Sunday, March 11, 2007

Reading at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris



Virginie Poitrasson and I are reading from a piece I wrote in two languages at the event organized by Sarah Riggs (who also read) at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, 8 March 2007. Other readers at the Soirée included Donna Stonecipher, Etel Adnan, Safaa Fathy, Vanina Maestri, Véronique Pittolo, Ninar Esbar, Leïla Marouane. For me, this was a great honor and I wrote my first 2-language poem in response to Edmond Jabès work for the event. MP3s of the readings should become available through Radio France next week, in case anyone is interested in listening in! This photo was taken by Mexican photographer Antonio Meza.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

SEE some NEW WORK by JEN DICK at:

POEMS Online:
In DOUBLE ROOM #7, plus I just love Nin Andrews’ poem in this issue!!! It is really a great feeling to make it onto the inspiring site for Double Room, where I have a few poems from my now-under-submission manuscript Circuits alongside some really smashing works such as Nin Andrews amazing prose poems and selections by Stephen Ratcliffe! I also admire Double Room’s intros, written by editors Peter Connors & Mark Tursi, reflecting on notions of genre, & questions of where to place prose poems/flash fiction 5and Connor’s own home web site is worth thumbing through, too). The editors always encourage their authors to respond to a sentence by someone else on ideas about this exciting between-genre, and those are all really fun to read in this, their 7th issue. (Find: “Brain in a Box 1”, “Atomic Choreography 2” and “Brain in a Box 2” on Double Room, Winter 2007, issue 7. www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room)
Issue 7 at: www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room

New Poems In PRINT:
American Letters & Commentary 2006 includes my poem “Coda” alongside an excellent array of work, including poems by Kurt Brown, Xue Di, both poetry and visual work by Barbara Guest, theme work on “Fear” by Jena Osman, Andrew Kozma and much more! Order a copy through http://www.amletters.org/

Los Angeles Review—See the recent issue, N°3, in which one of my poems “It was a wedding of Strangers…” (dedicated to Sophie Calle & Anne Lauterbach) appears alongside many of my fellow Parisian Americans, thanks to Cecilia Woloch getting us to get our work back over all the way to the coastline of lovely California! The review, produced by Red Hen Press, is beautiful, large format with a diverse range of work.

Diner Magazine—inaugurating its annual, larger issues, Diner includes my poem “Theorizing about Theorizing”. A great magazine out of MA, one to support and keep your eye on (not because of my work, but because of the editors and all they are doing!!!) subscribe or order online via: http://spokenword.to/diner

Recent CRITICAL WORK in PRINT or ONLINE:
Review of Marilyn Hackers “Essays on Departure: Selected Poems” forthcoming in Tears in the Fence, UK, summer 2007.

Book Review: “Eclectic Directions: Jennifer K Dick reviews Anabranch by Andrew Zawacki.” Jacket Magazine, Australia, July 2006. http://jacketmagazine.com/30/dick-zawacki.html

older PROSE and, yep, some recipes in:
Jack Mackerel 9.0: All-Food Edition 2005, Seattle. Story,“The Regime”(3p) alongside some fun work by John Parker and many others at: http://jackmackerel2005.blogspot.com/ http://jackmackerel2005.blogspot.com/

GOOD READS for WINTER 2007

Hey all--

There are a ton, but here are a few books I would like to recommend as you snuggle down for wintery hot chocolates (spiked with a generous dash of brandy or peppermint schnapps!)

POETRY:
Laura Mullen's MURMUR (Futurepoem Books, 2007) : exciting language, lush with natural landscapes, scattered thoughts, motives, seascape, this poetry-crime book stretches all our notions of genre, is captivating, smart and also beautifully printed/bound. A must-read, and for fun re-read Poe's "A Telltale Heart" with Mullen's subsection of the same title!

Alice Notley's ALMA OR THE DEAD WOMEN (Granery Books, 2006): Again, exciting language, all of Alice's own, "a mythopoetic structure" says Mark Irwin correctly in his blurb. This massive volume could easily keep you inspired and reflecting on Notley's characters and their world, but also our own, your and my place in it, etc.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson's LUG YOUR CARELESS BODY OUT OF THE CAREFUL DUSK (University of IA Press, 2006) Wilkinson's title already introduces the language you will find here, captivating, unique, mysterious, broken. This "poem in fragments" is like scenes through a viewfinder, not quite but almost piecing together, like memory.

Anne Carson's DECREATION (Vintage, 2005) This is another brilliant book from Carson, I loved reading on the edge of sleep in a train on my way to Berlin her "Every exit is an entrance (in priase of sleep)". Always alive, startling us by trying new forms, this is a book to revel in!

