… on March 31, & left eso mundo in April 1998. A day, thus, on which to take time to reread a few of Paz’s poems in Eliot Weinberger’s excellent translations, & probably an essay or so. On the day of his passing I was in Berkeley & wrote the following poem, in memoriam: 6:30 am on terrace of the French Hotel in Berkeley, reading the New York … Read more Octavio Paz, b. 100 Years ago today…
Master Class with Pierre Joris Class Date: Saturday, April 26, 2014 Time: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. CST Duration: 1 day (class meets once, for 3 hrs.) Instructor: Pierre Joris Location: Online Description: Study with poet Pierre Joris in this one-day online class. “Writing translation / translating writing” inverts the traditional relationship of original text & translated copy & reinscribes the activity of translation as core process of the act of writing. Students will be … Read more “Writing translation / translating writing” Master Class
Today is the 100th B-day of the great Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) &, by a quirk Hrabal would have approved of, yesterday the post man brought Hrabal’s Harlequin’s Millions, translated by Stacey Knecht & published by that ever excellent press, Archipelago Books. One of the most subversive figures of Czech — actually of East European, & even plainly of European mi-century literature — Hrabal is the ultimate gabber, … Read more Happy Hundredth Hrabal!
The L.A. Review of Books just published a superb homage to recently deceased poet Juan Gelman by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez &Katherine M. Hedeen. Opening paras below — for the whole essay, click here. Juan Gelman or “about a truth that didn’t believe in death.” March 23rd, 2014 The Spanish language edition of this article is available immediately below the English. We also present selections of Juan Gelman’s poetry below, in both Spanish … Read more Homage to Juan Gelman
In Modernist Revolutions.Paradigms of the New and Circulations of the Word in American Poetry: Journées d’études internationales organisées par Clément Oudart dans le cadre de “Poéthiques” (laboratoire Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes, axe 5), Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail, 16-17 janvier 2014. Lectures de poésies américaines et françaises contemporaines : – extraits de “A Prank of Georges” (2010) de Abigail Lange et Thalia Field, lus par Abigail Lang, Elizabeth Willis et Pascal Poyet, – … Read more BILINGUAL POETRY READING : ABIGAIL LANG, ELIZABETH WILLIS, RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS
Last week I posted a poem of Michael Speier’s & a note on his work. Check it out here. Below a second poem I translated — & if you are in the DC area you can hear Michael read these & other poems, tomorrow, Wednesday: Georgetown University Department of German You are cordially invited to a Poetry Reading with Michael Speier when: Wednesday, March 26, 5:00-6:30 pm, where: ICC 450 … Read more Michael Speier: D.C. Reading
LONG POEMS IN OUR TIME: NUMBERS, GENRES, ENCOUNTERS / RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS Long Poems in our Time: Numbers, Genres, Encounters -with emphasis on the work of H. D. / Rachel Blau Duplessis. In Modernist Revolutions. Paradigms of the New and Circulations of the Word in American Poetry, journées d’études internationales organisées par Clément Oudart dans le cadre de “Poéthiques” (laboratoire Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes, axe 5), Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail, 16-17 … Read more Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Long Poem
via Arab Literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on MARCH 23, 2014 PEN International, which has investigated Hazek’s case,also came out last week with an action appeal on Hazek’s behalf. In a statement, the organization said: PEN International protests the two-year prison sentence handed down to Egyptian poet Omar Hazek, who has been held in custody since his arrest in early December 2013 for taking part in a protest. Omar Hazek was held … Read more In Support of Omar Hazek
Marjorie Perloff The Last Hapsburg Poet: Paul Celan’s Love Poetry and the Limits of Language Wednesday, March 19, 6:30pm Martin E. Segal Theatre Paul Celan is usually regarded as the quintessential Holocaust poet—a poet whose mature years were spent in France, but who wrote his poetry, not in French, but in his native German—a German he so resented as the language of his oppressors that he had to reinvent … Read more Today in NYC: Marjorie Perloff on Paul Celan
Check out the new issue of PEEP / SHOW, featuring the visual sequence o r b i t l i m i t s by Lori Anderson Moseman, introduced by Nicole Peyrafitte who writes: Lori Anderson Moseman’s compositions always offer particularized insights into the familiar… the center mass is always deeply felt —purposely, playfully, thoughtfully, consciously & unconsciously located outside the expected body. [ctd here].