01 December 2009

Dec Readings in Paris: follow the word-trails leading us into a new decade

Part I) Paris Events & READINGS (with asterisks) by dates in December
Part II) Creative Writing Workshops in Europe
Part III) News Reviews & Reviews News: publications & calls for work
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Part I) Events & READINGS by DATE in DECEMBER 2009 :

*1 December at 19h30. Bilingual event for IVY Writers with Julien Blaine (French) & Stephen Rodefer (American, living in Paris). These two authors are undeniably of immense importance to this turn of the century. They are not only writers of significant & engaging works, but are also performers, translators, publishers, visual artists, organizers, & controversial figures. See complete bios along with photos from past readings & shows at http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/. Critics have said: “Rodefer attempts to look ‘beyond the spoil, beyond the wreck of otherness & difference’ ...to dwell in a morass of particular desires…The perspective of the poem shifts from the individual to the historical/ communal prospect in a narrative analepsis: ‘It is the city like a little cloud, a ditch of forcemeat by the hill’”—Andrew Lawson, (for more on Rodefer, see http://rodefer.ms11.net/) « Les mots débordent Julien Blaine, envahissent l'espace, se mêlent à des sculptures, copulent avec des poupées Hopis, s'intègrent à des performances vidéos, deviennent expositions, revues, réappropriation d'espaces, avant-garde, révolution mondiale, secousses telluriques, explosions cosmiques... » —Gloria Mundi, le matricule des anges (For more on Blaine: http://www.averse.com/j-blaine/) AT: Le Next, 17 rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris. M° Etienne Marcel, RER Les Halles. http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/

1 Dec through Dec 11th : DONATE TOYS: Mon-Fri 10h30-17h; Thur to 19h; Sat 10h-noon. Since 2002, the Petits Princes organization has run a charity drive to gather new toys for children who are hospitalized over the Christmas holidays. You may donate new toys by bringing them to the town hall of the 6th arrondissement. & while you’re there, go upstairs to the Salon du Vieux-Colombier on the first floor, where there is almost always a worthwhile artistic or cultural exhibit on display, with free entry.AT: the foot of Staircase B (Escalier B), Mairie du 6e, 78 rue Bonaparte, Paris 6e, M° Saint-Sulpice http://www.mairie6.paris.fr/mairie06/jsp/site/Portal.jsp

*2 déc à 19h : Rencontre avec MAYLIS DE KERANGAL et JOY SORMAN pour la parution de l'ouvrage qu'elles ont dirigé Femmes et sport. Regards sur les athlètes, les supportrices et les autres (Hélium) AT : Violette & Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*3 Dec 7 pm sharp. On the occasion of the publication of her new book, The Cost of Living Mavis Gallant will deliver a reading of her work. Mavis Gallant is admired & beloved as one of the masters of the modern short story. She is a prolific writer, & her 1996 Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant was more than eight hundred pages long. Even so, this weighty volume left out many wonderful stories that appeared in now out-of-print volumes or in The New Yorker, where Gallant has been a regular contributor for the last half century. Now The Cost of Living, with an introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri, provides an extensive new sampling of this great writer's work. Gallant's has always been a cosmopolitan sensibility, & these stories take us from Quebec to postwar Europe, with side trips to Germany & the south of France, before landing in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. A further group of stories are set in New York & New England during the Mad Men era. Everywhere the book reveals Gallant's subtly penetrating psychological insight & unsentimental sympathy for the excluded & exiled, not to mention her wicked sense of humor. AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon. http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

*3 déc : à partir de 18h. Rencontre avec NOELLE CHATELET, l’auteur de « Au pays des vermeilles » Editions du Seuil + un débat avec Monique Nemer A très bientôt ! L'équipe des Cahiers de Colette. AT : La Librairie Les Cahiers de Colette, 23/25 rue Rambuteau, 75004 Paris, Tel : 0142729506 http://www.lescahiersdecolette.com/

*3 déc : de 19h à 20h : « Les premiers outrages » : Rendez-vous réguliers, les jeudis de l'Oulipo, chers aux amateurs de jeux de l'esprit et de littérature potentielle, continuent d'explorer des thèmes d'actualité, proposant lectures et créations originales. AT : Le BNF, Site François Mitterand, Grand auditorium, M° Bibliothèque. Entrée libre.

*4 décembre à 20h Rencontre avec Jacques Lamalle, Cabu, Kiro et Kerleroux autour de Le Canard Enchaîné : 50 ans de dessins La Vème république en 2000 dessins 1958 – 2008 Editions des Arènes A l’occasion de la sortie du « Canard Enchaîné » en version brochée, Jacques Lamalle, qui a dirigé l’édition, et les incontournables Cabu, Kiro et Kerleroux viennent vous raconter les aventures de l’impertinent volatile et dédicacer comme il se doit… Soirée humour garantie ! AT : Le Comptoir des mots, 239, rue des Pyrénées, Paris 75020.

4 décembre à partir de 19h30 : Le numéro 6 de la revue Geste est arrivé ! Nous sommes heureux de vous inviter à fêter sa sortie en musique. Geste #6 Ralentir / Présent de l'esclavageAu programme Ouverture de la Générale à 19h30 Présentation de Geste 6 à 20h30 Piano: Frédéric Lagnau "Les charmes de la marche" et autres pièces "Dance floor au ralenti" avec Yasmine Hugonet (danse) et Cosmo Helectra (musique) Enfin fanfare (peut-être), slows (sûrement) et grande et belle fête ! Le lieu est immense et non chauffé. Pensez à venir équipés: grosses chaussettes, pulls de sport d'hiver, moufles, grande envie de danser ! Il y aura du vin chaud et soupes à disposition. Comme les consignes de sécurité sont assez strictes, nous ne pouvons pas accueillir plus de 80 personnes à la fois. Pour faciliter l'organisation, pouvez-vous nous indiquer si vous comptez venir? Merci beaucoup! Au plaisir de vous y retrouver! L'équipe de Geste http://www.revue-geste.fr/ Soirée co-organisée avec Emmanuel Ferrand http://lageneralenordest.over-blog.fr// AT: la Générale Nord-Est, 14 avenue Parmentier, 75011 Paris, M° Voltaire.

