Against Erasure: Art and Sudan’s Sit-in
& once again via & thanks to the great work ArabLit is doing: JUNE 15, 2019 More than 100 people were killed and hundreds injured in the government’s June 3 attack on a sit-in...
Category: Africa
‘Lands in Solidarity’ and ‘Resonances’: Producing African Literatures in Algeria
Via Arab LIterature (in English) & MLYNXQUALEY on MAY 26, 2016 • ( 0 ) Nadia Ghanem talks with Apic editions and Barzakh editions, two Algerian publishing houses trying to promote literary exhange in Africa:...
How France lives off Africa with the Colonial Pact
The below is a summary of an article I came across via friends & Siji Jabbar. It is in the February issue of the New African (and draws on an interview given by Professor Mamadou Koulibaly, Speaker of the...
Interview on Maghreb Anthology in “Africa Is A Country”
The Book of North African Literature: Pierre Joris on Poetry and Miscegenation. By Orlando Reade. December 5 2013. A 743-page anthology of North African literature was published by the University of California last year....
Kwame Dawes on Kofi Awoonor
Below, the opening of Kwame Dawes’ article on Kofi Awoonor from Speakeasy Magazine. You can read the full article here. NAIROBI, Kenya–I will travel to Ghana to be present at the burial of Kofi Awoonor....
A Poem by Tene Youssouf Gueye
Continuing on my Mauritanian foray, here is a poem in my translation by Tene Youssouf Gueye, born in Kaédi, Mauritania in 1928 and who died in 1988 (for details see commentary below the poem). THE MEANING...
Greg Palast on How Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa
One of the more interesting analyses of DSK’s activities: Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa May 24, 2011 By Greg Palast Greg Palast’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace Now that I’ve dispensed with the obvious and obnoxious teaser...
Climate Risks for African farmers
Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): 03/01/2011 Large climate risks for African farmers: IPCC was on the right track Climate change poses severe risks to food production in many...
Archipelago's 2010 South African World Cup Promotion
One of my favorite New York presses is Archipelago Books, the most serious independent press publishing translations in this country right now. With the soccer world cup going on, Archipelago is doing a promotion...
The scramble for Timbuktu & the Oldest Library South of the Sahara
From this week’s edition of signandsight, the opening paragraphs of an essay/reportage by Charlotte Wiedemann. The full piece is here : Scenes from the race for influence over Africa’s ancient written culture. The evening...
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)” Contra Mundum Press
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello” Contra Mundum Press
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux