Jacob Burckhardt

Rudy & Jacob Burckhardt films on PennSound Cinema

The Automotive Story, 1954
A Cittadura Documentary

Rudy Burckhardt, Director
Jane Freilicher, Narration
Kenneth Koch, Text
Debussy, Poulenc, and Scriabin, Piano Music
Frank O'Hara, Music Player

Read the full transcription of a 1976 radio interview with Rudy Burckhardt about Automotive Story at Jacket Magazine.

Douglas Dunn & Dancers Cassations

92nd Street Y Oct. 5, 2012; photos by Jacob Burckhardt

Charles Bernstein

A magnificent Douglas Dunn and dancers performance Friday night, first of several this weekend in New York. Sets and costumes by Mimi Gross. Photos by Jacob Burckhardt (except Mimi Gross photo above, which is by Charles Bernstein). Last peformance today.

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Philadelphia-based writer and organizer Ray Coyne reviews three poetry collections: So Tough by Jared Stanley, Go Figure by Rae Armantrout, and Upstage by Bruce Andrews and Sally Silvers.

So Tough, Jared Stanley (Saturnalia, 2024)

Runa Bandyopadhyay on Pitch of Poetry

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Charles Bernstein

Bandyopadhyay and Bernstein in Mumbai, 2024, for launch of Pataquerical Ballad

Runa Bandyopadhyay recently published an extended review of Pitch of Poetry in Chhapakhanar Goli, 21st year issue, April 2024 (W. Bengal). For this page, she adapted and extended that review to create a new essay in English, published here for the first time. I am publishing it as part of my ongoing, transformative, collaboration with Runa, outlined in the links at the end.

Wolgamot & Me: In Memoriam Keith Waldrop

Charles Bernstein

Keith Waldrop discovered John Barton Wolgamot’s 1944 poem, IN SARA, MENCKEN, CHRIST AND BEETHOVEN THERE WERE MEN AND WOMEN while browsing in a bookshop, as he recounts here. The poem was to remain a touchstone for him both its poetic power but also as a icon of how quixotic our poetic achievement are.