April 26, 2025

Reading from The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies at Anton Kern Gallery, New York, April 26, 2025, closing event for Love Poems, curated by Chris Martin, part of the Brooklyn Rail's "Singing in Unision" series.
Introduction by Phong Bui, readings by Mónica de la Torre, Tyhe Cooper, Vincent Katz, Erica Hunt, and Davide Balula with Charles Bernstein.
Full reading, one hour: MP4
Mónica de la Torre reading from "Doubletalking the Homophonic Sublime": MP4
Tyhe Cooper: "80 Words for Rosmarie Waldrop at 80: and " 87 Words for John Ashbery at 88": MP4
Vincent Katz: "Foreword/Firewood": MP4
Erica Hunt: "Ocular Truth and the Irreperable (Veil)": MP4
(an excerpt from this poem appears in the April, 2025, Brooklyn Rail.)
Charles Bernstein: "Languages Acknoledgement" and Heine's "Memorial"
Davide Balula and Bernstein: "Offbeat," after "Desaftnado" (1958) by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Newton Mendonra: MP4
Mimi Gross drawings from the event: