presents

poet

Charles Bernstein

Saturday, April 2, 7pm,

ORTSPACE, 121 E. 7th Street

(use entry on east side of building, at alley door)

Admission: $5; Students $3

Charles Bernstein is the author of over twenty collections of poetry, including With Strings (Chicago, 2001), Republics of Reality: 1975 - 1995 (Sun & Moon, 2000), Dark City (Sun & Moon, 1994), The Sophist (Sun & Moon, 1987; rpt Salt Publishing 2004), Islets/Irritations (Jordan Davies, 1983; rpt. Roof Books, 1992); and Controlling Interests (Roof, 1980, rpt. 2004).  He has published three collections of essays—My Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago, 1999), A Poetics (Harvard, 1992), and Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Sun & Moon, 1985; rpt Northwestern, 2001)—and is the editor of several collections—Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (Oxford, 1999), 99 Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium (Duke, 1998), and The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy (Roof, 1990)—as well as of the audio CD Live at the Ear and the poetics magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, whose first issue was published in 1978.  He is executive editor of the Electronic Poetry Center (http://epc.buffalo.edu). Bernstein has collaborated with painter Susan Bee on several artist's books. In 2001, he curated Poetry Plastique, a show of visual and sculptural poetry at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, and he has written librettos for Brian Ferneyhough, Dean Drummond, and Ben Yarmolinsky. Shadowtime, his opera with Ferneyhough centering on the life and work of Walter Benjamin, premiered in Munich in May 2004. For several years Bernstein hosted the poetry radio show LINEbreak (available at the EPC website), and at the University of Pennsylvania he is working on a range of digital and sound projects in collaboration with the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.  Bernstein has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and of the Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize of the University of California, San Diego.  From 1989 to 2003, he taught at the State University of New York, where he was co-founder and Director of the Poetics Program and a SUNY Distinguished Professor.  He is currently Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.  For more, go to Charles Bernstein's home page at the Electronic Poetry Center: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/

& coming up . . .

     April 30: poet/critic David Levi Strauss & poet Jason Zuzga

     May 7: poets Austin Publicover & Dlyn Fairfax Parra

POG events are sponsored in part by grants from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. POG also benefits from the continuing support of The University of Arizona Poetry Center, the Arizona Quarterly, Chax Press, and The University of Arizona Department of English. 

thanks to our growing list of 2004-2005 Patrons and Sponsors:

We're also grateful to hosts and programming partners

·         Casa Libre en La Solana Inn & Guest House

·         Dinnerware Contemporary Arts gallery

·         Las Artes Center (see stories in El Independiente and the Tucson Weekly)

·         O-T-O Dance at ORTSPACE

·         MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art)

·         Alamo Gallery (see this Tucson Arts District page)

for further information contact

POG: 615-7803, pog@gopog.org; or visit us on the web at www.gopog.org