MAY 2013 Readings + Events List for PARIS
UPDATED May 18th!
MAY 2013 Readings + Events List for PARIS
Part I) Paris Events and READINGS by date in April
Part II) Writing and Theater Workshops in Paris this month
Part III) News Reviews and Reviews News: publications, calls for work, new books and more!
*Note: event details are regularly
updated, so check back!
(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for SUMMER 2013 (June-July and August all up in JUNE) please send those announcements as early as possible, and in the format of the listings below, to Jennifer K Dick at fragment78 AT gmail.com)
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(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for SUMMER 2013 (June-July and August all up in JUNE) please send those announcements as early as possible, and in the format of the listings below, to Jennifer K Dick at fragment78 AT gmail.com)
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Part I:
MAY Readings and events by DATE:
1er mai et jusqu’au 31 mai, “Ophélie” (sculpture, bronze, numérotée de 1 à 7)
accompagnée d’une sélection d’Œuvres peints (feuille d’Or & encre de Chine)
ainsi que de neuf bijoux Or (pièces uniques) par plasticienne et écrivain AnnaO sont présentés at “Chambre avec vue”, au 11
rue Debelleyme dans le troisième arrondissement de Paris. - open on sunday.
Pour plus : http://annaoetc.blogspot.fr/
et
https://twitter.com/AnnaOetc
https://twitter.com/AnnaOetc
4-5 May all Day American
Library book sale. The Library’s first-weekend-of-the-month
book sales are getting bigger and bigger. Make a note to come to the next
edition on Saturday 4 May and Sunday 5 May during regular
operating hours. Most books at €3, €2, and €1! For details on how to donate
books to the Library, see the Book Bags
& Book Donations page on our website. AT: the AMERICAN
LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire
(line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42,
63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92
5th Mayat 7.30 pm MOVING PARTS
presents an evening of short stage plays written by
various authors AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries
6 May SpokenWord – open
mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry,
stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word.
Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or
favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil
Scott-Heron. Sign up in the bar from
7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make
the words come alive. Au Chat Noir,
76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by
David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/
6th
May 7pm Rupert Thomson on Secrecy AT: Shakespeare
and Company. “Rupert Thomson is in the front
rank of English authors” Observer. In collaboration with Granta, we are
delighted to present Rupert Thomson on his dark and dazzling new novel, Secrecy. Rupert Thomson is the
author of eight highly acclaimed novels: Dreams of Leaving,
The Five Gates of Hell, Air and Fire, The Insult, Soft, The Book
of Revelation, Divided Kingdom
and, most recently, Death of a Murderer, which was
shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award and by World Book Day for the
Book to Talk About 2008. His memoir, This Party's Got to Stop,
won him the Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Award. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37,
rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/
9 May 19h30-00h00
Paris Lit Up open Mic night
is delighted to present a special guest this week - William Walrond Strangmeyer. Bill was born in
Virginia, grew up in New York and New Jersey, where he went to Rutgers
University. He has worked in many different fields of endeavor, including
Palisades and other amusement parks as a caller, as well as banks, book stores,
the cinema, the theater, door-to-door vacuum cleaner sales, restaurants,
insurance sales, taxi driving, telephone sales, warehouses and as a tour guide
— around the U.S. and in Copenhagen, Athens, Crete, London and Switzerland. Now
a thirty-five-year resident of Paris, he continues to earn his living as an
English language trainer and translator. His main influences are science
fiction, doo-wop and psychedelic music along with the usual Eliot, Pound,
Wallace Stevens, Poe, Catullus, Larkin, Elroy, Doctor Seuss, Forugh Farrokhzad,
Baudelaire and also Emmylou Harris, Roy Jones Jr., Stoya, Leonard Cohen, Fedor
Emilianenko, Bartok, Rodney Crowell, Nolan Strong, Leroy Griffin and Roy
Orbison. Others come and go. ALSO COME READ YOUR WORK! Paris Lit Up every Thursday (in
English or other languages too – when in Rome, speak French) Sign up
is continuous all night, but first come first served from 19h30. The fun
starts at 20h. Rotating hosts Jason Mc Gimsey, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene.
AT: the historic home of French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103
Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more or to see whether there are featured themes
and readers: http://parislitup.com/ai1ec_event/paris-lit-up-open-mic/?instance_id=9260
10 May at 20h00 (in
English): MEDUSA: The Birth of a Monster, a performance and text project in progress. An international cast of 10 extraordinary performers come
together from France, the US, Sweden, Greece, Poland, the UK, Australia and
Japan, to share Act I of this unusual movement-theatre-poetry-sound and video
experience. While still in progress, the work offers moments of beauty,
humor, power and chaos, and dares to re-tell her-story: who was
Medusa and how did she come to be the monster we know today? It is a
culmination of years of personal research into the roots of the myth and
mystery of Medusa, the monstrous feminine that turns all who dare to see her
into stone. Part of Bilingual
Acting Workshop's (BAW) program New Voices New Projects See More on: www.perspectivesinmotion.org
and also https://www.facebook.com/perspectivesann.moradian
For tickets please contact : perspectivesinmotion@gmail.com
(+33) (0) 689 70 23 58 AT: Le Pavé, 48
rue de Lille, 75006 Paris (M° rue du Bac)
Le 12 mai 2013, à 18h30, aura
lieu rue Paul Fort,pour la première fois. un concert, en plein air. Deux
musiciens: Joelle
Léandre contrebassiste et vocaliste de musique contemporaine, musique
improvisée, jazz, ….musique ! Serge Teyssot-Gay, guitariste,qui a marqué l’histoire du
Rock français, au sein du groupe Noir Désir. Il poursuit
aujourd’hui ses aventures musicales en multipliant les expériences :
du rock expérimental de Zone Libre et sa rencontre avec les rappeurs Cassey et
B.James, à son duo Interzone, oud et guitare avec Khaled Aljaramani ou ses
performances avec peintre et danseur….en refusant toutes les frontières.
13 May SpokenWord
– open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue,
stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but
open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from
Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron. Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5
minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come
alive. Au Chat
Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by
David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/
13th
May 7pm Concert with Gary Lucas AT:
Shakespeare and Company. “One of the best and most original guitarists in
America” Rolling Stone We enjoyed his gig last November so much that we've
invited legendary American guitarist Gary Lucas back to the bookshop to play
again.Gary Lucas is a Grammy-nominated songwriter, a soundtrack composer for
film and television, and an international recording artist. He has been
described as a "legendary leftfield guitarist" (The Guardian);
"the thinking man's guitar hero" (The New Yorker); and "perhaps
the greatest living electric guitar player" (Daniel Levitin). He has
played and collaborated with Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Nick Cave and Lou
Reed, among many, many others. He co-wrote two of Jeff Buckley’s most famous
hits, ‘Grace’ and ‘Mojo Pin’, and, to date, has released over 20 acclaimed
albums in multiple genres and performed in over 40 countries. AT: Shakespeare
and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/
13 mai au 9 juin La Tempête de
Shakespeare. En français. Théâtre des Quartiers d’Ivry.
link
14 May at 17h30 (in
French and English) MEDUSA:
The Birth of a Monster, a
performance and text project in progress. An
international cast of 10 extraordinary performers come together from France,
the US, Sweden, Greece, Poland, the UK, Australia and Japan, to share Act I of
this unusual movement-theatre-poetry-sound and video experience. While
still in progress, the work offers moments of beauty, humor, power and chaos,
and dares to re-tell her-story: who was Medusa and how did she come
to be the monster we know today? It is a culmination of years of personal
research into the roots of the myth and mystery of Medusa, the monstrous
feminine that turns all who dare to see her into stone. See
More on: www.perspectivesinmotion.org
and also https://www.facebook.com/perspectivesann.moradian
For tickets please contact : perspectivesinmotion@gmail.com
(+33) (0) 689 70 23 58 AT : Centre national de la danse (CND), studio 3, 1
rue Victor Hugo, Pantin (RER Pantin, M° Hoche)
14 May at 19h30 Ben Fountain will join us at the AMERICAN LIBRARY
on 14 May to
present Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Dubbed “the Iraq War’s Catch-22," it's an
exploration of American culture, its relationship to the military and what
heroism means in the 21st century. Those who haven’t read Ben Fountain’s collection of short stories,
Brief Encounters With Che Guevara,
or his highly acclaimed National Book Award-nominated novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,
may be familiar with him from a 2008 New Yorker article by
Malcolm Gladwell about late bloomers in the arts. After several years as a
real-estate lawyer, Fountain quit his job and devoted himself to writing
fiction. Almost twenty years later, as Gladwell relates, “the ‘young’ writer
from the provinces took the literary world by storm at the age of forty-eight.”
AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro:
Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C),
Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92
14 mai
19h30-21h : La Mel propose une rencontre intitulée "Poésie comme
pensée" afin de présenter la revue de l'association des amis de l'œuvre de
Claude Vigée : Peut-être Les
écrivains Anne Mounic,
Jean-Louis Giovannoni,
Jérôme Thélot et Robert
Misrahi questionneront à nouveau la relation entre
la poésie et la philosophie. Ils
s'entretiendront avec Benoît Conort, poète et
universitaire. Poésie et philosophie ‒ en cet attelage, et peut
poser problème, à moins de se situer au commencement, à l’instant
éthique de la reprise, au moment où le sujet en sa singularité
transcende la durée qui lui est donnée ainsi que sa propre histoire tout autant
que la nôtre. Au regard rétrospectif qui ne prend acte que de l’inéluctable et
de la nécessité, poète ou philosophe substituent dans cette perspective le
possible de l’avenir, liberté déduite de leur propre puissance d’être. La voix
poétique, la pensée philosophique brisent alors la clôture tragique et
s’adonnent à l’Ouvert, notion chère à R.M. Rilke. Tel est le sens du peut-être,
nom que prend le devenir au sein de la conscience réflexive propre à l’acte de
parole ‒ Peut-être, titre de la revue de l’association des amis de
l’œuvre de Claude Vigée, qui écrit : « Demain la seule demeure ». Anne
Mounic infos sur : http://annemounic.fr Autres infos sur : http://temporel.fr et aussi : http://revuepeut-etre.fr AT : Café Mab du CROUS Mabillon - 3, rue Mabillon
75006 Paris (métro : Mabillon) - Entrée libre et gratuite.
15th May 3pm Shakespeare and Co Children’s
Hour with Kate Stables. Children’s Hour – music, rhythm and stories
for kids: Bring your children (2-6 year-olds, siblings welcome too) to the library
at Shakespeare and Company for an hour of music, songs and stories in English
(for all nationalities, even those who don't speak English). Led by the magic Kate Stables, mum and
singer/songwriter from This is the Kit, this lovely event has become an
institution. There will be instruments to play and a lot of noise to make! Four
euros donation appreciated AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie,
75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/
15 May OPEN STUDIO. 6pm - 10pm. CHRISTINE HERZER. Drawings, Video, Poetry. "Je m'existe". Studio 8209. La Cité Internationale des
Arts. 18, rue de l‘Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris, Metro: Pont Marie [Ligne
7]. For more information http://christineherzer.tumblr.com/; To schedule a studio visit
at another time, please call 06 43 25 55 78, or email roseconsciousness AT
gmail DOT com
15 May18.30-20.00, ART opening (admission
free) « Traces de
Peter Rice » This exhibition presents the work of one of the great engineers of the
20th century whose name is largely unknown to the general public. A specialist
in steel structures, Dundalk-born Peter Rice (1935-1992) was a driving force within the
design teams for landmark architectural projects including the Sydney Opera
House, Centre Pompidou, the ‘Nuage’ of La Défense and the Pyramide inversée of
the Louvre museum. Architectural models, drawings, large-scale images and
personal notebooks are brought together here for the first time; combined with
archival films on the construction of key buildings and on Peter Rice himself,
they will bring the past to life. New work by artist Vivienne
Roche, commissioned for the exhibition, reveals the qualities
that characterised Rice – lightness, an innovative sense of scale and detail, a
love of tactility and surprise, and a distinctive awareness of construction as
a profoundly human activity. Organised in collaboration with Arup Phase 2,
London, the Office of Public Works at Farmleigh, Dublin, and with the support
of RFR, Paris, this exhibition will be opened by the well-known Italian
architect Renzo
Piano.Curator: Kevin Barry AT: The Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des
Irlandais, 75005 Pars--RESERVATION STRONGLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL EVENTS: see
email on their site at: For more info : www.centreculturelirlandais.com
15
May at 19h30 Nancy
Kricorian reads from her novel, All The Light There Was,
set in the Armenian community in Paris during the Nazi occupation.
It tells the story of a 15-year-old girl growing up in the Bellville
neighborhood, experiencing love and loss in that time of terror.
Kricorian's novel sheds light on a lesser-known minority's World War II
experience in the French capital. Her talk will include a slideshow documenting
her intense research for the novel. AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue
du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau
(line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92
15th
May 7pm “Grand, intimate and joyous” – The New York Times In collaboration with
Albin Michel, we are delighted to present Ben
Fountain, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of the critically
acclaimed short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara. Ben is
here to discuss his stunning debut novel, Billy
Lynn's Long Halftime Walk ("The Catch-22 of the Iraq War"
– Karl Marlantes), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
and a finalist for the National Book Award. A razor-sharp satire set in Texas
during America's war in Iraq, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk explores the
gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. The
story follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one
exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas
Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and
cheerleaders. Ben Fountain grew up in North Carolina and has lived in Dallas,
Texas, since 1983. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la
Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/
15 mai à 19h Rencontre avec AYERDHAL pour son roman
de politique-fiction Rainbow Warriors
(Au diable vauvert), animée par ANNE LARUE Ayerdhal
a publié plus de 20 romans, pour la plupart thrillers ou science-fiction, et a
reçu plusieurs prix dont, en 2011, le prix Cyrano pour l’ensemble de son œuvre.
C’est un raconteur d’histoire hors pair, et il nous tient ici en haleine avec
ce roman qui mêle les genres littéraires (on pourrait parler de “transfiction”)
et sociologiques : presque tous les personnages sont gays, lesbiennes, trans ou
intersexes. Il imagine une armée LGBT qui serait mise sur pied pour intervenir
dans un pays imaginaire africain particulièrement homophobe. Avec humour et une
solide documentation derrière lui, il critique l’homophobie, le sexisme, le
racisme et le néo-colonialisme. La rencontre est animée par A. Larue,
admiratrice de son œuvre et professeur de littérature, arts et culture qui
vient de publier Dis papa, c’était quoi le patriarcat ? (iXe) http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/article.php?id_article=623
AT : la librairie Violette and
Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus
46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07 www.violetteandco.com/librairie/
16 mai
à 18 h 30 COMLE HEAR
THE Fabulous poet Jacques Demarcq pour
une lecture d'Avant-taire his brand new book from NOUS publishers in
France. AT : la librairie À Balzac À Rodin, 14 bis, rue de la
Grande Chaumière, Paris, 6e, M° Vavin
16 May 19h30-00h00 Paris Lit Up Open Mic night every Thursday (in
English or other languages too – when in Rome, speak French) Sign up
is continuous all night, but first come first served from 19h30. The fun
starts at 20h. Rotating hosts Jason Mc Gimsey, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene.
AT: the historic home of French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more or to see whether there are
featured themes and readers: http://parislitup.com/ai1ec_event/paris-lit-up-open-mic/?instance_id=9261
17th May 7pm Elliot Perlman on The Street Sweeper AT: Shakespeare and Company. “Harrowing,
humane and brilliant” The Times. In collaboration with Editions Robert Laffont,
we are thrilled to welcome Elliot Perlman on The Street Sweeper.Lamont
Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor,
strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust
survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past. Meanwhile Adam
Zignelik, the son of a prominent Jewish civil rights lawyer, is facing a
personal crisis: almost 40-years-old, his long-term relationship is faltering
and his academic career has stalled. It's only when one of his late father's
closest friends, the civil rights activist William McCray, suggests a promising
research topic that the possibility of some kind of redemption arises.Dealing
with memory, racism and the human capacity for guilt, resilience, heroism, and
unexpected kindness, The Street Sweeper spans over fifty years, and ranges from
New York to Melbourne, Chicago, Warsaw and Auschwitz, as these two very
different paths – Adam's and Lamont's – lead to one greater story. Elliot Perlman
is the acclaimed author of a collection of short stories and three novels:
Three Dollars, Seven Types of Ambiguity, which was a ‘New York Times Notable
Book’ and a national bestseller in France, where it was described as “one of
the best novels of recent years, a complete success” (Le Monde), and The Street
Sweeper. A barrister, he lived in New York for many years and currently lives
in Melbourne. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie,
75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/
20 May SpokenWord – open
mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry,
stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word.
Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or
favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil
Scott-Heron. Sign up in the bar from
7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make
the words come alive. Au Chat
Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by
David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/
21st May at 20h (Please note our new time this month!) IVY
WRITERS PARIS— Ivy Writers invites you to a bilingual reading with Deborah Poe and Déborah Heissler with translations
read by Jacob Bromberg. BIOS: DEBORAH POE is the author of the poetry collections the
last will be stone, too, (Stockport Flats, 2013), Elements
(Stockport Flats, 2010), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords,
2008), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press, 2012) as
well as many chapbooks, including Keep (above/ground, 2012). Deborah is
co-editor of Between Worlds: An Anthology of Fiction and Criticism
(Peter Lang). She is assistant professor of English at Pace University and
founder and curator of the annual Handmade / Homemade Exhibit. Deborah Poe is thrilled to be coming back to France to
celebrate the publication of her hybrid book Hélène, as the book's conception
was fueled by a Michele Foucault comment in Discipline &
Punish, which mentioned Jujurieux. As Poe worked on her book, she went
to Jujurieux and Lyon in spring 2007 to complete research, and the novella in
verse was published in fall 2012 with Furniture Press. For more on Poe see:
www.deborahpoe.com and
the IVY site. DEBORAH
HEISSLER: est l’auteur de plusieurs recueils de poésie. Depuis la
publication en octobre 2010 de son 2ème recueil, Comme un morceau de nuit, découpé dans son étoffe, chez
Cheyne éditeur, un
recueil en partie rédigé dans le Hunan pendant son séjour en Chine, qui sera
récompensé par le Prix
international de poésie francophone Yvan Goll en 2011 ainsi que le Prix
du poème en prose Louis Guillaume en 2012, Déborah Heissler se
consacre le plupart de son temps à la poésie et à la création. Elle est
actuellement à Rennes grâce à la CNL qui lui a attribué en 2012 un crédit de
résidence pour la Villa Beauséjour (Maison de la poésie de Rennes). Heissler a
reçu le Prix de
la Vocation de la Fondation Bleustein-Blanchet en 2005, pour son
premier recueil Près d'eux, la nuit sous la neige publié chez Cheyne éditeur et au
printemps 2011, elle a bénéficié d'une bourse d'auteur du Centre Régional du
Livre de Franche-Comté. Déborah Heissler a également fait des séjours
nombreux en Inde, en Chine, puis en Thaïlande, au Vietnam et dans l'Asie du
Sud-Est, où elle enseignait le français. Ce soir, sa lecture sera accompagnée
par des traductions inédites en anglais de Jacob Bromberg. Pour plus d’infos sur Déborah Heissler, voir : http://deborahheissler.blogspot.fr/
JACOB BROMBERG is a
poet, translator, and contributing editor to The White Review. He lives in
Paris where he co-organizes the IVY Writers reading series. His work appeared
online and in print as part of the 2012 “Lex-ICON” text and image project in
Mulhouse, France. Most recently, he has collaborated with visual artist Camille
Henrot, writing the words to her film Grosse fatigue, to be featured at
the 2013 Venice Biennale. The translations he will read tonight for IVY Writers
Paris are part of a larger project for which he was invited to Rennes this May
2013 with and by Deborah Heissler as part of her artist residency. READING AT:
DELAVILLE cafe, 34 blvd Bonne Nouvelle, 75010 Paris, M° Bonne Nouvelle More
info at : http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/
21 May at 19h30 Told from the
first person, Jerome Charyn’s latest novel The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
fleshes out the inner life of the 19th century reclusive poet whose name is so
well known but whose secrets remain shrouded. As Charyn wrote on the Library’s blog,
“sometimes I feel that her one great advantage was that she seemed to inhabit
both sexes, depending on her mood and her will. She could be male and female,
and was often both in the same poem.” Charyn will tell us more about Dickinson
and how he came to write this novel, on 21 May at the
Library. AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007
Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de
l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92
21 mai à 19h Rencontre avec COLETTE AVRANE pour son essai Ouvrières à domicile. Le combat pour un salaire minimum sous la Troisième République
(PU Rennes). En présence (sous réserve) de MICHELLE PERROT, auteure de la
préface et de Mélancolie ouvrière
(Grasset)Entre 1880 et 1915 (date de la “Loi sur le salaire minimum des ouvrières
à domicile dans l’industrie du vêtement”), les conditions de travail de ces
“oubliées” de l’industrie intéressent de nombreux groupes politiques,
syndicats, intellectuels, religieux. Ce livre présente non seulement la
situation de ces ouvrières et ce qu’elles font, les causes et la préparation de
la loi, mais aussi son application pendant les 25 ans qui suivent son vote. Au
delà de l’aspect historique, cette recherche permet de s’interroger sur la
situation actuelle des quelques milliers d’ouvrières à domicile, trop souvent
isolées et encore une fois oubliées. C. Avrane est diplômée d’ethnologie et
docteure en histoire. Elle est membre du CA de l’association Archives du
féminisme. Dans son dernier ouvrage, M. Perrot présente Lucie Baud, ouvrière en
soie, syndicaliste acculée, femme rebelle et elle aussi oubliée, une héroïne
“ordinaire”. http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/article.php?id_article=626
AT : la librairie Violette and
Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01
43 72 16 07 www.violetteandco.com/librairie/
22
May at 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Ann Saul presents and discusses the work of Danish-French
artist Camille Pissarro in Pissarro's Places.
AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007
Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de
l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92
NeW to list: 23rd May @
6 p.m. A reading with Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar & Cecilia
Woloch Opening Celebration for University of
Southern California’s "The Poet in Paris" Program Three American poets,
well-known and well-loved for their moving, accessible and beautifully-crafted
poems, will read their work in conjunction with the University of Southern
California’s The Poet in Paris Program, directed by poet and long-time
part-time Paris resident Cecilia Woloch. Dorianne Laux is the author of The Book of Men, Facts about
the Moon, Awake, Smoke and other books. She has published widely in
magazines and reviews and teaches poetry in the MFA Program at North Carolina
State University. Joseph Millar is the author of Blue Rust, Fortune,
Overtime, and Bestiary, among other books. His work has appeared in
numerous journals and he teaches at Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program. Cecilia
Woloch is the author of Carpathia, Late, Sacrifice, Narcissus, and Tsigan:
The Gypsy Poem and is the Director of The Poet in Paris Program. She
teaches at the University of Southern California and is delighted to be hosting
this fabulous month with students and guest faculty. Entrance is free with one
drink minimum! AT: La Pierre Du Marais, 96 rue des Archives 75003/ M:
Arts et Metiers or Temple
23 MAY 7:30PM -9PM BALZAC’s Birthday bash
with Terrence Gelentier’s “Paris Thru Ex-Pat Eyes” group. As
Terrance explains the event: “Please join me, actress Ninon Brétécher and
filmmaker Laurent Canches (L’IMPROBABLE RENCONTRE) for a tour of the Maison de
Balzac and a screening of his film about Rodin’s statue of Balzac on the Blvd.
