Chris Bernstorf (Poetry/Spoken Word)

Kevin Schlereth Visitor Pass Brittany Hartman Chris Bernstorf Craig's House in Pittsburgh, PA If Matthew Dickman and Pablo Neruda conceived a child while crowdsurfing at a punk show and then raised the newborn in one of those bio tubes from a sci-fi movie, amalgamating the pseudo-amniotic-fluid from church, Chipotle, and pop culture, then you’d have something akin to Chris Bernstorf’s poetry. Begun as a passion project while studying creative writing at Lycoming College, Bernstorf’s poetry has since taken him to 48 states and 7 other countries. He has clocked in over 700 performances in every imaginable space, from living rooms to a micronation to bars to churches to a converted Soviet airfield to art spaces to bathrooms. He has featured for nearly two dozen artists of every genre strip from hip hop to hardcore. His poetry films have screened around the world. He makes all of his work available for free via Bandcamp out of a deep conviction that art belongs to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay. SDG