The Eights--Launch, Celebration, Reading on 14 June in PARIS at 8pm

 

Every year going back quite a few now, it has been essential to my friends and I to remember the PLAY in art, and to let go of the ego and the eye and make poems together. This project was inspired by The 3:15 Experiment published by The Owl Press in 2001 which collected together writing by Bernadette Mayer, Danika Dinsmore, Lee Anne Brown and Jen Hofer. When my friends--Lisa Pasold, Barbara Beck, Michelle Noteboom and I--read that book, we decided to add a twist to the idea of knowing we were all writing at the same time: we wrote at the same time (our first time at midnight) for 10 days, but then we gave these writings to each other (we call these our "pre-writes"). From these pages of prewrites, we make--what we call "orchestrate"--poems. Most often, we have each supplied 4 poems of some sort to the collections which we then have self designed into chapbooks and then thrown public parties from friends who gather, share food and drink, and listen to a little reading linked to the time of the original writing--that first being, Midnight! I still remember the candelabra at Lisa Pasold's house and our lovely friends who came out to share with us the pretty first object we had made together. 

Now we have moved well around the clock. And this year it was the turn of the 8. Most of us wrote 8, or oddly 7 or 9 (poets can't count, or refuse to, rather!) We have been ordering and laying out our chapbook and Friday night we will be at Lisa's place putting the final touches into this year's cover. We have, in the past, stencilled, sewn, patched, staple-bound, wrapped and strung in a variety of ways our A5 sized "DoItYourself" editions; This year, we have added a twist and the binding will come from a new direction. Should be fun. Hope you can join us. We do host our events at a private house, and ask anyone who attends to treat this like a neighborhood potluck--bring some food to share, or / and drinks. In recent years we have also associated a cocktail creation with our reading events. To save us from over imbibing, we did NOT choose to make a cocktail containing 8 ingredients! The base this spring will be whiskey and the rest is for you to sample this delectable concoction sur place Saturday. 

Cost of our chaps? We sell them at cost. All the labor and the time are our gift to you--and each other! 

And, because the 8s allowed me to go look at a LOT of great octopus images, here is another invite image for you: 

Photos thanks to FabFunky: get that blue and white octopus print at https://www.fabfunky.com/products/octopus-8-blue-nautical-print-coastal-art?variant=48004608524608 The second image is on Pintrest
 

THE FOURS by Barbara Beck Jennifer K Dick Michelle Noteboom and Lisa Pasold

The Fours: out today! 

 

 

The 8th, and newest, chapbook in the collaborative 8-hand series by Barbara Beck, Jennifer K Dick, Lisa Pasold and Michelle Noteboom.

We shall brunch-read in celebration of this very YELLOW thus bright for summer newest installment in this project.

Process and history note: 

Born out of the 3:15 experiment, having decided to take a twist by all writing each year for 10 days at same time what we call "prewrites". This is basicallythe step where the 3:15 experiment by Lee Ann Brown, Bernadette Mayer, Jen Hofer and Danika Dinsmore stopped. They then gathered their shared writings from the same time together, each author in their own zone. We wanted to overlap the work somehow. SO, we decided to take the pre-writes as base material. 

So, once completed, we give this naked, unedited material to each other. Then, using the writings of all 4 of us, we each "orchestrate" from that 4 new poems, adding, subtracting, rearranging, playing across our four voices, thoughts, observations from a shared time though while we were in different spaces. Language from all of us, which arose in a shared time, coalesceses into these poems. 

Then, in our annual, each time a bit different design--to match some element of the project--we make our DoItYourselfEditions chaps for the celebratory brunch sortie where we share the fruits of our collaboration with any and all of you who are around. That celebration is nigh--as in, FOURs so 4pm today!

The history of these: We began with THE MIDNIGHT POEMS (and an evening of cocktails with brief reading at midnight). We have also done The 13s, The Solstice poems (21), Aquatic 7s, The Elevens, High Noon, and a hors séries one for an Art Show by Kate Van Houten "of a certain order". More to come!