Raspail and the controversy surrounding it.Wine & Cheese to follow”. About
Balzac: The revered author of THE HUMAN COMEDY, a collection of over 100 short
stories and novels describing life in post-Napoleonic France. Along with Zola,
Stendhal, Flaubert and Hugo, Balzac is essential to understanding the French.
He was a keen observer of detail and unfiltered representation of society and
is considered one of the founders of realism in European literature.
Marcel Proust, Emile Zola, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac and
Italo Calvino are but a few of the authors who have been influenced by his
work. To this day he serves as an inspiration for writers, filmmakers and
critics. L’IMPROBABLE RENCONTRE (The Unlikely Encounter) relates the past and
present story of the Monumental Balzac by Rodin. The film is set in the very
same places where the statue’s story happened. It also shows the international
circulation of an extraordinary work of art from Paris to New York, Caracas and
Melbourne. Until his death, Rodin never allowed for the statue to be cast in
bronze after the scandal caused by its first public display in 1898 in Paris.
Why? Ninon and Laurent start an investigation on that dramatic story as
eventful as a ‘soap opera’. It begins with Balzac’s death and includes an
imaginary dialog between Rodin and Balzac who never met the sculptor. View a clip from the film. EVENT
AT : Mason de Balzac 47 rue Reynouard 16eme.
Reservations required at: Terrance@paris-expat.com.
Tickets: 20 euros
23rd May 2pm Come to Shakespeare
and Co to hear John Smith: who is the guitar man
from Devon who has quietly become one of the most exciting voices on
the new British folk scene. Touring relentlessly as headliner and support act,
he has opened shows for John Martyn, Iron and Wine, Seth Lakeman, Davy Graham,
John Renbourn, David Gray, Cara Dillon, James Yorkston, Martin Carthy, Jools
Holland, Tinariwen, Martin
Simpson, Gil Scott-Heron and Chris Thile. John was named Young Acoustic
Guitarist of the Year in 2003 and hasn’t stopped to look back, unless it’s to
pick up a banjo. He’s released four records; The Fox and the Monk (2006), Map
or Direction (2009), Eavesdropping (2011), and his latest release, Great Lakes
(2013). AT:
Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny
la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/
23 May 19h30-00h00 Paris Lit Up Open Mic night every Thursday (in
English or other languages too – when in Rome, speak French) Sign up
is continuous all night, but first come first served from 19h30. FEATURED
READERS from Univ of CA workshop tonight! The fun starts at 20h. Rotating
hosts Jason Mc Gimsey, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene. AT: the historic home of
French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more or to see whether there are
featured themes and readers: http://parislitup.com/ai1ec_event/paris-lit-up-open-mic/?instance_id=9261
24 mai à 19h Rencontre avec ANNE SYLVESTRE et DANIEL PANTCHENKO auteur de la
biographie Anne Sylvestre. Et elle chante encore ? (Fayard) On ne
présente plus cette grande dame de la chanson française qui sort ces jours-ci
son 21ème album ! Première biographie, ce livre a bénéficié de sa participation
active et s’est enrichie de quelques 80 interviews inédites de proches, de
collaborateurs, de journalistes, d’artistes. De ses débuts en 1957 à
aujourd’hui, ce panorama offre des clefs pour mieux comprendre et apprécier ses
chansons dans lesquelles elle cultive finesse, émotion et humour. Depuis 1973,
A. Sylvestre autoproduit ses disques et ses spectacles (le prochain, unique,
aura lieu de 15 mai au Casino de Paris) et cette indépendance lui permet
d’écrire des chansons en résonnance avec son époque y compris avec le mouvement
des femmes. D. Pantchenko, spécialiste de la chanson française, a été titulaire
de la rubrique “chanson” du journal L’Humanité et a publié en 2010 une
biographie de Jean Ferrat. http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/article.php?id_article=627 AT : la librairie Violette and Co, 102
rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56,
76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07 www.violetteandco.com/librairie/
25 May 20-23h Grand Bal Swing avec L'Esprit Jazz
Big Band, dans le cadre du Festival Jazz à
Saint-Germain-des-Prés Paris. Lors d’une inoubliable soirée printanière en
2012, le Grand Bal Swing faisait à nouveau chavirer le cœur de plus de mille
danseurs et amateurs de jazz swing. Dirigés par Jean-Pierre Solvès, les
quatorze musiciens de L'Esprit Jazz Big Band, sublimés cette année par la voix
de la chanteuse américaine Gilda Solve, nous feront plonger au cœur des années
swing de l'après-guerre et des fameux orchestres tels ceux de Count Basie, Duke
Ellington ou Glenn Miller. Dans une ambiance de fête des années 50, cette
formation exceptionnelle accompagnera les jupes légères et les danseurs
émérites dans la cour du CCI. Venez habillés ou coiffés d’époque et vous
bénéficierez du tarif réduit…Avec Jean-Pierre Solvès (direction, saxophone, flûte), Gilda
Solve (chant), Joël Chausse, Jean Gobinet et Yves Le Carboulec (trompettes), Jean-Christophe
Vilain,
Jean-Louis
Damant et Denis Leloup (trombones), Alain
Hatot et Vincent Chavagnac (saxophones, flûtes), Stéphane
Chausse
(saxophone, clarinette), Claude Terranova (piano), Marc-Michel
Le Bévillon (contrebasse), Robert Ménière
(batterie)www.myspace.com/espritjazzbigband
and www.gildasolve.com Programmation détaillée du festival : www.festivaljazzsaintgermainparis.com AT: The Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Pars--RESERVATION STRONGLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL EVENTS: see email on their site at: For more info : www.centreculturelirlandais.com
and www.gildasolve.com Programmation détaillée du festival : www.festivaljazzsaintgermainparis.com AT: The Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Pars--RESERVATION STRONGLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL EVENTS: see email on their site at: For more info : www.centreculturelirlandais.com
25 mai à 17h00 et 20h30 je
suis une personnespectacle pour deux salles superposées et une
comédienne Spectacle écrit pour une comédienne jouant en simultané pour deux
salles superposées, construit sur l’impossibilité de parler à tout le monde en
même temps. Je suis
une personne est une
description « en creux » de l’enfermement, le témoignage d’une emprisonnée, le
récit de l’amour qu’elle a du monde dans ses petits détails, celui de sa fuite,
de son échappée. Je
suis une personne, c’est comment, emprisonnée, me revient l’amour
que j’ai du monde, dans ses petits détails.Deux containers de 6 mètres de long
l’un sur l’autre. Un gradin dans chaque container. Deux publics isolés l’un de
l’autre. Une
comédienne qui passe d’une salle à l’autre à la force de ses bras.Pour te
redire que je suis une personne et pour me rappeler que tu en es une. Et
toujours, elle garde le sourire.
AT : Palaiseau, RER B, Parking de la Gare de
Palaiseau - réservations : 01 69 31 56 20 www.ville-palaiseau.fr plus d’infos : www.ktha.org/jsup.php
26th May at 7.30 pm MOVING PARTS presents Roy Lisker’s
"Commerce and Illusions" (a screenplay reading) AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries
26th
May 6pm Carol Ann Duffy (British
Poet Laureate) swings by Shakespeare and Co for a reading NOT TO MISS! “In the
world of British poetry Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar” The Guardian “Duffy is
magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give
us the music of life itself” Scotsman It is a huge honour to present Carol Ann
Duffy, one of the most important and best-loved voices in contemporary British
poetry. Born in Glasgow in 1955, Duffy published her first full-length
collection, Standing Female Nude, in 1985. This was followed by Selling
Manhattan (1987), The Other Country (1990), and Mean Time (1993), which won an
award from the Scottish Arts Council, the Forward Prize and the Whitbread Prize
for Poetry. ‘Prayer’ from this volume, a sonnet that concludes with the mantra
of the BBC shipping forecast, has become one of her most loved poems. Next came
The World’s Wife (1999), a brilliantly imagined series of dramatic monologues
from the wives of famous men (there’s Mrs. Midas, Mrs. Faust, Mrs. Darwin).
Feminine Gospels followed in 2002, the same year Duffy became CBE (having
received an OBE in 1995). In 2005, Picador published Rapture, 52 poems charting
the rise and fall of a love affair, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 2009,
Duffy was appointed Britain’s Poet Laureate, the first woman and Scot to hold
the position in the 400-year history of the award. Her laureateship has been
marked by her generous creation of opportunities for other poets; she notably
donates her Laureate payment as a Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.
Duffy’s most recent collection, Bees, described as “swooningly glorious” by The
Times and “indisputably her best volume” by The Sunday Times, was published in
2011. Pre-order your signed copy of The Bees AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37,
rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M°
St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/
26 mai à 17h00 et 20h30 je suis une personnespectacle pour deux
salles superposées et une comédienne Spectacle écrit pour une comédienne jouant en simultané pour deux
salles superposées, construit sur l’impossibilité de parler à tout le monde en
même temps. Je suis
une personne est une
description « en creux » de l’enfermement, le témoignage d’une emprisonnée, le
récit de l’amour qu’elle a du monde dans ses petits détails, celui de sa fuite,
de son échappée. Je
suis une personne, c’est comment, emprisonnée, me revient l’amour
que j’ai du monde, dans ses petits détails.Deux containers de 6 mètres de long
l’un sur l’autre. Un gradin dans chaque container. Deux publics isolés l’un de
l’autre. Une
comédienne qui passe d’une salle à l’autre à la force de ses bras.Pour te
redire que je suis une personne et pour me rappeler que tu en es une. Et
toujours, elle garde le sourire.
AT : Palaiseau, RER B, Parking de la Gare de
Palaiseau - réservations : 01 69 31 56 20 www.ville-palaiseau.fr plus d’infos : www.ktha.org/jsup.php
27 May SpokenWord!– open
mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry,
stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word.
Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or
favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron. Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5
minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come
alive. Au Chat
Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by
David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/
28 May at 7 p.m.
POETS
LIVE invites you to an
evening of poetry and image,
with an English poet, a Swedish poet and a Swedish photographer—the reading, as always, will be in English. Come at 7 p.m. for a drink at the bar, the
reading will begin at 7.30 (on the dot),
downstairs in “le cave.” BIOS:
lars palm lives with his lovely wife Petra, currently in Malmö. he’s the author of three books: road
song for (corrupt press, 2011) http://corruptpress.net/?q=node/16 , chaos on/chaos off (obvious
epiphanies press, 2012) & means (The
Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, forthcoming) as well as many chapbooks in print
& online, most recently mulhouse (greying
ghost pamphlet #39, 2012). he has held a
few odd jobs in a few places, including Stockholm, Dublin & Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria, is trained as an actor/playwright, organic producer &
assistant nurse & has a slow career as a model. he blogs at mischievoice, http://larspalm.wordpress.com Carol Watts lives in London.
Her work includes Wrack (2007) and Occasionals (2011), both published by
Reality Street http://www.realitystreet.co.uk/carol-watts.php, and a number of
chapbooks including the When Blue Light
Falls series with Oystercatcher Press http://www.oystercatcherpress.com/books.html, and Mother Blake (Equipage, 2012). Her work
across media includes an ongoing collaboration with sound artist Will
Montgomery, which began with Pitch in 2011: http://delirioushem.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/pitch.html Carol's
collection Sundog is forthcoming with
Veer Books in 2013. She directs the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at
Birkbeck, University of London. PHOTOGRAPHER
Petra Palm, a.k.a SocialPhotographer, lives in Malmö, Sweden (at least at the
moment) with her beloved husband Lars Palm. She works for the people in various
creative areas: photo, radio, film, football songs, childrens books... Some of her work has been exhibited and some
published. Petra and Lars collaborate as PoFot. Follow her work at: http://socialphotographer.wordpress.com AT: Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor,
75001 Paris, Métro: Tuileries
28 mai 2013 à 20h00 : Lecture et rencontre avec Fanny Cottençon et Jean-Luc
Outers. Sur fond de mutations politiques et sociales, ce roman
retrace le parcours croisé de trois étudiants pris dans les grandes
utopies des années 1970. Désir d’engagement et revanche personnelle les
poussent à l’action et à la création d’une école alternative, ouverte aux
adolescents en rupture scolaire. Au théâtre, Fanny Cottençon a joué
dans Fragments d’elle(s) d’Anne Rotenberg, Après la répétition d’Ingmar
Bergman et récemment La Vérité de Florian Zeller, aux côtés de
Pierre Arditi. Au cinéma, elle a tourné entre autres avec Jean Becker,
Alexandre Arcady, Joyce Bunuel, Serge Meynard, Manuel Poirier et
Fabrice Cazeneuve. Elle a également interprété de nombreux rôles pour la
télévision. Avec l’association TEXTES & VOIX, elle a lu des oeuvres de
Claudio Magris, Zahia Ramani, Mercédès Deambrosis, Zoé Valdès, Marie
Nimier.“Dans le quotidien sombre qu’on vit aujourd’hui, avec un ciel
plombé et un horizon incertain, on se remémore les temps pas si lointains
où on croyait encore pouvoir rendre le monde meilleur. (…) En même
temps que la parole de Mao, on découvrait l’amour, plus libre que jamais
grâce à la pilule et à la libération des moeurs. Jean-Luc Outers nous fait
très bien revivre ces temps si proches mais si lointains à la fois. On
n’avait alors pas peur de l’avenir (…)”Guy Duplat, La Libre Belgique. La lecture sera suivie d’une rencontre avec
l’écrivain et d’une séance de signatures. En collaboration avec
l’association TEXTES & VOIX.
Le service de la AT : Libraire Wallonie-Bruxelles, Salle de spectacle, 46 rue Quincampoix, 75004 Paris
Tarifs : 5euros.
28 mai à 19h Rencontre avec ANN LAURA STOLER pour son essai La chair de l’empire.
Savoirs intimes et pouvoirs raciaux en régime colonial (La
Découverte) et Repenser le colonialisme (Payot, avec Frederick Cooper)L’historienne
et anthropologue états-unienne montre comment l’empire, quel qu’il soit et où
qu’il agisse, est obsédé par la police de l’intimité : il régule les relations sexuelles,
entre prostitution, concubinage et mariage, la reconnaissance des enfants métis
et l’éducation des enfants blancs. Les savoirs sexuels du colonisateur sont
aussi des pouvoirs raciaux, tant la mise en ordre est également un rappel à
l’ordre. Et l’auteure souligne que si notre présent est travaillé par
l’histoire, c’est que les “débris d’empire” continuent de joncher notre
actualité. Dans les deux ouvrages, elle nous invite à penser ensemble le
colonisateur et le colonisé, la métropole et l’outre-mer. A. L. Stoler enseigne
à New York et est traduite pour la première fois en français. http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/article.php?id_article=621 AT : la librairie Violette and Co, 102
rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01
43 72 16 07 www.violetteandco.com/librairie/
29th
May 6pm Philosophers in the
Library at Shakes and Co. This edition of Philosophers in the
Library will explore the shifting meanings of the concept of law.
