Video & Other Media


From Mayer’s reading at at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia, October 21, 2014. Click for event information.

From Mayer’s reading at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia, October 21, 2014. Click for event information.

Reading at the 17 Poets! Literary and Performance Series, at Gold Mine Saloon in New Orleans, March 7, 2013. Click for more information on 17 Poets!

Recorded by Don Yorty, a friend of Mayer’s. Click here to learn more about Works & Days’ on Yorty’s blog.









Mayer reading at SUNY, April 11, 2018 (more info needed)

Mayer reading at the Kelly Writers House, in Philadelphia, as part of the Writers House Fellows Program, on March 26, 2018. For more information on the Fellows Program, click here.

Mayer in conversation with Al Filreis, at the Kelly Writers House, as part of the Fellows Program, March 27, 2018. For more information, click here.

Mayer reading with poet Jen Bervin, as part of DIA:’s Readings In Contemporary Poetry Series, November 14, 2017. For event details, click here.

Mayer in conversation with Peter Baker, Marie Warsh, and George Stolz, at the opening of the exhibit at CANADA gallery in New York. For more information on the exhibit, click here.

Bernadette Mayer reading with Christian Nagler, part of the Holloway Series in Poetry at UC Berkeley. Feb 10, 2016. For more information click here.

A poetry reading with Mayer and Phil Good, at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia, October 21, 2014. For more information, click here.

Reading featuring Mayer, Phil Good, and Jennifer Karmin, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, September 13, 2012. Click here for details.

Mayer and Warsh reading on The Poetry Project’s Public Access Poetry television show, April 26, 1978. For more information about Public Access Poetry, click here.
From an event Epic Voices: Bernadette Mayer & Stacy Szymaszek on the Long Poem & Daily Writing. Recorded on March 9, 2019.
Mayer on Susan Howe’s radio show, on WBAI (NY)/Pacifica Radio, on April 22, 1979. Click here for more information, and to read a transcript courtesy of Jacket2.
Mayer in conversation with Ferguson, on behalf of Creative Writing at The New School and the National Book Critics Circle. Click here to read full interview.
Mayer in conversation with Stephanie Ferguson, for Cold Front Mag, March 25, 2014. Click here to read.


Artist Herbert Kearney presents Mayer with a framed portrait of her thumbprints, sent from New Orleans.

Trailer for a limited edition chapbook reprint of Mayer's classic translations of Catullus and Horace, among others.