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The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies (University of Chicago Press, 2024)

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“I Do not Know What There Is About That That Is Inhumane”: The Shipwreck of America “War Crimes” is not an oxymoron, even as it may feel that way.

“I Do not Know What There Is About That That Is Inhumane”: The Shipwreck of America -- On Heimrad Bäcker‘s Seascape and Hegseth's "kill everyone order"
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Until 12/3/2025, 30% off all my University of Chicago Press books with code "Holiday25"
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I. The Uses & Limits of Difficulty: A Skeptical Reading of Charles Bernstein’s The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies
II. The Case for Plurality: A Response to “The Uses and Limits of Difficulty”
III. Postscript: On the Virtues & Pitfalls of LLM-Generated Criticism

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Literary Activism - A Series of Presentations and Interventions Literary Activism is A Series of Presentations and Interventions. Visit to get Symposium 1 : Literary Activism, Magazine: New Writing and more.

Paul Bové and I write about peer review in scholarly/academic publishing. Paul’s is a probing, resonant reflection; my essay is more of a confection. Both respond to Amit Chaudhuri’s provocations for his Literary Activism series. Read both essays here:
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"The New Colossus" by @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social

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Charles Bernstein at KGB You can check out Charles Bernstein's newest book, The Kind Of Poetry I Want, at The University of Chicago Press: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo236892992.html for…

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Eyeblink: Paul Stephens and Charles Bernstein on Robert Grenier
with radio host Kyle Schlessinger
One hour mp3: new on PennSound

01.11.2025 13:30 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
NSE #1280 | Mimi Gross, Susan Bee, Charles Bernstein
YouTube video by The Brooklyn Rail NSE #1280 | Mimi Gross, Susan Bee, Charles Bernstein

Susan Bee and I talk with the inimitable and fantasmagorical Mimi Gross, in a one-hour slide retrospective of her thrilling work. We taped the show yesterday, and it's available now on the Brooklyn Rail YouTube channel. & go and see excerpts from Ruckus Manhattan at the Brooklyn Museum.

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Charles Bernstein performs excerpts of Gertrude Stein's The Mother of Us All
YouTube video by PennSound Charles Bernstein performs excerpts of Gertrude Stein's The Mother of Us All

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The Acts of the Reappearing Pheasant: New Collection The Return of Experimental Italian and American Poets and Critics: In Sum 9

The Acts of the Reappearing Pheasant: New Collection
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LINEbreak and Close Listening: 30 years In Sum 7

LINEbreak and Close Listening: 30 years
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06.09.2025 21:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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George Kuchar on Close Listening: Transcript 2009, with Charles Bernstein

George Kuchar on Close Listening: Transcript
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The Fiction of Memory: Raymond Federman on LINEbreak (transcript) 1992 with Charles Bernstein

The Fiction of Memory: Raymond Federman on LINEbreak : transcript -- open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...

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Pierre Joris on Close Listening: Transcript 2000 conversation with Charles Bernstein

Pierre Joris on Close Listening: Transcript of 2005 Close Listening conversation: open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...
II will be speaking at the memorial for Joris at St. Mark’s 9/12 at 7:15pm & UPenn (Writers House) 9/10, 6pm (or Joris and Rothenberg +: launch for: Poasis II, just our from Wesleyan.

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Susan Howe: LINEbreak interview with Charles Bernstein Transcript of Summer 1995 program

Susan Howe: Transcript of LINEbreak interview with Charles Bernstein open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...

30.08.2025 18:13 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Paul Auster “These Things Happen, All the Time” 1995 LINEbreak interview with Charles Bernstein: transcript

Paul Auster “These Things Happen, All the Time”
30 years ago: transcript of my conversation with Paul Auster, plus link to the radio show: open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...

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Video portaits 2006-2012): complete 69 portraits

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Self-Help Poems At last night’s reading at The Hillsdale Library in Columbia County, New York, I read my poems before the poet and literary scholar Charles Bernstein read his work.

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On Tracie Morris’s “Invisible Man on a Station in the Metro” with Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein Invisible Man

On Tracie Morris’s “Invisible Man on a Station in the Metro” with Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein
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The Artists Who Made a “Sculpto-Pictorama” of Manhattan With a zest for New York City and its people, Ruckus Manhattan by Red Grooms and Mimi Gross chooses celebration over hopelessness.

Mimi Gross & Red Grooms: The Artists Who Made a “Sculpto-Pictorama” of Manhattan hyperallergic.com/1033335/the-...

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A Tribute to Cole Heinowitz | The Brooklyn Rail Cole Heinowitz (November 27, 1974–May 24, 2025) was an accomplished writer, musician, translator and scholar. These tributes to Heinowitz were collected and edited by Heinowitz’s friend, colleague, an...

A memorial tribute to Cole Heinowitz, ed. Felix Bernstein, @ Brooklyn Rail (online only). W/ Funkhouser, Barber, Champion, Newberger, kaufman, Yankelevich, Cushing, Almeida, Durand, Ulman, Rothschild, Carla Harryman, Nada Gordon, Lauterbach, Kelly, Cope, Katz, Tyc.

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Brother Can You Spare a Dime? | Jacket2

Al Filreis and I convene in the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House to discuss Al Jolson's take on the 1932 American Standard "Brother Can You Spare A Dime" written by Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney, jacket2.org/commentary/s...

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Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End: Intelligent Artifice and the Poetics of Artificial Intelligence | Jacket2

At the #NYC Swiss Institute last Saturday, a great performance by @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social & davidebalula.com documented a bit although not captured in this nice article in Jacket2 — with some product placement for the OUTPUT anthology!

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@l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e is following 20 prominent accounts