"Law" is one of the words which we use every single day without
stopping to think about it: “That’s not fair.” “I know my rights.” “Isn’t that
against the law?” But different countries have radically different ways of
understanding these general terms, shaped by the twists and turns of history,
legal philosophy, and street-level culture. Does the French “loi” mean what
English and Americans mean by “law”, or is it more specific? What do the French
mean by the word “droit”, and how does this relate to the idea of fairness or
rights used in the Anglo-Saxon world? Join a conversation led by Gregory Bligh,
doctoral student in legal philosophy at Paris II and the French child of
English parents, for an exploration of law, rights, and fairness in two very
different languages. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie,
75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/
NEW to LIST: 29 May at 19:30. Evenings with
an Author: Fanny Howe, Come and See.
Fanny Howe will join us to read poems both old and new and discuss her work. Of her most recent poetry collection, Come and See (Graywolf Press, 2011) the Library Journal wrote, “These are poems of multiple selves and multiple eras, of oppression and the search for justice, of time’s fleeting and relentless passage and the inevitability of both. Sometimes stylized poetically and sometimes arranged in more proselike paragraphs, Howe’s lines reflect her meditative stance, asking questions, probing for answers, searching for truths. . . . Recommended for all readers of contemporary poetry.” Many of her poems have been translated into French by Vincent Dussol in a collection called O'clock and were written in Ireland, but the more recent poems in Come and See cover a landscape that is wide and shadowed by events of the 20th century. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris. Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92. www.americanlibraryinparis.org
Fanny Howe will join us to read poems both old and new and discuss her work. Of her most recent poetry collection, Come and See (Graywolf Press, 2011) the Library Journal wrote, “These are poems of multiple selves and multiple eras, of oppression and the search for justice, of time’s fleeting and relentless passage and the inevitability of both. Sometimes stylized poetically and sometimes arranged in more proselike paragraphs, Howe’s lines reflect her meditative stance, asking questions, probing for answers, searching for truths. . . . Recommended for all readers of contemporary poetry.” Many of her poems have been translated into French by Vincent Dussol in a collection called O'clock and were written in Ireland, but the more recent poems in Come and See cover a landscape that is wide and shadowed by events of the 20th century. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris. Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92. www.americanlibraryinparis.org
29 May 19:00 La Méduse, un cycle de lectures féministe à la Mutinerie, présente une lecture bilingue (français/anglais) d'Elodie Petit et Audra Puchalski. Avec une projection de gifs animés. BIOS: Elodie Petit auto-édite ses dessins érotico-porno et ses poèmes énervés sous le nom de Jack Langue. En 2011 elle fonde Les éditions douteuses, maison d’éditions DIY consacrée à la poésie et aux textes engagés; qui traite d'humanité, d’art, de féminisme et de langage. Elle prône une liberté d’autogestion à toute épreuve. Elle est publiée depuis 2009 dans la revue Nioques et fait partie de l’association Société Sauvage. Audra Puchalski vit à Ann Arbor, MI, USA où elle écrit des lettres à Cher. Elle est publiée dans les revues Elimae et Kill Author et elle fait des collaborations sur la culture pop pour Network Awesome Magazine. AT: La Mutinerie 176 Rue Saint Martin 75003 Métro: Rambuteau, Etienne Marcel RER: Les Halles
30 May 19h30-00h00 Paris Lit Up Open Mic night every Thursday (in
English or other languages too – when in Rome, speak French) Sign up
is continuous all night, but first come first served from 19h30. The fun
starts at 20h. Rotating hosts Jason Mc Gimsey, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene.
AT: the historic home of French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more or to see whether there are
featured themes and readers: http://parislitup.com/ai1ec_event/paris-lit-up-open-mic/?instance_id=9261
30th May – 1st June International Conference
on Vladimir Nabokov The Enchanted Researchers Society, also
known as Société Française Vladimir Nabokov, is organizing its first
International Conference in Paris. Many of the most knowledgeable Nabokov
scholars from Europe and North America will be rallying together around the
conference's theme, "Nabokov and France", exploring the various
facets of this relationship: how did French culture influence Nabokov? What kind
of creative dialogue did he entertain with his French peers, dead and
contemporary? What image of France does his fiction offer? What role does the
French language play in his writing? How can the specifics of French thought
engage with Nabokov's art? What legacy has he left among today's French
writers? Alongside the daytime conference, several evening events will broaden
the conference's perspective: a performance-happening by two visual artists,
Alexandra Loewe and Indira Tatiana Cruz, and a reading of Mademoiselle O,
Nabokov's only French short story, by Denis Podalydès; a film adaptation made
by students followed by a debate on how to teach Nabokov; and, to conclude, a
guided tour on Sunday morning around "le Paris de Nabokov". The
conference is free and open to all. Please register if you wish to attend. For
further information and registration, please visit their website at: http://www.vladimir-nabokov.org/ Each
day’s events are held in different places, so do consult their site AND
“register”—many free events require your name on a list.
A PEEK into JUNE’s events…
3 June SpokenWord
– open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue,
stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but
open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from
Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron. Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5
minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come
alive. Au Chat
Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by
David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/
4 June 19h30—Ivy Writers
Paris SPECIAL event with a ONE-ACT play performance by Carole
Pereira adapting
a play by David Lescot, and readings by Apogee press publisher and author Edward
Smallfield and by Valerie
Coulton. BIOS: Valerie Coulton is the author of open book, The Cellar Dreamer,
passing world pictures, the lily book, and, most recently, lirio (a chapbook collaboration Edward
Smallfield). Her poems have appeared in the EtherDome Anthology As if it Fell from the Sun, and many
journals and websites, including Front
Porch, kadar koli, New American Writing, 26, Parthenon West Review, Barcelona INK and e-poema. She has participated in poetry conferences in Delphi,
Paou, Paros, and Sofia, and lives in Barcelona with her husband, the poet
Edward Smallfield. Edward Smallfield is the author of The Pleasures of C,
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (a book-length collaboration with Doug
MacPherson), locate (a chapbook
collaboration with Miriam Pirone), equinox,
and, most recently, lirio (a chapbook
collaboration Valerie Coulton). His poems have appeared in alice blue, Barcelona INK,
bird dog, e-poema.eu, Five Fingers Review, New American
Writing, Páginas Rojas,
Parthenon West Review, 26, Wicked Alice, and many other magazines
and websites. He has participated in poetry conferences in Delphi, Paou, Paros,
and Sofia, and lives in Barcelona with his wife, the poet Valerie Coulton.AT:
DELAVILLE cafe, 34 blvd Bonne Nouvelle, 75010 Paris, M° Bonne Nouvelle More
info at : http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/
6-9th June all day and evenings
too: L'Irlande, pays invité du Marché de la
Poésie Marché de la Poésie is one of the major literary
events of the year when hundreds of booksellers, publishers, writers, musicians
and lovers of poetry occupy place Saint-Sulpice on the Left Bank of Paris.
Ireland has been chosen as ‘country of honour’ this year and will be
represented by Eavan
Boland, Ciaran Carson, Eamon Grennan, Biddy Jenkinson, Medbh
McGuckian, Maighréad Medbh, Paula Meehan, John Montague, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Joseph Woods.
