Paul Celan Reading
DTBA
Pierre Joris reads from Armand Schwerner's translations
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.
"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.
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