Upcoming Events: where to find Jennifer K Dick and many other, exciting authors!

 I am in busy mode as we settle into 2023. Here are a few places you can find me:

STRASBOURG 28 January 2023:

SWAS: Strasbourg Write A Story: Fiction Writing Workshop "MYSTERY" with Jennifer K Dick on 28th January 2023 14-16h. http://sxb-write-a-story.org/workshops-2022-23-new/

Course Description: The Mysteries that Surround Us — This generative writing workshop with Jennifer K Dick will be based around “mystery”. Not the genre, but instead the mysteries that surround us every day and which provide a million opportunities for us to encounter and make stories. As such, this workshop will focus on where to find a story, questions of what plot is and why it might or might not matter to story writing (for you) and how to use questions to find characters and their motivations. Finally, our afternoon together will close with some tips on how to hone and polish your story. The goal is to encounter a little of the unknown together, to write something into being, and to leave perhaps not with more knowns, but rather with more mysteries to explore on our own as we continue to uncover, craft and polish our own fiction. Please come with the necessary materials to write in situ and an openness to discover and encounter the mysteries of your own inner universes.YOU CAN ALSO SUBMIT YOUR STORIES TO THE 2023 SWAS CONTEST, NOW OPEN.

PARIS 29th, 30th and 31st January 2023: 

RED WHEELBARROW EVENT at 16 for Estepa Editions with Lisa Pasold, Barbara Beck, Jennifer K Dick and Michelle Noteboom along with Kate Van Houten, publisher, author and visual artist who founded and publishes Estepa Editions artbooks. This will be a wonderful reading to support an amazing art book publisher. You can also pick up copies of books by the authors published by other publishers and get those signed. A great way to keep a local bookstore thriving!

SPOKEN WORD PARIS Guest Feature Jennifer K Dick MONDAY 30 January 2023. This is an open mic scene, so come and sign up at 8pm. Spoken Word is at a new venue again for the 30th and this is the CAVE CAFE which is up on Marcadet. It has amazing beers and the reading will be downstairs. Best arrival options: Lamarck and walk down some stairs, Marcadet and a bit of a longer stroll over or Jule Joffrin and a short jaunt uphill. Wonderful authentic cave, great little stage and mic. I have provided a theme for the night should you decide to compose a poem specifically for the event--see the Spokenword Paris facebook group or website for more. 20h is a good time to arrive, or a bit earlier for more beer.

IVY WRITERS PARIS mcing for the soirée bilingue with Marielle Anselmo, Jason Stoneking and William Strangmeyer who will be reading Tuesday the 31st of January at 19h30! Full information for that will be up soon at: https://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/ This event starts at 19h30 but come along a little bit early and get a beer or a cocktail on happy hour and chat with the writers in the gorgeous setting of Delaville Café.

Ateliers pour générer des poèmes sur radio Pi Node et avec visites radiophonique de l'expo Qaqalah à la Kunsthalle Mulhouse

 

Jennifer K Dick vos propose 4 ateliers générateurs des poèmes contemporains sur Radio Pi-Node  (https://p-node.org/) le 23, 24 et 25 avril 2021 autour de l’exposition « Qaqalah Plus d'une langue » à la Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d’Art Contemporain. Avec chaque exercice, je vous propose un peu de lecture de la poésie contemporaine française pour célébrer le mois de la poésie. Ces activités vont nous préparer pour la résidence de Vannina Maestri qui viendra à la Kunsthalle dans le cadre d'Ecrire l'Art en mai 2021.

 

Les références des textes, et un court résumé de l’exercice (dans 1 ligne) pour chaque intervention :

23.04 à 19h:00: Emission autour de l'oeuvre "Work on paper" de Temporary Art Platform

- conversation entre Marine Ambrosini et Jennifer K. Dick

3 exercices d’écriture proposés : utilisez les pages des journaux pour écrire vos textes de façons suivants : 1) en s’inspirant d’une image pour écrire 2) en prenant des phrases et ensuite en répondant à des sujets d’articles 3) en n’utilisant que des fragments pris des journaux pour composer votre poème-collage.

