Negro Marfil /Ivory Black

by Pierre Joris · March 23, 2012

2 NEW YORK CITY EVENTS celebrating
Negro marfil — Ivory Black

by Mexican poet Myriam Moscona
with translations by Jen Hofer
published by Les Figues Press

Saturday, March 24th, 7pm
A multimedia celebration presenting new work
created especiallyfor this event in response to

Negro marfil / Ivory Black.

Proteus Gowanus
543 Union Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Featuring artwork, films, readings, & performances by:

Armando Alanís Pulido (poet/photographer)
Rachel Bers (visual artist)
Julian Talamantez Brolaski (poet/musician)
Molly Dilworth (visual artist)
Jen Hofer (writer/translator)
Jeanne Liotta (filmmaker)
Myriam Moscona (writer)
No Collective (music/performance)
Julie Patton (writer/performer)
Abigail Severance (filmmaker)

Wine & snacks. Event co-sponsored by
Litmus Press and The Reanimation Library.
RSVP via Facebook.

Thursday, March 29th, 7pm

A bilingual reading from Negro marfil/Ivory Black
with Myriam Moscona and Jen Hofer

Sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program in Spanish
at the King Juan Carlos I Center
53 Washington Square South

http://cwspanish.as.nyu.edu/page/events

(scroll down to March 29)

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Tags: Jen Hofer Myriam Moscona

pom3Granade says:

March 23, 2012 at 10:37 am

thank you. the city fell in step with spring it seems. here’s from the mid-easterly direction:

http://www.poets.org/viewevent.php/prmEventID/10909

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Pierre Joris, Scott Laudati & Nicole Peyrafitte

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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.