INVITATION to DIVE IN WRITING WORKSHOP Recycling and Recyclages 3 June 2021 8pm Paris time, 2pm East Coast USA time

"writing: recycling and recyclages"
A generative, open-genre workshop offered
by Jennifer K Dick and Lisa Pasold
online  via FB livestream link https://fb.me/e/2HA3YaTs4
20-22h Paris time for DIVE IN

The Dive In is a celebration of cultural diversity in the arts featuring writers and musicians from France, the US, UK, Peru, Canada, Ireland, and beyond, all coming together to raise money by entertaining you. This year we're raising money for Frank Water, a charity that works to improve access to safe water, sanitation & hygiene in India & Nepal: https://www.frankwater.com/

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION  "writing: recycling and recyclages"
A generative, open-genre workshop offered by Jennifer K Dick and Lisa Pasold

        In connection with Dive-In’s focus on raising funds for environmental causes, this workshop will reconsider the pages of language we often automatically trash in our lives, and the objects, debris and linguistic fields they are often connected to. In short, over our two hours together you will be prompted to “recycle” the scraps of advertising, packaging, labels and other tidbits of language that arrive at your home into a variety of texts. Collage and writing, epistolary forms and performance will be among the topics covered. Come with pen, paper and a pile of about-to-get-binned junk mail, packaging labels, etc. In any language!
          Suggestion: to get into the groove, check out “Dump (‘Dance This Mess Around’) by Laura Mullen in The Volta’s special issue on trash: https://thevolta.org/feature-lmullen-p1.html, pick up a copy of AR Ammons Garbage or any one of the books in the series of drafts by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, or see Anna Swanson’s interactive hypertext recycling series “garbage poems” at: https://garbagepoems.com/index.php

I will be offering, with Lisa Pasold, this FREE workshop on for DIVE IN.  Free. Free, but PLEASE DONATE TO THEIR CAUSE: see gofundme for a clean water project in INDIA and NEPAL.

Here's the DIVE IN link to our GoFundMe, hoping to at least raise £1000

https://gofund.me/09fba2f6

ALL whole week for DIVE in events are happening and we are thrilled to be part of it!

Here is the events page on FB where ALL of the action will happen as a Livestream event. Lisa and I will be offering our workshop here too! https://fb.me/e/1KiZPHDIu

 

Poetry Atlanta Reading10 March with Lisa Pasold and Jennifer K Dick reminder

10 MARCH 2020

POETRY ATLANTA READING 

WITH 

JENNIFER K DICK 

AND 

LISA PASOLD

AT NORTHLAKE-BARBARA LOAR LIBRARY 

3772 Lavista Rd, Tucker, Georgia

https://www.facebook.com/events/191674578695563/

Poetry Atlanta presents Lisa Pasold and Jennifer K. Dick. Lisa’s new book entitled The Riparian is a poetic narrative, and Jennifer’s Lilith: a novel in fragments. Colin Kelley will host. Event is free and open to the public. It will take place at the Northlake Library, in their meeting room. Books will be available to purchase and have signed. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

Lisa Pasold is a writer originally from Montreal, now based in New Orleans. Her 2012 book of

poetry, Any Bright Horse was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. Her first poetry collection, Weave, was called “a masterpiece” by Geist Magazine; her second, A Bad Year for Journalists was nominated for an Alberta Book Award and turned into a theatre piece premiering in Toronto. Her poems have appeared in magazines such as Fence and New American Writing. She is the author of the historical literary novel, Rats of Las Vegas. Lisa leads a "Write Every Day" workshop, which is a discussion about the evolution of a daily writing practice, be it a diary or fiction, poetry or quickly-jotted observation. Lisa spent twenty years living in Paris as a writer, lecturer, and journalist. Her features have appeared in diverse publications including The Chicago Tribune and Billboard. She is the host and co-writer of Discovery World’s TV travel show Paris Next Stop. Lisa is also the creator of “Improbable Walks,” story-telling walks focused on legends and place memory. She has created these art walks to critical acclaim for festivals and gallery residencies in cities such as New Orleans, Halifax, and Paris. Her most recent poetry book, The Riparian, is an exploration of a river ghost story.

Jennifer K Dick is an author originally from Iowa residing in France for the past 20+ years who has

published 6 chapbooks and 3 full length poetry books, most recently Lilith: A Novel in Fragments. Her fourth full-length book That Which I Touch Has No Name is forthcoming from Eyewear Press, London in October 2020. She is also a teacher with a PhD in Comparative Lit from Université de Paris III, a translator, critic, and events organizer who has gotten more deeply involved in collaborative projects over these past years: writing for and with dancer Olivier Gabrys for performances, composing an annual chapbook with 3 other poets in Paris, and doing a word/poetry installation on a building in the SBB Banhof of Basel, Switzerland, during a Regional Art residency. She teaches American Lit and Civ at the Université de Haute Alsace in Mulhouse, France, and curates a monthly bilingual reading series for American and French authors called Ivy Writers Paris. She also co-directs the Ecrire l’Art residency for French authors with Director Sandrine Wymann at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d’Art Contemporain.

