CINEMA
(video works)
Video
Portraits: Series One to Eleven
The Yellow Pages Ads by Jeff Preiss with Jon Lovitz
home movies by Henry Hills from c. 1988
Talk
To Me (19:16) from "Impulsive
Behavior" at the Whitney Museum, NY, April 8,
1999
Two
films by Lara Odell: "Incident at Wal-Mart" and "Making
Whoopee"
The
Answer by Neils Plenge, a poetry video (2003)
Of related interest: Plenge, Lars Movin, and Thomas Thurah, "Something Wonderful May Happen" (2001) on Ashbery, Schuyler, & New York School & beyond, documentary: mp4
What
Makes a Poem a Poem (60-second lecture) - UPenn, April 21, 2004 (1:23)
Blind
Witness: Three
American Operas (2008)
MoMA Futurist Manifesto Centennial, Feb. 20, 2009
"What Is Language Poetry?" -- 30 second lecture 2 -- San Francisco, May 12, 2010, via YouTube
"My Own Private Iowa," "On the Fly" interview, Iowa City, 11-02-10.
Felix Bernstein's video for Stacy Doris's The Cake Part, at Jacket2 (June 2011); media server link.
Pinky's Rule, an animated drawing by Amy Sillman & Charles Bernstein, 2011
"On Election Day," filmed by Gabe Rubin, August 2012 and published with subtitles Nov. 15, 2013, in Fohla, Sao Paulo, Brazil, tr. Regis Bonvicino.: PennSound link | text
"Misguided" (after Frank O'Hara's 'Second Avenue"") (2016): MP4 YouTube and Jacket2 feature
"Report, after Bruce Conner" film projector showing Conner's "Report" (1963-1967) with synch sound of Kennedy assassination news report:
MP4 YouTube
This is inaudible: video talk on poetry and audiobooks for a conference in Sweden: DLK (Den Lyssnande Kritiken), Sept. 17, 2022.
(11:18): MP4
"RecapX2" for Vincent Broqua, Jan. 14, 2023, poem from Near Miss: mp4, mp3, wav
Video plays for Zoom launch at Flow Chart Foundation for Alchemies of Theater: Plays, Scores, Writings by Dick Higgins, edited by Bonnie Marranca, U Michigan Press, 2024: MP4
Karolo Sukceno’s Neo-Benshi soundtrack to a scene from It Happened One Night – at Hudson Hall, Hudson, NY on Aug. 30, clip selected by Jeffrey Lependorf for a Flow Chart Foundation event. Neo-Benshi performers create new soundracks for films, usually live. Jacket2 (link and intro); PennSound MP4, YouTube [additional short clip of stage performance: mp4]
"Ocular Truth and the Acturarial Imagination: Wallace Stevens's Not So Plain Senses of Things," Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens, Harford Nov. 2, 2004: MP4
"Speed Listening: Reading Machines and Audio Phantasy," Nov. 2024, First International Conferenceon Phonetics and PoeticsMP4 PennSound only
"Malady of the West" (August 2025); (03:16) MP4
"Difference" (Hillsdale, NY 8/25/25); (00:26) MP4
VIDEO
(recordings of mostly poetry readings; for most talks go to "talks")
Public Access Poetry, Dec. 29, 1977
Reading at The Knitting Factory, NYC, December 4, 1988 as captured in the film Jack
Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues"
Reading at The Poetry Project, 1990: "Debris of Shock / Shock of Debris," "The Ballad of the Blue-Green Plate," "Sunsickness," Virtual Reality," and "How I Painted Certain of My Pictures." MP4
All poems from Dark City, except "Ballad," which is from With Strings.
From
an Auckland-New York video conference for Bad Language, organised
by Artspace and the Jar Foundation, 11 July 2001. Auckland participants:
Wystan Curnow, Leigh Davis, Tony Green
Full program (1:38:47): mp4 / rm (download)
Excerpts:
Poem
Composed for Jackson Mac Low, from With
Strings (U of Chicago P, 2001).
Thank
You for Saying Thank You from Girly
Man (U Chicago Press, 2006)
Dear
Mr. Fanelli from My Way: Speeches
and
Poems (U
of Chicago P, 1999)
SUNY-Buffalo Poetics Program, March 5, 2003 -- Center for the Arts
"War Stories" text
Cork Poetry Festival, Summer 2004, film by Adam Wyeth with Nathaniel Mackey, Randolph Healey, and Charles Bernstein. [Excerpt below.]
Interview with Susan Bee Bernstein for Janet Roberts' "Here & There," May 10, 2005: video
"Thank
You for Saying Thank You" [youtube] from SoundEye Fesitival,
2005 (montage of poem and interview about Shadowtime from
film by Adam Wyeth and Keith Walsh [Longer version above.]
