blog (2012)
Top ten for Pinky's Rule in Art in America, Raphael Rubinstein (12/27/11)
Allen Mozek, on Republics of Reality at For the Birds blog (Dec. 1, 2009)
Diego
Braga Norte, Histórias
da Guerra in Revista Paradoxa, Sao Paulo
Todd Swift on Eyewear
Nate Pritts
on Parsing in Puella Mea Pulp #1 (2008)
Samuel Vriezen,
Islets/Irritations
(2007) (Dutch)
Janne Nummela, Runouden puolustus [A Defense
of Poetry] in Kiiltomato.Net (2006)
Rita Dahl, Runouden puolustus (2006)
Markku
Paasonen, Runouden puolustus, Helsingin Sanomat (9/30/06)
Douglas Messserli, Let’s
Just Say, The New Review 2:2 (2005)
Ron Silliman, on World on Fire , Ron Silliman’s
Blog (Feburary 2004)
Ron Silliman, on Let’s Just Say, Ron Silliman’s
Blog (May 2003)
Yunte Huang, on With Strings, Boston Review
Caroline Bergvall, on A Conversation with David Antin, Jacket 22 (2003)
Tim Allen, "Un‘Circumstraint’ and Gravid Americun" review
of With Strings, Stride on line: "http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/ (2003)
James Longenbach, review of With Strings, Yale Review (Oct.
2002)
Jefferson Hansen, review of With Strings, Rain Taxi (Vol.
7, No. 1, Spring 2002)
Thomas Fink, review of With Strings, Jacket #19 (Oct. 2002)
copublished with Verse
Elizaberth Fodaski, With Strings, in Provincetown Arts,
vol. 17, 2002/2003
Jesper Olson, "Charles Bernstein driver poesins sprak dit det sällan
vistas",
Svenska Dragbladet,
21 January 2002, "Under Strecket", p. 7
Max Winter, "With Strings", Poetry Project Newsletter #190, Spring
2002
Keith Eliot, With Strings, Terrible Work (UK): "http://terriblework.co.uk/with_strings.htm,
2002
R. D. Pohl, "Disclaimers Are Necessary" (on With Strings), Buffalo News, 12/2/01
With Strings: short review in Publishers Weekly, Oct.
22, 2001
Holland Cotter, "Poetry Plastique," "In Galleries", The New York Times, February 23, 2001
Harriet Zinnes, Poetry Plastique, Denver Quarterly 36
(Spring/Summer 2001), 213-216
Republics of Reality reviewed by Susan Schultz, Verse,
Vol. 18, #s 2&3 (2001)
Ethan Paquin, John Palattella, David Kellog, Three short reviews of Republics
of Reality, Boston Review, 26:2, April/May 2001
Patrick Pritchett, Republics of Reality, on line edition of Rain
Taxi (Summer 2000)
Manuel Brtio, Republics of Reality, Nerter #2 (Tenerife,
Canary Islands, Spain: 2000-2001)
Susan Schultz, Republics of Reality, Verse (Vol. 18, 2 and
3, 2000?)
James Shivers, Republics of Reality, Washington Review,
Vol. XXVI, no. 4, December/January, 2000/01
Paul Quinn, "Bernstein’s Republics: The Horizon of Language", PN Review 136, Nov.-Dec. 2000, 27:2 (2000)
Paul Quinn, "Letter from Buffalo," TLS, 6/30/00
Tim Wood, "Politics, Poetics, and Laughter Against Tears", ArtsDFW.Com
(2000)
Timothy Gray, My Way, American Literature 72:3, pp. 663-664 (2000)
Publishers Weekly, March 27, 2000 (p. 72-3), Republics of Reality
R.D. Pohl, Republics of Reality, Buffalo News, May
7, 2000
Antoine Cazé, My Way, Verse,
Vol. 16, No. 3 /Vol. 17, No.