*4 déc : à partir de 18h Rencontrer PASCAL BRUCKNER, l’auteur de « Le paradoxe amoureux » Editions Grasset A très bientôt ! L'équipe des Cahiers de Colette. AT : La Librairie Les Cahiers de Colette, 23/25 rue Rambuteau, 75004 Paris, Tel : 0142729506 http://www.lescahiersdecolette.com/

4th, 5th & 6th December: Stéphane Bordarier will be present with Michael Woolworth at the Artist Book International at the Georges Pompidou Center. BIO: An American-born master printer & publisher based in Paris, Michael Woolworth established his atelier in 1985. Since then, his studio has collaborated with American & European artists & made hundreds of original fine prints & artists’ books. His shop specializes in lithography techniques on hand presses, & also produces woodcuts, monotypes, linocuts, etching & multiples. http://www.michaelwoolworth.com/ Follow this by seeing Woolworth’s artbook show “Paris. Unplugged!” (an exhibition at the Michael Woolworth atelier, 2, rue de la Roquette, from Dec 12-22). The 4-6th December is AT: the Artist Book International, at Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, M° Rambuteau.

5 DEC, à PARTIR DE 14H00 : Art Show, to not be missed. SCREW ART BASEL MIAMI IS PLEASE TO INVITE YOU TO THE VERY AMUSING DOUBLE TROUBLE PRIVATE BITS & AUTRE CHOSES with MATTHEW ROSE & BERNARD MATUSSIERE. AVEC LES SPECIAL GUESTS : SARAH DE TELIGA & MAX MULHERN AT : 37 RUE FROIDVAUX 75014 PARIS, AU FOND DU COUR RSVP : MATTHEW.ROSE.PARIS@GMAIL.COM & request door code by email.

*5 déc : 15h-17h (reading starts around 15h30) Come hear our atelier productions in a cabin setting at Ménilmontant: with readings by Fernandes, Rhodes-Pitts, & Riggs & raise a glass to say hello-goodbye to a fruitful spot, headquarters to Tamaas (http://www.tamaas.org/), now moving to central Paris. Bios: MEGAN FERNANDES is a PhD candidate at UofCA, Santa Barbara. She is currently writing a dissertation on modernist poetry, cognitive science, & theories of consciousness & sensation. At present Megan is an Arts & Culture writer for Vingt Paris publications & is conducting research at the Center for Literature & Cognition at Université Paris VIII. Her poetic work grows out of dialogue with poets such as Medbh McGuckian & Stephen Dunn. SHARIFA RHODES-PITTS’ writing has appeared in Transition, The New York Times, & The Boston Globe. She has received awards from the Independent Press Association, the Rona Jaffe Foundation & the Lannan Foundation. Originally from Houston, she graduated from Harvard University & was a Fulbright Scholar in the UK. She is in Paris through the International Artists-in-Residence program at Centre Recollets, sponsored by the Mairie de Paris & the Foreign Ministry. Sharifa is writing a trilogy on African-Americans & utopia; her first book, Harlem is Nowhere, will be published in 2011 by Little, Brown & Company. SARAH RIGGS is a poet, translator, & visual artist: author of Waterwork (Chax, 2007) & Chain of Miniscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling (Reality Street, 2007). 60 Textos (Ugly Duckling Presse, for 2010), along with 28 télégrammes & 43 Post-Its were first published in France (éditions de l’Attente, trans. Françoise Valéry, 2006-9) The installation of her drawings, Isibilités, in collaboration with sound, video & cuisine, took place at the galerie éof in autumn 2007. A member of the bilingual poetry association Double Change & director of Tamaas, an international cross-cultural foundation, Riggs currently teaches at NYU in Paris. AT: 84 rue de Ménilmontant, 20th Arr., code AB 834, door across from lawn m° Ménilmontant, bus 96 Questions, direct to sarah.riggs@wanadoo.fr

*5 déc à partir de 17h30 : Venez rencontrer DIDIER ERIBON l’auteur de « Retour à Reims » Editions Fayard. A très bientôt ! L'équipe des Cahiers de Colette. AT : La Librairie Les Cahiers de Colette, 23/25 rue Rambuteau, 75004 Paris, Tel : 0142729506 http://www.lescahiersdecolette.com/

*6th Dec at 7.30 pm MOVING PARTS presents a reading of a play by Sarah Canner "What Maisie Knew" (screenplay) For more, see: http://www.movingparts.org.uk/ or e-mail Stephanie Campion movingpartsparis@gmail.com for listings! Tel : 06 14 67 18 58 AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, M° Tuileries

*7th at 20h30 SpokenWord invites you out every Monday to share work in any language: theme of the night (You don't have to stick to the theme though) is: "Change” See the SpokenWord blog at http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/ or check out their facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Spoken-Word-in-Paris/165517768215 They also have a meetup site which will email you info on upcoming events or member events, so join up at: http://www.meetup.com/Spoken-Word-in-Paris/ AT : Cabaret Populaire "Culture Rapide," 103 rue Julien Lacroix. M° Belleville or Pyrénées

*9 December. 19h00: Patricia's Paris Conections Cocktail (This Week A Dinner Also). With Special Guest: Mystery Writer CARA BLACK, author of numerous novels, most recently "Murder in The Latin Quarter". €20.00 includes an exciting evening with Cara, a great dinner & meeting & connecting with new international people in Paris. Contact : Patricia Laplante-Collins via parissoirees@gmail.com or cell phone at +33 (0)6 43 79 35 18 to reserve & receive location information.

