CERN 38 by Jennifer K Dick online at Eye to the Telescope

 

In case you missed it: CERN poem online

CERN 38 by Jennifer K Dick was published on JULY 15, 2020 in EYE TO THE TELESCOPE, issue 37, online at: https://eyetothetelescope.com/index.html

You like science fiction? Fantasy? Poetry? Well, Eye To The Telescope is an online magazine that draws them all together. And I am enjoying having the CERN poem they accepted published, as it has long been one of my favorites. 

CERN 38 was inspired by the humor so evident in some of the physics lingo out there. This brings CERN, physics and Ian Ziering's time in Chippendales together.

 

 

Rencent Poetry Publications in GHR and ETTT

2 POEMS: "Crank" and MOD (Maximum Operating Depth)" by Jennifer K Dick published in GOLDEN HANDCUFFS REVIEW N° 29 June 2020:

Thrilled to have new poems from my manuscript in process SHELF BREAK appear in the exciting print issue of GOLDEN HANDCUFFS REVIEW. Help this paper-printed review survive by BUYING A COPY either ordering online OR via bookstores.  http://goldenhandcuffsreview.com/

CERN 38 by Jennifer K Dick published on JULY 15, 2020:

CERN 38 in EYE TO THE TELESCOPE, issue 37, online at:

https://eyetothetelescope.com/index.html

You like science fiction? Fantasy? Poetry? Well, Eye To The Telescope is an online magazine that draws them all together. And I am enjoying having the CERN poem they accepted published, as it has long been one of my favorites. 

CERN 38 was inspired by the humor so evident in some of the physics lingo out there. This brings CERN, physics and Ian Ziering's time in Chippendales together. 

New Poems in Print by Jennifer K Dick in Tears in the Fence and The Bastille

Getting the poems to roll out of the house and into the world is not always easy. We poets tend to obsess and revise and hold tight to the shards of language we have collected onto our pages. But out into the world they must, and with such joy it is I have had the pleasure of seeing a few of my poems land in great places this fall. And one even pictured above, left, on the wall of Le Chat Noir last week thanks to The Bastille!

Photo: Sabine Dundure Photography

In fact, I am thrilled to be part of the newest issue of THE BASTILLE. Issue n°4 is replete with exciting writing and amazing graphics and a lovely gallery of great photos by the Spoken Word in house photographer. You can pick up issues on their website via Paypal or get a copy any Monday, Weds night at Spoken Word Readings!  This issue had a theme: "The Many Faces of Jesse" and I loved seeing my Jesse James timetravel machine CERN poem alongside so many other versions of Jesse's!

First off, THANK you to the fabulous editors and lay out masters at TEARS IN THE FENCE in the UK--David Caddy and Westrow Cooper. It was also great to see my poems next to those of a great friend and fabulous author Greg Bachar. My poems CERN 51, CERN 52, CERN 54, CERN 56, CERN 67,  "Microcosms" and "There is something about" appear in Tears in The Fence, n° 64, September 2016, on pages 94-97. Go to https://tearsinthefence.com/ to subscribe/order a copy. Also consider checking in with them on their FB group page, where you will see I am also named as a columnist--and I am planning on getting the next column in for issue 65 soon!

 

As they tell you, in this issue: We have poetry, fiction and translations from Jeremy Reed, Jim Burns, John Welch, John Freeman, Sally Dutton, Chris Hall, Michael Henry, Beth Davyson, Kinga Tóth, Paul Kareem Tayyar, D. I., Lydia Unsworth, David Pollard, Mike Duggan, Jeff Hilson, Sheila Mannix, I.S. Rowley, Richard Foreman, Jay Ramsay, Alison Winch, Andrew Taylor, Alan Baker, Sophie Herxheimer, L. Kiew, Ric Hool, S.J. Litherland, Rachael Clyne, Andrew Shelley, Tom Cowin, Morag Kiziewicz, Matt Bryden, Jessica Mookherjee, John Phillips, Ian Brinton & Michael Grant trans. Mallarmé, Terence J. Dooley trans. Mario Martin Giljó, Greg Bachar, Jennifer K. Dick, Matthew Carbery, Mark Goodwin, Aidan Semmens, Peter Dent, Sarah Cave, Julie Irigaray and Maria Isokova Bennett. The critical section features John Freeman on Jim Burns: Poet as Witness, Andrew Henon on Timeless Man: Sven Berlin, Mary Woodward on Rosemary Tonks & Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Jeremy Reed on John Wieners, Norman Jope on Chris McCabe, Marsha de la O in conversation with John Brantingham, Neil Leadbeater on Jeremy Hilton, Nancy Gaffield on Geraldine Monk, Lesley Saunders on Alice Miller, Belinda Cooke on Carole Satyamurti, Steve Spence on Dear World and Everyone in it David Caddy on Andrew Lees’ Mentored by a Madman, Nigel Wood & Alan Halsey, Duncan Mackay on E.E. Cummings
, Notes on Contributors, and Ian Brinton’s Afterword.