1 (2000)
Antoine
Cazé, My Way, Sping 2000, Sources; in French
Dean Young, Close Listening, Text and Presentation: Journal
of the Comparative Drama Conference (Vol. 21, April 2000, pp. 182-184)
Geoff Ward, My Way, Boston Review (October/November
1999)
My Way, Rain Taxi (#14, Summer 1999)
Andrew Osborn, My Way, Chicago Review, Vol. 45, No. 3/
4 (1999)
Norman Weinstein, My Way (American Letters & Commentary #11, 1999)
Brian Henry, My Way, Stand (New Series: 1:4, 1999, Leeds,
UK) and L A G N I A P P E: Poetry and Poetics in Review (1:3, 1999)
Paul Quinn, "Rattling the Chains of Free Verse": My Way and Log
Rhythms, TLS (4/30/99)
Corinne Robbins, Close Listening, American Book Review,
May-June, 1999
Molly McQuade, My Way, Washington Post (4/25/99:X04)
Keith Tuma, "Midnight at the Oasis: Performing Poetry inside the Spectacle",
on Close Listening, Modernism/Modernity 6.1 (1999)
Michael Thurston, "Writing the Elephant: Five Books on Modern Poetry",
on Close Listening, College Literature 26:3 (1999), 249-260
Dubravka Djuric, Close Listening, Nezavisni (Novi Sad 1/15/99); Samizdat #4 Fall/Winter
(1999)
Corinne Robbins, Little Orphan Anagram, American Book Review,
Jan.-Feb. 1999
James Shivers, Close Listening, Washington Review, XXIV:4,
Dec./Jan. 1998/99
Short Reviews of My Way: Publisher’s Weekly (1/25/99),
Booklist (12/15/98), Kirkus (12/15/98), Library Journal (2/99)
W. B. Keckler, on "A Test of Poetry", Sulfur 42 (1998)
R. D. Pohl, "A poet-critic Lashes out at literary ‘mediocracy’",
review of My Way, Buffalo News (12/6/98)
Jerome Sala, Close Listening, The Poetry Project Newsletter #172, Dec./Jan. 1998/99
Gerald Schwartz, Close Listening, Rain Taxi, Autumn 1998
Jan Pug, A Poetics and The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, l'Esprit
créateur (Lexington, KY: XXXVIII:4)
Martin Earl, "A Well Tempered Pencil, being a review in verse of Charles
Bernstein’s polemic, A Poetics, Revista
Critica de Ciência Sociais #47 (Feb. 1997).
Kenneth Goldsmith, Talespin, Sulfur 41 (1997)
Kevin McGuirk, Review of Rough Trades, Canadian Review of American
Studies 27:3 (1997)
Nico Vassilakis, The Suject, Taproot Reviews #9/10 (1996)
Stephen Burt, "Adding to the Stock of Available Reality: on The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
Poets", Poetry Review (UK), Fall, 1996
Sharon Dolan, "Arguing Poetry: How Contemporary Poets Write About Poetry", AWP Chronicle, 29:3 (December 1996)
Jeffrey Timmons, Dark City, Taproot Reviews #7/8
(1995)
Liz McMillen, "A Haven for Poet-Scholars: Buffalo's poetics program
bridges the divide between creative writing and critical theory", Chronicle of Higher Education, July 28, 1995, p. A12.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Dark City, Sulfur #36,
1995
Tony Door [Douglas Rothchild], Live at the Ear, The Poetry Project
Neweletter, Feb./March 1995, vol. 156
André Lefevere, A Poetics, Comparative Literature Studies (32:1, pp. 79-81, 1995)
Dark City, Publishers Weekly, March 28, 1994,
and Booklist, May 15, 1994 v90 n18 p1660(1)
Jefferson Hansen, Dark City, Washington Review of the Arts (date unknown)
John Palattella, "Learning to Be Contemporary Somewhere in the Middle
of Modernism", A Poetics, Contemporary Literature (XXXV:1,
1994; pp. 183-194)
Paul Mann, The Politics of Poetics Form, Contemporary Literature (XXXV:1, 1994; pp. 171-181)
Jefferson Burns, Dark City, Washington Review of the
Arts (1994)
John Bowers, "L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry", Dark City, The Bookpress (Ithaca, NY: Oct. 1994)
Geoffrey O'Brian, introduction, Poetry Pilot (newsletter of the
American Academy of Poetry), Fall 1994, p. 6.