9th Dec at 8:30pm. Stand-up comedy at La Java with visiting comedian “Jimeoin”. See full details on Karel Beer’s website http://www.anythingmatters.com/ Tickets 20€ (15€ students & card carrying members) AT: La Java, 105, faubourg du Temple Paris 10. To get on mailing list for future comedy events & concerts: kbeer@free.fr

*9 Dec at19h30: Jane Alison discusses her memoir, The Sisters Antipodes. Author BIO: When Jane Alison was four, her family met another that seemed identical: a diplomat father, beautiful mother, & two little girls, one who shared the same birthday as Jane. Within months, the parents had switched partners, divorced, remarried, created two new families, & moved far away from each other. People magazine called Alison's memoir "wrenching, luminous... Alison explores the incalculable damage done: the fraught, shifting alliances; her guilt as both dads apparently favored her over her doppelganger stepsister; the crippling shadow her childhood still casts." Read Jane Alison's Modern Love essay titled "Swapping Fathers, Swiftly," which was adapted from her memoir & appeared in the NYT as linked off of the American Library events listing on the AL site. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire. http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

*9 déc à 20h : 4ème rencontre dans le cadre de Poète/Publique : Frédéric Forte vous invite à rencontrer Sébastien Smirou et Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens (P.O.L). Chaque dernier mercredi du mois à 20h, Frederic Forte vous invite à rencontrer un poète et son éditeur. Comment un auteur conçoit-il un livre de poésie ? Quel est le rôle de l’éditeur ? Les invités tenteront de répondre à ces questions, et à d’autres… Pour en savoir plus : http://web.lecomptoirdesmots.fr/lien.php?id=241&coid=nfWyL5nUQgIMPkCrnCyr&xid=dEbfxACWQTvyOyga53FN&jid=ScrNVGJwTfKxgPsHm2BR&eid=ivywritersparis@gmail.com et toujours : http://web.lecomptoirdesmots.fr/lien.php?id=242&coid=88q7LRyeRhKFGr4T3e4U&xid=dEbfxACWQTvyOyga53FN&jid=ScrNVGJwTfKxgPsHm2BR&eid=ivywritersparis@gmail.com AT : Le Comptoir des mots, 239, rue des Pyrénées, Paris 75020.

* 10 décembre 2009 à partir de 19 heures A l'occasion de la parution de « READ » (A journal of inter-translation : 2007 TAMAAS & 1913 BOOKS) rencontre avec Vincent Broqua, Frédéric Forte, Sarah Riggs, Cole Swensen, Habib Tengour AT : Librairie Michèle Ignazi, 17, rue de Jouy, 75004 Paris, m° : Saint-Paul ou Pont-Marie

10 Dec 19.30, Ten42 Productions presents the film ‘The Frost is All Over” Directed by John Comiskey Performers: Tony MacMahon, David Power & Eamonn Hunt 7€, performance: approx. 75 mins “The Frost is all Over” is a seamlessly interwoven performance of traditional Irish music, poetry & images. The thoughtful selection of tunes is interspersed with a specially commissioned suite of poems, enhanced by archive imagery. A captivating contemporarily framed performance steeped in resonances of the past. AT : Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER Luxembourg, M° Place Monge ou Cardinal Lemoine. http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/

*10 Dec 7 pm sharp. Author Nam Le will present The Boat & will be introduced by Charles D'Ambrosio. The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection The Boat take us across the globe, from the slums of Colombia to Iowa City; from the streets of Tehran to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea. They guide us to the heart of what it means to be human ? & herald the arrival of a remarkable new writer. Nam Le was born in Vietnam, & raised in Australia. His work has appeared in Zoetrope, A Public Space, One Story, Conjunctions, & the Pushcart Prize & Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. Currently the fiction editor of the Harvard Review, he divides his time between Australia & the United States.AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon. http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

10 déc à 20h30 CONCERT par les SORBONNE SCHOLARS « WHEN DAVID HEARD » Hommage à Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623) Direction Pierre ISELIN. Avec la participation de François Bonnet, luth. Entrée libre AT : Amphithéâtre Richelieu, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Paris 5e, RER Luxembourg, M° Cluny-La Sorbonne or St Michel.

10 Dec: Toastmasters International: Guests are welcome & are not expected to give a speech! Parisienne Jane Grey took First Place at the Toastmasters regional Area B4 Humorous Speech Contest on October 24. This was a competition among all the English-speaking clubs in France. She delivered “Pigeon Sex & the City,” explaining the birds & the bees about the birds to a great audience in the gorgeous Irish Embassy of Paris. See her winning moment on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWObMp-4Hac Meeting info: http://www.toastmasters75.org/

11 Dec : 18h30 - 21h We (Grace Teshima & Doublas Brodoff) proudly invite you to a Press Conference & Celebration on the happy occasion of the inauguration of LES ANGES VERTS des rues - a new Association founded to support the work & expositions of the art of Douglas Brodoff honoring the streetcleaners of Paris. Join us for short presentation followed by a drink & refreshments. Douglas Brodoff proposes to bring his exposition in Homage to the Sanitation Workers of Paris in an expanded format to each & every Mairie of Paris. A tour of the exposition of Paintings & Photos which would climax with an Expo at the Hotel de Ville. The proposed Expositions in each Mairie would include paintings & photos inspired by the special work being done in the particular neiborhood of that expo. AT: La Mairie du 2eme, 8 rue de la Banque m° – Bourse, for more information visit lesangesvertsdesrues.com or else http://petitshommesverts.free.fr/. Please also enjoy the blog http://petitshommesverts.blogspot.com/ or sign up on our facebook page : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193687164560&ref=mf