Collin Kelley is the author of the poetry collections Midnight in a Perfect World, Better To Travel,

Slow To Burn, After the Poison, and Render, chosen by the American Library Association for its 2014 Over the Rainbow Book List. He is also the author of The Venus Trilogy of novels – Conquering Venus, Remain In Light, and Leaving Paris. Remain In Light was the runner-up for the 2013 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Fiction and a 2012 finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Kelley is also the author of the short story collection, Kiss Shot. A recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award, Deep South Festival of Writers Award and Goodreads Poetry Award, Kelley’s poetry, reviews, essays and interviews have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies around the world.

8 March Write Every Day at The Chattery generative writing workshop with Lisa Pasold and Jennifer K Dick

The Chattery in Chattanooga invites you to the “Write Every Day” WORKSHOP

4:30-6:30pm the 8^th of March 2020 with JENNIFER K DICK & LISA PASOLD

AT: La Chattery 

1800 Rossville Avenue, 

Suite 108B, Chattanooga, Tennessee

https://www.facebook.com/events/192014548870542/

Get TICKETS/ ENROLL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/write-every-day-tickets-91906513857

Visiting authors Jennifer K Dick (American author of 3 poetry collections residing in France for over 20 years) & Lisa Pasold (Canadian author of 1 novel and 4 poetry collections, currently residing in New Orleans) offer you a gernative writing WORKSHOP on the topic of "WRITE EVERY DAY":

In this two-hour "Write Every Day" workshop, we discuss how to create a daily writing practice--diary or fiction, poetry or quickly-jotted note. Then we will begin generating some work for today.

Writing during the workshops will be based on daily writing prompts and ideas for creating patterns of exploration that can be built on individually and personally. Participants will discuss and share their own ideas on how a daily practice is a mental anchor, both creatively and spiritually, and how material from the daily writing--interior, messy, private--can be shaped into crafted work. Open to all genres of writing, this workshop resonates both with experienced writers, authors who may feel blocked, and with new writers and non-writers, who want to open themselves up to creating a personal creative routine.

This class is taught by touring poets, on a reading and teaching tour through the Southern states.

As writing instructors, both Jennifer and Lisa have worked with all levels of writers as instructors, editors and mentors. Jennifer has taught for the Paris Writers' Workshop, the Kent Paris School of the Arts MA in Creative Writing, WICE, Oxbridge Summer Programs (for High School writers), bilingual workshops at the Université de Haute Alsace and in Paris, and has guest workshopped at Naropa, LIA Brooklyn’s MFA program and with undergraduate creative writers. She ran a long-time, Paris-based novel writing group (and all of those who attended now have published books). Lisa Pasold has taught writing independently as a writing mentor for years, as well as taught workshops for schools and community groups, including at WICE in Paris, and in Toronto and Montreal in Canada, and in New Orleans and elsewhere in the States. Lisa has also worked as editor and journalist. Recently, she has been deeply involved in storytelling tour giving, and she is ready to provide you with wonderful advice on voice and the practices of developing voices in your writing.

Full BIOS:       

Lisa Pasold Lisa Pasold is a writer originally from Montreal, the host and co-writer of Discovery World’s TV travel show “Paris Next Stop” & the creator of Improbable Walks, story-telling walks focusing on legends and place memory, & created for festivals and gallery residencies in cities such as New Orleans, Toronto, and Paris. Her 2012 book Any Bright Horse was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for poetry. Her fifth book, a poetry collection titled The Riparian, has just come out with Frontenac House, Calgary. Her work has been anthologized and has appeared in New American Writing. Her first book of poetry, Weave, was called “a masterpiece” by Geist Magazine; her second book A Bad Year for Journalists was nominated for an Alberta Book Award and turned into a theatre piece the following year, premiering in Toronto. Her debut novel Rats of Las Vegas appeared in 2009; critics called the book “as enticing as the lit-up Las Vegas strip.” In the course of research, Lisa has been thrown off a train in Belarus, has eaten the world’s best pigeon pie in Marrakech, and has been cheated in the Venetian gambling halls of Ca’Vendramin Calergi. Lisa’s journalism features have appeared in diverse publications including The Chicago Tribune, The National Post, and Billboard. See blurbs and information on her books at https://www.lisapasold.com/books Follow her for more at: https://www.lisapasold.com/

