31 May 2007

JUNE READINGS in PARIS!!! With NEW additions!!!

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LIST ORDER:
Section I: Readings & Events by date in JUNE
Section II: Creative Writing Courses & workshops in Europe
Section III: Reviews News & New Reviews: calls for work, + summer apartment offers.


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PART I: Readings & Events by date in JUNE (asterisks indicate readings)
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*1 June – 6:30-9pm SCREENPLAY READING with Théâtre du Monde's Film Script Showcase Mise en lecture by Fawn Wilderson-Legros, Founder/ Director & tonight with "His Letters/Ses Lettres" by Robbye Apperson, USA. Info: http://www.theatredumonde.com/ Bringing stories from everywhere to everywhere else! Please join us for refreshments & a short discussion following the performance. Cost: 12 Euros Reservations: info@theatredumonde.org AT: WICE 20, bd. du Montparnasse 75015

*1 June at 19h30. Reading by Bernard O’Donoghue Born in Co Cork, Bernard O’Donoghue is a teacher, poet & literary critic. Currently teaching Medieval English at Wadham College, Oxford, he continues to find an audience at home in Ireland Winner of the Whitbread prize for poetry for his 1995 collection Gunpowder, O’Donoghue has also published Poaching Rights (1987), The Weakness (1991), Here Nor There (1999) & Outliving (2003). His Selected Poems will be published by Faber in 2008. He reviews for The Times Literary Supplement, &, as well as writing on medieval European poetry, he published a study Seamus Heaney & the Language of Poetry (1994) & a new verse translation of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight (2006). €3, in English AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais 75005 – Paris Tel : (33) (1) 58 52 10 30 RER B: Luxembourg; M°: Cardinal Lemoine or Place Monge Bus: 84, 21, 27.

*1er Juin 2007 19h Pour la "9ème Biennale Internationale des Poètes en Val-de-Marne", une soirée de poésie multimedia et performance, vidéo poésie, poésie éléctronique IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, PORTUGUESE, etc. avec : A Strid ; Cozette de Charmoy ; Steve Dalachinsky (Etats Unis) ; William Azevedo (Brésil) ; Eric Giraud et Serge Pey. Entrée libre AT : 1, rue Marceau, 93170 Bagnolet, Tel : 01 49 93 60 90

1 juin at 21h. Hear Perry Argel with the group los Caballeros Simpáticos AT : Green Linnet 8, ave Victoria, 75004 Paris Métro : Châtelet. entrée gratuite www.perryleopard.com

Until 11 juin : MAI du LIVRE d’ART. Depuis 19 ans, à chaque printemps, Le Mai du livre d’art organisé par le groupe Art du Syndicat national de l'édition, rassemble les éditeurs d’art autour d’une sélection de nouveautés. Un jury constitué de professionnels des arts et de la culture décerne le Prix du Mai du livre d’art. Cette année, et pour la première fois, le Mai s’ouvre à l’édition d’art pour la jeunesse. Vous pourrez feuilleter à loisir les 40 titres sélectionnés, dont 12 pour la jeunesse dans la Galerie Rambuteau, située à l’entrée de la bibliothèque, du 10 mai au 11 juin 2007. Ensuite, ces titres seront intégrés à la collection de la bibliothèque. Pour en savoir plus : consulter le site du Mai du livre d'art. AT : « Galerie Rambuteau » entrée de la bibliothèque du centre G Pompidou.

**1er juin, 19h RENCONTRE : La création littéraire dans tous ses états. Soirée spéciale "Premier roman" avec les auteurs Jean-Moise Braitberg, Maia Brami, Enzo Cormann, Dominique Kopp et Mabrouk Rachedi. Mediator : Dominique Viart (essayiste et critique). AT : Centre Pompidou • Petite salle. Entrée libre

2 juin 2007 de 15h00 à 21h00 le bureau des Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin - Nathalie Hénon et Jean-François Rettig – invite « est-ce une bonne nouvelle » - Véronique et Christian Barani - Pour cette dernière édition, nous espérons avoir le plaisir de vous retrouver, autour d'un verre. dialogue n°8 - mise en dialogue et en espace de deux oeuvres réalisées par deux
artistes - 06.05.07 Deux regards sur l’élection présidentielle qui travaillent la matière des images tournées le soir du 6 mai.Une interférence des deux versants de la représentation de l’événement. une création de Sara Millot et Julien Gourbeix. Cette diffusion est-ce une bonne nouvelle est une proposition de Véronique et Christian Barani, avec l’aide des artistes présentés. estceunebonnenouvelle@noos.fr - http://www.estceunebonnenouvelle.org/ AU niveau du n°1 rue Gustave Goublier - 75010 – Paris M° : Strasbourg-Saint Denis ou Château d'Eau

2 June from 17h00 - 19h00. Paris Soirees: PARIS SINGLES APERITIF. 15 Euros. Wine, Canapes, Appetizers. Reserve with Patricia WITH YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER PLEASE: singlesaperitif@gmail.com/01 43 26 12 88

**2 June at 7:00pm, Shakespeare & Co is pleased to host an outdoor reading by poet John Beer. John Beer will be sharing with us his *Wasteland* and other poems. --Beer's poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Crowd, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, Verse, Mipoeisias, Xantippe, The Hat, Village Voice, Chicago Tribune. He has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, and was twice finalist for the University of Giorgia Contemporary Poetry Series. He collaborated with poet Robert Lax on Works for Performance, which was staged in Geneva and Chicago and is the editor of several Lax collections. His literary criticism includes an essay on William Gaddis for the Review of Contemporary Fiction. He is the co-editor of Chicago Review's issue devoted to Kenneth Rexroth's centenary, the poetry editor for Bridge magazine, and for four years he was the cocurator of the Dannies reading series, Chicago's main independent poetry venue. AT: Shakespeare & Co, 37 Rue de la Bûcherie, 75005, in front of Notre Dame--tel. 01- 43 25 40 93.

3 June At 18h30. Paris Soirees SOIREE GASTRONOMIQUE with collaborator chef Jonathan Robert Frost: Persian Cuisine. Malaysian Cuisine. This time, John will prepare another Persian dish (this time with meat) by popular request. And we'll have a Malaysian main dish also for fun. Spoken Word poet Mervyn Seivwright, (currently residing in the UK) will share new work. Reserve at parissoirees@gmail.com/01 43 26 12 88 WITH YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER PLEASE. For more info, see: http://www.parissoirees.com/aboutp.html

*4th June, at 7. Shusha Guppy reads for the publication of her book A Girl in Paris. BIO: Guppy, the well-known Persian-born British writer is the author of the highly acclaimed The Blindfold Horse, which won several pretigious literally prizes, including Le Grand Prix Litteraire de Elle in France - French Title: Un Jardin a Teheran (Phebus). The new book is an evocation of Paris in the late 50s & early 60s, when Paris was the intellectual & artistic centre of the Western world, with such great luminaries as Sartre, Camus, Picasseo, Aragon, Prevert, etc... living & working int he city, many of whom the author, then a young student, met & by whom she was befriended. But above all the book tells fascinating stories, weaving personal experience with momentous events & personalities, recreating the vibrant & charged atmosphere of the time. Guppy is an experienced performer & broadcaster at Shakespeare & Co., 37, Rue de la Bucherie, Paris 75005.

**4 juin à 19h. Leçons de’ création & 30ans d’écrivains, BPI, Centre G Pompidou Paris Présente : Inventaire / Invention : Rencontre avec Sonia Chiambretto, écrivain, Patrick Cahuzac, directeur d'Inventaire/Invention, animée par Omar Berrada. Sonia Chiambretto lira un extrait de CHTO interdit au moins de 15 ans (Inventaire/Invention éditions, 2006) et un extrait de 12 Soeurs slovaques (Inventaire/Invention éditions, 2007). AU : Centre Pompidou • Petite salle. Entrée libre

4, 11, 18 et 25 June: 7pm: American Blues with 3 short plays by Tennessee Williams: "Auto-da-Fé", "Why do you smoke so much Lily" & "Hello from Bertha". With original blues live with our talented group of musicians & music composed specially for our shows. Performed by Mondays7 theatre troupe. AT: Sudden Theatre, 14bis rue Sainte-Isaure, 75018 Paris. Reservations (French only) 01 42 62 35 00 email: sudden@wanadoo.fr website: Mondaysat7.com email: info@Mondaysat7.com Reservations in English 01 46 06 66 10 or 01 73 75 79 13 Tix: 17 & 13 euros

***5 June IVY: 19h30 IVY WRITERS invites you to a bilingual reading with Chris Tysh (French-American Poet) & Jean-Michel Espitallier (Poète Français). BIOS: « Jean-Michel Espitallier est un des poètes contemporains qui a le plus modoifié l’image attendue de la poésie. Il est représentatif d'une génération qui, proche en cela de l'art contemporain, opte pour des pratiques poétiques variées, construites, accumulatives et drôles» (Jérôme Mauche) Poète inclassable, Jean-Michel est l’auteur de, notamment : Caisse à outils, (essai, Pocket, 2006.) Tractatus logo mecanicus, (Al Dante, 2006), En Guerre (Inventaire/Invention, 2004), Où va-t-on ? (Le Bleu du ciel, coll. « L’Affiche », 2004), Le Théorème d’Espitallier (Flammarion, 2003), Fantaisie bouchère (grotesque), (Derrière la salle de bains, 2001), Gasoil : prises de guerre (Flammarion, 2000) et Ponts de frappe (Fourbis, 1995). Cofondateur de la revue Java, coordinateur du dossier sur la « Nouvelle poésie française » au Magazine littéraire (mars 2001), il travaille actuellement sur plusieurs projets multimédias. “Chris Tysh's performative texts, her transformative theater oeuvre, her splendid plays of poetry … lift off the page into the reader's desirous voicing & machine...[they are exciting] end of century subversions.”--Carla Harryman. Tysh has published 6 books of poetry: Cleavage (Roof Books, 2004), Continuity Girl (United Artists Books, 2000), In the Name (1994); Coat of Arms (1992); Porne; Secrets of Elegance (1981) a play Car Men, A Play in D, & critical book in French: Allen Ginsberg (Editions Seghers, coll: “Poètes d’Aujourd’hui.”). Her latest project is a screenplay based on the work of Georges Bataille. Editor of “Everyday Life” & on-line magazine mark(s): http://www.markszine.com/ she writes the “Blue Archive” column for “trait”. Tysh currently teaches creative writing & women's studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. AT: LE NEXT, 17, rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris (off Montorgeuil) M°Etienne Marcel/Les Halles. Tel : 01 42 36 18 93 http://www.lenext.com/ Info : http://www.ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/

5 June: 18-21h VERNISSAGE at Jean-Pierre Lavignes galerie of SONIA BUREL’s “Peintures”. Sonia’s work is exceptional and can also be seen 6 June-5 July. AT: Jean-Pierre Lavignes Bastille, 27 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris. Tel 01 47 00 88 18. http://www.lavignebastille.com/ ouvert mardi-samedi.

5 juin at 21h. Hear Perry Argel with the group los Caballeros Simpáticos AT : Green Linnet 8, ave Victoria, 75004 Paris Métro : Châtelet. entrée gratuite www.perryleopard.com

***6 juin 2007 à 20h00 : CARNET DE ROUTE & le Centre culturel canadien à Paris invites you to a reading of five poets from France, Canada & the United States: Jean-Christophe Bailly, Claude Beausoleil, Jorie Graham, Lisa Robertson, Cole Swensen & a show of our graphic art project CARNET DE ROUTE est une publication annuelle qui fête le devant de la scène littéraire comme du design graphique en France et outre-atlantique. CARNET DE ROUTE celebrates graphic design & cutting-edge poetics in French & English. We feature the ‘event’ of each issue in exhibitions of pages of poems at our author readings in Paris & in the United States AT: le Centre culturel canadien , 5, rue de Constantine 75007 Paris Métro : Invalides contact : mloufreeman@yahoo.com

6 to 30 juin : tous les mercredis, jeudis, vendredis, samedis à 20h30.Que diriez-vous d'une pièce contemporaine écrite par un jeune dramaturge, metteur en scène, comédien? La Compagnie Berzingue 26 vous propose NON-DITS de Grégoire Christophe. Avec : Alexandre Arathoon, Cédric Burgle, Grégoire Christophe, Rébecca Forster, Magalie Madison, Carole Pereira, Estelle Terrisse. Voici le site du théâtre http://www.guichetmontparnasse.com/ , vous trouverez toutes les informations nécessaires AT : Theatre Guichet Montparnasse, 15 rue de Maine, 75014 Paris, metros Montparnasse/Edouard Quinet/ Gaité.

