Monday, March 29, 2010

Some pics from recent reading events

Here are a few reading pictures. First, from samedi le 27 mars, à 19h30, à l'invitation de Christophe Marchand-Kiss pour sa résidence de poésie : K Barré #5 lectures de Jennifer K. Dick, Alain Robinet, Ritta baddoura & Christophe Marchand-Kiss Aux Chiffons, (90 rue Marcadet, 75018 Paris, M° 4 – Marcadet-Poissonniers & 12 – Jules Joffrin)

Here (below) Anne Kawala and I are reading the originals and the translations by Christophe Marchand-Kiss (seen behind Anne) of some of the Orpheus-Eurydice poems (currently titled Be(twixt), but we will see). It was so touching for me to hear my work carried into French on this exciting level. Christophe is a very very talented translator as well as poet, and Anne really did the work--which is not easily read aloud--justice with her awesome reading! (what can I say, they spoiled me!)














Here is a photo of Ritta Badoura standing on the bench at the bar Aux Chiffons 90 rue Marcadet, 75018 reading from her long, exciting text (she read an as-of-yet unpublished piece which left me glued to my seat! Having only seen her perform last summer at Lodève on one occasion, this opportunity not only to hear her again, but to read alongside her and then to meet over dinner and get to speak to her even more was thrilling--perhaps the beginning of a friendship? One can hope. Regardless, I advise everyone to go and check out her writings--she just signed a new book at the Salon du Livre last Sunday.)

In this image, Christophe-Marchand Kiss performs one of his own pieces for the pleasure of the audience--including, at the left, Ritta Baddoura and Jonathan Regier. The evening was in fact organized by CMK as part of his monthly reading series Kbarré. Poet-performers, their friends, passersby and other authors come together on Saturday evenings once a month in this charming local bar in the 18th to hear and share work for an hour or so, then hang out and converse with the authors and friends, or make new friends! The next one is April 17th 2010, same place, same time (19h30, Aux Chiffons, 90 rue Marcadet, 75018!)

Then this next set of pics is from the night before, vendredi le 26 mars, à 18h30, à la Galérie Evi Gougenheim
(14 rue Coëtlogon (angle 5 rue d'Assas) 75006 PARIS, RER Luxembourg), Tel 01 45 44 65 49 - e.mail info@gougenheim.eu pour la parution en 2009 du livre trilingue d’art et de poésie « Ondulations » (éditions Aenis) : peintures de Georgio Fidone (plasticien italien), et poèmes de Jennifer K Dick (américaine), Jacques de Longeville (français) et Susana Sulic (argentine) http://www.gougenheim.eu/
In these two pictures, Jacques de Longeville and I read some of my work in English and French, from a new series just translated and from Retina/Rétine. This said, we were there in honor of the book Ondulations, including a poem which parallels the style of writing in Retina.




In this photo, Giorgio Fidone looks on as we all read selections from Ondulations and other works.

Here Susana Sulic reads/performs her text from Ondulations with her daughter--who is reading the French version. The pleasure of hearing the Argentinian Spanish, of giggling at the symbol readings--as Susana held up the images and pointed to them, at time accompanying them with a vocal version of a translation, at other times shrugging and pointing, thus indicating the difficulty of translating the symbol, of bringing the visual to sound.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Deux Lectures en français!

Deux lectures cette semaine avec moi, et en français (avec des textes traduits en français), à l'occasion du Printemps des Poètes et le Salon du Livre :

Vendredi le 26 mars, à 18h30, à la Galérie Evi Gougenheim (14 rue Coëtlogon (angle 5 rue d'Assas) 75006 PARIS, RER Luxembourg), Tel 01 45 44 65 49 - e.mail info@gougenheim.eu pour la parution en 2009 du livre trilingue d’art et de poésie « Ondulations » (éditions Aenis) : peintures de Georgio Fidone (plasticien italien), et poèmes de Jennifer K Dick (américaine), Jacques de Longeville (français) et Susana Sulic (argentine) http://www.gougenheim.eu/

Samedi le 27 mars, à 19h30, à l'invitation de Christophe Marchand-Kiss pour sa résidence de poésie : K Barré #5 lectures de Jennifer K. Dick, Alain Robinet, Ritta baddoura & Christophe Marchand-Kiss Aux Chiffons, (90 rue Marcadet, 75018 Paris, M° 4 – Marcadet-Poissonniers & 12 – Jules Joffrin)

Saturday, March 13, 2010

New and Forthcoming en français & English!