Jennifer K Dick is the author of Lilith: A Novel in Fragments (Corrupt, 2019), Circuits (Corrupt, 2013) and Fluorescence (U of GA Press, 2004) as well as 6 art/chapbooks. A mixed French-English and Italian language book, That Which I Touch Has No Name is forthcoming from Eyewear Press, London in October 2020. 2 poems from SHELF BREAK, a manuscript in process, just went up online at Jerome Rothenberg’s “Poems and Poetics” series: https://jacket2.org/commentary/jennifer-k-dick Other SHELF BREAK poems will be appearing in Volt, Golden Handcuffs, Tears in the Fence and Shearsman Review this spring. Residing in France, Jennifer K Dick teaches at the Université de Haute Alsace, translates and has curated for 15 years a monthly bilingual reading series (Ivy Writers Paris). She also co-directs with Sandrine Wymann Ecrire l’Art, a residency for French authors at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d’Art Contemporain. They just published a large art format book with texts from the residency’s first 21 authors:  Ecrire l’Art, Dossier des ouvrages exécutés (les presses du reel, France, 2019).

           Also a translator, Jennifer's recent translations include Yves Peyré’s chapter in the catalogue Takesada Matsutani (Hauser & Wirth Publishers and The Pompidou Center Paris 2019, France/UK), an poetic essay by Jean-Daniel Baltassat in the book Les Horizons Perdus (les éditions de l’attente, France, Feb 2020), the programme catalogue for visual artist Véronique Arnold (Galerie Buchman, Lugano, 2018) and a series of poems written by Jean-Michel Espitallier, appearing soon in Read 6, (1913 presse, USA). For more, see jenniferkdick.blogspot.com

Mobile, AL 7 March Haunted Bookshop Workshop with Lisa Pasold and Jennifer K Dick

 Jennifer K Dick & Lisa Pasold

  7th March, 1pm workshop

PLUS: BOOK SIGNING at 3pm

 

 FREE: WRITE AS YOU READ / 

writing workshop

at THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP 

109 Dauphin St

Mobile, AL

https://www.facebook.com/events/2030119490466553/

Visiting authors Jennifer K Dick (American author of 3 poetry collections residing in France for over 20 years) & Lisa Pasold (Canadian author of 1 novel and 4 poetry collections, currently residing in New Orleans) offer you a HAUNTED BOOKSHOP WORKSHOP 

A two-hour "Write as You Read" workshop for adult authors or teens (15 and over). In the "Write as You Read" workshop, we will discuss and then write based on how authors throughout history have written in dialogue with those who came before: create, respond, steal, remake characters, forms, sound. This is writing & reading as a daily practice of building towards your own unique voice. Participants will be invited to visit the bookstore before we begin and to select a few books to use as prompts or share as prompts for others. We will close with a focus on how such daily practice can be a mental anchor, both creatively & spiritually, and how material from the dialogic writing can be shaped into crafted public work departing from its anchor and prompt. Open to all genres of writing, this workshop resonates both with experienced writers, authors who may feel blocked, and with new writers and non-writers, who want to open themselves up to language for the first time to create a personal creative routine.

As writing instructors, both Jennifer and Lisa have worked with all levels of writers as instructors, editors and mentors. Jennifer has taught for the Paris Writers' Workshop, the Kent Paris School of the Arts MA in Creative Writing, WICE, Oxbridge Summer Programs (for High School writers), bilingual workshops at the Université de Haute Alsace and in Paris, and has guest workshopped at Naropa, LIA Brooklyn’s MFA program and with undergraduate creative writers. She ran a long-time, Paris-based novel writing group (and all of those who attended now have published books). Lisa Pasold has taught writing independently as a writing mentor for years, as well as taught workshops for schools and community groups, including at WICE in Paris, and in Toronto and Montreal in Canada, and in New Orleans and elsewhere in the States. Lisa has also worked as editor and journalist. Recently, she has been deeply involved in storytelling tour giving, and she is ready to provide you with wonderful advice on voice and the practices of developing voices in your writing.

Full BIOS:

Lisa Pasold Lisa Pasold is a writer originally from Montreal, the host and co-writer of Discovery World’s TV travel show “Paris Next Stop” & the creator of Improbable Walks, story-telling walks focusing on legends and place memory, & created for festivals and gallery residencies in cities such as New Orleans, Toronto, and Paris. Her 2012 book Any Bright Horse was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for poetry. Her fifth book, a poetry collection titled The Riparian, has just come out with Frontenac House, Calgary. Her work has been anthologized and has appeared in New American Writing. Her first book of poetry, Weave, was called “a masterpiece” by Geist Magazine; her second book A Bad Year for Journalists was nominated for an Alberta Book Award and turned into a theatre piece the following year, premiering in Toronto. Her debut novel Rats of Las Vegas appeared in 2009; critics called the book “as enticing as the lit-up Las Vegas strip.”

