Some pics from recent reading events

Here are a few reading pictures. First, from samedi le 27 mars, à 19h30, à l'invitation de Christophe Marchand-Kiss pour sa résidence de poésie : K Barré #5 lectures de Jennifer K. Dick, Alain Robinet, Ritta baddoura & Christophe Marchand-Kiss Aux Chiffons, (90 rue Marcadet, 75018 Paris, M° 4 – Marcadet-Poissonniers & 12 – Jules Joffrin)

Here (below) Anne Kawala and I are reading the originals and the translations by Christophe Marchand-Kiss (seen behind Anne) of some of the Orpheus-Eurydice poems (currently titled Be(twixt), but we will see). It was so touching for me to hear my work carried into French on this exciting level. Christophe is a very very talented translator as well as poet, and Anne really did the work--which is not easily read aloud--justice with her awesome reading! (what can I say, they spoiled me!)

Here is a photo of Ritta Badoura standing on the bench at the bar Aux Chiffons 90 rue Marcadet, 75018 reading from her long, exciting text (she read an as-of-yet unpublished piece which left me glued to my seat! Having only seen her perform last summer at Lodève on one occasion, this opportunity not only to hear her again, but to read alongside her and then to meet over dinner and get to speak to her even more was thrilling--perhaps the beginning of a friendship? One can hope. Regardless, I advise everyone to go and check out her writings--she just signed a new book at the Salon du Livre last Sunday.)

In this image, Christophe-Marchand Kiss performs one of his own pieces for the pleasure of the audience--including, at the left, Ritta Baddoura and Jonathan Regier. The evening was in fact organized by CMK as part of his monthly reading series Kbarré. Poet-performers, their friends, passersby and other authors come together on Saturday evenings once a month in this charming local bar in the 18th to hear and share work for an hour or so, then hang out and converse with the authors and friends, or make new friends! The next one is April 17th 2010, same place, same time (19h30, Aux Chiffons, 90 rue Marcadet, 75018!)

Then this next set of pics is from the night before, vendredi le 26 mars, à 18h30, à la Galérie Evi Gougenheim (14 rue Coëtlogon (angle 5 rue d'Assas) 75006 PARIS, RER Luxembourg), Tel 01 45 44 65 49 - e.mail info@gougenheim.eu pour la parution en 2009 du livre trilingue d’art et de poésie « Ondulations » (éditions Aenis) : peintures de Georgio Fidone (plasticien italien), et poèmes de Jennifer K Dick (américaine), Jacques de Longeville (français) et Susana Sulic (argentine) http://www.gougenheim.eu/

In these two pictures, Jacques de Longeville and I read some of my work in English and French, from a new series just translated and from Retina/Rétine. This said, we were there in honor of the book Ondulations, including a poem which parallels the style of writing in Retina.

In this photo, Giorgio Fidone looks on as we all read selections from Ondulations and other works.

Here Susana Sulic reads/performs her text from Ondulations with her daughter--who is reading the French version. The pleasure of hearing the Argentinian Spanish, of giggling at the symbol readings--as Susana held up the images and pointed to them, at time accompanying them with a vocal version of a translation, at other times shrugging and pointing, thus indicating the difficulty of translating the symbol, of bringing the visual to sound.

Deux Lectures en français!

Deux lectures cette semaine avec moi, et en français (avec des textes traduits en français), à l'occasion du Printemps des Poètes et le Salon du Livre :

Vendredi le 26 mars, à 18h30, à la Galérie Evi Gougenheim (14 rue Coëtlogon (angle 5 rue d'Assas) 75006 PARIS, RER Luxembourg), Tel 01 45 44 65 49 - e.mail info@gougenheim.eu pour la parution en 2009 du livre trilingue d’art et de poésie « Ondulations » (éditions Aenis) : peintures de Georgio Fidone (plasticien italien), et poèmes de Jennifer K Dick (américaine), Jacques de Longeville (français) et Susana Sulic (argentine) http://www.gougenheim.eu/

Samedi le 27 mars, à 19h30, à l'invitation de Christophe Marchand-Kiss pour sa résidence de poésie : K Barré #5 lectures de Jennifer K. Dick, Alain Robinet, Ritta baddoura & Christophe Marchand-Kiss Aux Chiffons, (90 rue Marcadet, 75018 Paris, M° 4 – Marcadet-Poissonniers & 12 – Jules Joffrin)

New and Forthcoming en français & English!