TRANSLATIONS:
Danielle COLLOBERT's works by Norma Cole!

Claude ROYET-JOURNOUD's work "theory of prepositions" by Keith Waldrop (out with La Presse, 2006)

Marie Borel's “Wolftrot” Translated into English by Sarah Riggs and Omar Berrada.

CLASSICS:
DANTE: return to Ciardi's translation of the INFERNO for a good winter read!

GOETHE: pairs well with the Dante. I am reading Gérard de Nerval's version in French.

OVID: again, a never-tire-of-this read, Metamorphoses, I liked Rolfe Humphries translation.

NOVELS:
Zadie Smith's WHITE TEETH (Penguin, 2000) is good, engagin, with lively characters--and the first 7 pages are simply great!

Richard Powers THE GOLD BUG VARIATIONS is a book I have yet to recover from, lyrically written, captivating and thought-provoking tale of loves then and now, a book to pair with listening to the various Goldberg recodings. Powers also has a new book I hear is FAB too!!!

Monday, May 29, 2006

Publications, publications, publications

Wow. Let's see how this works, and if it does--wanting to start finding things up and about, on the web. If this works, then I should perhaps start by saying to anyone interested: Here are some of Jennifer K Dick's works, and where they can be found:

BOOKS/CHAPBOOKS:
* Fluorescence (University of Georgia Press, 2004) winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition 2004).
For FLUORESCENCE info or to order a copy from amazon or directly via: http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/FMPro?-DB=Testdbwebsite.fp5&-Lay=Layout_1&-Format=books_details.html&-Token.1=Poetry&-Token.2=&-Token.3=&-Token.4=&-RecID=43408&-Find OR, To see 2004's book tour site with sample poems from the book, go to: http://www.zenadmen.com/fluorescence/ Another sample poem from the book (in a different visual format) can be found at:http://www.dcpoetry.com/?module=keywords&keyword=Dick,%20Jennifer
or http://www.dcpoetry.com/anth_bsb DC Poetry site (website) from the poem What holds the body (1999-2000) See what UK magazine Editor of Stride had to say about Fluorescence: http://www.tjh.34sp.com/stridebooks/?q=blog&from=40 by Rupert Loydell: Best of 2004 list.

* Retina/Rétine (Estepa Editions, France) bi-lingual chapbook (tr. Rémi Bouthonnier) with artwork by American artist (living in Paris) Kate Van Houten, September 2005 (limited edition of 100 signed copies). To order a copy, 15 euros, email: fragment3@yahoo.com with "Order Retina" in subject heading.

SEE some of my NEW WORK:

POEMS from CIRCUITS which are up ONLINE:
At TheDiagram.com (vol 6.2): "A System of Symbols" + its commentary on process at:
http://thediagram.com/6_2/dick.html

At: pinstripefedora.com (vol 2) at http://www.pinstripefedora.com/ or direct & to commentary on each poem via: http://www.pinstripefedora.com/notesandcredits.pdf
and http://www.pinstripefedora.com/activeforgetting.pdf and http://www.pinstripefedora.com/anotherchange.pdf
and http://www.pinstripefedora.com/EXOTIC.PDF
and http://www.pinstripefedora.com/structures_dick.pdf

"The Memory Machine" at: http://www.mipoesias.com/Volume19Issue3Gudding/dick.html

Other CIRCUITS poems in print magazines and anthologies:
I) “A Dark Continent” and “The Price of An Idea” in Moosehead Anthology X: Future Welcome ed. Todd Swift. DC Books, Canada, November 2005.

II) “The Memory Machine” and “Mucking Around in the Wetware” in Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets Antholgy (a VCP Anthology), eds Elizabeth Ianacci and Frankie Drayus, V.C. Press: Los Angeles/ Hollywood, CA, 2004.

III) “The Porcupine Effect 1”, “The Porcupine Effect 2”, “Strengthening Connections”, “Invisible Palaces”, “Intuition and Ambiguity”, and “King of the Hill” in The Colorado Review (Winter 2004 and latter 4 in Fall 2006)

IV) “Atomic Choreography 1” in Upstairs at Duroc (Paris, France, June 2005).

V) “Animal Logic” in The Café Review (CT, USA, October 2005).

VI) “Looking For Engrams” forthcoming in Gargoyle (D.C., USA, June 2006)

VII) “Theorizing about Theorizing” forthcoming in Diner magazine (MA, USA, 2006).