*6 juin à 19h : Rencontre avec BRUNO PERREAU pour la parution du livre qu'il a dirigé Le Choix de l'homosexualité (EPEL), en présence de NATACHA CHETCUTI et de MARIANNE BLIDON. Le livre présente les principales pistes de recherche vers lesquelles s'orientent les études gays et lesbiennes en France : méthodes, objets, débats et controverses: de l'amitié chrétienne médiévale au lesbianisme dans le mouvement des "Femmes en noir", du cinéma militant des années 70 au vécu des familles homoparentales, des catégories sexuelles antiques à la géographie commerciale parisienne, etc. à Violette & Co. 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*6th June: 9pm on! Follow one of the previous readings w your own! Go to “Spoken word/scène ouverte”: Performance poetry, poésie sonore, Lire vivant, Stand up, Short Short stories, English, Français: open mic. YOU READ!!! Come share some work, hear others! Organized by David Barnes Info: bastable7@yahoo.co.uk AT: L’Ogre à Plumes, 49/51 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, M° Parmentier.

6, 13, 20, 27 June: EVERY Wednesday--21h to 1h. Rob Keefe, better known as DJ Whistlepunk, gets his funky on. Need a little mid-week “shake & shimmy”? stop by & listen to him spin his tunes. AT: Bistrot des artists, 6 rue des Anglais, 75005 Paris, M°: Cluny/La Sorbonne, entrée gratuite

6 June at 18h30 Vernissage with talk and plat du jour. The occasion: Official unveiling of Patricia LaPlante Collin's grand mural. Created by Tom Byrne & Sheila Kern. http://www.decorparis/ From Patricia: "It's huge and beautiful!". That evening also, Tom and Sheila will be talking to us about how they created Patricia's painting. They'll introduce you to some of the mysteries of painting on a grand scale and explain the tax benefits of purchasing art from living artists in France. Get the address for the event & Reserve with Patricia WITH YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER PLEASE: 01 43 26 12 88

9 June—DEADLINE to reserve for the 16th June 12h30, €30 Bloomsday Brunch at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Call to reserve: 01 58 52 10 30. http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/

**9 June 4 p.m.-6 p.m.Laurel Zuckerman will be discussing Sorbonne Confidential, the first no-taboo investigation into France's painful efforts to teach & combat English simultaneously. This hilarious & alarming eye-witness account of France's highest contest for English teachers (the Agrégation), has provoked strong reactions among readers. Q&A & reading in English & French. AT: Médiathèque Jules Verne, 28, rue Tournafis, 94360 Bry-sur-Marne, RER A station : Bry-sur-Marne, Tél : 01.47.16.57.03

*9 juin à 18h. Rencontre avec Albane Gellé autour des éditions Inventaire / Invention, avec Patrick Cahuzac, Antoine Emaz, Liliane Giraudon, et un auteur invité par le comité de lecture. Découvrez le prolongement de sa résidence à Noisy-le-Sec sur I/I Chaque trimestre, Albane Gellé a invité des auteurs et leur éditeur pour faire découvrir des univers poétiques et des démarches éditoriales. Elle a par ailleurs animé un comité de lecture en partenariat avec Inventaire/Invention, mené un atelier d'écriture et de lecture et initié une correspondance avec les lecteurs. AT : Médiathèque Roger Gouthier 3, rue Jean Jaurès à Noisy-le-Sec, Entrée libre

*9 juin à 16h. La ville de Bagnolet et le réseau des bibliothèques municipales, les lecteurs de l’atelier L’Invention du réel et Inventaire/Invention ont le plaisir de vous inviter à rencontrer PHILIPPE ADAM et à l’écouter lire Le syndrome de Paris (Inventaire/Invention éditions, 2006) AU : Bibliothèque des Coutures, 37 rue Jules-Ferry 93170 Bagnolet, Tél. : 01 41 58 55 46, Entrée libre

9th June: 21h30 - 2h: DJ Whistle Punk presents “Before It All Went to Shit IV: I Don't Want Your Revolution If I Can't Dance.” Underground punk and new wave that'll shake your brain cells and your booty. At Le mange disque, 58 de la Fontaine au roi, 11è; Metro: Goncourt. No cover.

**10 juin, à 16 heures : à l'occasion de la sortie du numéro Europe consacré à Franck Venaille Pierre Vilar et Jean Baptiste Para recevront : Peter Klasen et Mathieu Bénézet ; Isabelle Zribi et Emmanuel Moses ; Patrick Beurard-Valdoye et Fabienne Courtade ; Pascal Commère et François Boddaert ; Emmanuel Laugier et Marc Blanchet en présence de Christian Boltanski intervention et lecture de Franck Venaille. A la librairie Tschann - 125 bd Montparnasse, 75006, Paris.

**10 juin—18h30. Java’s “not not dead” soirée organized by Jean-Michel Espitallier with his own readings, those of Vannina Maestri and Jacques Sivan, performances with Cédric Pigot, music with Kasper Toeplitz and rock band “Prexley”. AT: Point Ephémère, 190 Quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris, M° Juares.

*10 Juin/June —at 7.30pm/ à 19h: Moving Parts vous invite à une lecture en français de/ invites you to a Playreading in English of Helena Pavlovsky’s "Palingenesie" Contact Stephanie to book a reading of YOUR play. Programme subject to change, see: http://www.scamparis.com/ or e-mail movingparts@wanadoo.fr to receive monthly mailings AT : Carr's Pub & Restaurant,1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries

**11 juin à 19h aura lieu dans le jardin de Reid Hall une lecture informelle des poètes ayant participé au séminaire de traduction de TAMAAS : Charles Alexander, Marie Borel, Frédéric Boyer, Frédéric Forte, Pierre Joris, Jean-Jacques Poucel, Cole Swensen et Habib Tengour. à Reid Hall/Columbia University, 4 rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris tél. 01 43 20 24 83. (M° Vavin ligne 4)

12 June at 19h: The Irish Cultural Center invites you to meet & hear DIRECTOR David Horan. Director-in-residence with Inis Theatre, David Horan is a founding member & Artistic Director of Peri-Talking Theatre Company. His directing credits include plays by Ibsen, Howard Brenton, Conor McPherson & Mike Leigh & he has been assistant director to Gerry Stembridge, Howard Barker & Stephen Rea among others. €3, in English Reservation necessary (places limited) AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais 75005 – Paris Tel : (33) (1) 58 52 10 30 RER B: Luxembourg; M°: Cardinal Lemoine or Place Monge Bus: 84, 21, 27. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais 75005 – Paris Tel : (33) (1) 58 52 10 30 RER B: Luxembourg; M°: Cardinal Lemoine or Place Monge Bus: 84, 21, 27. http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/

** 13 juin à 19h L'association Double Change vous invite à une lecture avec les poètes CHARLES ALEXANDER, JEAN-PATRICE COURTOIS et PIERRE JORIS avec la participation d'Habib Tengour. Bios: ALEXANDER, poète, a publié Hopeful Buildings (Chax, 1990), Arc of Light/Dark Matter (Segue Books, 1992), Near or Random Acts (Singing Horse Press, 2004), et Certain Slants (Junction Press, 2007). En 1984, Charles Alexander a fondé la maison d’édition Chax Press. COURTOIS, écrivain, poète, enseigne à l’Université Paris7 la littérature et la philosophie des Lumières et l’esthétique. A publié bcp de livres de poèmes, notamment: Vie inverse, (Deyrolle/Verdier 1992), Hors de l’heure, (Deyrolle/Verdier, 1996), Complication du sommeil, (Circé, 2001), D’arbre et d’œil, (Prétexte, 2002). A publié de nombreux articles et livres d’essais sur la poésie moderne et contemporaine. JORIS a publié de nombreux recueils de poèmes, dont Aljibar, Meditations on the Stations of Mansour Al-Hallaj, et Poasis: Selected Poems 1986-1999, et aussi, en amont et chez PHI, Breccia: Poems 1972-1986. Trois recueils ont paru en traduction française: Le Livre de Luap Nalec, traduit par Michel Maire (Castor Astral, 1986), La dernière traversée de la Manche, traduit par Jean-Paul Junck & Jean Portante (Graphiti/PHI 1995), et h.j.r., traduit par Eric Sarner (Graphiti/PHI 1999). Joris est aussi l’éditeur et rédacteur de plusieurs anthologies de la poésie et l'auteur des essais http://www.doublechange.com/ ou http://www.doublechange.com/blog/readings/index.html pour encore plus d’infos. + le même jour, 13 juin 2007, Double Change vous invite à une vente de livres d’une vingtaine de poètes américains, Hejinian, Palmer, Waldrop, entre autres, pour soutenir les activités de l’association. à Reid Hall/Columbia University, 4 rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris tél. 01 43 20 24 83. (M° Vavin ligne 4)

*13th, 7 PM: The WICE literary journal UPSTAIRS AT DUROC invites you to an all fiction/non-fiction reading featuring new work by four writers: Bonny Finberg, Jeffrey Greene, Lisa Pasold and Justin Taylor. BIOS: Finberg has published fiction, essays, poetry as well as art and book reviews. Her collection of short stories, How the Discovery of Sugar Produced the Romantic Era (Sisyphus Press 2006), has been documented in a feature length video. Publisher’s Weekly said her work “exudes a stunning sensual sensibility”. Jeffrey Greene, recipient of numerous awards, is the author of an environmental book Water from Stone (Texas A & M UP 2007) and the memoir French Spirits (Morrow/Harper Collins 2002). He has published two poetry books, American Spirituals and To the Left of the Worshiper and a chapbook, Glimpses of the Invisible World in New Haven. Lisa Pasold’s first book of poetry, Weave, appeared in 2004 and was nominated for an Alberta Book Award. The Globe and Mail calls, A Bad Year for Journalists, “critical, darkly funny and painstakingly lyrical”. She spent this winter writing her novel in the Yukon on a grant. Justin Taylor has written plays, songs and essays which have been published in the San Francisco Chronicle and Transfer Magazine. See his latest theatre concoction, Le Cabaret ATC, this November at the Théâtre de Menilmontant. READING AT: WICE, 20 Boulevard du Montparnasse, 75015 Paris, Metro Duroc.

*13 june at 19h : A Village Voice reading with Fiction Writer Douglas Kennedy. Here to read from his new work, Kennedy's new novel demonstrates once again his talent for writing serious popular fiction. The Pursuit of Happiness & A Special Relationship were both Sunday Times bestsellers in paperback. That was the year my life fell apart, & that was the year I moved to Paris. When Harry Ricks arrives in Paris on a bleak January morning he is a broken man. He is running away from a failed marriage & a dark scandal that ruined his career as a film lecturer in a small American university. With no money & nowhere to live, Harry swiftly falls in with the city's underclass, barely scraping a living while trying to finish the book he'd always dreamed of writing. A chance meeting with a mysterious woman, Margit Kadar, with whom Harry falls in love, is his only hope of a brighter future. However, Margit isn't all she seems to be & Harry soon has to make a decision that will alter his life forever. AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6, rue Princesse 75006. M°: Mabillon http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/author_events.html

*13 juin à 19h : Hommage à VIOLETTE LEDUC à l'occasion de la parution de sa Correspondance 1945-1972 (Gallimard). En présence de CARLO JANSITI et de CATHERINE VIOLLET qui a travaillé sur les manuscrits. Violette Leduc qui aurait 100 ans cette année fait partie des plus grandes écrivaines du XXè siècle. En une dizaine de romans, dont Thérèse et Isabelle et La Bâtarde, elle a montré son génie littéraire. à Violette & Co. 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*14 June : Julian Blaine, poète Français, in Paris AT : 2 bis rue du Jourdain, Déclara©tion à la librairie l’Atelier. 59, rue des Martyrs 75009 Paris 01 48 74 30 74

*14 juin à partir de 19h. A l'occasion de la parution de « Le peintre comme modèle du surréalisme à l'extrême contemporain » (Presses universitaires du Septentrion) un rencontre avec Adélaïde Russo à la Librairie Michèle Ignazi 17, rue de Jouy, 75004 Paris 01 42 71 17 00

14th June: 22h - 2h: The Three Wise Men present “Lucha Libre.” Taking the DJ Battle to the next level, by mixing it with Mexican Wrestling. Bizarre masks and audience voting, not to be missed. At Café Chéri(e), 44 blvd de la Villette, 19è; Metro: Belleville. No cover.