University
of Chicago Poem Present series: Nov. 30 / Dec. 1, 2006 (audio and video; lecture and reading)
Cue Foundation launch/reading for Girly Man, January 16, 2007
"What, Me Conceptual?," May, 2008 Tucson
Openned London
May 14, 2008: .mov
Double Change, Paris, October 25, 2008, bilingual reading with Abigail Lang
Cross Cultural Poetics, January 5, 2010
"Morality," Kootenary School of Writing, Perel Gallery Vancouver, Jan. 8, 2010 on YouTube [PennSound backup]
"Castor Oil" and "All the Whiskey in Heaven" from All the Whiskey in Heaven, The Renaissance Society , University of Chicago, Feb. 14, 2010: YouTube; PennSound
Reading at the Banff Center (Alberta, Canada), "In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge," Feb. 20, 2010; video by David Jhave Johnston
All the Whiskey in Heaven: Kelly Writers House, UPenn, launch, April 8, 2010
videos by Nicole Peyrafitte (more info/pix via Peyrafitte): & another picture here
"Dodgems" read by Sherry and Felix Bernstein: YouTube and on PennSound: m4v
Susan Bee reading "The Measure" and commentary: m4v
Pierre Joris, All the Armagnac in Heaven (begins partly into poem): mov
Charles Bernstein, reading: mov and just final (title poem) on YouTube (via Joris)
Reading at San Francisco State University, Recorded by Cloud House Poetry Archives, May 12, 2010: Video
Reading at Sculpture Center, Queens, NY, May 16, 2010; for Emma, on her birthday: from Umbra "In the Middle of the Way," (Drummond), "Be Drunken" (Baudelaire); and"All the Whiskey in Heaven", followed by reading of Joseph Straub: YouTube:
"Morality," at Oslo Poetry Festival, Oct. 9, 2010, with Jordan Scott and Pär Thörn on YouTube (PennSound backup)
Dongguk University, Seoul, Oct. 19, 2010 (152 minutes): video
"Transnationalism and Cultural Translation: Distinguished Lecture Series and Symposium"
•Introduced by Brother Anthony. Poster here (pdf)
•Begins with lecture by Prof. Youngmin Kim on "Poetry and Typography/Topology: The Poetics of the Grid/Klein Bottle in Transnational 20thPoetry in English.”
•Then Bernstein talk/reading/discussion on poetry, sound, and technology starts at 40', talking through three essays: "The Art of Immemorability," " Making Audio Visible: Poetry's Coming Digital Presence," and
"Hearing Voices," (all collected in Attack of the Difficult Poems). At 66' there is a reading of "Most Frequently Words in Girly Man in Descending Order," at 72' "In Particular,". This is followed by discussion, and then ending, at 146' with a reading of “Azoot D'Puund.”
"Azoot D'Puund" via Skype to Göteborgs, Sweden, Nov. 25 2010 (YouTube link); also "Thank You for Saying Thank You" (with first line dropped)
Dia Art Foundation, New York, with Trace Peterson, introduced by Vincent Katz, Dec. 16, 2010
Segmented Bernstein audio
Watch on Media.sas
Reading for Art, Fantasy, and Experience at the Gross Foundation, New York, December 12, 2010: Part One and Part Two
Collaboration & the Artist's Book: Vincent Katz, Bill Berkson, Shirley Jaffé, Raphael Rubinstein, Susan Bee & Charles Bernstein, Poetry reading and visual art projection, Maison de la poésie, Paris, April 2, 2011
E-Poetry 2011, Buffalo
May 20, 2011L Reading for Emma Bee Bernstein, for her 25th birthday (May 16), at Karpeles Manuscript Library: 1 of 2: MP4; 2 of 2: MP4
May 21, 2011: "The Present of the Word: Poetry's Coming Digital Presence (on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Poetics Program)": MP4
Attack of the Difficult Poems launch, A.I.R. Gallery, 6-11-11: MP4
"Breaking Through": 50-minute TV interview with Charles Bernstein and Ian Probstein with W.J. O'Reilly, on eGarage.TV, June 17, 2011.Includes clips from Attack of the Difficult Poems, and All the Whiksey in Heaven.
Occupy Wall Street, Foley Square, NY< Oct. 5, 2011:
MP4 & youtube
Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, October 5, 2011: Video,audio
section XVLVIII from Crossing State Lines, by Drew Harty for America Now and Here. 43 seconds.
