Cutbank's 40th anniversary anthology, Similar Peaks, Vlak, Tears in the Fence, Paris Lit Up: poems arriving soon in these great venues!

Tour de l'Europe icon in the bldg elevator

Fall is underway here in Mulhouse where the quiet of the streets is a radical change from bustling NYC, and the long days and nights are all about the silence of reflection and perspective--looking back over the summer and forward towards the academic year and many writing projects . The cool seems to have descended upon us all at once, too, as if a reminder that it is time to get to work. And it looks like many magazine editors are also hard at work, combing through their piles of summer submissions and making decisions. It is thus with great pleasure that my fall has begun with some exciting just out and forthcoming publication news: POEMS appearing in October, November and December

Forthcoming poems:  “After the Beheading” and “Apparition” will be in the new, online literary magazine Similar Peaks. headed by David Blumenshine and Rachel Burns alongside poetry editors Jessica Linde Hiestand and Carleen Tibbets.  They are still getting their website in order, but with a little work you can find  poems and images from their first issue, including exciting work by Dara Wier, Paige Taggart and others, as well as information in case you want to consider sending them your own work at: http://similarpeakspoetry.com/

“A Slim Box of Her” and “Take Cover” have been accepted for publication in Tears in the Fence, issue 58 due out in winter 2013/2014, Dorchester, UK. Edited for almost 30 years now by David Caddy, this print-only lit mag including poems from authors around the globe as well as a really hefty reviews and articles section in each issue has a fairly new website up and running at: http://tearsinthefence.com/. Feel free to help them keep going by purchasing back issues or subscribing to forthcoming issues via: http://tearsinthefence.com/pay-it-forward/

 

9 prose poems from the CERN 200 project I am working on (“CERN 13” “CERN 18-22” and “CERN 38-40”) as well as three prose poems from the chapbook Conversion (Estepa Editions, France) under the title “Making a Message of Things” will be appearing in Vlak, number 4, published by the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University in Prague (as well as sites in London, New York, Paris, Melbourne and Amsterdam). Vlak Magazine is edited by the team of Louis Armand, David Vichnar, Edmund Berrigan, Ali Alizadeh, Stephen J. Fowler, Olga Peková, Jane Lewty, and Stephen Mooney. They also publish eBooks and are partnered with the print book press: Equus Press. This issue will also include work by Vanessa Place, Alice Notley, Frederic Forte, Anselm Berrigan, Marjorie Welish and many other exciting poets that I am totally honored to be published with (see http://vlakmagazine.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/countdown-to-vlak-4/ for a list). The issue is forthcoming on October 8, 2013. To pre-order, to order back issues, or to learn more about VLAK, see V+L-A=K at: http://vlakmagazine.wordpress.com/ The publishers will be in Paris participating in readings on Oct 10th with Paris Lit Up and October 12 with a special Vlak event--where you can pick up YOUR copy of Vlak!

A prose poem “Battleships and Battalions” from the forthcoming chapbook Conversion (Estepa Editions, France) will appear in Paris Lit Up magazine's inaugural edition, volume one, issue 1, October 2013, edited by Helen Cusack O’Keeffe, Jason Francis Mc Gimsey, Kate Noakes and Julie Poole. For more news on this magazine, keep your eye on: http://parislitup.com/plu-magazine/ There will be a BIG LAUNCH EVENT on Oct 11th in Paris at POP IN with bands, authors and more! (and which I will be reading at as well).

ANTHOLOGY: Cutbank's 40th anniversary collection (online and print anthology). For those of you in MONTANA, Cutbank Magazine edited by Rachel Mindell is preparing for their 40th year anthology with a reading event and fundraiser. I will have work in this collection, extracts from Enclosure published in Cutbank issue 67. Keep up to date on this event, or on Cutbank at: http://www.cutbankonline.org/ Also, as a little self promo, I would like to mention to those of you who have not seen it, that my book CIRCUITS was also recently reviewed on the Cutbank website by Matt Reeck, which you can read online at:  http://www.cutbankonline.org/2013/08/19/cutbank-reviews-circuits-by-jennifer-k-dick/. To attend the Cutbank anthology fundraiser event, see image at the right for details. Watch their site as well for more news regarding the fortcoming publication of their print and online 40th anniversary anthology or their opening submission period (Oct-Feb) coming soon!

