Author: Pierre Joris

Hassan Khader, the editor of the Palestinian literary magazine Al Karmel, fears that the victory of Hamas will lead to an exodus of intellectuals from Ramallah, the cultural center of the autonomous territories. “One...

— Some readers have contacted me about wanting to help the Shuvash poet Gennadi Aygi, on whose medical plight I reported earlier this week. I realize however that using the German PEN Club’s method...

A few days ago I mentioned Mikrolithen sinds, Steinchen, the volume of Paul Celan’s posthumous prose writings that came out in 2005. Here are two fragments — from the section on poetics — in...

MB at Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Museum, New York City, 20 January 2005, for the opening of the “Four Octagenarians Show” who also included Taylor Mead, Herbert Huncke & Boris Lurie. Mary Beach, painter,...

Gennady Aygi is the major Chuvash poet of our times, now in his early seventies & in need of help because of failing health. The email below from PEN Berlin was forwarded to me...

The 2005 crop of Paul Celan books finally found their snailmail way to my mailbox. There’s two volumes published by Suhrkamp this time around: Paul Celan, Mikrolithen sinds, Steinchen — Die Prosa aus dem...

News just in that the Istanbul Court has dropped the case against novelist Orhan Pamuk, accused of “insulting Turkish identity” for having mentioned the Armenian genocide and the massacres of Kurds — a victory...

The Red Square reading by Bernadette Mayer and Joe Mulligan on Friday was a treat, if I may say so myself, with an excellent audience of over fifty — which is major for a...

Let it R.I.P., Wilson Pickett First met & instantly danced to on the jukebox at Adolf’s Down-the-Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, fall ’67. Aretha Franklin paid tribute to Pickett, calling him “one of the greatest soul singers...