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| Bhopal's Flowers playing in Mulhouse, Pl de la Réunion |
The end of June is nigh, we did our fête de la musique to officially ring in summer on the solstice (photo Mulhouse, center stage, with the Bhopal's Flowers lead singer up their strummin and hummin for us!) and yet the summer is not yet so very summery. It is like being up in the North Woods on some Canadian lake with a strong, cool breeze but also some nice, clear days with afternoons that are reminiscent of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories. And much is underway. First--for anyone in Paris, please come out and see me this week if you have the time! I am reading twice and attending many other readings and vernissages this week.
IVY WRITERS exciting event for Color Treasury--June 24th at 19h30: Color Treasury is a small artbook press based in Texas and Paris here to read from work and launch new works. Authors who are part of the initial newspaper-style magazine COLOR TREASURY 003 will be reading at this event, as will art chapbook Paris-based author Jonathan Regier (for COLOR TREASURY 002) and NY author who works for New Directions and NY Book Review, Jeffrey Yang. These two fabulous featured poets will be accompanied by myself, Jennifer K Dick, as well as founder of the press and publisher Sarah Lariviere, and poets and artists included in the magazine Christine Herzer and Jacob Bromberg. We promise to make this a lovely, low-key evening of conversation and good poetry. Works from the newspaper by poets who are not able to be present will also be shared.
Jeffrey Yang,
Jonathan Regier,
Sarah Lariviere,
Christine Herzer,
Jennifer K Dick
and
Jacob
Bromberg.
AT:
DELAVILLE cafe,
34 blvd Bonne Nouvelle,
75010 Paris,
M° Bonne Nouvelle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLWT_9uneFM FOR PROMO EVENT VIDEO ON YOUTUBE
AT 19h30
le 24 juin 2013
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See more about Color Treasury at: http://colortreasury.tumblr.
SATURDAY 29th June REID HALL translation seminar reading to close off what will begin tomorrow--a long, exciting week of poetic exchanges and translations. I am very very excited to be working with Jean-Michel Espitallier and cannot wait to see what we decide to work on this week. SO JOIN US for the closing reading and sharing of the week-long productions:
L'ANNUELLE READING AT REID HALL
FEATURING/AVEC:
Chet Wiener
Esther Tellermann
Omar Berrada
Sarah Riggs
Jennifer K. Dick
Jean-Michel Espitallier
Jody Pou
Jean-Jacques Poucel
Abigail Lang
Thalia Field
Nous célébrerons les traductions et les
collaborations qui auront été faites au cours du séminaire de traduction Tamaas
autour d’un verre et en bonne compagnie. /// We'll be toasting the mutual translations
and collaborative projects we've been working on during the previous week's
seminar with a glass of wine and good company.
DETAILS:
Saturday June 29, 2013/samedi 29 juin
7pm/19h
Reid Hall
4 rue de Chevreuse
75006 Paris
métro Vavin
Organized by Sarah Riggs and Cole Swensen
with the association Tamaas: www.tamaas.org
THEN Announcing also a few PUBLICATIONS:
First off, if you have not seen it, the beautiful new ISSUE 11 is out from VERSAL. For a Jounal is a Fish, as you will see, and this one is worth netting! DO order a copy and help keep us thriving. It is a great summer gift for yourself or a friend or a dozen friends! Info on ordering is at: http://www.wordsinhere.com/versal_home.html
ONLINE I invite you to read my book review of that MASSIVE collected works by Else Von Freytag-Loringhoven which is now up on Drunken Boat issue 17: "Joyriding the Subtext: A Glimpse of Elsa Von Freytag Loringhoven's Uncensored Writings" at http://www.drunkenboat.com/db17/body-sweats-uncensored-writings-elsa-von-freytag-loringhoven Yes, I know, it is a wordy review for a wordy book!
And just going up is the newest poetry and poetics issue 7 (lucky number!) of Canadian magazine "17 seconds" (anyone else noticing an echo of 7s and 17s?) in which I have an essay up on Susan Howe's poetic collage essay on Chris Marker called 'Invisible Collisions: Considering Susan Howe’s Reform of the Poetic, Critical and Autobiographical Essay'. My essay about essays and Howe's work will be available at: http://www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds/
later this week, so check it out! IT is a revised talk from the SAES
conference in 2009 and has been seeking a home and time to settle. Feel
free to share your reactions too! I
am really excited to be in an issue of "17 seconds" even though I am
not a Canadian! Excellent poetry and interviews and writing on poetry
can be found there. Check out their past issues while waiting for this
newest one to go up!
Note for French readers: Susan Howe's essay that my work is discussing has been translated beautifully and skillfully into French by Béatrice Vilgrain and Bernard Rival at Théâtre Typographique (in the collection DEUX ET) and for anyone who does not know the original English text, it was anthologized in a film studies book in the States.
As for poetry--a new chapbook with Estepa Editions and artwork by Kate Van Houten will be out in Fall 2013. It is called CORRUPTION and a small selection from it will be appearing in the Paris Lit Up magazine and 3 others appeared in Color Treasury 003. So come by the reading and take a peek!
