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The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies (University of Chicago Press, 2024)

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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My AI collaboration with Davide Balula is now Open Access. We began work on it in December of 2019, well before I had any intimation of the consumer AI tools that would become available three years later.
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Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End
Open access PDF of my AI collaboration with Davide Balula
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Coming this Spring from University of Chicago Press / Cover image by Susan Bee In Dodging, Charles Bernstein pushes his poetics toward new kinds of formal and tonal attentions. 336 pages | 6 x 9 Paper / $26.00 Preorder now at press.uchicago.edu/.../chicago/...
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Open access, out today
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Stanley Cavell was born 100 years ago today.
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Stanley Cavell was born 100 years ago today.
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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social - Celebrating Charles Reznikoff - allenginsberg.org/2026/08/m-a-...
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Charles Reznikoff - The Allen Ginsberg Project
Charles Reznikoff, one of Allen Ginsberg’s lodestars was born on this date. See our last year’s  posting on Charles Reznikoff (including Allen’s selection of recommended poetry, chosen “according to h...
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Shibboleth Machine: Compulsory Consensus in Twenty-First-Century American Poetics. chbernstein.substack.com/p/the-shibbo...
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Poetry Clinic Advice Column: My four letters for Poetry Clinic: How can you write poems in the age of AI?, Does poetry make life less forbidding?, Is an argument possible any more?, Whither the proletariat?
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Poetry Clinic Advice Column
Poetry Clinic asked me to respond to four reader questions.
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Poetics List Reading Editions, created by Brian Kim Stefans: December 1993 – January 2014 • 242 monthly introductions • approximately 1,523,284 words • roughly 800 contributors chbernstein.substack.com/.../detail/2....
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
My centennial tribute to Stanley Cavell at Substack.
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Stanley Cavell: In & Out
on his centennial
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Will Alexander’s Wild Syncretism
[from Will Alexander’s Poetics: Readings Across the Radiant Glossaries, ed Joshua Schuster (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)]
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I love speech! (or anyway, it’s complicated): Parsing at 50 open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...
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I love speech! (or anyway, it’s complicated): Parsing at 50
Parsing was published fifty years ago in 1976 by Asylum’s Press, the press I started (with Susan Bee) to publish my first book, Asylum. There were under fifty copies made, xerox, side-staple.
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Stanford Jewish Studies @stanfordtaube.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Cite & Sound | Season 2 Episode 8 Charles Bernstein on secular Jewish poetics @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social @upenn.edu! Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2B0N... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... Or Here: jewishstudies.stanford.edu/news/cite-so...
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Cite and Sound: Charles Bernstein & Jonatan Tadmor
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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BECAMedia Presents: Charles Bernstein, Reading & Conversation with Tonya Foster
YouTube video by BECA Media
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I Walked with a ZomBee @beedelores.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Charles Bernstein is easily a top 5 horror composer for me
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Eric T. Racher @ericracher.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Charles Bernstein on Public Access Poetry. 1977. youtu.be/WhMEUyFKK8w?...
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Charles Bernstein on Public Access Poetry 12-29-77
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
At The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University on March 9: reading from Topsy-Turvy and The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies, followed by a conversation with Tonya Foster. www.youtube.com/live/GKryE5_...
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BECAMedia Presents: Charles Bernstein, Reading & Conversation with Tonya Foster
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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Grateful beyond words to have these gorgeous, generous blurbs from Charles Bernstein, Andrew Epstein, and @nicksturm.bsky.social with me on the back cover of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage + more beautiful blurbs from John Yau and William Barillas inside (copied into comments below) 😭
Back cover of Rebecca Kosick's Dispatches from the Avant-Garage with blurbs:

"Marvelous to see these ephemeral bookmarks, broadsides, and cards made permanent and in living color. Kosick captures the uncollectible soul of the Alternative Press: its DIY ebullience, samizdat ethos, Detroit politics, and postal poetics. Ken and Ann Kikolowski didn't just run a press; they assembled a rollicking crew of poets and artists. Kosick is the perfect chronicler of this whooping barn dance of an archive in process, which bursts well-wrought urns. Dispatches from the Avant-Garage afürms that poetry can't be standardized but it can be set loose."
-Charles Bernstein, author of The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies

"This is the definitive book on Ann and Ken Mikolowski's brilliantly uncatalogable Alternative Press, the thirty-year Midwestern publishing project whose experiments in poetry postcards, broadsides, bumper stickers, and more lent American poetry new intermedial forms. Incisive, companionable, and driven by Kosick's indexical archival knowledge, Dispatches from the Avant-Garage is a print culture poetry dream. The bumper sticker for this book should read: 'Nothing is ephemeral.""
-Nick Sturm, author of Publishing the New York School: Small Press Communities and American Poetry