*12 Dec at 20h THE SAW PROJECT (Le projet de la scie) de Chim NWABUEZE:. avec Itaru OKI: Trompette. Une poésie-musique: concerts et "works-in-progress" réguliers (mensuel/bimensuel) autour de la scie musicale de Chim NWABUEZE, son instrument de prédilection. En collaboration avec des artistes clefs, des voix distinctes (Bobby FEW, Harry SWIFT, Ramon LOPEZ, Joëlle LEANDRE, Tatsuya NAKATANI...) l'axe principal de ce projet est et a toujours été la poésie et la musique, leur complementarité aussi bien que ce qui les sépare, déchire--c'est-a-dire leurs contours incandescents--à la recherche d'une synergie avec d'autres formes artistiques. AT : Le lieu: Studio Coriandre, 86 rue Gaston Lauriau, Montreuil, Tel: 06 17 80 61 49 M°: Marie de Montreuil. Participation: 10 euros /8 euros: tarif reduit

*12th Dec : guest author Esther Tellerman, reading with a musical score by poet-performeuse Anna 0, guest at the last Night of Poetry during the 10th Biennial event. http://www.biennaledespoetes.fr/ for programme info, time & directions.

*14 décembre, 18h, à La Comédie Française, Salle Richelieu, lecture (45 mn) d’extraits de « Mort d’un jardinier » par Alexandre Pavloff, lecture suivie d’un débat avec le comédien, l’auteur et un journaliste du Monde des Livres. ("Lectures d'acteurs" en partenariat avec Le Monde des Livres).

*14th Dec at 20h30 SpokenWord invites you out every Monday to share work in any language: theme of the night (You don't have to stick to the theme though) is: "Future(s)" See the SpokenWord blog at http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/ or check out their facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Spoken-Word-in-Paris/165517768215 They also have a meetup site which will email you info on upcoming events or member events, so join up at: http://www.meetup.com/Spoken-Word-in-Paris/ AT : Cabaret Populaire "Culture Rapide," 103 rue Julien Lacroix. M° Belleville or Pyrénées

*15 décembre, à partir de 19 heures. nous vous attendons à la Librairie Pensées Classées, à Paris, pour une lecture et une signature du « Zaroff » par Julien d’Abrigeon, avec la présence du Tampographe Sardon muni d’une valise entière de ses tampons – à vous arracher dans un combat sans merci. On vous accueillera comme des comtes en claque. L'événement est détaillé sur http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185574497849&ref=mf AT : Librairie Pensées Classées, 9 rue Jacques Cœur, 75004 Paris, M° Bastille

*16 décembre 20h : Poète/publique : rencontre avec Sébastien Smirou & Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens / P.O.L. Dans le cadre de "poète/public", résidence d'écriture qu'il effectue au Comptoir des mots de septembre 09 à juin 10, Frédéric Forte vous invite pour rencontrer un poète et son éditeur. Comment un auteur conçoit-il un livre de poésie ? Quel est le rôle de l’éditeur ? Les invités tenteront de répondre à ces questions, et à d’autres…AU :Comptoir des mots, 239, rue des Pyrénées, Paris 75020.

*16 Dec at19h30 Journalist & author Sandy Tolan discusses his book, 'The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, & the Heart of the Middle East.' Sandy Tolan examines the Middle East conflict through the prism of one small, stone house in Ramla. Built in 1936 by an Arab family, the house was acquired by a Jewish family after the city became part of Israel in 1948. Bashir, the Arab family's son, & Dalia, the Jewish family's daughter, have been engaged in an intense political dialogue for four decades. Tolan chronicles their debate & rare friendship in a narrative the Washington Post said added "a much-needed, human dimension to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire. http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

*20th Dec at 7.30 pm MOVING PARTS presents a reading of a play by Corneliu Mitrache: "Playboys of the Middle East" (screenplay) For more, see: http://www.movingparts.org.uk/ or e-mail Stephanie Campion movingpartsparis@gmail.com for listings! Tel : 06 14 67 18 58 AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, M° Tuileries

*21 Dec 7 pm sharp. Husband & wife, writers, Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman will present a joint talk & reading, a rare event. Michael Chabon's latest book is Manhood for Amateurs. A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts & pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon: Insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays. Ayelet Waldman's latest book is Bad Mother. In the tradition of recent hits like The Bitch in the House & Perfect Madness comes a hilarious & controversial book that every woman will have an opinion about, written by America's most outrageous writer. In our mothers' day there were good mothers, neglectful mothers, & occasionally great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers. If you work, you're neglectful; if you stay home, you're smothering. If you discipline, you're buying them a spot on the shrink's couch; if you let them run wild, they’ll get into drugs. A book that’s sure to spark the same level of controversy as her now legendary Modern Love piece, in which she confessed to loving her husband more than her children, “Bad Mother” illuminates the anxieties that riddle motherhood today, while providing women with the encouragement they need to give themselves a break. AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon. http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

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Part II) Writing workshops in Europe! (listed by start date) :

February 5–7, 2010: SIGN UP NOW for the GENEVA Writers’ Conference at Webster University, Bellevue/Geneva, Switzerland, with Julia Bell, Thomas E. Kennedy, Annette Kobak, Geeta Kothari, Robert Root, Richard Scrimger, Susan Tiberghien, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, John Hartley Williams, plus agents/editors/publishers (U.S./U.K./Paris), workshops, panels, readings, networking, 180 writers from around the world. For info, visit http://www.genevawritersgroup.org/.