It was also lovely to share in the launch reading evening at Spoken Word for the new issue--and to see the surprised faces of the designer, editors and support authors (Bruce Edward Sherfield at the left, Vincent Chabany-Douarre in middle and Troy Yorke, pictured on right) as the issue was unveiled: 

Photo: Sabine Dundure Photography

 

CERN 70 by Jennifer K Dick as a tip of the hat to the 2015 Nobel Prize announcements

CERN 70
by Jennifer K Dick

I dreamt that, rejected for the Nobel yet again, I decided to go on a rampage, get my revenge, show the 2014 selection committee what I was really worth. No, this was not one of those physicist-strolls-across campus shoot’em outs. Rather, during the ceremony, as everyone perked up to be enlightened by Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura’s speech on their fantastic blue LED light research in front of a large gathering of followers celebrating the 275th anniversary of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I sent a massive pulse (blue, of course) through the tuxedo-laden room. Everyone vanished. Then, a few minutes later, they reappeared. What happened? Well, I’d shot them back in time to the original ceremony for the first prize in 1739. I didn’t leave them there for long, but upon their return they all found nice, hand-embossed cards by their seats with, in golden letters, “This time-travelling experience brought to you by 8th-time finalist for the Nobel. Feel free to take note. Hope you enjoyed the ride.” So, as you can see, I am impatiently awaiting the October announcement for the 2015 prize.

(NOTE: the 2015 prize in Physics has just been announced: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2015/ It was "awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald 'for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass'". For anyone interested in the Nobel Prize for physics history, see: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/facts/physics/index.html. I guess I now need to write one of these CERN poems about my character's hopes for the 2016 prize! It is hard to stay ahead of these things!) 

CERN poem by Jennifer K Dick at Dusie--in case you missed it!

I don't know about you, but I am one of those people that really does have to unplug, and the only safe time to do that is the summer. This summer I had three tremendous voyages while oft-offline--fishing in Canada, cabin time with family with more fishing in WI and a crazy zip-lining adventure in MN, and then a good old-fashioned American cross-country road trip from Iowa to California, where I saw the Grand Canyon for the first time. I was awed again and again by the landscapes of the USA, especially those of the West. But when I got back to France and home, I was thrilled to see my poem featured on the Tuesday Poem project run by rob mcclennan on Dusie--number 125 in a long line of amazing authors. This poem, one of the 200 CERN poems (some of them still being written), CERN 59 in fact was triggered by an earlier Tuesday Poem posted on Dusie. Here, for anyone who missed it, is the link: http://dusie.blogspot.fr/2015/08/tuesday-poem-125-jennifer-k-dick-cern-59.html

I have also learned that the set of CERN poems translated into French by Jean-Michel Espitallier with the READ project are projected to appear in summer 2016. 

CERN poems in GARGOYLE MAGAZINE issue 62

As announced on my "Poetry" page, Gargoyle Magazine edited by the fabulous Richard Peabody published four CERN poems in issue 62 this spring:   "CERN 1", "CERN 11", "CERN 29" and "CERN 32" 

To see the full table of contents for Gargoyle issue 62 with fabulous poems by the likes of  Nin Andrews, Nick D'Annunzio or Lora Knight or prose by Jose Padua (nonfiction) and Gilles Leroy translated by JT Townley (Fiction) and much much more, or to subscribe/order a copy: go to http://www.gargoylemagazine.com/gargoyle/Issues/Issue62.php and then scroll down to the issue 62 post and click on "see table of contents" and order.