***15 juin: a large series of events for the Festival Franco-Anglaise de la poésie starts TONIGHT and goes through the end of the month. To catch one or more of these events, please look at the agenda which can be located on their site: http://www.webzine-entre-nous.com/index.php?action=article&numero=1999

*15 juin: As part of the colloque « René Char en son siècle » there will be a Table ronde : les poètes d’aujourd’hui et René Char avec Jacques Dupin, Dominique Fourcade, Gil Jouanard, André Velter, Jean-Michel Maulpoix, poètes et animée par Laurent Fourcaut (IUFM Paris) et Valery Hugotte (Bordeaux III). AT : BNF, site Tolbiac

*15 June – 7:30-10:00 SCREENPLAY READING with Théâtre du Monde's Film Script Showcase Mise en lecture by Fawn Wilderson-Legros, Founder/ Director & tonight with "Apocrypha" by S.C. Farrow, Australia Info: http://www.theatredumonde.com/ Bringing stories from everywhere to everywhere else! Please join us for refreshments & a short discussion following the performance. Cost: 12 Euros Reservations: info@theatredumonde.org AT: DTM (Studio Dance Théâtre et Musique), 6, rue de la Folie Méricourt 75011

*16 juin à 17h. Les lecteurs de L’Invention du réel , atelier de lecture proposé à la médiathèque d'Alfortville et l'équipe d'Inventaire/Invention ont le plaisir de vous inviter à rencontrer Joris Lacoste et à l’écouter lire Ce qui s'appelle crier (Inventaire/Invention éditions, 2000) AU : Médiathèque d'Alfortville Médiathèque - Pôle culturel - Parvis des Arts - 94140 Alfortville à l'angle de la rue Franceschi et de la rue Bourdarias Bus: 103,217 (Arr. Mairie d'Alfortville) Tel: 01.43.75.10.01 Entrée libre

16 June 12h30, €30 Bloomsday Brunch Under the courtyard arcades of the Centre Culturel Irlandais, enjoy a sumptuous buffet & entertainment evoking the spirit of James Joyce's Ulysses. NOTE: Guests are invited to dress in the costume of the time!!! Reservation required by the 9th June AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais 75005 – Paris Tel : (33) (1) 58 52 10 30 RER B: Luxembourg; M°: Cardinal Lemoine or Place Monge Bus: 84, 21, 27. http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/

*16 June 20h, Bloomsday Reading with Live Poets. The Joycien tradition continues with actors presenting enticing selections of Joyce’s works. Not to miss! I was not contacted with this year’s info, but would guess that it is at their usual hangout: AT: The Highlander, 8 rue de Nevers, 75006 Paris. Tel: 01 43 26 54 20 http://www.the-highlander.fr/ M°s: Odéon, St Michel, ou Mabillon. Donation: 5 E

*17th June—at 7.30 pm Moving Parts invites you to a Playreading in English : Kenneth Hickey’s "Autopsy" Contact Stephanie to book a reading of YOUR play. Programme subject to change, see: http://www.scamparis.com/ or e-mail movingparts@wanadoo.fr to receive monthly mailings AT : Carr's Pub & Restaurant,1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries

**18 Juin at 19h for « Leçon de création » with : Georges Aperghis moderated by Michel Archimbaud, then 20h for « 30 ans d'écrivains » - Littérature et Musique avec Arno Bertina, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Christian Doumet. AT : Centre Pompidou • Petite salle. Entrée libre

*18th June 9pm, Spoken Word (formerly known as Kerouac): Open mic/scène ouverte: Performance poetry. Lire vivant. Stand up. Monologue. Stories. Spoken word. Poésie sonore. English. Français. Your original texts. Old texts - from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron. Only one rule – make the words come alive. YOU READ!!! At: The Lizard Lounge, 18 rue du Bourg-Tibourg underground in the cellar/cave round the back in the farthese back room (M° Hotel de Ville) Happy hour all night! More info: David Barnes bastable7@yahoo.co.uk

*19 June--19h30. IVY Writers invites you to the Launch of Counterpath Press books with bilingual readings by : Laynie Brown (American Poet), Andrew Joron (American Poet) & Suzanne Doppelt (French Poet, avec traductions par Cole Swensen) BIOS: Doppelt : Fonde et dirige avec Pierre Alferi, la revue littéraire Détail. Elle est photographe et l’auteur, notamment, de Le pré est vénéneux (2007), Quelque chose cloche (2004) et TOTEM (2002) chez POL. La 4ème des plaies vole, (2004 : inventaire /invention), RAPTUS (2000 : l'Attente), 36 chandelles (1998 : photos+texte, Cronopio/AFAA), L’hypothèse du château (1997) et Mange (1995) chez Snapshot, Bref éloge du coup de tonnerre (1994 : René Farabet, phonurgia nova). En tant que photographe, Doppelt a fait des expositions à Paris à la Galerie Eof, au Centre Georges-Pompidou, et à la Galerie Pierre Brullé. Andrew Joron, called "the metaphysician-elect of contemporary American poetry" by Calvin Bedient, is the author of Science Fiction (Pantograph Press, 1992), The Removes (Hard Press, 1999) & Fathom (Black Square Editions, 2003). Counterpath celebrates The Cry at Zero: Selected Prose, (2006) which constellates a selection of prose poems and critical essays. Joron is also translator, from German, of Ernst Bloch’s Literary Essays (Stanford UP, 1998). Here to celebrate the publication of Daily Sonnets by Counterpath books (www.counterpathpress.org/) Laynie Browne is the recipient of the 2007 National Poetry Series award & author of 5 poetry collections: Drawing of a Swan Before Memory (2005, Univ.ofGA Press), Mermaid's Purse (Spuytenduyvil, 2005), Pollen Memory (2003, Tender Buttons), The Agency of Wind (Avec, 1999), and Rebecca Letters (Kelsey Street, 1996). Forthcoming is Original Presence, (Shivistan Books, 2006). She is also the author of the novel Acts of Levitation,(2002, Spuytenduyvil). Recent chapbooks include The Desires of Letters (gong eds, 2005), Webs of Agriope (Phylum, 2005) & a collaboration with Lee Ann Brown: Nascent Toolbox (The Owl Press, 2004). AT: LE NEXT, 17, rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris (off Montorgeuil) M°Etienne Marcel/Les Halles. Tel : 01 42 36 18 93 http://www.lenext.com/ Info : http://www.ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/

20 juin à 19h : Vernissage de l'exposition de photos de DANIEL NASSOY "Etat d'hommes". Daniel Nassoy présente ses toutes dernières oeuvres photographiques et quelques séries plus anciennes qui ont contibué à sa réputation telles que "Hommes objets" ou "Portraits et nus". Son nouveau travail est dans la ligne du surréalisme, du travail de collage et d'assemblage. à Violette & Co. 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*20 June at 8 p.m. Le Pavé d’Orsay Presents An evening of readings and music,Wine and Buffet with authors Adrian Mathews, Vivienne Vermes, Reine Arcache Melvin & Tom O’Brien alongside musicians Josh Levine (keyboards) & Christian Thompson (guitar) AT: Le Pavé d’Orsay, 48 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris, M° Rue du Bac / RER Musée d’Orsay (Directly behind the Musée d’Orsay )

20-23 June & 27-30 June: Wed, Thur, Fri et Sats at 20h30 : Une pièce contemporaine écrite par un jeune dramaturge, metteur en scène, comédien : « NON-DITS » de Grégoire Christophe. Avec : Alexandre Arathoon, Cédric Burgle, Grégoire Christophe, Rébecca Forster, Magalie Madison, Carole Pereira, Estelle Terrisse. AT: Theatre Guichet Montparnasse, 15 rue de Maine, 75014 Paris, M° Montparnasse/Edouard Quinet/Gaité http://www.guichetmontparnasse.com/

***22-24th June : It’s the 25th Marché de la Poésie ! OUI YES poetry and readings galore as part of the 25th Marché. For scheduled events and a million changes, info on the market itself, see: http://poesie.evous.fr/poesie.php?rubrique45 Open from 11h30 à 20h00, 500 éditeurs français et étrangers, de poésie et de création littéraire Marché noir des littératures pirates will be on hand and excited to talk, sell you books, let you peek at what they are up to ! Place Saint-Sulpice - Paris 6e See June 1st listing for « Péripherique du marché » readings and events site !

**1 to 30 June: « Péripherique of the 25th Marché de la Poésie » events and readings in Paris, ile de France and now en provence ! See this site for listings of TONS of events this month! Poetry and performance, music, signings, readings, book launches, library chats and more : http://poesie.evous.fr/poesie.php?rubrique46 More info on the marché and events by arrondissement at: http://paris.evous.fr/paris.php?article212

*22 June - 19h30 Book signing: Time Won't Let Me... by Bill Scheft, 2006 Thurber Prize for Humour Finalist. Bill Scheft, the human joke writing machine who brought you The Best of the Show and David Letterman's monologue for many years will present and sign his second novel. AT: WHSmith - 248, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris - M°Concorde Free. RSVP requested at 01 44 77 88 99 or at books@whsmith.fr .

24 juin at 17h.Hear Perry Argel with the group los Caballeros Simpáticos AT: Carillon. 18, rue Alibert (au coin de la rue Bichat), 75010 Paris. Métro : Goncourt, République. entrée gratuite. http://www.perryleopard.com/

26 juin, 18h30-20h : Conférence. « Leçon de littérature » avec Alberto Manguel, né en 1948 à Buenos Aires. Jeune homme, il sert de lecteur à Jorge Luis Borges. Après avoir vécu au Canada, il s'installe en France où il réside toujours, dans un village du Poitou. Il publie son premier roman, La Porte d'ivoire, en 1981. La reconnaissance survient en 1998 avec Une histoire de la lecture, prix Médicis, essai qui suscite à la fois l'intérêt des lecteurs et de la critique. La même année, il publie un Dictionnaire des lieux imaginaires, suivi en 2000 de Dans la forêt du miroir, essai sur les mots et sur le monde, et du Livre des images en 2001. L'écrivain se fait ensuite biographe en publiant successivement Chez Borges en 2003 et Kipling, une brève biographie l'année suivante. Son dernier ouvrage, La Bibliothèque, la nuit (Actes Sud) témoigne une nouvelle fois, avec un enthousiasme renouvelé, de son amour pour le livre. AU : BNF. site François-Mitterrand. Grand auditorium. entrée libre.

*27th June - 15h30 WH Smith Kids' Club: Featuring The Growing Story by Ruth Krauss & Helen Oxenbury. Join us for storytime, games, & more in the Children's Corner. FREE, The event is in English for children ages 3 to 10, & is is free of charge. RSVP not necessary. AT: WHSmith - 248, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris - M°Concorde. 01 44 77 88 99 or at mailto:books@whsmith.fr?subject=Merde+Happens+RSVP .

*27 juin, lecture à 20h Pour fêter 2 livres de poèsies de Jacques de Longeville, « Balade », illustré par Alexandra Roussopoulos et « les Silences » illustrés par Kate van Houten, Estepa Editions. Come and celebrate the publication of 2 art poetry collaborative books by Jacques de Longeville. Readings in French and one bilingual. AT/à la Galerie Pixi, 95 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris. M° Odéon/ Mabillon/ St Germain

*28 June at 19h English biographer, Sue Roe will present her latest book, THE PRIVATE LIVES OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS, an "intimate, colorful, superbly researched account of their homes & studios ... their unconventional, volatile & precarious lives, as well as the stories behind the paintings." Bio: Sue Roe was born in Leicester & educated at universities of Kent & Sussex. Following a career as a freelance writer & editor, she lectured at the University of East Anglia until 1996, when she resumed her freelance career. Previous books include ESTELLA, HER EXPECTATIONS, a novel, a collection of poems, THE SPITFIRE FACTORY & WRITING & GENDER: VIRGINIA WOOLF'S WRITING PRACTICE. She is the editor of the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Virginia Woolf's JACOB'S ROOM & co-editor of THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO VIRGINIA WOOLF. In 2002 her biography of the English artist Gwen John was published to international acclaim. AT: The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore, 22, rue Saint Paul, 75004 Paris. Tel: 01 48 04 75 08