c. 2013: Pierre Joris & Bernstein read extracts from Paul Celan's Radio Play on Osip Mandelstam (tr. by Pierre Joris, in The Meridian). Videographer/Editor/Producer: Nicole Peyrafitte: MP4
Alte Schmiede reading, Vienna, Jan. 26, 2012, with Peter Waterhouse's University of Vienna seminar, with Miriam Rainer, Julia Dengg, Manuel Niedermeier, Dimitri Smirnov, Helmut Ege, Franz Vala, Judith Aistleitner, Nina Truskawetz, and Waterhouse (Versatorium). With thanks to Katharine Apostle. Filmed by August Bisinger
Conversation with Jhave, Feb. 7, 2012 (Jacket2 page for videos)
Direct links: part 1 video, part 2 video
from this session: "Pinky's Rule": video
from this session: "What Poetry Can Do&quvot; (2:03): video
Levi Lehto's 60th birthday celebration, Feb. 20, 2012: video
Vienna, September 7, 2013, at Ephemeropterae XII, TBA 21, Augarten, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary with Versatorium
Watch on Media.sas
00:40 Incantation by Laugher (Khlebnikov)
01:58 The Lie of Art
*
from All the Whiskey In Heaven:
05:20 Azoot D'Puund
10:26 Rivulet of the Dead Jew
11:08 Doggy Bag
12:36 from "Today's Not Opposite Day" (Nonny)
13:26: In Particular
19:20 every lake
*
20:25 from Shadowtime Watch on Media.sas
36:46 Johnny Cake Hollow -- 4 versions / translations with Versatorium from Vienna, followed by source poem …
43:46 The Elfking or view clip here
*
46:52 Sapphics (from Recalculating)
47:34 Morality (from Recalculating)
*
49:14 Fare Thee Well
50:02 Chimera (from Recalculating)
51:30 Wherever Angels Go (from All the Whiskey in Heaven)
Berlin, Sept, 11, 2012, at Lettrétage
with Tobias Amslinger, Norbert Lange, Mathias Traxler, Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich and Charles Bernstein
Video 1 (mp4)
Dodgem (Bernstein, Amslinger, Lange, Traxler)
Introduction to the Project by Lange
Introduction to Charles Bernstein by Büscher-Ulbrich
Video 2 (mp4)
Translation of "Poetry Bailout" read by Büscher-Ulbrich
Video 3 (mp4)
Translations of "Palukaville" read by Amslinger
Video 4 (mp4)
"Riddle of the Fat Faced Man" and translation (Bernstein, Lange)
Translation of "Doggy Bag" read by Amslinger
Translation of You (Bernstein, Amslinger, Traxler)
Video 5 (mp4)
"Castor Oil" + translation (Bernstein, Amslinger, Lange)
"Verdi and Postmodernism" (Bernstein, Amslinger)
Translation of "The Bricklayers Arms" (Traxler)
Video 6 (mp4)
Translation of "Autonomy is Jeopardy" (Lange)
"Johnny Cake Hollow" (Lange)
Translation of "Defence of Poetry" (Büscher-Ulbrich)
Video 7 (mp4) and Video 8 (mp4)
Charles Bernstein reads from Shadowtime
Bonus track: Mathias Traxler: two versions of "You": MP3
Charles Bernstein at the Zinc Bar, NYC, 18 November, 2012; video by Brendan Lorber
Elizabeth Willis & Charles Bernstein, "The Obvious" as part of the Double Take series at Apexart, New York, on March 4, 2013, curated by Albert Mobilio. (Willis read a poem, Bernstein did a talk in memory of Thomas McEvilley)
cris cheek & Charles Bernstein perform Jackson Mac Low's 40s #19 for Counterpath, accompaned by background murmur at AWP bookfair, Boston, March 8, 2013: MP4
Performing Canto VII of Vincente Huidobro's "Altazor" at Texas A&M, April 2013: mp4
Recalculating launch at Kelly Writers House, April 16, 2013. Intro Al Filries followed by reading:
MP3 audio
Ear Inn, fragment from May 29, 2013 reading:
The Introvert – artist's book video by Jill Moser (2013)
Aphorisms reading from Recalculating, June 15, 2012, video web capture, part of Andrew Maxwell's LIFE SENTENCES: An Afternoon of the Epigrammatic, Los Angeles:
"2 X 2" with Bernstein and Jorge Santiago Perednik: a film by Eresto Livon-Grosman - 2012: MP4"At Once Yet Separate: Poet-Artist Collaboration and the Work of Leslie Scalapino" (panel, with Marina Adams, Petah Coyne, Konrad Stein, Charles Bernstein) — 10/23/13: Poetry Project/YouTube
Reading at Harvard, Woodberry Poetry room, with Peter Waterhouse and RosmarieWaldrop, April 8, 2014:
MP3
(audio only)
PennSound archival copy of video
Talk on translation, with Peter Waterhouse, "The Versatorium Playbook," Harvard, April 9, 201:
PennSound archival copy of video
"The Patquerical Imagination" (fragments) at the Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz, Poland, Nov. 25, 2014:
American Studies Center, University of Warsaw:
"Pitch of Poetry: Moral Perfectionism, Occupy Wall Street, and the Poetics of Holocaust Representation"
(27 November 2014)
PennSound archival link
Birds of Metal in Flight: An Evening of Poetry with 5 (Americans) + 5 (Chinese), February 25, 2015
Essen, May 11, 2015
Tobias Amslinger, Lange, Léonce W. Lupett, Mathias Traxler, and Bernstein read from Angriff der Schwiergen Gedichte (Bernstein selected poems in translation) at the Proust bookstore in Essen, introduced by Norbert Weir. May 11, 2015.