ACADEMIC WORK 

recently published:

BOOK just out / ready for order:
Jennifer K Dick et Stephanie Schwerter, Traduire, transmettre ou trahir: Réflexions sur la traduction en sciences humaines (2013) now available for order from the Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris.

CHAPTER IN BOOK:
« La revue de Pierre Albert-Birot. SIC prend l’extrême pointe de l’avant-garde pendant la Première Guerre mondiale » by Jennifer K Dick is in Poétiques scientifiques dans les revues européennes de la modernité (1900-1940), sous la direction de Noëlle Cuny et Tania Collani, ISBN 978-2-8124-0866-3 (livre broché) ; ISBN 978-2-8124-1097-0 (livre relié) © 2013. Classiques Garnier, Paris, (461p.), pp. 287-303.LANGUAGE: FRENCH--for English readers, this chapter is available in the new Classiques Garnier, Paris, book edited by Noëlle Cuny and Tania Collani, a volume in French. (Hardback is 54euros, soft is 35euros)

ARTICLE ONLINE:
If you have not yet and you would like to read the FREE PDF of the online magazine Seventeen Seconds: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, Ottawa, Canada, issue 7, June 2013, with my essay on Susan Howe (pp7-24): the PDF link is HERE: http://www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds/pdfs/seventhissue.pdf
 

New news and New York....

The great voyage to the BIG apple is soon to come to a close, and perhaps soon a few instances of or impressions of this city will be posted here. The arrival was frought with intimidation, with apprehension and the adrenaline of wanting to get over that and head out and wander. Now, I feel at ease here in Brooklyn, have gotten the hang of the buses and wandered up and down and around neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan. I have met so many amazing authors--people I have read for years, some I had been in contact, but also others I am just getting to know and whose works are and I imagine will open my perception of the world, the language, the cultures of here and also of where I live by opposition and comparison. The two week time count is ticking! But for today--a little set of city images from NYC and then some writing news:

Water towers here have their own poetry

Brooklyn traffic heading to the Manhattan Bridge

Looking up at the bridges, from the Brooklyn side

View out blurry bus window at sunset, all the colors askew heading from the Upper East side down to the East Village, Manhattan

The new tower, seen from its base down at WTC stop as I head to the PATH train

Jersey City, NJ--old theaters become new propaganda sources. Culture and religion at work.

The rainbow as propulsion device for the Barclay Center, Brooklyn

Atlantic Ave stop, Brooklyn

Seen from Brooklyn--there she is!

Looking over at Manhattan from a Brooklyn Park by 40th St

 WRITING NEWS...

THANK you to MATT REECK, for his Cutbank Magazine Review of CIRCUITS under the fun title "The Utopian Science Poem"! Matt Reeck is an author and translator whose poems have been published in five chapbooks, including the forthcoming The Necessary City by Konundrum Engine Literary Review and The Pastoral City in the Little Red Leaves Textile Series. Bombay Stories, his translations with Aftab Ahmad from the Urdu of Saadat Hasan Manto, was published in India by Random House last year and will be published in the US by Vintage Classics next spring. He co-edits Staging Ground magazine. Matt's review of CIRCUITS is up at Cutbank online at:  http://www.cutbankonline.org/2013/08/19/cutbank-reviews-circuits-by-jennifer-k-dick/ Cutbank is one of the magazines that has supported my poetry by including it in its beautiful issues. I am thrilled not only to have work included in issues in the past but now to have my current book reviewed on their online site. They publish a bi-annual print magazine with poetry with a wide range of aesthetics. Check CUTBANK out or subscribe to help them keep on keepin on!

