Charles Bernstein at Bridge Street

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

Monday, Sept. 20th 7:30 PM

CHARLES BERNSTEIN

Please join us Monday, September 20th for a reading & publication celebration of
ALL THE WHISKEY IN HEAVEN: SELECTED POEMS, by Charles Bernstein (Farrar Strauss & Giroux).

From 1974 to 2009, Bernstein published 13 full-length collections of poetry along with 21 additional pamphlets and artist’s books, three collections of essays, and two books of libretti. He also has edited numerous magazine, essay, and poetry collections. His writing has been translated into many languages and selected works in translation have been published (or are in process) in Brazil, France, Sweden, Finland, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, and China, where he has been widely honored and is a founder of the Chinese-American Association for Poetry and Poetics.

The New York Times reviews All the Whiskey in Heaven: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/books/review/Fried-t.html
Charles Bernstein at PennSound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bernstein.html
Charles Bernstein at The Electronic Poetry Center: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20007
ph 202 965 5200

Located in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the
Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Thurs. 9/16 8 pm
Mel Nichols, Kyle Semmel, & David Williams
Music: Jonny Grave
@ Big Bear, 1st & R Streets NW

Sun. 9/19 3 pm
Peter Davis, Shanna Compton, and Magus Magnus
@ DCAC

Sun. 9/26 7 pm
Buck Downs & Eileen Myles
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Wed. 9/29 8 pm (seminar, 5:30 pm)
Fanny Howe
@ Georgetown University

HOMMAGE A FRANK O’HARA

A l’occasion de la publication de *Frank O’Hara Now* eds. Robert Hampson & Will Montgomery, publié par Liverpool University Press, http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3962

et des *Poèmes déjeuner* traduits par Ron Padgett et Olivier Brossard, publiés
par Joca Seria http://www.jocaseria.fr/Livres/poemesdejeuner.html,

Double Change vous invite à une lecture
en HOMMAGE A FRANK O’HARA

Avec Andrea Brady, Olivier Brossard, Robert Hampson, David Herd, Tadeusz Pioro, Martin Richet, Sarah Riggs, Keston Sutherland et Geoff Ward

le jeudi 23 septembre 2010 à 19h30

Galerie éof
15 rue saint Fiacre
75002

(M° Grands boulevards ou Bonne Nouvelle)

Entrée libre

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Et, le vendredi 24 septembre, journée d’étude Frank O’Hara à University of
London in Paris. Voir programme complet à la fin de ce message.

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Friday, 24 September

Frank O'Hara Now
University of London in Paris
9-11 rue de Constantine
75340

Mo Les Invalides

11.00: Opening remarks
11.15 -12.15: First session: O'Hara and Cinema:
Robert Hampson: Movies and memory.
Olivier Brossard: Frank O'Hara's Black Market: Cinematographic Dispossession

12.15-1.30: LUNCH

1.30-2.30:
Geoff Ward: New York, War and Frank O'Hara
Andrea Brady: Distraction and Absorption on Second Avenue

Break

2.45-3.45:
David Herd: Stepping Out Wih Frank O'Hara
Tdeusz Pioro, The Boring and the New

Break

4.15- 5.15
Keston Sutherland: Close writing
Will Montgomery: Frank O'Hara and Morton Feldman.


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Double Change reçoit l’aide du Conseil Régional d’Ile-de-France.