POETS AND MUSIC: Steven Jesse Bernstein
- Producing Organization
- KEXP
- Contributing Organization
- KEXP (Seattle, Washington)
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- cpb-aacip/24-655dvbtz
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- Description
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- Seattle-based poet Steven Jesse Bernstein struggled with mental illness and drug addiction all through his life. Sober through most of the 80?s, that decade was when he did his best work. He also became a regular master of ceremonies for Seattle counterculture rock shows, opening for bands like Soundgarden, The Crows and Nirvana. It was not only his gutter-level, dark poetry that made him an icon on the scene, but also his onstage antics, which included: urinating on a heckler, reading a poem while holding a live rodent in his mouth and throwing things at the audience like beer bottles or his wallet.
- Description
- Date Produced: 2011-02-17
- Media type
- other
- Credits
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Host: Michele Myers
Producer: Michele Myers
Producing Organization: KEXP
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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KEXP-FM
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- Citations
- Chicago: “POETS AND MUSIC: Steven Jesse Bernstein,” KEXP, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 25, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-24-655dvbtz.
- MLA: “POETS AND MUSIC: Steven Jesse Bernstein.” KEXP, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 25, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-24-655dvbtz>.
- APA: POETS AND MUSIC: Steven Jesse Bernstein. Boston, MA: KEXP, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-24-655dvbtz