The Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series in the department of English presents a reading by renowned poet, essayist, theorist, and scholar Charles Bernstein.  

5 p.m. in the Byrum Welcome Center

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Reception and book signing to follow.

Charles Bernstein is the winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize for Poetry for Near/Miss (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and for lifetime achievement in American Poetry. Author of dozens of books—including the poetry collections Topsy-Turvy (Chicago, April 2021) and Pitch of Poetry (Chicago, 2016), essay collections, translations, collaborations, and libretti—his writing has been widely anthologized and translated. Bernstein is a founding member and leading practitioner of Language poetry, which denies the boundary between poetry and critical writing. Serious while also playful, irreverent, and humorous, Bernstein’s poetry combines the languages of politics, popular culture, advertising, literary jargon, corporate-speak, and more to show the ways in which language and culture are mutually constructive and interdependent. Bernstein is the Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo.

More information about Bernstein at writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/bernstein