Video © Robert Golinski. Used with permission.
American Book Review at University of Houston, Victoria on 4-28-2016: MP4
Talk and reading on Ezra Pound and Bollingen Prize at the Library of Congress, Oct. 30, 2015 (video)
includes reading of excerpts from "Pisan cantos" and "Lives of the Toll Takers." PennSound backup video.
"The Pataquerical Imagination: Midrashic Antinomianism and the Promise of Bent Studies," boundary 2 conference,
Dartmouth, May 22, 2015:
EPC@20, Buffalo, September 15, 2011
Lecture: Pataquerical Imagination:
Audio Recording MP4
Reading at Birchfield-Penny Museum:
Audio Recording (34:32): MP4
Pitch of Poetry Book Launch, Kelly Writers House, April 12, 2016
(Audo here.)
Performing "Teke Heart" by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1921) at MoMA (NY) on June 7, 2016.
Jacket 2 page, mov file
& alt. take: mov; sound files (recorded 6/8/16) (4:08):
mp3
& wav
A tribute to Robert Sheppard the RS conference, shot in Liverpool on Septmember 30, 2016, on the street where Sherlock is filmed. (2:22): video
Other Room, Manchester, Oct. 3, 2016 (with Maggie O'Sullivan and Susan Bee): Video; poster
"Outside of Tune, Inside of Time," Glasgow, October 8, 2016. Video by Nicole Peyrafitte. Response to the "Outside In/ Inside Out" Conference and Jerome Rothenberg's John Bloomberg-Rissma's anthology Barbaric Vast & Wild: A Gathering of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present. A talk on outsiders, the excluded, and the alien in pursuit of a robust poetics of identify and disability; including a discussion of the limits of oppositionality for its own sake, the way outsiders are often the "new" insiders, Blake's "The Grey Monk" and Milton "On His Blindness" (in response to Nuala Watt), the dialogic in Technicians of the Sacred; and including performances of Harry Partch and John Clare and readings of "Before Time" and from Pitch of Poetry on Maggie O'Sullivan and from Jennifer Bartlett, along with a the list pataquericals.
YouTube link.
PennSound link: mp4
"Garlic in the Ground: Robert Grenier video portrait" (2016): mp4
Belgrade TV segment, Dec. 12, 2016: Tako Stoje Stvari
Dordt College choir, under the direction of Benjamin Kornelis, performs Rich Campbell's setting of "All the Whiskey in Heaven" (March 2017): video Reading/talk at New Holland Foundation conference, St. Petersburg, June 20, 2017YouTube, PennSound
Poetry readings by Charles Bernstein, Alexander Skidan, Polina Barskova, Eugene Ostashevsky,
and Vanessa Place (with Natalia Fedorova) at New Holland Foundation.
Hosted by Dmitry Golynko.
June 20, 2017.
Charles Bernstein & Sergio Bessa
on Brazilian poetry and Haroldo de Campos, presented at a show of Mira Schendel at Hauser
& Wirth, New York on Sept. 28, 2017. Bessa spoke about Haroldo de Campos, and Bernstein read
his translations of Drummond, Cabral, Cruz e Sousa, Leminksi, and Bonvicino.
Complete recording (1:09:35): MP3
Tribute to Leevi Lehto for Helsinki Lehto celebration, Oct. 2017; filmed and edited by Gabe Rubin:
Don Yorty's video of poems from Recalculating (2017): MP4
Artist's Space "Social Services" benefit, Oct. 28, 2017, reading "The Lie of Art"
(begnning cut off), "Our United Fates," and "If Sappho Were a UFO." (8:00):
MP4
Zinc Bar, Segue series, NY, Jan. 28. 2018 (first two videos by Ian Probstein):
Erica Hunt and Bernstein, part one, begins in progress: MP4
Bernstein at Zinc, Jan. 28, 2018, second set complete: MP4
"Beeline" (from first set): MP4
see Bernstein readings page for audio
"My, My, My," recorded by Sudeep Sen in Delhi, Feb. 22, 2018: MP4
Poems at the India International Centre, New Delhi, at the end of the Symposium "Against Storytelling" curated by Amit Chaudhuri, Feb. 25, 2018
Watch on Media.sasSong Sparrow
Watch on Media.sasBee Line
Watch on Media.sasDew and Die
Watch on Media.sasOur United Fates
Professor Charles Bernstein and English Ph.D. student Chris Mustazza explore the history of the PennSound archive below in Knowledge by the Slice: "Radio Free Poetry: PennSound at 14" from Penn Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
Reading at Tbilisi International Festival of Literature on May 15, 2018, with Paata Shamugia (translations): MP4
Tbiliisi, Georgia video for Indigo: excerpts from "Thank You For Saying Thank You" and conversation with Paata Shamugia, May, 2018: MP4
from "Dark City" (MP4) and from "Test of Poetry" (MP4) for Li Zhimin, filmed in Brooklyn, Sept. 10, 2018
Bogota and Medellin, Colombia, September 12 and 13, 2018: TV interview with Diego: YouTube (PennSound), clip of discussion on difficulty in Dickinson and Stein at Universidad de San Andreas: MP4; clip of Bernstein and Enrique Winter reading from "War Stories" at Medellin book festival: MP4
Near/Miss launch at McNally Jackson Books, New York, Nov. 7, 2018
with Tracie Morris, Amy Sillman, and Felix Bernstein (audio on "readings" page):
MP4-part 1 (Sillman, F. Bernstein, Morris)
& MP4-part 2 (Ch. Bernstein)
YouTube: part 1, part 2
Sillman: "Pinky's Rule."