The Writers’ Atelier. See writing groups in Paris & sign up at Meetup : http://writers.meetup.com/561/fr/calendar/11438783/

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Part III) News Reviews & Reviews News: publications + calls for work

SUBMIT NOW : The Kenyon Review: Our 2009-2010: reading period starts September 15 & runs through January 15. We consider short fiction & essays (up to 7,500 words), poetry (up to 6 poems). Please group your poems in a single document not individually. Plays (up to 35 pages), Excerpts (up to 35 pages) from larger works, translations of poetry & shortprose. Query for payment rates. Details: http://kenyonreview.org/krsubmit/submissions/guidelines.php

OUT ONLINE: Christine Herzer, of Paris, has 5 poems in the new issue of H_NGM_N, enjoy: http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n-9/christine-herzer.html Also, consider sending work of your own for future issues to this fabulous online magazine!

TinFish Press Announces: two exciting books going to the printer this week: Kaia Sand, REMEMBER TO WAVE, $16 & Elizabeth Soto, EULOGIES, $14. Details here:http://www.tinfishpress.com/hot_off_the_press.html Pre-publication prices are $14 for Sand's book, $10 for Soto's, or $22 for both. Please support our efforts to publish experimental poetry from the Pacific by pre-ordering these titles. Tinfish Press, Susan M Schultz, 47-728 Hui Kelu Street #9, Kane`ohe, HI 96744 USA, or via the "purchase" button on our website.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! The Paris based journal UPSTAIRS AT DUROC seeks submissions of innovative writing, including poetry, short stories, flash fiction, prose poems & hybrid forms. Poetry: send up to 5 poems in a single Word attachment, one poem per page. Short Stories: send up to two pieces of no more than 2000 words each. Flash fiction: send up to 5 pieces in a single Word document, one piece per page. We also seek visual art: drawings, etchings & photographs. We publish in black/white, plus one color piece (cover). Send artwork in jpeg format. Email all submissions to: wice@wice-paris.org with "Attention: Upstairs at Duroc Submission" in the subject line. Deadline January 31.

SALE: Jennifer Huxta: LIMITED EDITION PRINTS SET SAIL!: Huxta just got back from Alebtong, in Northern Uganda, where she worked as a field volunteer for 6 weeks, photographing & teaching a photography workshop at A River Blue (www.ariverblue.org), an arts empowerment organization serving people displaced by the conflict between the Lord's Resistance Army & the Ugandan government. Thanks to a donation of instant film from Fujifilm USA, the students explored & photographed daily life in the community. They completed a photo mural, a painted mural & a journal project, & wrote their biographies with accompanying portraits. Every day, Huxta worked together with them on different projects: uprooting onions & bundling them for sale at the market, cutting grass, harvesting eggplants. She was constantly taking photos of their activities as well as photographing in & around Alebtong. With the holidays right around the corner, Jennifer Huxta is now am offering a selection of 11x14" prints at a reduced rate to help support her upcoming projects & A River Blue- a percentage of all sales will be donated to A River Blue. Each photograph costs $100 plus shipping & handling, & each is printed on high-quality paper. The deadline to order prints is 8 December 2009 at midnight EST. Prints will be shipped by 18 December at the latest. To purchase prints, please click on the paypal links on her blog, http://laclandestine.blogspot.com/ where you can also see images. If you would like to pay by cash or check, please contact me directly by email: jh[at]jenniferhuxta[dot]com

ALISAIR NOON’s second print chapbook, “In People's Park”, is now available from Penumbra Editions: http://www.penumbramagazine.co.uk/#Contents & his translations of the German poet Monika Rinck have also now been published by Barque Press: http://www.barquepress.com/16poems.html

02 November 2009

November 2009 Readings & Events in Paris!!!

Part I) Paris Events & READINGS (with asterisks) by dates in November
Part II) Creative Writing Workshops & other courses in Europe
Part III) News Reviews & Reviews News: publications, calls for work
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New! PLEASE NOTE: THE THREE SECTIONS I HAVE POSTED AS 3 SEPARATE BLOG POSTS, so that it is easier & faster for you to locate the information you are seeking!


Part I) Events & READINGS in Paris by date in November 2009

Du 29 oct. au 2 nov. de 8h00 à minuit... Film Festival : Cineffable, French lesbian film festival. Only open to women (sorry guys) For full info on the films being shown, to volunteer to help out, or events in conjunction with this annual festival, see their site :
http://www.cineffable.fr

Du 28 october au 3 novembre, MON PREMIER FESTIVAL de cinéma, un festival de cinéma pour enfants de 2 à 12 ans. A découvrir ou à revoir "Toto le Héros" '(si vous écoutez bien vous entendrez des échoes de l'oeuvre de James Joyce "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man") (le 30 et 31 oct), "Brigadoon" "Au revoir les Enfants" (le 2 nov), "L'homme qui rétrécit" (le 31 oct, les 1 & 2 nov), "Les aventures de Pinocchio" (le 3 nov), "Le voleur de bicyclette" (le 31 oct et les 2 & 3 nov) et un film muet de 1922 de Robert Flaherty "Nanouck l"Esquimau" (le 1 & 2 nov). Découvrir tout le programme sur
www.monpremierfestival.org

*2 Nov at 7pm Novelist Michael Smith, The Giro Playboy. The Giro Playboy recounts the (mis)adventures of a delusional drifter and his wanderings from the north-east of London (where the streets are paved with gold) and on to Brighton and the badlands of Essex. Along the way he falls in love, drinks a lot of beer, eats too many sweets, ponders the meaning of life on the dole and gets admitted to hospital for a painful condition – all the time measuring his life in cigarettes. Michael has contributed to The Observer newspaper, The Idler and Zembla, Dazed & Confused and Good For Nothing. His new book Birds is due to be published with Faber and Faber in 2011. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 35 rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel.
http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

