A further review, this one by Amish Trivedi, of Vol. 4 just out in the Attica Review. Opening paras below, the rest here. POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM, VOL. 4 By Amish Trivedi 0 Comments 28 June 2013 Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four The University of California Book of North African Literature Edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour University of California Press, 2013 $39.95, 792 pp. Reviewed by Amish Trivedi … Read more Another Review of Diwan Ifrikiya
Sunday, June 30, 2013 @ 4pm Month of Moderns III Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill Gabriel Jackson: Rigwreck Santa Ratniece: Saline John Cage: Four 2 Buy Tickets Read the Program Notes After his visit during MoM 2011, the singers of The Crossing were so enamored of British composer Gabriel Jackson that we set about engaging this internationally-recognized composer for a very special event. Gabriel will compose the third and final installment of Pierre … Read more Final “Month of the Moderns” Gulf Concert
On this morning’s London EYEWEAR blog — first paras below: Norbert Hirschhorn reviews Poems for the Millennium [Volume 4] The University of California Book of North African Literature, edited by Pierre Joris andHabib Tengour, 2012 This is the fourth volume in the series, Poems for the Millennium, begun by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris under the imprint of the University of California. The first published in 1995 is titled Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry … Read more Norbert Hirschhorn on Diwan Ifrikiya
Ed Sanders reading historical hymn to 1959 with the Terri Lyne Carrington ensemble on 26 June, sponsored by Poets House, co-sponsored by the River-to-River Festival and the Battery Park City Authority – See more here.
I received the following open letter from David Levering Lewis yesterday, & think it worthwhile reposting it here. The New York Public Library reconstruction plans are really now being shown as what they are at bottom: a real estate scam. Time to take action: Dear Friend, On May 1, 2012, some seven hundred well-known scholars, writers, researchers, and teachers, alarmed by a plan for radical redesign of the interior … Read more David Levering Lewis on NYPL
5th Annual MoM – The Gulf(between you & me)MoM I • MoM II • MoM III Sunday, June 23, 2013 @ 4pm Month of Moderns II The IceBox at Crane Arts Center Visit our IceBox/Kensington/Northern Liberties/Neighborhood page Chris Jonas: The Gulf (world premiere) Santa Ratniece: Horo Horo Hata Hata (2008) Justé Janulyté: aquarelle (Watercolor, 2007) Read the Program Notes The Gulf (between you and me) continues with the musical world of Santa Fe composer Chris Jonas in a work that offers … Read more Today in Philly!
If yesterday I posted Hind Meddeb’s letter from Tunis — an urgent cry for human rights &, I think, an accurate evaluation of the situation in Tunisia post-Arab Spring — I want to point today to her father, Abdelwahab Meddeb’s, latest book in English translation, out earlier this year from Fordham University press & translated (excellently so) by Jane Kuntz, Islam and the Challenge of Civilization. This book, for … Read more Meddeb’s Islam & the Challenge of Civilization
The Tunisian poet & scholar Abdelwahab Meddeb forwarded me the following letter by his daughter Hind Meddeb, a cinematographer & journalist. It goes to the heart of the matter of how in Tunisia, the country where it started, the Arab Spring is being shunted toward yet another authoritarian police regime. This Monday, June 17, I didn’t show up at the police summons… Yesterday I left Tunisia because I lost … Read more Letter on (In)Justice in Tunisia by Hind Meddeb
Manifeste pour le maculage des affiches publicitaires Après le Manifeste des socles et stèles abandonnés (1978-1984), voici celui du maculage des affiches publicitaires : Achetez une bombe acrylique (spray paint) de la couleur de votre choix et faites un rond le plus parfait possible bien rempli – si possible à maintes reprises – pour qu’il ruisselle d’abondance sur l’affiche de votre choix. Pas de graffiti, pas de tag, pas … Read more Julien Blaine’s Manifesto
NP@TiborDeNagy from Tawil Productions on Vimeo. Nicole Peyrafitte sings the Frank O’Hara poem “Interior, For Jane” at the Tibor de Nagy gallery on 1 June 2013 in honor of Jane Freilicher.