31 May 2008

Paris Readings & Events JUNE-JULY 2008

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LIST ORDER:
I) Readings & events: asterisks mark book-related events
II) Courses in Creative Writing in France in June/July
III) News Reviews & Reviews News—publications & calls for submissions.
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I) READINGS & EVENTS in PARIS in June 2008:

La Périphérie du 26e Marché de la Poésie aura lieu du 1er au 30 juin 2008, sur Paris, en Île-de-France. Full Programme info with events listed for every hour of every day!: http://poesie.evous.fr/-La-Peripherie-du-25e-Marche-de-la-.html

To get on a list for “conscious & creative living” list: for holistic health, better living, etc talks : Jane Grey jgrey@noos.fr

Mai until 12 juin : ALLIANCES EN RESONANCE, SPECIALE Irlande. Pour toute information : 01 53 63 48 27 or get a schedule by emailing / par courriel : chlaumond@fondation-alliancefr.org Fondation Alliance française, 101 boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris, M° Saint Placide ou Notre-Dame-des-Champs.

*2 june at 7pm In anticipation of its upcoming new volume, Van Gogh’s Ear, the celebrated international anthology, is proud to showcase talent from the past four volumes with a reading by Michelle Noteboom, Roberta Vellevé, Margo Berdeshevsky & Jennifer K Dick. The reading will also present information regarding submissions for Volume 7, the Supernatural Edition. Margo Berdeshevsky is the author of But a Passage in Wilderness (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2007) & has received among others, the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, five Pushcart Prize nominations, & the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize for Beautiful Soon Enough, to be released in 2009. Her work is published widely, most recently in Agni, Kenyon Review, Poetry International. & The Southern Review. A lifelong traveler, her novel Vagrant, is at the next gate, from Red Hen Press. Paris is home. Jennifer K. Dick is the author of Florescence, Retina/Retine & Enclosures (BlazeVox eBook, 2007). She teaches at Polytechnique & Lille 3, & co-organizes the Ivy Writers Reading Series with Michelle Noteboom. She is completing a PhD in Comp Lit at Paris III on Susan Howe, Myung Mi Kim & Anne-Marie Albiach's visual use of the page. Michelle Notebloom won the 2006 Heartland Poetry Prize for her first book Edging (Cracked Slab Books). Other work has appeared in Verse, Fence, Boston Review, Sentence, Columbia Poetry Review, MiPOesias, Los Angeles Review & Slightly West among others. She's lived mainly in Paris since 1991 where she co-organizes the bilingual Ivy Writers Reading Series with Jennifer K. Dick. Roberta Vellvé was born in New York City & has lived in Paris for the past twenty-five years. Her poetry has appeared in Pharos, Upstairs at Duroc, & in past issues of Van Gogh's Ear. She has produced several artist books as well as collages, & is currently working on a book-length poetry manuscript entitled Maybe There Is No Transcendence. She works at The American University of Paris where she is an editor for institutional publications. AT: Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris, Ph/Fax: 01 43 25 40 93 http://www.shakespeareco.org/

*2 juin at 21h Spoken Word OPEN MIKE ! Follow the Shakespeare reading by doing some of your own at David Barne’s great Spoken Word event. Theme - Les monstres/Monsters Grendel? Or the thing-under-the-bed? Whether it's Jabberwocky or some aspect of human evil that is within us all, even yourself, some capacity for darkness or cruelty... Whether it's the obvious - Frankenstein, say, lurching down the steps of the old tower - or that whose monstrous nature often goes unrecognised, even lauded as good... Whether it's fairy tale, ancient as Chaos & Old Night or as real & terrifying as the near-future... What are monsters born of? Our own fear? Should we fear them, or welcome them? Where does amonster denied go? Bring us B-movie fun or the subtlety of concealed terror, in all it's monstrousness... in the swamp/dans le marais... Spoken Word blog at http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/ At : (note: a new venue) - Sarl Pestacle Bar, 22 rue Au Maire, M° Arts-et-Métiers

*3 JUIN, 18h : LA LIBRAIRIE LES CAHIERS DE COLETTE vous invite à rencontrer TIPHAINE SAMOYAULT à l'occasion de la parution de « La main négative » Editions Argol AT : LES CAHIERS DE COLETTE, 23/25 RUE RAMBUTEAU, 75004 Paris, tel : 01 42 72 95 06.To get onto their mailing list : cahiersdecolette@wanadoo.fr

4 June 19h30 Presidential biographer & political analyst Richard Reeves reflects on presidential campaigns past & present. free & open to the public. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Info: communications@americanlibraryinparis.org or 01 53 59 12 67. http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/ M°: Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, RER C Pont d'Alma

*4 juin à 19h : Rencontre avec CHRISTOPHE MARCQ, alias Madame H, pour la présentation de sa nouvelle pièce Transsibérienne et pour un débat sur travestissement et féminisme. Christophe Marcq est le créateur du personnage de Madame H et des spectacles Conférence-kermesse et La saga des transpédégouines (disponible sur DVD produit par Hystérie Prod à Violette & Co). Mais c'est un tout nouveau personnage qu'il interprète dans Transsibérienne au Théatre Clavel (3 rue Clavel, Paris 19è, les jeudi, vendredi et samedi à 21h30 jusqu'au 26 juillet), une pièce qui mêle drame et humour autour d'un personnage de femme qui, sur le quai d'une gare perdue du Transsibérien dont le nom est inscrit en russe et en yiddish, se révèle séductrice, mythomane, intriguante, mystérieuse, volubile jusqu'à enfin livrer sa "vraie" histoire. AT : Violette & Co. 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

4 juin 21h à 1h Get your jam on, do a little dancin with DJ Whistlepunk. Ambiance funk & soul. AT : Bistrot des artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, 75005 Paris; m°: Cluny/La Sorbonne, entrée gratuite

*5 June at 7pm: HOMAGE TO GRACE PALEY with Denis Hirson, Nancy Huston, Ellen Hinsey, Paule Levy, Noelle Batt, & many others. Grace Paley's two posthumously published books are Fidelity: Poems & Here & Somewhere Else: Stories & Poems AT: Village Voice, 6 rue Princesse, 75006. M° Mabillion/St Germain de Près. http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

5 June 19h30-free- in French THEATRE Arti e Parole presents « BROKEN MOON » BY VINCENT WOODS DIRECTED BY PATRIZIA BUZZI BARONE, Broken Moon, Vincent Wood’s latest text, will be previewed in the context of a multi-disciplinary project “Scènes Fertiles” uniting three European authors around the theme of “Space & Limits”. This staged reading will be an opportunity to meet Vincent Woods & the other authors collaborating on the “Scènes Fertiles” project.

5 June, 18h30-21h30, Vernissage, Photography of MEREDITH MULLINS, En Dehors du Temps ("Outside of Time"). Free. If you've ever felt that time is illusive, you will want to see the timeless & time-defying photographs of En Dehors du Temps. "This collection of images is about the energy, movement, & expansion of time—a freedom that goes beyond what happens between the ticks of a clock," Meredith explains. EXHIBITION 6 June-30 September: Gallery hours are 10h-12h & 14h to 16h30, Monday through Friday. Meredith's award-winning book, In A Paris Moment, will also be available at the gallery. http://www.meredithmullins.artspan.com/
AT : W Finance, 80 rue Taitbout, 75009 Paris.

*6 juin à partir de 19h30 : A l'occasion de la parution de Roubaud : rencontre avec Jean-François Puff Les éditions Argol vous invitent à une lecture en hommage à Jacques Roubaud. Avec la participation de Florence Delay, Anne Parian, Claude Royet-Journoud, Frédéric Forte, et quelque autres...* et de Jacques Roubaud * la lecture sera suivie du verre de l'amitié. AU : CNL, 57, rue de Verneuil, 75007 Paris

*6 juin à partir de 10h (le matin !) J. Demarcq, Régis Salado, Robert Kahn, Antonio Gueirrero, Martin Rueff, Edoardo Costadura pour un séminaire "traduction et interprétation de la poésie" à l'Université Paris VII, M° Bibliothèque ou Quai de la Gare, terminus bus 89 5, rue Thomas-Mann, dans la cour à dr. hall C, 7e ét., salle 795

6 juin à 19h : Vernissage de l'exposition d'oeuvres de CHRISTIAN ROUCHOUSE "Azoura" dans le cadre des journées Portes ouvertes d'artistes à la Bastille AT : Violette & Co. 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

6 juin à 20h Piano concert with Jay Gottlieb : playing Copland, Scelsi, Feldman, Cage, Brown, Boulez, Ligeti, Messiaen. INFo: 01 53 57 40 89 http://www.elyseesbiarritz.com/ L'Elysées Biarritz 22-24 rue Quentin Bauchart, 75008 Paris

6-7 juin : Colloque : « Les réécritures du Canon dans la littérature féminine de langue anglaise (II) » à l’université de Paris-X Nanterre, du groupe de recherche FAAAM (CREA, EA 370). For full info, adresse, see URL: http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?article1148

7-8 June: Portes Ouvertes Ateliers d’Artistes of the 5th & 13th. Visit the open house exhibit American ceramic artist James Denison. 5 rue des Chantiers, Paris 5e, M°: Cardinale Lemoine 2–8pm both days. Info & maps about the Portes Ouvertes at http://www.lezarts-bievre.com/(thanks Jane Grey for this listing!)

*8th June at 7.30 pm, a playreading in English of Paul Bandey’s "Hope" (a screenplay) A violent thriller that grows from a mulch of peace and love, featuring a strong rock soundtrack. In a growing nightmare of young idealism led astray, hip young things come apart at the seams in deepest rural England. "Withnail & I" meets "Helter Skelter." Starring ELI BARRETT, ANNE BROWN, JEREMY COFFMAN, MARK CRESSWELL, CHARLIE FLEMING, ANTONY HICKLING, CHLOE HOLLINGS, MARIAN HOLLINGS, COLIN REESE, LEWIS ROGERS, & VIVIENNE VERMES. AT : Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, M° : Tuileries More info: Stephanie Campion at 06 14 67 18 58 or send an e-mail to Stephanie at movingparts@orange.fr http://www.movingparts.org.uk/

8 juin 2008 à 15 h - Musée Carnavalet. FANTAISIES pour la guitare. Caroline Delume, guitare Instruments : guitares C. Roudhloff et René Lacôte (début 19e siècle) http://www.a2violes.com/new/html/pages/carnavalet/carnavalet.htm 10 euros ou TR: 8 (amis du musée Carnavalet, adhérents «A 2 Violes Esgales») Rés:01 43 41 54 15 Courriel : dunford@a2violes.comMusée Carnavalet (Salon Bouvier) 23, rue de Sévigné, 75003 Paris, M° Saint Paul ou Chemin Vert.

10th June at 18:30 Kathleen Flinn will sign “The Sharper the Knife, The Less You Cry: Love, Laughter & Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School” AT: WHSmith - 248, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris - M°Concorde Free. http://track.splio.com/l/1133186722941555/1190906207851358

10 juin à 20h30 CONCERT ! L’ensemble, les Sorbonne Scholars, donne 2 concerts en juin, ce soir « Les 10 ans de l’ensemble “Les Sorbonne Scholars” » Pour plus, voir : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/chantal.schutz/Scholars/Index.html AT : Amphi Richelieu Sorbonne, entrée 17 rue de la Sorbonne 75005 Paris, M° Cluny, St Michel ou Rer Luxembourg.

10 & 11 June at 19h30: Theatre: Fishamble & Culture Ireland presents THE PRIDE OF PARNELL STREET by Sebastian Barry, DIRECTED BY JIM CULLETON. ‘See, love between a man & a woman, it’s – private. It happens where you never do see it. In rooms.” Sebastian Barry’s ‘quiveringly beautiful’ play premiered last year in London & at the Dublin Theatre Festival to outstanding reviews. The Pride of Parnell Street is a moving account of a marriage & a time that have both passed. Janet & Joe chart the intimacies of their love & the rupturing of their relationship, as well as their enduring love affair with Dublin city itself. This is an intimate, heroic tale of ordinary & extraordinary life on the streets of Dublin. 7€, in English AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des irlandais, 75005 Paris. Note : reservations are STRONGLY ADVISED !

*11 June 19h30 Alexandra Harney, author of “The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage” will talk/read. free & open to the public. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Info: communications@americanlibraryinparis.org or 01 53 59 12 67. http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/ M°: Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, RER C Pont d'Alma

11 juin à 19h : Vernissage de l'exposition de photographies de JULIE POUPÉ "Quartier de l'une". Depuis 30 ans, en Europe et en Amérique du Nord, des féministes défilent régulièrement dans les rues des grandes villes après la tombée du jour pour dénoncer le fait qu'elles sont interdites de circulation la nuit, de fait, et pour se "réapproprier la nuit". C'est ce thème qui inspire le nouveau travail de Julie Poupé. L'artiste photographie des femmes, une à une, dans le noir ; leur visage seul se voit, il émerge à peine de la pénombre. Cette mise en scène dit la solitude, la fragilité. (exposition du 11 juin au 7 septembre) AT : Violette & Co. 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*12 June 7pm: Berkeley Books of Paris & the Paris literary journal Upstairs at Duroc present a reading featuring new work by poets Donna Stonecipher & Stacy Doris. Bios: Donna Stonecipher is the author of three collections of poetry: The Reservoir (2002), Souvenir de Constantinople (2007) & the forthcoming The Cosmopolitan (2008), winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by John Yau. Stacy Doris' books written in English include Cheerleader's Guide to the World: Council Book, Knot, Conference Paramour & Kildare. Written in French are Parlement &, semi-anonymously, La Vie de Chester Steven Wiener écrite par sa femme, & Une Année a New York avec Chester. She has co-edited three collections of French poetry translated by American poets. At: Berkeley Books of Paris, 8 rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris, M° Odéon.

*12 juin à 19h00 Éditions le Clou dans le fer autour des publications récentes de la collection expériences poétiques dirigée par Michaël Batalla : Antoine Dufeu, SEnsemble, dessins de Valentina Traïanova et Antoine Dufeu, avril 2008 Lecture de Antoine Dufeu et exposition des dessins de Valentina Traïanova Vincent Tholomé, The John Cage Experiences, juin 2007 Lecture de Vincent Tholomé AT : Librairie Libralire, 116 rue Saint-Maur, 75011 Paris http://ed.lecloudanslefer.free.fr/

12 june at 7pm. Alexander Lobrano. France Today, The Magazine of French Culture & Travel invites Alexander Lobrano to present his new guide Hungry for Paris, the ultimate guide to the City's 102 Best Restaurants. If you're passionate about eating well during your next trip to Paris, you couldn't ask for a better travel companion than Alexander Lobrano's charming, friendly, & authoritative Hungry for Paris, the first new comprehensive guide in many years to the city's restaurant scene. AT: Village Voice, 6 rue Princesse, 75006. M° Mabillion/St Germain de Près. http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

**12-15 June: FREE!!! SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY LITERARY FESTIVAL! In cooperation with Shakespeare & Company, Festival&Co is pleased to announce its third literary festival, "Real Lives:Exploring Memoir & Biography". This year's theme is inspired by the increasing popularity of memoirs & biographies & by the questions these genres never fail to provoke, namely: Where is the frontier between fact & fiction, truth & interpretation? How does one construct a perspective without constructing a 'lie'? The internationally acclaimed author line-up for this year's festival includes Paul Auster, John Baxter, Alain de Botton, Veronica Buckley, Carolyn Burke, Jung Chang, Susannah Clapp, Béatrice Commengé, Rachel Cusk, Antonia Fraser, Victoria Glendinning, Richard E. Grant, A.C. Grayling, Anton Gill, A.M. Homes, Alistair Horne, Siri Hustvedt, Ian Jack, Tété-Michel Kpomassie, Hermione Lee, Daniel Mendelsohn, Catherine Millet, Amélie Nothomb, Darryl Pinckney, Marjane Satrapi, André Schiffrin, Diana Souhami, & Jeanette Winterson. All events will be free & will take place under a marquee in the Square René Viviani directly next to Shakespeare & Company, opposite Notre-Dame. FOR FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS & full schedule of their reading & workshop EVENTS, PLEASE SEE : http://www.festivalandco.com/ & http://www.shakespeareco.org/ AT: Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris. Tel: 01 43 25 40 93

14 juin au 5 juillet : des peintures de Jean-Marc Chevallier à la Galerie d'art de Créteil, 10 av. François-Mitterrand, M° Créteil-Préfecture

14 juin 9:30pm to about midnight Hear Ursuline Kairson sing jazz, blues, show tunes & gospel AT: The Swan Bar, 165 blvd du Montparnasse, Paris 6e, M° Porte Royale. Entry 12 euros + consummation (thanks Jane Grey for this listing!)

*16 June at 8pm: Celebrate Bloomsday! Live Poets’ annual celebration organized by John Kliphan invites you to hear some of James Joyce’s greatest moments read aloud by Irish authors, actors, readers including Declan McCavena. AT: The Highlander Pub (downstairs), 8 rue Nevers, 75006 Paris. Across from Pont Neuf under the archway.

*17 June at 19:00 The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore invites you to a signing with National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman. Eshelman will read from his translation of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo as well as his own recent poetry. Over the past decade, five collections of his translations, five collections of his poetry, & two collections of essays have been published. Over the years he has published his writing & translations in over 500 literary magazines & newspapers, & given readings of his work at over 200 universities. He is now Professor Emeritus at EMU. In 2004 Black Sparrow Press brought out a new collection of poetry, My Devotion, & Soft Skull brought out a revised & expanded version of his 1988 selected translations, Conductors of the Pit. In October 2007, Black Widow Press brought out a new collection of CE's prose, interviews, prose poems, & notes, called Archaic Design. In the fall of 2008, Black Widow will publish a 600 page "Eshleman Reader," a selection from forty years of his poetry, prose, & translations, to be called The Grindstone of Rapport. Please visit http://www.claytoneshleman.com/ for more info on the author. He will be introduced by visual artist and bookmaker Kate Van Houten. AT: The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore, 22, rue Saint Paul, 75004 Paris

*18 June 19h30 Patricia Wells & Walter Wells authors of the new joint memoir & scrapbook, 'We've Always Had Paris...& Provence' wil read. free & open to the public. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Info: communications@americanlibraryinparis.org or 01 53 59 12 67. http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/ M°: Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, RER C Pont d'Alma

*19 juin à 18h00 – Éditions le Clou dans le fer autour des publications récentes de la collection expériences poétiques dirigée par Michaël Batalla : à l’occasion de la parution du livre de Anne Kawala, F.aire L.a F.euille, préface de Patrick Beurard-Valdoye, mai 2008 Performance de Anne Kawala et installation éditoriale http://a.naked.lawn.over-blog.org/ et http://www.pointephemere.org/ AU : Point éphémère, 200 quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris http://ed.lecloudanslefer.free.fr/

*19th June at 19:30 Author Evening "Claude Izner" will present & sign “The Montmartre Investigation” Claude Izner is the pseudonym of two sisters, Liliane Korb & Laurence Lefèvre, both booksellers on the banks of the Seine & experts on 19th century Paris. This is their third book in the award-winning series of Parisian murder mysteries featuring engaging hero Victor Legris, a bookseller & amateur sleuth, which has sold over 450,000 copies in France. AT: WHSmith - 248, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris - M°Concorde Free. RSVP at books@whsmith.fr . http://track.splio.com/l/1133186722941555/1190906207851358

Le 26e Marché de la Poésie se déroulera du jeudi 19 au dimanche 22 juin 2008, place Saint Sulpice, Paris 6e. Program info : http://poesie.evous.fr/-Au-programme-du-25e-Marche-.html Readings on site there all day every day, plus events around Paris throughout the marché !!!

