Ivy double-header the 29th and the 31st of May in Paris

Ivy will be having a full end of May, with 2 end-of-May events in Paris!!!

29th May at 17h30: 
The IVY WRITERS PARIS + VERSAL Magazine (Amsterdam) and UPSTAIRS AT DUROC (Paris) mini festival of poetry, including performances in French by the group VEGA and readings in both English and French by a wide variety of local and travelling authors. WHEN? 29 May at 5:30pm to 8pm. WHERE? Mundolingua, 10 rue servandoni, 75006 Paris. Full info at: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/2016/05/le-29-mai-2016-festival-ivy-writers.html

The 31st of May at 19h00:
American Poetry night with Amy Catanzano, Rebecca Seiferle and Margaree Little at BERKELEY BOOKS OF PARIS. The bios for these fabulous authors can be found on the Ivy Writers Paris Blog.

A Mundolingua (musée de la langue à Paris), 

10 rue Servandoni – 75006 Paris

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A Mundolingua (musée de la langue à Paris), 

10 rue Servandoni – 75006 Paris

- See more at: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/#sthash.J2x4HoaB.dpuf

A Mundolingua (musée de la langue à Paris), 

10 rue Servandoni – 75006 Paris

- See more at: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/#sthash.J2x4HoaB.dpuf

Day 2 of VizJournalPoem Project by Jennifer K Dick

May 9th 2016: Day 2 images 3 and 4:

"A WHISP OF COLOR IS ALL

THAT IS NECESSARY TO BE."

(30x42cm//11.75x16.5". Mixed medium--acrylic, collaged paper, permanent marker, ink, glue, pastel, charcoal)

"RESPITE RE-CESS (recession) in

rooted/ignited TIMESPACE"

(30x42cm//11.75x16.5". Mixed medium--acrylic, ink, glue, pastel, charcoal)

Recently Received / Recently Acquired BOOKS and CHAPBOOKS

April 2013 folds into May 2016: When a blogpost gets lost in the draft files and then re-emerges:

It seems worthwhile to note once in a blue moon what JOY is brought to any day where I go downstairs to discover a slightly puffier than a bill envelope and rip it open to uncover the gorgeous book that has somehow wended and wound its way possibly on trains, planes and automobiles as well as the back of the bike of our local post office worker (really, she bikes, it is awesome) to here.

Some of the very exciting recent mailbox pleasures from April 2013 which I had in a draft blog post since then include:
Anne-Marie Albiach's Celui des "Lames" (Eric Pesty, 2013)
Jane Lewty's BRAVURA COOL (1913 press, 2012)
MURDER by Danielle Collobert (one of my favorite books in French) now in an English version translated by Nathanael (Nightboat Books, 2013)
Rachida Madani's Tales of a Severed Head translated by Marilyn Hacker (Yale U Press, 2013)

But also there are the 2013 acquired in person books I wanted to tell people about in April of that year, such as:
Brandon Shimoda's Obon
Zachary Schomburg's Scary, no scary (O Books, 2013)

May 2016 shout outs about exciting new arrivals or newly acquired reads, most picked up in NYC on my recent visit include:
Dominique Maurizi Langue du chien (Albertine, 2011)--FYI Dominique will be reading at Berkeley Books of Paris on May 19, 2016 at 19h30
Tears in the Fence's newest issue (62) with a stunning new cover design
4 of the newest books from Nightboat--poetry collections by Michael Heller, E Tracey Grinnell, Brenda Iijima and Maged Zaher!
Early Linoleum by Brenda Iijima (Counterpath, 2015)
Visual Poems and Performance Scripts by Jane Augustine (Marsh Hawk Press, 2015)
3 books, including the fabulous, dense and rich Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices by Michael Ruby (Station Hill of Barrytown, 2012)
Bonny Finberg's Kali's Day (a novel!)
Epître Langue Louve by Claude Ber (got that at Ivy last week--it is fabulous!)
Actes from the colloque "Traduire le rêve" N° 53 of Etudes de Langue et Littérature françaises de l'université Seinan-Gakuin, numéro spécia for the 150th anniversary of Franco-Japonais relations (from Spring 2010)

If you never had time, in 2013, I published a few articles and book reviews, such as on Elsa Von Freytag's Body Sweats (on Drunken Boat), Of Tradition and Experiment articles for Tears in the Fence UK and poem/translation in N° 9 of RoToR magazine, in RoToR's FIRST BILINGUAL edition including my poem "Full Throttle" as well as 2 other texts which I co-translated with Anne Kawala.

In April 2013 we were all awaiting the exciting issue 11 of VERSAL--which you can still order!--and watch for 2016 news on Versal as we launch a call for work sometime this year and get ready for the next issues of the magazine. Versal has been focused on VERSO, its reading and talks series, and the next VERSO will be June 5th 2016 which I will curate--see full information at VERSO site: FIXITY/THE VOID is our Gemini alchemical theme.

Day 1 of VizJournalPoem Project May 2016

"Moi aussi, je suis peintre"--Apollinaire

About a year ago I purchased a GIANT Moleskin notebook at the Pompidou Center's spectacular bookstore with the vague idea that I would use the book to make some sort of one-off artpoetry book. "Play!" it invited me. But we all know how these things go--you get home then life takes over--the effort to make a single book just for me got shuffled under a million other "more important" things. The Moleskin was shelved.

But a few weeks ago, back at the Pompidou Center for the tail end of the Anselm Keiffer show, as I sat in one of the rooms and scribbled the draft of a poem, then shifted to another room and wrote a mini short story, the notebook came to mind once more. Keiffer's work evoked language, cited it, was crossed with it, or alluded to books and authors. But most significantly it awoke my own desire to play visually--to be the writer who let in the bit of the visual artist--to scribble over the pages, to dig into them with charcoal, to mash word and line into and perhaps even through surfaces. 

So, in an effort to not care whether the painting is sloppy or amateur, I began today the 176-page long Moleskin book as a sort of spring mental cleaning--reading and rereading old journals of the past year, I plucked out lines and fragments and painted and wrote, charcoaled and pasteled over and into the paint, collaged, glued a photo clipping I have had on my writing desk for the past years into the opening page. Thus I have begun the Moleskin one-off visual book exploration. To make me feel less insular in this process, I have also decided to post images of the pages as I go, even if they are childsplay--parce que, moi aussi, je suis peintre! Merci Anselm Keiffer et merci Apollinaire.

May 8th 2016: Day 1 image 1:

"THAT WHICH IS NOT BODY IN ONE ROOM BECOMES

THAT WHICH IS NOT WORD IN ANOTHER"

(30x84cm//11.75x33". Mixed medium--acrylic, collaged papers and black and white photo 'Holland House Library after the bombing of London', permanent marker, glue)

 

The Poetic Autobiography: an evening of readings and discussions on May 3rd

Very excited to be curating this event and leading the discussion around the topic of the poetic autobiography for Ivy Writers Paris Tonight, the 3rd of May 2016 at 19h30 in Paris at Berkeley Books. If you want more information on the event, see the bios for the authors at: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/2016/04/soiree-le-3-mai-2016-sur-le-theme-de_19.html