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Hosted by Charles Bernstein

Originally aired 8/8/05

Erica Hunt performs some of her recent poetry. Hunt has published three collections of poems – Local History, Arcade, and Piece Logic. Her essay, Notes for an Oppositional Poetics in...
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Erica Hunt Interview

Hosted by Charles Bernstein

Originally aired 8/8/05

Erica Hunt in conversation with Charles Bernstein on how poetry can (and can't) fix a broken world, on poetry as social and community praxis, on identity poetics, and on jazz. Hunt has published three collections of...
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Ted Greenwald

Hosted by Charles Bernstein

Originally aired 8/1/05

New York native Ted Greenwald reads some of his best-known poems from Common Sense along with new works. Greenwald is the author, most recently, of The Up and Up, from Atelos Press. His many other books...
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Nick Piombino Interview

Hosted by Charles Bernstein

Originally aired 7/25/05

Nick Piombino in conversation with Charles Bernstein on blogging, on the poet's career, on competition and hierarchy, and on appreciating art through the temporary suspension of judgment. Nick Piombino is the author of...
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Tan Lin Interview

Hosted by Charles Bernstein

Originally aired 7/11/05

Poet Tan Lin in an ambient conversation with Charles Bernstein about originality, boredom, appropriation, performance, art, teaching, T.S. Eliot, his Chinese parents, and his infant baby.
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Tan Lin Reading

Hosted by Charles Bernstein

Originally aired 7/4/05

Tan Lin gives an ambient reading of his recent work Controlled Vocabularies: sit back, relax, breathe deeply. Lin is the author of Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe, published by Sun & Moon in 1996 and...
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Tracie Morris Reading

Hosted by Charles Bernstein

Originally aired 6/20/05

Tracie Morris reads recent work and performs several sound poems. Morris is one of the preeminent performance poets in the U.S.

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