Bern Porter

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“The Kinds of Love,” performance poetry by Bern Porter and Mark Melnicove.



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“Name, Address, City, State, Zip,” performance poetry by Bern Porter and Mark Melnicove.



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“Everything is Packaged,” performance poetry by Mark Melnicove and Bern Porter.



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Bern Porter titles for sale


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MUSIC FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES, VOLUME I by Bern Porter and Mark Melnicove

Performance and Sound Poetry by Porter and Melnicove, released March 2010 by Turned Word Records.


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Happy 100th birthday to Bern Porter

Happy Birthday to Bern Porter, who would have been 100 years old today. Born Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1911, Porter Settlement (Houlton) Maine. “Things are in transition and we are faced now with the possibility of finding out what they truly are.”


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JOY GLOWS WHERE CONFUSION WAS (2010)

A FILM ABOUT, WITH, AND WITHOUT BERN PORTER

BY MARK MELNICOVE



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Bernard H. Porter—A Mystery Story by Peter Schulze

Memoir by co-worker of Porter’s in Tasmania, 1959-60. Discusses mysterious circumstances regarding Porter’s exit from Tasmania, juxtaposing Porter’s recollections with Schulze’s.

Newspaper article about Pete Schulze’s search for the truth about Bern Porter, “Former Pulp Scientist was a Colleague of Einstein,” from The Advocate (Tasmanian newspaper, August 28, 2010).


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Bern Porter Chronology 1954-1962 by Bern Porter

Typescript by Bern Porter, written in 1960, added to in 1962, courtesy the Bern Porter Collection, Colby College Special Collections.


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Mark Melnicove and Bern Porter (the Eternal Poetry Festival) performing MAY ALL BE WELL by Bern Porter at the 1982 Maine Poets Festival, University of Maine at Augusta.


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“I transformed the world and in so doing I found myself.”—Bern Porter, I’VE LEFT (1954)


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What’s New?

New, July 2010

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Jena Osman (2010) reconsiders Bern Porter’s THE WASTEMAKER (1972).

“Bern Porter: Recycling the Atmosphere” (essay by Jena Osman)

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Bern Porter’s FOUND POEMS (1972) and Kenneth Patchen’s PANELS FOR THE WALLS OF HEAVEN (published by Bern Porter in 1946) are part of the new “Poems & Pictures” exhibit at the Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor. New York, NY 10001 
Poems & Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book (1946 - 1981)July 7, 2010 - September 11, 2010Organized by Kyle Schlesinger


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Catalog of Bern Porter Exhibition

Here is online catalog of Bern Porter exhibition at MoMA, by Rachael Morrison, exhibition curator.

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/lostandfound/


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Just published: Jena Osman's essay on Bern Porter

Osman’s essay, “Bern Porter: Recycling the Atmosphere,” appears in the new book (June 2010), HIDDEN AGENDAS: UNREPORTED POETICS, edited by Louis Armand.


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Review of Bern Porter Exhibit at MoMA

from Artopia: John Perreault’s art diary


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