Recent publications.... and pics, plus an event announcement!

Travels and travails. The spring is alive with movement, with the awakening despite, today, a return to a fallish greyness here in Paris. But to combat the grey cloudy mood one needs so little, so little of something--perhaps just a bit of joy? Or shiny souvenirs of fabulous encounters and travels and new publications to make one feel loved and to also lead one to discover new authors one is published alongside. SO--here below are a few pics of recent events and announcements for new publications. This mini list ends with info on my forthcoming June 7th reading in Amsterdam! 

I) PRAGUE POETRY MICROFESTIVAL READING: JENNIFER K DICK with OLGA PEKOVA, happened on May 12th:

As these photos show (reading pics by Prague-based photographer Robert Carrithers republished here with his permission, the final pic is by me, as it has the great nightmood of central Prague--taken near Celetna 20), I travelled to Prague for their annual Prague Poetry Microfestival where I met for the second time the wonderful, talented young translator and writer Olga Pekova who brought some of my CERN poems into the Czech language. We gave a reading on one of the 4 nights of the festival, but I was especially excited to discover so many other authors--in particular the novelist who wrote DWELLING (Reality Street books, 2011--click title to order), Richard Mankin--who read on the extra-conference Fiction prequel night to the Microfestival. And what a delight it was to see old friends and new in-person friends after long cyber-contact: Michael Farrell and Vanessa Place. Here is a great picture of them contemplating the wall in the Prague Czech Repulic Senate garden!:

II) NEW POEMS FROM THE CERN PROJECT ONLINE in THE GORGEOUS ISSUE TWO OF MOLLY BLOOM Modern Poetry

MOLLY BLOOM issue two, available free and online HERE, includes work by Rachel Lerhman, Rob Stanton, rob mcclennan, Mark Russell, Sarah Crewe, Frances Presley, Jennifer K Dick, Osip Mandelstam translated by Alistair Noon, Vahni Capildeo, DS Marriott, Clive Semmens, and Geraldine Monk. It is edited by Aiden Simmons. 

III) CRITICAL ARTICLE discusses CERN poems, article BY AMY CATANZANO on JACKET 2 

author and critic AMY CATANZANO for Jacket 2: https://jacket2.org/commentary/ufolanguage

https://jacket2.org/commentary/ufolanguage
--What do you think? Am I part of U+F+O+L+A+N+G+U+A+G+E poetry? Read what Amy says HERE and let me know! See her article to check out a GREAT image by Maria Damon whose work and many others is discussed by Amy in her article.

IV) TEARS IN THE FENCE ISSUE 59--including my 10th column in the series entitled "OF TRADITION AND EXPERIMENT" 

See TITF's website for more info or to order a copy at:http://tearsinthefence.com/
Or join their FB group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2307588990/

My article is Of Tradition and Experiment X: a roundup of 5 excellent small press publications : Afton Wilky's Clarity Speaks of a Crystal Sea (Flim Forum, 2014), The First 4 Books of Sampson Starkweather (Birds LLC, 2013), Matvei Yankelevich's Alpha Donut (United Artists Books, 2012), Laurie Price's Radio at Night (Lunar Chandelier Press, 2013) and Jackqueline Frost's You Have the Eyes of a Martyr (O'Clock Press chapbook). 

Additional mini-reviews included at the closure of my column mention Lily Robert-Foley's M (Corrupt, 2013), Michelle Noteboom's Roadkill (Corrupt, 2013), Frances Richard's ANARCH. (FuturePoem, 2012), Matthew Cooperman and Marius Lehene's IMAGO for the fallen world (Jaded Ibis, 2013), as well as Shira Dentz's door of thin skins (CavenKerry, 2013)

V) CELEBRATORY READING for CONVERSION in the midst of the gorgeous art show for bookmaker, sculptor, painter and engraver KATE VAN HOUTEN of ESTEPA EDITIONS at ELIANE FIEVET's home gallery space.

This was a beautiful evening of sharing poems in a space filled with the most amazing sculpture. If you are interested in ordering a copy of CONVERSION, the limited edition book in handmade boxes, numbered 1-50, can be ordered through Kate Plus Books and via email directly at estepa [dot] editions [at] gmail [dot] com They are 50euros. See an image in the announcement below of the book.

VI) UPCOMING EVENTS--AMSTERDAM READING for CONVERSIONS at BOEKIE WOEKIE collectables and art bookstore! SEE YOU THERE? 

INFO for event: 5PM on Sat 7 June at Boekie Woekie bookstore, Berenstraat 16, 1016 GH Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
 

BIOS/ ARTIST INFO: Kate Van Houten, founder, editor and creator of Estepa éditions, is a visual artist, bookmaker and book-binder based in Paris, France. Her collaborative and individual books include publications of one-off exclusive art books to a more affordable range of small editions of up to 100--see a few samples at http://kateplusbooks.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/books/. She has worked with Jennifer K Dick on two occasions--first for a bilingual edition RETINA/RETINE in 2007 with art and binding by Kate, poem in 8 sections by Jennifer K Dick and a translation by Rémi Bouthonnier (available at Boekie Woekie). Now Jennifer and Kate will be coming to Amsterdam to celebrate their most recent collaboration "CONVERSION"--a set of 7 folio pages in an edition of 50, text printed in a deep blue ink with watercolor and ink images by Kate Van Houten traversing the pages and some of the texts. This is "bound" in a bordeaux colored handmade box in which the folio pages and their cover page slip in and out delicately. Jennifer composed these poems in Greece and Paris and they have the island feel of summer. Jennifer works for the Amsterdam-based literary magazine, VERSAL, and is the author of various other books and chapbooks. 

photo courtesy of http://gycouture.blogspot.fr/

Boekie Woekie's home site is at: http://boewoe.home.xs4all.nl/

PRAGUE MICROFESTIVAL READING 12th May 2014!

I am very excited to be part of this year's Prague Poetry Microfestival! Here is the

Press Release and Programme combined for easy use for anyone that might be lurking round the Czech capital this weekend and next week. Hope to see you there--I (Jennifer K Dick) will be reading yet more poems from the CERN 200 series on MONDAY NIGHT the 12th of May, with translations into Czech by Olga!

Prague Microfestival 2014 – Press Release & PROGRAMME The sixth issue of Prague Microfestival will take place from Sunday 11 May to Wednesday 14 May in the Student club Celetná, Celetná 20, right in the centre of Prague and will commence with a warm-up “Prague Fiction Forum” night of prose readings on Saturday 10 May in the Utopia Club, Belehradská 45. The festival is fully bilingual (Czech and English) and celebrates innovative poetry, this year revolving around the topics of conceptual writing,digital poetry performance and poetry collective.

EVENING 10 May 2014: (SOBOTA / SATURDAY) Prague Fiction Forum

19:30 – Club Utopia (Belehradská, 45, Prague; http://goo.gl/maps/iCfEK) English only, entrance free. The Prague Fiction Forum at Utopia Club on 10 May will feature the writers Louis Armand, Thor Garcia, Richard Makin, Ken Nash, and Phil Shoenfelt. The evening also includes the world-premiere of Ken Nash's short film, "The Pigeon," Phil Shoenfelt & David Babka unplugged, and improv jazz by Ian Mikyska.

PERFORMERS:

Louis Armand,

Thor Garcia,

Ken Nash,

Richard Makin,

Phil Shoenfelt

DAY 11 May 2014 (NEDELE / SUNDAY)

Vanessa Place: lecture “Empire Aesthetics” (English only, entrance free)

Start 17.00; Galerie Tranzit Display (Dittrichova 337/9, Prague; http://goo.gl/maps/Z2nFJ)

This year’s guest of honor is the renowned American conceptual poet, theorist and criminal appellate attorney Vanessa Place; in her output, she utilizes appropriation and thematizes sexual abuse, violence and workings of the institution called literature (as well as others) She will present her texts at the opening night of the festival, Sunday 11 May from 7pm, but before that will kick off the festival with a lecture called “Empire Aesthetics” (from 5pm in the gallery tranzitdisplay, Dittrichova 337/9). The opening night will also feature the Viennese-Bratislava curator, poet and artist Boris Ondreicka, the Irish poet James Cummins and the Swiss multilingual digital performer Heike Fiedler.