Together with readings and discussions, two new anthologies and two new
collections in French translation will be launched. Two concerts - traditional
music and jazz (see Music section)
– will resound in this beautiful square in the centre of the 6ème
arrondissement. In conjunction with the Marché de la Poésie, a month-long
series of poetry events is taking place in Paris and its outskirts. The CCI is
organising three evenings for this Périphérie, the first of which is the launch
of the Marché and its Périphérie at the Embassy of Ireland on 27 May in the
presence of the great poet Paul Durcan (by invitation only). On 13 June, Seamus
Heaney, Nobel Laureate, will give a special reading in the
courtyard of the Centre Culturel Irlandais; on 27 June the final evening of the
Périphérie will feature readings by Harry Clifton, Vona Groarke and Derek Mahon. (Details below) Full details of the
programme for the Marché and its Périphérie: www.poesie.evous.fr For more
info on the Irish Cultural center events : www.centreculturelirlandais.com
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Part II : WRITING WORKSHOPS in PARIS
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5 May 12h30-14h30 Paris Lit Up Writing
Workshop first Sunday (in English, write in the language of your
choice). Drop in, monthly themed workshop lead by Welsh Poet and Performer Kate
Noakes. Bring writing kit and something to lean on. Donation 10 Euros
suggested. AT: The Library at Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie,
75005. For details on the workshop theme: http://parislitup.com/upcoming-events/
Saturdays:
11, 18 and 25 May 5pm-7pm The Other Writers’
Group – a drop-in feedback workshop for 5 euros. Bring 7
copies of your poems or prose and/or discuss the work others’ bring in an
atmosphere of constructive criticism. Socialise afterwards. At Shakespeare
& Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005.
Métro St Michel. http://spokenwordparis.org/the-other-writers-group/
Attention teens! Saturday 11 May 17h00-18h0 (ages 12-18)
Teen Writing Group Join
fellow aspiring writers in a relaxed and creative setting where you can share
your ideas and get feedback. This meeting will be hosted by Anne Heltzel,
author of Circle Nine and The Ruining. Sign-up is
required CONTACT THE LIBRARY. Event AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY
in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8),
Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69,
80, 82, 87, 92
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Part
III: NEW REVIEWS AND REVIEWS NEWS: CALLS FOR WORK, NEW BOOKS and MORE!!!
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PLAYWRITE? SCREENPLAY AUTHOR? Contact Stephanie Campion to book a reading of YOUR
play for MOVING PARTS in PARIS. Bookings now being taken for Autumn 2013 Programme subject to change. Check the website for the latest version : www.movingparts.org.uk Or send an
e-mail to the movingpartsparis address at gmail.com For further information contact : Stephanie Campion on : 06 14 67 18 58
CHECK OUT Black Herald Press http://blackheraldpress.wordpress.com/ And http://blackheraldpressblog.wordpress.com/ To follow us on Facebook / nous suivre sur Facebook http://www.facebook.com/BlackHeraldPress & Twitter
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Black Herald Press, éditeur indépendant, publie une revue de littérature en partie bilingue, The Black
Herald, ainsi que des ouvrages de poésie. Black Herald Press, Paris-based independent press, publishes
a partly-bilingual magazine, The Black Herald, and poetry books.
FICTION AND POETRY WANTED for GINOSKO
+ ART for website too:
Accepting short fiction & poetry, creative nonfiction, spiritual insights
for Ginosko Literary Journal. Editorial lead time 1-2 months; accept simultaneous
submissions & reprints; length flexible, accept excerpts. Receives postal
submissions & email—prefer email submissions as attachments, .wps, .doc,
.rtf. Authors retain copyrights. Read year-round. Publishing as semiannual ezine. Check downloadable issues on website for tone
& style, http://GinoskoLiteraryJournal.com/. ezine circulation
8000+. Website traffic 1000+ hits/month. Ad space available. Also looking for
books, art to post on website, and links to exchange. Ginosko (ghin-océ-koe) To perceive, understand, realize, come to
know; knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment. The
recognition of truth from experience.
Member CLMP. Est 2002. Listed in Best of the Web 2008, 2010.
Publish annual print anthology. Ginosko Literary Journal, Robert Paul
Cesaretti, Editor, PO Box 246, Fairfax, CA 94978
FOR SCI FY FANS!
PARIS AUTHOR’s NEW BOOK! The third book in
the Eden Paradox series by Paris novelist BARRY
KIRWAN, Eden's Revenge, is now out on Amazon in ebook, with
paperback to follow later in the year. For those of you who have read books 1
& 2, Gabriel is back, and looking for revenge...here it is!
POEMS WANTED: Contributions
are now being accepted for Boscombe Revolution,
edited by Simon McCormack and Paul Hawkins, to be published in conjunction with
Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival, September 2013. Poems are invited on
any theme, but the editors particularly invite poems which address, in some way,
the themes of revolution and place. The deadline is 30 June 2013. General
contribution information We welcome poems that have not been
previously published, either in print or online. Poems may be sent by email and
will be acknowledged on receipt. Contributors will receive a copyof Boscombe
Revolution and be invited to read at the launch. Max 6 poems per poet, and
poems of 30 lines maximum. Email contributions to boscomberevolution at
gmail.com We strongly prefer for poems to be sent in the body of an email
rather than as attachments. If, for formatting reasons, you feel that you must
send an attachment, then combine all your poems into one file. For more info
see: http://boscomberevolution.wordpress.com/submissions/
GET THIS GREAT NEW BOOK BY DUSIE PUBLISHER!:
Susana Gardner's new book Caddish is now
available from BLACK RADDISH PRESS! Susana Gardner is also the author of HERSO An Heirship
in Waves (Black Radish, 2011) and [lapsed insel weary] (The Tangent Press,
2008). http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780985083779/caddish.aspx "CADDISH mourns dishonorable modes of historical masculinity
by celebrating our slutty embodiment in a studied poetry that is
hyper-literary, arch, and punk rock. In this book Ezra Pound goes in drag as
H.D.'s sister and illuminates the modernist poem in its full feminist promise—a
gendered-undoing that Modernism promised even as it so often performed
masculinized pomp. Involved with the textual layers—the wild dress—of poets
from the Pre-Raphelites through the Beats and sounding the DIY of Punk and
Pussy Riot, we have here a feminist poetry ready for the ecological age of
gender's superfluity."—Alicia Cohen "To be in CADDISH is to be delightfully awash in
some strange type of dystopia where the language one swims in is so clear;
clever; and refreshing that one doesn't want to stop bathing in its vocabulary
that exposes the contradictions we live in and are pained by, in this
post-capitalism period. Will we escape the cataclysm to come? CADDISH's
beautifully constructed chaos urges us to embrace the complexity as a beacon
from a lighthouse. Susana Gardner is our Siren, but with the difference that
her song may just lead us to shore."—Joe Ross "The fierce, audacious poems in Susana Gardner's
CADDISH weave gorgeous forms and lithe melodies out of broken language and
broken love (for what else is a poet to do?). The enthused, garment-rending
drama of these 'intense smutty darling dreams' will leave
you...quite...cuntstruck. 'Toot allure!'"—Nada Gordon "A good passionate, ocean-tossed read."—Tom
Pickard
OUT NOW online: DIAGRAM your way,
featuring our Essay Prize Winner and a whole lot of other excellence. The new
issue is 13.2. Find it here: http://thediagram.com. She
includes: TEXT BY: [C. Dylan Bassett] [Monica Berlin & Beth Marzoni] [A. M.
