As an old joke goes, there are three types of people in the world: schlemiel, the guy who will spill the soup; schlimazel, the one whose lap the soup will get spilt on, and the nudnik, who asks, “What ...

If anything I have done / Cancels what I feel / Then put me on a boat / Without a keel / And I will row my way back to you / Whatever else I do / Whatever else I do Alongside the narrative throughline ...

Co-founder of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, Charles Bernstein has long been recognized as one of the key avant-garde figures on the contemporary poetry scene. Until now, however, most of his work has ...

Not everyone is a fan of National Poetry Month. In fact, there are a few poets who hate it. One of those is Charles Bernstein. Bernstein is a poet and professor of poetics at the State University of ...