San Diego Area Events
UCSD New Writing Series: Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte
Event Type: |
Poetry Reading |
Event Date and Time: | October 23, 2013 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
Description: | UCSD’s New Writing Series is excited to announce a double reading from Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte on Wednesday, October 23rd at 4:30 in the SME Performance Space Room. Pierre Joris is the author of over 50 books of poetry, translations, anthologies, & essays. Forthcoming in 2015 is a translation & essay on the late poetry of Paul Celan (Farrar,Straus & Giroux). He lives in Brooklyn, NY & teaches poetry & poetics at the State University of New York, Albany. Nicole Peyrafitte is a Gasco-Rican pluridisciplinary artist born & raised in the Gascon-French Pyrenees. She has performed in such venues as The Metropolitan Museum, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The University of Bordeaux, Birbeck College London, CCA Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, Poets House NYC, The Poetry Project NYC, Festival Occitania in Toulouse, Estivada de Rodez. |
Venue:(map) | SME Performance Space Room University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA |