Month: May 2013

Reading @ Tibor de Nagy Gallery

JANE FREILICHER: PAINTER AMONG POETS Reading at Tibor Nagy Gallery 724 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10019 Tel 212 262 5050 Email info@tibordenagy.com in honor of Jane Freilicher: JANE FREILICHER: PAINTER AMONG POETS from 1 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, 1 June 2013  NY School Marathon Reading Charles Bernstein Thom Donovan Vincent Katz Zachary Pace Angelo Nikolopoulos Andrew Gorin Andrew Durbin Eileen Myles Dorothea Lasky Brooke Ellsworth Justin Sherwood Anselm … Read more Reading @ Tibor de Nagy Gallery

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Identifying hotspots: Climate Impacts World Conference

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research  05/30/2013 Identifying hotspots: Climate Impacts World Conference Researchers identified a number of hotspots both of global climate change impacts and the science that deals with them. New analyses presented at the Impacts World 2013 Conference this week in Potsdam, Germany, revealed that the Amazon region, east Africa and the Mediterranean will experience serious change if greenhouse-gas emissions continue unabated. … Read more Identifying hotspots: Climate Impacts World Conference

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Ghassan Zaqtan’s Canadian Visa

Last week I was in Glasgow, waiting for Algerian poet Habib Tengour as we were supposed to do a joint poetry reading and a shared presentation of our anthology of North African Literature at the University of Glasgow. Tengour never made it because he never received his visa for the UK, & his passport was returned to him too late for a planned trip to Algeria for a conference. And now … Read more Ghassan Zaqtan’s Canadian Visa

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DIA Reading — “Rigwreck”

Here an extract from my reading at DIA in April, as much for itself than as an advertisement for the poem RIGWRECK, part of the three-part work THE GULF (BETWEEN YOU & ME) that will premiere 15 June with a full reading of the texts, followed by a musical performance of the first part as set to music for choir & Japanese flute by Gene Coleman, in the Philadelphia cathedral at 6 … Read more DIA Reading — “Rigwreck”

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Hagar & The Angel

On 23 May 2013, Madeleine Campbell & Nicole Peyrafitte performed Mohammed Dib‘s poem Aube in the context of the installation Hagar and the Angel by sonic artist Bethan Parkes and visual artist Birthe Jorgensen. Video by PJ. The installation & this performance are creative responses to The Hunterian art gallery’s exhibition of the oil painting by John Runciman entitled Hagar and the Angel. The Hunterian’s description of the show is here.

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Little Sparta Reading

Pierre Joris — Nicole Peyrafitte — Ken Cockburn — Lila Matsumoto Poetry reading at Little Sparta – the garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay [in the temple of Bauchis & Philemon if wet]  The ticket price includes: return transport (if applicable, depending on ticket type selected) from  University Avenue (at John McIntyre building), Glasgow or  adjacent to Bristow Square (outside the Student Centre), Edinburgh; admission to the garden (with your choice … Read more Little Sparta Reading

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Save the New York Public Library

Here are the latest news from the Committee to Save the New York Public Library: Dear friend, The Committee to Save the New York Public Library has just issued “The NYPL Strikes Out,” a point-by-point refutation of claims made by the New York Public Library administration’s document: “Setting the Record Straight.” The NYPL distributed this document to its Trustees at the May 8th Trustees meeting, and also handed it … Read more Save the New York Public Library

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Close Encounters of the Yoda Type…

…on the Northern Line between Euston & Mornington Crescent on our way to an excellent fish restaurant in Camden town (Simply Fish, 4 Inverness Street). Couldn’t help but bemoan the absence, one block further North, of the great Compendium Bookshop, my home away from home in the seventies.  

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UK Tour in Progress

We’re in London to start a UK reading tour tomorrow at Birbeck College. Went to see the excellent prehistoric show at the British Museum this morning — more on that in a later post. I posted the details on tomorrow’s reading a few days back, but here, the complete program for the next 2 weeks. Should you be anywhere near one of the venues, do come in! UK TRIP MAY 2013  BANGOR-WALES Friday, … Read more UK Tour in Progress

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