Felix Bernstein: "Don't Tell Me about the Tide," "Intaglio," "Apoplexie," and "Klang."
Morris: "Our United Fates" and "The Ballad Stripped Bare.
Bernstein: "In Utopia," "High Tide at Race Point," "Drambuie," "My Luck," "Seldom Splendor," "Lacrimae Rerum," and "Fare Thee Well"
"Thank You for Saying You’re Welcome," "Nowhere Is Just around the Corner," "S’i’ Fosse," "Corrections," "Bluebird of Happiness," "I Used to be a Plastic Bottle," "Also Rises the Sun" (cuts off) at Near/Miss launch at Bridge Street Books, DC , Nov. 12, 2918 (full audio of reading on main "readings" page); video by Sepideh Jodeyri: mp4 (watch full screen)
"No One Wants to Believe the Garden is Dying: American Poets against US Sanctions on Iran," at Busboys and Poets, Washington, D.C., Jan. 22, 2019, final section, with Leslie Bumstead, Sepideh Joderil, Pierre Joris, Nicole Peyrafitte, Rod Smith, Charles Bernstein. MP4
Feng Yi's daughter Cindy reads "Seldom Splendor" in English and Chinese and "Every Lake" in English, as part of the June 2019 Dragon boat festival in China.
50th Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, June 13, 2019: "The Truth in Pudding" (EP) MP4
"Our United Fates" (4:45): MP4
Reading of a section of Muller report for 1913, Aug, 13, 2019:
MP4
Five short videos from Bob Greenberg's Brainwave series: "Steve Dalachinsky," "Devil's Dictionary," "I's Song," on Cavell, on PennSound
PennSound backup folder
Complete Recording (21:50) MP3
International Conference of Aesthetics, Belgrade, July 23, 2019
Poems in, around, and about aesthetics, for the from Near/Miss and after: The Lie of Art, Affect Theory, Theory of Pottery, Unified Theory of Poetry, Turn Off Your Poetry Blocker, Ars Impotence, Beyond Compare, Anaesthics, In Utopia, Klang, and Johnny Cake Hollow: mp4
June 25, 2019, Double Change, Michael Woolworth Atelier, Paris
tr. Habib Tengour:
Tengour and Pierre Joris also read at this event
July 29, 2019 bilingual reading and conversation with Olivier Brossard, translations, at "Ecrivains en Bord de Mer," La Baule" France: MP4
Discussion with Arno Bertina, July 18, 2019: Vimeo
Reading at Dilluns de Poesia, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, October 21, 2019
With introduction and Catalan translations by Mónica Caldeiro
Watch on Media.sas
"Lie of Art" at Reina Sofia, Madrid Nov. 29, 2019": MP4
Charles Bernstein, Olivier Cadiot, and Abigail Lang (translator), Double Change Reading at Michael Woolworth Studio, Paris, France, for the Launch of Renflouer, November 28, 2019
University College Dublin, Dec. 2, 2019
Conversation with João Paulo Guimarães, introduced by Ian Davidson: YouTube, PennSound
Reading: YouTube, PennSound
with Cathernine Walsh (YouTube) and Christodoulos Markis (YouTube)
"In Res Robin" [Blaser] from Recalculating, Eric Mottram Festival, London, Nov. 23, 2019: MP4
Optic Nerve videos by Colin Still, London, Nov. 25, 2019
As If the Trees by Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us (from Senses of Responsibility) (3:53): YouTube / PennSound MP4
Contradiction Turns to Rivalry (from Islets/Irritations) (4:46): YouTube / MP4
Reveal Codes (from Dark City) (13:33): YouTube / MP4
Of Time and the Line (from Rough Trades) (2:19): YouTube / MP4
Solidarity Is the Name We Give to What We Cannot Hold (from My Way: Speeches and Poems) (4:57): YouTube / MP4
This Line (from All the Whiskey in Heaven) (1:10): YouTube / MP4
Report from Liberty Street (from Girly Man) (10:37): YouTube / MP4
Preface to Pitch of Poetry (6:49): YouTube / MP4
Alphabet Soup: Bernstein on Bernstein (28 min.): YouTube / MP4
YouTube playlist
for PennSound MP4s, fit to screen by using full screen option on lower right
Brooklyn Rail, The New Social Environment, conversation with Phong Bui, March 19, 2020: MP4 & audio only MP3
Ian Probstein and Bernstein launch of Probstein's translation of Bernsteiin, Russian Gulliver, with publisher Vadim Mesyats, April 12, 2020, Zoom, 2 hrs: mp4
