After the intermission, Weiner’s friend and literary executor, Charles Bernstein, his wife Susan Bee, and their daughter Emma Bee Bernstein, performed a selection from Clairvoyant Journal in the style of a performance Weiner and two co-performers gave in the mid-1970s at St. Mark’s Church “from the journal in May” (a recording of which is published by Durgin’s Kenning Editions). To this practical reenactment, the Bee-Bernsteins brought much of the spirit of Weiner’s 1970’s performance—laughter, overlapping words, outbursts of frustration at not being able to follow the score, and all. Afterwards, Charles Bernstein addressed the gathering, expressing his appreciation for Durgin’s efforts, as well as for the presenters and everyone assembled. That Bernstein acknowledged the many who would have liked to have presented at the tribute but did not attested to Weiner’s large sphere of friendship and influence. That he also expressed Weiner would have liked that so many were included in the event who did not know her, recalled her openness to new experiences and to making new friends.

Following the Bee-Bernsteins, Lewis Warsh also read from Clairoyant Journal, a work his Angel Hair press published in 1974 with the help of Barrett Watten, who typeset the typographically intricate manuscript from the geographic remove of San Francisco. After Warsh, another of Weiner’s younger publishers followed, New York-based poet Lee Ann Brown, whose Tender Buttons published Weiner’s sileNt teachers/remeMbered sequel in 1993. Brown read passages from the Tender Buttons book, including Weiner’s candid biography statement in which she humorously recounts her life as a writer.