Sophist

A foundational practitioner of Language poetry, Charles Bernstein was born in New York City and educated at the Bronx High School of Science and at Harvard University, where he studied philosophy with Stanley Cavell. Between 1978 and 1981 he co-edited, with Bruce Andrews, the influential magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. His many books include The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies (University of Chicago Press, 2024) and Topsy-Turvy (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006, he has held a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. He is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of PennSound.