Nomadics

Photo Al Brooks NICOLE PEYRAFITTE with George Muscatello on Guitar Mike Bisio on Bass at JUSTIN’S 301 Lark Street Albany 518 – 436-7008 FRIDAY OCTOBER 27 2006 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.$5 cover (it...

Rosmarie Waldrop & Oskar Pastior Oskar Pastior (see my post of 6 October 2006) was posthumously awarded the Büchner Prize this past weekend. On the occasion the German paper Die Welt reprinted an interview...

Just found out that my translation into French of Mexico City Blues by Ti’ Jean (a.k.a Jack) Kerouac was republished this past summer in Points : Poésie, a prestiguous new collection by Le Seuil...

Leaving town for a few days, so may not be able to blog until Monday. This morning, quickly, wanted to draw your attention to something that took more than 20 years of hard work...

Last week I posted on the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, suggesting that this was a very bad sign for Freedom (of Speech and of everything else) in Putin’s Russia, forcing the citizens...

© Doris Poklekowski After hearing the President of his country acknowledge in 2001 on TV that the bodies of many — hundreds, & probably thousands — of the people who had been disappeared during...

Ahhh! Excellent! The Mets got back into it last night! * * * Nate Mackey’s new book from New Directions — Splay Anthem — is a finalist for the National Book Award. See article...

Hannah Arendt would have been one hundred today. Strange how her work still upsets people even this late after her death: in today’s Tageszeitung, the Israeli historian Idith Zertal (cf. for example her book...

The reading Jerome Rothenberg gave here in Albany on wednesday night was a great success (chairs had to be schlepped in from Tess’ Tavern 3 blocks up the street). JR read from the China...

Nobel Prize for Literature 2006 see also recent Nomadics post