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.

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.

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?"

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.

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.

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

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.