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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REIMS le 1er juin for the SAES Congrès

I will be participating in the 57e Congrès of the SAES this week in Reims, France, speaking on June 1st for Atelier 13: Poets and Poetry on THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA. See my abstract below. Hope to see you there!

Atelier 13 : Poets and Poetry

http://congres2017.saesfrance.org/programme-scientifique/ateliers/atelier-13-poets-and-poetry/

Lieu

Bâtiment 17, salle 11.

Responsables

Penelope Galey-Sachs (Université de Valenciennes) et Sara Greaves (Aix-Marseille Université)

Programme

Jeudi 1er juin, 16h-18h

16h-16h30 Suhasini Vincent (Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas), “The Postmodern Reconfiguring of the Old in the New in Suniti Namjoshi’s Feminist Fables”

16h30-17h Bastien Goursaud (Université Paris-Sorbonne), « Reconstruire le connu : sur les sonnets de Don Paterson »

17h-17h30 Héloïse Thomas-Cambonie (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), “The Archive and the Self : Reconstructive Historiographies of Black Womanhood in Robin Coste Lewis’s poetry”

17h30-18h Jennifer K. Dick (Université de Haute Alsace-Mulhouse), « Legacy & Reconstruction(s): the multilingual, hybrid works of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha »

Abstract for my talk:

Legacy & Reconstruction(s): the multilingual, hybrid works of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Jennifer K Dick (MdC, Université de Haute Alsace-Mulhouse, labo : ILLE)

“redressed let our history be seen through watermarks heard

thru no one speech”

–Craig Santos Perez

As I addressed in my recently published chapter “Craig Santos Perez and Myung Mi Kim: Voicing the Integral Divide: Transcending Suffering by Reshaping American History and Language”, multilingualism in contemporary postmodern poetry demands a reassessment of univocal, thus unicultural, national identity, and may be establishing a space for what you have called the “trans-cultural” in your Poets & Poetry CFP.  Examining this within the context of the 2017 SAES topic, Reconstruction(s), recalls Nathanial Mackey’s interrogation about whether reordering history's "linguistic protocols might undo or redo history itself" and the seminal Asian-American explorations carried out by Theresa Hak Kung Cha in Dictée, followed by her posthumously published Exilée / Temps Mort. Many authors since Cha, attempting to recalibrate the self within a sense of nation, citizenship and history, use her innovative forms of hybridity to defy Anglo-centric perspectives linguistically and visually. These authors collage, fragment and stutter, incorporating foreign languages and mixing or including English errors as space for the illegible and unreadable in the reading process; as a method of revising the History of the self and its nations. These authors are not necessarily trying to reconstruct a past that has been fragmented and partially erased, but rather to use fragmentation and erasure in their works to signal the ways that they are constantly written out of culture and History, simultaneously bringing the outsider into their existence. The white page, the blank space, the spatial depth of their pages, take on new meaning in these works, speaking without saying, showing in the stutter, stop, blank, pause, void the illegibility which, for some, is divide, but which for others, such as Myung Mi Kim, becomes the precise space of connection, coming together, of facing one another in the absence of any singular linguistic expression. Weaving  multitudes of cultures and languages into the loom reveals the central issue: resisting erasure, locating what Kim calls Commons.

Much of this work is being composed by minorities who are taking back the self, re-exploring ancestry, origins and histories rich with variants from the given, commodified version of History in which they now dwell. But as they seek to account for the experience of the multilingual and polyvalent self, for lost or vanishing cultures, this paper desires to explore how they—especially in the example of Cha—also end up speaking for an inclusive "we" by allowing a space for that which cannot be expressed—that of the past and the present, of the Other and the foreignness in each of us. Revisiting Cha’s works reveals how authors at the end of the 20^th century have come to reassess the place of self and difference on and via the page, reminding us in thought but also poetic practice of what Ezra Pound wrote almost a century ago:                                        

                          “The sum of human wisdom is not contained

in any one language, and no single language is

CAPABLE of expressing all forms and degrees

of human comprehension.”

A paraître chez Al Dante juin 2017

Forthcoming! RDV au marché de la poésie, Paris, to pick up your copy of this beautiful anthology of work by Jacques Sivan. And I am thrilled to announce that I am part of this book, as it includes my text looking at the alpha and the omega of Sivan's œuvre --Grio village double and the unpublished Notre Mission which I have had the priviledge of reading in its varied draft forms. My essay is called  «Le corps toujours autre » dans les sonorités visuelles de Jacques Sivan, pp 29-50

A paraître, aux éditions Al Dante, en juin 2017 :
«La poésie mo[t]léculaire» de Jacques Sivan
Choix de textes de 1983 à 2016.
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Préfaces de Vannina Maestri, Emmanuèle Jawad, Jennifer K. Dick, Luigi Magno, Gaelle Théval et Jean-Michel Espitallier.