Références :

·         Déborah Heissler, Sorrowful Songs (Ænchrages et Co, 2015) : poèmes et dessins du plasticien new yorkais Peter Maslow. https://www.aencrages.com/2015/02/28/sorrowful-songs/

·         Laurent Grisel, Journal de la Crise de 2006, 2007, 2008, d’avant et d’après (Hachette/PublieNet, 2018) https://www.publie.net/livre/journal-de-la-crise-de-2006-2007-2008-davant-et-dapres-volume-1-2006-laurent-grisel/

·         Vannina Maestri, Mobiles et Mobiles 2 (éditions Al Dante  2005 et 2010 : disponible aux presses du réel) https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=6241&menu=4

24.04 à 19:00: Emission autour de l'oeuvre "Seeing studies" d'Institute for incongruous translation" de Natascha Sadr Haghighian et Ashkan Sepahvand avec Can Altay

- conversation entre Sandrine Wymann et Jennifer K. Dick

Exercice d’écriture proposé : A l’instar des artistes de « Seeing Studies », trouvez un ancien manuel d’école. Mélangez la prise des fragments du manuel avec des fragments que vous notez de vos souvenirs d’enfance et de l’école pour construire un poème-mobile.

Références :

·         Vannina Maestri, Mobiles et Mobiles 2 (éditions Al Dante  2005 et 2010 : disponible aux presses du réel) https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=6241&menu=4

·         Vannina Maestri : extrait d’un ouvrage en cours, disponible sur remue.net : https://remue.net/Vannina-Maestri-Je-travaille

**Avec nos remerciements à Al Dante et l’auteur Vannina Maestri pour la permission de vous fournir un extrait de Mobiles, pp 88-89, lu par Camille Roussel et Ilona Vonau—des étudiants en licence à l’UHA Mulhouse.

 

25.04 à 10:00: Emission autour de l'oeuvre "Atlas" de Sarah Ouhaddou

- conversation entre Jennifer K Dick et Emilie Georges

2 exercices d’écriture proposés : Pensez à une matière brute ou une plante  locale qui peut servir de sujet d’écriture. Ensuite: 1) imitez la forme du marbre avec votre texte en passant de l’écrire libre en forme du bloc à une sélection plus précis des lignes et ensuite des fragments—jusqu’à la disparition du texte.  2) écrivez un poème sur la matière brute ou la plante locale et ensuite le mettre à l’intérieur d’une forme graphique pour nous obliger de le revoir autrement.

Références :

·         Virginie Poitrasson, Journal d’une disparition (Ink #1, mai 2008)

·         Jean-Michel Espitallier l'invention de la course à pied (éditions Al Dante, 2013, disponible aux presses du réel) https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=6204&menu=4

·         Vannina Maestri, Mobiles et Mobiles 2 (éditions Al Dante  2005 et 2010 : disponible aux presses du réel) https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=6241&menu=4

·         Phillippe Jaffeux, O L’an (Atelier de l’agneau/architextes, 2011, 2012) https://atelierdelagneau.com/fr/architextes/157-o-l-an--9782930440422.html Pour voir un extrait dans la forme du CDrom et lire « Une question » posée à Jaffeux par Christophe Esnault en 2017 sur ZONE Critique : https://zone-critique.com/2017/09/24/entretien-avec-philippe-jaffeux/

25.04 à 16:00: Emission autour de l'oeuvre "Phonèmes en conflits " de Lawrence Abu Hamdan - conversations entre Muna Murbak, Jennifer K. Dick et Emilie Georges

Exercice d’écriture proposé en 2 étapes : 1) Pendant 10-20 minutes, laissez-vous réfléchir librement en prenant des notes sur les sujets et thèmes de cet ouvrage : le langage, les accents, l’immigration, les frontières, la Somalie ou même les façons dont on juge les autres/soi-même 2) Parmi vos notes, sélectionnez un axe à approfondir à travers la contrainte de l’anaphore—la répétition d’un ou de plusieurs mots, de sons ou des lettres (voyelles ou consonnes). Faites un poème en prose ou en vers qui utilise l’anaphore.