On the academic side of life, this summer away from France has also been one during which longterm projects put into place have finally come to fruition. So, announcing: for Pre-ORDER:  Traduire, transmettre ou trahir: Réflexions sur la traduction en sciences humaines (Sept 2013) now available for pre-order from the Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris.

Also, my chapter « La revue de Pierre Albert-Birot. SIC prend l’extrême pointe de l’avant-garde pendant la Première Guerre mondiale » is in Poétiques scientifiques dans les revues européennes de la modernité (1900-1940), sous la direction de Noëlle Cuny et Tania Collani, ISBN 978-2-8124-0866-3 (livre broché) ; ISBN 978-2-8124-1097-0 (livre relié) © 2013. Classiques Garnier, Paris, (461p.), pp. 287-303.LANGUAGE: FRENCH--for English readers, this chapter is available in the new Classiques Garnier, Paris, book edited by Noëlle Cuny and Tania Collani, a volume in French. (Hardback is 54euros, soft is 35euros)

Finally: new and forthcoming individual work:

POEMS FORTHCOMING: 

In a few weeks I will have a poem "Battleships and..." from the also forthcoming Conversion chapbook (which is forthcoming from Estepa éditions, Paris this fall as well). The poem will be out in the Paris Lit Up magazine. 

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New work "A Slim Box of Her" and "Take Cover" have been accepted for publication in Tears in the Fence, issue 58 due out in winter 2013, out of the UK.Subscribe now to get your issue!

POEMS OUT now:

2 are out alongside one by Amanda Deutch from our collaboration in The Denver Quarterly's last issue. “Three poems from Anywhere Apparently” (by Amanda Deutch and Jennifer K Dick), including Amanda's “I Suppose it is a Symphony of Metal, Urban and Maladroit” (AD), and my poems:  “Nothing more to do but whine” (JKD) and “Neither the consort nor king called her Eurydice on the rock pricking up an ear” (JKD). To subscribe to DENVER QUARTERLY or order a copy: http://www.denverquarterly.com/  and subscriptions at: http://www.denverquarterly.com/subscriptions.cfm 

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RoToR n°9, April 15, 2013 includes my "Full Throttle / Pleins gaz" in English and with a French translation by Anne Kawala in RoToR 9 at:  http://corner.as.corner.free.fr/rotor9.html
or for the direct PdF of just my poem with the visual illustration by Alun Williams at: http://corner.as.corner.free.fr/RTR9-2-Jennifer-K-Dick.pdf
I also co-translated with Anne Kawala the poems by Patrick Beurard-Valdoye and Dominique Casajus which are in this number
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3 poems out in Color Treasury 003 from March 2013, edited by Sarah Larivière.  To order, see: http://colortreasury.tumblr.com/

CRITICAL ARTICLE NOW ONLINE:

If you have not yet and you would like to read the FREE PDF of the online magazine Seventeen Seconds: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, Ottawa, Canada, issue 7, June 2013, with my essay on Susan Howe (pp7-24): the PDF link is HERE: http://www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds/pdfs/seventhissue.pdf

FRIDAY 16 Aug reading in Brooklyn with Brenda Iijima, Paige Taggart, Laura Elrick and Jennifer K Dick

JOIN US FRIDAY the 16th of AUGUST at 7pm 

Image: Marcel Broodthaers

for a reading at UNNAMEABLE BOOKS in BROOKLYN with 

Brenda Iijima, 

Paige Taggart, 

Laura Elrick & 

Jennifer K Dick.

AT: Unnameable Books
  600 Vanderbilt Ave,  
Brooklyn, New York 11238-3803
SUBWAY: 7^th Ave stop on the B or Q lines

or 2,3,4 Grand Army Plaza stop

7pm

FRIDAY August 16^th 2013

FB event page at:  https://www.facebook.com/events/532067040175711/

BIOS : Brenda Iijima's most recent book, GOING BLOOMING, FALLING BLOOMING was published by Delete Press this summer. UNTIMELY DEATH IS DRIVEN BEYOND THE HORIZON is forthcoming from 1913 Press. Iijima’s previous collections of poetry include Around Sea (2004), Animate, Inanimate Aims (2007), Subsistence Equipment (2008), Revv. You’ll—ution (2009), and If Not Metamorphic (2010). She is also the editor of eco language reader (2010), a collection of essays by poets on matters of ecological concern. She runs Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs from Brooklyn.