Voi(es)x de l’autre: Poètes femmes, 19e - 21e siècles (MSH Clermont-Ferrand), sous la direction de Patricia Godi-Tkatchouk

JUST OUT :

ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION
▪ My series of dual-language poems “Le Livre de Reflets” (written between French and English) appear in the just-published book
Voi(es)x de l’autre: Poètes femmes, 19e - 21e siècles, a collection of critical and creative works on women’s poetry, MSH de l’Université de Clermont-Ferrand, Collection: littératures, March 2010. http://www.msh-clermont.fr/article2121.html to see the table of contents : http://www.msh-clermont.fr/IMG/pdf/Tdm-VoiesxDeLautre.pdf

The summary of the anthology states: "En quoi le fait d’être une femme peut-il affecter la création en poésie ? Qu’est-ce qui fait l’originalité des écrits poétiques féminins ? Partant des travaux de la critique littéraire féministe et/ou « féminine », tout en proposant une pluralité de voies critiques, ce volume s’attache à la situation complexe des poètes femmes (Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Joyce Mansour, Sylvia Plath et d’autres) dans la tradition littéraire masculine. Une anthologie de textes poétiques, donnant à entendre les voix de poètes femmes contemporaines, le complète et l’enrichit."

MY OTHER RECENT & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE:

TRANSLATION & 2 ARTICLES:
▪ Excerpt from “58 Propositions on Life and Death” by Jean-Michel Espitallier in Action, Yes! online quarterly, in the V. 1, issue 12, Winter 2010 issue. http://www.actionyes.org/issue12/dick-espitallier/dick1.html

▪ “Of Tradition & Experiment III : « Sound Forms in Time », a personal monologue about anthologizing poetic practices of writing lyrically.” Tears in the Fence, N° 51, Dorsett, UK, Feb 2010, pp.107-114.

▪ « La Pop Culture, de la publicité dans la poésie : un renversement de l’ordre économique », Trans-, N° 9, l’Université de Paris III, http://trans.univ-paris3.fr/spip.php?article387 (+ abstracts in English and French : http://trans.univ-paris3.fr/spip.php?article388), 1 February 2010.

FORTHCOMING THIS SPRING:

ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION:
▪ Poem “Spring Constellates in Snow” in New Pony: a horse less anthology, ed. by Jen Tynes, Horse Less Press, USA, forthcoming for AWP, 7 April 2010, pp. 55-58.

POEMS & TRANSLATIONS:
▪ 4 of my poems in Ekleksographia, special issue on France, Spring 2010. http://ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/

▪ Translation of 11 prose poems from “A sound of glass in her” by Albane Gellé on Ekleksographia, special issue on France, Spring 2010. http://ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/

ARTICLE, BOOK REVIEW & A SHORT “CULTURAL POSTING”
▪ “Crossroads of Visualization” (on Claude Royet-Journoud and Myung Mi Kim’s visual practices of writing the fragment), forthcoming in Big City Lit, 2010. See their website at: http://www.bigcitylit.com/

▪ “Kardia by Claude Royet-Journoud” (Review of chapbook), Ekleksographia, special issue on France, forthcoming Spring 2010. http://ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/

▪ World News Report: “Jennifer K Dick in Paris, France: Sound-Text-Image: Mediums in Collision”, Lungfull! Magazine, N° 18, USA, Spring 2010. http://lungfull.org/index.html

NEW translation by me of Jean-Michel Espitallier now out online at

I am very excited to see up online at Action YES! the online quarterly from Action Books the translation of 16 of the 58 Propositions on Life and Death by Jean-Michel Espitallier that I completed in Paris as part of a translation workshop organized with the maison de la littérature. They appear in Vol 1, issue 12, Winter 2010 which just went up online at http://www.actionyes.org/ The issue includes exciting poetry, prose and translations by Clayton Eshleman, Tim Earley, Ann Fine, Marisa Crawford, Sara Greenslit, as well as image work by Geoffrey Detrani and others.