Références :

·         Jean-Pierre Bobillot, Prose des rats (l’atelier de l’agneau, 2008, 2^ème édition revue et augmenté 2019) https://atelierdelagneau.com/fr/architextes/156-prose-des-rats-2-edition-revue-augmentee-9782374280336.html

·         Jacques Sivan, Vie sur Deuil Polaire (éditions Al Dante  2012) : pour voir un compte rendu du livre par Stéphanie Eligert où on peut lire quelques extraits : https://www.sitaudis.fr/Parutions/des-vies-sur-deuil-polaire-de-jacques-sivan.php

·         Christophe Tarkos, CAISSES, (© POL, 1998). http://www.pol-editeur.com/index.php?spec=livre&ISBN=2-86744-628-7

**Avec nos remerciements à POL pour la permission de vous fournir un extrait de Caisses © P.O.L Editeur, 1998, p25, lu par Camille Roussel et Ilona Vonau—des étudiants en licence à l’UHA Mulhouse.  

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Pour visiter l'exposition http://kunsthallemulhouse.com/evenement/qalqalah-plus-dune-langue/

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

 

Jennifer K Dick and Lisa Pasold March 2020 readings and Workshops: where to find us

2 MARCH: 7PM NEW ORLEANS: BACK TO THE BOOKS SALON READING
New Orleans: it shall be a salon affair, with cocktails. Lisa Pasold and Jennifer K Dick share new work before they head off on the road. A post-mardi gras, pre-writers' road trip private reading. Contact Jen/Lisa if you will be in NOLA and would like the address to attend. Please bring check/cash to purchase any books. For address/to attend: fragment78 [at] gmail.com

7 MARCH: 1-3 PM--MOBILE, AL Writing Workshop at Haunted Bookshop
Come and work on your writing with Lisa Pasold and Jennifer K Dick: The Haunted Bookshop: New and Used Books, 109 Dauphin St., Mobile, AL 36602; (251) 438-2904 Free and Open to the public. The instructor's books will be available to purchase and have signed following the class. https://www.thehauntedbookshopmobile.com/

8 MARCH: 4:30 PM – 6:30 CHATTANOOGA, TN "Write Every Day" Workshop
Come and work on your writing with Lisa Pasold and Jennifer K Dick: In the "Write Every Day" workshop, we discuss how to create a daily writing practice--diary or fiction, poetry or quickly-jotted note.Participants discuss how a daily practice is a mental anchor, both creatively & spiritually, and how material from the daily writing--interior, messy, private--can be shaped into crafted work. This workshop resonates both with experienced writers who feel blocked, and with new writers and non-writers, who want to create a personal creative routine. This will be a generative writing workshop based on prompts and reading extracts. To participate: sign up via La Chattery / get tickets by Eventbrite; The instructor's books will be available to purchase and have signed following the class.
AT: La Chattery 1800 Rossville Avenue, Suite 108B, Chattanooga, Tennessee https://www.facebook.com/events/192014548870542/

10 MARCH: 7pm ATLANTA/TUCKER, GA reading for POETRY ATLANTA
Poetry Atlanta presents Lisa Pasold and Jennifer K. Dick. Lisa’s new book entitled The Riparian is a poetic narrative, and Jennifer will be reading from Lilith: A Novel in Fragments. Colin Kelley will host. Event is free and open to the public. It will take place AT:  the Northlake - Barbara Loar Library, 3772 Lavista Rd, Tucker, GA in their meeting room. Books will be available to purchase and have signed. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. https://www.facebook.com/events/191674578695563/






Events with Jennifer and other authors:
19 MARCH: 6:30pm ATHENS, GA: Avid Poetry Series Reading
Jennifer K Dick and Gale Marie Thompson  will be reading. Jennifer will be reading from Lilith: A Novel in Fragments (Corrupt, 2019) and other work and Gale Marie Thompson will be reading from Helen or My Hunger (YesYes Books, 2020) and other work. Hosted by Hannah V Warren. Avid Bookshop, 5 points Location: 1662 S. Lumpkin St, Athens, GA 30606. Phone: 706.850.2843
https://www.avidbookshop.com/event/avid-poetry-series-jennifer-k-dick-and-gale-marie-thompson





APRIL 2020
COMING SOON--Full details of April events are not yet available, but mark your calendars:
5 APRIL: YPSILANTI, MI reading
Jill Darling hosts Jennifer K Dick for a reading of her new work and discussion.