Paige Taggart lives in Brooklyn and is the author of 3 chapbooks: DIGITAL MACRAMÉ (Poor Claudia), POLAROID PARADE (Greying Ghost Press), and THE ICE POEMS (DoubleCross Press). Her first full-length collection WANT FOR LION is forthcoming from Trembling Pillow Press. Two chapbooks: I am Writing To You From Another Country; Translations of Henri Michaux (Greying Ghost Press) and Last Difficult Gardens (Horse Less Press) are also forthcoming. She's an avid jeweler (mactaggartjewelry.com) and co-founded the tumblr Poets Touching Trees, which you can visit at: http://poetstouchingtrees.tumblr.com/

Laura Elrick is the author of PROPAGATION (Kenning Editions, 2012), FANTASIES IN PERMEABLE STRUCTURES (Factory School, 2005), and SKINCERITY (Krupskaya, 2003). Her psychogeographically-inspired research and performance works include the oppositional cartography Blocks Away (2010), the video-poem Stalk (2008), and a sound work, 5 Audio Pieces for Doubled Voice (2005). Her work also appears in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, VIZ. INTER-ARTS EVENT: A TRANS- GENRE ANTHOLOGY, and ECO LANGUAGE READER. She’s lived in Brooklyn, NY since the late 90s and currently teaches poetry and poetics at Pratt Institute. Read brand new poems in “Line”’s new issue (76 Volume 46 No. 4 2013). A video of her STALK project can also be viewed here: http://blip.tv/file/2192353/

Jennifer K Dick is the author of CIRCUITS (Corrupt Press, 2013), ENCLOSURES (BlazeVox eBook, 2007), FLUORESCENCE (UofGA Press, 2004), and 3 chapbooks including BETWIXT (Corrupt, 2012), TRACERY (Dusie, 2012) and RETINA/Rétine (Estepa Editions, France). CONVERSION, A new art-chapbook is forthcoming in Sept 2013 with Estepa. Jennifer teaches American Lit and Civ at the Université of Haute Alsace in Mulhouse, France, co-curates the Ivy Writers reading series in Paris and the Ecrire Art mini-residency at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. She is also a poetry editor for VERSAL out of Amsterdam, writes book reviews for Drunken Boat and a poetics column for Tears in the Fence (UK). She keeps a blog at http://jenniferkdick.blogspot.com/ and is residing in Brooklyn this summer.

Reading in NYC: Manhattan on Aug 8th

Here below are announcements for a reading I will be part of in NY this summer: the 8th of August. Thank you to Bonny Finberg for arranging this event, and to Ding Dong Lounge for hosting us! Hope to see you all there, or at the reading at Unnameable in Brooklyn on the 16th (changed night--a Friday) and here is the info for the 8th :

THURS. AUG. 8th  2013 at 7PM: 

Come celebrate the publication of four CORRUPT PRESS poetry books by:
STEVE DALACHINSKY, 

JENNIFER K. DICK,
MEGAN FERNANDES, 

and 

BONNY FINBERG
with Baroque Music interludes by 
ELIZABETH WEINFELD 
and JUDE ZILIAK

AT: 
The DING DONG LOUNGE 
929 Columbus Ave. (between 105th-106th St)
New York NY 10025 
Tel: (212)663-2600
http://www.dingdonglounge.com/
Subway Stops: 1, B, or C train to 103rd St 
See our FB event page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/566532090055324/
 
BIOS :


MEGAN FERNANDES is finishing her PhD in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds an MFA in poetry from Boston University. She is the poetry editor of the anthology Strangers in Paris (Tightrope Books) and is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Organ Speech (Corrupt Press) and Some Citrus Makes me Blue (Dancing Girl Press). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Memorious, Guernica, RATTLE, Redivider, Upstairs at Duroc, the California Journal of Poetics, Postmodern Culture, and Media Fields: Science and Scale. In the fall, Megan will be teaching feminist theory and technology at Brown University.