Dale Heininger, note on Dark City, Private Arts 89 (Chicago, 1994), pp. 437-37
Calvin Bedient, "The Retreat from Poetic Modernism" (A Poetics), Modernism/modernity (I:3, 1994; pp. 221-31)
Belle Randall, A Poetics, Common Knowledge (3:3, p. 176;
Winter 1994)
Joseph Torra, "The Alternative Continuum", A Poetics,
in Agni Review (1993 or 94, pp. 172-73)
Peter Baker, A Poetics, College Literature (20:2, pp. 219-21;
1993)
Alan Golding, A Poetics, American Literature (Vol. 65, #1,
March 1993: 173-4)
Meredith Quartermain, "Magnificent Cacophany", A Poetics,
West Coast Line (#9:95-99, 1993)
Glyn Maxwell, A Poetics, TLS (1/29/93)
Susan Smith Nash, Islets/Irritations, Washington Review (XIX:1, p.24, June/July 1993)
Leevhi Lehto, "Rebellious Charles Bernstein and the Usualness of
the Unusual" (interview/article), Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki,
1/17/93, p.B3)
John Leonard, A Poetics, Journal of the Australasian Language and
Literary Association (rec'd Feb. 1993, pp. 101-106)
Ange Mlinko, A Poetics, lift (#12:70-72, May 1993)
Roger Riggins, Islets/Irritations and A Poetics, Home
Planet News (#36, 9/93)
William Pratt, A Poetics, World Literature Today (Autumn
1993)
Tom Beckett, Islets/Irritations in Taproot (1993)
Rachel DuPlessis, A Poetics, Sulfur (31:1992)
Susan M. Schultz, A Poetics, Postmodern Culture (3:1;1992)
Keith Tumma, Rough Trades, Sulfur (30:1992)
H. L. Hix, A Poetics, Harvard Review (1:1992)
R. D. Pohl, A Poetics, The Buffalo News (5/3/92)
Virginia Quarerly Review (unsigned), A Poetics (1992)
Marcel Cornis-Pope, Politics of Poetic Form, American Book Review (1991)
Don Wellman, Politics of Poetic Form, O.Ars (1991)
Avery E.D. Burns, Absent Father in Dumbo, Lift (1991)
Charles Palau, Politics of Poetic Form, intent. (1991)
Fernando Galvan, "Absent Father", Syntaxis (1991)
Bruce Campbell, The Sophist, Raddle Moon (1991)
Allan Kozinn, "Blind Witness News", New York Times 12/9/90
(I:83)
Sibila Petlevski, "Pogled na novije americko pjesnistvo", Republica (Zagreb, 1990)
Joel Lewis, "1NK M4THEM4T1CS", Poets & Writers (1990)
Pierre Joris, Politics of Poetic Form, UCSD Archive Newsletter (1990)
Dbravka Djurik, Politics of Poetic Form, Knjizevna rec (1990:
Beograd)
Daniel Barbiero, Artifice of Absorption, Aerial (1990)
Susan Smith Nash, Artifice of Absorption, Aerial (1990)
Steve Abbott, Senses of Responsibility, Poetry Flash (1990)
Nick Lawrence, Politics of Poetic Form, Lift (1990)
Rod Mengham, Content's Dream, Textual Practice (1989)
Burt Kimmelman, S.‑P. Martin, Daniel Barbiero,
Dennis Barone, WR Boreman on Artifice of Absorption, Paper Air (1989)
Michael Duff, Artifice of Absorption, Contact/II (1989)
Hank Lazer, "Radical Collage": The Sophist & Artifice
of Absorption, The Nation (1988); rpt.,
Lazer, "Outlaw to Classic:
The Poetry of Ron Silliman and Charles Bernstein," Opposing Poetries (Evanston: Northwest University Press, 1996), pp. 6-18.