6 APRIL:TBC: Canada reading
Jennifer K Dick and Jill Darling will read from new and published work.

8 APRIL: DEARBORN, MI class visit
Jennifer K Dick will visit and workshop with Jill Darling's class. (not open to the public)

26 APRIL: DENVER, CO Counterpath reading
Jennifer K Dick will read alongside TBC at the amazing Counterpath space in Denver. More details forthcoming

Forthcoming Writing Workshop in Amsterdam

I will be off to Amsterdam again with the Words In Here folks this October! If you are interested in signing up for one of their "master classes" workshops, or the one I am going to teach, the full program is online at http://www.wordsinhere.com/ and below is info on my workshop in particular. Sign up now to get a spot!!!

Registration deadline: Wednesday, September 16 2009

Open house to find out more this weekend at:
The English Bookshop,

Lauriergracht 71

Amsterdam
3 MASTER CLASSES are offered this fall as part of the program "WORKSHOP: Practical tools for mastering your craft".
Program & Registration Fall 2009:
I) Poetry: A Work in Progress with Kate Foley
II) Writing Memory: Into the Poem, Flash Fiction or Multi-Genre Works with Jennifer K Dick
III) Short Fiction Putting on the Polish with Michele Hutchinson
These workshops have been developed specifically for the writer who is ready to hone and develop his/her skills further, or who is on the verge of submitting work for publication. All of our teachers are dedicated to creating an open, relaxed atmosphere to explore the possibilities of your work and the opportunities that await it. Cost: €150, €135 (CJP/students/65+)
All workshops are spread over two days .

My course:

Writing Memory: Into the Poem, Flash Fiction or Multi-Genre works
Friday, 9 October, 19h00 – 22h00; and Sunday, 11 October, 12h00 – 17h30

This workshop will explore the variegated ways of putting our selves as re-membered onto the page—that is, not just our memories but how the formal (be that collaged, rhythmed, or as a tale) ways we put memories into writing reaches beyond us, remakes us, and our imagined alter-egos, in the writing. We will make use of old letters/emails/blog entries, journals, scrapbooks (if you desire), photos, and the memories we often hide. Exercises will focus first on exploring narrative (aspects of storytelling in poetry and short prose and how line break plays into that), then on formal meter and prose rhythm as a way to reflect and echo sounds and thus pasts. Finally, we will move into an exploration of more radical forms of collaged, postmodern even mixed genre work. In our 3 short days together, you will end up writing a series of small memoir works in either poetry or prose, and perhaps work towards or even complete a longer piece. You will certainly leave with a handful of tools, ideas and techniques you can maneuver in your own ways when you return to work on your prose or poetry after this workshop. Writers we’ll look at include Michael Oondaatje, Claudia Rankine, Eleni Sikilianos, Marilyn Hacker, Joan Retallack, Lyn Hejinian, Truong Tran, Laura Mullen, Czeslaw Milosz, Bhanu Kapil, Susan Howe, Arthur Sze, Myung Mi Kim, Brenda Hillman, Douglas Oliver, Alice Notley and a variety of texts from the Chain magazine Memoir and Letters issues. I hope you will all enjoy trying out some new methods for tackling old experiences. Please bring either a few old letters/emails, a journal/set of blog posts or scrapbook as base materials to the first course. This workshop is aimed at all writers, writing at any level, but is especially useful for those midway through a first or second book, or those who feel stuck and like they need to stretch their perspectives of what they can do in language at this point. This workshop is led by Jennifer K. Dick.

HOW TO REGISTER
Complete the form at The English Bookshop at Lauriergracht 71, 1016 RH Amsterdam before Wednesday, September 16.

OR register online at:
www.wordsinhere.com/register.html

Payment can be made at The English Bookshop through cash or PIN, or can be made by bank transfer.