When: Thursday, February 25, 2010

Where: Martin Segal Theatre 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309

What time: 6:30 p.m.

Event Information: Visit http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/events

Tendencies: Poetics and Practice

This series of talks curated by Tim Peterson explores the relationship between contemporary poetic manifesto, practice, queer theory and pedagogy. Come to Segal Theatre on Febrary 25 at 6:30p.m. to hear readings by Akilah Oliver, Kate Eichhorn, and PEN Member Charles Bernstein.

The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Ph. D. Program in English, and Poetics Group.
Visit http://tendenciespoetics.blogspot.com for commentary and sample recordings from past events, as well as news about upcoming events.

Charles Bernstein was born in New York City in 1950. He received his B.A. from Harvard College. Among his more than twenty books of poetry are Girly Man (University of Chicago Press , 2006), With Strings (2001), Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (2000), Dark City (1994), Rough Trades (1991), The Nude Formalism (1989), Stigma (1981), and Parsing (1976).

He is also the author of three books of essays, My Way: Speeches and Poems (1999), A Poetics (1992), and Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (1986). He has edited many anthologies of poetry and poetics including Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (1998) and The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (1984, with Bruce Andrews).

Among his translations from the French are Red, Green, and Black (1990, by Olivier Cadiot) and The Maternal Drape (1984, by Claude Royed-Journoud). In the 1970s, Bernstein co-founded the influential journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. He has also written the librettos for a number of operas with composers such as Ben Yarmolinsky, Brian Ferneyhough, and Dean Drummond.

Bernstein serves as the Executive Editor, and co-founder, of The Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY-Buffalo. His honors and awards include the Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, he is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.