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Tagged: Poems for the Millennium

April 2, 2015

Poems for the Millennium, volume 5: Barbaric Vast & Wild…

…just out from Black Widow Press! POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM, VOLUME 5: Barbaric Vast & Wild: An Assemblage of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present Edited with commentaries by Jerome Rothenberg and...

Anthology / Book Review

November 8, 2013

RainTaxi Review

POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM Volume Four: North African Literature Edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour multiple translators University of California Press ($39.95) by Brooke Horvath The first two volumes of Poems for the Millenniumanthologized...

June 30, 2013

Another Review of Diwan Ifrikiya

A further review, this one by Amish Trivedi, of Vol. 4 just out in the Attica Review. Opening paras below, the rest here. POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM, VOL. 4 By Amish Trivedi 0 Comments 28 June...

Anthology / Intellectuals / Interview / Literary Magazines & Reviews / Literature / Poetry

March 16, 2010

Kaurab Magazine: Rothenberg Interview & Millennium Anthology Review

The latest installment of the English edition of the Bengali online literary magazine Kaurab has an lovely interview of Jerome Rothenberg by Mark Weiss as well as an excellent review of volume one of...

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.