Harold Beaver, Content's Dream, Parnassus (1988)
Jerome McGann, Don Byrd, Bruce Campbell: "Three Responses to `The
Sophist'", Sulfur (1988)
Jack Amariglio et al, "On Language Poetry", Rethinking Marxism (1988)
George Hartley, The Sophist, Temblor (1988)
Lee Bartlett, Content's Dream, American Poetry (1988)
George Hartley, The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, American Poetry (1988)
Mac Wellman, Content's Dream, Performing Arts Journal (1988)
Bruce Campbell, Veil, Temblor (1988)
Joey Simas, tr. J. Gugliemi, "Notes sur quelques
poets americains,"
Action Poetique (1988)
Noel Peattie, Artifice of Absorption, Sipapu (1988)
Linda Reinfeld, "As Slope of Mind": The Sophist & Artifice
of Absorption, American Book Review (1988)
Marjorie Perloff, Content's Dream, Michigan Quarterly
Review (1987)
Bill Bamberger, Artifice of Absorption, New Pages (1988)
Stephen‑Paul Martin, Content's Dream, Central Park (1987)
Linda Reinfeld, Content's Dream, Temblor (1987)
Joseph Simas, Content's Dream, Poetics Journal (1987)
Michael Duff, The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, Contact II (1987)
De Villo Sloan, Content's Dream, Southern Humanities Review (1987)
A.L. Nielson, The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, Gargoyle
(1987)
Burton Hatlen, Content's Dream, Sagetrieb (1986)
Hank Lazer, "The Crisis in Poetry", Content's Dream, The Missouri Review (1986)
Genevieve Stuttaford, Content's Dream, Publisher's Weekly (1986)
Geoffrey O'Brien, The Maternal Drape (tr.), The Village Voice (1986), rpt. Poetry Flash (1987)
Deborah Stone," Profile," New Zealand Herald (1986)
Lee Bartlett, "What is Language Poetry?", Critical Inquiry (1986)
Ken Edwards, Content's Dream‑‑"Best Books of 1986", City Limits (London), 1986
Don Wellman, "Sound's Suggestions" (Islets/Irritations), Sagetrieb and Credences (1986)
Larry Price, "Edit Is Act: Some Measurement for Content's Dream", Line (1986)
Richard Silberg, Content's Dream, Poetry Flash (1986)
P. Smith, Content's Dream, Choice (1986)
Michael Golston, "Beachcombing Through Whimsey", Senses
of Responsibility, Jimmy & Lucy's House of "K" (1986)
John Byrum, Content's Dream, Small Press (1986)
Lee Bartlett, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, American Literary Scholarship (Duke
University Press, 1985)
Joan Retallack, Resistance, The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, and the Difficulties, Parnassus (1985)
David Bromige, The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, Poetics Journal, (1985)
Tony Green, The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, Splash (1985)
David Lloyd, The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, Poetics Journal (1985)
Benjamin Hollander, Resistance, Sulfur (1985)
Ben Friedlander, Resistance, Jimmy and Lucy's (1985)
Jean Day, Resistance, Jimmy and Lucy's (1984)
Peter Middleton, The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, Reality Studios (1984)
The Year's Work in English Studies, The English Association and
John Murray (London), The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (Vol.
66 for 1985, London)
Geoffrey O'Brien, Resistance, The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, Village Voice Literary Supplement (1984)
Mitch Highfill, Islets/Irritations, The Poetry Project Newsletter (1984)
Gerald Burns, "How to Nonread", Sulfur (1984)
Ken Edwards, Islets/Irritations, Reality Studios (1984)
Kenneth Funsten, Islets/Irritations, Los Angeles Times (1983)
Steve Roberts, "Reading Eye Lets", Poetics Journal (1983)
Burton Hatlen, Controlling Interests, Sagetrieb (1982)
Douglas Messerli, "Rhythms of the `Language' Poets",
MLA Annual Convention, New York (1982) in Green Integer blog
(2008)
Mac Wellman, "Language Outlaws" on Poetic Justice (1981)
Douglas Messerli, Stigma, Village Voice Literary Supplement (1982)
Ronald Bailey, "Poetry in Review", New York Arts (1983)
John (Mac) Wellman, Controlling Interests, Washington Review (1982)
Douglas Messerli, "Making the Mind Whole: Controlling
Interests,
" Paper Air (1982); rpt My Year 2004: Under
(Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2008)
A. L. Nielson, Controlling Interests, Gargoyle (1982)
Craig Watson, "Three Books by Charles Bernstein", Sulfur (1982)
Richard Hammersly, Review in Lobby (UK) by R.H.