*4 Nov 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Colin Smith on ‘England’s Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-1942.’ BIO: As a journalist, Colin Smith worked for The Observer for 26 years, where he became an Assistant Editor. He has reported from many conflicts in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans. His highly praised books include, most recently, Singapore Burning, about the British retreat in Malaya. He divides his time between Cyprus and Guernsey. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
www.americanlibraryinparis.org

*FOR KIDS: 10h30 & 14h30 (ages 3-5) Wednesday Story Hour 4th, 11th, 18th 25th Nov: Drop-in sessions for kids to spend an hour with friends and some good books. No sign-ups needed. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
www.americanlibraryinparis.org

*5 nov 11h As part of the « Belles Etrangères » series, meet & hear American Author Percival Everett, présenté par Philippe Leconte Organisée par la librairie Le Livre Écarlate Librairie Le Livre Écarlate 31 rue du Moulin Vert - Paris 14ème arr. Renseignements : 01 45 42 75 30 Programme disponible sur
http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/

*5 nov 16h Mee & hear American authors Andrew Sean Greer & Colson Whitehead, présentés par Pierre-Yves Pétillon. Organisée par la librairie Les Cahiers de Colette, AT : Les Cahiers de Colette, 23 rue Rambuteau - Paris 75004 Renseignements : 01 42 72 95 06
http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/

*5 nov 17h Meeting & reading with American authors Forrest Gander (Novelist, poet, essayist) & Eleni Sikelianos (poet, lyric biography), présentés par Marc Delouze. Organisée par les Parvis Poétiques avec la librairie Vendredi AT : Fondation Boris Vian, 6 bis cité Véron (entrée au 92 bd de Clichy) - Paris 75018. Renseignements : 01 42 54 48 70
http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/

*5 Nov at 7pm: Janet Skeslien Charles will present her book Moonlight in Odessa. Odessa, Ukraine, is the humor capital of the former Soviet Union, but in an upside-down world where waiters earn more than doctors and Odessans depend on the Mafia for basics like phone service and medical supplies, no one is laughing. After months of job hunting, Daria, a young engineer, finds a plum position at a foreign firm as a secretary. But every plum has a pit. In this case, it's Mr. Harmon, who makes it clear that sleeping with him is job one. Daria evades Harmon's advances by recruiting her neighbor, the slippery Olga, to be his mistress. But soon Olga sets her sights on Daria ?s job. Daria begins to moonlight as an interpreter at Soviet Unions(TM), a matchmaking agency that organizes "socials" where lonely American men can meet desperate Odessan women. Her grandmother wants Daria to leave Ukraine for good and pushes her to marry one of the men she meets, but Daria already has feelings for a local. She must choose between her world and America, between Vlad, a sexy, irresponsible mobster, and Tristan, a teacher nearly twice her age. Daria chooses security and America. Only it ?s not exactly what she thought it would be & A wry, tender, and darkly funny look at marriage, the desires we don't acknowledge, and the aftermath of communism, Moonlight in Odessa is a novel about the choices and sacrifices that people make in the pursuit of love and stability. AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
www.villagevoicebookshop.com

*5 nov, à partir de 18 h Come meet the author/artist Zoé Chantre! Les éditions Graine d’encre sont heureuses de vous annoncer la publication du livre La Mélancolie, de Zoé Chantre. Nous vous invitons à venir fêter sa sortie en présence de l’auteur AT : la librairie Le Monte-en-l’air, 6, rue des Panoyaux, Paris XXe, M° Ménilmontant

* 5 nov à partir de 19h : A l'occasion de la parution de « Autant la mer » (Editions P.O.L) rencontre avec François Matton AT : Librairie Michèle Ignazi, 17, rue de Jouy, 75004 paris, Tel : 01 42 71 17 00. M° St Paul or Pont Marie

*5 nov 19h-21h : Les jeudis de l'Oulipo, thème « Annette entre deux pays », Dans le cadre des "Jeudis de l'Oulipo" la Cie L'amour au travail-Jacques Jouet (L'amour au travail, La chatte bottée, Arlequin poli par l'amour/personnage) bénéficie d'une "carte blanche exceptionnelle" pour la toute première représentation parisienne de sa nouvelle création théâtrale et musicale. « Habille-toi, on va au cirque ! ». Une nuit, Annette entend sa mère lui donner cet ordre énigmatique et merveilleux, un de ceux que tout enfant rêverait d'entendre pour son plus grand plaisir. Le cirque, ce sera pourtant tout autre chose : il sera la métaphore ludique d’un voyage d’émigrants clandestins. Le cirque, c’est aussi le lieu de travail imaginaire du père qui est déjà à destination. Au bout de la marche, c’est la frontière. La frontière d'un pays de tous les espoirs… Jacques Jouet explore ici un thème épineux, actuel. Pour évoquer de manière plus ouverte ces voyages migratoires clandestins, tels qu'ils continuent d'avoir lieu avec les drames et les hypocrisies politiques que l'on sait, il a choisi de nous raconter ce périple par le biais du regard d'enfants, qui imaginent le cirque qu'ils croient rejoindre... Ce spectacle est conçu pour un large public à partir de 8 ans. AT : BNF, site François-Mitterrand, Grand auditorium. M° Lignes 6 (Quai de la gare),14 et RER C (Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand) Plus d'infomations sur leur site: http://www.bnf.fr/pages/zNavigat/frame/cultpubl.htm?ancre=soiree_thematique_1179.htm

