Charles Bernstein (1950) was born in New York City. Poet, essayist, scholar, and editor, Bernstein was educated at Harvard University, and has taught at Columbia University, the University of Buffalo, Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. An acclaimed member of the group of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. His selected poetry from the past thirty years, All the Whiskey in Heaven, was published in 2010; his selected essays, Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions, was released in 2011. Arguing for what he calls “the politics of form,” Bernstein claims that “forms, like words, can never be separated from their meanings, which come into being in a social and historical process that is never finished. [...] When a poem enters into the world it enters into a political, in the sense of ideological and historical, space.”