Paul Green, Senses of Responsibility, Reality Studios (1980)
Andrei Codrescu, Controlling Interests, Baltimore City Paper (1980)
John Yau, Shade, The Poetry Project Newsletter (1978)
David Ingatius, Marat/Sade, The Harvard Crimson (1970)
Reviews of Shadowtime:
(online versions of most of these reviews at
Shadowtime EPC page)
GERMAN:
Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 27, 2004
Frankfurter Allgemeine, May 27, 2004
Die Welt, May 28, 2004; virtually same review in Stuttgarter
Zeitung, May 27, 2004
Niederlandeweb, May 24,. 2004
Münchener Merkur, May 27, 2004
Berliner Zeitung, May 27, 2004
Augsburger Allgemeine, May 27, 2004
Südwest Press, May 27, 2004
Abendzeitug, May 27, 2004
Die Zeit, June 3, 2004
ENGLISH:
Joel Bettridge, “Charles Bernstein's Shadowtime
and Faithful Interpretation,” Textual Practice 21(4):
737–760
(2007)
Joe Francis Doerr, "Poet as Librettist: Words for Music
by Lang-Po and New Formalist Poets" — Notre Dame
Review #22 (Summer 2006)
Klaus Lippe, "Who’s to Say, What’s to Say?:
Notes on the Reception of Brian Ferneyhough’s Opera "Shadowtime" (in
the Context of Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Art —Musik & Ästhetik
January 2006 [Heft 37]
Linda Reinfeld,"Languae Poetry and Beyond: The Music of the Fears" in On
the Sound(s) and Images of Contemporary Poetry - An American
Connection, ed. Jelle Dierickx (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie
van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, 2005)
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Tikkun, June/July
2006 (Charlie Bertsche)
Rain Taxi, Sping
2006 (Richard Deming)
Music
Web 2006 (Anne Ozorio)
The
Sunday Times (London) 2006 (Paul Driver)
Classical
Source.Com 2006 (Andrew Toovey)
Music
Web May 2006 (Hubert Culot)
The
Guardian's Observer 2006(Anthonly Holden)
TLS, Dec. 2, 2005, best books of year (Marjorie Perloff)
Jacket, Oct. 2005 (Colin Browne)
Opera News, Oct. 2005
Paris Transatlantic, Sept. 2005 (Nicholad Rice)
Congress Monthly, American Jewish Congress, Nov./Dec.
2005 (Estelle Gilson)
New York Newsday, July 26 (Daniel Schlossberg)
New York Sun, July 25 (Fred Kirshnit)
Mappemunde, July 24 (Tim Peterson)
Sequenza 21, July 23 (David Salavage)
Fait Accompli, July 22 and July 23 (Nick Piombino)
Seen & Heard (Bruce Hodges)
The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 23 (David Patrick Stearns); aslo in Andante
The New York Times, July 17, 2005 (Jermey EI\ichler)
Newark Star-Ledger, July 10, 2005 (Willa Conrad)
The Guardian, The Independent, The London Times, The Examiner, The Evening Standard, The Observor Review, The Wall Street Jounrnal, Backstage, Gay City News (NY), Ionarts, The Londonist (July 2005)
Music & Vision, June 3, 2004
The Guardian, May 28, 2004
Financial Times, May 27, 2004
Sunday Times, June 6, 2004
The Independent, June 24, 2004
Earlier Reviews:
Commentary by Roger Kamenetz, published in the Forward (NYC),
March 2004
Review in The Times, London, March 17, 2004
Review in The Guardian, March 16, 2004
Bernard Holland, "Arnold Schoenberg Choir", The New York Times March
30, 2000
Unpublished
Herman Rappaport, "Dark Sayings: Warbling Words", MLA
Annual Convention, New Orleans, 12/30/2001
Jonathan Monroe, "Gender, Miscommunication, and Levels of Address
in Ashbery, Waldrop, and Bernstein",
presented at the MLA Annual Convention, 12/29/93
Loss Glazier, "Sounding Bernstein",
the Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville,
February, 1996.
