Nomadics Blog

Assia Djebar at the Académie

This past Thursday the “illustrious” French institution known as the Académie Française elected a new member: the Algerian writer and film maker Assia Djebar. The Académie Française is a rather stuffy old institution founded...

Dr. Charles Stein Roams Rome

Chuck Stein, poet & philosopher extraordinaire, is in Rome, I learned last night, working with video artist Gary Hill on a major production in that city. He has been sending diaristic posts to Harvey...

Florence Aubenas & Hussein Hanoun freed

I started this blog with the translation of a poem by Moroccon poet Abdellatif Laâbi for the French journalist Florence Aubenas who, together with her Iraqi guide Hussein Hanoun, had been kidnapped in Baghdad....

House of Books

Ugh. A week of aches & pains & 90 degrees heat w/ 100% humidity in Smallbany — but I promise to get back to the blog in more depth soon. Meanwhile, another sending by...

The Knotted 45

In 1988, Luxembourg — the country of which I am still a citizen, even after these many green-carded years — offered the above sculpture by artist Fredrik Reuterswärd to the UN in New York...

Two Entangled Events

Allen Fisher Originally uploaded by pjoris. Just wish I could travel to London for these two occasions next month – events anyone who can be in or get to London on that date should...

A Year ago, Steve Lacy

A year ago, Steve Lacy, the greatest soprano sax of his generation, died. A great friend to poets, Steve had been a major force in my life ever since I met him in Rotterdam...

Reading of Pablo Picasso Poems at P.S.1

I abandon sculpture engraving and painting to dedicate myself entirely to song. pablo picasso to jaime sabartés, april 1936 Friday, June 3, 7:00-9:00 p.m.P.S.1Le Rosier Cafe Free and open to the public. This event...

Happy Birthday, Clayton!

Clayton Eshleman turns seventy today. Many happy returns! Thinking of Jonathan Mayhew’s questionnaire & the often fascinating responses it generated, I thought it could be fun & useful to reproduce an interview Eshleman gave...