20 juin à 20h Piano concert with Jay Gottlieb : playing Rzewski, Donatoni, Berio, Crumb, Adams, Murail, Lindberg, Tanaka, Mantovani AT : L'Elysées Biarritz, 22-24 rue Quentin Bauchart, 75008 Paris. INFO : 01 53 57 40 89. http://www.elyseesbiarritz.com/

*22 Juin de 10H à 12H Lectures et signatures des poètes édités en 2007/2008 Collection Poésie des Editions de l’Amandier « Accents graves/Accents aigus » : Claude Ber, Françoise Dax-Boyer, Joëlle Gardes et Jessica Sorror au THÉÂTRE DU CHAUDRON LA CARTOUCHERIE

*23 June 19h30 Since the ancient days of Gaul, Burgundy has been a place which inspires & provokes the senses, both physical & spiritual. Bonjour Burgundy, published by Mosaic Press is a chronicle of how this picturesque area has inspired a variety of Canadian writers who assemble each year at a remote, hillside farm in the heart of rural Burgundy. Edited by John B. Lee, an award-winning poet & former writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor, Bonjour Burgundy is a new & yet very old take on this cultural mecca. Contributors Susan McMaster, Marty Gervais & J.A. Wainwright will join us to read selections of their work from the anthology. AT: Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris, Ph/Fax: 01 43 25 40 93 http://www.shakespeareco.org/

*24 June at 19h30 IVY WRITERS présente une lecture-rencontre en français & en anglais avec les auteurs Charles Borkhuis & Franck André Jamme. Authors of many books in many genres, these two authors & friends will delight us with readings in both English & French. BIOS: Charles Borkhuis’ books of poems include: Afterimage, Savoir-fear, Alpha Ruins, Proximity (Stolen Arrows), Dinner with Franz, & Hypnogogic Sonnets. His essays on contemporary poetics have appeared in Telling it Slant & We Who Love to Be Astonished, (Uof Alabama). 25 stage & radio plays have been produced widely, many are published in three collections: Mouth of Shadows, The Sound of Fear Clapping, & Poets’ Theater. He is also the author of screenplays, such as “Irreparable Damage” (optioned for a feature-length film) & “Ghost Within” set in rural Pennsylvania. His CD, Black Light, contains two radio plays produced for NPR, recently aired in Paris on AUP radio, now on pennsound. He is the former editor of Theater:Ex, & for 16 years, he has curated poetry readings for the Segue Foundation, recently at Bowery Poetry Club. Spécialiste des arts bruts, tantriques et tribaux de l'Inde contemporaine, Franck André Jamme a publié depuis 1981 treize livres de poèmes et de fragments aux éditions Fata Morgana, Unes, Melville, Virgile et Flammarion, ainsi que de nombreux tirages illustrés (entre autres par Suzan Frecon, Jaume Plensa ou James Brown). Il est également traducteur, en particulier de John Ashbery. Quatre de ses livres (dont l'un, "The Recitation of Forgetting", a été traduit par John Ashbery) ont été publiés aux États-Unis depuis 2000, chez Black Square/ Brooklyn Rail et Sélavy Press. Un cinquième paraîtra fin 2008 chez Wave Books. Complete Detailed Bios online at: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/. AT: LE NEXT, 17 rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris, M° Etienne Marcel/Les Halles. Au sous-sol. Free !/ Gratuit !

*25 June 19h30 Novelist & biographer Edmund White, reading from his latest book, 'Hotel de Dream.' free & open to the public. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Info: communications@americanlibraryinparis.org or 01 53 59 12 67. http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/ M°: Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, RER C Pont d'Alma

*25th June at 3:30 p.m. June Kids' Club Theme: Happy 50th Birthday, Paddington Bear!Please RSVP, & indicate the name, age & English level of the participating child(ren) in the email. WH Smith's monthly Kids' Club is held the last Wednesday of every month at 3:30 p.m. in the Children's corner on the upper level. It's an event in English for children ages 3 to 10, featuring stories, games, & more, & it's FREE! (Note: no July Kid’s club, but there will be one in August). AT: WHSmith - 248, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris - M°Concorde Free. RSVP at 01 44 77 88 99 or at books@whsmith.fr . http://track.splio.com/l/1133186722941555/1190906207851358

*26 june at 7pm. Amy Bloom discusses her latest novel “Away”. Panoramic in scope, “Away” is the epic & intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York's Lower East Side, to Seattle's Jazz District, & up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom's work—her humor & wit, her elegant & irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion & the human heart—come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic,& completely unforgettable. AT: Village Voice, 6 rue Princesse, 75006. M° Mabillion/St Germain de Près. http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

26 June 14h-19h, then19h30. Visit the studio then come for a talk with artist EAMON O’KANE Open Studio & « Rencontre » with the artist Eamon O'Kane (b. 1974) is currently ‘Visiting Research Fellow’ in Fine Art at UWE, Bristol. He studied in Dublin, Belfast & New York. He has exhibited widely & is the recipient of many awards including the Taylor Art Award, Tony O'Malley Award, Fulbright Award & EV+A Open Award. In 2006 he was short-listed for the AIB Prize & received a Pollock Krasner foundation grant. He was recently short-listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Free!

*27 juin à 19h : Rencontre avec JOHANNA, lauréate le 9 janvier dernier du Prix Artémisia de la BD pour son album Nos âmes sauvages (Futuropolis). En pésence de plusieurs membres du jury et de l'association Artemisia (Chantal Montellier, Jeanne Puchol, Marie-Jo Bonnet, Marie Moinard, Anne Bleuzen). Johanna est la première lauréate de ce nouveau prix qui a pour but de valoriser la création de bandes dessinées de femmes, trop souvent ignorées dans le monde stéréotypé de la BD. Johanna viendra nous expliquer la genèse de son album, pourquoi elle a choisi d'aborder ce témoignage sur la situation des Amérindiens par le biais de l'autobiographie. Nos âmes sauvages aborde en effet la relation de Nina, la Parisienne, aux shuars de la forêt amazonienne, son engagement militant mis en parallèle avec ses désillusions sentimentales. AT : Violette & Co. 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*28th June in the afternoon. Kids' reading of a story by & with author Wendy RICHARDSON. AT: American Library of Paris. Contact them for full info!

*29th June at 7.30 pm, a playreading in English of Charles Borkhuis’s "Acting Out" AT : Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, M° : Tuileries More info: Stephanie Campion at 06 14 67 18 58 or send an e-mail to Stephanie at movingparts@orange.fr http://www.movingparts.org.uk/

*30 June 19h30. Chasing memories of his lost brother & father, author Ian Walthew decides to buy a cottage in rural England. A Place in My Country: In Search of the Rural Dream (Phoenix/Orion Books) is a deeply personal account of his life in the Cotswolds as he & his wife settle into the village, meet their peculiar neighbours & discover the modern challenges faced by traditional farming communities. The Financial Times calls this book an ‘affecting & inspiring memoir… required reading for anyone who claims to know or love this country.’ Formerly the world marketing director of the International Herald Tribune, Walthew now lives in Brussels. AT: Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris, Ph/Fax: 01 43 25 40 93 http://www.shakespeareco.org/

July:
*1-11 July: Readings most nights with the Paris Writers’ Workshop. For info/watch their program at: http://www.pariswritersworkshop.org/

*2 July 19h30 "Writers at Work" The Paris Writers Workshop, in its 20th year, presents a poet, an essayist, & a translator for an evening of conversation. Poet Cole Swensen, author of 'Ours' & 'Goest,' was a finalist for the National Book Award. She teaches at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Essayist Susan Tiberghien is the author of four memoirs, most recently 'One Year to a Writing Life.' She directs the Geneva Writers' Group & Conferences. Translator Ann Snodgrass has published prize-winning translations from the Italian. She teaches writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. free & open to the public. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Info: communications@americanlibraryinparis.org or 01 53 59 12 67. http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/ M°: Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, RER C Pont d'Alma

*9 July 19h30 Frances Gendlin presents 'Ill at Ease: Europe, Islam, & the Jews.' Theauthor invites the audience to contribute ideas, commentaries, & personal experiences for her work in progress, notably its chapter on 'The Complexity of France.' free & open to the public. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Info: communications@americanlibraryinparis.org or 01 53 59 12 67. http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/ M°: Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, RER C Pont d'Alma

*13th July at 7.30 pm, a playreading in English of Chris Tysh’s "Night Scales" AT : Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, M° : Tuileries More info: Stephanie Campion at 06 14 67 18 58 or send an e-mail to Stephanie at movingparts@orange.fr http://www.movingparts.org.uk/

19 July 19h Whim 'n Rhythm, Yale University's premier female a cappella group, in aspecial American Library performance. free & open to the public. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Info: communications@americanlibraryinparis.org or 01 53 59 12 67. http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/ M°: Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, RER C Pont d'Alma

PART II: CREATIVE WRITING COURSES in Paris & Europe
Listed by start dates (astersisks signal Paris locations):


**12-15 June: FREE!!! SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY LITERARY FESTIVAL! In cooperation with Shakespeare & Company, Festival&Co is pleased to announce its third literary festival, "Real Lives :Exploring Memoir & Biography". This will include a variety of workshops & craft lectures, as well as readings. All events will be free & will take place under a marquee in the Square René Viviani directly next to Shakespeare & Company, opposite Notre-Dame. FOR FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS & EVENTS, PLEASE SEE : http://www.festivalandco.com/. Tel: +33 (0)1 43 25 40 93 http://www.shakespeareco.org/

**Saturdays in June, 3-5pm: The OTHER WRITERS' GROUP” meets upstairs at Shakespeare & Co. 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 – what worked, what didn’t, what moved you, what made you feel "yes, that’s just how it is…" AT: Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris. M°: St Michel. 5 euros. More Information at: http://www.shakespeareco.org/other_writers_group.htm

June 13th – 23rd: The Fourth Annual Writers’ Workshop at http://www.larochedhys.com/ in theheart of Burgundy: 10 days of intensive work, seminars, good food & wine, some touring, readings every evening in an idyllic setting on a hillside farm in Burgundy. The week culminates in a public reading held June 23rd, at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris. Seminars in “the art of literary translation,” “titles & more,” “editing, re-writing, starting all over,” “career options in publishing,” “agents, editors & publishers,” & more. 50 Euros per day including accomodation, food wine & course costs. INFO: academie.rochedhys@mail.com

June 16-22: “Writing Cultural Difference” Poetry Workshop with Alan Michael Parker leads this hands-on workshop focusing on writing poems that reflect one's own unique cultural experience as well as group study/discussions of select French poets. What makes an American poem American? A French poem French? This workshop will find out. In the South of France. Cost: $2195 (airfare not included). For more information visit http://www.vcca.com/parker.html.