EVENING 11 May 2014

Zahajovací vecer / Opening night - Celetná 20, vstupné / entrance 40 Kc:

PERFORMERS :

Boris Ondreicka (SVK)

James Cummins (IRE)

Vanessa Place (USA): guest of honour

Heike Fiedler (CHE)

Hudba / Music performance: Mini Stark

DAY 12 MAY (PONDELÍ / MONDAY) Celetná 20, vstupné / entrance 40 Kc

Panel discussion: “Poetry Event and Poetry Activism” (English only, entrance free)

Start 16.00; tranzitdisplay gallery (Dittrichova 337/9, Prague; http://goo.gl/maps/Z2nFJ) On Monday the viewers can look forward to a panel discussion to precede the night’s festival readings.

Panelists:

Louis Armand,

Linn Hansén,

Boris Ondreicka,

Vanessa Place

EVENING 12 MAY (PONDELÍ / MONDAY)

Druhý vecer / Second night - Celetná 20, vstupné / entrance 40 Kc:

After a short break the festival will recommence at 7pm in Celetná with the readings by a diverse group of Anglophone poets living in France. Kate Noakes and Jason McGimsey will introduce their Paris Lit Up project, followed by Jennifer K. Dick with her pleasurably sophisticated vignettes from the secret life of the CERN collider. The evening will wind up with a performance by the Konrád Kapitola Trio (David Ružicka, Marcel Bárta a Dorota Barová), a melancholy and melodic reading overlaid with subtle experimental jazz tunes.

PERFORMERS:

Kate Noakes (GBR/FRA)

Jason McGimsey (USA/FRA)

Jennifer K. Dick (USA/FRA)

Trio Konráda Kapitoly

(David Ružicka, Marcel Bárta, Dorota Barová) (CZE)

Hudba / Music performance: DoMa Ensemble

(Marcel Bárta + Dorota Barová)

EVENING 13 May (ÚTERÝ / TUESDAY) Celetná 20, vstupné / entrance 40 Kc. On Tuesday, the limelight will be occupied by poet-performers and poetry collectives. The by now cult Slovak group Generator X will feature two dancers (Feriencíková and Hianiková) alongside the poets Šulej a Habaj. They will share the stage with the Austrian noise lettrist Jörg Piringer, the British-Slovak-Czech trio TRYIE (Fowler, Husárová, Peková) and their explosive performance bordering on theatrical and the French-Australian duo Samuel Langer and Antoine Hummel.

PERFORMERS:

Samuel Langer & Antoine Hummel (AUS/DEU; FRA)

TRYIE collective

(Stephen J. Fowler, Zuzana Husárová, Olga Peková) (GBR/ SVK/ CZE)

Generátor X collective

(Michal Habaj, Peter Šulej, Jana Tereková, Sona Feriencíková) (SVK)

Jörg Piringer (AUT)

EVENING 14  May (STREDA / WEDNESDAY) Celetná 20, vstupné / entrance 40 Kc The main program will start at 7pm at Studentský klub Celetná 20. Last but not least, the fourth night will draw an arch between the established poets of the Anglophone avant-garde and European new generation. The Irish visually oriented poet Maggie O‘Sullivan and the Australian provocative Ashberian Michael Farrell will pass the relay onto Linn Hansén from Sweden and Katarína Kucbelová from Slovakia, who both in their own way utilize conceptual practices to achieve crafted lyrical results. During the festival the viewers will have the pleasure to listen to the music by MiniStark, Were Mute, Happy Funeral and DoMa Ensemble.

PERFORMERS:

Katarína Kucbelová (SVK)

Michael Farrell (AUS)

Maggie O’Sullivan (GBR)

Linn Hansén (SWE)

Hudba / Music performance: Weremute

For more information please follow the links: www.praguemicrofestival.com  

or:

 https://www.facebook.com/PrazskyMicrofestival?ref=hl