{"id":11835,"date":"2014-04-13T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=11835"},"modified":"2014-04-11T17:11:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T21:11:34","slug":"reading-of-rachida-madanis-tales-of-a-severed-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/reading-of-rachida-madanis-tales-of-a-severed-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading of Rachida Madani\u2019s Tales of a Severed Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Rachida Madani<br \/>\nw\/ Pierre Joris<br \/>\n&amp;<br \/>\naccompaniment by Gnawa Boussou<\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When<\/em>:\u00a0April 16, 2014 | 6:30pm<br \/>\n<em>Where<\/em>:\u00a0Silvana \u00a0300 W 116th St\u00a0New York, NY 10026<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=40.80443450000001+-73.95539980000001\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/api\/staticmap?visible=40.8019345,-73.9578998|40.8069345,-73.9528998&amp;size=173x145&amp;maptype=roadmap&amp;key=ABQIAAAAbnvDoAoYOSW2iqoXiGTpYBT2yXp_ZAY8_ufC3CFXhHIE1NvwkxQNumU68AwGqjbSNF9YO8NokKst8w&amp;markers=40.80443450000001,-73.95539980000001&amp;sensor=false\" width=\"173\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/frenchculture.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/fancybox\/public\/madani_0.jpg\" rel=\"gallery\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/frenchculture.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/event\/public\/madani_0.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a>Silvana hosts a reading of\u00a0<strong>Rachida Madani\u2019s \u201cTales of a Severed Head\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>April 16 at 6:30pm<\/strong>, with Rachida Madani and Pierre Joris, featuring accompaniment by Gnawa Boussou, a traditional Moroccan band based in New York. Rachida Madani, a native of Morocco, has published several volumes of poetry in French, a language she also taught for thirty years.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lifelong political militant, she expresses her resistance: &#8220;not by shouting slogans and waving banners. I fight with my words.&#8221; This event is part of a multi-cultural and eclectic experience of English and Francophone poetry. At the close of the &#8220;Printemps des po\u00e8tes&#8221; festival in France, New York takes the torch, offering\u00a0a diverse program of voices, sounds, drawings, and stories in which new poets and established masters use literary panache to express their social and political convictions. This cycle also includes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/frenchculture.org\/books\/authors-on-tour\/anne-portugal\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Portugal<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/frenchculture.org\/books\/authors-on-tour\/pierre-alferi\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre Alf\u00e9ri.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/frenchculture.org\/books\/authors-on-tour\/rachida-madani\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frenchculture.org\/books\/authors-on-tour\/rachida-madani\" target=\"_blank\">More info on Rachida Madani<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/BookJacket.asp?isbn=9780300176285\" target=\"_blank\">More info on Tales of a Severed Head<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachida Madani w\/ Pierre Joris &amp; accompaniment by Gnawa Boussou When:\u00a0April 16, 2014 | 6:30pm Where:\u00a0Silvana \u00a0300 W 116th St\u00a0New York, NY 10026 Silvana hosts a reading of\u00a0Rachida Madani\u2019s \u201cTales of a Severed Head\u201d\u00a0on\u00a0April&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835","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=11835"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11903,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835\/revisions\/11903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}