Where you can find me: readings, organization, art!

Dear all, you are invited! 

 

I will be celebrating a lot of writing by others in the coming weeks, but also am touched to be reading along with translators of my own work and to be celebrating my own new publications. So, where to find me, and what events not to miss! 

7 Oct 2pm During the Perception and Intermediality conference, Sandrine Wymann and I will present our long series Ecrire l'Art. Then I (Jennifer K Dick) will be READING from "THE ANNEALING" (forthcoming chapbook, Dancing Girl Press) alongside Ecrire l'Art residents Eric Houser and Jérôme Game and followed by a performance by Laura Mullen (visiting US author and translator) MULHOUSE UHA, Campus ILLBERG, FLSH salle Ganjavi at 2pm. Welcome one and all! The Perception and Intermediality From the Renaissance to Now will involve 18 speakers, 3 organizers, many many helping hands and wonderful questions from the audience. Read abstracts and more on the blog: HERE

 11 Oct 3:33pm. Doors open at 2. Celebrate the launch of this year's collaboratively orchestrated and written and designed chapbook the THREES (3). With the authors-makers of this book and a find 3-ingrediant cocktail to go with! Barbara Beck, Jennifer K Dick, Lisa Pasold and Michelle Notebook invite you to come and pick up a copy of this new DoItYourself Edition work, focused on this year's numeric mystery: THREE. 60 rue des Poissonniers 75018. Ring logement 3 to get in. Bring a bottle or nibble to share! M° Marcadet-Poissonniers 

 17 Oct To celebrate the newest issue of Po&sie, the maison de la poésie de Paris invites a selection of readings and conversations. Jennifer K Dick's series "The Island" (l'île) from her book That Which I Touch Has No Name (Black Spring Press Group, London, 2022) appears in a new translation by Virginie Poitrasson and Lénaïg Cariou. And they will be sharing some of these prose poems about Greece and Skala Erressos as we head, alas, away from the season of beaches and towards the season of... snow? At La Maison de la Poésie, but you must RESERVE HERE

18 Oct 17h IVY Writers Paris has a wonderful late afternoon/early Sunday evening multilingual event in store for you: French author and anglophone scholar and scribbler Olivier Brossard will share some new work from his amazing recent POL publication. Romanian writer Ioana Badicioiu, who is focused on the liminal spaces between English, Italian and Romanian, will be coming here from Italy to share her work with us for the first time in Paris! Finally, well known Libyan-New Yorker Khaled Mattawa on a visit to Montpellier this week as well will be sharing their work and adding into the mix of multilingualism the questions of where memory, culture and narrative intersect. I will be there as organizer and MC, and cannot wait to also close this reading with a little discussion about how cross-lingualism, sound slippages, multiple tongues come to connect and clash in these author's work and minds. CAFE DELAVILLE, 34 bvd Bonne Nouvelle, 75010 Paris M° Bonne Nouvelle For more, see our IVY BLOG HERE

 

And soon I will begin organizing events to celebrate the recent publication (now out!) of my book SHELF BREAK by Jennifer K Dick (order HERE directly from BlazeVox, NYC, or on Amazon, too). Events are getting scheduled for late fall in PARIS, France, over winter I hope to do an event in Iowa and maybe Chicago, then in the spring I will be reading in Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, England, Germany, France, Brussels and Spain: Next summer I hope to see you on the highways and byways of the states--reading from this and my chapbook The Annealing (forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press, Chicago). And if you want to invite me into your class, your bookstore, your local bar, your living room, please, yes, I would love to come read for and with you! 

Until then, you can buy a copy, :) get copies for friends for Christmas, make your students get copies, and support BlazeVox Press!)

Announcing Two New Critical Publications with chapters by Jennifer K Dick

It is with great pleasure that I get to announce the publication, containing chapters by me, of 2 collective critical books that have gone through an astoundingly rigorous re-editing process over the past 2 years (in both cases) and are both now in the world and available. For anyone working at a University, please consider asking your libraries to carry these.

The Borders Between and Within: Writing America with No Bounds, 
Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Pin-chia Feng (Eds.) 
available at LitVerlag: https://lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-91576-4/ 

in which my chapter: Under Flag: Language and (Unattainable) Homogenization in the Era of Postnational Citizenship appears. I focus on the legacy of the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha as it dialogues with the practices and reflections in the works of Myung Mi Kim and Craig Santos Perez.

You can order copies directly from the press. Reviewers are definitely welcome to contact the press for copies and certainly Nicoleta and Pin-Chia would be happy, as would any of us in the volume, to participate in any interviews. 

 

The second book which is NOW OUT is  

Vulnérabilité et radicalité: Écritures de soi britanniques et américaines contemporaines
  edited by Nelly Monk et Aude Haffen. 
Les Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, France. 

 https://www.pub-editions.fr/fr/empreintes-anglophones/5367-vulnerabilite-et-radicalite  

In which my chapter: “The Nonsingular Self: A study of Bhanu Kapil and Eleni Sikelianos’ Poetic Autobiographical Writing” (pp97-116) appears.  This chapter explores indirect notions of autobiographical and poetic documentary writing, from the positions of fluid selves, avatars and alter egos, to selves that overlap others' histories and linguistic practice. These poets do not practice an "I" focused writing of the self but overlap with that multiplicity which makes up all of us, which I try to study also in terms of what that means to socio-political structures. Although I cite from numerous works in both cases, I primarily focus on Kapil's Incubation and on Sikelianos' The Book of Jon, citing other poet-critics' works, such as those of Lyn Hejinian, Laynie Browne, Lisa Samuels, Lisa Robertson and Susan Howe, or theorists such as Donna Haraway, Tiziana Terranoa and Michel de Pracontal. 

It is always such an amazing pleasure to see critical work appear in volumes that have been curated so carefully and intensely edited. My work and reflections were bettered, and deepened, thanks to Nelly Monk, Aude Haffen, Pin-Chia Feng and Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni's intense readings, comments and queries, as well as the feedback and the demands made on me by the anonymous scientific panel readers of this work. 

I am grateful to get to be part of such wonderful books, and hope that you will consider reading, teaching and writing back to us about your experiences with these books!