{"id":299,"date":"2006-11-03T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2006-11-03T02:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T10:49:00","slug":"this-saturday-behind-the-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/this-saturday-behind-the-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"This Saturday Behind The Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"post-title\">         <span style=\"font-size:100%;\">This Saturday, November 4, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Behind the Egg<\/span>:<br \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"post-title\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">A Reading Series presented by Tool A Magazine and Unpleasant Event Schedule<br \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"post-title\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">4:00pm at POINT 5 The Capital District Federation of Ideas<br \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"post-title\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">(383.5 Madison Avenue, Albany)<br \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"post-title\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">featuring <span style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >Pierre Joris<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"post-title\">with <span style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\">Munir Beken<\/span> on Oud<br \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"post-title\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">and <span style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >Ted Pelton<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">                            <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Pierre Joris<\/span>, UAlbany English professor, avant-garde poet and leading translator, is the author of Poasis, a collection of his original poetry, among other books or poems. Born and raised in Luxembourg, Joris works in three languages: English, French and German. As a result of his multiple fluencies and ties to multiple cultures, Joris\u2019s poetry is characterized by cross-linguistic puns, energetic wordplay, and reflections on the nature of language.<\/p>\n<p>For more about Joris:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albany.edu\/%7Ejoris\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.albany.edu\/~joris\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pjoris.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pjoris.blogspot.com\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albany.edu\/writers-inst\/joris_pierre.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.albany.edu\/writers-inst\/joris_pierre.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ted Pelton\u2019s<\/span> newest book, Malcolm and Jack, is a novel based on a conjectured meeting between Jack Kerouac and Malcolm X, is just out from Spuyten Duyvil. Excerpts appear in La Petite Zine and on this site. Pelton had completed a Master\u2019s in Creative Writing at University of Colorado at Boulder, a PhD in English at University of Buffalo, and received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Fiction. He is the author of the novella Bhang (Blazevox Books 2004).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to fiction, he has also published widely as a critic, having written on Robert Creeley, Ben Marcus, Kenneth Koch, and Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong\u2019o in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Fiction International, electronic book review, and elsewhere. He lives in Buffalo, where he is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Medaille College.<\/p>\n<p>For more about Pelton:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedpelton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.tedpelton.com<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spuytenduyvil.net\/fiction\/malcolmandjack.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.spuytenduyvil.net\/fiction\/malcolmandjack.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more information on the Behind The Egg reading series, go to<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/unpleasanteventschedule.com\/behindtheegg\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/unpleasanteventschedule.com\/behindtheegg\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, November 4, Behind the Egg: A Reading Series presented by Tool A Magazine and Unpleasant Event Schedule 4:00pm at POINT 5 The Capital District Federation of Ideas (383.5 Madison Avenue, Albany) featuring&#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-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}