"Poetry Month Will Come a Little Late this Year" for Beinecke Library: at YouTube, PennSound
MP4
Two poems from The Course, collaboration with Ted Greenwald, May 21, 2020 (6:17): YouTube, PennSound MP4
Black Suns: Tribute to Harry Crosby, May 2030: MP4;
Photoheliograph montage only: MP4
Hosted by Lonnie Monka, Mekuvan series, Jerusalem, May 24, 2020
(1'44"): video: YouTube, PennSound, MP3 (audio only)
00:00 Introduction (& digressions)
06:30 A conversation with Lonnie Monka
24:50 Reading from The Course (co-written w/Ted Greenwald)
34:33 Conversation continues
41:02 Q&A
Enclave series Zoom reading, July 26 2020, introduction by Rae Armantrout: YouTube. PennSound: MP4 full event;
Armantrout intro: MP4; reading only: MP4
Audio files on Bernstein readings page
The Tugboat and the Quail, As if by Moonlight, Shelter in Place, The Death of Sean Bonney, Shields Green, Heard Immunity, The Wreck of Hope, Likeness, I’s Song, Wanderers Nightsong, [What time is now?], Beeline, Covidity, Zeno’s Way, Before the Promise.
POG reading, Oct. 10, 2020, Tucson Arizona, with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge: MP4, YouTube
I‘s Song,
from "Tugboat and the Quayle",
On Election Day,
from "Tugboat and the Quayle",
Shelter in Place,
A Theory‘s Evolution,
Photoheliograph (Harry Crosby),
Mall at Night,
Be Drunken,
Unhinged,
Every True Religion Is Bound to Fail,
Like It is,
Xeno‘s Way,
At Pessoa‘s Grave,
Ars Impotens,
After Reznikoff,
after de Geif,
Affect Theory,
Johnny Cake Hollow,
Beeline,
outtake "Likeness",
I‘s Song
"Folded Veil" for Celan centenniel, text from Pitch of Poetry, 60 sec: MP4
Biuro Literackie, Poland, readings from Truro, Aug. 20, 2020 listed/lnked at Jacket2
"On Election Day," "Won't You Give up This Poem," "A Theory's Evolution," "Johnny Cake Hollow," & alt, "Mall at Night," "Thank you for Saying Thank You," "Every True Religion Is Bound to Fail"
[Biuro Literackie set, Poland, PennSound Only, with mp4 and mov files]
Reading for Pratik magazine, Zoom, Nov., 23, 2020: MP4
After Leon de Greif, Like Knights Passing Out on a Ship, No There There Then
"Todtnauberg Echo" after Celan, Nov. 23, 2020: YouTube, MP4
"I's Song" (after Rückert and Mahler): YouTube / University of Chicago Press MP4
plus: montage audio with text only image: mp4 & poem only audio: MP4
plus: mp3
Festival Internacional de Poesía Santiago, Chile, Zoom, Dec. 11, 2020: Bilingual: Every Lake, In a Restless World Like This Is, Chimera, All the Whiskey in Heaven; introduced by Francisco J. Jiménez Buendía, who reads Enrique Winter's translations, with comments by Winter at the end.
MP4
Globus Books, March 30, 2021, Zoom/YouTube, "Affect Theorty" and "The Death of Sean Bonney" with translations follwing by Ivan Sokolov. 12"05: Mov
Topsy-Turvy book launch, with Bernstein and Tonya Foster, from Rain Taxi: YouTube [PennSound mp4]
Clip: "Poetic Citizenship and Negative Dilaetics": YouTube
Marty Erlich and Bernstein performing Erica Hunt's "Fool for Love," 5/19/21, at Jacket2
Conversation with editors of Buzdokuz (Turkey): Hasan Bozdaş, Atakan Yavuz, Hakan Şarkdemir, and Gizem Atlı: MP4 and YouTube
Excerpt of just the poetry reading, with Turkish subtitles (6 min.) at YouTube: "Nettlesome Muse", "Pandemania", "Corona", from "Where Here Were We" (collaboration with Norman Fishcher)
First part with Turkish subtitles: YouTube
"Chimera" (from Near Miss), read with Yeats's "Song of Wandering Aengus" for Korean Yeats Conference, 10/20/22: .mov
Mud Parcel Reading series, Kaurab, with Aryanil Mukherjee and Pat Clifford, Oct. 23, 2021. Reading "All the WHiskey in Heaven," and, from Topsy-Turvy, "Twelve-Year Horoscope," "Amberianum" and "Disorder of Articulation," followed by discussion. YouTube, PennSound
On "Lives of the Toll Takers" for Li Zhimin's online series: via Don Yorty: MP4, Vimeo; via Chineae course website: go to micro lesson 1.
