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...inclusive, challenging, sensible, ethical, accessible...and defined by a lively style that manages to fuse academic discourse with a more conversational, energetic, and even impassioned one. Los Angeles Review of BooksWHEN: *Today* Friday, October 26, 2012, at 3:00 p.m.COST: Free (open to the public)WHERE: J.A. de Sève Cinema, J.W. McConnell (LB) Building (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.), … Continue reading Today at 3PM: Charles Bernstein

Poetry will never win the war on terror But neither will error abetted by error We girly men are not afraid Of uncertainty or reason or interdependence We think before we fight, then think some more Proclaim our faith in listening, in art, in compromise So be a girly man & sing this gurly song … Continue reading “The Ballad of the Girlie Man” by Charles Bernstein

Only one more day until Writers Read presents Charles Bernstein. To celebrate, here is a fun (and funny) Yellow Pages ad featuring Bernstein himself. Hope to see you tomorrow at 3PM!WHEN: Friday, October 26, 2012, at 3:00 p.m.COST: Free (open to the public)WHERE: J.A. de Sève Cinema, J.W. McConnell (LB) Building (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.), … Continue reading Bernstein On the Yellow Pages

(An archival photograph of Charles Bernstein with literary theorist and philosopher, Kenneth Burke, in 1984) Only two more days until Charles Bernstein's 2012 public reading at Concordia University. WHEN: Friday, October 26, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. COST: Free (open to the public) WHERE: J.A. de Sève Cinema, J.W. McConnell (LB) Building (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. … Continue reading Charles Bernstein in 2012 (and 1984)

"Pinky’s Rule is a seven-minute animated drawing. The sound track features Sillman reading Bernstein’s poem. In making the work, the collaborators went back and forth, toggling from image to poem and poem to image, so that it is impossible to say which came first. All the images bounce off the poem and the poem is … Continue reading “Pinky’s Rule” Animation

"Disagreement is not a means to a consensus … dissensus is the goal” This line and many more from Charles Bernstein's Attack of the Difficult Poems are unpacked and discussed by Poetry Foundation's Joel Brouwer as he searches for the meaning and "lovable" importance of poetry criticism. Hear Charles Bernstein read, live, this Friday at … Continue reading Analysis of “…the Difficult Poems”

The New York Times calls Charles Bernstein "a writer who is accessible, enormously witty, often joyful — and even more evilly subversive"; a writer whose poetry is filled with "documentation, commemoration, celebration, satire, theory mongering, genuine sentiment." We at Writers Read are proud to call him our upcoming guest. WHEN: Friday, October 26, 2012, at … Continue reading THIS WEEK: Charles Bernstein at Concordia University

(Photo by Cecilia Gronberg) If poets are said to be “painters with words,” then Charles Bernstein would surely moonlight working in a custom frame shop. With samples lining the walls—from the gaudiest fake-gold scrollwork to the most austere black lacquer finish—I imagine him testing the clients’ nerves by frantically holding every outlandish sample to the … Continue reading Charles Bernstein Selects His Poems

for Gabriele MintzAs Billy goes higher all the balloonsGet marooned on the other side of theLunar landscape. The module’s broke—It seems like for an eternity, but who’sCounting—and Sally’s joined the MooniesSo we don’t see so much of her anyhow.Notorious novelty—I’d settle for a goodCup of Chase & Sand-borne—though whenThe strings are broken on the guitarYou … Continue reading “Gertrude and Ludwig’s Bogus Adventure” by Charles Bernstein