“For Orpheus”
A choral piece by composer William Brooks, commissioned by The Crossing as a part of “Jeff Quartets”, a concert in memory of Jeff Dinsmore. Original poem by Pierre Joris, also commissioned by The Crossing. Here...
Category: Poetry
Just Out: “Canto Diurno”!
Canto Diurno, my Selected Poems (1972-2012) in French (translations coordinated by Jean Portante) and with a foreword by Charles Bernstein, was published this month by Le Castor Astral in their “Les Passeurs d’Inuits” series. Many...
Abdellatif Laâbi’s “In Praise of Defeat”
Archipelago books — maybe right now the finest US press truly turned toward & tuned in to the world beyond these Benighted States — has just released a gorgeous 800-page bilingual tome of the Moroccan poet...
For Tom Raworth (July 19, 1938 – February 8, 2017)…
… poet, traveler, publisher, performer, friend, fastest pen-in-cheeck reader in the East & the West, teacher, quiet hurricane, mover, inspirer. Travel well, my friend, you who always knew how to move with grace through the barzakhs of...
Resist much, Obey Little
“we can’t build a wall. we can only spout pure water again and again and drown his lies.” -Eileen Myles 340 poets, 730 pages. Coming in mid-February. For more information, go to: http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/resist-much-obey-little.html
Reading List 2016
I was asked to write this piece in late December for the January issue of the Harriet blog The Reading List, a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog, as I had Celan prose translations in the January...
Videos from 2017 Poetry Project Marathon: Yau, Peyrafitte, Warsh, Waldman, Mekas, Moore, Joris, Morris
All videos by Pierre Joris — except the Pierre Joris one, which is by Nicole Peyrafitte .
Charles Bernstein: Outside of Tune, Inside of Time
Charles Bernstein’s response / closing talk at the Outside-in / Inside-out conference in Glasgow this past October. Inspired by the recently published fifth volume of Poems for the Millennium, Barbaric Vast & Wild: A...
James Koller reads “The Bone Show”
Bertie Koller, son of poet James Koller (1936-2014), sent the following letter to family & friends a few days back to announce the beginning of a project involving publishing online his recordings of his father’s collected...
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“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