{"id":2510,"date":"2015-11-17T17:43:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T22:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2018-05-06T18:23:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:23:23","slug":"bill-berkson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/bill-berkson\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Berkson"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_930\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2510-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/billberkson.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/billberkson.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/billberkson.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_2512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2512\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2512 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BB-by-Nathaniel-Dorsky2014.jpg?resize=300%2C224&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BB-by Nathaniel Dorsky2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BB-by-Nathaniel-Dorsky2014.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BB-by-Nathaniel-Dorsky2014.jpg?resize=1024%2C765&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BB-by-Nathaniel-Dorsky2014.jpg?resize=624%2C466&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BB-by-Nathaniel-Dorsky2014.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Berkson, photo by by Nathaniel Dorsky, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/search\/?q=Bill++Berkson+code+unknown\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Berkson<\/a> was born in New York in 1939. His first book <em>Saturday Night: Poems 1960-61 <\/em>appeared in 1961. During the 1960s, he worked at <em>ARTNews<\/em>, the Museum of Modern Art, and as associate producer of a show on art for public television.<\/p>\n<p>He moved to Northern California in 1970 and during the next decade edited a series of little magazines and books under the Big Sky imprint.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeehousepress.org\/shop\/expect-delays\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2535 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Expect-Delays.jpg?resize=160%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Layout 1\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Expect-Delays.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Expect-Delays.jpg?resize=684%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 684w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Expect-Delays.jpg?resize=624%2C934&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Expect-Delays.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>He has taught at the New School for Social Research, Yale, in many <em>Poets in the Schools<\/em> programs, and for 24 years at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he is now Professor Emeritus.<\/p>\n<p>He is a corresponding editor for <em>Art in America<\/em> and has contributed essays to such other journals as <em>Aperture<\/em>, <em>Artforum<\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artcritical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">artcritical.com<\/a><\/em> and <em>Modern Painters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>His recent books include<em><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeehousepress.org\/shop\/portrait-and-dream-new-and-selected-poems\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Portrait an<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2536 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Portrait-978-156689-229-2.jpg?resize=168%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Portrait 978-156689-229-2\" width=\"168\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Portrait-978-156689-229-2.jpg?resize=210%2C300&amp;ssl=1 210w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Portrait-978-156689-229-2.jpg?resize=717%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 717w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Portrait-978-156689-229-2.jpg?resize=624%2C891&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Portrait-978-156689-229-2.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/>d Dream:<\/a> New &amp; Selected Poems<\/em>; three collections of criticism, <em>The Sweet Singer of Modernism &amp; Other Art Writings, For the Ordinary Artist<\/em>, and <em>Sudden Address: Selected Lectures;<\/em> an<br \/>\nepistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer entitled <em>What\u2019s Your Idea of a Good Time?<\/em>; and four words-and-images sequences: <em>BILL <\/em>with Colter Jacobsen; <em>Ted Berrigan<\/em> with George Schneeman; <em>Not an Exit<\/em> with L\u00e9onie Guyer; and <em>Repeat After Me<\/em> with John Zurier. A new collection of his poetry, <a href=\"http:\/\/coffeehousepress.org\/shop\/expect-delays\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Expect Delays<\/em>, appeared from Coffee House Press in Fall 2014<\/a>. His 2006 Russian notebook, <em>Invisible Oligarchs<\/em>, will appear from Ugly Duckling Presse in spring 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The interview discussed the <a href=\"http:\/\/writing.upenn.edu\/pennsound\/\" target=\"_blank\">archive of readings at Penn Sound<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/199699\/clues-if-not-the-keys-new-poetry-from-bill-berkson\/\" target=\"_blank\">H<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/199699\/clues-if-not-the-keys-new-poetry-from-bill-berkson\/\" target=\"_blank\">yperallergic published a recent piece on Bill that can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/billberkson.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listBill Berkson was born in New York in 1939. His first book Saturday Night: Poems 1960-61 appeared in 1961. During the 1960s, he worked at ARTNews, the Museum of Modern Art, and as associate producer of a show on art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[76,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-2510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-poet","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-us"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BB-by-Nathaniel-Dorsky2014.jpg?fit=1280%2C956&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-Eu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}