Ben Lerner

Sep 9, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Ben Lerner

Interviewed by Ben Lerner I first heard Rosmarie Waldrop read when I was seventeen, visiting my elder brother at Brown. She was reading from what would become Reluctant Gravities (1999), the third book in the trilogy of prose poems later collected as Curves to the Apple (2006). I was utterly transfixed and utterly baffled.

Mar 18, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Ben Lerner

By Ben Lerner March 18, 2024 I’d planned to write about one of my favorite James Schuyler poems in time for the centenary of his birth last November, but  Past is past, and if one remembers what one meant to do and never did, is not to have thought to do enough?

Jan 18, 2024 | nybooks.com | Ben Lerner

Ed Atkins’s Pianowork 2 is a sixteen-minute computer animation that involves an uncannily realistic digital avatar of Atkins playing Jürg Frey’s minimalist piano composition “Klavierstück 2.” (I saw Pianowork 2 at the Gladstone Gallery late last year, and it will presumably be included in the Atkins exhibition that the Tate Britain is planning for 2025.)1 The real Atkins’s piano performance was translated via a motion-capture process into what the gallery materials describe as his “digital...

Dec 18, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Ben Lerner

A recent Harper’s Magazine article used a partially fictionalized tale to demonstrate how Wikipedia can be and has been manipulated in small and large ways that can create facts without any basis. The author of the piece is the magazine’s poetry editor Ben Lerner. He joins host Scott Tong for more on the dangers of Wikipedia, and its role as a force for good. This article was originally published on WBUR.org. Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Nov 21, 2023 | harpers.org | Ben Lerner |Sara Hendren |Hannah Gold |Rachel Kushner

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