With Paul Auster on his Burning Boy, Oct. 26, 2021: Jacket2 post
Artists Space / Segue, Nov. 20, 2021 (New York)
full reasding (39:04): mov & mp3
Introduction by Lonely Christopher
from The Course collaboration with Ted Greenald
"Sunday Kind of Love" (8:44): mp3 & mov
from Topsy-Turvy (11:10): mp3 & mov
Zeno’s Way
Freudian Slap
The Aunt of My Uncle
You Throw Like a Pearl
Somewhere Between
At Pessoa’s Grace
Buster Keaton’s Sleave
Ars Impotens
Clouds After Rain
The Darkness He Called Night
She Ma
Steve Dalachinksky
uncollected (9:11): mov & mp3
Fixing the Bishop’s Nose
Offbeat
My Mom Will Pay You on Venmo
Twilight of the Gods (1:51): mp3 & mov
Near Sleep
Catullus 5
Tracie Morris and Bernstein read an excerpt from their collaboration "Omnipresence" for the Elliot Bay Bookstore launch of the new issue of Conjunctions (1/21/22): MP4
Runa Bandyopadhyay and Bernstein (ZOOM): a bilingual poetry reading followed by a conversion with several Bengali poets (January 29 and 30, 2022). In the first video Bernstein reads "If Sappho Were a UFO," "Shelter in Place," "Zeno's Way," "Strike!," and
Covidity (all from Topsy Turvy except "Strike!," which is from Recalculating. In the second video, the two are joined for a conversation with Bengail poets Pronab Kumar Dey, Swapan Roy, Umapada Kar, Prabhat Mukherjee, Pranab K Chakraborty, Prashanta GuhaMajumder, Kaushik Chakrabarty, Rudra Kinshuk, and Abhishek Ray. Thanks to the organizer: Ekhon Bangla Kabitar Kagaj
Reading: YouYube, PennSound MP4, audio
Conversaton: YouTube, PennSound MP4, audio
Jacket2 page
Various talks and readings for Performed Poetics, a celebration of Jerome Rothenberg's 90th birthday and the works of Eric Mottram, King's College London, March 12-13, 2022: Perfomred Poetics page
Paul Celan's "Todesfuge," translated by Jerome Rothenberg, With Maggie O'Sullivan: King's College, London, celebration of Jerome Rothenberg's 90th birthday and the work of Eric Mottram. Video by Colin Still. March 13, 2022: YouTube, MP3
Poetry Place, Israel, International Festival, zoom, March 24, 2022, with Amit Ben-Ami: YouTube; PennSound MP4
Poetics Research Bureau, reading followed by conversaton with Johanna Drucker, April 28, 2022, Los Angeles:
Jacket2, MP4s: Part 1, Part 2
Retirement event for Steve McCaffery and Karen Mac Cormack, video for SUNY-Buffalo Poetics Program, May 4, 2022: (5:37):mp4
"Flag," after Etel Adnan, from Near/Miss, at Brooklyn Rail, 9/10/22: mp4
Reading at Wake Forest, Oct. 25, 2022, introduced by Amy Catanzano
55'35": mp3 audio & mov video: track listing at Jacket 2
Runa Bandyopadhyay and Charles Bernstein, lanuch of Pataquerical Balled, Mumbai
Feb. 4, 2023 at Milan Mancha:
Robin Seguy and Kumar Pronab, introductions: MOV
Bernstein & Bandyopadhyay reading: MOV
Susan Bee artist talk: MP4
Dicussion of Chinese Whispers with Charles Bernstein, Dec. 6, 2023, for City Lights Live:
YouTube & PennSound archival copy.
Gagosian Gallery at Marciano Foundation, inside Anselm Kiefer's "Exodus," Los Angeles, June 14, 2023; reading with Jerome Rothenberg
Gagosian-produced video, published in Quarterly (Winter 2023)
[& PennSound backup: MP4]
Plus: Informal video by Pablo Capra for Green Integer:
1. opening: MP4
2. from Shadwotime -- part one: YouTube (with text)
part two 2: YouTube (with text).
PennSound combined MP4.
