Close Listening | Clocktower Gallery & Radio

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RADIO SERIES

Close Listening

Hosted by Charles Bernstein

Conversations and readings with poets and artists, produced in cooperation with PennSound and hosted by Charles Bernstein, the American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar.

RADIO // Close Listening John Tranter Reading Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show John Tranter, poet and Editor of the remarkable web literary magazine Jacket, reads some of his work. Tranter was born in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia and now lives in Sydney. Originally aired 7/14/08 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Close Listening Peter Gizzi Interview Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show A conversation with poet Peter Gizzi, whose books include The Outernationale (2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003), Artificial Heart (1998), and Periplum (1992). He teaches at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Charles Bernstein interviews Peter Gizzi, whose books include The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007) and Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003). He teaches at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Originally aired 6/23/08 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Close Listening Peter Gizzi Reading Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show Peter Gizzi reads selections from his major poetry books, which include The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007) and Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003). Peter Gizzi reads selections from his major poetry books, which include The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007) and Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003). Originally aired 6/2/08 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Close Listening Elizabeth Willis Interview Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show Elizabeth Willis talks about the influence of Blake and the Pre-Raphaelites and J.M.W. Turner on her work and discusses the relation between artifice and sincerity. Willis teaches literature and creative writing at Wesleyan. Her books include ... Originally aired 5/26/08 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Close Listening Elizabeth Willis Reading Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show Elizabeth Willis reads a retrospective selection of her poetry. Willis's most recent collection of poems, Meteoric Flowers, was published by Wesleyan in 2006. She also edited Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place... Originally aired 5/5/08 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Close Listening Al Filreis Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show Al Filreis talks about his 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... Originally aired 4/28/08 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Close Listening Douglas Messerli Interview, Pt. 2 Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show This is 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. Originally aired 4/14/08 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Close Listening Douglas Messerli Reading Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show 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. Originally aired 3/17/08 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Close Listening Douglas Messerli, Interview, Pt. 1 Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show 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 publishes Green Integer books. The two... Originally aired 3/17/08 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Close Listening Lee Ann Brown Interview Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show 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 discusses the relation of motherhood to art making. Brown in the author of Polyverse (Sun &... Originally aired 10/29/07 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Close Listening Sergei Gandlevsky Interview Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show 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... Originally aired 10/1/07 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Close Listening Abigail Child Interview Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show 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 ... Originally aired 8/13/07 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Close Listening Abigail Child Reading Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show Abigail Child reads a selection from her poetry of the last 30 years. Child is a filmmaker and poet who lives in New York. Her books include This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film, Artificial Memory, Scatter Matrix, Mob, A... Originally aired 8/6/07 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Close Listening John Yau Interview Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show John Yau discusses his aesthetics and cultural politics, talks in detail about his Borrowed Love Poem, and describes his collaborations with visual artists. Yau's books of art criticism include The United States of Jasper Johns (1996)... Originally aired 7/16/07 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Close Listening John Yau Reading Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show John Yau reads from three recent collections: Borrowed Love Poems (2002), Paradiso Diaspora (2006), and Ing Grish. Yau is a poet and art critic, publisher of Black Square Editions, and Art Editor of The Brooklyn Rail. Originally aired 7/2/07 Listen Read More »