BONNY FINBERG'S fiction and poetry, as well as her photography, have been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. Her work has been translated into French, Hungarian and Japanese and she is the author of the chapbook "Déjà Vu" (Corrupt Press); "How the Discovery of Sugar Produced the Romantic Era," a short story collection (Sisyphus Press); and her novel, "Kali's Day", is forthcoming in 2013, (Autonomedia/Unbearable Books). Bonny's writing has been included in the series Best American Erotica ed. by Susie Bright, the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thundersmouth Press), four "Unbearables" anthologies (Autonomedia) and "Lost and Found: New York Stories from Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood". Bonny has been an active participant in the downtown writing/reading community for 25 years and her written work and visual art are archived in the NYU Fales Library “Downtown Writers” collection. She is a frequent contributor to Sensitive Skin Magazine and A Gathering of Tribes, has work in The Brooklyn Rail and Evergreen Review and guest edited a poetry section devoted to Akilah Oliver for Big Bridge Magazine’s 15th Anniversary issue in 2012. Her photography has been published in print and online art journals and exhibits, including “A Book About Death” (Emily Harvey Gallery, NY); “Seeking Kali” and Davka. http://corruptpress.net/?q=node%2F21  and http://blog.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/author/bfinberg/

STEVE DALACHINSKY  was born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York right after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His work has appeared in Big Bridge, Milk, Tribes, Unlikely Stories, Ratapallax, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, Upstairs at Duroc,,Up is Up But So is Down, the Unbearables anthologies: Help Yourself, The Worse Book I Ever Read and The Big Book of Sex (of which he is a co-editor) and the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He has written liner notes for the CDs of many artists including Anthony Braxton, Charles Gayle, James "Blood" Ulmer, Rashied Ali, Roy Campbell, Evan Parker, Matthew Shipp and Roscoe Mitchell. His 1999 CD, Incomplete Direction (Knitting Factory Records), a collection of his poetry read in collaboration with various musicians, has garnered much praise. His chapbooks include Musicology (Editions Pioche, Paris 2005), Trial and Error in Paris (Loudmouth Collective 2003), Lautreamont's Laments (Furniture Press 2005), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling Presse 2005)), The Mantis: collected poems for Cecil Taylor 1966-2009 (Iniquity Press 2011/12), Long Play E.P. (Corrupt Press, 2012) and From the Belly of Civilization – a book of color collages (Tonerworks Press 2013). His book The Final Nite(complete notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook, Ugly Duckling Presse 2006) won the 2007 Josephine Miles PEN National Book Award. His most recent books are Logos and Language, a collaboration with pianist Matthew Shipp (Rogueart Press 2007), Reaching into the Unknown, a collaborative project with French photographer Jacques Bisceglia, RogueArt 2009) and A Superintendent’s Eyes (Unbearables/Autonomedia Books 2013). His latest CDs are Phenomena of Interference, a collaboration with pianist Matthew Shipp (Hopscotch Records 2005), Merci Por Le Visite with Didier Lassere and Sebastian Capezza (Amor Fati – Bordeaux 2007), Massive Liquidity, (Bambalam Records – Bordeaux 2012), The Bill Has Been Paid with bassist Joelle Leandre (Dark Tree Records – Paris 2013) and The Fallout of Dreams with David Liebman and guest Richie Beirach (Rogueart – Paris 2013). He has read throughout the N.Y. area, the U.S., Japan and Europe. He has participated in the Poetry Biennial Festival of Val de Marne, the Sons d’Hiver Festival of Paris and the Grim Festival in Marseilles. He is a contributing writer to the Brooklyn Rail. He has recently been nominated for a PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jennifer K Dick is the author of CIRCUITS (Corrupt Press, 2013), ENCLOSURES (BlazeVox eBook, 2007), FLUORESCENCE (UofGA Press, 2004), and 3 chapbooks including BETWIXT (Corrupt, 2012), TRACERY (Dusie, 2012) and RETINA/Rétine (Estepa Editions, France). CONVERSION, A new art-chapbook is forthcoming in Sept 2013 with Estepa. Jennifer teaches American Lit and Civ at the Université of Haute Alsace in Mulhouse, France, co-curates the Ivy Writers reading series in Paris and the Ecrire Art mini-residency at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. She is also a poetry editor for VERSAL out of Amsterdam, writes book reviews for Drunken Boat and a poetics column for Tears in the Fence (UK). She keeps a blog at http://jenniferkdick.blogspot.com/ and is residing in Brooklyn this summer.