"In this impeccably researched, sumptuously illustrated book, Rebecca Kosick dives into the wreck of the archive, uncovering a fascinating secret history of post-1945 American poetry and art through one radical, inventive small press with an unlikely home base In Detroit, far from the coasts. The Alternative Press 'will outlast the auto industry,' Allen Ginsberg once proclaimed and thanks to Kosick's lively, meticulous recovery project, it just might."
--Andrew Epstein, author of Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American
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Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“Each word, like a stone dropped in a pond, creates a ripple around it,” writes Charles Bernstein of the poetry of Louis Zukofsky, cofounder of Objectivism, born OTD in 1904. “The intersecting ripples on the surface of the pond are the pattern of the poem.” www.loa.org/books/245-se...
1931 "Objectivists" issue of Poetry magazine, edited by Louis Zukofsky (right: CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Susan Lewis @susanlewispoet.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
It’s a new issue of @positjournal.bsky.social! Charles Bernstein, Joanna Doxey, Heikki Huotari, Caroline Kanner, Genevieve Kaplan, Elina Kumra, Hank Lazer, Alice Letowt, rob mclennan, Laura Mullen, Alexandria Peary, Anne Waldman, Susan Bee, Julia M. Kunin, linn meyers & Bai Juyi trans. Jaime Robles
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Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Lola the Interpreter by Lyn Hejinian was featured in Jacket2 twice recently. You can read Sarah Riggs’ review here: jacket2.org/reviews/temp..., and excerpts compiled by Charles Bernstein here: jacket2.org/commentary/h.... #lolatheinterpreter #lynhejinian #jacket2
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Why I Am Not Messianic by Artie Intaglio
So now Bernstein comes into the bar, and he sits down next to me, offering to buy me a beer.
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Responses to “A Defense of LLM-Assisted Poetics” open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...
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Responses to “A Defense of LLM-Assisted Poetics”
In Sum 15
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
chbernstein.substack.com Written from an LLM’s POV, this essay argues that “LLM style” reflects institutional language norms, not machine intent. Drawing on Adorno & Wittgenstein, it shows how AI exposes the social production of coherence, authenticity, and the “human.”
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
“I Do not Know What There Is About That That Is Inhumane”: The Shipwreck of America -- On Heimrad Bäcker‘s Seascape and Hegseth's "kill everyone order" open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...
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“I Do not Know What There Is About That That Is Inhumane”: The Shipwreck of America
“War Crimes” is not an oxymoron, even as it may feel that way.
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Until 12/3/2025, 30% off all my University of Chicago Press books with code "Holiday25" tiny.cc/kinds
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
jacket2.org/commentary/u... I. The Uses & Limits of Difficulty: A Skeptical Reading of Charles Bernstein’s The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies II. The Case for Plurality: A Response to “The Uses and Limits of Difficulty” III. Postscript: On the Virtues & Pitfalls of LLM-Generated Criticism
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
www.literaryactivism.com
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
www.boundary2.org/the-kinds-of...
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Paul Bové and I write about peer review in scholarly/academic publishing. Paul’s is a probing, resonant reflection; my essay is more of a confection. Both respond to Amit Chaudhuri’s provocations for his Literary Activism series. Read both essays here: www.literaryactivism.com
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Literary Activism - A Series of Presentations and Interventions
Literary Activism is A Series of Presentations and Interventions. Visit to get Symposium 1 : Literary Activism, Magazine: New Writing and more.
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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"The New Colossus" by @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Charles Bernstein at KGB
You can check out Charles Bernstein's newest book, The Kind Of Poetry I Want, at The University of Chicago Press: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo236892992.html for…
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
jacket2.org/commentary/e... Eyeblink: Paul Stephens and Charles Bernstein on Robert Grenier with radio host Kyle Schlessinger One hour mp3: new on PennSound
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Susan Bee and I talk with the inimitable and fantasmagorical Mimi Gross, in a one-hour slide retrospective of her thrilling work. We taped the show yesterday, and it's available now on the Brooklyn Rail YouTube channel. & go and see excerpts from Ruckus Manhattan at the Brooklyn Museum.
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NSE #1280 | Mimi Gross, Susan Bee, Charles Bernstein
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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Charles Bernstein performs excerpts of Gertrude Stein's The Mother of Us All
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
---> jacket2.org/commentary/c...
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#megaWOKE #BigLieTrump. #BLT
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Acts of the Reappearing Pheasant: New Collection open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...
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The Acts of the Reappearing Pheasant: New Collection
The Return of Experimental Italian and American Poets and Critics: In Sum 9
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/...
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
LINEbreak and Close Listening: 30 years open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...
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LINEbreak and Close Listening: 30 years
In Sum 7
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
George Kuchar on Close Listening: Transcript open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...
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George Kuchar on Close Listening: Transcript
2009, with Charles Bernstein
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The Fiction of Memory: Raymond Federman on LINEbreak : transcript -- open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...
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The Fiction of Memory: Raymond Federman on LINEbreak (transcript)
1992 with Charles Bernstein
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Pierre Joris on Close Listening: Transcript of 2005 Close Listening conversation: open.substack.com/pub/chbernst... II will be speaking at the memorial for Joris at St. Mark’s 9/12 at 7:15pm & UPenn (Writers House) 9/10, 6pm (or Joris and Rothenberg +: launch for: Poasis II, just our from Wesleyan.
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Pierre Joris on Close Listening: Transcript
2000 conversation with Charles Bernstein
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Susan Howe: Transcript of LINEbreak interview with Charles Bernstein open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...
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Susan Howe: LINEbreak interview with Charles Bernstein
Transcript of Summer 1995 program
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Paul Auster “These Things Happen, All the Time” 30 years ago: transcript of my conversation with Paul Auster, plus link to the radio show: open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...
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Paul Auster “These Things Happen, All the Time”
1995 LINEbreak interview with Charles Bernstein: transcript
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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Video portaits 2006-2012): complete
69 portraits
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Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Reading in Hillsdale with Eve Grubin open.substack.com/pub/evegrubi...
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Self-Help Poems
At last night’s reading at The Hillsdale Library in Columbia County, New York, I read my poems before the poet and literary scholar Charles Bernstein read his work.
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