Gerrit Lansing reads selections from his collected poems, The Heavenly Tree/Northern Earth. His work fusing Modernist poetic experiment with occult and spiritual themes served as a precursor of and influence upon 1960s counterculture.

Matvei Yankelevich reads from Alpha Donut, his United Artists collection of poems, and from a new poem, "Some Words for Dr. Vogt". He is the author of a number of chapbooks and a novella and is a widely published translator of Russian poetry.

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.

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).