Charles Bernstein

Steve Clay on Close Listening

Photo: Charles Bernstein / PennSound

Steve Clay and I talk about how he came to start Granary Books on Close Listening. We recorded the show on May 17, 2021. 

(60 minutes): MP3

Listen to 130 interviews and many additional readings at Close Listening and LINEbreak at PennSound.

Russell Atkins on PennSound

Worldd Too Much: The Selected Poetry of Russell Atkins, edited by Kevin Prufer and Robert E. McDonough, was published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Foreword by Janice Lowe. 

Bernard Noël (1930-2021): State of Air

Bernard Noël

States of Air
tr. Charles Bernstein
                   
                       for Viera da Silva

we have just the view
the words of wind
this void the land

here the deepening reverses
self-regard
making us leap into our eyes

always the go-and-come
the viewed and the not viewed
the graphing of not there
on that which is there

Topsy-Turvy

Please buy the book directly from the publisher, University of Chicago Press, or a local bookstore, including Bridge Street BooksSemCoop, Talking Leaves, Indiebound, McNally-Jackson, and Bookshop.Org. 

176 pages, paper and ebook. Audiobook is from Chicago and Amazon/Aubible.

Poet's Hardship Fund

Poets Hardship Fund (UK) is, according to their website, a volunteer-run and donation-reliant hardship fund for poets in the UK: