Author: Pierre Joris

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...

Here is a recent article published by Stan Cox on AlterNet concerning the ongoing saga of the Critical Art Ensemble’s Steven Kurtz’ federal indictment for “bioterrorism” — now reduced to “mail fraud.” The $256...

Here are a few more translations from Mohammed Bennis’s collection Le Don du Vide: RINGS Anchor the air to the rings of the doorsor to the ruins of the praisesThe sea fulfills youYour depth...

Ernst Jandl (1925-2000), the great Austrian (sound/concrete, etc.) poet, would have been eighty today. The German daily, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, reminds of us the occasion and brings some unpublished poems, the following among them:...

To close the Rodez visit, here are a few photos of those famous gargoyles on the cathedral. They were taken by Nicole Peyrafitte, & if I was a better editor of visuals, they would...

It is, I believe, worth reminding us every so often of the scandal the major lack of translations of poetry (& other literary writing) in the US represents. This lack, I have noticed over...