*28 juin 2007 à 19h. Julien Blaine au Musée Zadkine : Julien Blaine (1942) est poète sonore et visuel, performeur. Bye bye la perf (Al Dante, 2006) a constitué ses adieux à la performance en tant que telle, pratique dont il a été en France un des plus principaux instigateurs. Il est notamment l’auteur de WM Quinzième, Les Carnets de l’Octéor, 1966 ; Essai sur la Sculpturale, Denise Davy,1967 ; Paragenesi, Sampiero,1968 ; Petit précis d’Érotomanie, Agentzia, 1969 ; Processus de déculturatisation, Tête de Feuilles, 1972 ; Elefanti e primi testi, Geiger, 1977 ; Passé/Futur, Factotum Art,1979 ; Calmar, Spectres Familiers, 1993 ; Bamileke, Giona, 1995 ; Parodies & Brouillons, Adriano Parise, 1995 ; L’Arc c’est la Lyre, Al Dante, 1998 ; Gloria Mundi, Al Dante, 1998 ; Pagure, Al Dante, 1999 ; La fin de la chasse, Al Dante & Safaribooks, 1999 ; Comment sortir la phrase de sa gangue, Al Dante, 2001 ; Kyé de N & de M, VOIX, 2002 ; Se constituer vrai/ment Grand Père, Le bleu du ciel, 2003 ; L’éventail n°1 - 1959/2004 avec Antoine Simon, NèPE, 2005 ; Cuba cola, Inventaire-invention, 2006… Julien Blaine a créé de nombreux supports éditoriaux, des revues (« Cahier de l’Octéor », « Approches », « Doc(k)s »), et lieux de diffusion comme de pratique, ainsi notamment les Rencontres Internationales de Poésie de Tarascon, le centre international de poésie Marseille, le Centre d’art de Ventabren. Entrée libre AT : Musée Zadkine 100 bis rue d’Assas 76006 Paris Tél : 01 55 42 77 20 Fax : 01 40 46 84 27 http://paris.fr/musees/zadkine M Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Vavin RER B Port-Royal Bus 38, 82, 83, 91 Responsable de la programmation : Jérôme Mauche

*28 juin à 19h : Rencontre avec TERESA DE LAURETIS à l'occasion de sa venue en France pour la parution de son essai Théorie queer et cultures populaires. De Foucault à Cronenberg (La Dispute), en présence de Marie-Hélène Bourcier qui a traduit l'ouvrage et de Pascale Molinier qui l'a publié. Teresa de Lauretis est l'auteure de nombreux essais sur la sémiotique, la, psychanalyse, le cinéma, la littérature, les théories féministes et de la culture. à Violette & Co. 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*28th June - 19h30 Book presentation & signing: Merde Happens by Stephen Clarke Paul West is back! Stephen Clarke will present & sign his third book in the "Merde" series, about an Englishman, an American & a Frenchwoman who drive across the USA in a Mini! AT: WHSmith - 248, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris - M°Concorde Free. RSVP requested at 01 44 77 88 99 or at books@whsmith.fr .

*29 June – 7:30-10:00pm SCREENPLAY READING with Théâtre du Monde's Film Script Showcase Mise en lecture by Fawn Wilderson-Legros, Founder/ Director & tonight with "Bad Feng Shui" by Alexis Niki, USA/France Info: http://www.theatredumonde.com/ Bringing stories from everywhere to everywhere else! Please join us for refreshments & a short discussion following the performance. Cost: 12 Euros Reservations: info@theatredumonde.org AT: DTM (Studio Dance Théâtre et Musique), 6, rue de la Folie Méricourt 75011

29 June at 7pm, The Paris Center of the University of Chicago, in collaboration with the French literary review, *Europe*, is holding a seminar discussion on Kenneth Rexroth. Max Blechman, co-editor of the Chicago Review’s special issue on Rexroth (2006), Jean-Baptiste Para, managing editor of *Europe: Revue Littteraire*, and Joël Cornuault, Rexroth’s main French translator (*L’Automne en Californie* , Éditions Fédérop, 1994, and *Les Constellations d’Hiver*, Librairie La Brèche, 1999) will discuss the relevance of Rexroth as a poet, critic and visionary. A selection of Rexroth’s poems will be read in the original English, followed by Cornuault’s French renderings. Books in both languages, on and by Rexroth, will be available for sale, as well as issues of the Rexroth edition of the *Chicago Review*. Refreshments will be served. University of Chicago, 6 rue Thomas Mann, 75013 Paris, métro Bibliothèque nationale. Tel. (01) 53 94 78 80.

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PART II: CLASSES & summer creative writing workshops (in random order).
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9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th June: 4pm-6pm (Sat afternoons) Creative Non Fiction Workshop : The Personal Essay. How do those New Yorker Magazine writers do it? Personal essay blends first person storytelling, free-spirited riffing, & argumentative essay into a singular, delicious piece. The secret glue: Voice. Intimate, funny, challenging: it can go in any direction the writer pleases. This is ideal for discovering the unique & honest sound of one’s own voice. Each session, we will do a different exercise in relation to an aspect of the form. Then the group transforms into a workshop. We share our work & offer positive criticism to others. This will lead to completed pieces. A smash hit at the WICE institute in February, this course is being offered again in the private home of the instructor: Justin Taylor’s personal essays have been published in newspapers & magazines such as the San Francisco Chronicle. Justin’s plays, librettos & monologue pieces have been performed in the U.S. & France, in English & French. He has taught writing at WICE, the Sorbonne (MA in theatre), & San Francisco State University (BA in creative writing). He has also trained in theatre at the Théâtre du Soleil & opera staging at the Paris National Opera. He is the winner of the Markowski-Leach Award for his play A Perfect Home.80 euros per workshop (20 per session). All sessions must be paid in advance. Contact: justintiger@gmail.com or 06 23 29 30 25

11th 18th 25th June & July 2nd 6pm - 8pm; (Mon eves) Playwriting Workshop Justin mixes techniques from the many playwrights & theatre companies with which he has worked in the U.S. & France (see bio). Each session, a different aspect of playwriting & an excercise: how to propel our writing into an elastic & free place, slip into a character’s skin & let him speak, find a play’s true form, etc. Afterwards, this group will form a supportive place to exchange constructive feedback “workshop style.” The course will also cover some nuts-&-bolts elements like dialogue, & what directors & actors need from a script in order to bring the words & characters from the page to the stage. This will launch pieces that you can complete over the summer. INSTRUCTOR: Justin Taylor’s personal essays have been published in newspapers & magazines such as the San Francisco Chronicle. Justin’s plays, librettos & monologue pieces have been performed in the U.S. & France, in English & French. He has taught writing at WICE, the Sorbonne (MA in theatre), & San Francisco State University (BA in creative writing). He has also trained in theatre at the Théâtre du Soleil & opera staging at the Paris National Opera. He is the winner of the Markowski-Leach Award for his play A Perfect Home80 euros per workshop (20 per session). All sessions must be paid in advance. Contact: justintiger@gmail.com or 06 23 29 30 25.

4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20 June (Mon & Weds), 1:00pm - 3:00pm: From Final Edit to First Sale Back by popular demand, this course explores the different routes a writer can take to get their work out into the world. We will discuss options, & walk through some of the necessary steps, such as searching for the right literary agent for your work, writing query letters, discussing book proposals, learning about alternative ways to get your book into print, such as e-publishing & print-on-demand services. We will also discuss publicity techniques, how to organize a book tour, & some creative ways to get that first book sold! Instructor: Tanio McCallum Code: WU041 Fee: 141€ AT: WICE

Intensive Poetry Workshop with Kurt Brown: July 1 - 6, 2007 at the Paris Writers’ Workshop. A RARE & EXCITING OPPORTUNITY to WRITE & REFLECT ON POETRY WRITING with author & instructor Kurt Brown! 5 morning sessions with Brown, afternoon conferences with Writers in Residence & craft lectures by guest authors of all genres. Cheaper than flying to Aspen or Sarah Lawrence to see Kurt Brown, this is a week to savor!!! Author of 6 books, 6 chapbooks, numerous anthologies & annuals, Brown’s newest collection of poems Sincerest Flatteries is the first book in the Tupelo Press Masters Series. Brown’s collection Fables from the Ark, won the 2003 Custom Words Prize. Other collections: More Things in Heaven & Earth (2002), Return of the Prodigals, (1999), &: Future Ship & From Here, will appear in 2007 & 2008. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence, is the founding director of Aspen Writers' Conference & of Writers' Conferences & Centers. He is also the editor of three annuals: The True Subject, (Graywolf Press, 1994), Writing it Down for James, (Beacon Press, 1995), & Facing the Lion, (Beacon Press,1996), & past editor of Aspen Anthology, past President of the Aspen Writers' Foundation & is currently on the board of Poets House in NY. Tuition 525€. More info/ to register, consult PWW page at http://www.wice-paris.org/ or email pww@wice-paris.org.

5, 7, 12 June (Tues & Thurs) 7:00 – 8:30pm: Beyond the Writer’s Notebook: How to Start & Write a Blog Maybe you’ve heard of blogging, but you’re not quite sure what it is. Maybe you’d like to start a blog, but you don’t know how to go about it, or can’t imagine what you would blog about. Today, blogging is as easy as sending an e-mail, & this class will give you everything you need to get started. The class will emphasize the benefits of blogging as a creative outlet of particular interest to those who love to write or want to hone their writing skills. Instructor: Pamela Poole Code: WU051 Fee: 65€ Place: WICE

Sign up now: for July or August sessions of Art Workshop’s summer creative writing seminars in Italy: SESSION I: July 25 - August 7 “POETRY IS THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN” with Marie Ponsot “THE USES OF MEMORY: POETRY & PROSE” with Honor Moore & “FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE” with Charles Marowitz. SESSION II: August 8 - August 21“ALL I KNOW ABOUT WRITING” with Maxine Hong Kingston; “CONSTRUCTING THE CRIME NOVEL” with S.J. Rozan & “VISION & REVISION: A SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP” with: Jayne Wenger. See website for complete details, & for workshops in the visual art fields: http://www.artworkshopintl.com/creative_writing.html

2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th June, plus Sat 7th, 14th July : The Other Writers' Workshop: 3-5pm: An informal, friendly place to get feedback on your creative writing. (Poetry or prose.) Bring something of your own & 5 copies. Or just listen & react. AT: Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris. M°: St Michel. http://www.shakespeareco.org/ 3 euros.

June 21 – June 27, 2007: POETS AS PILGRIMS “A poetry workshop & cultural exploration in Auvillar, France” led by internationally-acclaimed poets Denise Duhamel & Nick Carbó. Auvillar is a favorite stopover for pilgrims on their journey to Santiago de Compestala, Spain. Open to writers & poetry lovers of all levels. Receive personalized attention & feedback on writing while enjoying the historic Occitan culture. INSTRUCTOR BIOS: Denise Duhamel's poetry titles include Two & Two (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005), Queen for a Day: Selected & New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001 ), The Star-Spangled Banner (S. Illinois UnivPress, 1999) & Kinky (Orchises, 1997). She co-edited Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull, 2007). NEA fellowship in recipient, she is assoc professor of poetry at Florida International University in Miami. Nick Carbó is the author of 3 collections of poetry, the latest being Andalusian Dawn. He has edited three ground breaking anthologies of Filipino & Filipino American writing: Returning A Borrowed Tongue, Babaylan, & Pinoy Poetics. He has won NEA & the New York Foundation fellowships & residencies to Yaddo & MacDowell. SEE: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for more info: http://www.vcca.com/summer_france_workshops.html or contact Roberta Lawrence at (212) 627-0297; rlawrence@vcca.com All workshops, meals, accommodations & multiple sidetrips included. Cost: $2195 per person.

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PART III: News REVIEWS & reviews NEWS
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SUBMIT books: First poetry book contest at Pavement Saw Press. Selection is made anonymously through a competition that is open to anyone who has not previously published a volume of poetry or prose. The author receives $1000 & a percentage of the press run. Previous judges have included Judith Vollmer, David Bromige, Bin Ramke & Howard McCord. All poems must be original, all prose must be original, fiction or translations are not acceptable. Entries should be sent to: Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Award Entry, P.O. Box 6291, Columbus, OH 43206 All submissions must have an August 15th, or earlier, postmark. Submissions are accepted during the months of June, July, & August only. Full guidelines at: http://www.pavementsaw.org/pages/transaward.htm

NOW OUT: Julie Carr’s second book, “Equivocal”, is just out from Alice James Books! Here's a link if you'd like to check it out, see a couple of excerpts or order it. http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/equivocal.html She'll be reading & celebrating the release in New York City & the Bowery Poetry Club on June 12th at 6pm with Kazim Ali & Arielle Greenberg. She’ll be in Paris & ile de France in later June & July & hopefully there will be an opportunity to hear her read then!

FYI : SORTIE !: Le roman de Nell Andrea Daydream est sorti aux Editions l'Harmattan/ Nell Andrea’s new novel, Daydream, is now out at Editions l'Harmattan.

to end: SUMMER READING: What? You don’t know what to read this summer? Well, here is an exciting list of poetry & visual/art/poetry books by some of the USA’s most innovative poetry & mixed genre presses, The Figures, Roof, Yo-Yo Labs, United Artists, Granary, & Ugly Duckling Presse. These presses celebrate & announce the publication of the following books: “a (A)ugust”, by Akilah Oliver, “UNTITLED WORKS”, by Tonya Foster, “NOTES FOR SOME (NOMINALLY) AWAKE”, by Julie Patton, “FERVENT REMNANTS OF REFLECTIVE SURFACES”, by Evelyn Reilly, “ARE WE NOT BETRAYED BY IMPORTANCE”, by Francis Picabia, “SEEING OUT LOUD” (back in print), by Jerry Saltz, “COLUMNS & CATALOGUES”, by Peter Schjeldahl, “MINE”, by Clark Coolidge, “IFLIFE”, by Bob Perelman, “FOLLY”, by Nada Gordon, “MAKING DYING ILLEGAL”, by Madeline Gins & Arakawa, “KLUGE : A MEDITATION & Other Works”, by Brian Kim Stefans, “NINETEEN LINES : A Drawing Center Anthology”, ed. by Lytle Shaw, “MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY”, by Barbara Henning, “SOLUTION SIMULACRA”, by Gloria Frym, “JOIN THE PLANETS”, by Reed Bye, “ACROSS THE BIG MAP”, Ruth Altmann, “SOME FORMS OF AVAILABILITY”, by Simon Cutts, “A TESTAMENT OF WOMEN”, by Johanna Drucker, “PARADIGM OF THE TINCTURES”, by Steve McCaffery & Alan Halsey, “ALMA, OR THE DEAD WOMEN”, by Alice Notley, “PAPER CHILDREN”, by Mariana Marin, “INSPECTOR VS. EVADER”, by Paul Killebrew, “THE HOT GARMENT OF LOVE IS INSECURE”, by Elizabeth Reddin, “THE STATES”, by Craig Foltz, & “COMPLETE MINIMAL POEMS”, by Aram Saroyan.

Novelist Walker Percy said, "We love those who know the worst of us & don't turn their faces away."

01 May 2007

MAY Readings 2007: In & Around PARIS

AMAZING May!!!! All these events make my ears tingle!!!
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LIST ORDER:
Section I: Readings (w/asterisks) & Events by date for May
Section II: Creative Writing Courses & Summer Workshops
Section III: Reviews News & New Reviews: calls for work, other offers, etc.

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PART I: Readings & Events by date for the month of MAY
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*2nd May Spoken Word - 9pm on! Start the month by reading yourself with this Spoken word/scène ouverte: Performance poetry, poésie sonore, Lire vivant, Stand up, Short Short stories, English, Français: open mic. YOU READ!!! Come share some work, hear others! Organized by David Barnes Info: bastable7@yahoo.co.uk AT: L’Ogre à Plumes, 49/51 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, M° Parmentier.

*2 mai à 19h : Rencontre avec DIDIER ROTH-BETTONI pour la parution de son essai L'homosexualité au cinéma (La Musardine). Histoire de l'homosexualité à travers celle du cinéma, le livre montre comment elle a toujours été présente, sous une forme ou une autre, dans les productions quelles soient hollywoodiennes, underground ou militantes. Didier Roth-Bettoni est rédacteur en chef du magazine Illico, journaliste et critique de cinéma, ancien rédacteur en chef du Mensuel du cinéma et de La Saison cinématographique. AT : Violette & Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07 www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

3 mai 2007, à partir de 19 heures Vernissage Hannes Steinert Le peintre allemand Hannes Steinert expose ses oeuvres graphiques au sous-sol de la librairie. Du 3 au 23 mai 2007. AT : Les Mots à la Bouche, rue du croix de la bretonnerie, 75004 Paris.

*4 Mai 2007 à partir de 19 heures A l'occasion de la parution de son premier livre «Ouestern» (Editions Laureli Léo Scheer) Rencontre avec Claire Guezengar AT : Librairie Michèle Ignazi 17. rue de Jouy, 75004 Paris, 01 42 71 17 00, m° : Saint-Paul ou Pont-Marie
4 mai, 21h MUSIC : los Caballeros Simpàticoos at The Green Linnet, 8 ave Victoria, 75001 Paris. Métro : Châtelet. What’s event cooler is it is « entrée gratuite » !!!
5 May: 10-12am Michael Davidson will give a lecture on the subject “The Dream of a Public Language: Modernity, Manifesto, & the Citizen Subject” on Saturday at the Insitut Charles V, 10 rue Charles V, 75004, Paris, M° Saint-Paul, Bastille, Sully-Morland. Room A50.

SIGN UP BY MAY 5th MAXIMUM for Epoetry 2007: the largest annual symposium & conference on poésie numérique!!! 21 au mercredi 23 mai : Symposium on E poetry & poésie numérique, co-organized with EPC from Univ of Buffalo in the USA & Paris VIII: http://paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/epoetry/accueil.htm

6 May At 18h30. Paris Soirees Dinner With American Painter in Paris Joe Johnson on "Comunicating Between Cultures". PARIS SOIREES take place every Sunday evening in May, with cocktails, dinner & discussion, often with visiting authors & artists or political, philosophical or “living in France” topics. Contact Patricia to get on her great listing: Patricia Laplante-Collins,13, rue de Mulhouse, 75002 Paris, France, Tel: (33) 1 43 26 12 88 Email: parissoirees@hotmail.com or see their site & blog: http://parissoireesparisatnight.blogspot.com// & http://www.parissoirees.com/

**7 mai 2007 à 19h Bilingual reading with Double CHANGE : Double Change et l’Espace éof vous invitent à une lecture bilingue de MARIE-LOUISE CHAPELLE & MICHAEL DAVIDSON. BIOS : CHAPELLE was born in Nevers in 1974. She has published in Jean Daive’s journal FIN. Her first book entitled mettre. was published in 2006 by the Théâtre Typographique. DAVIDSON is the author of 8 books of poetry, most recently “The Arcades” (O Books, 1998). With Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten, & Ron Silliman, he is the co-author of “Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union” (Mercury House Press, 1991). A professor of literature at the U of California, San Diego, Davidson is known for insightful literary criticism, editing the monumental “George Oppen: New Collected Poems” writing “The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics & Community at Mid-Century” (Cambridge UP, 1989), “Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry & the Material Word” (U of CA, 1997), & “Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics” (U of Chicago, 2003). His essays on disability are forthcoming in “Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability & the Defamiliar Body” (Univ of Mich). Reading AT : l’espace éof, 15 rue Saint-Fiacre 75002 Paris M° Grands boulevards http://www.doublechange.com/ entrée libre

7 and 14 May 7pm: NOT TO BE MISSED. Mondays7 brings you SAMUEL BECKET Shorts. "Footfalls", "Not I", "Come & Go", "Rockaby" by SAMUEL BECKETT, plays he wrote in English first performed for the first time in English in Paris. The Monday showcase presentations are. With contemporary music composed by Charlie W. Allen, a young British composer and pianist from Manchester. English Rep at the Sudden every Monday. AT: Sudden Theatre, 14bis rue Sainte-Isaure, 75018 Paris. Reservations (French only) 01 42 62 35 00 email: sudden@wanadoo.fr website: Mondaysat7.com email: info@Mondaysat7.com Reservations in English 01 46 06 66 10 or 01 73 75 79 13 Tix: 17 & 13 euros

*9 may --14h & then 15h For Kids, a bilingual « festin de contes », with Liz Weir dans le cadre du Festival "1, 2 ,3… Cultures" for kids 6 & older. entrée libre, en anglais et en français the Centre Culturel Irlandais presents a feast of stories. Liz Weir, a professional story-teller from Northern Ireland serves a banquet of Irish tales on the delicious and exotic theme of food. She was the first winner of the International Storybridge Award & has published a number of collections of children’s stories. Liz Weir has an international reputation & has worked as far afield as Israel, Germany, Australia & the US.RESERVATIONS REQUIRED ! at : AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais 75005 – Paris Tel : (33) (1) 58 52 10 30 RER B: Luxembourg; M°: Cardinal Lemoine or Place Monge Bus: 84, 21, 27. http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/

*9 mai à 19h : Rencontre avec FRÉDÉRIQUE ANNE pour la parution de son roman l'Envol (KTM). D'octobre à janvier, de Paris à Marseille, de séminaires en missions, Emmanuelle digère des histoires d'amour mal terminées et tente de fuir ses responsabilités. AT : Violette & Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07 www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*10 Mai à partir de 19 heures À l'occasion de la parution de Delenda Ouest, postface de Patrice Maniglier (Les Petits Matins/Grands Soirs) Rencontre avec l’auteur JOSEPH MOUTON à Librairie Michèle Ignazi, 17, rue de Jouy, 75004 Paris, 01 42 71 17 00, m° : Saint-Paul ou Pont-Marie
*10 mai 2007, 19 heures Frédérique Anne, ex-présidente de l' Autre Cercle - Ile de France, signe son roman « L'Envol »Emmanuelle est partagée entre ses responsabilités et la tentation de les fuir, entre ce qui se fait et ce qui ne se fait pas, entre les histoires d'amour mal terminées et celle qui semble se profiler. Et si sa rencontre avec Sophie, lors d'une mission dans le Sud, était l'occasion de mettre un peu d'ordre dans tout cela et d'oser grandir ? Paru aux Editions KTM AT : Les Mots à la Bouche, rue du croix de la bretonnerie, 75004 Paris.

10th May - 19h30 You are cordially invited to an evening with Charlotte Puckette & Olivia Kiang-Snaije, co-authors, & Ms. Dinah Diwan, illustrator, of “The Ethnic Paris Cookbook,” a cookery book that explores another side of Paris' cuisine: its Moroccan cafés, phô kitchens & sushi bars. Each chapter of this unique book focuses on a particular country, beginning with a history of the region as well as an overview of its cuisine, followed by step-by-step recipes & addresses of top ethnic restaurants (including the best place to get couscous), corner shops & Parisian markets. Ms. Puckette & Ms. Kiang-Snaije will introduce their book, let us sample some of their favourite recipes, like ginger juice, & sign the book. Free. Please RSVP: 01 44 77 88 99. AT: WHSmith, 248 rue de Rivoli, 75001 M° Concorde.
11 mai, 21h MUSIC : los Caballeros Simpàticoos are back for a second Friday at The Green Linnet, 8 ave Victoria, 75001 Paris. Métro : Châtelet. What’s event cooler is it is « entrée gratuite » !!!
*12 mai 2007 à 19h Double Change et le Point Ephémère vous invitent à une lecture bilingue de Jean-Marie Gleize et Stephen Ratcliffe. Les textes de S. Ratcliffe seront traduits. Une vidéo d'Eric Pelet sera diffusée. Biographies : Jean-Marie Gleize est écrivain et dirige la revue *Nioques*. Après une quadralogie publiée aux éditions du Seuil, *Léman* (1990), *Le principe de nudité intégrale* (1995), *Les chiens noirs de la prose* (1999) et *Néon*, (2004), Jean-Marie Gleize continue à faire acte vers une écriture toujours plus plate, littérale, tangiblement présente. Stephen Ratcliffe est poète et professeur à Mills College en Californie. Comme Jean-Marie Gleize, bien que dans une forme différente, il travaille l'écriture littérale héritée, pour sa part, de celle de Gertrude Stein. Ses textes composés chaque jour mêlent des voix étrangères à son propre portrait en creux. Il a publié récemment *Portraits and Repetition* (The Post-Apollo Press, 2002) et *Real* (Avenue B, 2007), ainsi qu'un livre d'écrits théoriques *Listening to Reading* (SUNY Press, 2000). Au Point Ephémère, 200 quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris (M° Jaurès l.2 ou 5) (pour plus de renseignements contacter vincentbroqua@gmail.com)
12 May from 17h to 19h Paris Soirees SINGLES APERITIF. 15 euros. Reserve with Patricia with your tel number & email & remember to request she send you the address of the event: http://fr.f610.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=singlesaperitif@gmail.com

*12th May, at midnight: For an underground Open Mike experience with “The Subterranean Poetry Club » We're going underground. A poetry reading in the catacombs - next Saturday 12th May, meet at midnight metro Maison Blanche. Bring a torch and wellington boots (that's a flashlight and galloshes to Americans.) I'm not kidding about the boots as we'll be wading through water up to our shins. Bring your deepest, darkest poems. Bring verse from the locked boxes in the basement of your being. From the subterranea of your unconscious. If we're not in the metro - go to nearby bar Maison Blanche, 107 ave d'Italie. FYI: Leroy Merlin sell boots for ten euros. Meet between 11h30 and Midnight at: metro Maison Blanche Don't be late. More info on: http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/2007/05/subterranean-poetry-club.html

*13th May—at 7.30 pm Moving Parts invites you to a Playreading in English : Charles Borkhuis’ "Deep Divide" Contact Stephanie to book a reading of YOUR play. Programme subject to change, see: http://www.scamparis.com or http://www.scamparis.com to receive monthly mailings AT : Carr's Pub & Restaurant,1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries
*14 May--7:30p.m. Opening Reading for the Paris Poetry Workshop with readings by Cecilia Woloch, Kathleen Spivack & Lisa Pasold. BIOS: Cecilia Woloch is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently LATE (BOA Editions 2003). She has a new chapbook forthcoming from Tupelo Press this fall. Lisa PASOLD is the author of A Bad Year for Journalists (2006) and Weave (2003) both from Frontenac House Press. Just back in Paris after a stint on a writing grant in the Yukon, Pasold is hard at work on a novel and a new poetry collection. AT: Berkley Books, 8, rue Casimir Delavigne75006 Paris M° Odéon Tel.: 01.46.34.85.73

*14 May—19h la dernière soirée de l'année autour de la poésie à POLYTECHNIQUE, organisée avec l'Association Double Change (fondée par un ancien élève de l'Ecole, O. Berrada). Comme d'habitude, les élèves seront invités à lire leur propre travail (dans la langue de leur choix). Ensuite ils recontreront le poète américain S. Ratcliffe. Stephen Ratcliffe's recent books of poetry are Portraits & Repetition (2002), & SOUND/(system) (2002). New poems have appeared in 1913, Chain, Denver Quarterly, P-QUEUE, New American Writing, LIT & many more. Listening to Reading, a book of essays on sound/shape & meaning in experimental poetry, was published by SUNY Press in 2000. He lives in Bolinas, CA, & teaches at Mills College in Oakland. AT: Ecole Polytechnique, RER B exit at LOZERE, cross over the bridge to exit up street at left of café then straight UP a driveway & then set of stairs through woods, at top, walk through school gates & follow along path over road & past round dorms on left until you come to a big building with cartoons on it. It is in the Amphi Pierre Curie of the Languages building. Ask if you get lost!

*15 May 7:00pm “Reading: Performance Poetry: from Sign Language to Slam” in English & French with authors & performers Virginie Poitrasson, Mona Jean Cedar, Jennifer K Dick, Glenn Phillips & “Zeor”. Performances will include projections of images, sound work, multiple voice work & Multilanguage texts, moving through traditions as varied as Hip-Hop Slam & Postmodern Poésie Sonore to perhaps demonstrate the common roots linking the oral tradition of reading & performing the poem. BIOS: POITRASSON is the author of 3 chapbooks & more forthcoming as well as translation of Lyn Hejinian’s Slowly. She has performed alongside Boxon & with such notable French PPoets as Bobillot. J. DICK is the author of 2 books, Flurescence (U of GA Press) & Retina/Rétine (Estepa, France, 2005) & recently performed a version of this piece at the Institut du Monde Arabe. Organized in conjunction with Cecilia Woloch’s annual Paris Poetry Workshop, authors will also “share their work & talk about moving between the page & the stage, bringing the written word to life.” (Preceded by a private afternoon craft lecture by the writers, contact Cecilia or Heather Heartley if you are interested in attending that as well) AT: WICE, 20 blvd du Montparnasse, 75015 Paris, M° Duroc or Falguière (or Montparnasse with a 10min walk). Free with RSVP - Please call WICE www.wice-paris.org for more info, tel: 01 45 66 75 50.

*15 mai--18h - 23h Art & Performance (with music) Second edition "Soirée des Arts Fugitiviste". A cultural happening that groups together in an annual meeting the work of young contemporary international artists. The works are exhibited (painting, photo, sculpture) for a period of 15 days or performed live (music, poetry, theater, video) on the opening night. The concept that groups the work of about 15 different artists is to try to capture the "fugitive", the fleeting moment, the instantaneous. They all have worked on the subject of temporality. So, this event proposes to dive into the "present moment" & to open as many windows as vivid instants exist in everyone's experience." To know more about the artists participating, such as Antonio Meza, Josef Baar, Ulla Rousse, Laure Chapalain, Anne-Bénédicte Girot, etc, you can check: http://artfugitif.blogspot.com/ The exhibition will be open from Mai the 16th till Mai the 31st mai, everyday from 14h30 to 19h30. AT: Paris: Musée Roy Adzdak, 3 rue Jonquoy, 75014 Paris, m° Plaisance. Tél : 01 45 43 06 98 http://www.paris.org/Musees/Adzak/info.html

*15 May Live Poets invites you to hear Eva Salzman, Gerald Mangan, & Eddie Linden. AT: The Highlander, 8 rue de Nevers, 75006 Paris. Tel: 01 43 26 54 20 http://www.the-highlander.fr/ M°s: Odéon, St Michel, ou Mabillon. Donation: 5 E

*16 May at 19h30 (7:30pm) IVY WRITERS PARIS invites you to an evening of poetry, performance & a small art book display. Hear Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo & Kate Vanhouten read (en anglais, français et japonais). BIOS: Steve Dalachinsky, author, perfomer, musican & liner-note writer has written A Superintendent's Eyes (Hozomeen Press 2000) & The Final Nite (Ugly Duckling Presse 2006) as well as the recent chapbooks Musicology (Editions Pioche, Paris 2005), Trial & Error in Paris (Loudmouth Collective 2003), Lautreamont's Laments (Furniture Press 2005), In Glorious Black & White (Ugly Duckling Presse 2005), St. Lucie (King of Mice Press 2005), Are We Not MEN & Fake Book (2 books of collage - 8 Page Press 2005), & Dream Book (Avantcular Press 2005). Yuko Otomo, is the author of Small Poems & The Hand of The Poet (both from Ugly Duckling Presse); A Sunday afternoon on the isle of museum & Fragile (both from Sisyphus Press). A bilingual (Japanese & English) poet & visual artist, Otomo is of Japanese origin though now lives in NYC. In addition to her other poetry, she writes haiku, art criticism & essays. Kate VanHouten, Paris based American artist, is a sculptor, painter, printmaker & artist book maker. She is the author of numerous art & chapbooks of her own, such as Listen Rain (2006). Artists' books have been an important part of her work since the 8O's & Van Houten recently began Estepa Editions which specializes in printing small chapbooks of collaborations between authors & poets of various languages & origins. Van Houten & Otomo will read work by Tateo Fukutomi translated by Shelley Dauvillier & Kate van Houten, published by Estepa Editions, Paris in 2003. Tateo Fukutomi is a haiku poet living in Miyazaki City, in the south of the Japanese archipelago, born in 1936. AT: LE NEXT, 17, rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris(just off rue Montorgeuil) M°Etienne Marcel / Les Halles. Tel : 01 42 36 18 93 http://www.lenext.com/

***17 May at 7 pm A reading & book signing with Cole Swensen and Sarah Riggs featuring two new books Cole Swensen's “The Glass Age” (Alice James, 2007, http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/) & Sarah Riggs' “Waterwork” http://www.chax.org/ BIOS: Swensen is the author of 11 books of poetry, and her volume “Goest” was 2004 National Book Award finalist. Her other collections have won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She also translates from French, and her translation of Jean Fremon's The Island of the Dead won the 2004 PEN USA Award for Translation. The editor of La Presse books, she is currently dividing her time between Washington DC and Paris on a Guggenheim grant. Riggs, born and raised in New York, is a Paris-based poet and visual artist. Her poetry books are “Waterwork” (Chax), “28 télégrammes and 60 textos” (Editions de l'Attente) and soon “Chain of Miniscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling” (Reality Street). She is the translator of Isabelle Garron's “Face Before Against” (Seeing Eye Books '05 & Litmus forthcoming), and, with Omar Berrada, of Marie Borel's “Wolftrot” (La Presse, 06). Riggs directs the arts association Tamaas, and is active in the bilingual poetry association, Double Change. AT: The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore 22, rue St Paul 75004 Paris France Tel / Fax (+33) 01 48 04 75 08 red.wheelbarrow@wanadoo.fr or http://www.theredwheelbarrow.com/ M° St Paul

***18 May: 7:30 pm Celebratory Closing Reading for the Paris Poetry Workshop with readings by Heather Hartley & Workshop Participants: poets from the USA, UK & Europe. at Shakespeare & Co Bookshop, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris Metros: Saint-Michel or Maubert Mutualite
*18 mai de 18h30 et 21h00. L’annonce des résultats du Concours de nouvelles contre l'homophobie cette année donnera lieu à une table ronde sur le thème « Littérature et homophobie », organisée en hommage à Laurent BONELLI (libraire et chroniqueur) , qui avait activement contribué au lancement de ce concours annuel en 2005. Avec les interventions de Laure CHARPENTIER, Olivier DELORME, Patrick DUBUIS, Mehdi HACHEMI et Hugo MARSAN. Dans la salle des mariages de la Mairie du 2e arrondissement au 8 rue de la Banque à Paris.

19 mai de 9h30 à 17h30 : Violette & Co tient une table de vente au Colloque "Invisibilité et visibilité des lesbiennes" organisé par la Coordination lesbienne en France à la Mairie de Paris. Renseignements et inscription (impérative au plus tard le 1er mai) : 06 07 57 95 35 ; 06 86 99 60 72 ; colloqueparis07@yahoo.fr ; CQFD, 37 avenue Pasteur, 93100 Montreuil. Programme et bulletin d'inscription disponibles à Violette & Co. 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. www.violetteandco.com/librairie/
***20 Mai : 19h - 23h OPENING NIGHT performances as part of the Epoetry 2007 Colloque : Philippe Boisnard & Hortense Gaulthier (F) -- Jay Bolter (USA) & Karen Head (USA) & Maria Engberg (N) ; Philippe Castellin (F) -- Gérard Giacchi (F) ; Lawrence Upton & John Drever (UK) -- Alan Sondheim & Charles Baldwin (USA) ; Chris Funkhouser & Daniela Franco & Alireza Khatami (USA) -- Jeorg Piringer (A) Lucio Agra (BR) & Paulo Hartmann (BR) -- Wilton Azevedo (BR) -- Loss Glazier (USA) Free & open to the public. See these author’s bios & samples via: http://paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/epoetry/artistes/artistes.htm AT : Le DIVAN DU MONDE, 75 rue des Martyrs, 75018 Paris, M°: Pigalle, Abbesses ou Anvers Tél. 01 42 52 02 46 http://www.divandumonde.com/index2.htm

**21 au mercredi 23 mai : 9h-17h daily. Symposium on E poetry & poésie numérique, co-organized with EPC from Univ of Buffalo in the USA & Paris VIII here in France!!! Talks, debates, conference papers & readings will all be part of the events but some of the most exciting & well known poetics & poetry authors & performers in the world! See the program at: Free soirées, & cheap conference for students. http://paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/epoetry/accueil.htm AT: Paris VIII 2, rue de la Liberté Saint-Denis Tél : 01 49 40 67 89

*21 mai - 19h A l’occasion de son 30e anniversaire, la Bpi se propose de parcourir la littérature contemporaine et de faire un état des lieux de la création littéraire en 2007. A discussion on Leçon de création : François Morel. 30 ans d’écrivains : Le théâtre et son autre Table ronde avec Enzo Cormann, David Noir, Ronan Cheneau, Noëlle Renaude, animée par Jean-Marc Lanteri AT : Centre Pompidou - Petite salle, Entrée libre

***21 May: 20h - 23h Multilingual: soirée webpoésie as part of the Epoetry 2007 Colloque : with work tonight by A.Strid (F) -- Aya Karpinska (UK) Benjamin Gomez (F) -- Xavier Malbreil (F) Jim Rosenberg (USA) -- Patricia Rydzok (F) Eva Quintas & Michel Lefbvre & Childe Roland (CA) -- Tibor Papp & Claude Maillard (HNG / F) Jason Nelson (AUS) Free & open to the public. See these author’s bios & samples via: http://paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/epoetry/artistes/artistes.htm at: Le POINT EPHEMERE, 200 quai de valmy, 75010 Paris, tel 01 40 34 02 48 http://www.pointephemere.org/

