Interviews
Bernadette Mayers talks with Kate Schapira about the world of poetry and politics, experiments, exchanges, how to write and love. Read the transcribed 2 hour conversation here.
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Check out this three part interview published by Coldfront: Stephanie Anderson interviews Bernadette about her editing of the landmark journal of poetry, her collaboration with Clark Coolidge, and the remarkable poem Mindwinter Day.
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Adam Fitzgerald interviews Mayer about her life and career, which Fitzgerald finds fascinating and obscure.
Learn more about Bernadette...
- The Poetry Foundation writes about Bernadette and provides a list and links to poems and prose by the incredible poet.
- Check out the Academy of American Poets Mayer Page for more information.
- Poet's Chat Feature: Daniel Kane interviews Bernadette Mayer about her sonnets, rhyme, and other exciting stuff!
- Bernadette Mayer's List of Journal Ideas:
* dreams * food * finances * writing ideas * love * ideas for architects * city design ideas * beautiful and/or ugly sights * a history of one's own writing life, written daily * reading/music/art, etc. encountered each day * rooms * elaborations on weather * people one sees-description * subway, bus, car or other trips (e.g., the same bus trip written about every day) * pleasures and/or pain * life's everyday machinery: phones, stoves, computers, etc. * answering machine messages * round or rectangular things, other shapes * color * light * daily changes, e.g., a journal of one's desk, table, etc. * the body and its parts * clocks/time-keeping * tenant-landlord situations * telephone calls (taped?) * skies * dangers * mail * sounds * coincidences & connections * times of solitude
Mayer on Penn Sound
Click here to listen to a PoemTalk Podcast featuring Bernadette Mayer recorded here at the University of Pennsylvania.
Awards
Bernadette Mayer is the Winner of the 2014
She was selected by judges Ben Doller and Joan Larkin who praise her as "magnificent". Read more reasons here on why the judges selected Bernadette as the winner.
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Mayer was awarded a fellowship in 2015 at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She plans to use the Guggenheim funds to work on book length series of poems.