Birhan Keskin’s Y’ol
Just out from Spuyten Duyvil: Y’ol by Birhan Keskin Translated from the Turkish by Murat Nemet-Nejat Here’s what I have to say about Y’ol: “When I read Birhan Keskin’s poems I hear...
Category: Poetry
Lace Mill Homage to Gerrit Lansing
The Lace Mill, Kingston, NY. Saturday, 20 October 2018 A Celebration of Gerrit Lansing Public · Hosted by Michael Bisio with Don Byrd, Pierre Joris, Robert Kelly, George Quasha, Tomas Urayon Noel, Tammas Panitz,...
Arabian Romantic: A ‘Linear Descendent’ of Early Arabic Classics
via ArabLit: Marcel Kurpershoek, editor-translator of ‘Abdallah ibn Sbayyil’s Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love, first became acquainted with Nabati poetry in the 1980s, while working as a diplomat in Saudi Arabia. He...
‘Loss Sings’: Translating Grief
James E Montgomery’s Loss Sings is the latest title in the beautiful Cahiers Series, explorations of writing and translation that also includes work by Lydia Davis, Elfriede Jelinek, and Maureen Freely; via the always excellent ArabLit, Arabic Literature...
International Translation Day with PEN America: Readings @ KGB Bar
Celebrate International Translation Day with the PEN America Translation Committee KGB BAR 85 east 4th street NYC September 30, 2018 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Join us for an evening celebrating International Translation...
On Claude Pélieu: James Horton interviewed re Pélieu exhibition & Irish Examiner Review.
& here a recent article on the exhibition in The Irish Examiner: UCC exhibition sheds light on obscure Beat figure Claude Pélieu fought in Algeria and had a key role in...
Poet Galal El-Behairy’s ‘Letter from Tora Prison’
via ArabLit: Ahead of the expected verdict for imprisoned Egyptian poet Galal El-Behairy, ArabLit — like PEN centers around the world — is sharing a work El-Behairy wrote in prison: El-Behairy was arrested more than...
Glasfryn Project: Black Mountain College, A Celebration
Nicole & I much looking forward to take part in this! Black Mountain College USA (1933 – 1957) comes to the Black Mountains of Powys, Wales. A full weekend exploration and celebration of the work,...
Belonging to Human Time: A Syrian Contribution to Arab Poetics
via ArabLit MAY 16, 2018 Poet Saleh Diab recently edited a bilingual, French-Arabic, anthology of Syrian poetry: By Daniel Behar, Hussein Bin Hamza Saleh Diab’s recently published bilingual anthology in French and Arabic consecrates...
A Brief Odyssey of Various Odyssey translations & the lrb
In the London Review of Books of 26 April, Colin Burrow reviewed three translations of the Odyssey, the most recent one being Emily Wilson’s, here. After reading it I felt that Burrow had...
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)” Contra Mundum Press
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello” Contra Mundum Press
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux