*New podcast: conversation with Charles Bernstein* <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-327-charles-bernstein>
*"I’m interested not in the oral but in the aural. I use the expression in an essay a/orality, to put emphasis on what the ear hears."* Charles Bernstein is a poet, essayist, editor, and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. Together with Bruce Andrews, he edited the magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, which gave its name to a movement of more than a hundred poets interested in the radical exploration of writing that flourished in the late 1970s and the 1980s on both the east and west coasts of the United States. In this podcast, we hear Charles Bernstein think aloud about the performativity of poetry and the multiplicity of voice, elaborating on questions such as the sound of writing, presence and absence, orality, aurality and a/orality. Along the way, Bernstein recounts his first textual experience and acknowledges the influence of Artaud, Bob Wilson and the Living Theatre in shaping him as a poet. We also revisit the early discussions of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E constellation, their policy of exchanging poems and essays by setting up horizontal cultural mechanisms, and a collaborative effort to reread poets from past decades in order to write an alternative, non-hegemonic history of American poetry. Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-327-charles-bernstein *E/N/J/O/Y/* *+* *TAKE CARE!*
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