Author: Pierre Joris

It does sometimes feel as if the bad news we are bombarded with daily — from the wars in Iraq & elsewhere to the local crime blotter — are only coverups meant to make...

EXCEPTIONAL ALBANY Poetry Readingspread the word! 5 pm on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006Hosted by Pierre JorisThe Red Square338 Broadway, Albany, NY Bernadette MayerRenowned avant-garde poet & author of numerous books will read from the...

A few days ago I came across the Wickipedia entry for Eric Mottram — after one of the entry’s writers asked me for permission to use the photo of Eric up on my site...

In my post yesterday on In Search of a Lost Ladino, I should have mentioned that Marcel Cohen has several other books out in English translation: Mirrors, translated by Jason Weiss (Green Integer 1998)...

It is rare these days that a book the mailman brings on his early afternoon round gets read by evening. But just that did happen this week with Marcel Cohen’s In Search of a...

Eric Mottram used to say that if T.S. Eliot submitted “The Waste Land” to Faber & Faber or any other commercial British press today, the poem would be instantly rejected. The same seems to...

This morning the “Perlentaucher” (Pearldiver), my daily digest of cultural journalism culled from German newspapers, cites an article by two Swedish journalists — Richard Swartz and Rolf Gustavsson — published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung...

One of my very favorite writer/thinkers, Peter Lamborn Wilson, not only has a new book out called Gothick Institutions very worthwhile acquiring, but there is also an interview with János Sugár from ’95 that’s...

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The following is the poem Abdellatif Laâbi sent to friends as a New Year’s greeting, saying it was the last one the old year had provided. Du droit de t’insurger Du droit de t’insurger...