 

As Al Dante announced this book on their FB site this week: 

"J’écris dans la lignée du « corps sans organes », du corps glossolalique d’Antonin Artaud et surtout de Raymond Roussel. Je réfléchis non pas à un corps clos aux contours bien définis et aux fonctions hiérarchisées (âme, raison, organes), tel que nous l’a transmis la tradition humaniste, mais à la multiplicité de corps poreux, ouverts, instables ; de corps motléculaires d’autant plus énergétiques que l’on facilite leur permanente interaction. Grappes ou blocs de cellules vocales, aux colorations variables, qui se prononcent selon un dispositif qui tente d’instrumentaliser le hasard plutôt que de l’éliminer." Le chantier poétique de Jacques Sivan (1955-2016) est certainement l’un des plus passionnant qu’il nous est donné d’explorer. Inventeur d’une écriture motléculaire (une écriture désaffublée des conventions et des codes contre lesquels l’auteur nous invite à résister), Jacques Sivan réinvente une langue qui reflète la complexité plurielle du monde tout en témoignant de son rapport au monde, de son expérience de vivre. Ici la poésie est pensée en action.
      "Je vis mon écriture comme une façon de voir et, inversement, l’action de voir comme mon mode d’écriture le plus intime, le plus vrai. On ne voit pas seulement avec les yeux mais avec tous les sens et aussi, dans tous les sens. Le corps est donc un dispositif sensitif complexe en perpétuelle mutation. Voir/écrire est un acte indissociable, dans la mesure où l’écriture est toujours un processus de réécriture, un processus d’ajustage des continuels écarts des/du sens."
      Cette ouvrage, qui continue autrement ce chantier, donne à lire un important choix de textes écrits entre 1983 et 2016, sorte de bibliothèque portative qui permet d’appréhender toute la singularité de cette œuvre. En ouverture, les préfaces de Vannina Maestri, Jennifer K. Dick, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Emmanuèle Jawad, Luigi Magno et Gaëlle Théval nous offrent quelques pistes de lecture pour mieux aborder cette poésie hors du commun, notamment en pointant les liens affirmés entre cet univers poétique et ceux d’ainés tels que Denis Roche, Raymond Roussel, Charles Olson, Maurice Roche ou Marcel Duchamp…

Ivy Writers Paris le 25 avril, 23 mai et 20 juin 2017

The next readings for Ivy Writers Paris, the final ones of our 2016-2017 season, will take place on 25 April, 23 May and 20th June at Delaville Café. Here is the lowdown on these fabulous soirées. Hope to see you there!

25 Avril: 19h30 Bilingual reading with authors Jeffrey Greene and Sereine Berlottier along with a presentation and reading of extracts from art books made by Rebecca Dolinsky. For full details see: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/2017/04/mardi-25-avril-2017-rebecca-dolinsky_5.html

23 May: 19h30 Bilingual reading by authors Christophe Manon and Lyn Emmanuel with translations into French of Lyn Emmanuel's work, by Simone Manceau. check out the full publicity on the Ivy blog after May 5th at ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr

20 June 2017 at 19h30 sees Ivy say farewell to the 2016-2017 season with a reading by Charles Borkhuis, Sabine Macher and Kevin Craft. We hope to see you there! For the full info and bios, check back on the Ivy blog after June 5th.

JKD participats in Angel House Press's April National Poetry Month Canada 2017: A Celebration of Women

Amanda Earl, editor and publisher of Angel House Press, Canada launched the 2017 site today, Aprl 1 2017. Every day for 30 days in April, a new poem, video-poem, collage, book art, comic, or visual poem will be published. The work will remain on the site until February 28, 2018.
I hope you will keep your eye on the site, and check out my own work which will appear there this month. I am very pleased to have been selected for this project, as I know that Amanda's sites for National Poetry Month attract an increasing number of submissions every year.

General press announcement for the project, as written by Amanda Earl: 

"AngelHousePress presents NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women

From April 1 to April 30, 2017, NationalPoetryMonth.ca will feature poems, video poems, visual poems, book art and collages from contributors from Canada, USA, France, Ireland and Japan. These poems by women-identifying poets celebrate and acknowledge women's creativity, courage, friendship, love, triumph over adversity, persistence, resilience and strength.

Visit NationalPoetryMonth.ca daily in April for a new poem."

Thank you to both Amanda Earl and to Angel House Press for continuing to bring me fabulous work to read and see from Canada, and of course for including me in this project, and as one of your authors.

In June 2017 my  chapbook "Afterlife" will appear from Angel House Press, Canada's chapbook series, as well.