Ben Lerner

On the heels of a theatrical run of Price’s evolving film Redistribution, the two artists discuss the ethics of streaming, artworks on the verge of falling apart, SoundCloud mixes, and the chaos of assigning cultural value in the twenty-first century.

Early film, nineteenth-century science fiction, and experimental musical languages serve a young artist’s explorations of race and our political present.
The phase vocoder bends the pitch of
my voice toward a norm.

Pulitzer Prize–winner Rae Armantrout on her new book of poetry, Money Shot, and its dealings with value—in life, porn, and capitalism—through an email exchange with poet Ben Lerner.

In episode four of Phoned-In, BOMB Magazine’s poetry reading by phone podcast, Ben Lerner reads a selection of his work.