Alan Bernheimer

Reading with Neeli Cherkovski and Kit Robinson, Bird & Beckett Books, San Francisco, August 4, 2022

Media.SAS direct link: MP4

Conversation for Multilingual Poetics Series, Kelly Writers House, January 17, 2017

Tectontic Ambiences, Ariel Resnikoff, Alan Bernheimer and Kit Robinson, E.M. Wolfman Books, Oakland, CA, December 22, 2015

1. Ariel Resnikoff Introduces Kit Robinson (0:41): MP3
2. Neighboring Vessels (4:41): MP3
3. Construction is the Noise of Spring (2:34): MP3
4. In My Guise (2:47): MP3
5. The Line in the Sand (2:41): MP3
6. Weather (for Bob Perleman) (1:44): MP3
7. False Bay (2:10): MP3
8. Storm King (1:28): MP3
9. Nine (for Anne Tardos) (1:11): MP3
10. Thought Balloon (1:49): MP3
11. Kit Robinson Introduces Alan Bernheimer (1:46): MP3
12. Lashes Fly Away (2:47): MP3
13. Straw & Bramble (1:56): MP3
14. "You Don't Have Anything to Say About It" (0:40): MP3
15. The Dream (0:51): MP3
16. Alan, brielfy on Francie Shaw and "Rex Works" Collaboration (0:22): MP3
17. Reminder (for and with Bob Perelman) (1:51): MP3
18. Extension Heavens (for Stephen Rodefer) (0:46): MP3
19. Identity of Images (after the French of Robert Desnos) (2:11): MP3
20. The Truth about Mores (0:39): MP3
21. Many Stars and Ones Perpetually Shooting (for Alli Warren) (0:46): MP3
22. Futurama (for Bill Berkson) (0:41): MP3
23. The New Sentience (0:54): MP3
24. It Is Certain (1:17): MP3
25. "A Tiny Essay on the Subject of Realism" (3:12): MP3
26. Dagwood Sandwichs (0:15): MP3
27. Dream (0:12): MP3
28. A Form of Takeout (0:13): MP3
29. Cold Light Rain (0:06): MP3
30. Lunch Break (0:04): MP3
31. Ipsitude (2:40): MP3
32. History of Happiness (1:59): MP3
33. Alan Bernheimer Introduces Ariel Resnikoff (0:53): MP3
34. Ohio is not a Theoretical (for Bob Perelman) (1:17): MP3
35. Interlude (0:25): MP3
36. From Yinglossia (A thru B) (3:19): MP3
37. Teachings of the Magic Kohl-Rabi: IV (Wisdom Change) (1:03): MP3
38. Siftah (Hebrew, Avoth Yeshurun) (3:02): MP3
39. Siftah (English Translation) (2:31): MP3
40. 3 Vocies after Black Mountain (A Review) (3:55): MP3

Complete Reading (1:43:35): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, December 12, 2009

• introduction (5:42): MP3
• opening remarks (0:33): Mp3
• The Opposite of Proust (1:05): MP3
• As You May Know (1:17): MP3
• The Embedded Self (1:04): MP3
• My Blue Hawaii (0:34): MP3
• Piece of Cake (1:29): MP3
• Sleepy City Squidgy (0:40): MP3
• Prior Art Spray (1:37): MP3
• Department 9 (1:04): MP3
• Word of Art (0:53): MP3
• Specimen of an Induction to a Poem (0:55): MP3
• Florex Gardens (0:50): MP3
• Kiosk (1:09): MP3
• A Bottle in the Smoke (0:35): MP3
• The Spoolight Institute (7:03): MP3
• from Particle Arms (9:13): MP3

Complete recording (37:05): MP3

Holloway Series Reading at UC Berkeley, November 12, 2009

Wednesday Night Series: Alan Bernheimer, Tim Davis, St. Mark's Chuch, NY, April 18, 2001

Library of Congress recording (51:57): link

Particle Arms, performed November 21, 1982 at Studio Eremos, San Francisco

cast: Steve Benson, Eileen Corder, Tinker Greene, Tom Mandel, Kit Robinson, Stephen Rodefer, and Melissa Riley

directed by Nick Robinson

• Scene 1 (9:27): MP3
• Scene 2 (8:44): MP3
• Scene 3 (7:22): MP3
• Scene 4 (5:38): MP3
• Scene 5 (12:47): MP3

see Bernheimer's photo album from the play's production

"Subject Matter," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, June 16, 1980

From the Talk Series curated by Bob Perelman

• Tape 1 (1:31:13): MP3
• Tape 2 (24:01): MP3

Appearing on In the American Tree, November 10, 1978

1. reading "Spinal Guard" from Celestial Mechanics (0:55): MP3
2. reading "Ripolin" from Celestial Mechanics (0:32): MP3
3. reading "Carapace" from Celestial Mechanics (0:36): MP3
4. reading "Visible Means" from Celestial Mechanics (0:33): MP3
5. reading "Ventriloquy" fom Celestial Mechanics (0:41): MP3
6. reading "Amarillo" (5:16): MP3
7. discussion with Lyn Hejinian and Kit Robinson on the idea of language as a machine and Bernheimer as a mechanic (3:33): MP3
8. reading a description of Bernheimer's "dream of a marvelous mechanical box" (3:24): MP3
9. reading "Manifest Destiny" (1:59): MP3
10. discussing the different poetic directions of "Manifest Destiny," Celestial Mechanics and "Amarillo" (2:01): MP3
11. reading "Are There Birds?" (0:42): MP3
12. reading and discussing "Cafe Isotope" (2:58): MP3
13. reading "Or Something" (0:36): MP3
14. reading a journal entry about trains and mechanical things (3:30): MP3
15. reading "Lullabye," a collaboration with Kit Robinson (1:26): MP3

• Complete program (29:51): MP3
• listen also to episodes hosted by Bernheimer during the 1979-1980 season

Alan Bernheimer on PennSound Daily

• October 3, 2008: "Alan Bernheimer: New Author Page, Plus Particle Arms"

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