My centennial tribute to Stanley Cavell at Substack.

I love speech! (or anyway, it’s complicated): Parsing at 50 open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...

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...

Charles Bernstein is easily a top 5 horror composer for me

Charles Bernstein on Public Access Poetry. 1977. youtu.be/WhMEUyFKK8w?...

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_...

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) 😭

“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...

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

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

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...

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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...