Author: Pierre Joris

Ugh. A week of aches & pains & 90 degrees heat w/ 100% humidity in Smallbany — but I promise to get back to the blog in more depth soon. Meanwhile, another sending by...

In 1988, Luxembourg — the country of which I am still a citizen, even after these many green-carded years — offered the above sculpture by artist Fredrik Reuterswärd to the UN in New York...

Allen Fisher Originally uploaded by pjoris. Just wish I could travel to London for these two occasions next month – events anyone who can be in or get to London on that date should...

A year ago, Steve Lacy, the greatest soprano sax of his generation, died. A great friend to poets, Steve had been a major force in my life ever since I met him in Rotterdam...

I abandon sculpture engraving and painting to dedicate myself entirely to song. pablo picasso to jaime sabartés, april 1936 Friday, June 3, 7:00-9:00 p.m.P.S.1Le Rosier Cafe Free and open to the public. This event...

Clayton Eshleman turns seventy today. Many happy returns! Thinking of Jonathan Mayhew’s questionnaire & the often fascinating responses it generated, I thought it could be fun & useful to reproduce an interview Eshleman gave...

Ernesto Livon-Grosman just announced that Boston College has uploaded the first two components of XULdigital . These include a digital edition of the complete journal XUL: Signo viejo y nuevo and The XUL Reader....

Back in the U.S.S.A — more as I get de-jetlagged — but my thoughts are still with the resonant NO the French referendum threw in the face of the possibility of a political (rather...

In his May 27 blog entry, responding to a question by Jonathan Mayhew, Ron has this comment on the intentions Jerry Rothenberg & I supposedly had when putting together volume 2 of ¨Poets for...

Finally out! The complete one-volume edition of Allen Fisher’s first long poem Place arrived in the mail from Reality Street Editions (http://freespace.virgin.net/reality.street/). Witnessing the elaboration of Place during the seventies in London was a...