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

 

Video Readings and Projects

Here are a few links to recent videos of me reading:

 

1) April 2020: In lieu of reading in Ypsilanti, MI, I made an in-quarantine reading of ASM (Arctic Shield Mission) with background sounds. This is from SHELF BREAK, a manuscript in process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__KKaL4v2WQ&feature=youtu.be

2) In lieu of reading in Athens, GA at Avid Books, I made this in-quarantine reading of Timber Hitch, a poem which appears in Jacket2 HERE. This poem is also from SHELF BREAK, a manuscript in process. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSpWjrk8rbc

3) A reading by my of my translation of the amazing poet Virginie Poitrasson. Here we are on stage for the Paris Lit Up launch in Fall 2015. https://youtu.be/5L8TBT5MplE

4) A snippet from the middle of salon house reading in New Orleans, LA at the end of February, before Lisa Pasold and I set off on the road across the south reading and doing workshops. Filmed by Bremner Duthie. (this gets a bit better sound quality wise towards the end). I am reading an extract from LILITH: A Novel in Fragments (Corrupt, 2019). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVGD0a2yqMU&feature=youtu.be

5) A section of LILITH: A NOVEL IN FRAGMENTS (Corrput, 2019) recorded in lieu of reading on the 19th of April in Athens, GA though only posted up online in April 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWlvbLyjhrM

6) Participation as filmer in LE FILM DES INSTANTS / THE FILM OF MOMENTS, collaborative project orchestrated by Frank Smith where 52 people filmed 1 minute from their windows on 29 March 2020 during set times to make this 12-12:53 film. : on VIMEO at: https://vimeo.com/404007303

OLDER VIDEOS:

7) A not-new reading video, but for your interest for anyone who has not seen it, made by Lisa Pasold in 2017. Radial. At: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhFqjW0hruw

8) I am also one of the voices and poets reading during the film LE MOULIN, by Gilles Weinzaepflan. My reading part begins at 8m50. I am reading an extract of the poem Collectif: that appears in my forthcoming book THAT WHICH I TOUCH HAS NO NAME (Eyewear, Oct 2020):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjd83luhmtw&t=37s 

9) LECTURE pour remue.net en français: https://remue.net/Nuit-remue-11-Jennifer-K-Dick

10) Reading at the Tears in The Fence poetry festival, Fall 2014. Introduction by David Caddy. Filmed by Tom Kiziewicz and Georgie McGregor, Produced by Andrew Henon with thanks to Somerset Film. In this video I do calm down a bit after those first few nervous minutes. I read the poems "Animal Logic", "The Memory Machine", taken from by book CIRCUITS (Corrupt, 2013) and a selection of CERN poems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJp1qq8hf3Q

11) Also: film of my installation in Basel at the SBB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmye8THGxww&t=75s

PLU III Guest Editor selection of work by Ivy Writers Paris readers

I am very pleased to announce the publication of the next issue of PLU (Paris Lit Up) magazine. This, their 3rd issue, includes a special section I was honored to guest edit. It allowed me to include work by a few of the many fabulous authors we have had the opportunity to hear read for Ivy Writers Paris over the past 11 years here in Paris, France. It is my intention to look into compiling an anthology of Ivy Writers, but I hope that as that project is only starting to get underway this selection of work in PLU III can whet your appetites! Thank you to Jason for inviting me to contribute this section, and to Moe Seagar for including Ivy Writers authors in his fabulous all-day extravaganza reading for 100 Thousand Poets for Change! 

And please DO come out to celebrate the exciting selection of work in the new issue of PLU with us Saturday the 26th of Sept. The Ivy Writers Paris authors included are: John High,  Laynie Browne, Michaël Batalla, Dominique Quélen, Barbara Beck, Jacob Bromberg, Déborah Heissler, Virginie Poitrasson and Sarah Larivière. 

Here is the weblink for preordering your copy to pick up at the launch:
http://press.parislitup.com/shop/paris-lit-up-magazine-n3-2015/

PLU 3 launch:

Saturday the 26th of September 2015

https://www.facebook.com/events/464038687101520/

AT: La Petite Maison, 8 rue G. Cavaignac, 75011

Doors open (les portes s'ouvrent) at 15h.  THE unveiling the new issue of Paris Lit Up Magazine n°3 is at 20h with concerts following late into the evening…. Oh, and bring 10€ for the Magazine!

The event goes all day from 15h-23h but the magazine is officially launched at 8pm.