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North of Invention: Interview with Charles Bernstein and Sarah Dowling

January 29, 2015

By Sonnet L'Abbé
Abstract:

Charles Bernstein and Sarah Dowling are the co-organizers of North of Invention: A Festival of Canadian Poetry. Taking place over four days in January 2011 at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia and Poets House in New York City, North of Invention aimed "to initiate a new dialogue in North American poetics, addressing the hotly debated areas of 'innovation' and 'conceptual writing,' the history of sound poetry and contemporary performance, multilingualism and translation, and connections to activism."

Canadian Studies Literary Criticism Multiculturalism Nationalism Poetry Transnationalism Twentieth Century Twenty-First Century United States
This article “North of Invention: Interview with Charles Bernstein and Sarah Dowling” originally appeared in 21st-Century Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 210-211 (Autumn/Winter 2011): 84-95.

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