Charles Bernstein

May 25-June 19, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 26, 6-8 pm
A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front Street, #228, in DUMBO, Brooklyn
GALLERY HOURS: Wed-Sun, 11AM - 6PM

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thirty-seven new paintings now on-line

TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL
May 18-21, 2011 festival website
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poster: Charles Bernstein / Loss Pequeño Glazier, "Two Birds with One Stone"

At Sybil, the English portal of Sibila: Five poems from Willis's  Address: "How about," "Address," "Take This Poem," "A Species Is an Idea," "In Strength Sweetness," and "Witches." Address is a stunning book. There is a directness of social address in these poems that is powerful, haunting, ironic, and structurally perspicacious.

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Translated from Russian by Kevin Kinsella
from Katie Fowley's  Lightful Press

If you, like me, sometimes wonder why chocolates don’t grow on beds and frogs don’t use pillows, if you think that girls are cheese and boys potatoes (or is it the other round a way?); if you, even just once in a scarlet moon, imagine that little mouses are far braver than humungous lions, then these poems may be for you. Not recommended for adults! as these rimes are far too clever, and besides adults don’t like poetry.

Rae had come to read at the Kelly Writers House. Along the way she read "Make It New," from Next Life.