'T' Space, Rhinbeck, NY, October 14, 2023: poetry and architecture
Jacket2 track listing and photos
full reading mp3,
& full video: YouTube & PennSound
& two video clips by Susan Wildes:
from "The Father": mov
The Lie of Architecture": mov
Vincent Broqua and Bernstein read "Recap" (from Bernstein's Near/Miss), on 9/9/23 at the Brooklyn launch of Broqua's Recovery: MP4
"Pre-Owned Poems" at POG, Tucson, Oct. 7, 2023: VIDEO/MP4
Audio recordings from London and New York: here.
Keith Waldrop Memorial, performing John Barton Wolgamot, "In Sara, Menckin ...": Jacket2, with context, and mp4 only.
Video launch of Best American Poetry, 11/2/23: "A Shorter Jewish Poem," "Pathetic Fallacy," and "Rye Sense of Humor" (02:14): MP4
Russian Samovar, New York, with Russian translator Ian Probstein, reading from Zeno's Way: YouTube: MP4; PennSound archive: MP4
Making of Americans marathon, NY, April 21, 2023: Mov. With text read at Jacket2.
Performing Poland/1931, with Marty Ehrlich, Rothenberg Memorial, St Mark's (NY), Nov. 6, 2024: MP4
University of Haifa -- Dec. 11, 2024 (28:13): mp4
"The Blue Divide" (from Controlling Interests, 1980)
"In a Restless World Like This Is," "Let's Just Say," & "Every Lake" from All the Whiskey in Heaven
"23" from Topsy-Turvey
"Baker's Sonnet," "A Round," "Daddy," "Pslam,"" "Wayfinder," "Je ne Maigret une Pipe," "Mandelstam"
"Stelae for Failed Time" from Shadowtime
Artists Space, Segue Series, January 11, 2025, c. 45 min.
mp4 (video) / mp3 (audio)
introduction: James Sherry
"Denounce, Resist, Change, Struggle"
"Fault Lines"
"I Told My ..." from Up Against Storytelling (Kinds of Poetry I Want)
"Blue Divide" and "Live Acts" from Controlling Interests
"FPO" from The Course (with Ted Greenwald)
"No Public Restrooms"
"Being and Nothingess"
"Daddy"
"In Ferment (Fragment)" {Inferno}
from "Epistem" (with Tracie Morris)
"so here we were" (with Norman Fischer)
"Offbeat" (Kinds of Poetry I Want(tr. Newton Mendonça & Jobim): mp3
"The Mind King" for Richard Foreman
"A Round": MP3
"Fare Thee Well"
>>full reading with Sol Cabrini: YouTube
A celebration of the life and work of Lyn Hejinian, Kelly Writers House,
March 18, 2025
Hosted by Julia Bloch and Laynie
Browne; featuring Charles Bernstein, Laynie
Browne, Pattie McCarthy, Jena
Osman, Ron Silliman, Claire Marie Stancek, and
Syd Zolf.
Media.SAS mirror URL: MP4
Reading from The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies at Anton Kern gallery, April 26, 2025, part of "Love Songs," curated by Chris Martin, for the Brooklyn Rail:
Jacket2 page with drawings, phots, and segmented videoes
Complete (one hour) reading with Mónica de la Torre, Tyhe Cooper, Vincent Katz, Erica Hunt, Davide Balula, Bernstein: MP4
Performing "A Change of Season," Ch. 9 from Lyn Hejinian's Oxota for Zoom tribute, org. Ivan Sokolov: MP4
video of full event on YouTube.
"White Night" group poetry reading in Chendu, China, June 20, 2025: video overview: MP4
"Feedback Loop," 8/21/25 (2:17): MP4
Eulogy for Pierre Joris, memorial in New York, 9/13/25 (12:18): mp4
Reading from Gertrude Stein's Mother of Us All at Paul Cooper Gallery, NY, Oct. 2, launch for Francesca Wade's biography, full video linked on Stein page: MP4
KGB Bar, NY, Oct. 13, 2025, video by Ian Probstein: Starts a bit way into "Feedback Loop" and on to "Flak," "Psalm," "Since You Asked," and "Easy Rider": (6:33): MP4
full reading as videod by Don Yorty (app. 30 min): MP4; also on Yorty's Vimeo; for track list: J2.
SideGig Fall 2025: "Shenandoah" with Paul Saint-Amour and Kevin Platt: YouTube
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, March 9, 2026
reading from Topsy-Turvy and The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies, followed by a conversation with Tonya Foster.
YouTube, PennSound
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"My Kind of Jewish," "Unimagining the Jewish God," and "Deflections" from Dodging for Yetzirah, March 15, 2026 (20 min.): MP4
Full event (90 minutes): Vimeo
PennSound only:
Promise
Covidity MP4 & MOV
Shelter in Place
Whiskey on Rye