**21 MAY at 7pm. Viken Berberian reads from his forthcoming novel, “Das Kapital: a novel of love and money markets” (Simon & Schuster), Viken Berberian’s widely acclaimed first book, The Cyclist, took readers inside the head of literature’s most seductive would-be suicide bomber in what The Washington Times called “deeply humane and complex,” and the Philadelphia Inquirer described as “one of the most original American novels of the year.” Now Berberian explores a different tier of terrorism in his new novel, Das Kapital: a novel of love and money markets, a satirical "thriller that defies easy categorization” (Publishers Weekly). Viken Berberian has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times and the Los Angeles Times. The Cyclist has been translated into Dutch, Hebrew and Italian. For the past five years he has lived in Marseille, New York and Paris. AT: Shakespeare & Company, 37 Rue de la Bücherie, 75005 Paris. http://shakespeareco.org/ Good to precede a night out at the Open mic!!!
21 May on for 6 consecutive Mondays: 7pm: American Blues with 3 short plays by Tennessee Williams: "Auto-da-Fé", "Why do you smoke so much Lily" and "Hello from Bertha". With original blues live with our talented group of musicians and music composed specially for our shows. Performed by Mondays7 theatre troupe. AT: Sudden Theatre, 14bis rue Sainte-Isaure, 75018 Paris. Reservations (French only) 01 42 62 35 00 email: sudden@wanadoo.fr website: Mondaysat7.com email: info@Mondaysat7.com Reservations in English 01 46 06 66 10 or 01 73 75 79 13 Tix: 17 & 13 euros
**21st May--9pm, Spoken Word (formerly known as Kerouac): Open mic/scène ouverte: Performance poetry. Lire vivant. Stand up. Monologue. Stories. Spoken word. Poésie sonore. English. Français. Your original texts. Old texts - from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron. Only one rule – make the words come alive. YOU READ!!! At: The Lizard Lounge, 18 rue du Bourg-Tibourg underground in the cellar/cave round the back in the farthese back room (M° Hotel de Ville) Happy hour all night! More info: David Barnes bastable7@yahoo.co.uk

***22 Mai : 20h - 23h Multilingual:soirée poésie animée interactive : Jim Andrews (CA) -- Jérôme Fletcher (UK), Maria Mencia (SP/UK) -- Alexandre Gherban (F), Zervos Knominos (AUS) -- Alan Bigelow (USA), Stephanie Strickland & Cynthia Lawson (USA) -- Eugenio Tisselli (SP); Simon Biggs (UK) See these author’s bios & samples via: http://paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/epoetry/artistes/artistes.htm Free & open to the public. at: Le POINT EPHEMERE, 200 quai de valmy, 75010 Paris, tel 01 40 34 02 48 http://www.pointephemere.org/

*22 may at 19h Berkeley Books of Paris & the WICE literary journal Upstairs at Duroc invite you to come hear two poets, Lisa Robertson & Stephen Ratcliffe. BIOS: Lisa Robertson is a Canadian writer born in Toronto. Her books of poetry include Debbie: An Epic, The Weather, Rousseau's Boat & her new collection, The Men (2006). She also writes essays & collaborative texts for the visual arts, collected in Occasional Works & Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture. In the Fall of 2006, she was writer-in-residence at U of California, Berkeley. Stephen Ratcliffe's recent books of poetry are Portraits & Repetition (2002), & SOUND/(system) (2002). New poems have appeared in 1913, Chain, Denver Quarterly, P-QUEUE, New American Writing, LIT & many more. Listening to Reading, a book of essays on sound/shape & meaning in experimental poetry, was published by SUNY Press in 2000. He lives in Bolinas, CA, & teaches at Mills College in Oakland. AT: Berkeley Books of Paris, 8 rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris, Metro Odeon.

**22 MAY at 7pm. Viken Berberian reads from his forthcoming novel, “Das Kapital: a novel of love and money markets” (Simon & Schuster), Viken Berberian’s widely acclaimed first book, The Cyclist, took readers inside the head of literature’s most seductive would-be suicide bomber in what The Washington Times called “deeply humane and complex,” and the Philadelphia Inquirer described as “one of the most original American novels of the year.” Now Berberian explores a different tier of terrorism in his new novel, Das Kapital: a novel of love and money markets, a satirical "thriller that defies easy categorization” (Publishers Weekly). Viken Berberian has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times and the Los Angeles Times. The Cyclist has been translated into Dutch, Hebrew and Italian. For the past five years he has lived in Marseille, New York and Paris. AT: Shakespeare & Company, 37 Rue de la Bücherie, 75005 Paris. http://shakespeareco.org/

*22 may at 19h30 Reading by John F. Deane “No other contemporary Irish poet … (has) mastered the art of eloquent, impassioned expression as artistic statement as beautifully as John F. Deane.” – Irish Times He founded Poetry Ireland & The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979 & has published several collections including Christ, with Urban Fox which has been widely translated. His latest collection of poems is The Instruments of Art (2005) of which the title poem was awarded the Ted McNulty Prize for Irish Poetry. In 2006 he was awarded the Ireland Fund bursary for The Princess Grace Library residence in Monaco. He is a member of Aosdána & has just received the “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”. Born in Achill Island, Co. Mayo, John F. Deane will work on a translation into English of Alain Bosquet’s collection Le tourment de Dieu during his residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais – work which he finds close to his own spirit in poetry. 3€, en anglais AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais 75005 – Paris Tel : (33) (1) 58 52 10 30 RER B: Luxembourg; M°: Cardinal Lemoine or Place Monge Bus: 84, 21, 27. http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/

23rd May - 15h30 Special Kids' Club Theme: "Je donne ma langue au chant" For children ages 3-6, their parent(s) & anyone involved in teaching English to young children. Come to the Children's Corner for a special Kids' Club animated by Ms. Patricia Johnston, creator of "Je donne ma langue au chant." The method has received the "Label Européen des Langues 2006" from the European Commission for an innovative pedagogical language method for young children. FREE! RSVP not necessary. AT: WHSmith, 248 rue de Rivoli, 75001 M° Concorde.

***23 MAI : 20h - 23h Multilingual: soirée performances as part of the Epoetry 2007 Colloque : Annie Abrahams & the All Star GirlsBand(NL/F) -- Ambroise Barras (CH) Eduardo Kac (USA) -- Serge Bouchardon & Aymeric Brisse (F) Bjorn Magnhildøen (NOR) Nick Montfort & Jim Carpenter & Anick Bergeron (USA) -- Talan Memmott (USA) Philippe Bootz (F) -- Luc Dall'armellina (F) See these author’s bios & samples via: http://paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/epoetry/artistes/artistes.htm At: Le CUBE, 20, Cours Saint Vincent, 92130 Issy-les-moulineaux, Tél. 01 58 88 3000 for full info on how to get there, see: http://www.lesiteducube.com/site/index.php?section=plan_acces

*23 mai à 19h : Rencontre avec NICOLE ALBERT pour la parution de son article "Une topographie des plaisirs lesbiens parisiens" dans le numéro de la Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine consacré à l'histoire des homosexualités. Nicole Albert est aussi l'auteure de Saphisme et décadence dans Paris fin-de-siècle (La Martinière) AT : Violette & Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07 www.violetteandco.com/librairie/
*23 mai 2007 à 19h: Double Change vous invite à une lecture bilingue de Stacy Doris, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Sabine Mâcher et Carolyn Bergvall.

*24 May at 19h : Reading by Three American Fiction & nonfiction authors who will appear in one evening at the VILLAGE VOICE: Charles d'Ambrosio (The Dead Fish Museum), Craig Davidson (Rust & Bone: Stories), David Treuer (Dr Apelles). They will be introduced by their French publisher Francis Geffard (Editions Albin Michel). Charles D'Ambrosio is the author of The Pointand Orphans, a collection of essays. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, & A Public Space. Craig Davidson lives in Iowa City, Iowa. His stories have been published in The Fiddlehead, Event, Prairie Fire, & SubTerrain. He has also written horror fiction under a pseudonym. David Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Canada, a Pushcart Prize, the 1996 Minnesota Book Award & was a finalist for the Penn West prize in 1999. Treuer has completed his third novel, The Translation of Dr Apelles. He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation & Minneapolis. AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6, rue Princesse 75006. M°: Mabillon http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/author_events.html

***24 mai à 19h. Annie Zadek au Musée Zadkine : Annie Zadek est l’auteur de récits et livres envoûtants, réflexion et recherche sur les origines, le lien, le souvenir. Elle a fait paraître Le Cuisinier de Warburton, Minuit, 1979 ; La Condition des soies, Minuit, 1982 ; Nos fils avec des dessins de Jean-Marc Scanreigh, Michel Chomarat, 1990 ; Walzer König/Roi de la valse, Jutta Legueil ; Roi de la valse, Critérion, 1992, rééd. Laurence Manguin, 1998 ; Vivant, Fourbis, 1998 ; « Souffrir mille morts » « Fondre en larmes » avec une photographie d’Yves Rozet, URDLA-Centre international de l’Estampe, 2004 ; Douleur au membre fantôme, Les Solitaires intempestifs, 2004. Certains de ses textes ont été mis en scène au théâtre notamment par Jean-Louis Martinelli, Patrick Bonté, Sylvie Mongin-Algan. Outre un texte d’elle inédit, Annie Zadek, lira des extraits de Destruction du père-reconstruction du père : Ecrits et entretiens (1923-2000) de Louise Bourgeois (Galerie Lelong, 2000). Entrée libre AT : Musée Zadkine 100 bis rue d’Assas 76006 Paris Tél : 01 55 42 77 20 Fax : 01 40 46 84 27 http://paris.fr/musees/zadkine M Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Vavin RER B Port-Royal Bus 38, 82, 83, 91 Responsable de la programmation : Jérôme Mauche
*25 May at 7pm Cara Black is reading from her novel “Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis”, Aimée's 7th Investigation AT: The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore, 22, rue St Paul, 75004 Paris France Tel / Fax (+33) 01 48 04 75 08 red.wheelbarrow@wanadoo.fr or www.theredwheelbarrow.com

*27th May—at 7.30 pm Moving Parts invites you to a Playreading in English : Antoinette Moses’ "RED" Contact Stephanie to book a reading of YOUR play. Programme subject to change, see: http://www.scamparis.com/ or e-mail movingparts@wanadoo.fr to receive monthly mailings AT : Carr's Pub & Restaurant,1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries
**28 May at 7pm Cara Black is reading from her novel “Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis”, Aimée's 7th Investigation AT: Shakespeare and Company. 37 rue de la Bûcherie, Paris, 75005. France. www.shakespeareco.org

**29 May; 7:30PM-9:30PM AN EVENING WITH PETE HAMILL The legendary New York newspaperman, novelist & passionate lover of Paris joins Paris Through Expatriate Eyes director Terrance Gelenter for a look back on his life & career. A veteran reporter who cut his journalistic teeth at a time when New York had seven daily newspapers he continues to contribute articles, reviews & op-ed pieces to major newspapers & the New Yorker magazine. Pete has carved out an equally distinguished career as the author of the poignant SNOW IN AUGUST, the unflinching memoir, A DRINKING LIFE, WHY SINATRA MATTERS, the indispensable, NEWS IS A VERB: JOURNALISM AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, FOREVER,DOWNTOWN & the just published, NORTH RIVER.AT: Hotel du Louvre-Rohan Room, Place André Malraux Paris 75001 Tickets: 25 euros complimentary appetizers, no host bar Reservations: Terrance@paris-expat.com or 06-7098-1368

30th May - 15h30 May Kids' Club Come to the Children's Corner for games,books, & more! FREE! RSVP not necessary. AT: WHSmith, 248 rue de Rivoli, 75001 M° Concorde.

30 mai à 19h : Vernissage de l'exposition de dessins érotiques de FRANCE THALIE ALBIGÉS "Féminin dénoué". Je ne dessine pas pour choquer / Je ne dessine pas pour plaire / Mais pour offrir ce que nos mains poursuivent / Ce que nos mains réclament. / Dévoiler nos regards, libérer l'interdit…. France Thalie Albigès est aussi poète et présentera ses CD de poésie érotique Féminin dénoué et Ballades... libertines. Sous le regard des femmes à l'occasion du vernissage. (exposition du 30 mai au 17 juin) AT : Violette & Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07 www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*31 May at 19h: The Irish Cultural Center invites you to meet & hear PLAYWRITE Michael West at La Médiathèque. Michael West has written, translated & adapted numerous plays to wide acclaim. These include Foley, which had its premiere in France at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, & Dublin by Lamplight, which won numerous awards at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005 & is currently on an international tour. In 1995 he founded with Annie Ryan The Corn Exchange in order to explore different theatrical styles, in particular, the Commedia dell’Arte. Reservation necessary (places limited) €3, in English AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais 75005 – Paris Tel : (33) (1) 58 52 10 30 RER B: Luxembourg; M°: Cardinal Lemoine or Place Monge Bus: 84, 21, 27.

