Halfcircle III Poetry Journal Launch Party

Thursday 16th June, 6.30pm

Readings by:

• Emily Critchley
• Amy De'Ath
• Jonty Tiplady
• Rosa van Hensbergen

Journal ( £4 at launch / £5 usual price) features:

• Richard Barrett
• Charles Bernstein
• Emily Critchley
• Timothy Crombie
• James Cummins
• Amy De'Ath
• Tom Graham
• Lara Hawthorne
• Lisa Jeschke
• Laura Kilbride
• The Liquid Bros.
• Gerry Loose
• Tom Raworth
• Harry Sanderson
• David Savagar
• Andy Spragg
• Keston Sutherland
• Jonty Tiplady
• Rosa van Hensbergen
• Tomas Weber
• John Wilkinson

Christ's Pieces, 15 Emmanuel Rd, Cambridge CB1 1

Update on Monday 13 June, 2011 by Openned

NOTE this event now starts at 5.30pm, same day, same place.

Attack of the Difficult Poems

Attack of the Difficult Poems, [Charles Bernstein's] latest collection of essays, gathers some of his most memorably irreverent work while addressing seriously and comprehensively the state of contemporary humanities, the teaching of unconventional forms, fresh approaches to translation, the history of language media, and the connections between poetry and visual art.

Applying an array of essayistic styles, Attack of the Difficult Poems ardently engages with the promise of its title. Bernstein introduces his key theme of the difficulty of poems and defends, often in comedic ways, not just difficult poetry but poetry itself.... Along the way, he offers a wide-ranging critique of literature’s place in the academy, taking on the vexed role of innovation and approaching it from the perspective of both teacher and practitioner.

$26 / £16 (approx.) (paper) / $95 / £58 (appox.) (cloth), University of Chicago Press, April/May 2011

ISBN 9780226044767

PennSound - North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival

PennSound has made available videos from North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival, organised by Charles Bernstein and Sarah Dowling, featuring:

• Christian Bök
• Nicole Brossard
• Stephen Collis
• Jeff Derksen
• Adeena Karasick
• M. Nourbese Philip
• A. Rawlings
• Lisa Robertson
• Jordan Scott
• Fred Wah

S/N: NewWorldPoetics

S/N: NewWorldPoetics is a quarterly journal dedicated to the poetries of the Americas and to South/North [S/N] dialog. In each issue we will publish poetry and poetics in English or Spanish translation, introducing North American readers to Latin American poetry and vice versa.

S/N: NewWorldPoetics is run by Charles Bernstein and Eduardo Espina.

Website

Poetry in 1960

Monday 6th December, 11pm GMT (6pm EST)

The Writers House celebrates what happened in poetry a half century ago with a symposium entitled Poetry in 1960. Symposium host and Writers House faculty director Al Filreis brings together eleven poets each to discuss a seminal work from that pivotal year - work by Frank O’Hara, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Cage, Barbara Guest, Larry Eigner, and Jackson Mac Low.

Featuring:

• Charles Bernstein
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis
• Chris Funkhouser
• Michael S. Hennessey
• Kristen Gallagher
• Judith Goldman
• Erica Kaufman
• Mel Nichols
• Bob Perelman
• Ron Silliman
• Danny Snelson

Hosted by Al Filreis.

Watch the event live online.

Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Admission is free

(W)reading Performance Writing

In (W)reading Performance Writing writer and Co-Director of Open Dialogues Rachel Lois Clapham has assembled twenty practitioners from diverse fields of poetry, theatre, visual art and performance on the topic of Performance Writing. This unique guide comprises of syllabuses, manifestos, scores, personal testimonies and practical exercises, many drawn from resources available in the Live Art Development Agency study room. It also includes a detailed subject area index. This publication is highly speculative and encourages an active read. A note on its reading can be found in the section Invitation to (W)read.

Authors included:

• Charles Bernstein
• Caroline Bergvall
• David Berridge
• Rachel Lois Clapham
• Emma Cocker
• Mark Caffrey
• Alex Eisenberg
• John Hall
• Claire Hind
• Richard Kostelanetz
• Johanna Linsley
• Claire MacDonald
• Rebecca May Marston
• Marit Münzberg
• Tamarin Norwood
• Mary Paterson
• Joshua Sofaer
• Danae Theodoridou
• Peter Walsh
• Simon Zimmerman

Design by Marit Munzberg.

via cris cheek

Charles Bernstein - All The Whiskey In Heaven

£14.59, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010 (1st ed., 320 pages)

ISBN-10 0374103445 
ISBN-13 978-0374103446

A capacious celebration containing key selections from across the individual books, from Asylums (1975) to Girly Man (2006).

Available via the Bookshelf.

via Maggie O'Sullivan

Poetry is

In his ongoing video art work of “speaking portraits,” poet/artist George Quasha puts an impossible, but unavoidable, question before poets of all kinds and in many places: what is poetry? In response poets let us in on their private space of poetry definition. This intimate view of speaking faces, each filling the screen, shows how different it is for poets/artists to say what poetry or art is than for others (critics, historians, philosophers, viewers). For a particular poet, poetry may not only be an object, a thing historically defined, but something close to the core of one's life, perhaps even a singular event. Here we gain unique access to its nature in the person speaking.

via Ron Silliman

Charles Bernstein

[wpvideo rBNDeSaL] Charles Bernstein reading at Openned 14/05/08.

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