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Alan Loney Reading
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Monday, March 30th, 2009
Poet Alan Loney reads from his collections Rise and Day's Eye. Loney published his first book of poetry in 1971 and was co-winner of the Poetry Prize in the New Zealand Book Awards in 1977, Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland in 1992, and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne 2002-2006. Loney has published eleven books of poetry and eight books of prose (24 minutes).
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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Monday, November 14th, 2011

Joel Kuszai talks about his 2011 book Accidency, and its sampling of the author's earlier poems as well as Elizabethan poetry. Kuszai also discusses the relation of poetry to anarchist education theories.

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Monday, October 24th, 2011

Poet Joel Kuszai reads selections from his 2011 book, Accidency, published by Roof Books. Kuszai is also the editor of Poetics@, a collection of email exchanges from the Buffalo Poetics List. He teaches at Queensborough Community College.

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Ted Greenwald talks to host Charles Bernstein about being a young poet from Queens in the 1960s, how the mind takes orders from the brain, the relation of the art world to the poetry world, and about revisions, form, style, and vernacular practice.

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Monday, August 1st, 2011

Jerome McGann talks about the continuing importance of Blake and the Pre-Raphaelites, about poetry as a form of knowledge, about the disease of Romantic Ideology and about the textual condition in new and old media.

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Monday, July 18th, 2011

Jerome McGann reads from Are the Humanities Inconsequent? Interpreting Marx's Riddle of the Dog. McGann subjects current literary studies to a patacritical investigation (and it is Groucho, not Karl, and it's a pretty juicy riddle).

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Monday, July 11th, 2011

Johanna Drucker in conversation with Charles Bernstein. The program starts with Bernstein's provocative question, "are you a poet, an artist, a fiction writer, a scholar, a designer or an aesthetician — or aren't you the kind that tells?"

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Monday, May 16th, 2011

The printer, book artist, poet, and scholar (and founder of the online treasure Artists' Books Online) reads a diverse sampling of her writings spanning more than thirty years from 1971's Fragile to 2008's Combo Meals.

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

A conversation with Joan Retallack, author of eight books of poetry including Memnoir, How To Do Things With Words, and Afterrimages. She is also the author of MUSICAGE, a volume of conversations she had with John Cage over a three-year period.

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Monday, April 11th, 2011

Joan Retallack reads her poems from "The Woman in the Chinese Room" and (attention John Cage followers) she wrote a book after her conversations with the composer. Charles Bernstein hosts.

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Originally aired on Monday, February 28th, 2011

Nathaniel Mackey sits down with host Charles Bernstein to discuss how ideas such as discrepancy, discontent, rhythmic disruption, and disjuncture play a part in shaping his poetry.

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Monday, February 14th, 2011

Nathaniel Mackey reads poems from from his forthcoming collection, Nod House and some newer works. Mackey is the author of Splay Anthem<, for which he won a National Book Award.

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko lives in St. Petersburg, where he teaches, writes for the newspaper, and muses about the state of things real and unreal.

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, January 14th, 2011

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko reads his poems, with Charles Bernstein reading translations by Genya Turovskaya and Thomas Epstein. Delicious.

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Originally aired on Friday, December 17th, 2010

Anna Hallberg in conversation about her poetry with University of Pennsylvania students. She lives in Stockholm and is the author of three books of poetry.

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, December 3rd, 2010

The Swedish poet and critic The English translations were written collaboratively by the author and friends; on this program they are read by Michelle Taransky.

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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, November 19th, 2010
Jorgen Gassilewski in conversation about his poetry with University of Pennsylvania students. Gassilewski lives in Stockholm and is associated with OEI magazine and press. He has published nine books, and most recently...Read More
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, November 5th, 2010
Jorgen Gassilewski reading his poems, with Charles Bernstein / reading the translations, which were written by the author and friends. / Gassilewski is a Swedish writer, translator, cultural journalist and / critic....Read More
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, August 27th, 2010
Poet and art critic Dominique Fourcade reads Tout arrive, which was included in his 2001 book Est-ce que j'peux placer un mot? (P.O.L.). Host Charles Bernstein then reads from Everything Happens,...Read More
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, April 2nd, 2010
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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, March 19th, 2010
Poet Fred Wah reads from his collection Is a Door (Talonbooks, 2008). Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939, but he grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. He studied music and...Read More
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, March 12th, 2010
Poet, translator and essayist Erín Moure speaks with Charles Bernstein about her new book O Resplandor, translation and her use of heteronyms, as well as reading and writing in and out of identity. Erin Mouré,...Read More
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, March 5th, 2010
Poet, translator and essayist Erín Moure reads from her collection O Resplandor (Anansi, 2010). Erín Moure is a Montreal poet and translator of poetry from Galician, French, Spanish, Portuguese to English. Her...Read More
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, January 15th, 2010
In this program, recorded on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, poet Dmitry Golynko talks about the influence of post-Cold War culture on his work. Golynko views that event as "a historic moment...Read More
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, January 8th, 2010
Dimitry Golynko reads his poems in Russian and Eugene Ostashevsky, poet and translator, reads his translations of Golynko, which were recently published, alongside translations by Rebecca Bella and Simona Schneider, in...Read More
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, January 1st, 2010
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