June 16-22, Auvillar, France : Fiction Workshop in Chocolat Country with the Author of White Oleander, “Getting the Story, Getting it Down, Getting it Right,” Auvillar is setting of 2001 classic Chocolat starring Juliette Binoche. A weeklong creative writing master class in a storybook setting with Los Angeles-based writers Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander & Bruce Bauman— acclaimed & award-winning novelist (& The Word Was) & creative writing professor at Cal Arts & Antioch. Register/more info: http://www.vcca.com/bauman.html

**June 17 & 18 : 10am-3pm Life-writing workshop with Carolyn Burke. Carolyn Burke, author of "Lee Miller, A Life" (Knopf/Bloomsbury) & "Becoming Modern, The Life of Mina Loy" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is pleased to offer a two-day intensive workshop for writers working on biographies & memoirs or planning to do so. Topics covered will include choice of subject, research techniques, the proposal as a way to clarify emphasis & structure, & narrative strategies to ensure liveliness—the techniques of fiction applied to the richly contextual form that is contemporary biography. Send two pages of your project to James at Shakespeare & Company (james@shakespeareandcompany) by 1 June if possible. Last-minute participants welcome. 200 euros. Please leave at the desk at Shakespeare & Company an envelope titled Life-writing workshop, & a cheque or cash inside for 200 Euros made out to Association Shakespeare & Company Literary Festival. AT : Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris.

**28 June: Day-long Travel Writing Workshop in Paris with tutors Dea Birkett & Rory Maclean. This small, intensive workshop is for those new to travel writing or who want to improve their writing skills. The aim is, by the end of the day, a publisher or editor can only say 'Yes! Time: 10.30am-4.00pm Place: Shakespeare & CompanY! Cost: 150 euro for full day Further details from http://www.travelworkshops.co.uk/

**July 1-11 Paris Writers Workshop celebrates its 20th Anniversary: in Paris. Masterclasses in Novel & Nonfiction; workshops in Poetry, Translation, Memoir, Writing the Fine Arts, Romance, Fantasy, Crime Fiction, Hollywood Lives & more. Two half-tuition merit scholarships are available. For more see website: http://www.pariswritersworkshop.org/ Email: pww@wice-paris.org AT: WICE, 20 Boulevard du Montparnasse, 75015 Paris, M° Falgiere or Duroc. (Go through the big street door into the courtyard).

July 22-28: “En Plein Air: Writing & Painting In Southwest France” Mary Page Evans & Elizabeth Seydel Morgan team up to lead this combination writing & painting workshop that allows participants of all levels of ability to pursue their creative vision through words & images. A sketchbook/journal will sum up the week. Workshop info: VCCA Workshops: http://www.vcca.com/2008_workshops.html

PART III: Reviews News & New Reviews —submit/just out

PLAY WRITERS: You want to hear your play read aloud by actors? Moving Parts has openings for scripts in English or French for fall 2008. More info: Stephanie Campion at 06 14 67 18 58 or send an e-mail to Stephanie to be considered for an event at movingparts@orange.fr Also, for current listings & past info, see Moving Parts’ site at http://www.movingparts.org.uk/

OPPEN BOOK: Michael Heller’s collection of essays on George Oppen, “Speaking the Estranged”, is now available. To those of you affiliated with universities, he would be grateful if you could bring this book to the attention of your librarian. Heller is the author of “Speaking The Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen” (2008); “Uncertain Poetries: Essays on Poets, Poetry & Poetics” (2005) & “Exigent Futures: New & Selected Poems” (2003) available at http://www.saltpublishing.com/, amazon.com & good bookstores. Survey of work at http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/heller.htm Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson at http://www.efjcomposer.com/EFJ/Collaborations.html

POETS: OPEN READING period: We will publish 1–2 book-length poetry manuscripts submitted during the month of June. There’s no reading fee, but everyone who submits must purchase one title directly from us ($12). Steel Toe Books, English Dept., Western Kentucky University,1906 College Heights Blvd. #11086, Bowling Green, KY 42101-1086. Web site: http://www.steeltoebooks.com/. Check out their titles, fun! (I especially enjoyed “Becoming the Villainess” by Jeannine Hall Gailey) In general, this press (according to me, Jen D,) seems interested in poems which are sorts of chatty narratives with a snappy voice, engaging characters, or where the narrators’ voice is a distinct grounding point at the base of poems. The unexpected turns take the reader in various directions in these poetries. A press to explore!

OUT NOW: Chapbook of poems, “Begin with May”, by Jill Darling is now available for ordering from Finishing Line Press. Check out the website: http://www.finishinglinepress.com/2006newreleasesandforthcomingtitles.htm Jill is an exciting author whose work has appeared in Upstairs at Duroc, Aufgabe magazine & many, many others.

MEDICAL POEMS?: “CHEST”, the Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians, invites submissions of up to 3 previously unpublished, quality poems, maximum 40 lines, on subjects of some medical relevance. CHEST, with a subscriber base of 22,000 readers, is beginning this new poetry section in January 2008. E-mail submissions to poetrychest@aol.com.

NEW ONLINE JOURNAL : MELUSINE, or Woman in the 21st Century is a new online journal that explores the good, bad, & ugly of the contemporary female experience, especially that of the female artist/thinker, through art, poetry, short fiction, & essay. We want only ambitious, thought-provoking work that is carefully crafted & pushes boundaries. Artists, please query. Writers, feel free to query or send 1–4 poems, 1 piece of short fiction, or 1–2 essays & a short bio in the body of an e-mail to sub2melusine@gmail.com. If there are formatting concerns, especially with poems, please attach a Word document version as well. More details at melusineblog.blogspot.com.

OUT in JUNE : en librairie le 20 juin : Jacques DEMARCQ’s Les Zozios ! « Verbaliser revient toujours à définir, et définir à confiner sous la cloche de verre du langage, dont la transparence fait oublier qu’elle nous sépare, y compris de nous. Je n’ai jamais eu de désir de « poésie » que pour mettre le langage en crise, et briser ainsi l’image que les hommes se font d’eux-mêmes. J’ai feint de parler oiseaux par refus de l’anthropocentrisme, cette auto-idolâtrie de l’espèce. La vanité est « l’homme même », pour corriger un peu Buffon: qu’elle soit orgueil du « style » pour des auteurs aussi doués et madrés que lui, ou incroyable prétention d’imaginer que, s’il y avait des dieux, ils s’intéresseraient d’abord à l’humanité. Jouant à la nature (comme on dit « à la dînette ») pour s’amuser des hommes, Les Zozios, sans le savoir, ont mis la mort au centre de leur comédie. Il vaut mieux d’ailleurs que je m’en aperçoive maintenant: la légèreté était essentielle à cette entreprise. »

LISTEN UP!: The Joe Milford Poetry Show Hosts Poet Geoffrey Gatza Poet, publisher, & tireless wordsmith aficionado extraordinaire, Geoffrey Gatza, joins us for a wonderful reading. 1 Hour 30 Minutes http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-jane-crown-show/2008/05/23/the-joe-milford-poetry-show-hosts-poet-geoffrey-gatza Gatza was asked to come on Joe’s radio show to do a reading & interview about his poetry & about BlazeVOX [books]. Great fun & rousing conversation! Reading from Kenmore, Sherlock Holmes poems & Not So Fast Robespierre!

SUBMIT POETRY BOOKS: 60-90 pages. The 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize is Omnidawn Publishing’s first annual contest for a first or second full-length collection of poems by a poet writing in English. The contest will be judged by Marjorie Welish, with a cash prize of $2,000 & Fall 2009 publication by Omnidawn Publishing. Manuscripts will remain anonymous until a winner is selected. Deadline June 30th. Read full guidelines at: http://www.omnidawn.com/contest.htm

EOAGH is an online journal, published twice yearly, which welcomes submissions year round. We're especially interested in the process of reading(s), the productive chaos of investigative poetic work, acts of attention that explore the close listening inherent not just in writing but also in being written. These are active, embodied experiences ("Reading is a gymnast's act") that encourage & provoke, responses that engage one's environment by blending lines between media through ekphrasis, phenomenology, & more. Themed issues will be announced periodically. To submit, contact Tim Peterson (editor) or Charles Alexander (webmaster) at:Tim Peterson tscotpeterson@gmail.com 134 Prospect Place, apt D2; Brooklyn, NY 11217 Charles Alexander chax@theriver.com

Experimental poetry mags : http://www.selbyslist.com/

SEE NEW ISSUE or submit future work to: “Gently Read Literature”, new issue now online at http://www.gentlyread.wordpress.com/ Issue 3, June 2008.

09 May 2008

May 10th-30th Readings 2008

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LIST ORDER:
I) Readings & events: asterisks mark book-realted events
II) Courses in Creative Writing in Europe this spring/summer
III) News Reviews & Reviews News—publications, calls for submissions, etc
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I) READINGS & EVENTS in PARIS in May 2008:

*12th May at 19h30 Reading by Jeffrey Greene, Cole Swensen, Ellen Hinsey, & Cecilia Woloch. Join us for an evening of poetry & conversation in the downstairs bar. Meet your favorite poets & buy their books, available at the event. Jeffrey Greene is the author of three collections of poetry, including To the Left of the Worshipper & American Spirituals, & the memoir French Spirits, along with two nature books, Water From Stone & forthcoming The Golden Bristled Boar. Ellen Hinsey is the author of Cities of Memory, which received the Yale Series award in 1996, & The White Fire of Time , published by Wesleyan University Press, 2002. Her poems, essays & translations have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker & Poetry.Cole Swensen's many books include Try, which won the Iowa Poetry Prize; Noon, which won the New American Poetry Series Award; New Math , which won the National Poetry Series competition; & her most recent collection, Ours. Her work as a poet & a translator has appeared in many journals & anthologies. Cecilia Woloch is the author of Sacrifice, a BookSense 76 Selecction; Tsigan: the Gypsy Poem; Late, for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry in 2004; & a just released chapbook, Narcissus, winner of the Tupelo Press Snowbound Prize. AT: The Highlander, 8 rue de Nevers (where the Pont Neuf meets the left bank)

*12 mai à 19 h Transposition comparatiste : des Messes musicales de {Requiem} à la scène et au poème : Daniel ARANJO, UN REQUIEM EN FRANÇAIS. Mise en lecture Nathalie Hamel et Philippe Ariotti Ce texte, inspiré au départ par le début du Requiem de Verdi, puis par beaucoup d’autres Requiem musicaux, paraphrase et élargit le texte liturgique de la messe des morts. On a déjà donné ici même, le 13 février 2007, successivement : Requiem, Kyrie, Graduel, Évangile, Libera, In Paradisum, Amen. On donnera cette fois l’intégralité de la section centrale des Messes de Requiem, tour à tour infernale, biblique et évangélique, bruyante et apaisée, le Dies iræ (successivement Dies iræ, Tuba mirum, Mors stupebit, Quid sum miser, Recordare, Qui Mariam, Et latronem, Confutatis, Lacrymosa, Judicandus, Amen). AT : THÉÂTRE DU NORD-OUEST 13 rue du Faubourg-Montmartre 75009 Paris M° Grands Boulevards ; salle Laborey. Entrée 5euros.

*13 mai, 18h30, Siècle 21 sort son numéro 12, un numéro comportant un gros dossier sur Pierre Michon, un cahier d'inédits de Yacher Kemal et un groupement de textes prose et poésie, autour du thème du Secret. Ent'revues nous fait l'honneur d'inviter la revue et son équipe, mardi prochain, 13 mai, pour une soirée de lectures et de rencontres autour des thèmes de ce numéro. Avec entre autres Catherine Rihoit, Pierre Jourde, Christiane Baroche, etc. Venez aussi nombreux que possible ! vous pouvez retrouver aussi toutes les informations sur le site de la revuehttp://siecle21.typepad.fr/mon_weblog/blog_index.html AT : chez Ent'revues, 174 rue de Rivoli à Paris (juste en face des "guichets" du Louvre et de l'entrée du Carrousel)


*13 May 19h30, FESTIVAL 1, 2, 3 CULTURES... LA CORRESPONDANCE DANS TOUS SES ÉTATS RENCONTRE WITH ELIZA PAKENHAM. "Soldier, Sailor: An Intimate Portrait of an Irish Family tells the story of the Napoleonic generation of Eliza Pakenham’s ancestors. Using the voices of mothers, sons, wives & daughters it looks at the French wars through the eyes of a family intimately connected with Bonaparte’s conqueror – Kitty Pakenham waited thirteen years before marrying the Duke of Wellington. The vivacious letters of their novelist neighbour Maria Edgeworth bring a sparkle of comedy to the very human tale of those living through extraordinary times. Eliza Pakenham lives in Dublin & Westmeath. free, in English AT : Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, Tel: (33) (1) 58 52 10 30


*14th May—19:30-21:00 An Evening with Cecilia Woloch, Suzanne Allen, ZEOR, Cheryl Pasanisi & Chim Nwabueze as part of the Writers on Writing Series at WICE, BIOS: Cecilia Woloch is the author of Sacrifice; Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem; & Late, for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry for 2004. Her newest collection, Narcissus, was awarded the Snowbound chapbook Prize from Tupelo Press in 2006. Woloch teaches at the MFA Program in Writing at Western CT State University & the B.A. program in Creative Writing at the U of So. Cal. Suzanne Allen is a recovering interior designer & native S. Californian who lives in Paris with a constant eye on the decorative arts as human expression. Teacher of written & conversational English, she received her MFA from Cal State U, Long Beach, 2007 & has recent & forthcoming publications in The Translator’s French Quarter, Rip Rap, California Quarterly, Nerve Cowboy, Pearl, & Spot Literary Magazine. Chim Nwabueze, poet & composer from New York currently living in France, is the author of Experiments & Drafts (USU 1998) & Convergences (USU 2004). He has done numerous recordings of experimental music around the musical saw (sonorous blade) of which he is a rare specialist. Realistic poet, atypical philosopher, intelligent rapper, photographer, traveler, real vinyl addict: he explores writing in various forms: poetry, sketches, news, songs, etc. Cheryl Pasanisi is a nurse educator on a cardiovascular unit at a teaching hospital & 3 years ago began auditioning for local community productions in the San Francisco Bay area. She has appeared as a fairy & chorus member in Iolanthe (Gilbert and Sullivan); & performed with Mission City Opera as a courtesan in La Traviata (Verde); a gypsy in Carmen (Bizet); and a Geisha in Madama Butterfly (Puccini). Her experiences on the stage renew her interest in performance poetry and have inspired much of her recent writing & poetry. Zeor is a French-speaking artist born in the fourth quarter of the twentieth century in Paris.
AT: WICE, 20 Boulevard du Montparnasse, 75015 Paris, M° Falgiere or Duroc. (Go through the big street door into the courtyard).

* 14 mai, à 19h30, A l'occasion de la publication aux éditions P.O.L de *Beau voir (Bestiaire)*, Sébastien Smirou invite Pierre Alferi et Anne Parian pour une *« Lecture 100% animale » au studio Le Regard du Cygne, 210 rue de Belleville, 75020 Paris (M° Jourdain, Place des Fêtes ou Télégraphe) *Le nombre de places étant limité, merci de CONFIRMER votre présence par mail à : lectureanimale-140508@yahoo.fr

14 mai à 20h30, venez assister à un récital inédit autour de l'univers sensible, lyrique, délicat et plein de fougue de Thomas Delclaud et de ses créations pour piano, chant et flûte, avec Elise Archambault (soprano), Myriam Chiapparin (flûte) et Thomas Delclaud au piano!!!! Au programme également : Poulenc, Rodrigo, Duparc et R. Strauss. Et des surprises ! (en bis !) Réservations : 06 83 00 88 33 ou au 09 50.26.68.39 AT : Vissi d'Arte (18, rue Brochant - 75017 PARIS). Entrée : 18 euros (réduit/adhérent/Enfants : 10 euros)

*15 May at 7pm: Sherman Alexie will read from the recently published Flight, 'a funny, irreverent, sardonic but sentimental, rebellious voice set beside his elder contemporaries... Alexie is the bad boy among them, mocking, self-mocking, unpredictable, unassimilable, reminding us of the young Philip Roth.' (Joyce Carol Oates) & from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian ( National Book Award) 'When my horoscope said I was going to meet someone tall, dark & handsome... who knew he'd be14! Thankfully for me Arnold Spirit is one of the funniest, most endearing characters I've met in a very long time. This book is so original, I laughed consistently from beginning to end.' (Amy Sedaris) Sherman Alexie is the acclaimed author of The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues, Indian Killer, The Toughest Indian in the World, Ten Little Indians & will be introduced by his French publisher Francis Geffard. AT: Village Voice, 6 rue Princesse, 75006. M° Mabillion/St Germain de Près. http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

* 15 mai 2008 à partir de 19 heures : A l'occasion de la parution de « Les commourants » (Editions Argol) et de « Pandectes »(ou Le neveu de Bayle) » (Editions Gallimard) rencontre avec Jude Stéfan à la Librairie Michèle Ignazi, 17, rue de Jouy, 75004 paris, 01 42 71 17 00

15 Mai at 9pm Travis BÜRKI in concert at LIVING B'ART every thurs 15, rue La Vieuville • Paris 18 • Tél : 01 42 52 85 34 Entrée Libre - Restauration sur place dès 20:00

* 15 MAI : 18H LA LIBRAIRIE LES CAHIERS DE COLETTE vous invite à rencontrer VLADIMIR MITZ Et REBECCA LUSTMAN à l’occasion de la parution de « S.O.S. Je n’aime pas mon corps ! » Editions du Cygne. LES CAHIERS DE COLETTE, 23/25 RUE RAMBUTEAU, 75004 PARIS, 01 42 72 95 06, cahiersdecolette@wanadoo.fr

*16th May—19h30 Jean Aloe, Wendy Carlisle, Pamela Davis, Sandra Giedeman, Eve Hoffman, David Nutt, Cheryl Pasanisi, Betzi Richardson, Maria Ruiz, & Leah Taylor at Shakespeare & Co for Paris Poetry Workshop Participants’ Reading —new & previously published — in round robin style upstairs in the library at the world’s most famous English bookstore. Come & discover a wide range of voices! AT: Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 5eme, M°: Saint Michel or Maubert Mutualité

*16 May at 7pm: On the occasion of his participation in the celebrations of Israel's 60th Birthday Avi Shlaim will discuss his work The Iron Wall: Israel & the Arab World. 'Anyone wanting to understand the modern Middle East should start by reading this elegantly written & scrupulously researched book.' (Sunday Herald) 'A milestone in modern scholarship of the Middle East.' (Edward Said) AT: Village Voice, 6 rue Princesse, 75006. M° Mabillion/St Germain de Près. http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

*16 mai 2008 : 20h. Gérard Haller et Jean-Luc Nancy. Cinquième rencontre proposée par remue.net avec la collaboration de la Scène du balcon. « Passer la nuit : la poésie comme entretien »Rencontre autour de Fini mère de Gérard Haller (éditions Galilée). Gérard Haller et Jean-Luc Nancy proposeront une lecture de Fini mère et poursuivront par un dialogue. Présentation : Sébastien Rongier. AU : Centre Cerise : 46, rue Montorgueil, 75002 Paris, M° Sentier ou Les Halles. Entrée libre et gratuite. Réservation souhaitée au 01 42 96 34 98 ou par mail : scenedubalcon3@]aol.com

16 May 19h30, for the entre Pentecote et la fete des Meres: une soiree qui promet des surprises: “Encre de sang†, a la librairie ABBEY details: TBA...stop by the bookstore for more !


