Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein is the author, most recently, of The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Topsy-Turvy (University of Chicago Press, 2021), and Pitch of Poetry (University of Chicago Press, 2016). His work was the subject of The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences (Duke University Press), edited by Paul Bové, the fall 2021 issue of boundary 2. With Davide Balula, he wrote a series of AI-generated poems published as Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End (NERO, 2023). (Updated 04/2026)