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Tagged: Kenneth Irby

Art / Art Exhibition / Poetry

May 9, 2017

A Painting by Allen Fisher & Two Poems by Kenneth Irby

Allen Fisher: Frenzy & Self-Control, second series after Blake’s Newton #3, 2013 ink, graphite and watercolour on paper 66 x 77 cm (26 x 30”) This painting is exhibited right now at: Hereford Magna...

Obituaries / Poet / Poetry

July 30, 2015

Kenneth Irby (November 18, 1936 – July 30, 2015)

Profound sadness at the passing of an old friend, a major poet — whose work is way underappreciated in this, his country —, a great lover of literature, landscape and music. Below a poem from...

Correspondence / Poet / Poetics

May 3, 2012

Robert Duncan to Kenneth Irby, May 10, 1963

Last year as he & his work were being celebrated at the University of Lawrence, Kansas [see post here] Ken Irby gave me a copy of & permission to reprint the following letter by Robert...

Poet / Poetics / Poetry / Poetry readings

November 3, 2011

Ken Irby Celebrated

Intellectuals / Live Reading / Poet / Poetics / Poetry / Uncategorized

October 5, 2011

Honoring Ken Irby

Poetry readings / Poets / St Marks Poetry Project

February 23, 2011

Irby & Joris @ Poetry Project

The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church 131 E. 10th St. New York NY 10003 212-674-0910 | info@poetryproject.org Kenneth Irby & Pierre Joris Wednesday / 2 March 2011 / 8 pm Kenneth Irby was...

Book Review / Poetry

April 25, 2010

Latta & Hafner on Ken Irby

Two items of note concerning Kenneth Irby, whose book The Intent On: Collected Poems 1962-2006 I made my favorite book of the year (& most necessary one!) on this blog some time ago: A...

Literature / Poetry

December 13, 2009

Kenneth Irby: The Intent On

Kenneth Irby THE INTENT ON Collected Poems, 1962- 2006 672 pages; hardcover; gorgeous Thorpe Feidt painting on cover; excellently designed by Jonathan Greene; $40 from North Atlantic Books This is a book I have...

August 4, 2023, 1PM EST

Poetry Reading

Brooklyn Rail’s The New Social Environment #869 (preceded by José Falcone’s talk with Pedro Reyes). READ MORE

September 19, 2023

Reading & Talk

Albany Writers Institute (Details t.b.a.)

September 20, 2023

Talk: Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.

“The Making of The University of California Book of North African Literature or: How to put 2500 years of Maghrebi Literature into One Book.” (Details t.b.a.)

January 4, 2024

Reading

Segue (Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, NYC)

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.