5 Nov 18.30 – 20.00, Vernissage Into Irish Drawing. Into Irish Drawing showcases the work of twenty-two contemporary artists based in Ireland who specialize in drawing. The curator of the exhibition, Arno Kramer, highlights the fact that the discipline of drawing has realised fascinating new developments in the last ten years. His choice of works is not intended to be an objective summary of present-day Irish drawings; it is a qualitative choice. The works presented here have been selected for their visual quality and for the original and recognizable style of the artist. Drawings reveal each mark an artist makes, like unfiltered transmissions from head to paper, via the hand; this exhibition displays the final results of testing and experimenting on both large and small scales in one of the oldest art disciplines. The artists presented are: Stephen Brandes, Claire Carpenter, Gary Coyle, Timothy Emlyn Jones, Brian Fay, Mark Francis, David Godbold, Anita Groener, Katie Holten, Alice Maher, Niamh McCann, Eoin McHugh, Bea McMahon, Nick Miller, Tom Molloy, Isabel Nolan, Eamon O’Kane, Niamh O’Malley, Kathy Prendergast, Jim Savage, Gerda Teljeur and Martin Wedge. admission free (show 6 November – 18 December 09) AT : Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER Luxembourg, M° Place Monge ou Cardinal Lemoine. www.centreculturelirlandais.com

*5 nov 20h Projection d’un film choisi et commenté par Percival Everett Organisée par le cinéma Action Christine AT : Action Christine, 4, rue Christine - Paris 6ème arr. Renseignements : 01 43 25 85 78
http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/

*6 nov 19h30 Hommage à J.G.Ballard, écrivain de science-fiction et d'anticipation sociale disparu en avril 2009. Lectures ponctuées d'interventions sonores avec Patrick Bouvet, Emmanuel Rabu/Basile Ferriot, textes de Daniel Foucard, lus par Véronique Levy, musique portradium et, Frédéric Junqua. Rencontres « Jeudi de Chasing Napoleon / Millenium People » Pour plus d'information : http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/fo3/low/programme/index.php?page=evecourt.php&id_eve=2728&session=41&agenda=yes Remerciements à Laure Limongi. Accès / Entrée sur présentation de billet de l'exposition dans la limite des places disponibles.Auditorium. AT : Le Palais de Tokyo, site de création contemporaine,13, avenue du Président Wilson PARIS. M° Iéna, RER C, Pont de l’Alma, Bus 32, 42, 63, 72, 80, 82, 92,

*6 novembre à partir de 18h La librairie vous invite à rencontrer Georges DIDI-HUBERMAN à l'occasion de la parution de Survivance des lucioles Éditions de Minuit AT : Les Cahiers de Colette, 23 rue Rambuteau - Paris 75004 M° Rambuteau.

6 nov à partir de 14h : Violette and Co tient une table de vente au Salon du livre organisé par l'Association française des femmes diplômées d'Université à la Mairie du VIè. Info :
www.affdu.fr

6 nov, de 18:00 - 21:00 : Dans le cadre de l’exposition « Art Stories, fantasmes dévoilés … » Rencontre avec Isabelle TUROVER Au programme : - Conférence sur la Figuration Narrative. Par Jeff Le Mat, Docteur en Psychosociologie et Ethnosociologie, photographe et auteur. - Concert live « meeTing quoTaTions » : Claire (chanteuse, artiste peintre et scénographe) et Hamilton (musicien et vidéaste), un univers post-cyber-indus, qui mêle guitare et sons électroniques, ... AT : Dorothy’s Gallery, 27 rue Keller PARIS11 MER JEU VEN SAM de 13h à 19h et MAR DIM de 16h à 19h M° Bastille 01 43 57 08 51 dorothysgallery@gmail.com or www.dorothysgallery.com

7 Nov 10h00-19h00 Used Book Sale all day at The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire. www.americanlibraryinparis.org

7-9 Nov: EXTRAS/CASTING: The web series MY BITCHY WITCHY PARIS VACATION is looking for adult volunteers (men and women) 25 and older (no maximum age) to be extras. The shoot is in English. There are no speaking roles so if you understand English but aren't comfortable speaking it, don't worry! Participants will be listed in the film's credits. Dates: Nov 7, 3:00pm-10:00pm Nov 8, 9:00am-4:00pm Nov 11, 11:00am-5:00pm Yes, participating for a single day is possible. More info: www.bitchywitchy.com. If interested, please write to: alexisniki@gmail.com

*8th Nov
at 7.30 pm MOVING PARTS presents a reading of a screenplay by filmmaker and screenplay writer Kartik Singh. “CALLBACK”: is about 24 hours in the life of a brilliant but as yet unknown 40 year actress vying for a leading role in a major Hollywood film that is shooting in Paris. Things seem very hopeful indeed when Grace receives a message requesting a callback. Only one problem. The meeting is to take place at the casting director’s hotel room at midnight. What is Grace prepared to do to get the part that could change her life? Starring: Grace : Maud Buquet; CJ:Marc Duret; Florent : Julien Vialon; Miyoko : Hana Bruderer; & Felucci: Bob McAndrew. For more, see: http://www.movingparts.org.uk/ or e-mail Stephanie Campion movingpartsparis@gmail.com for listings! Tel : 06 14 67 18 58 AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, M° Tuileries

