{"id":1039,"date":"2009-04-07T21:09:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T01:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2009-04-07T21:09:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T01:09:30","slug":"one-busy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/one-busy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"One busy  week&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, indeed, that was one busy week:\u00a0 after picking up Habib Tengour at Newark airport early Sunday afternoon (with about an hour extra time in customs thanks to his Arab passport), we made it in good time to the Bowery Poetry project for the <em>Poems for the Millennium volume 3<\/em> presentation &amp; reading, with co-editors Jerome Rothenberg &amp; Jeffrey Robinson, Bob Holman, Anne Waldmann, Cecilia Vicu\u00f1a, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Peyrafitte &amp; myself. Post which, HT &amp; I hightailed it back up to Albany where on Monday &amp; Tuesday, Habib &amp; I gave a talk as dialogue on the <em>State of Maghrebian Literature Today<\/em>, a poetry reading (HT in French with me reading English translations) &amp; a discussion on translation in my grad seminar. Wednesday morning we drove to Villanova University in Villanova, a suburb of Philly, for the <em>Mirror Images<\/em> Arab &amp; Islamic Culture conference. Several movies, talks &amp; one keynote (by Juan Cole) later, we headed to New York, just in time to catch Jennifer Bartlett &amp; Ron Silliman at BPC. Sunday evening a final event for Habib&#8217; s last day in the USA \u2014 Jerry Rothenberg reading at the Zinc Bar \u2014 before heading back to Paris on Monday. No time to give any detailed accounts of the events, but here&#8217;s a little chronological media gallery \u2014 enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_1041\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1041\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1041 lazyload\" title=\"dsc02494\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc02494-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"JR &amp; JR @ BPC celebrating Millennium Vol 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JR &amp; JR @ BPC celebrating Millennium Vol 3<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1043\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1043\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1043 lazyload\" title=\"img_1172\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_1172-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"HT &amp; PJ during the Albany Reading\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/199;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HT &amp; PJ during the Albany Reading<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1044\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1044\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1044 lazyload\" title=\"img_1171\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_1171-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Reading the Translation\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/199;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reading the Translation<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1045\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1045\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1045 lazyload\" title=\"img_0250\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0250-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"HT at work in Radnor Hotel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HT at work in Radnor Hotel<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1047\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1047\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1047 lazyload\" title=\"dsc02541\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc02541-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"With Lebansese film-maker &amp; actress Nadine Labaki, after the showing of her Cannes Award-winning film CARAMEL\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Lebansese film-maker &amp; actress Nadine Labaki, after the showing of her Cannes Award-winning film CARAMEL<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1048\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1048\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1048 lazyload\" title=\"dsc02559\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc02559-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Habib &amp; Nadine deep in Maghreb-Mashreq discussions\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Habib &amp; Nadine deep in Maghreb-Mashreq discussions<\/p><\/div>\n<p>to be continued&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/362a6e0b-956b-4847-a7f7-905fb65101a3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img lazyload\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=362a6e0b-956b-4847-a7f7-905fb65101a3\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, indeed, that was one busy week:\u00a0 after picking up Habib Tengour at Newark airport early Sunday afternoon (with about an hour extra time in customs thanks to his Arab passport), we made it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,89,93,103,1],"tags":[229,373,433,1746,547,1736,746],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances","category-poems-for-the-millennium","category-poetry-readings","category-translation","category-uncategorized","tag-charles-bernstein","tag-habib-tengour","tag-jerome-rothenberg","tag-maghreb","tag-nadine-labaki","tag-poetry","tag-villanova-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}