Jude Ziliak is a New York-based violinist. His performances have been described as "thoroughly entertaining" and "show-stealing" by the San Francisco Examiner. Under the auspices of Juilliard Historical Performance, where he earned a Graduate Diploma with Monica Huggett and Cynthia Roberts, he has been concertmaster for Juilliard415 under Jordi Savall at the Metropolitan Museum and Alice Tully Hall, and has performed with William Christie, Richard Egarr, Ton Koopman, and Masaaki Suzuki.Trained as a modern violinist at Rice University (MM), Boston University (BM), and the Royal College of Music, London, his activities have ranged from consort music of the sixteenth century to three dozen world premieres. Ziliak is a former member of Lorin Maazel's Castleton Festival Orchestra, has been concertmaster at the National Orchestral Institute under Andrew Litton and has led unconducted orchestras there as a New Lights Fellow. For a taste of his work, see (listen to) the Youbute video of him at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1upBDVUoId0

Elizabeth Weinfield is the artistic director of New York-based viol consort, Sonnambula, and has appeared as a baroque violist and viol player with Anonymous 4, The Buxtehude Consort, Lionhart, Long & Away, The New York Consort of Viols, Parthenia, Holland’s Ensemble La Silva, and as viola da gamba soloist with the American Baroque Orchestra and others. She holds a Master’s degree in music from Oxford University and is a PhD candidate in historical musicology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she is writing on 17th-century French pastoral music and iconography. Her work in museums has included the design of a baroque plucked strings exhibition at the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments; she is also the content editor of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, a publication to which she contributes as a writer on music. She has spoken at Columbia University, UC Berkeley, and Rice, and is on the music faculty of Fordham University in New York. Recent recording credits include Gregory Spears's Requiem (New Amsterdam Records).

An Essay on the Essay on an Essay: a look at Susan Howe by JKDick now out in Seventeen Seconds issue 7

Susan Howe speaking at Univ Paris VII, Nov 2009, by Jennifer K Dick

ANNOUNCING FREE ONLINE the newest issue of "SEVENTEEN SECONDS: a journal of poetry and poetics" This issue of a fabulous Canadian magazine, Seventeen Seconds #7 includes my reflection on Susan Howe's essay on Chris Marker (with her really interesting reflections on Vertov, Tarkovsky, poetry and of course life in general). Here is a what issue 7 contains:

Victor Coleman

         from Miserable Singers

Jennifer K Dick

         Invisible Collisions: Considering Susan Howe's Reform of the Poetic, Critical and Autobiographical Essay

Nicole Markotić

         ds / junct: in/accessible poetry & the problem body

                        (originally presented at VERSeFest 2013)

Gil McElroy

         Chance and necessity

                        (originally presented at VERSeFest 2013)

rob mclennan

         Some notes on Mark Truscott's Form: A Series

Sandra Ridley

         Testamonium

"seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics comes out as the natural extension of