In the course of research, Lisa has been thrown off a train in Belarus, has eaten the world’s best pigeon pie in Marrakech, and has been cheated in the Venetian gambling halls of Ca’Vendramin Calergi. Lisa’s journalism features have appeared in diverse publications including The Chicago Tribune, The National Post, and Billboard. See blurbs and information on her books at https://www.lisapasold.com/books Follow her for more at: https://www.lisapasold.com/

Jennifer K Dick is the author of Lilith: A Novel in Fragments (Corrupt, 2019), Circuits (Corrupt, 2013) and Fluorescence (U of GA Press, 2004) as well as 6 art/chapbooks. A mixed French-English and Italian language book, That Which I Touch Has No Name is forthcoming from Eyewear Press, London in October 2020. 2 poems from SHELF BREAK, a manuscript in process, just went up online at Jerome Rothenberg’s “Poems and Poetics” series: https://jacket2.org/commentary/jennifer-k-dick Other SHELF BREAK poems will be appearing in Volt, Golden Handcuffs, Tears in the Fence and Shearsman Review this spring. Residing in France, Jennifer K Dick teaches at the Université de Haute Alsace, translates and has curated for 15 years a monthly bilingual reading series (Ivy Writers Paris). She also co-directs with Sandrine Wymann Ecrire l’Art, a residency for French authors at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d’Art Contemporain. They just published a large art format book with texts from the residency’s first 21 authors: Ecrire l’Art, Dossier des ouvrages exécutés (les presses du reel, France, 2019).

Also a translator, Jennifer's recent translations include Yves Peyré’s chapter in the catalogue Takesada Matsutani (Hauser & Wirth Publishers and The Pompidou Center Paris 2019, France/UK), an poetic essay by Jean-Daniel Baltassat in the book Les Horizons Perdus (les éditions de l’attente, France, Feb 2020), the programme catalogue for visual artist Véronique Arnold (Galerie Buchman, Lugano, 2018) and a series of poems written by Jean-Michel Espitallier, appearing soon in Read 6, (1913 presse, USA). For more, see jenniferkdick.blogspot.com

 

New Orleans 2 March 2020 Salon Reading with Lisa Pasold and Jennifer K Dick

Post-MG /Back to the BOOKS

Salon Reading By

Jennifer K Dick & Lisa Pasold

2 March, 7pm

 

We'll be making Champagne Juleps and reading some poems 

 to attend, please email fragment78[at]gmail.com for exact address

(Note please bring cash/checks if you wish to purchase any books)

BIOS: Jennifer K Dick is the author of Lilith: A Novel in Fragments (Corrupt, 2019), Circuits (Corrupt, 2013) and Fluorescence (U of GA Press, 2004) as well as 6 art/chapbooks. A mixed French-English and Italian language book, That Which I Touch Has No Name is forthcoming from Eyewear Press, London in October 2020. 2 poems from SHELF BREAK, a manuscript in process, just went up online at Jerome Rothenberg’s “Poems and Poetics” series: https://jacket2.org/commentary/jennifer-k-dick Other SHELF BREAK poems will be appearing in Volt, Golden Handcuffs, Tears in the Fence and Shearsman Review this spring. Residing in France, Jennifer K Dick teaches at the Université de Haute Alsace, translates and has curated for 15 years a monthly bilingual reading series (Ivy Writers Paris). She also co-directs with Sandrine Wymann Ecrire l’Art, a residency for French authors at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d’Art Contemporain. They just published a large art format book with texts from the residency’s first 21 authors:  Ecrire l’Art, Dossier des ouvrages exécutés (les presses du reel, France, 2019). For more, see jenniferkdick.blogspot.com

                                                                     

Lisa Pasold is a writer originally from Montreal, the host and co-writer of Discovery World’s TV travel show “Paris Next Stop” & the creator of Improbable Walks, story-telling walks focusing on legends and place memory, created for festivals and gallery residencies in New Orleans, Toronto, and Paris. Her 2012 book Any Bright Horse was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for poetry. Her 5^th book, a poetry collection titled The Riparian, recently appeared with Frontenac House, Calgary. Her work has been anthologized in New American Writing. Her 1^st book of poetry, Weave, was called “a masterpiece” (Geist Magazine); her 2^nd book A Bad Year for Journalists was nominated for an Alberta Book Award and turned into a theatre piece, premiering in Toronto. Her debut novel Rats of Las Vegas appeared in 2009; critics called the book “as enticing as the lit-up Las Vegas strip.” In the course of research, Lisa has been thrown off a train in Belarus, has eaten the world’s best pigeon pie in Marrakech, and has been cheated in the Venetian gambling halls of Ca’Vendramin Calergi.  For more, see: https://www.lisapasold.com/