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Madeleine Thien is interviewed by "On the Move," discussing, among other things, the importance of Canada and Malaysia to her work.

The New Yorker is giving us yet another reason to be proud this week. Pick up a copy of this week's issue to find a poem, "Sponsor," by Rae Armantrout, who was a guest of Writers Read this semester.

We are proud to report that Irish writer Kevin Barry, who will be joining Writers Read for a reading on March 8, 2013, is featured in this week's The New Yorker. You can read his interview about that piece, which is called "Ox Mountain Death Song," and his recent novel, City of Bohane, in this … Continue reading Upcoming Reader, Kevin Barry, in The New Yorker

The readings for this semester may be over, but next semester is right around the corner! To prepare, pick up Montreal-based writer Madeleine Thien's recent novel, Dogs at the Perimeter, and find out why The Globe and Mail raves that the "clarity and elegance" of Thien's prose leads to her "insight, compassion and quiet determination." … Continue reading Get a Jump Start on Next Semester’s Readings

...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”