Still from Chris Marker's La Jetée

the eight issues of Poetics.ca edited by rob mclennan and Stephen Brockwell. Highlighting the diversity of voice, style, practice and politic, seventeen seconds continues the resolve to provide a forum for dialogue on contemporary poetics, with a focus on Canadian writing. Over the past two decades, the amount of critical writing published in print literary journals on Canadian poetry, specifically, seems to have decreased dramatically, but slowly returned through a number of online journals. seventeen seconds simply wishes to help strengthen the dialogue and the ongoing conversation about writing through publishing new writing, and conversation about new writing. How else are we supposed to learn anything, unless we keep talking?"--

http://www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds/

rob mclennan: editor

roland prevost: founding managing editor

mdesnoyers : design & (re)compiler

Readings Readings step right up--the 24th and 29th June 2013 plus new poetics publications

Bhopal's Flowers playing in Mulhouse, Pl de la Réunion

The end of June is nigh, we did our fête de la musique to officially ring in summer on the solstice (photo Mulhouse, center stage, with the Bhopal's Flowers lead singer up their strummin and hummin for us!) and yet the summer is not yet so very summery. It is like being up in the North Woods on some Canadian lake with a strong, cool breeze but also some nice, clear days with afternoons that are reminiscent of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories. And much is underway. First--for anyone in Paris, please come out and see me this week if you have the time! I am reading twice and attending many other readings and vernissages this week.

IVY WRITERS exciting event for Color Treasury--June 24th at 19h30: Color Treasury is a small artbook press based in Texas and Paris here to read from work and launch new works. Authors who are part of the initial newspaper-style magazine COLOR TREASURY 003 will be reading at this event, as will art chapbook Paris-based author Jonathan Regier (for COLOR TREASURY 002) and NY author who works for New Directions and NY Book Review, Jeffrey Yang. These two fabulous featured poets will be accompanied by myself, Jennifer K Dick, as well as founder of the press and publisher Sarah Lariviere, and poets and artists included in the magazine Christine Herzer and Jacob Bromberg. We promise to make this a lovely, low-key evening of conversation and good poetry. Works from the newspaper by poets who are not able to be present will also be shared.

Jeffrey Yang, 

Jonathan Regier, 

Sarah Lariviere, 

Christine Herzer,

Jennifer K Dick 

and 

Jacob Bromberg. 

AT: DELAVILLE cafe, 

34 blvd Bonne Nouvelle, 

75010 Paris, 

M° Bonne Nouvelle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLWT_9uneFM FOR PROMO EVENT VIDEO ON YOUTUBE

AT 19h30 

le 24 juin 2013

Join the IVY Writers Paris FB group on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/101898279922603/?fref=ts 
See more about Color Treasury at: http://colortreasury.tumblr.com/  

SATURDAY 29th June REID HALL translation seminar reading to close off what will begin tomorrow--a long, exciting week of poetic exchanges and translations. I am very very excited to be working with Jean-Michel Espitallier and cannot wait to see what we decide to work on this week. SO JOIN US for the closing reading and sharing of the week-long productions:

L'ANNUELLE READING AT REID HALL

FEATURING/AVEC:

Chet Wiener

Esther Tellermann

Omar Berrada

Sarah Riggs

Jennifer K. Dick

Jean-Michel Espitallier 

Jody Pou

Jean-Jacques Poucel

Abigail Lang

Thalia Field

Nous célébrerons les traductions et les collaborations qui auront été faites au cours du séminaire de traduction Tamaas autour d’un verre et en bonne compagnie. /// We'll be toasting the mutual translations and collaborative projects we've been working on during the previous week's seminar with a glass of wine and good company.

