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!

Some little announcements from last summer

Credit: Aflo/Naturepl.com from BBC Earth article

As summer gets underway, I find I am back at writing the "nautical" poems, fittingly as I sit here next to the sea on Koh Phangan island in Thailand. But I am also getting around to sending out the ones I completed last summer, extracts which I read throughout the year in places such as Naropa University in CO, The New Orleans Poetry Festival or Berkeley Books of Paris. These are poems I polished over the year and, exciting news, the first of these Mean Low Water will be appearing with Estepa Editions, France as a mini-chapbook (Kate Van Houten is trying to decide whether these are a "Pocket Poemsé" series--of fold-open affordable artbooks printed in limited runs for the press) which will be out sometime in fall 2019.

Kate and I are also proposing a collaborative version of some other works from this collection to presses in the USA--so fingers crossed!!

On a more significant level, plese keep watching for news regarding the 2020 appearance of the full length books That Which I Touch Has No Name from Eyewear in London, UK and Lilith: A Novel in Verse from Corrupt Books 2019. Thank you Todd Swift and Dylan Harris for your confidence in my work and publications of these works.

Comme Un n°9 and Lucky Thirteen collaborative chapbook launches!

Come if you are free--very excited about these events:

June 17th at 17h for reading, visit gallery at 16h on:

June 18th we will be happily celebrating the LUCKY 13 collaborative chapbook by Lisa Pasold, Barbara Beck, Michelle Noteboom and Jennifer K Dick.

June events with Jennifer K Dick

June Paris Events with Jennifer K Dick

Poetry readings and 3 celebration book launches
+ one seminar discussion and 2 curated events for others in June 2017

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Friday, June 9 at 7 p.m.

Launch / Book celebration
Apéro autour du livre

« La poésie motléculaire de Jacques Sivan »
en présence de VANNINA MAESTRI
et des auteur-e-s Jennifer K. Dick, Jean-Michel Espitallier,

Emmanuèle Jawad, Luigi Magno & Gaëlle Théval

at the stand of the publisher, éditions Al Dante,

Marché de la poésie, Place Saint-Sulpice

Saturday June 10 à 18h30

READING

Dans le cadre de la nuit remue 11:

Bibliothèque Audoux, 10 rue Portefoin, 75003 Paris, France
Co-organisée par Emmanuèle Jawad et Marie de Quatrebarbes

Lectures (en français) par :

 Stéphane Bouquet, Jennifer K Dick, Gaëlle Théval, Emmanuel Laugier, Frédérique Ildefonse, Vannina Maestri, Franck Leibovici, Philippe Jaffeux, Pierre Déléage, Olivier Quintyn, Hortense Gauthier, Florence Pazzottu, Benoît Casas, Véronique Pittolo

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Monday June 12 à 14h30 pour le public

DISCUSSION

Dans le cadre des États généraux de la poésie: 2017,

SEMINAIRE FRESH POESIE

au CNEAI Pantin (anciens Magasins Généraux de Pantin), 1 rue de l'Ancien canal, 93500 Pantin M° ligne 5 : « Eglise de Pantin » then 6 min à pied.

(Note : Reservation required—contact CNEAI)

Co-organisé par la revue Sarrazine et les éditions LansKine

AVEC la participation de :

Aziadé Baudouin-Talec Sereine Berlottier -Philippe Bertrand -Didier Bourda – Mathieu Brosseau Olivier Chaudenson – Sophie Coiffier - Séverine Daucourt-Fridriksson –  Manuel Daull - Jennifer K. Dick - Yann Dissez - Franck Doyen – Pierre Drogi – Antoine Gallardo - Françoise Gillard - Sylvie Gouttebaron –Silvia Guerra - Françoise Lalot - Guillaume Lecaplain –Franck Smith – Catherine Tourné - Paul de Brancion - Sylvie Boulanger

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Saturday June 17 à 17h

READING / BOOK LAUNCH

Artbook launch and art show for

“COMME UN” n° 9

At AREA (art gallery) 39 rue Volta, 75003 Paris

With a reading by JENNIFER K DICK

(en français et un peu en anglais)
And the participation and show of artwork by the 4 Japanese artists who, with Jennifer K Dick, acted "COMME UN" in the collaborative making of this book: 

Matsutani Takeseda, Akira Inumaru, Akira Takaishi, Takeshi Sumi.

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Sunday June 18: 12-4pm

READING / BOOK LAUNCH

Brunch reading for the launch of

“13"
A collaborative chapbook of "orchestrated poems" in the ongoing series by

by:Barbara Beck, Jennifer K Dick, Michelle Noteboom and Lisa Pasold
Reading will take place promptly at 13h

Potluck style event near Clignancourt, Paris 18e:

Reserve a place via email fragment78@gmail.com for address

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Monday June 19 8pm

READING

Featured Reader: Jennifer K Dick

For SPOKEN WORD PARIS

Theme of the night: “MECHANICS”

for YOUR open mic participation

Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes.

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Tuesday June 20 7:30pm

ORGANIZED READING

Ivy Writers Paris final event of the 2016-2017 season

With

Sabine Macher

Charles Borkhuis

Kevin Craft

AT:

Berkeley Books of Paris, 8 rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris

Entrance “fee”: please support their South African children’s book drive by bringing a children’s book (ages 6-8) to donate or buy one for the donation box while there!

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Thursday June 29 7pm

ORGANIZED RESIDENCY READING

ECRIRE L’ART à la Kunsthalle-Mulhouse

 final event of the 2016-2017 season

With

FRANK SMITH

Along with la soirée KUNSTAPERO : come for a reading-visit of the show, a wine tasting and nibblets !

Reservations via la Kunsthalle site/n°

(cost: 5euros, to cover wine and apéro snacks)

At La Kunsthalle-Mulhouse, 16 rue de la fonderie, Mulhouse, France

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NO TITLE by Jennifer K Dick from Estepa Editions

Kate Van Houten's eternally surprising artbook press, Estepa Editions, has put out a limited edition of 40 numbered art chapbooks of my poem "No Title", for last week's PAGES artbook fair. Copies may now be ordered directly from the press (and you can also pay by paypal) for 10 euros (email estepa [dot] editions [at] gmail [dot] com) to purchase. 

On rare Italian paper, the inside poem is printed on is a lovely soft

beige page which contrasts with the cover which is a heavier grey tone folded over a slate blue carton. The nuances between these muted grey-beige and the black and white of the printing reflect the poem itself, in what is written over, named, erased, lost. The i.d. photos referenced in the poem are also echoed in the formatting on the cover of  the title and author name--they are embedded in a block of black, the "No Title" almost being lost there. Once opened, the poem inside the book folds out xylaphone style to be read all at once but tucks back into the cover for easy storage. 

I am thrilled with this new object including this highly personal poem I wrote after the mer méditerranée show and the piece "Noiseless" by Rabih Mroué in Mulhouse, France on 13 nov 2015. This is the third art book Kate and I have put out. The first Retina/Rétine (2007) is sold out, but copies of the second Conversions (2014) a book of folio images and poems in a handmade box holder is also still available, 50euros. And I am working on a set of poems based on some of Kate Van Houten's new art (her sculptures and paintings) so perhaps watch for news of another collaboration in 2016!