Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.

Category: Celebration

Arab Culture / Celebration / Middle East / Poet / Prose

February 9, 2014

Etel Adnan Named ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’

Very happy to hear that Etel Adnan, a gerat writer & good friend, was thus honored by the French. Marcy Qualey just posted the info on her Arab Literature (in English) blog, which I...

Celebration / Essays / European History / Homage / Poetry / Radio / Translation

December 27, 2013

75 Years Ago Osip Mandelstam died

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam — О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м — was born January 15 1891 & died 75 years ago today on December 27, 1938 in Siberia at a transit camp to the Gulag where Stalin had sent him...

Book Award / Celebration / Paul Celan / Poetics / Translation

December 3, 2013

“Meridian” Translation awarded Scaglione Prize

Here’s what the jury had to say about their choice: Paul Celan’s The Meridian was originally delivered as an acceptance speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry, which had honored him in...

Arab Culture / Celebration / Cultural Studies / Essays / Jewish Culture / Mashreq / Middle East / Philosophy / Poetry / Translation

October 25, 2013

Celebrate Ammiel Alcalay’s “After Jews and Arabs”

Celebration / Europe / European History / Homage / Language

September 20, 2013

Jacob Grimm — Tales &/of Words

The great German philologist Jacob Grimm died 150 years ago today. If you like dictionaries, you should check out what is still he greatest German language Wörterbuch — now online & available for free,...

Celebration / Language / Middle East / Obituaries / Painting / Palestine / Palestinian people / Poetry / Translation

August 9, 2013

Mahmood Darwish, Five Years Already

Last night, just before falling asleep I was reading in Pascal Quignard’s Sur le jadis (volume 2 of his Dernier Royaume series) & came across the following sentence: “C’est une plaie qui cherche son...

Celebration / Poet / Poetry readings / Uncategorized

July 18, 2013

Happy 80th B-Day, Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Celebration / Poetry

February 10, 2013

Steve Dalachinsky Celebrates Jayne Cortez

if the drum is a woman she said: “if the drum is a woman don’t abuse your drum” Jayne Cortez searches for the fountain of truth along King’s Highway up King’s...

Celebration / Improvisation / Jazz / Music / Poetry

February 9, 2013

Steve Dalachinsky Celebrates Butch Morris

Conduction # Infinity (Out of Reach but Never Out of Touch) 1. Butch: his mischievous smile > stern look > open laugh > dapper apparel >a real dandy > like back in the days...

Arab Culture / Book Launch / Celebration / Literature / Maghreb / Maghrebi Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Prose / Translation

December 1, 2012

Diwan Iffrikyia is Here!

Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature Pierre Joris (Editor), Habib Tengour (Editor) order HERE In this fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour...

January 4, 2024

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.