DETAILS:

Saturday June 29, 2013/samedi 29 juin

7pm/19h

Reid Hall 

4 rue de Chevreuse

75006 Paris

métro Vavin 

Organized by Sarah Riggs and Cole Swensen   
with the association Tamaas: www.tamaas.org



THEN Announcing also a few PUBLICATIONS:

First off, if you have not seen it, the beautiful new ISSUE 11 is out from VERSAL. For a Jounal is a Fish, as you will see, and this one is worth netting! DO order a copy and help keep us thriving. It is a great summer gift for yourself or a friend or a dozen friends! Info on ordering is at: http://www.wordsinhere.com/versal_home.html

ONLINE I invite you to read my book review of that MASSIVE collected works by Else Von Freytag-Loringhoven which is now up on Drunken Boat issue 17:  "Joyriding the Subtext: A Glimpse of Elsa Von Freytag Loringhoven's Uncensored Writings" at http://www.drunkenboat.com/db17/body-sweats-uncensored-writings-elsa-von-freytag-loringhoven Yes, I know, it is a wordy review for a wordy book!

And just going up is the newest poetry and poetics issue 7 (lucky number!) of Canadian magazine "17 seconds" (anyone else noticing an echo of 7s and 17s?) in which I have an essay up on Susan Howe's poetic collage essay on Chris Marker called 'Invisible Collisions: Considering Susan Howe’s Reform of the Poetic, Critical and Autobiographical Essay'. My essay about essays and Howe's work will be available at:  http://www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds/ later this week, so check it out! IT is a revised talk from the SAES conference in 2009 and has been seeking a home and time to settle. Feel free to share your reactions too! I am really excited to be in an issue of "17 seconds" even though I am not a Canadian! Excellent poetry and interviews and writing on poetry can be found there. Check out their past issues while waiting for this newest one to go up!

Note for French readers: Susan Howe's essay that my work is discussing has been translated beautifully and skillfully into French by Béatrice Vilgrain and Bernard Rival at Théâtre Typographique (in the collection DEUX ET) and for anyone who does not know the original English text, it was anthologized in a film studies book in the States. 

As for poetry--a new chapbook with Estepa Editions and artwork by Kate Van Houten will be out in Fall 2013. It is called CORRUPTION and a small selection from it will be appearing in the Paris Lit Up magazine and 3 others appeared in Color Treasury 003. So come by the reading and take a peek!

VERSAL 11 is out now--order, subscribe, admire, hook this FISH of an issue--a real whale filled with delightful poetry and prose and art

It looks like it was a great great launch the other day when VERSAL 11 hit the stands and celebrated with readings and art in Amsterdam! What does this mean now? Well, YOU can order YOUR OWN copy at: http://www.wordsinhere.com/orderversal.html

And here are a few great pictures by one of Versal's poetry editors Anna Arov from the Versal 11 launch:

Anna Arov and Jane Lewty hold up new ISSUE 11 of VERSAL Journal at the Amsterdam launch

Editors Daniel Cecil and Shayna Schapp readind selections at the VERSAL 11 launch

Live drawing of astronaut during Versal 11 launch by The London Police

On sale now! Anna Arov (right) with others selling and admiring copies of VERSAL at the issue 11 launch!

Editor in Chief and founder Megan Garr has spearheaded her team into creating yet another journal of amazing writing and art. It is Megan's energy and talent and commitment to literature that have brought this into this world! I, personally, am really really proud to have been part of those selecting the poetry for this gorgeous issue! THANKS also to the AUTHORS AND WRITERS who contributed work to this issue and to those who keep versal going by SUBSCRIBING, donating and getting issues for themselves and friends--thus keeping that money part flowing!

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VERSAL welcomes subscribers and reviews for the new issue
We will be back accept submissions for Versal 12 from mid-Sept 2013 onwards. Get a copy of issue 11 to see how your work might also fit our magazine!: http://www.wordsinhere.com/orderversal.html

Review excerpts of past issues:
Versal 10 is a stunning powerhouse of contemporary writing and art—one that reflects the commitment of its editors, writers, and readers, and shows us how much there is to celebrate, how much there is to notice, how much to believe.
— Callista Buchen, The Review Review

Versal is the best literary journal in English coming out of Europe.
— Penelope Fletcher, founder and owner, The Red Wheelbarrow, Paris

Listed among the "top indie innovators" in Poets & Writers Magazine, November/December 2010

The Versal 11 launch poster from the May 30th event.