VIII) “New Wires” and “Resonance and Reality 2” forthcoming in Tears in the Fence (UK) (Summer/Fall 2006)

MORE NEW POEMS in PRINT MAGAZINES: Circuits isn't all I do--so here are some very different works not yet in a book in print but available in some lit mags which have been kind enough to include them:

I) “Redolence” in Cutbank #65, Oregon, Spring 2006. This issue of Cutbank is dedicated entirely to poetry, and I am thrilled to be a part of it! Order online from Cutbank’s site!

II) “Regrets [terms—provisions/conditions—of]” (pp51-2) in Green Mountains Review, v.XVIII, No 1, 2005.

III) “Frequency” (pp161-168) in Aufgabe, No 4, Brooklyn, NY, Fall 2004. (you can purchase Aufgabe issues through small press distribution online or Litmus Press, also online)

IV) 1. “Prints” (p76) 2. “Trace3” (pp77-80) in Diner, v.4, N° 1, Worchester, MA, Spring/Summer 2004.

V) “Sestina for the Drowned Who Leave Their Names Above Water” (pp35-37) in Green Mountains Review, v. 17, N° 1, Johnson State College, Johnson, Johnson, VT, Spring 2004.

VI) “Kiln" (p51) in The Canary, N° 3, USA, April 2004.

ANTHOLOGIES: Besides the aforementioned, you can already, or will be able to soon find my work in the following anthologies:
I) Forthcoming: section in anthology 12 x 12 on emerging American poets and their influences: 10 pages of poetry plus “conversation” essay with poet Laura Mullen who has influenced me. Anthology edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Christina Mengert.

II) Poem “Theater” in In the Criminal's Cabinet: An Nthology of Poetry and Fiction, ed Val Stevenson and Todd Swift, nthposition press, London, UK, 2004. Available for purchase online through http://www.nthposition.com/

III) Poem “Where” in SHORT FUSE: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, ed. Todd Swift and Paul Norton, Rattapallax Press, NYC, USA, 2002, and “After” in the e-book anthology extension, 2002.

IV) Poem “Election Day” in 100 Poets Against the War, ed. Todd Swift, Salt Press, UK, February/March 2003. Poem previously appeared in nthposition chapbook No 1 of 100 Poets Against the War, January 2003.

MORE IS STILL FORTHCOMING—to watch for in print, new poems in lit mags:
I) “Coda” in American Letters and Commentary, Texas. Issue #18, forthcoming in Fall 2006.

II) “Then” (poem) also translated into French by Remi Bouthonnier, in La Traductière, Paris, June 2006.

III) “Excerpt from In Closer” in Pool, Fall 2006.

IV) Series of pages from Fluorescence and my new poems translated into French by wonderful French poet Christophe Lamiot Enos (his work appears in collections out from Flammarion’s poetry series, and in the fall he has books coming out from Comp’Act, too) He’s translated my work for La Polygraphe, 2006. (in France)

INTERVIEWS: I love interviewing people--the process of getting to know them, asking about their writing and reflections on the artisitc life and their (and my own) concerns of the moment) Here are some of my interviews online:

I) Interview with American poet Mary Jo Bang, this interview is reprinted online from VERSE magazine 2005: http://www.poems.com/essabang.htm if it moved, it can likely be found in their archive prose section.

II) Interview of American poet Marilyn Hacker: "Translation and Writing: A Conversation with Marilyn Hacker" on Perihelion web review, March 2003 (on webdelsol site). Re-published on Sol eScene, series 4, at www.webdelsol.com/eSCENE/series4.html 2003-4.

III) Interview of American poet Alice Notley, published bi-lingually (French and English) in Double Change literary review, 2002. http://www.doublechange.com/ Issue 3.


See also some TRANSLATIONS and the guest edited selection of French translations at http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/ (click on France) plus you can find on Ray Bianchi's brilliant poet and poetry-dedicated site a profile on me and on lots of your other favorite poets.

RANDOM places to look for more on, about, from me:

--Quoted and talked about in: "P O E T R Y N E W S" in Fascicle, WINTER 05 / 06 "Paris, France" by Nicholas Manning http://www.fascicle.com/issue02/main/news.htm

--CSU Alum file where I talk about my advice on writing (for whatever it's worth!): http://www.colostate.edu/depts/English/programs/cwnewsletters/Spring2004.html

--Review of Fluorescence: http://www.hubcapart.com/h-ngm-n/434.htm by poet Erika Howsare "Reading as Ritual"Jennifer K. Dick. Fluorescence. University of Georgia Press.

--http://www.hri.uci.edu/Diasporic_Avant-Gardes/Program.htm The Diasporic Avant-Gardes Conference Program for the day I spoke on Kim and Royet-Journaud.