Alan Bernheimer


Alan Bernheimer is an American poet, often associated with the San Francisco Language poets and the New York School poets.

Biography

He attended Horace Mann School, and graduated in 1970 from Yale College, where he became friends with poets Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, Rodger Kamenetz, and Alex Smith and studied literature with A. Bartlett Giamatti and Harold Bloom and poetry with Ted Berrigan, Peter Schjeldahl, and Bill Berkson. He was a member of Manuscript Society in his senior year.
He continued his association with the New York School poets and the St. Mark's Poetry Project for several years, and moved to San Francisco in 1976, where through Benson and Robinson he met other writers—such as Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Tom Mandel, Ted Pearson, Bob Perelman, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten—who would soon become known as the San Francisco Language poets. Bernheimer wrote and performed for Poets Theater, and produced and hosted the radio program of new writing by poets, on KPFA from 1979 to 1980. He produces a photo portrait gallery of poets reading on
Bernheimer worked as a corporate communications executive for Bay Area technology and solar companies. He is married to Melissa Riley, a former San Francisco public librarian and freedom-of-information activist.

Works

  • , 2019, Cuneiform Press
  • , 2017, SFMOMA Open Space
  • , Nowhere Magazine, August 2015
  • , 2009, Adventures in Poetry
  • , Nowhere Magazine, November 2009
  • , The Sienese Shredder #3
  • Billionesque, 1999, The Figures
  • Cloud Eight, 1999, Sound & Language – with Kit Robinson
  • , 1981, Tuumba
  • Café Isotope, 1980, The Figures

    Translation

  • Paris by Night: The Pleasures of the Capital, 2023, Slacks Books
  • , 2016, City Lights
  • The Hamlet of the Bees, 1981, Whale Cloth

    Plays

  • "Particle Arms," produced by San Francisco Poets Theater, 1982, published in Hills, 1983 and reprinted in The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985, 2010

    Anthologies

  • , The best American poetry, 2004, Editors Lyn Hejinian, David Lehman, Simon and Schuster, 2004,

    Other online resources

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Category:1948 births
Category:Poets from New York
Category:Language poets
Category:Living people
Category:Writers from New York City
Category:Yale College alumni
Category:Horace Mann School alumni