Responses to “A Defense of LLM-Assisted Poetics” open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...

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.”

“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...

Until 12/3/2025, 30% off all my University of Chicago Press books with code "Holiday25" tiny.cc/kinds

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

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

"The New Colossus" by @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social

jacket2.org/commentary/e... Eyeblink: Paul Stephens and Charles Bernstein on Robert Grenier with radio host Kyle Schlessinger One hour mp3: new on PennSound

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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#megaWOKE #BigLieTrump. #BLT

The Acts of the Reappearing Pheasant: New Collection open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...

LINEbreak and Close Listening: 30 years open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...

George Kuchar on Close Listening: Transcript open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...

The Fiction of Memory: Raymond Federman on LINEbreak : transcript -- open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...

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.

Susan Howe: Transcript of LINEbreak interview with Charles Bernstein open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...

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...

Reading in Hillsdale with Eve Grubin open.substack.com/pub/evegrubi...

On Tracie Morris’s “Invisible Man on a Station in the Metro” with Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...

Mimi Gross & Red Grooms: The Artists Who Made a “Sculpto-Pictorama” of Manhattan hyperallergic.com/1033335/the-...

A memorial tribute to Cole Heinowitz, ed. Felix Bernstein, @ Brooklyn Rail (online only). W/ Funkhouser, Barber, Champion, Newberger, kaufman, Yankelevich, Cushing, Almeida, Durand, Ulman, Rothschild, Carla Harryman, Nada Gordon, Lauterbach, Kelly, Cope, Katz, Tyc. brooklynrail.org/tribute/a-tr...

Al Filreis and I convene in the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House to discuss Al Jolson's take on the 1932 American Standard "Brother Can You Spare A Dime" written by Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney, jacket2.org/commentary/s...

At the #NYC Swiss Institute last Saturday, a great performance by @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social & davidebalula.com documented a bit although not captured in this nice article in Jacket2 — with some product placement for the OUTPUT anthology! jacket2.org/commentary/A...

Substack's an easy way to get notifications of my Jacket2/commentaries: chbernstein.substack.com

Which is more creative: Nobel prize lyrics or AI poems?: Our virtual experts weighs in. Plus performances (de- and re-), discussions, interviews, pictures in/around my AI poetry collaboration with Davide Balula: jacket2.org/commentary/A...

My AI poems, Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End, written w Davide Balula, in performance @ Swiss Institute, NY, tmrw, Sat. 7/19 @ 2pm Get the book at Printed Matter. Listen to the audiobook free at balula.org/ai/cbdb/ Event info & rsvp: swissinstitute.net/event/synthe...

régis bonvicino (1955-2025) text by Charles Bernstein: http://slowforward.net/2025/07/06/regis-bonvicino-1955-2025/

Eight poems for *Dodging*: bigother.com/2025/07/06/e...

Régis Bonvicino (1955-2025). My tribute to Régis, at Jacket2 jacket2.org/commentary/b...

Highlights of my recent visit to China, talking poetry and poetics: jacket2.org/commentary/c...

In 1982, The NY Public Theater presented a "Language/Noise Festival." RIchard Foreman introduced a small group of poets c. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, including Bruce Andrews, James Sherry, Hannah Weiner, & me. In this post: audio + transcription of Richard's intro. Goto: jacket2.org/commentary/l...

Searing new poem by Yunte Huang, "Some Observations about America" -- jacket2.org/commentary/y...

Jerome McGann's review of The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies, in Critical Inquiry, 51:4, Summer 2025. "“This person is all by himself a loose canon.”

The problem with #TACO is that in many ways, with irreparable consequences, it's wishful thinking. #BLT, as in Big Lie Trump, remains the reality and perhaps that is why it can't be a successful meme. It's prettier to think TACO than BLT. It is a symptom of denial.

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Shameless self-promotion. I'm not on Facebook, but someone sent me this.

NEW video added to ModPoPLUS: Charles Bernstein comments on ModPo week 8 and ModPo in general — www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YeD...

@markstatman.bsky.social posts four of my poems on Substack.

New book by Richard Foreman fm Further Reading Library, ed. Lampert & Burgin. "Handwritten on note cards, these aphoristic declarations and philosophical asides hover between being a stream of consciousness dialogue and a message sent from another world." furtherreadinglibrary.com/books/richar...

Reading from The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies at Kern Gallery NY 4/26: video of de la Torre, Hunt, Katz, Cooper, Balula, & me. Plus Mimi Gross drawings. jacket2.org/commentary/k...