John Palattella, "Hodgepodgelodge: Dark City" (1995)
(ms, in UCSD archive)
Alan Golding, "Formal and Ideological Rupture in Language Writing", Midwest MLA Conference (1989)
Reference Works
The Literary Enclyopedia, entry by Nerys Williams (2009)
Logan Esdale, “Charles Bernstein” entry in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (2005)
Contemporary Poets (London: St. James Press; New York: St. Martin's
Press 1985); entry by Paul Christianson; updated 2001
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentierh Century, ed. Eric L. Haralson (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001), entry by Tim Woods
American Literary Scholarship : Anita
Plath Helle, "My Way in Poetry:
The 1940s to the Present" - Volume 1999,
Issue 1 1999
Postmodern Fiction: A Bio‑Bibliographic Guide, ed. Larry
McCaffery (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986); entry by Ron Silliman
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Contemporary Poets, Vol. 2 (Gale
Research, 1996); entry by Loss Pequeño Glazier
Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets : A Bio-Critical
SourceBook, ed. Joel Shatzky & Michael Taub (Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood, 1999)
Henry Sayre, "Avant‑Garde and
Experimental Writing,"
in Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988)
Eric Mottram, "Recent American Poetics", in The New Pelican
Guide to English Literature: American Literature,
ed. Boris Ford (1988)
NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Director, Job Development Services, and Associate Director,
The Cultural Council Foundation Artists Project (CETA) (1979-81). The
Artists Project employed 300 artists and was the largest public-employment
program for artists since the WPA (as part of the Comprehensive
Employment Training Act of the Carter administration).
Editor, Merck Minutes (national tabloid journal for community pharmacists)
(1984-1989)
Abstracts Editor, Modern Medicine of Canada (1977-78)
Free-lance writer, numerous medical publications and healthcare media
producers (1976-1989)
Editor, Health Manpower Consortia Newsletter, United Hospital Fund
(1976)
Staff Associate, Council on Municipal Performance (a public interest research group) (1975)
Health Eduction Coordinator, Freedom Community Clinic, Santa Barbara , California (produced pamphlets and broadsides on STDs and their treatment and organized sex education programs for schools (1973-75)
COLLEGE ARTS ACTIVITIES
Editor, Harvard Yard Journal (1968-69) (literary magazine)
Director/Dramaturg:
I Had to Buy a Ticket to the Matinee by David Keyser at the Loeb Drame
Center Exeperimental Theater (1969)
Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, at Adams House; Leonard Lehrman, music
director (1970)
The Bow and the Gun by Lionel Abel, at Adams House (1970)
Comings and Goings — montage of
Harold Pinter's Old Times,",Samuel
Beckett's Come and Go," and the transcript of the trial of the Chicago
8, at Adams House (1971)
*
Editor, Writing (1971-72): xerox magazine of writing from Adam's
House
*
Senior Thesis, "Three Compositions on Philosophy and Literature" (A
Reading of Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans, and other works,
through Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations) (1972)
*
Member, Adams House Commitee
FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES, MEMBERSHIPS AND HONOR
Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of
Pennsylvania (2009)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2006)
Dean's Award for Innovation in Teaching, University of Pennsylvania
(2005)
State University of New York Distinguished Professor (2002)
Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize of the University of California,
San Diego; for lifetime contribution to poetry and scholarship (1999)
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1995 and 1990)
University of Auckland Foundation Fellowship (1986)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1985)
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship (1980)
William Lyon McKenzie King Fellow at Simon Fraser University (1973)
ASCAPLUS Award (concert division): awarded annually each year
from 1993 to 20012
Finalist, Lenore Marshall / Nation prize best book
of the year, Republics
of Reality (Academy of American Poetry, 2001)
Finalist, ForeWord Reviews 2001poetry Book of the Year, With Strings
Phi Beta Kappa (of Alpha) (1972)
Adams House Coat-of-Arms (1972)
Award of Excellence for Journalism, The New York Times and St. Bonavenuture
University (for editing Science Survey, high school newspaper;
1968)
Yale Club of New York Book Award (outstanding high school student; 1968)
EDUCATION
M.A., honorary, University of Pennsylvania (2004)
A.B., Harvard College [Philosophy concentration](1968-1972)
Bronx High School of Science (1964-1968)
PERSONAL
Date of Birth: April 4, 1950
Married to Susan Bee (Laufer)
Children: Emma (1985-2008) and Felix (b. 1992)
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