The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies (University of Chicago Press, 2024)https://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3mksop6sqek2dI love speech! (or anyway, it’s complicated): Parsing at 50 https://open.substack.com/pub/chbernstein/p/i-love-speech-or-anyway-its-complicated?r=64ur5&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web01 May 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksop6sqek2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3mhnoabpkq22zhttps://youtube.com/live/GKryE5_zrts?si=QnR9DrUPi4PT5aw022 Mar 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhnoabpkq22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3mh2bymdwns2fAt The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University on March 9: reading from Topsy-Turvy and The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies, followed by a conversation with Tonya Foster. https://www.youtube.com/live/GKryE5_zrts?si=cXmEMMo9g-rD6gfm14 Mar 2026 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh2bymdwns2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3md6hfwl4bs2ghttps://chbernstein.substack.com/p/why-i-am-not-messianic-by-artie-intaglio24 Jan 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3md6hfwl4bs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3maqkxlnq2s2eResponses to “A Defense of LLM-Assisted Poetics” https://open.substack.com/pub/chbernstein/p/responses-to-a-defense-of-llm-assisted?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web24 Dec 2025 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3maqkxlnq2s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3maizulutic24chbernstein.substack.com Written from an LLM’s POV, this essay argues that “LLM style” reflects institutional language norms, not machine intent. Drawing on Adorno & Wittgenstein, it shows how AI exposes the social production of coherence, authenticity, and the “human.”21 Dec 2025 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3maizulutic24https://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3m7fnwycf322d“I Do not Know What There Is About That That Is Inhumane”: The Shipwreck of America -- On Heimrad Bäcker‘s Seascape and Hegseth's "kill everyone order" https://open.substack.com/pub/chbernstein/p/i-do-not-know-what-there-is-about?r=64ur5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true07 Dec 2025 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7fnwycf322dhttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3m6n3e2lwhk27Until 12/3/2025, 30% off all my University of Chicago Press books with code "Holiday25" tiny.cc/kinds27 Nov 2025 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6n3e2lwhk27https://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3m6f5jheslc22https://jacket2.org/commentary/unkind-kinds I. The Uses & Limits of Difficulty: A Skeptical Reading of Charles Bernstein’s The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies II. The Case for Plurality: A Response to “The Uses and Limits of Difficulty” III. Postscript: On the Virtues & Pitfalls of LLM-Generated Criticism24 Nov 2025 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6f5jheslc22https://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3m5oga2rfdk2vwww.literaryactivism.com15 Nov 2025 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5oga2rfdk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3m5mj4cuv2227https://www.boundary2.org/the-kinds-of-poetry-i-want-dossier/14 Nov 2025 20:23 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5mj4cuv2227https://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3m5miyai7nk2vhttps://www.boundary2.org/the-kinds-of-poetry-i-want-dossier/14 Nov 2025 20:21 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5miyai7nk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3m5lxs57ioc2mPaul Bové and I write about peer review in scholarly/academic publishing. Paul’s is a probing, resonant reflection; my essay is more of a confection. Both respond to Amit Chaudhuri’s provocations for his Literary Activism series. Read both essays here: www.literaryactivism.com https://www.literaryactivism.com/14 Nov 2025 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5lxs57ioc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3m55whhlfis23https://chbernstein.substack.com/p/kind-of-bernstein-dossier09 Nov 2025 01:12 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m55whhlfis23https://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3m4qykks6fs22vimeo.com/1132932082 https://vimeo.com/113293208203 Nov 2025 21:45 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qykks6fs22https://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3m4l3yrxzl227https://jacket2.org/commentary/eyeblink Eyeblink: Paul Stephens and Charles Bernstein on Robert Grenier with radio host Kyle Schlessinger One hour mp3: new on PennSound01 Nov 2025 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4l3yrxzl227https://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3m4dhhjvsc22vSusan Bee and I talk with the inimitable and fantasmagorical Mimi Gross, in a one-hour slide retrospective of her thrilling work. We taped the show yesterday, and it's available now on the Brooklyn Rail YouTube channel. & go and see excerpts from Ruckus Manhattan at the Brooklyn Museum. https://youtu.be/BXNRptkL6Q8?si=Z0ZYAenF4zhPblmp29 Oct 2025 12:34 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4dhhjvsc22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3m2d7ahrorc2ahttps://youtu.be/UxqGCqkLvnc?si=1kuuhHQay62pdrYu03 Oct 2025 23:17 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2d7ahrorc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3lztduyphn22b---> https://jacket2.org/commentary/charles-bernstein27 Sep 2025 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lztduyphn22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3lzhcmnbs622w#megaWOKE #BigLieTrump. #BLT22 Sep 2025 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzhcmnbs622whttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3lz4kkktimk2gThe Acts of the Reappearing Pheasant: New Collection https://open.substack.com/pub/chbernstein/p/the-acts-of-the-reappearing-pheasant?r=64ur5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false18 Sep 2025 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz4kkktimk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social/post/3lyuzujt5ps2uhttps://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/bernstein/reviews/Bernstein-Poetics-Overview.pdf15 Sep 2025 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:pcdvcwlqvqhyazgez36hsco6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyuzujt5ps2u