Check it out! After all, it is free and online!

Direct link for the translation: http://www.actionyes.org/issue12/dick-espitallier/dick1.html

JM Espitallier "refait la java": event not to miss!

Doesn't this look GREAT!!!!! YES, not to be missed, no?

OH, and of course Marjorie Perloff, Barrett Watten and others are here for the John Ashbery conference at Paris III next week--so we shall all be busy, busy, busy....

New: Out on Shelves Tears in The Fence 51

A new month begins in the morning! And here I am on what feels like a new computer--for I have installed a new hard drive, more memory, and a cleaned up (out) desktop. A few days cut off from the web, emails, and google have cleared my brain of cybercobwebs. Most of all, it gave me time to sift through the mail, the magazines, the fiction and critical books piling up on the stools by the couch and which are so exciting (Jacques Rancière's Le Spectateur Emancipé, Fred Vargas' (for fun) L'homme à l'envers, and The Exquisite by Laird Hunt) but also I have been able to enjoy the newest issues of Upstairs at Duroc and Tears in The Fence--both of which, I am proud to say, also include work by me.

The first publication in February in English appeared in Upstairs at Duroc, issue 11. Issue 11 is co-edited by Barbara Beck and Kate Robinson along with staff editors Suzanne Allen, Joy Becvarik, Frieda B.K., Mary Claire King, Rufo Quintavalle, Wendy Richardon, Beth Romano, Lindsay Turner, and Jonathan Wonham, and sports a lovely new layout by Gemma Rolfe. It includes my translations from the French of four of the dense, exciting prose poems from Jérôme Mauche's book Electuaire du Discount (éditions le bleu du ciel, Bordeaux, 2004, 173p, 20euros), the four are entitled Brachial, Digital, Jugular and Cricoid (in UAD, pp. 62-65).

I am thrilled to see some of these translations of Jérôme Mauche's demanding, intriguing work appearing for the first time in print. I cannot wait in fact to begin sending others out--especially after the fun experience of reading with Jérôme along with other contributors to the review last month at Berkeley Books of Paris bookstore (we're pictured above, left, outside the store together), 8 rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris, M° Odéon. (Note: check out this lovely little used bookshop if you are here in Paris--it is full of some gems, and such a pleasant, cozy spot to find an old copy of a newly treasurable book! With a fine poetry section as well as fiction, philo, old reviews, dictionaries, history, etc.) Upstairs is currently preparing issue 12. An old site to see past issues of UAD is up at http://www.wice-paris.org/courses/creative/upstairs-duroc.html and the newer, revised site is now up at: http://www.wice-paris.org/wice/free-events/upstairs-at-duroc.

(Note: Other photos from the UAD reading on this post were taken by Mary Ellen Gallagher: 1) Jérôme Mauche and I reading/puzzling over the pages together (mid-post); 2) Jérôme Mauche reading while Suzanna Sulic does some improv action-translations of his works and Barbara Beck looks on (below, at right); and the final pic below 3) is with co-reader Bonny Finberg in the center, myself at left, and fab friends and spectators Mike Dineen at back and poet Michelle Noteboom on the right).

The second publication I want to announce is a mixture of critical and personal prose as part of my series of poetics articles for Tears in The Fence, N° 51 (edited by David Caddy, 38 Hod View, Stourpaine, Blanford Forum, Dorset, DT11 8TN, England). Entitled Of Tradition & Experiment III : « Sound Forms in Time », a personal monologue about anthologizing poetic practices of writing lyrically. (PP 107- 113--note that the TOC mentions the article starting on p 109, but it in fact begins on 107). To order a copy, see info on http://blogs.myspace.com/tearsinthefence

This, the third article in a seires on traditions and experiements, is a reflection on my own relationship with poetic vocabularies, those used to speak of lyric, lyrical writing, and sound-meanings. As such, I include in the center of the text a variety of short critical reviews of some of the anthologies which attempt to bridge and create dialogue between lyric and "language" poetic practices, I list them here in case you are in search of a little reading!:

* Juliana Spahr and Claudia Rankine, ed.s, American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2002, isbn 0-8195-6547-4

* Mary Margaret Sloan, ed., Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, Talisman House Publishers, New Jersey, NY, 1998, isbn 1-883689-47-3

* Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell, ed.s, American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2007, isbn: 978-0819567284

* Cole Swensen and David St. John, ed.s, American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry, W.W. Norton & Co, New York, NY, 2009, isbn 0-393-333-752

* Reginald Shepherd, ed., Lyric Postmodernisms: An Anthology of Contemporary Innovative Poetries, Counterpath Press, Denver, CO, 2009, isbn 978-1933996-06-6

* Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg, eds., Poems for the Millennium : The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry. Volume I : From Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude, and Poems for the Millennium : The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry. Volume II : From Postwar to Millenium, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1995 and 1998, isbn 0-520-07227-8 and 0-520-20864-1

Art Outings with George Vance & others...

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Our most recent Friday end-of-week art outing was an afternoon at galleries in the marais--Martine Aboucaya, Almine Rech Gallery, Yvon Lambert and Karsten Grève. It was a rainy, rainy day (as the pic of Geo in front of Karsten Grève shows!) and we needed a bit of cheer--so I suppose you could say our pics, esp with the conceptual art at the "Wall & Floor" show (going from 9 Janvier through 6 March 2010), were the way to amusement. So, I thought I would share a few here.

Our first stop: the very black and white group show entitled GROUP: Detanico Lain, Peter Downsbrough, Anthony McCall, Thu Van Tran. (Currently they have a show entitled NARCISSA to see!) Anyway, at the Groupe show going at la galerie Martine Aboucaya 5 rue sainte Anastase, 75003 Paris, here are pictures of George Vance and I in relief as a projector projects a mobile oval, which shifts, becomes curves, round, etc. There was a smoke machine that would puff smoke into the projection line and thus make it take on a cloudlike form. This is not visible in the profile pics of George or of me. Then here is a profile pic of me, in the same projection light.

After, we got dripping wet as we intended to head to Almine Rech so instead stopped off at Karsten Grève Paris, 5, rue Debelleyme, 75003 Paris. A beautiful show was underway: Claire Morgan "Life. Blood." Work so delicate it surprised (complete with a "do not blow on artwork" sign!) The taxidermied animals or dried insects suspended in geometrical forms made up of tiny shreds of plastic or other debris tied or folded onto fishing lines, the entire space in suspension, a mastery of geometry while elliciting naturally the tenuous balance of man and nature, life and death, solidity and air, transparency and visible line. Here are a few of the pictures I took in this space, and just outside as we headed with George and his slightly beaten up umbrella off to the next spot. The photos do no justice to the mastery of this work--go go go right away before the show ends on Feb 25th!!!!

Rejeuvinated by this exciting show, we struck off again for Almine Rech, but as the drizzle kept drizzling and the streets were soggy and grey, instead of finding Rech first, we detoured again, to Yvon Lambert. This galerie is always a pleasure to stop into, and doubly that day because of the very fun word art being shown: Charles Sandison's Writing With Light. We lingered, laughed, made sentences of the descending words as if they were refrigerator poetry magnets, discussed the techniques involved in this, the successes and failures of hypertext poetry, the more financially rewording move of making that poetry visual art (thus for sale!) and also just enjoyed the lava-lamp quality work that is Sandison's: mesmerizing, evocative and provocative. Sandison made a really exciting choice by mounting his visual word art on rectangular dark screens, and the movement of the words and colors, the way the words group and shift, was amoebic, lifelike, and recalled also viral images on slides. Perhaps this is because I am the daughter of a hematologist-pathologist, but it was impossible not to see the parallels with a sense of bacterial-like infection taking place on screen. Fun, exciting, colorful infections, but nontheless infective. Unfortunately for anyone thinking of skipping over to the gallery right now to check out Sandison's work, that show is over, but there is a NEW SHOW.

