Pierre Joris reads from Armand Schwerner's translations

A Symposium / Poetry Festival on Outside and Subterranean Poetry

Reading/Performance with Nicole Peyrafitte

Talk by Pierre Joris moderated by Andreas Wagner

A play by Pierre Joris

Wanda Coleman: Trance Poet. She lived in another dimension, and when she launched her words, you did too. A whole other way of understanding, like through the skin, like deep in the bone. She rattled me like a witch, like a toy, like she a her-a-cane. Come praise Wanda at the Bowery Poetry Club on Tuesday Feb 10, 6pm. Read a poem for her, or by her, and let's Live Life in the Black. (Bob Holman)

Conversation with Pierre Joris — 4:15 p.m., Standish Room, Science Library, Uptown Campus
Moderated by Tomás Urayoán Noel

Reading by Pierre Joris — 8:00 p.m., Standish Room, Science Library, Uptown Campus

Pierre Joris, poet, translator, and scholar taught at UAlbany from 1992 to 2013. Joris’s work bridges North American, European, and North African literary traditions and cultures. He is the author of more than 25 books and chapbooks of poetry, including Breccia: Selected Poems 1972-1986 (1987), Poasis: Selected Poems 1986-1999 (2001), and Barzakh: Selected Poems 2000-2012 (forthcoming 2014). Other notable works include the essay collection A Nomad Poetics (2003) and three volumes of the avant-garde anthology series, Poems for the Millennium (1995, 1998, co-edited with Jerome Rothenberg; 2012 co-edited with Habib Tangour). He is also one of the foremost translators of avant-garde poetry into both French and English, and winner of the 2005 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and the 2013 MLA Scaglione Prize for his translation of Paul Celan’s The Meridian: Final Version–Drafts–Materials.

Anchored in a processual practice of daily living, writing & art making, their collaboration started in the early 90s & includes a wide range of multimedia performance duos, collaborations on poems & translations, & on many books linking content with covers & illustrations — as well as the raising of two sons. Hosted by Nada Gordon

Silvana hosts a reading of Rachida Madani's "Tales of a Severed Head" on April 16 at 6:30pm, 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. A lifelong political militant, she expresses her resistance: "not by shouting slogans and waving banners. I fight with my words."

The beautiful bookstore McNally Jackson hosts a reading of French and American poets Pierre Alferi, Anne Portugal, Charles Bernstein, Cole Swensen, Pierre Joris and Tracy Grinnell, presented by Vincent Broqua.

Organized by Vincent Broqua, this overview of contemporary poetry translation in the U.S. includes a roundtable discussion and presentation of translated texts. Guest poets include Pierre Alferi, Anne Portugal, Charles Bernstein, Cole Swensen, Pierre Joris, Tracy Grinnell, and Avital Ronell.

"Writing translation / translating writing" inverts the traditional relationship of original text & translated copy & reinscribes the activity of translation as core process of the act of writing. Students will be simultaneously involved with writing & with translation from a language of their choice into English in a range of forms proposed by their own practice & cultural background.

The class runs for 3 hours and will be held in our online, video-conferenced classroom, so you can attend from your own home, from anywhere in the world.

Our students attend class from all over the world, including recently from Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, Morocco, the Philippines, Singapore, Scotland, and, of course, the United States.

Class size is limited to 10 students. Only 7 seats left.

Please note: after registering you will receive an email with instructions on how to log into the virtual classroom.

Tuition: $250

Saturday on Staten Island: Poets from the anthology With Our Eyes Widen Open: Poems of the New American Century, edited by Douglas Valentine, read at Everything Goes Book Cafe. Tyehimba Jess, Aracelis Girmay, Evie Shockley, Laren McClung, and Pierre Joris will share poems that promote "peace, justice, and human welfare." Scroll to the bottom for more details.

Prendre le large avec Jean Portante, Pierre Joris, Lambert Schlechter, Gilles Ortlieb et Guy Rewenig. Une plongée biographique et littéraire dans l'univers de cinq écrivains, pour mieux comprendre de quelle manière cet espace ouvert-fermé qu'est le Luxembourg – à la fois carrefour, tour de Babel, territoire pris entre deux grandes cultures – est créateur de fictions liées au voyage, de mythologies du proche et du lointain, de l'ici et de l'ailleurs. Curated & with a richly illustrated catalogue by Corina Ciocârlie.

Pierre Joris & Vyt Bakaitis will read from their new books & translations.

Guest duets: Bob Holman & Sophie Malleret, Pierre Joris &Urayoán Noel, Nada Gordon & Tony Dohr a.k.a Douglas Rothschild. In the tradition of Cabaret Voltaire, Nicole Peyrafitte's presents: a voco-musico-poetico-comestible performance focused on chansons & poetry & food! Vintage videos, original works, special guests & complementary delicious sampling of food by d'Artagnan are on the menu. 

Miles Joris-Peyrafitte's film "As a Friend" is screening as official selection at Williamsburg Independent Film Festival. "As a Friend" is a Ta'wil production & Joseph Mastantuono is producer.

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading of Paul Celan's Breathturn into Timestead by the poet and translator Pierre Joris and a conversation between Pierre Joris and Paul Auster.

Pierre Joris presents an essay on Jacques Derrida & Paul Celan at a conference organized by the Collège International de Philosophie & the IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine) in Caen (France). 

Pierre Joris reads as does Nicole Peyrafitte & hundreds of other poets! For the benefit Nicole will also make & sell her amazing crêpes as she does every year. She'll be performing between 2 & 3 p.m.n; I'm reading shortly after 8 p.m.

 

Pierre Joris: "Paul Celan & Jacques Derrida: Writing as Translation & Translation as Writing"

Multimedia collaborative performance

A poetry reading featuring: Bei Dao, Charles Bernstein, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Pierre Joris, Marilyn Nelson, Ouyang Jianghe, Afaa Weaver, Xi Chuan, Zhai Yongming, and Zhou Zan

Presentation by Pierre Joris, multimedia by Nicole Peyrafitte. Cosponsored by The Poetry Center and City Lights Books.

Pierre Joris reads from Armand Schwerner's translations