Dada Day

by Pierre Joris · June 21, 2006

Off to NYC early this morning for the Dada Reading & Show at MOMA tonight. For those in the area and interested, here are the details again:

Thought is Made in the Mouth: Dada Sound Poetry and Manifestos

Wednesday, June 21, 6:00 p.m.

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

In conjunction with the first major museum exhibition
in the United States to focus exclusively on Dada,
one of the most significant movements of the historical avant-garde,

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Pierre Joris, and Bob Holman
perform original poetry and manifestos created by Dada artists,
such as Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara & many other Dadaists.

Tickets ($10, members $8, students and seniors $5) can be purchased
at the Museum lobby information desk and at the Film and Media Desk.
Tickets are also available online at www.moma.org/thinkmodern.

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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.