By this point, Geo and I were flagging, but it had been George's goal all afternoon to get to Almine Rech, and so we got out our map and found it was now only a few streets off (really, we had hardly gone blocks the entire afternoon, but it was so very wet wet wet!!!) At Almine Rech, 19 rue Saintonge, 75003 Paris, the door squeaked resistence as we let in a big bluster of wind and spitting rain behind us, but inside we found 2 floors covering a sort of retrospective of conceptual works, by an array of artists from Sol Lewitt, Dan Graham, Frank Stella and Donald Judd to 2009 pieces by Katja Strunz, Aaron Young, or Andrei Molodkin (FYI: go to the gallery's site and click "artists" then click the artist's name to see an excellent slide show of each artist's work!). Though we enjoyed the RdC, it was upstairs where we found our bonheur--as these pics show! We took pics of ourselves recorded on vinyl surfaces in sections of Tom BURR's 2007 piece "Black Vinyl Weil Board", making faces, giggling, making the noise that those vinyl records have lost the ability to produce. There were some lovely pieces, too, upstairs, and then some you had to note carefully the artfullness of to admire their construction. In particular, the title "After Malevich, 2009" tells us everything about Andrei Molokin's work made up of blocks of acrylic filled with Russian brute petrol. I wondered what Malevich would've thought? I think he would have really admired the work, the move from his paintings into a 3-D world and the use of the materials as comment on the industrial state of the next century (that being this one). Here (above) I also include a version of Malevich's "Black Cross" for those who may have forgotten it. This pic is from the old MOMA files, I think, though this version of Malevich's painting is on display in Russia. George and I had seen a LOT of black and white work.

so it was with circuslike giggles we encountered Donald Judd's "Untitled (Lascaux 89.53)" from 1989--a painted aluminum structure on a wall through which we could look at each other and admire not only the work itself but how light and reflection played inside of it.

This ended our afternoon, so with a little hot cocoa at a café to warm us up, we headed home.

Friday: a week before George and I's outing, I went on another outing with students from the EHESS: To see Christian Boltanski's show MONUMENTA at Le Grand Palais in La Nef.

Yes, I do recommend it. There are pics and pics and pics of this show (even by Le Grand Palais: galérie de pics), but really it is a sound and space experience not represented by the volumes of pictures people like me and everyone else have taken. Here, an image of Jonathan Regier and Diego listening to Anastasia explain what she sees in all of this clothing.

And the week before that? Yes, again, ART!
Again, with George Vance--we checked out the Pierre Soulages show at the Centre Pompidou.
But even more impressive were the scenes--here--of Paris in the snowy brouillard. One view out towards Sacre Coeur, the city already so grey suddenly soft white grey, downy. And in the other direction, the drained sculpture pond along the side of St Merri church. Kids had gotten into the drained pond and were sliding about on the tiny bits of ice, as if skating, arms thrown wide out at their sides like some of the bright circus-colored sculptures beside them. And here, a last pic of a picture-taking George Vance capturing the parallels between the beams of architechture and what was felt in the Soulages work. Line, space, dimensionality.

And so, tomorrow is another Friday. Will it be an art day? Hmmmmm.... I must say, there is so much to do right now it feels doubtful, but I hope someone else, perhaps someone who reads this, will pick up my slack.

Baby Blog: getting under way for the Sciences Sociales...

As the dates of the conference Stephanie Schwerter & I are organizing near, we have built ourselves a little blog to provide announcements and info about the developping events, etc. Feel free to become a follower, and certainly to attend the conference and / or the series of readings we will be organizing throughout that week as part of the conference. Fun fun fun!

See:
http://traductiontransmissibilite.blogspot.com/

and spread the word.