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Bernstein on PoemTalk
Graça Capinha on Régis Bonvicino's New Utopia
Witx: Complete Run on EPC
Behnaz Amani in peril in Iran
Echologs: After the poetry match in Virgil’s Eclogues, III.

Eco in Italia (Italian Echo): Audio/video of Italian trip
Poets Letteri in Solidarity with Jailed Iranian Poets
Wake Forest University Reading Oct. 25 (video)
Russian Anthology of New American Poetry
Close Listening conversation with Will Alexander transcribed
MoMA Mia: A video conversation with Amit Chaudhuri
Poem-A-Day, Poem-A-Day, Jiggety Zam: The Academy of American Poets Keeps Poetry Safe from Poetry (b20)
In a Restless World Like This Is
Solidarity with the Iranian struggle for freedom
Will Alexander: Blazing
Paul Auster discusses Stephen Crane with Bernstein: Auster's new book, Burning Boy
This is inaudible: video talk on audiobooks
Joris discusses & reads Rushdie's Satanic Verses
Etel Adnan (1925–2021)

Régis Bonvicino: in his own words
Bernstein and Olsen at Artists Space: videos: Segue Series, Nov. 20, 2021

Bill Keith: EPC page

Neeli Cherkovski, Bernstein, & Paul Vangelisti in conversation (video): Three alte kackers on books and late work

Conversations with Bengali poets

Notes toward a pedagogy of ModPo

Al Filreis

Published in the June 2023 issue of Marsh Hawk Press Review — some of my speculations on what has been happening in our open, open-ended online course on poetry in the past decade. I attempt to describe an emergent learner-centered learning that is motivated by certain kinds of poems and situates itself in a third space.

'You' and the poetics of slow violence

Reading Jose Antonio Villarán's 'Open Pit: A Story About Morococha and Extractivism in the Américas'

Honora Spicer

Jose Antonio Villarán’s Open Pit asks how to write a catastrophe whose immanence is dissipated across space and time. Tracking the poet’s research on transnational extractivism in the Peruvian mining town of Morococha, Open Pit essays a poetics of Rob Nixon’s “slow violence,” catastrophes (being products of human choices) which play out across scales that defy a pinpointed “there.”

Open Pit was published by Counterpath Press in 2022. The Spanish Tajo Abierto will be published in June 2023 by Álbum del Universo Bakterial in Lima, Peru.

“I want to be there with you and i’m not”