Author: Pierre Joris

2005 WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR FOR THE BIOTECH FOOD INDUSTRY By Peter Montague Felix Ballarin spent 15 years of his life developing a specialorganically-grown variety of red corn. It would bring a high...

YEARLY REVIEW The number of people killed by the Indian Ocean tsunamirose to 230,000. A study showed that 310,000 Europeans diefrom air pollution each year, and the U.N. predicted that90 million Africans will have...

Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte joris@albany.edunp@nicolepeyrafitte.com Joseph Mastantuono & Yoori Kang armagnac@gmail.com Miles Joris-Peyrafitte mjp9292@yahoo.com

Back at the end of August, just before leaving for Morocco, I bid good-bye for awhile — with the last post being from the Pyrenees. Well, it so happens that I am back in...

Been hiking the Pyrenean peaks around Luchon City, and, when in the valleys, overbusy with family matters — my apologies for the long absence from the blog. When I started NOMADICS a few months...

Some time in early July I suggested on this blog that it would be nice to travel to London to take part in the Great South London trek celebrating Allen Fisher’s achievement with PLACE...

Thought the AP article below, from Yahoo News, (to which Jerry Rothenberg drew my attention) would be of interest. Not sure myself about the project : on the one hand it is a fascinating...

For today, a poem by Töge Sankichi (1912-1953) from the book Poems of the Atomic Bomb, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, reprinted here from Jerome Rothenberg & Pierre...

Subject: [bspg-sbu] 60th Anniversry Atomic Bombings, Interfaith Gathering On Friday, August 5, from 6:30 pm to 9:30pm, The New York BuddhistChurch and the Riverside Church will co-sponsor an Interfaith PeaceGathering. This year makes the...

It may be August in southern France, the weather nearly at “beau fixe,” but we can’t get out from under what’s going on in the world — this morning emails brings the latest of...