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Conversations and readings with poets and artists, produced in cooperation with
PennSound.
Host Charles Bernstein
is the author of Shadowtime (Green Integer, 2005), With Strings (University of Chicago Press, 2001), Republics of Reality: Poems 1975-1995 (Sun & Moon Press, 2000), and My Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago, 1999). He is Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tranter talks about editing Jacket, about the influence of Rimbaud and Hopkins, and about his connection to the New York School (Ashbery, O'Hara, Schuyler). Tranter is the editor of the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (1991), published in Britain and the US as the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry. He is the editor of the remarkable web literary magazine Jacket. Tranter was born in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia and now lives in Sydney.
Charles Bernstein interviews
Peter Gizzi . His books include The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007) and Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003). He teaches at UMass-Amerhest.
Peter Gizzi reads selections from his major poetry books. His books include The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007) and Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003). He teaches at UMass-Amerhest.
Elizabeth Willis talks about the influence of Blake and the Pre-Raphaelites and J.M.W. Turner, as well as discussing the relation of artifice and sincerity. Willis teaches literature and creative writing at Wesleyan. Her book include Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003) and The Human Abstract (Penguin,1995).
Elizabeth Willis reads a retrospective selection of her poetry. Willis's most recent collection of poems, Meteoric Flowers, was published by Wesleyan in 2006. An edited volume on Lorine Niedecker is presently in production.
Al Filreis talks about his new book The Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). Filries is co-founder of PennSound and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of two previous books, both on Wallace Stevens. A short excerpt from the book can be found at his blog.
The second and last part of the reading and interview sessions with Douglas Messerli. His poetry, plays, and fiction have been published internationally. You can find out more about his press by going to Green Integer.
Douglas Messerli discusses his work at a magazine and book publisher as well as his most recent work, a prose mix of memoir and essays. Messerli was the editor and publisher of Sun & Moon Press; he now published Green Integer books. The two presses are among the most important independent publishers of poetry, fiction, and translation.
Douglas Messerli is a poet, playwright, librettist, novelist, and memoirist, living in Los Angeles. His books include After, A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky: Six Short Plays, and First Words.
Ernie Gehr is one of the visionary independent film makes of our time. Gehr’s many films include Reverberation (1969), Serene Velocity (1970), Side/Walk/Shuttle (1991) and Signal - Germany on the Air (1982-1985). His work was feature in the 2007 New York Film Festival and he has an exhibit, and a series of film showings, throughout this season at MoMA.
Henry Hills discusses sound editing for movies, the pleasures of 16mm film, and the downtown arts scene of the 1970s. Henry Hills is a film maker whose many works include Electricity, shown this past year at the New York Film Festival, as well as Emma's Dilemma, Money, Radio Adios, and Plagiarism.
Maggie O'Sullivan answers questions about the elusive meaning of her work, about her performances, and about the visual work in her books and its relation to her poetry. from students at the University of Pennsylvania. Maggie O'Sullivan is a poet, performer and visual artist from Yorkshire, in the north of England. Her most recent book is Body of Work.
Maggie O'Sullivan reads from her new book, Body of Work, which brings together writing from the last 30 years. Maggie O'Sullivan is a poet, performer and visual artist from Yorkshire, in the north of England. Her books include An Incomplete Natural History (1984), In the House of the Shaman (1993), Red Shifts (2000) and "Palace of Reptiles" (2003). In 1996, she edited out of everywhere: An anthology of contemporary linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America and the UK.
Bernadette Mayer talks about writing and altered states of consciousness and discusses the composition of her long poem all written in one day, Mid-Winter Day. Mayers books include her first book, Story from 1968, Studying Hunger, Memory, A Bernadette Mayer Reader New Directions, 1992, Midwinter Day (recently republished) and her most recent book, Scarlet Tanager, New Directions, 2005. O-9, which he edited with Vito Acconci, has just been reissued by Ugly Duckling Presse. Mayer was born in Brooklyn and now lives in update New York.
Lee Ann Brown talks about her Southern roots as an impetus for her deformative ballads and her buoyant advocacy of poems in many forms. She also discussed the relation of motherhood to art making. Brown in the author of Polyverse (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1999) and The Sleep that Changed Everything (Wesleyan University Press, 2003). She teaches at St Johns University in New York City.
Moscow poet Sergei Gandlevsky discusses his approach to reciting poems from memory, the condition of poetry both before and after 1989, his use of traditional meter within the context of a "conceptual" and darkly comic poetry, ending with some remarks on whom he writes for and on the insincerity of sincerity. Poet and translator Eugene Ostashevsky joins host Charles Bernstein for the conversation. Kevin Platt translates. (54 minutes)
Born in 1952 in Moscow, Sergei Gandlevsky was an important figure in nonofficial alternative poetry circles during the 1970s. After 1989, Gandlevsky has come to be considered one of Russia's most important contemporary poets. He is the author of many books of poems, a memoir and a collection of essays. He has one collection in English from Zephyr press, A Kindred Orphanhood,/i>, translated by Philip Metres. Kevin Platt and Eugene Ostachevsky read various translations and Bob Perelman joins the group reading his translation of a Gandlevsky poem.
Myung Mi Kim discusses her work with University of Pennsylvania undergraduates. She discusses working between Korean and English, the use of "vocable" sounds in her work, the white space of the page, what in poems are scrutable and inscrutable, and the unsayable. Her most recent collection of poems is Commons (University of California Press). (57 minutes)
Myung Mi Kim reads from several her published poetry collections, Under Flag, The Bounty, Dura, and Commons. Kim teaches in the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo. Her author page is here. (26 minutes)
Phong Bui assesses the contemporary art scene, his passage from war-torn Vietnam to New York, his engagement with the New York intellectuals of the 1940s and 1950s, and his role as the publisher of The Brooklyn Rail. Bui was born in Vietnam in 1964 and moved to the United States in 1980, studied at the University of the Arts and at the New York Studio School, and now lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is also currently (2007) a Curatorial Advisor for P.S.1.
Abigail Child talks about cutting, sound editing, documentary, the use of found footage, the relation of film making to poetry writing, and gender politics. Child is a poet and film maker. Her first film, from 1970, was a documentary called Except the People. More recent films include Mirror World, To and No Fro, Dark Dark, Surface Noise, B/Side, and Where the Girls Are. Her series Is This What You Were Born For? includes the films Prefaces (1981), Mutiny (1983), Both (1988), Perils (1986), Covert Action, Mayhem (1987), and Mercy (1989). On The Downlow, a documentary, just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Child is Chair of Film/Animation at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Abigail Child reads a selection from her poetry of the last 30 years. Child is a film maker and poet who lives in New York. Her most recent book is This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film (University of Alabama Press, 2005). Her poetry books include Artificial Memory, Scatter Matrix, Mob, A Motive for Mahem, and From Solids.
John Yau discusses his aesthetics and cultural politics, talks in detail about his poem "Borrowed Love Poem," and describes his collaborations with visual artists. Yau's books of art criticism include The United States of Jasper Johns (1996) and In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993). His criticism has been published in Artforum, Art in America, Art News, Bookforum, and the Los Angeles Times. (29 minutes)
John Yau reads from three recent collections: Borrowed Love Poems (2002) and Paradiso Diaspora (2006) both from Penguin and from Ing Grish. Yau is a poet and art critic, publisher of Black Square Editions, and art editor of The Brooklyn Rail.
Norman Fischer discusses Opening to You: Zen Inspired Translations of the Psalms, the relation of Zen to poetry, and anxiety and art-making. Fischer is the author of I Was Blown Back (Singing Horse Press, 2005) and Slowly But Dearly (Chax, 2004). He lives in Sausalito, California.
Norman Fischer reads from several of his poetry collections, including Turn Left in Order to Go Right, Success, Slowly but Dearly, and I Was Blown Back. Fischer is a poet, Zen priest and teacher of Jewish and Buddhist spiritual practices. He is also the founder of everydayzen.org.
Davies discusses poetry, language, truth, and perception. His books of poetry include Name and Mneumontechnics. Visit the Alan Davies author page, (under construction as of April 2007).
Alan Davies reads from Book 2 and Book 3 / Bad Dad. Davies is a poet living in New York. His books include RAVE, Signage, and Active 24 Hours. Writing Life is forthcoming from O Books.
Ann Lauterbach in conversation with Charles Bernstein. Lauterbach talks about sound, performance, and folk music and goes on to engage the difficult relation of gender and authority. She also discusses Missing Ages, a poem she read on Edition 29. Lauterbach is Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature and Director of the graduate writing program at Bard College. Her most recent books are Hum (New York: Penguin, 2005) and The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (New York: Viking, 2005). In 2001, Penguin published If In Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000.
Ann Lauterbach reads from two recent collection of poetry If In Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 (New York, Penguin, 2001) and Hum (New York: Penguin, 2005). Lautebach is Ruth and David E. Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature and Director of Bard's graduate writing program. She is also the author of The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (New York: Viking, 2005).