Brant] [Callista Buchen] [Adam Day] [Meryl DePasquale] [Kathleen Heil] [Nora
Hickey] [Rosalie Moffett] [Andy Mozina] [Judith Nichols] [Colleen O'Brien]
[John Proctor] [Levi Rubeck] [Xenia Schiller] [Susan Tacent] [Eszter Takacs]
[Leia Penina Wilson] [Monika Zobel] REVIEWS: [Tony Mancus on Cynthia
Arrieu-King] [P. R. Griffis on Aisha Sabatini Sloan] [on Susan Steinberg] [Adam
Kullberg on Steve Tomasula] & SCHEMATICS: [Diagrammatic Representation of
an Electrode Assembly Implanted within the Brain and Anchored to the Skull]
[Fig. 20-19 and Fig 20-20] [Fig. 257. —Detachment of the Retina, Showing a
Large Tear. Fig. 258. —The Same Fundus as Shown in Fig. 257, after
Electrocoagulation Operation.] [A Fracture at the Ankle Had Failed to Heal.]
[More Ways of Filling a Hole Partially (a, b) or Completely (c, d).] [The Raw
Materials of Collective Survival] [Schematic Representation of a Thick
Accretion Disc around a Giant Black Hole with the Formation of Jets] [The
Space-Time Continuum of Special Relativity]
NEW BOOK “Diary of Use”
is out now! This
collection of poems by J. Vera Lee
launches from taut opening lines like "A songbird inside an
elephant," "A cloud broken by wire," and "The waves are
suede cutlets." Lee is a writer who lives in Honolulu; she is also at work
on a novel about translating Emily Dickinson's poetry into Korean. Hailed by poet-critic Paul Naylor as a collection of
poems that "entangle and untangle themselves with and from the world they
abide in" and by poet-translator Don Mee Choi as "a tiny world of
curious beauty and intoxicating chatter, a crystallized world of
incompleteness." Readers will appreciate the visual and meditative push
and pull in these poems. Diary of Use is now available for purchase at www.tinfishpress.com or www.spd.books.org. You can view the sample poem "The waves are
suede cutlets" from the book at http://tinfishpress.com/?projects=diary-of-use.
SUBMIT STORIES and POEMS: Enter
your story or poems to Lit POP by May
31st, and receive a free year subscription to Matrix
Magazine (a 25 dollar value)! This year’s judges are the
acclaimed writers Eileen Myles (Poetry)
and Sheila Heti (Fiction)!
The POP Montreal
International Music Festival and Matrix
Magazine have once again joined forces to rock your literary
world with Canada's most innovative and exciting literary competition. We are
looking for writing that really pops. So if you can bring the noise with poetry
and/or short fiction, it’s time to smash some bottles and trash some hotels
(but not really though). If you have what it takes, you will get your work
published in Matrix, and get free travel to POP Montreal for a night in your
honour. The winners, one from each category, will receive a round-trip ticket
to POP Montreal from September 25 - 29, 2013, a VIP pass to the Pop Montreal
Festival, free accommodation at a bed and breakfast, fall publication in Matrix
Magazine with full honorarium, and presentation at a special Matrix Lit POP
event during the festival. This contest is open to residents of Canada and the
United States. The deadline for all submissions is June 30, 2013. Winners will
be notified in August. Poets are asked to send no more than 5 poems; fiction
writers should send stories of no more than 3000 words. Each entry is 25$ and
entries and entry fees should be mailed to Matrix Publications, 1400 de
Maisonneuve Blvd W., LB 658, Montreal QC, H3G 1M8. Please include your email
address. Cheques or money orders should be made out to "Matrix
Publications." PayPal is also available. Multiple entries are welcome.
Entries can also be emailed to Litpop2013@gmail.com and will
be considered valid once payment is verified. Full contest details can be found
at http://www.matrixmagazine.org/litpop/
OUT IN MAY: PRE ORDER this
NEW BOOK: Flesh a long
poem by Paul Stubbs Black Herald Press, 20 May 2013
introduction by Ingrid Soren 130×170 – 54 pages
- 10 € / £ 8.50 / $13 ISBN
978-2-919582-05-1 http://blackheraldpress.wordpress.com/books/flesh-paul-stubbs/
The book, to be released on
May 20th, can be pre-ordered here:
SUBSCRIBE!
PREPARE TO SUBIT! TO: The Black Herald – 4 Literary
magazine – Revue de literature Issue #4 – September 2013 – Septembre
2013, 160×220 – 15 € Before sending
any work, please read our submissions guidelines.
TRANSLATORS: submit books or book
extracts of translations of books (novels, poetry, etc) to TWO LINES press: http://catranslation.org/submission-login
for full guidelines. They are looking for books, extracts from books and more.
Run by a great translation center, this new press is really an exciting one to
get involved with!
NEIL SHEPHARD, Poet, announces “For those with a Kindle or a Nook or some other App
that accesses the eBook-- I'm delighted to announce that Northampton House
Press (VA) will reprint my four Mid-List Press print-books as eBooks. We're
taking them one at a time, starting with the oldest, SCAVENGING THE COUNTRY FOR
A HEARTBEAT (First Book Award, 1993), which is now available,
electronically, from Barnes & Noble or Amazon. (For
those of you without the technology, you can still order the book in
paperback.) If you purchase the eBook, please let me know how you like it in
the electronic format. And if you enjoy it enough to write a short review on
Amazon or B&N website, I'll be a happy man.” If you recall his sabbatical
in Paris a few years ago and his readings then, you will really be delighted to
get ahold of ALL of his new and old works!
SEND POETRY for: Boston
Review Poetry Contest 2013,
Deadline: June 3, 2013, Prize: $1,500 plus publication, Judge: Linda Gregerson
The 2013 Boston Review Poetry Contest deadline is only one
month away! Enter by June 3 for a chance to win $1,500 and be published in the
magazine besides such luminaries as John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, Jean
Valentine, and Dara Weir. Award-winning poet Linda Gregerson is this year's
contest judge. Every contest entrant receives a complimentary six-month
subscription to the magazine. For complete details and to enter online, visit: http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/index.php#Sixteenth
WILLIAM WALTZ’s NEW BOOK—selected
for publication by the 2012 Cleveland State Poetry Center Open Competition, the
book, Adventures in the Lost Interiors of
America, is out now and available
to interested parties. To order: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780986025716/default.aspx
and also http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/openbook/
and also http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/openbook/
AMPERSAN BOOKS ANNOUNCES: We are
proud to announce the release of our newest Bloody
Fine Chapbook: Ear to the Wall by
Carrie Causey. This little collection is not only, in the words of poet
Rick Hiles, "immensely powerful, dream-haunted and river-wise," but
is also a stunning achievement of book design wizardry. Ear to the Wall captures the awe,
terror, and tension of a metamorphosis underway. Carrying both a child-like
love of place and family, as well as a deep curiosity toward the dark, its
voices play on the other side of the wall–the realm of memory, dreams, and
ecstatic travel. Intensely alone, observant, surrounded by the ghosts of family
and personal lore, speakers cover their fear with imaginative power. A girl
conjures up a woman and a woman conjures up a child; purgatories, superstitions
and apocalyptic visions blend with familiar images of pin cushions and
stairwells, bedroom mirrors and backyards. Read some excerpts, see people say
nice things, and pick up your copy at Ampersand
Books.
The Aesthetica Creative Writing
contest is now open for entry, offering both existing and aspiring writers the chance to showcase
their work to a wider, international audience. Now in its sixth year, the
competition celebrates creative writing and nurtures talent, inviting writers
to submit imaginative work that pushes the boundaries of the two categories for
entry: Poetry and Fiction. Submissions previously published elsewhere are
accepted, and the deadline is 31 August 2013. The selection of fantastic prizes includes: ·
£500 prize money – Poetry winner · £500 prize money – Short Fiction winner · Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual ·
Complimentary copy of the Aesthetica Creative
Writing Annual · A selection of books from competition partners For more
information please visit: www.aestheticamagazine.com/creativewriting To hear more about the Aesthetica Creative Writing
Competition, please contact: Sophie Newstead, Aesthetica Magazine, PO Box 371, York, YO23 1WL, England, Tel: 01904 479168 www.aestheticamagazine.com
