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