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Wednesday April 27<\/strong><\/p>\n 8PM\u00a0 \u201cILLUMINATIONS\u201d<\/strong><\/a> READING<\/strong> <\/p>\n Saturday April 30 Nick Piombino<\/strong>\u2019s latest book is\u00a0Contradicta: Aphorisms<\/em> from Green Integer, with illustrations by Toni Simon. \u201cContradicta: Aphorisms is almost impossible to put down\u201d \u2013 Ron Silliman. Other books include: fait accompli <\/em>(Heretical Texts),\u00a0Free Fall<\/em> (Otoliths),\u00a0Theoretical Objects<\/em> (Green Integer), The Boundary of Blur<\/em> (Roof).<\/p>\n Pierre Joris<\/strong> is a poet, translator, essayist & anthologist. He has published over forty books, most recently\u00a0Aljibar II <\/em>(poems) and Justifying the Margins<\/em>(essays). Recent translations include\u00a0Paul Celan: Selections, and Lightduress<\/em>by Paul Celan, which received the 2005 PEN Poetry Translation Award. With Jerome Rothenberg he edited the award-winning anthologies Poems for the Millennium (Volumes I & II).<\/em><\/p>\n *<\/p>\n Friday May 6 *<\/p>\n Saturday May 7 *<\/p>\n Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World<\/em> This day\u2013long symposium on the poetries of the Islamic world brings together<\/p>\n scholars, poets and writers from around the globe and features panel discussions and performances of classical, sung and contemporary poetry.<\/p>\n Location:<\/strong> BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street<\/p>\n Organized by Poets House & City Lore & presented in conjunction with the Asia Society & Borough of Manhattan Community College. Illuminated Verses is made possible through a special Bridging Cultures grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/em><\/p>\n Admission free<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u20221:30-2:30pm <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n For more information about this day\u2013long event, click\u00a0here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n *<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>POETRY PROJECT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nA Celebration for John Ashbery <\/strong>translations of Rimbaud’s\u00a0Illuminations<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/em><\/strong>St. Mark\u2019s In-the-Bowery,
\nSecond Ave. at 10th St. 212-674-0910
\nRead more<\/a><\/p>\n
\n4PM $6
\n<\/strong>NICK PIOMBINO & PIERRE JORIS
\n@ Segue Reading Series
\nBowery Poetry Club
\n308 Bowery NYC<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Kick off reading for:\u00a0The Logic of the World: The Poetics of Robert Kelly<\/strong>
\nZinc Bar
\n6:30-8PM
\n<\/strong>Pierre Joris,Nicole Peyrafitte, George Quasha, Elizabeth Robinson, Lynn Behrendt, Roger Van Voorhees, Basil King, Martha King, Kimberly Lyons, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Sylvia Gorelick<\/p>\n
\n10 AM – 5 PM
\n<\/strong>The Logic of the World: The Poetics of Robert Kelly<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>CELEBRATING HIS 75TH BIRTHDAY & HIS 50 YEARS TEACHING AT BARD COLLEGE<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>at The ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES<\/a>
\nMAYA DEREN ROOM,\u00a032 SECOND AVE, NEW YORK, NY
\nTALKS, READINGS, AND PERFORMANCES BY:
\nVyt Bakaitis | Phong Bui | Mary Caponegro | Carey Harrison | Michael Ives | Pierre Joris | Jonas Mekas | Tom Meyer | Nicole Peyrafitte | Kristin Prevallet | Elizabeth Robison | George Quasha | Robert Kelly | Carolee Schneeman | Charles Stein | David Levi-Strauss | Roger van Voorhees | Peter Lamborn Wilson | John Yau | And more
\nEVERY MARK CONTAINS A MICROSCOPIC TEXT WE BEND TO READ (RK)
\nA readerly conversation among scholars, companions, and poets that has as its axis specific poems and groupings of Robert Kelly’s poems (or prose) and that includes the extraordinary spectrum of experience, worlds, and histories that Robert Kelly’s poetry engages in its making.
\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
\nLEARN MORE\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSaturday, May 7, 9:00am\u201310:00pm
\nBridging Cultures: Poetries of the Islamic World<\/strong>
\nwith Najwa Adra, Ammiel Alcalay, Kazim Ali, Reza Aslan, Kaveh Bassiri, Clarissa Burt, Steven Caton, Sylviane Diouf, Akbar Hyder, Pierre Joris, Mohja Kahf, Persis Karim, Khaled Mattawa, Jawid Mojaddedi, Stefania Pandolfo, Frances W. Pritchett, Mahwash Shoaib & Others<\/span><\/p>\n
\nTradition and Modernity
\n<\/strong>A panel with readings examining the role of the word in the Moroccan and Egyptian vernaculars, constructing modern nation states in the Middle East, and cross-cultural encounters with European forms. With scholars\u00a0Stefania Pandolfo<\/strong> and\u00a0Clarisa Burt<\/strong> and poet\/translator\u00a0Pierre Joris<\/strong>.<\/p>\n