Brooklyn Rail Radical Poetry Reading with Pierre Joris

by Pierre Joris · Published August 16, 2021 · Updated August 17, 2021

THE NEW SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT#366

Featuring poetry read by Allen Fisher, Randall Horton, Layli Long Soldier, & Tracie Morris

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

Pierre Joris curates the 48th Radical Poetry Reading featuring poetry read by Allen Fisher, Randall Horton, Layli Long Soldier, and Tracie Morris.

In this talk

Pierre Joris

Poet Pierre Joris was raised in Luxembourg and has moved between Europe, the U.S., and North Africa for half a century now, publishing close to fifty books of poetry, essays, translations, and anthologies. Recent publications include The Agony of I.B. (a play commissioned & produced in June 2016 by the Théatre National du Luxembourg; Editions PHI), An American Suite (early poems; inpatient press, 2016), Barzakh: Poems 2000-2012 (Black Widow Press, 2014), and Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry of Paul Celan (FSG, 2014). When not on the road, he lives in Sorrentinostan (Bay Ridge, Brooklyn) with his wife, multimedia performance artist and writer Nicole Peyrafitte.

In the Rail: Pierre Joris

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Allen Fisher

Poet, painter, and art historian Allen Fisher has been included in over 160 publications, with his most recent artist’s book Black Pond (2020). Fisher worked in the City Lead Works from 1962 until the ’70s, performed with Fluxus in Britain in the ’70s, and studied physics, human physiology, drawing and color, and art history at Goldsmiths and Essex. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University and editor of the journal Spanner and Spanner Editions and co-publisher of Aloes Books, New London Pride, and Edible Magazine.

Randall Horton

Poet Randall Horton is a Professor of English at the University of New Haven and is currently the only tenured full professor in the United States at a university or college with seven felony convictions. He is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature, among many other honors. He currently sits on the Advisory Board of Pen America’s Pen Prison Writing Program. In 2018-2019 Randall was selected as Poet-in-Residence for the Civil Rights Corps in Washington DC, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the American legal system. Dr. Horton’s latest collection of poetry {#289-128} was published by the University of Kentucky Press in 2020.

Layli Long Soldier

Poet, writer, and activist Layli Long Soldier holds a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an M.F.A. from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New York Times, The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review, BOMB, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. She has also received the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Award, the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award and a 2021 Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. She is the author of Chromosomory (Q Avenue Press 2010) and WHEREAS (Graywolf Press 2017). She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In the Rail: Layli Long Soldier

Tracie Morris

Photo by Lisa Bowden

Poet, performance artist, and scholar Tracie Morris, MFA, PhD, is writer/editor of 10 books. She is a Professor of Poetry at The Iowa Writers Workshop and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the CPCW Fellow of Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, the WPR Creative Fellowship at Harvard University, and is a 2021 Guggenheim Poetry Fellowship awardee. Her most recent collection of poetry is Hard Kore: Poemes/Per-Form: Poems of Mythos and Place, which was published in 2018 in French and English, and her work has been featured in dozens of anthologies.

In the Rail: Tracie Morris

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Radical Poetry Reading with Pierre Joris

Featuring poetry read by Allen Fisher, Randall Horton, Layli Long Soldier, and Tracie Morris

Wed, Aug 18 at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT

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Reading

Segue (Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, NYC)

Saturday, August 17, 5:00PM

STAND4 Gallery: Karstic-Action VOTE 2024!

Performance - Vote drive - Exhibition by Nicole le Peyrafitte & Pierre Joris
STAND4 Gallery, 414 78th Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York 11209

Friday, September 6, 7:00PM

Adeena Karasick, Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte

Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt, Brooklyn New York

Thursday, September 12, 6:30PM

A Tribute to Tyrone Williams

Join us in honoring the life, work and legacy of seminal poet and scholar Tyrone Williams. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY

Saturday, September 14, 12:00PM

Pierre Joris, Scott Laudati & Nicole Peyrafitte

Lansingburgh Historical Society, River Poems at The Herman Melville House, 2 114th Street, Troy, NY 12182

Wednesday, November 6, 7:00PM

Jerome Rothenberg (1931-2024) Celebration

St Marks Poetry Project, 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003

Saturday, November 23

Poetry Reading

Tucson POG/Chax (details to be announced)

Pierre Joris, born in Strasbourg, France in 1946, was raised in Luxembourg. Since age 18, he has moved between Europe, the Maghreb & the US & holds both Luxembourg & American citizenship. He has published over 80 books of poetry, essays, translations & anthologies — most recently Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021) & Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello, both from Contra Mundum Press. In 2020 his two final Paul Celan translations came out: Microliths They Are, Little Stones (Posthumous prose, from CMP) & The Collected Earlier Poetry (FSG). Forthcoming are: Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge” (Small Orange Import, 2023) & Diwan of Exiles: A Pierre Joris Reader (edited with Ariel Reznikoff, 2024). For a full list see the right column on this blog.

In 2011 Litteraria Pragensia, Charles University, Prague, published Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-between, edited by Peter Cockelbergh, with essays on Joris’ work by, among others, Mohammed Bennis, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher, Christine Hume, Robert Kelly, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jennifer Moxley, Jean Portante, Carrie Noland, Alice Notley, Marjorie Perloff & Nicole Peyrafitte (2011).

Other work includes the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; Mitch Elrod, guitar; Ta’wil Productions). With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry, and with Habib. Tengour Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3: The University of California Book of North African Literature.

When not on the road, he lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his wife, multimedia praticienne Nicole Peyrafitte. A volume of their collaborative work, to be called Domopoetics, will be published in the near future.