Tonight La Soirée Inquiétante 2024 Election Night Readings at Delaville

 Dear all. I am hosting and reading as part of tonight's 2024 Presidential Election Night in Paris, France, readings, performances and film extract projections with projections on screen of news as it begins to come in from the States. I hope you will join me in supporting democracy and hope, and doing our nail biting together as an international community with Ivy Writers Paris. Here is the information for that:

LA SOIREE INQUIETANTE

Le 5 novembre 2024 à partir de 19h30

Ivy Writers Paris invites you to an evening of readings, performances & news

as it rolls in from

the 2024 USA Presidential Election

At:   Delaville Café, au 1^er étage, 34 boulevard Bonne Nouvelle,

75010 Paris M° Bonne nouvelle (ligne 8 or 9)

Readers/artists include :  

Cole Swensen 

Margo Berdeshevsky 

David Barnes

Carrie Chappell

Kate Van Houten 

Barbara Beck

Roberta Vellve 

Alison Koehler

 Ek Bartlett

Michelle Noteboom 

Nina Zivancevic 

Jennifer Kildore-Caradec

Frederic Forté 

Jennifer K Dick

Marie Regan 

Nina Karacosta 

Rufo Quintavalle 

Esther Sherrow 

Jennifer Huxta 

Kristen D. Sanders

Virginie Poitrasson 

Cassandra Prerost 

Mic Jones

Rebecca Dolinsky 

Alma Metcalf 

Sarah Petlin 

Véronique Pittolo 

plus film extracts by Gilles Weinzaepflan & Florence Manlik

and an open mic for the die hard late stayers--which I imagine will supply us with AMAZING additional voices!

Jennifer K Dick's talks, readings and hosting in the coming weeks

 Jennifer K Dick, yep, me, is running around giving talks, reading, hosting. 

So where can you find me?

25 May 2023: 11am session: I will be speaking on Anne Carson--as the program says, Jennifer K Dick talk: “De-Stabilizing the Known / Restauring the Unknown: Reading Anne Carson through the Lens of Quantum Physics (and Dark Matter)” at the Anne Carson and the Unknown: Explorations in 21st Century Experimental Poetry Conference. For the entire programme, links to watch online, go to:
https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/ecr/evenements/anne-carson-and-the-unknown-explorations-in-21st-century-experimental-poetry.html ABSTRACT: Perhaps it is not the unknown in Carson, but rather that one “knows” only in an instant before something changes the outcome: the uncertain, the flux returns—i.e. Schrodinger’s paradox. In this manner, Carson inhabits the transformatory space of scientific theoretical practice, ever striving for deeper knowledge where any response to a question is immediately undermined by another query. As Carson’s own admiration for Jacques Lacan’s declaration reveals: “The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom” (Carson/Aitkins interview). I propose to borrow from Kathryn Schaffer and Gabriela Barreto Lemos’s assessment of how quantum physics can provide ideological and theoretical tools for the arts and humanities. I will study select passages from Carson’s books where the vacillating waves of plots intersect with a potential development in consciousness for a character, consciousness related to their being part of, though often felt as outside or left of center, or of events, societies, communities, relationships and most of all a secured, fixed sense of self-understanding (self knowledge).... [truncated abstract here--full version on the conf website]

27th May 2023: starting from 15h30: I will read a text as part of the

open-forum event organized by the amazing and dynamic author Bénédicte Heim. The theme is about aging, and overall the event will be in French.: Dans le cadre de l'exposition " Faire son âge " qui se tiendra à partir du 24 mai jusqu'à la fin du mois de juin dans la galerie de la Reine Christine, au 12 rue des Patriarches 75005 (métro Censier-Daubenton), paroles, art, etc autour du vieillissement le samedi 27 mai à partir de 15h30. 

30 May 2023: 19h30 I am hosting the next IVY WRITERS PARIS evening with Susan Schultz and Françoise de LaRoque at Delaville Café, 34 bvd bonne nouvelle. Full info on the Ivy blog at: https://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/2023/05/ivy-le-30-mai-avec-s-schultz-et-f.html

 

3 juin 2023: 9h30 I am giving another conference presentation: Jennifer K. DICK (Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse) : "Resisting Transmission: Against a poetry of communication?" at the 62nd annual SAES Congrès in RENNES on Transmission(s) in Atelier 14: Poets and Poetry. https://congres2023.saesfrance.org/programme-scientifique/programme-par-atelier/ ABSTRACT:

As the globalized world leans—as if in a kind of anglicized linguistic immigration—towards Twitter and Insta-poetry, to the directive statement and easy access in a kind of all-for-one English as dominant language, a second poetry and poetics has been slowly emerging and growing in force: that of the multilingual author. These writers’ works might be published as “English” or “American” but their pages are dotted by a wide array of other languages, languages that often absorb, cover, and bury the English. The books I am addressing here are by authors that refuse to self-translate. For some, this poses no real barrier to being interpreted as their second and third languages share roots with English. But for others, writing in radically different alphabets or where non-bilingual readers will not be able to grasp the semantic meaning of the words, the “transmission” (in a habitual sense of reading poetry) finds itself at the end of a dead end street. In this case, the foreign language(s) often acts as extra-lingual expression, pushing these works into boundary zones between poetry and visual art or performance, or poetry and music (zaum-like sound poetry practices).

These works are a reckoning and recognition of linguistic and cultural otherness within perceived unified nations and literary traditions. As such, exploration and study of these authors provide essential tools for deeper reflections on notions of transmission of meaning in poetry and literature. They also demand perhaps that we rethink our old definitions of the verb “to read”.

6 June 2023: 19h30 Back in Paris it is already time for me to host another Ivy night. This one is the final of our spring 2023 season, and will feature visiting American author and translator Cynthia Hogue alongside Paris local authors and translators Vincent Broqua and Virginie Poitrasson. at Delaville Café, 34 bvd bonne nouvelle. A pre-announcement for this is already up on the Ivy blog at https://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/2023/05/ivy-le-30-mai-avec-s-schultz-et-f.html

Ivy Writers Paris final reading of the season--11 June 2019

I very much hope that anyone in Paris and free might join us for this final reading of the 2018-2019 season, which will take place on the 11th of June. All of the information can be found on our BLOG CLICK HERE

And a great thanks to Déborah Heissler for this lovely poster image:

Ivy Writers Paris le 25 avril, 23 mai et 20 juin 2017

The next readings for Ivy Writers Paris, the final ones of our 2016-2017 season, will take place on 25 April, 23 May and 20th June at Delaville Café. Here is the lowdown on these fabulous soirées. Hope to see you there!

25 Avril: 19h30 Bilingual reading with authors Jeffrey Greene and Sereine Berlottier along with a presentation and reading of extracts from art books made by Rebecca Dolinsky. For full details see: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/2017/04/mardi-25-avril-2017-rebecca-dolinsky_5.html

23 May: 19h30 Bilingual reading by authors Christophe Manon and Lyn Emmanuel with translations into French of Lyn Emmanuel's work, by Simone Manceau. check out the full publicity on the Ivy blog after May 5th at ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr

20 June 2017 at 19h30 sees Ivy say farewell to the 2016-2017 season with a reading by Charles Borkhuis, Sabine Macher and Kevin Craft. We hope to see you there! For the full info and bios, check back on the Ivy blog after June 5th.