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Books / Painting / Performances / Poems for the Millennium / Poetry / Travel / Uncategorized

July 3, 2013

Summer’s Ahead, Says Nicole

Adishatz, Hello! Our spring was busy & rich with a great tour of the UK. You can find videos & pix on my facebook page, Pierre Joris’ blog & more links below. We are now almost ready...

Music / Poetry

June 29, 2013

Final “Month of the Moderns” Gulf Concert

Sunday, June 30, 2013 @ 4pm Month of Moderns III Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill Gabriel Jackson: Rigwreck Santa Ratniece: Saline John Cage: Four 2 Buy Tickets Read the Program Notes After his visit during MoM 2011,...

Arab Culture / Book Review / Cultural Studies / Maghrebi Literature / Poems for the Millennium / Poetry

June 28, 2013

Norbert Hirschhorn on Diwan Ifrikiya

On this morning’s London EYEWEAR blog — first paras below: Norbert Hirschhorn reviews Poems for the Millennium [Volume 4] The University of California Book of North African Literature, edited by Pierre Joris andHabib Tengour, 2012 This is the...

Jazz / Poetry / Poetry readings / Poets House

June 27, 2013

Ed Sanders Celebrates 1959

Ed Sanders reading historical hymn to 1959 with the Terri Lyne Carrington ensemble on 26 June, sponsored by Poets House, co-sponsored by the River-to-River Festival and the Battery Park City Authority – See more...

Poetry / Poets / Uncategorized / Video

June 19, 2013

Nicole Peyrafitte sings Frank O’Hara

NP@TiborDeNagy from Tawil Productions on Vimeo. Nicole Peyrafitte sings the Frank O’Hara poem “Interior, For Jane” at the Tibor de Nagy gallery on 1 June 2013 in honor of Jane Freilicher.

Arab Culture / Book Award / Palestine / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

June 14, 2013

Ghassan Zaqtan & Fady Joudah Win 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize

via Arab literature (in translation), & see also posts on Nomadics here & here, and the LA Review of Books, here. BY MLYNXQUALEY ON JUNE 14, 2013 • ( 0 ) Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: and Other Poems, by...

Art / Book Launch / Cooking / Performance / Poetry

June 3, 2013

Nicole Peyrafitte’s “Bi-Valve”….

…is out! (Available via SPD here.) Writes her publisher: Enter vulvic space through Pyrenean caves & sacred stones, feel the wind & smell the shells of the Verrazano Narows. Bi-Valve is a tri-lingual sonic...

Arab Culture / Censorship / Poet / Poetry / Poetry Festival / Translation

May 29, 2013

Ghassan Zaqtan’s Canadian Visa

Last week I was in Glasgow, waiting for Algerian poet Habib Tengour as we were supposed to do a joint poetry reading and a shared presentation of our anthology of North African Literature at the University...

Poetry / Poetry readings

May 28, 2013

DIA Reading — “Rigwreck”

Here an extract from my reading at DIA in April, as much for itself than as an advertisement for the poem RIGWRECK, part of the three-part work THE GULF (BETWEEN YOU & ME) that will...

Art Exhibition / Performance / Poetry / Translation

May 26, 2013

Hagar & The Angel

On 23 May 2013, Madeleine Campbell & Nicole Peyrafitte performed Mohammed Dib‘s poem Aube in the context of the installation Hagar and the Angel by sonic artist Bethan Parkes and visual artist Birthe Jorgensen. Video by...