* 16 MAI à 18h. LA LIBRAIRIE LES CAHIERS DE COLETTE vous invite à rencontrer CHARLES DANTZIG à l’occasion de la parution de « Rémy de Gourmont » Editions Grasset LES CAHIERS DE COLETTE, 23/25 RUE RAMBUTEAU, 75004 PARIS, 01 42 72 95 06, cahiersdecolette@wanadoo.fr

*19 May at 8:00 pm. A double-bill poetry reading to celebrate spring, agape, & eros featuring poets Evie Shockley, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Lea Graham, & Timothy Bradford from The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, Second Floor anthology (No Tell Books, 2007) followed by an open mike with David Barnes & the Spoken Word reading series. The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, Second Floor, edited by Reb Livingston & Molly Arden from poems that appeared on their on-line journal No Tell Motel <www.notellmotel.com>, explores the multi-faceted aspects of desire, love, sex, & sensuality. The anthology & No Tell Books can be found at http://www.notellbooks.org/individual_title.php?id=40_0_1_0_C Anthology at Lulu, online preview, at http://www.lulu.com/content/1191170. BIOS: * Evie Shockley is the author of two poetry collections: The Gorgon Goddess (2001) & a half-red sea (2006), with Carolina Wren Press. Cave Canem fellow, Hedgebrook fellowship for women writers, Shockley teaches African American Lit & creative writing at Rutgers. * Jill Alexander Essbaum's first book, Heaven, won the 1999 Bakeless Prize followed by Oh Forbidden, a collection of erotic sonnets (Pecan Grove Press), & Harlot, with No Tell Books. Necropolis, (neoNuma Arts), is forthcoming in spring 2008. She splits her time between Zürich & the States.* Lea Graham's work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Notre Dame Review, American Letters & Commentary, Mudlark, Shadow Train, & The Worcester Review. Her chapbook, Calendar Girls, was published in the spring of 2006 by above/ground Press in Ottawa. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Marist College in Poughkeepsie. * Timothy Bradford's poetry has appeared in Bombay Gin, CrossConnect, DIAGRAM, H_NGM_N, Mudlark, No Tell Motel, & Runes, among other journals. Currently, he is an associate foreign researcher with the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent as he finishes researching & writing a novel based on the history of the Vélodrome d'Hiver. AT: The Highlander, 8 rue de Nevers, just southwest of the Pont Neuf, 75006, M° St-Michel. (Happy hour from 5-8. Come early & have a glass with us.)


*19 May at 7pm: Reading: Casino Boss in the early days of the Snads Hotel where Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis performed, Ed Walters will read from his "Las Vegas Stories" about the Rat Pack, the Mob and early Vegas. Ed Waters is a long time resident of Las Vegas and was the technical consultant on the HBO movie "The Rat Pack". AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris. Tel: 01 43 25 40 93
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*20 May at 19h30 : IVY WRITERS présente une lecture-rencontre en français & en anglais avec les auteurs Laura Mullen et Bénédicte Vilgrain. Bios : Mullen teaches at Louisiana State University & is the author of five books: three collections of poetry & two hybrid texts. Her most recent book is the hybrid text murder mystery, Murmur (Futurepoem 2007). She has been awarded Ironwood's Stanford Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship & a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Octopus, 1913, New American Writing, the Denver Quarterly, & elsewhere. Recent prose has been collected in Civil Disobediences: Poetics & Politics in Action (Coffeehouse Press), & Paraspheres (Omnidawn). Vilgrain édite & imprime (avec Bernard Rival), et traduit (Susan Howe, George Oppen, Paul de Man, Walter Benjamin, Paul Celan, Maître Eckhart…) au Théâtre Typographique (éditeur, Courbevoie) depuis 1984. Dernier ouvrage paru : Oskar Pastior, 21 Poèmes - anagrammes d'après Hebel, annotés et traduits en collaboration avec Frédéric Forte. Depuis 2001, elle publie chez contrat maint, en revues ou collectif, un montage de traductions (généralement du tibétain) qu'elle intitule: Une Grammaire tibétaine. Prochain volume à paraître : Ngà, Héros-Limite, Genève, 2009. Reading AT : The NEXT : 17, rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris M° Etienne Marcel / Les Halles (DOWNSTAIRS) Tél : 01 42 36 18 93. Free / Entrée gratuite. http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com

*20 May : 18h30 WHEN THE PIE WAS OPENED: AN EVENING IN CELEBRATION OF THE WORK OF PAUL MULDOON At the invitation of the Center for Writers & Translators at The American University of Paris, the Irish poet Paul Muldoon will be reading from his work & responding to questions, prior to his receiving an honorary degree at AUP’s 2008 graduation ceremony. The evening will comprise readings, reactions, questions, & discussion with the author. Copies of the poet’s newest work, no.8 in the Cahiers Series, entitled When the Pie was Opened, will be published on the same day & will be available. (See: http://www.aup.fr/cwt/cahiers.htm; http://www.aup.fr/news/default.htm) No bio here, as you all know who Paul Muldoon is, & have read his work, or else get out & buy some books!!!—& if you have never heard him, DO GO, as he is a wonderful reader !!! Members of the public are welcome. Refreshments will be served. AT : The American Univ of Paris, the grand salon, 31 ave bosquet, 75007 Paris.

*20 May—LIVE POETS presents John Kliphan, John Noonan & Rufo Quintavalle reading their poetry AT: The Highlander, 8 rue de Nevers, just southwest of the Pont Neuf, 75006, M° St-Michel. (Happy hour from 5-8. Come early & have a glass with us.)

*20 May at 7pm: Nina L.Khrushcheva discusses her work Imagining Nabokov: Russia between Art & Politics. 'Combining literary criticism with political theory is often attempted & rarely done well. Nina Khurshcheva succeeds brilliantly in this highly original work. Her book deepens one's knowledge of Nabokov, Russia, & the condition of exile by mixing literary & political concerns without diminishing the importance of interest of either.' (Ian Buruma) In Imagining Nabokov Nina Khrushcheva successfully creates a bridge between the Western 'privacy' & the Russian 'cosmology'. Indeed, bridging the two was Nabokov's own most important preoccupation.' (Tatyana Tolstaya) AT: Village Voice, 6 rue Princesse, 75006. M° Mabillion/St Germain de Près. http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

21st May 19h30 Opening for Meg Baird & Sharron Krauss (both very wonderful folk singers) Infos & Réservations: amnezik@gmail.com SHARRON KRAUS (Tau Emerald, Rusalnaia) (Dark Folk - Traditional Folk / Durtro / Royaume-Uni) http://www.myspace.com/sharronkraus + MEG BAIRD (Espers) (Psychedelic Folk - Traditional Folk / Drag City, P-Vine, Wichita / Etats-Unis) http://www.myspace.com/pennsylvaniawildlife + ERICA BUETTNER (Alternative Folk / France-Etats-Unis) http://www.myspace.com/ericabuettner Concert AT: Belushi's 68-74 Quai de Seine, M°: Stalingrad, Riquet, Laumière

*22 mai 2008 à 19h: Jacques Réda lira au musée Zadkine ! Programmés par Jérôme Mauche, les cycles de Lectures au musée Zadkine permettent au public de découvrir simultanément la création littéraire la plus contemporaine et des références empruntées au patrimoine littéraire. Les poètes et écrivains d’aujourd’hui sont conviés à lire non seulement leurs textes, des travaux inédits, quelquefois des créations spécifiques, mais aussi ceux d’un ou plusieurs auteurs de leur choix, invitant ainsi à une relecture du patrimoine poétique dans l’atelier même d’Ossip Zadkine. Responsable de la programmation : Jérôme Mauche Conservatrice du musée Zadkine : Noëlle Chabert A l'atelier du musée Zadkine, 100 bis rue d’Assas 76006 Paris M° Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Vavin RER B Port-Royal Bus 38, 82, 83, 91 Entrée libre - renseignements au 01 55 42 77 20 et musee.zadkine@paris.fr

*22 May 19h30, RENCONTRE WITH PAUL MULDOON, born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States where he is a Professor at Princeton University. This rencontre follows on from “Cloth”, a visual & verbal collaboration between Muldoon & the artist Rita Duffy exhibited at the Centre Culturel Irlandais (7 March – 10 April). Paul Muldoon’s main collections of poetry include New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Meeting the British (1987), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), & Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. His tenth collection, Horse Latitudes, appeared in the autumn of 2006. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War” free, in English AT : Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, Tel: (33) (1) 58 52 10 30

*22 May at 7pm: Claude Vigee will read poems from the new collection Les Chants de l'Absence in French, & Anthony Rudolf will read them in translation from Songs of Absence. The distinguished French poet, Claude Vigée, wrote a number of poems in verse & prose following the death of his wife Evelyne in January 2007. First cousins, they had been married for sixty years. These powerful & moving poems (along with brief extras from his diaries) are published in this bilingual edition for the first time. AT: Village Voice, 6 rue Princesse, 75006. M° Mabillion/St Germain de Près. http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

22 mai - 20:30 THÉÂTRE OU THÉ VERT? Un Opéra Pop de Travis Bürki ESPACE JEMMAPES 116 Quai de Jemmapes 75010 Paris. Rés.: 01 48 03 11 09 / reservation-je@crl10.net

25 mai à 15h Concertos de John Adams et de Denis Cohen (création mondiale) en soliste avec L'Orchestre National d'Ile de France sous la direction de Samuel Jean AT : Maison des Arts de Créteil Place Salvador-Allende 94000 Créteil ; Info : www.orchestra-ile.com
Rés: 01 45 13 19 19

*26 May: 7pm A prose reading with Margo Berdeshevsky & Bonny Finberg, who will be reading new work from her novel in process: "Kali's Day." BIOS: Bonny Finberg has published fiction, poetry, art & book reviews. She is included in three "Unbearables" anthologies (Autonomedia, NY); Best American Erotica of 1996 (Touchstone, NY, 1997) & is a frequent contributor to Le Purple Journal. Her collection of short stories, "How the Discovery of Sugar Produced the Romantic Era" (Sisyphus Press, 2006 ) was documented in the feature length video "5 GUYS READ FINBERG." Publisher's Weekly said her work "…exudes a stunning sensual sensibility." She has been translated into French, Hungarian & Japanese, lives in Paris, & is currently working on her first novel. AT: Shakespeare & Co, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 01 43 25 40 93

*27 May at 8pm Post-IVY event! : A reading by Mary Ellen Gallagher, Elisa McCool, Jonathan Regier, Christine Herzer & Jennifer K Dick. To celebrate new works, works in progress, MFAing & the publication of Come Hither Magazine. BIOS: Mary Ellen Gallagher is currently completing her MFA at Lesley University. A writer of prose (for which she has won awards in France, the USA & Australia) & memoir, she will be delighting us with a series of poems written in metros this spring. Elisa McCool, editor in chief of “Come Hither” magazine, author of poetry, will read a selection of new work. Elisa will be heading back to the states to start & MFA program this coming fall, so take advantage of this chance to hear her work! Jonathan Regier is the author of the forthcoming Three Years From Upstate (expected out in October) & is hard at work on a new collection based on Tristan & Iseult. This will be the first time he reads in Paris! Then, poet & visual artist Christine Herzer is working on her MFA in poetry at Bennington College, Vermont. She has studied with Michael Burkard & Timothy Liu. She is currently in Paris to work on an artist book, & will be sharing new works with us. Jennifer K Dick, author of the book Fluorescence, the chapbook Retina / Retine & eBook Enclosures will read from new work & translations. Complete Detailed Bios soon online at: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com AT: LE NEXT, 17 rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris, M° Etienne Marcel/Les Halles. Free !/ Gratuit !

* 27 mai, à 20h : Inventaire/Invention invite Rémi Checchetto et Albane Gellé à lire. L'entrée est libre, dans la limite des 50 places disponibles. Il est conseillé de réserver.
redaction@inventaire-invention.com ou 01 42 40 33 21à Inventaire/Invention - Parc de La Villette, Paris Folie du Canal N5, Inventaire/Invention le long du canal de l’Ourcq, face à la Géode M°: Porte de Pantin ou Porte de la Villette. http://www.inventaire-invention.com/ They also have great selections of work from their books online, & sell their books in groups for a wonderfully reasonable price, if you want to become a member with them !

27th May through June 14th: I V Y paris presents I.C. Rapoport at Galerie Le Simoun I V Y paris is proud to present on the 31st of May the vernissage of I.C. Rapoport's Paris est une fête at Galerie Le Simoun, http://www.ivyparisnews.com/2008/05/i-v-y-paris-pre.html Vernissage is the 31st!!! AT: GALERIE LE SIMOUN, 78, Rue de Miromesnil, 75008 Paris

27 mai 2008 à 20h30 « L’Opérapour tous ! L’Opéra de quartier… » L’Italienne à Alger de G.Rossini 1h30de spectacle musical festifet jubilatoire, des récitatifs adaptés en français… Pour recevoir une invitation, écrivez-nous à cieinsense@yahoo.fr en précisant bien vos coordonnées. Réservation indispensable. Invitation valable dans la limite des places disponibles. Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles résa obligatoire! La Cie IN-SENSE produit des spectacles vivants dans le domaine de l'opéra et de la musique. Elle a pour but de tisser des liens entre des formes musicales souvent considérées comme élitistes, et un public large et populaire. En adaptant ces formes à des lieux de théâtre, des salles municipales ou des cabarets, la compagnie veut redonner à l'opéra un sens social et politique et faire partager au plus grand nombre la joie et l'émotion qui s'en dégagent. AU : Théâtre Mouffetard 73 rue Mouffetard - Paris 5° - M° Place Monge Cliquez icipour écouter un extrait http://rom.romain.free.fr/Cie_IN-SENSE/

*29 May at 7pm: Julia Wright discusses “A Father's Law”, the last novel written by her father Richard Wright, & posthumously published in 2008 by HarperCollins US to mark the centennial of his birthday. AT: Village Voice, 6 rue Princesse, 75006. M° Mabillion/St Germain de Près. http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

29 May, 18h30-20h30, Vernissage HUGHIE O’DONOGHUE “Parables”. free Over the past two decades, Hughie O’Donoghue’s work has assumed epic proportions in terms of scale, treatment & subject matter. Primarily a painter, O’Donoghue is also a superb draughtsman & printmaker & his most recent paintings are an amalgam or hybrid of painting, photography & in some cases sculptural construction. Internationally renowned, he is currently one of Ireland’s most individual & ambitious practitioners. His persistent themes are memory, myth, identity, & history. EXHIBITION 30 May-13 July. AT : Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, Tel: (33) (1) 58 52 10 30

*30 MAI 2008 à 20h. Dans le cadre de « Poètes en résonances » proposé par Seymus Dagtekin et la Compagnie Résonances Lecture Claude Ber, Frédérique Wolf-Michaux AT : 8, rue Camille Flammarion 75018 Paris, M° Porte de Clignancourt (Plus d’infos sur le site www.claude-ber.org )

*5 June at 7pm: HOMAGE TO GRACE PALEY with Denis Hirson, Nancy Huston, Ellen Hinsey, Paule Levy, Noelle Batt, & many others. Grace Paley's two posthumously published books are Fidelity: Poems & Here & Somewhere Else: Stories & Poems AT: Village Voice, 6 rue Princesse, 75006. M° Mabillion/St Germain de Près. http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/



PART II: CREATIVE WRITING COURSES in Paris & Europe
Listed by start dates:


May 24th: How to Write Hollywood Screenplays: This one-day seminar -- taught by Stu Samuels, long-time Hollywood movie & TV executive, producer & writer -- will show you how to create & write good Hollywood screenplays, from desirable marketing concepts to the details of story design & Hollywood-style screenwriting. Co-hosted by WICE & TDM. Day-long workshop, 50€. In coming months, TDM will host forums focusing on other types of filmmaking - from "oppositional film" to European film to Bollywood & Nollywood & everything in between. Be sure to take part in all the discussions! For more information, please contact theatredumonde@gmail.com.

Saturdays in May, 3-5pm: The OTHER WRITERS' GROUP” meets upstairs at Shakespeare & Co. 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 – what worked, what didn’t, what moved you, what made you feel "yes, that’s just how it is…" AT: Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris. M°: St Michel. 5 euros. More Information at: http://www.shakespeareco.org/other_writers_group.htm

May 31st – June 7th 2008: At Almàssera Vella: ‘Getting to the Next Level’ a poetry workshop with the distinguished American Poet Alfred Corn, author of 9 collections of poetry, a novel & an acclaimed collection of essays. He has received Guggenheim & NEA fellowships & more. £495 all inclusive (7 nights). Complete details: Christopher & Marisa North in Alicante SPAIN - (0034) 966 856003. http://www.oldolivepress.com/& christopher@oldolivepress.com

12-15 June : FREE!!! SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY LITERARY FESTIVAL! In cooperation with Shakespeare & Company, Festival&Co is pleased to announce its third literary festival, "Real Lives:Exploring Memoir & Biography". This year's theme is inspired by the increasing popularity of memoirs & biographies & by the questions these genres never fail to provoke, namely: Where is the frontier between fact & fiction, truth & interpretation? How does one construct a perspective without constructing a 'lie'? The internationally acclaimed author line-up for this year's festival includes Paul Auster, John Baxter, Alain de Botton, Veronica Buckley, Carolyn Burke, Jung Chang, Susannah Clapp, Béatrice Commengé, Rachel Cusk, Antonia Fraser, Victoria Glendinning, Richard E. Grant, A.C. Grayling, Anton Gill, A.M. Homes, Alistair Horne, Siri Hustvedt, Ian Jack, Tété-Michel Kpomassie, Hermione Lee, Daniel Mendelsohn, Catherine Millet, Amélie Nothomb, Darryl Pinckney, Marjane Satrapi, André Schiffrin, Diana Souhami, & Jeanette Winterson. All events will be free & will take place under a marquee in the Square René Viviani directly next to Shakespeare & Company, opposite Notre-Dame. FOR FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS & IMPERATIVE SIGN UPS FOR FREE, BUT LIMITED SEATING EVENTS, PLEASE SEE : www.festivalandco.com. Tel: +33 (0)1 43 25 40 93 www.shakespeareco.org

June 13th – 23rd, 2008: The Fourth Annual Writers’ Workshop at www.larochedhys.com in theheart of Burgundy: 10 days of intensive work, seminars, good food & wine, some touring, readings every evening in an idyllic setting on a hillside farm in Burgundy. The week culminates in a public reading held June 23rd, at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris. Seminars in “the art of literary translation,” “titles & more,” “editing, re-writing, starting all over,” “career options in publishing,” “agents, editors & publishers,” & more. 50 Euros per day including accomodation, food wine & course costs. INFO: academie.rochedhys@mail.com

June 16-22, 2008, Auvillar, France : Fiction Workshop in Chocolat Country with the Author of White Oleander, “Getting the Story, Getting it Down, Getting it Right,” Auvillar is setting of 2001 classic Chocolat starring Juliette Binoche. Think sumptuous strawberries, cobbled streets, pilgrims on their journey to Santiago de Compestela, medieval churches & sunflower-strewn hills, all wrapped around a weeklong creative writing master class in a storybook setting. Los Angeles-based writers Janet Fitch, author of the mega-selling “Oprah Book” White Oleander & Bruce Bauman— acclaimed & award-winning novelist (& The Word Was) & creative writing professor at Cal Arts & Antioch, leads an unprecedented workshop. The workshops will feature much individual attention. To register & for more information visit http://www.vcca.com/bauman.html. Workshop info: http://www.vcca.com/bauman.html or http://www.vcca.com/bauman.html

June 16 to 22, 2008: “Writing Cultural Difference” Poetry Workshop with Alan Michael Parker leads this hands-on workshop focusing on writing poems that reflect one's own unique cultural experience as well as group study/discussions of select French poets. What makes an American poem American? A French poem French? This workshop will find out. Cost: $2195 (airfare not included). For more information visit http://www.vcca.com/parker.html. Alan Michael Parker is Professor of English & Director of Creative Writing at Davidson College. He is the author of four collections of poems, Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor Vehicles, & the forthcoming Elephants & Butterflies . His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Pleiades, & The Yale Review. Alan is the recipient of numerous awards & fellowships, including a Pushcart Prize & the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