*1 June at 19h30. Reading by Bernard O’Donoghue Born in Co Cork, Bernard O’Donoghue is a teacher, poet & literary critic. Currently teaching Medieval English at Wadham College, Oxford, he continues to find an audience at home in Ireland. Winner of the Whitbread prize for poetry for his 1995 collection Gunpowder, O’Donoghue has also published Poaching Rights (1987), The Weakness (1991), Here Nor There (1999) & Outliving (2003). His Selected Poems will be published by Faber in 2008. He reviews for The Times Literary Supplement, &, as well as writing on medieval European poetry, he published a study Seamus Heaney & the Language of Poetry (1994) & a new verse translation of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight (2006). €3, in English AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais 75005 – Paris Tel : (33) (1) 58 52 10 30 RER B: Luxembourg; M°: Cardinal Lemoine or Place Monge Bus: 84, 21, 27.

8 June 19h30: DINER CONCERT at L’ELYSEES BIARRITZ: JAY GOTTLIEB, American Music & Piano. Réservation obligatoire avant le 30 Mai !!! 19h30 Concert 1ère partie 4 piano blues by Aaron COPLAND ; Thoreau by Charles IVES ; Anniversaires (extracts) by Leonard BERNSTEIN ; Suite de "Porgy & Bess" by George GERSHWIN (transcrition by Jay GOTTLIEB) 20h10 Intermission 20h45 Concert 2ème partie Knee Play N° 4 by Philip GLASS (extract of "Einstein on the beach") ; KolnConcert, 1st Part by Keith JARRETT; Phrygian Gates by John ADAMS (FINALE) 21h30 Cocktail Dinatoire (hors boissons). Menu composé par Jay Gottlieb à partager avec lui. Prix: 50 € (Boissons en+) Réserv. obligatoire par chèque à l’ordre de «Elysées Biarritz» à renvoyer avant le 30 Mai 2007 à Elysées Biarritz, 22/24 Rue Quentin Bauchart, 75008 Paris Merci de préciser au dos de votre chèque: Soirée Jay Gottlieb http://jaygottlieb.free.fr/

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PART II: CLASSES by start date.
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MAY PARIS POETRY WORKSHOP with Cecilia Woloch:
May 13 - 18, 2007. A few spots left!!!
Cecilia Woloch leads a 5-day intensive workshop for poets at all levels of development. Morning workshops with writing exercises & feedback; afternoon craft talks with representatives of the Paris literary community, then evening readings -- including an evening of bi-lingual performance poetry at WICE, an IVY reading with NY poets Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo, an opening evening with Kathleen Spivak, Lisa Pasold & Cecilia, & a culmination reading by workshop participants. Cecilia Woloch is the author of 4 books: Sacrifice, a BookSense 76 selection; Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem ; & Late. Her newest collection, Narcissus, was awarded the Snowbound Prize & will be published by Tupelo Press in 2007. For more details & to register: Cecilia Woloch: ceciwo@aol.com or http://www.ceciliawoloch.com/

The Alesian Literary Salon continues their study of the Divine Commedia; If you are interested in joining in on this reading and discussion extravaganza, or even thinking about next fall, please see website for updates and requests for input for Fall Salons: http://literarysalon.free.fr/

5th, 12th, 19th, 26th : Saturdays in May: The Other Writers' Workshop: 3-5pm: An informal, friendly place to get feedback on your creative writing. (Poetry or prose.) Bring something of your own & 5 copies. Or just come to listen & give your reaction. AT: Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris. M°: St Michel. http://www.shakespeareco.org/ 3 euro charge for taking part

7, 14, 23 May & 4 June (Mondays), 3:30 – 6:30pm Write to the Finish Every writer faces the problem of having the impulse to write, but the seeming inability to finish a darn thing. How do we transform our inspiration into completed works? In this course, we will learn tried & true habits for creative writers that are within anyone’s reach & essential to success in any writing genre. We will work through taking those daunting first steps toward letting the world inspire us—& hear us; how to get out of ruts & into productive grooves, find the spine of our work, sustain concentration, & transform this intimidating craft into an old friend. Instructor: Justin Taylor Code: WY071 Fee: 110€ WICE: 01 45 66 75 50

APPLY BEFORE MAY 7th for : June 4 -- June 9, 2007 Wroxton Writers’ Retreat Workshop with Alfred Corn Director. 5-day poetry course in a beautiful setting in Oxfordshire, 3km west of Banbury. Morning workshops with Anne-Marie Fyfe + Afternoon tutorials may be scheduled with Anne-Marie Fyfe or Alfred Corn. Five nights, full room & board, & the course, : £ 525. To apply, send three poems & a brief CV to Alfred Corn, alfredc1@netzero.com

17, 24, 31 May; & 7, 14, 21 June (Thurs) 7–9pm Personal Travel Writing This intensive workshop is open to anyone with a serious interest in personal travel writing, from absolute beginners to more experienced writers who wish to explore travel in their work. The workshop will take place in two stages. Stage One is a generative lab focusing on process; how do we travel with an eye to future writing & how can we use travel writing to explore the self & the other? We'll look at different approaches to travel writing, including Peter Beard's photo-collage journals, Lisa St. Aubin de Teran's memoirs, Bruce Chatwin's travel essays, Anne Carson's slide between poetry & prose, David Sedaris' humorous writing, & Victor Hugo's carnets de voyage. Stage Two will be a time of constructive criticism of student work-in-progress by the instructor & class. Instructor: Lisa Pasold Code: WY171 Fee: 141€ WICE: 01 45 66 75 50

24, 31 May & 7, 14 June (Thurs) 3:30 – 5:30pm: The Gun in the First Act? There's an old theatre & novel rule: If someone gets shot in act three, you have to have first shown the gun in act one. You can't have someone die of consumption at the end of the book if they aren't at least coughing somewhere at the beginning. In other words, the traditional story arc does not permit any surprises. None. In this workshop, we discuss the extent to which these rules can be broken. Students will come up with plots in class or present stories they have already written. We will also devote one class to discussing the history & evolution of the novel as a literary form. Instructor: Y. Euny Hong Code: WY241 Fee: 124€ WICE: 01 45 66 75 50

29 May, Tues, 10am-1pm: Writing a Script that Sells & Selling the Script you Wrote Every script writer wants his or her material turned into a film. Getting a script read, optioned, or sold is a daunting task. A writer can greatly increase the chances of selling a script once he or she understands the marketplace & the mind of the buyer. In this workshop we will learn about what buyers are looking for, how they evaluate a script’s potential, what types of stories do well with different audiences, ways to enhance a script’s marketability, how revenue projections impact the way a story can be told, which are the right buyers to target, how to create the story log line, & what goes into a marketing letter that will draw a response. Instructor: Judith Merians Code: WY291 Fee: 74€ WICE: 01 45 66 75 50

4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20 June (Mon & Weds), 1:00pm - 3:00pm: From Final Edit to First Sale Back by popular demand, this course explores the different routes a writer can take to get their work out into the world. We will discuss options, & walk through some of the necessary steps, such as searching for the right literary agent for your work, writing query letters, discussing book proposals, learning about alternative ways to get your book into print, such as e-publishing & print-on-demand services. We will also discuss publicity techniques, how to organize a book tour, & some creative ways to get that first book sold! Instructor: Tanio McCallum Code: WU041 Fee: 141€ AT: WICE 01 45 66 75 50

5, 7, 12 June (Tues & Thurs) 7:00 – 8:30pm: Beyond the Writer’s Notebook: How to Start & Write a Blog Maybe you’ve heard of blogging, but you’re not quite sure what it is. Maybe you’d like to start a blog, but you don’t know how to go about it, or can’t imagine what you would blog about. Today, blogging is as easy as sending an e-mail, & this class will give you everything you need to get started. The class will emphasize the benefits of blogging as a creative outlet of particular interest to those who love to write or want to hone their writing skills. Instructor: Pamela Poole Code: WU051 Fee: 65€ Place: WICE 01 45 66 75 50

Sign up now for the July 2007 PARIS WRITERS' WORKSHOP offering courses in memoir, fiction, poetry, etc. Writers in Residence for 2007 are: A. Manette Ansay, Short Fiction; Kurt Brown, Poetry; Phillip Lopate, Literary Non-fiction; Alice Mattison, The Novel; Jake Lamar, Writing Intensive Tutorial. An intense, action-packed week of writing in Paris which takes place at WICE. http://www.wice-paris.org/ or Tel: 01 45 66 75 50

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PART III: News REVIEWS & reviews NEWS
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SUBMIT NOW: Double Room will accept open submissions of prose poetry & flash fiction from May 1st to July 1st, 2007.to see their most recent issue ONLINE, go to: Double Room : A Journal of Prose Poetry & Flash Fiction www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room

PHOTOS OFFERED: Need a photographer for an event, publicity purposes, or just need some art for your new home here in Paris?: Antonio Meza. Freelance Photographer specialized in live performance photography: dance, theater shows, music concerts, & still photography for cinema. But also doing portraits for casting, publicity photos or personal use. Meza has a sampling of his landscape & still life work available, too, on his site at http://web.mac.com/antoniomez Contact: antoniomez@gmail.com
SEE: http://paris.franglo.com/ for ads for (& to place ads for) aparts, bookstores, misc anglo happenings etc.

WRITER SEEKS MUSIC COMPOSER: Calling all composers : MAGDA, L'Aventure de Mauve Chiffon Author Odile Lefranc has written an operetta libretto which is scheduled for a first reading at Moving Parts on 30th September. She is looking for a composer who may be interested in a collaboration on the musical score for this piece, which could comprise anything from "tunes for the songs" to a full-blown opera score with arias & recitative! Don't panic - we're not envisaging a completed oeuvre for the first reading date. But itwould give the audience a better feel for the potential of this work if at least two or three of the songs could be set to music at the reading.If you're interested, or know someone who might be, please contact Stephanie on movingparts@wanadoo.fr , or 06.14.67.18.58

READ ONLINE some work by the foremost Epoets in the world via the EPoetry 2007 conference page : http://paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/epoetry/artistes/artistes.htm This is a LOT of fun !!!

Issue W of INK magazine is out now. Pick up your copy in one of the following places, or callus & we'll happily meet for deliveries: The Red Wheelbarrow, 75004 Berkeley Books, 75006 The Village Voice bookshop, 75006 San Francisco Book Co., 75006 Tekné, 75005 The Abbey Bookshop, 75005 Shakespeare & Co., 75005 La Merle Moqueur, 75020 Café Bonnie, 75010 Le Point Ephemère, 75010 La Passerelle, 75011 La Perle, 75003 Kiliwatch, 75002 Paris III, Censier, 75005 Paris X Nanterre, 93000 OR, By appointment: 86 Rue du Faubourg St Denis, 75010*, complimentary tea included, & 8 Rue de la Grange aux Belles, 75010* complimentary coffee here

SUBMIT POETRY CHAPBOOK: SMALL CHAPBOOK PROJECT announces a new reading period from now til the end of may, 2007. a few manuscripts will be chosen for publication. 'experimental' writing, whatever that might mean, is preferred, though quality manuscripts should be sent, the final chapbook will be 5.5" x 8.5" page size, a maximum of 40 pages, black & white ink only. accepted chapbooks will be announced sometime early in june, 2007. writers who can produce a pdf file of their work will have preference. write for assistance in producing a pdf file. hard copy only. send to: return postage & envelope for return, please. TO: peter ganick, small chapbook project, 45 ravenwood road, west hartford, CT 06110-1005. pganick@comcast.net

CHECK OUT “Sculptures sur Prose” a set of poems taken from texts via a prescribed set of rules and producing a wide and amusing range of outcomes. By frano and anglo authors from around the globe. This site is a nice prequel to their events to come in June: http://www.festrad.com/fichiers/07scpLis.html and see the rules they followed at: http://www.festrad.com/fichiers/07scpLis.html This was organized by French poet and translator, Jacques Rancourt, editor of La Traductière.

SUBMIT NOW : To CORDITE, a bi-annual poetry and poetics journal. Submissions are now open for our 26th issue: “Innocence”. As with all of our themed issues, we accept contributions from anywhere on planet earth. However, we will only accept poems sent via email and ask our contributors to adhere to a strict anonymous submissions policy. Cordite presents new works by contemporary Australian and international poets, as well as poetry reviews, feature articles and other explosively creative ephemera. Words are bullets! See issues, read guidelines at: http://www.cordite.org.au/

SEE & ORDER amazing art books, collaborative works between poets and authors, or just admire the site for this chouette small press, CORACLE PRESS, out in the greeny lands of Ireland! Click onto their picture to enter site, then check out the catalogue!!! http://www.coracle.ie/