Charles Bernstein

About

American Language Poet, author, and scholar known for All the Whiskey in Heaven, Republics of Reality, and other works. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he edited the famous L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E literary magazine.

Before Fame

He graduated from Harvard University in 1972 and published his first book, Asylums, three years later.

Trivia

He taught poetry at the University of Buffalo from 1989-2003.

Family Life

He had a son and a daughter with his wife, Susan Bee.

Associated With

He and Bernadette Mayer can both be classified as Language Poets.