June 17 & 18 : 10am-3pm Life-writing workshop with Carolyn Burke. Carolyn Burke, author of "Lee Miller, A Life" (Knopf/Bloomsbury) and "Becoming Modern, The Life of Mina Loy" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is pleased to offer a two-day intensive workshop for writers working on biographies and memoirs or planning to do so. Topics covered will include choice of subject, research techniques, the proposal as a way to clarify emphasis and structure, and narrative strategies to ensure liveliness—the techniques of fiction applied to the richly contextual form that is contemporary biography. We will work together with materials that bring historical perspective to the intimate details of a life or a set of lives in their intertwinings. Participants should send two pages on their projects to James at Shakespeare & Company (james@shakespeareandcompany) by 1 June if possible. Last-minute participants are also welcome. The workshop fee of 200 euros includes a private consultation, to be arranged. Please leave at the desk at Shakespeare and Company an envelope titled Life-writing workshop, and a cheque or cash inside for 200 Euros made out to Association Shakespeare and Company Literary Festival. Carolyn Burke, who was born in Australia, lives in California and spends part of the year in Paris. Her "Lee Miller" was published in French by Autrement in 2007; the Nouvelle Revue Française will publish the translation of a chapter from Becoming Modern in October 2008. She is writing a life of Edith Piaf, to be published by Knopf. at Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris.

July 1-11 Paris Writers Workshop celebrates its 20th Anniversary: in Paris. Masterclasses in Novel & Nonfiction; workshops in Poetry, Translation, Memoir, Writing the Fine Arts, Romance, Fantasy, Crime Fiction, Hollywood Lives & more. Two half-tuition merit scholarships are available. For more see website: www.pariswritersworkshop.org Email: pww@wice-paris.org AT: WICE, 20 Boulevard du Montparnasse, 75015 Paris, M° Falgiere or Duroc. (Go through the big street door into the courtyard).

July 22 to 28, 2008: “En Plein Air: Writing & Painting In Southwest France” Mary Page Evans & Elizabeth Seydel Morgan team up to lead this combination writing & painting workshop that allows participants of all levels of ability to pursue their creative vision through words & images. A sketchbook/journal will sum up a week of creative collaboration between painting & writing. An added bonus of this workshop is optional participation in the annual “Paint my Village” painting contest sponsored by the village. http://www.vcca.com/morgan_evans.html. Mary Page Evans’ paintings have been described as “hymns of unadulterated joy.” She exhibits her work at Carspecken Scott Gallery in Wilmington, Delaware & Addison Ripley Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. Her artwork is contained in many public & private collections including the Delaware Art Museum, State Museum of Pennsylvania & the National Museum of Women in the Arts, & most recently the American Embassy in Nepal. Elizabeth Seydel Morgan has published four books of poetry with LSU Press, two award-winning short stories, & received a Best Screenplay Award from the Virginia Film Festival. She has translated Euripides' Electra for Penn Press, & published numerous non-fiction essays. In 2007, Morgan was the Writer in Residence at Hollins University. Workshop info: VCCA Workshops: http://www.vcca.com/2008_workshops.html

28 June: Day-long Travel Writing Workshop with tutors Dea Birkett & Rory Maclean.
This small, intensive workshop is for those new to travel writing or who want to improve their writing skills. The aim is, by the end of the day, a publisher or editor can only say 'Yes! Time: 10.30am-4.00pm Place: Shakespeare & CompanY! Cost: 150 euro for full day Further details from www.travelworkshops.co.uk

PART III: Reviews News & New Reviews —submit/just out


CHECK IT OUT !: two blogs at Farrar Straus site by Marilyn Hacker on poetry & translation http://www.fsgpoetry.com/fsg/2008/04/poetry-in-trans.html & also http://www.fsgpoetry.com/fsg/2008/04/marilyn-hacker.html

SUBMIT NOW !!!: Gently Read Literature is growing fast but we would still need your help--tell your friends, tell you enemies, inflict us upon your students, contribute (we dare you), or comment. Daniel Sumrall, catch-all-editor www.gentlyread.wordpress.com

VERSAL 6 coming out NOW!: As in previous issues, Versal 6 is wrought with writing from the exiled, expatriate, immigrant, the translated – on both literal as well as figurative axes. Contributors include Marosa di Giorgio, Marilyn Hacker, including Wiljan van den Akker (NL), Sandra Jensen (SA), Michael Karman (USA), Rozalie Hirs (NL), Jane Monk (UK), Emmanuel Moses, Julian Stannard (UK), Takashi Hiraide, B.J. Hollars, Toshiya Kamei, Sándor Kányádi, Dawn Lonsinger, Rachel Marston, Sawako Nakayasu & Xiao Kaiyu. Poetry, fiction & art meet (in) the square. Pick up your copies here in paris at select bookstores or order one from: http://versal.wordsinhere.com

A louer appartement à Paris. Entre le Père Lachaise et la place de la Nation, dans une maison ancienne pleine de charme, un appartement de 4 pièces, calme, ensoleillé, sur trois niveaux. 4-7 personnes, 75 m2. Photos et descriptif complet sur le site de homelidays, annonce n°159758
Disponible à partir du 09/08/2008 Une semaine, 700 €, deux semaines 1200 €, trois semaines 1500 €. Contact borislojkine@yahoo.com

CRITICAL WORK WANTED : written in English, French, German, Spanish or Italian. On the subject: « La réception des idéogrammes dans la poésie européenne du début XXe siècle » Date limite propositions (400 mots): 10 juillet 2008, Date limite articles: 30 novembre 2008 FOR : RiLUnE ? Revue des Littératures de l?Union Européenne (www.rilune.org) dir. Ruggero Campagnoli et Anna Soncini ; Numéro monographique dirigé par Enrico Monti (emonti@lingue.unibo.it) RiLUnE n. 8 : La réception des idéogrammes dans la poésie européenne du début XXe siècle. Like nature, the Chinese words are alive & plastic, because thing & action are not formally separated. (Fenollosa/Pound 1920) Les articles pourront être rédigés dans une des langues suivantes: français, anglais, espagnol, italien et allemand. Ils devront en tout cas être accompagnés par un résumé en français et anglais (200 mots). Pour tout renseignement complémentaire ou pour proposer un article, contacter: Enrico Monti emonti@lingue.unibo.it en spécifiant impérativement «Rilune» dans le sujet/objet de votre courriel.

COACHING ACTORS, CLOWNS…: IRA Seidenstein is available for private coaching in physical acting skills; auditions; clown; email chaplinseye@yahoo.com.au or see for more www.iraseidenstein.com
Available until May 22.

FOR YOUR LISTENING POETRY PLEASURE : So Here We Are 12: http://media.libsyn.com/media/miporadio/SHWA12_APRIL2008_-_David_Caddy.mp3
The full text is available at http://davidcaddy.blogspot.com Click on the underlined So Here We Are to listen to the mp3 Middle Ditch 13: I Said, He Said is now online at http://middleditch.blogspot.com: David CADDY

CHECK OUT / UPLOAD YOUR SOUND FILES: Hello, come & check out Basil Miles’ new site www.soundlantern.com, you can upload all your great poems! Come check it out, they need poetry lovers! Here is the Poetry category: http://www.soundlantern.com/Sound.do?SCategory=Poetry&STime=Today&SBrowse=Most+Recent

SUBMIT by May 18th : New Letters Literary Awards Three awards of $1,500 each and publication in New Letters, the literary journal of the University of Missouri, Kansas City, are given annually for a group of poems, a short story, and a work of creative nonfiction. The New Letters Prize is given for a group of three to six poems, the Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize is given for a short story, and the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize is given for an essay. All entries will be considered for publication. Submit a manuscript of no more than 8,000 words with a $15 entry fee, which includes a one-year subscription to New Letters. Send an SASE or visit the Web site for complete guidelines. New Letters, Literary Awards, University of Missouri, University House, 5101 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110-2499. www.newletters.org

SUBMIT FLASH FICTION: to TATTOO HIGHWAY, an online journal of prose, poetry, and art, will be reading for issue #17 between March 1 and June 1. Quality short fiction especially encouraged. “Blind” readings; response within 2 weeks of deadline. See guidelines (and—please!—read an issue or two before submitting) at www.tattoohighway.org.

POETRY CONTEST: Boston Review Poetry Contest A prize of $1,500 and publication in the November/December issue of Boston Review is given annually for a poem or group of poems. John Koethe will judge. Submit up to five poems totaling no more than 10 pages with a $20 entry fee, which includes a one-year subscription to Boston Review, by June 1. Call or visit the Web site for complete guidelines. (See Recent Winners.) Boston Review, Poetry Contest, 35 Medford Street, Suite 302, Somerville, MA 02143. (617) 591-0505. review@bostonreview.net or bostonreview.net/about/contest

FICTION PRIZE : Elixir Press Fiction Award: A prize of $4,000, publication by Elixir Press, and 25 author copies will be given biennially for a short story collection or novel. Submit a manuscript of 120 to 500 pages with a $35 entry fee by May 31. Send an SASE, e-mail, or visit the Web site for complete guidelines. Elixir Press, Fiction Award, P.O. Box 27029, Denver, CO 80227. Dana Curtis, Editor. info@elixirpress.com or www.elixirpress.com

SUBMIT FICTION: ANDERBO.COM, “Best New Online Literary Journal,” features writers in fiction, “fact,” and poetry. Always looking for new voices. For submission information and guidelines, visit www.anderbo.com.

FOR ANTHOLOGY putting human face on America’s health care crisis, editor seeks true stories from/about women—patients, providers, caregivers, family members—sharing positive and negative experiences. Anthology will illuminate system failing everyone, particularly women shouldering much of the burden; offer alternatives that work for developing responsive public health policy. Deadline: August 15. Stories embedded in e-mail (2,500 word maximum), 50-word bio: eclift@vermontel.net