Voi(es)x de l’autre: Poètes femmes, 19e - 21e siècles (MSH Clermont-Ferrand), sous la direction de Patricia Godi-Tkatchouk

JUST OUT :

ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION
▪ My series of dual-language poems “Le Livre de Reflets” (written between French and English) appear in the just-published book
Voi(es)x de l’autre: Poètes femmes, 19e - 21e siècles, a collection of critical and creative works on women’s poetry, MSH de l’Université de Clermont-Ferrand, Collection: littératures, March 2010. http://www.msh-clermont.fr/article2121.html to see the table of contents : http://www.msh-clermont.fr/IMG/pdf/Tdm-VoiesxDeLautre.pdf

The summary of the anthology states: "En quoi le fait d’être une femme peut-il affecter la création en poésie ? Qu’est-ce qui fait l’originalité des écrits poétiques féminins ? Partant des travaux de la critique littéraire féministe et/ou « féminine », tout en proposant une pluralité de voies critiques, ce volume s’attache à la situation complexe des poètes femmes (Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Joyce Mansour, Sylvia Plath et d’autres) dans la tradition littéraire masculine. Une anthologie de textes poétiques, donnant à entendre les voix de poètes femmes contemporaines, le complète et l’enrichit."

MY OTHER RECENT & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE:

TRANSLATION & 2 ARTICLES:
▪ Excerpt from “58 Propositions on Life and Death” by Jean-Michel Espitallier in Action, Yes! online quarterly, in the V. 1, issue 12, Winter 2010 issue. http://www.actionyes.org/issue12/dick-espitallier/dick1.html

▪ “Of Tradition & Experiment III : « Sound Forms in Time », a personal monologue about anthologizing poetic practices of writing lyrically.” Tears in the Fence, N° 51, Dorsett, UK, Feb 2010, pp.107-114.

▪ « La Pop Culture, de la publicité dans la poésie : un renversement de l’ordre économique », Trans-, N° 9, l’Université de Paris III, http://trans.univ-paris3.fr/spip.php?article387 (+ abstracts in English and French : http://trans.univ-paris3.fr/spip.php?article388), 1 February 2010.

FORTHCOMING THIS SPRING:

ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION:
▪ Poem “Spring Constellates in Snow” in New Pony: a horse less anthology, ed. by Jen Tynes, Horse Less Press, USA, forthcoming for AWP, 7 April 2010, pp. 55-58.

POEMS & TRANSLATIONS:
▪ 4 of my poems in Ekleksographia, special issue on France, Spring 2010. http://ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/

▪ Translation of 11 prose poems from “A sound of glass in her” by Albane Gellé on Ekleksographia, special issue on France, Spring 2010. http://ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/

ARTICLE, BOOK REVIEW & A SHORT “CULTURAL POSTING”
▪ “Crossroads of Visualization” (on Claude Royet-Journoud and Myung Mi Kim’s visual practices of writing the fragment), forthcoming in Big City Lit, 2010. See their website at: http://www.bigcitylit.com/

▪ “Kardia by Claude Royet-Journoud” (Review of chapbook), Ekleksographia, special issue on France, forthcoming Spring 2010. http://ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/

▪ World News Report: “Jennifer K Dick in Paris, France: Sound-Text-Image: Mediums in Collision”, Lungfull! Magazine, N° 18, USA, Spring 2010. http://lungfull.org/index.html

Sunday, March 07, 2010

NEW translation by me of Jean-Michel Espitallier now out online at

I am very excited to see up online at Action YES! the online quarterly from Action Books the translation of 16 of the 58 Propositions on Life and Death by Jean-Michel Espitallier that I completed in Paris as part of a translation workshop organized with the maison de la littérature. They appear in Vol 1, issue 12, Winter 2010 which just went up online at http://www.actionyes.org/ The issue includes exciting poetry, prose and translations by Clayton Eshleman, Tim Earley, Ann Fine, Marisa Crawford, Sara Greenslit, as well as image work by Geoffrey Detrani and others.

Check it out! After all, it is free and online!

Direct link for the translation: http://www.actionyes.org/issue12/dick-espitallier/dick1.html

Friday, March 05, 2010

JM Espitallier "refait la java": event not to miss!

Doesn't this look GREAT!!!!! YES, not to be missed, no?

OH, and of course Marjorie Perloff, Barrett Watten and others are here for the John Ashbery conference at Paris III next week--so we shall all be busy, busy, busy....