Bernadette Mayer Workshop
Autumn 2008

Week One/September 11: Mayer Interview, December 1997, Early Poems (Ceremony Latin and Story) and selections of Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons and "Composition as Explanation"

Week Two/September 18: Moving, 0-9 Magazine, Hannah Weiner Clairvoyant Journal (clean copy w/ links to audio), Manuscript copy Clairvoyant Journal

Week Three/October 2: Memory , Hannah Weiner The Code Poems, Vito Acconci Ten Packed Minutes, Yoko Ono Cut Piece

Week Four/October 9: Studying Hunger, visual works by Rosemary Mayer, and Hannah Weiner The Fast

Week Five/October 16: Poetry, The Golden Book of Words

Week Six/October 23: Midwinter Day, James Joyce sections of Ulysses, Yvonne Rainer’s film Journeys From Berlin/1971

Week Seven/October 30: The Desires of Mothers To Please Others In Letters, Alice Notley Songs For The Unborn Second Baby, and Barbara Hammer film Superdyke

Week Eight/November 6: Utopia and Juliana Spahr The Transformation

Week Nine/November 13: Sonnets and Epigrams, Sappho, Catullus, and Lee Ann Brown’s Polyverse, and Harryette Mullen’s Sleeping With The Dictionary

Week Ten/November 20: Collaborations and Exercises, New Work, Henry Hills film Money


Links:

Science Listening Poems, 9/11/08

Post-Memory/Studying Hunger "Everything" Poems, 10/2/08