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

Category: Poetry readings

Celebration / Live Reading / Poet / Prose

April 11, 2016

Happy Birthday, Jack Kerouac!

Possibly my single favorite piece of writing by Ti’Jean (March 12, 1922, Lowell, MA — October 21, 1969, St. Petersburg, FL): October in the Railroad Earth — given as poem by Youtube, in fact a prose...

Arab Culture / Arabic / Poetry / Poetry readings / Translation

March 16, 2016

al-Hajaya’s Elegy on Rashid az-Zyudi

[audio:https://pierrejoris.com/blog/audio/RashidElegy.mp3] Elegy on Rashid az-Zyudi Rest in peace, you who sold your life And spared it for the homeland’s sake: Zyudi Rest in peace, Rashid, as many times as the wind blows I hope...

Literary Magazines & Reviews / Poetry / Poetry readings / Poets / Translation

March 8, 2016

News of “Lost & Found”

Lost & Found has upcoming events in Lowell, Los Angeles, and New York this spring! Read on for more info—we hope to see you soon! “Follow the Person” / Out of the Schools and...

Poetry readings / Uncategorized

December 19, 2015

A List: Global Readings for Poet Ashraf Fayadh, Sentenced to Death in Saudi Arabia

via Arabic Literature (in English). BY MLYNXQUALEY on DECEMBER 19, 2015 • ( 1 ) The international literature festival Berlin is calling on “all individuals, institutions, schools and media outlets that care about justice...

Man-made Disaster / Mashreq / Petition / Poet / Poetry / Poetry readings / Politics

December 16, 2015

Appeal for Poet Ashraf Fayadh

Poet Ashraf Fayadh’s Appeal Filed; Worldwide Reading to Protest His Death Sentence Jan 14 BY MLYNXQUALEY on DECEMBER 16, 2015 • ( 1 ) The international literature festival Berlin (ilb) is calling on “all individuals,...

Live Reading / Man-made Disaster / Poetry / Theater

October 15, 2015

The Gulf in Luxembourg

Auteur : Pierre Joris Musique : Composers: Gene Coleman, Chris Jonas & Gabriel Jackson. Choir Director: Jeff Mack Avec : with Pierre Joris and The Duke’s Singers Une production : Théâtre National du Luxembourg...

Book signing / Books / Poetry / Poetry readings

September 10, 2015

Hudson Opera House Poetry Reading

Hudson Opera House New Reading Series! Pierre Joris and Brenda Coultas Sunday, September 13, 5pm | Book Signing and reception to follow Free and open to the public 327 Warren St. Hudson, NY...

Performance / Poetry / Poetry readings / Sound Poetry / Uncategorized

September 8, 2015

Rothenberg’s “Sounding Events”

Poetry / Poetry readings / Uncategorized

August 4, 2015

Paul Buck’s Pressed Curtains Tape Project

by Eric Mottram, Paul Buck, Ulli McCarthy, Bill Griffiths, Pierre Joris, Allen Fisher, Robert Kelly, Cris Cheek, Kathy Acker, Jean-Luc Parant £53.00–£64.00 Each boxed set costs £50 – total prices include postage In the...

Poetry / Poetry readings / Uncategorized

August 1, 2015

Ernst Jandl would have been 90 today!

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.