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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

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PoemTalk #140, Discussing Barbara Guest's "The Blue Stairs," feat. Kristin Prevallet, Simone White, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

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PoemTalk #134, Discussing Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's "Hello, the Roses," feat. Evelyn Reilly, Joshua Schuster, and James Sherry

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Appearing on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, April 28, 2006

Program One: Reading

Berssenbrugge reads from I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems (University of California Press, 2006)

  1. from Fog (8:59): MP3
  2. Health (5:38): MP3
  3. I Love Artists (6:35): MP3
  4. Concordance (7:05): MP3
  • Complete program (30:15): MP3

Program Two: Conversation

  1. on early encounters with poetry and language (5:17): MP3
  2. on the significance of place and environment (5:25): MP3
  3. on the boundary between the physical and energetic (3:40): MP3
  4. on form and line length (3:19): MP3
  5. on writing "I Love Artists” (10:49): MP3