KOSMOPOLIS 08 Literature Festival

by Pierre Joris · October 20, 2008

Off tomorrow morning to Barcelona to take part in the Kosmopolis 08 Lit Fest. The full program can be accessed here. My own participation looks like this:

Café Europa

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25

6 p.m. Pierre Joris, Jorge Riechmann, Eduard Escoffet, Gonzalo Escarpa,
Enric Casasses, Perejaume, Bartomeu Ferrando, Krzysztof
Czyzewski and Chris Keulemans. Literary Café.
Poetry Today. Café Europa.
Catalan, Spanish and English, with simultaneous translation.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26

12 p.m. Pierre Joris, Jorge Riechmann, Gonzalo Escarpa and Bartomeu
Ferrando. Debate. Poetry Today. Café Europa.
Catalan, Spanish and English, with simultaneous translation.

6 p.m. Pierre Joris, Lydia Lunch, Jorge Riechmann, Eduard Escoffet,
Gonzalo Escarpa, Enric Casasses, Bartomeu Ferrando, Krzysztof
Czyzewski and Chris Keulemans. Literary Café. Poetry Today.
Café Europa. Catalan, Spanish and English, with simultaneous translation.

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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.