* 9 Nov 7pm BILINGUAL EVENT with Marina Temkina, author of “What do you Want” (Ugly Duckling Presse) and French poet Zeno Bianu. BIOS: Marina Temkina is a poet/artist-immigrant from Russia. She is the author of four poetry books in her native Russian, and two artists’ books made in collaboration with Michel Gerard that have been published in France. Marina shows her visual art and concrete poetry internationally and received a National Endowment for the Arts in 1994 and was a Revson Fellow at Columbia University. Her new book What Do You Want? is published by Ugly Duckling Press in America and consists of the texts Marina wrote as installations for exhibitions. She lives in New York writing in Russian and in English.Zeno Bianu is a French poet and translator. He has published over 50 works that look at poetry, theatre and the Orient – they include Infiniment proche (Gallimard), La Troisième rive (Fata Morgana), Le Battement du monde (Lettres vives), Les Poètes du Grand Jeu (Poésie / Gallimard), Chet Baker, déploration (Le Castor astral) et Répertoire des apparitions, with drawings by Michel Mousseau (Dumerchez). He has been translated into English by Cid Corman, Pierre Joris and Jack Hirshman.AT: Shakespeare & Co., 35 rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

*10 nov 14h as part of the Belles Etrangeres series, Les élèves du lycée Janson de Sailly rencontrent Forrest Gander : Novelist, poet, essayist See
http://www.forrestgander.com for more. Organisée par l’Académie de Paris et le lycée Janson de Sailly avec la librairie Lamartine, Renseignements : 01 44 62 40 67 http://www.ac-paris.fr Europe et International http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/

*10 nov à partir de 19h. November reading with Yves Di Manno alongside Jerome Rothenberg at Michèle Ignazi's bookstore in the Marais to coincide with publication in November of DiManno’s “Objets d'Amérique”, which includes a full translation of Rothenberg’s “Oracle for Delfi”: A l'occasion de la parution de « Objets d'Amérique » (Editions José Corti) rencontre avec Yves di Manno en présence de Jerome Rothenberg AT : Librairie Michèle Ignazi, 17, rue de Jouy, 75004 Paris, M° : Saint-Paul ou Pont-Marie

*10 nov 19h Projection du film des Belles Etrangères réalisé par Michael Smith avec les écrivains invités : « De New-York à Los Angeles, douze écrivains américains » et lectures d’extraits de l’anthologie des Belles Etrangères. Organisée par La Scène du Balcon AT : Centre cerise, 46 rue Montorgueil, Paris 75002, Renseignements : 01 42 96 34 98
http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/

*10 nov at 19h: BILINGUAL READING with Double Change : American author Forrest Gander will read with French author Bénédicte Vilgrain. Michelle Noteboom, American poet & translator, will read Keith Waldrop’s translation of chapter 3 of Une Grammaire tibétaine with Bénédicte Vilgrain. BIOS: GANDER: Born in the Mojave Desert in Barstow, CA, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia and spent significant periods in San Francisco, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico), and Eureka Springs, Arkansas before moving to Rhode Island. He holds degrees in both English lit and geology. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including
Eye Against Eye, Torn Awake, and Science & Steepleflower, all from New Directions, Gander also writes novels (As a Friend), essays (A Faithful Existence) and translates. His most recent translations are Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho (Finalist, PEN Translation Prize), No Shelter: Selected Poems of Pura López Colomé, and, with Kent Johnson, two books by the Bolivian wunderkind Jaime Saenz: The Night and Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz. See http://www.forrestgander.com for more. VILGRAIN: La Grammaire tibétaine de Bénédicte Vilgrain, montage de préceptes grammaticaux avec des proverbes et un conte, paraît depuis 2001 en épisodes et chez différents éditeurs (Contrat main, l'Attente, en revues). Ngà, le huitième épisode, est paru en avril 2009 aux éditions Héros-Limite. En 1984 était paru Le Maître de la pluie, un montage de superstitions chinoises (adapté de relevés de missionnaires jésuites) pour le théâtre d’ombres (Ipomée-Albin-Michel). Bénédicte Vilgrain traduit du tibétain, de l’allemand et de l’anglais, notamment pour la maison d’édition Théâtre Typographique qu’elle a fondé en 1984 et qu’elle dirige avec Bernard Rival (www.thty.fr). AT : Point Éphémère (upstairs, in dance studio), 200 Quai de Valmy – 75010 Paris, M° Jaurès ou Louis Blanc. Entrée libre. Programme disponible sur http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/ or www.doublechange.org

*10 nov 19h30 Meet American author Yuri Slezkine présenté par François Deweer, Organisée par la librairie du Globe AT : Librairie du Globe, 67, boulevard Beaumarchais Paris 75003. Renseignements : 01 42 77 36 36
http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/

10 Nov: 18.30, admission free ExpoTALK– Rosetta Beaugendre présente l’exposition Into Irish Drawing AT : Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER Luxembourg, M° Place Monge ou Cardinal Lemoine.
www.centreculturelirlandais.com

*12 Nov 7 pm sharp. Margo Berdeshevsky reads at Village Voice from her new collection of short stories, “Beautiful Soon Enough”. She will be introduced by the American poet Jerome Rothenberg. Of “Beautiful Soon Enough”, Robert Olen Butler writes: "A thrillingly cutting-edge work of photos and short-short stories flowing together into an extended erotic dream that limns the inner lives of women deeply yearning for connection and authenticity. A splendid book..." Marilyn Hacker writes, "This is writing with emotional power, great beauty and immediacy, found in the here-and-now, woven with extraordinary awareness of what is precisely not beautiful in human life. So MUCH verbal beauty, with the eternal quality of the tale or fable." BIO: A lifelong voyager, born in New York City, Margo is currently living in Paris. She is the author of a first poetry collection, an award winning writer, whose honors include Fiction Collective Two's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Award for Innovative Fiction (given to Beautiful Soon Enough,) the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America (selected by Marie Ponsot,) 5 Pushcart Prize nominations and special mention in Pushcart 2008. Her poetic novel, Vagrant, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
www.villagevoicebookshop.com

*12 Nov at 19h30: Wice “Writers on Writing” series invites Janet Skeslien Chales to talk about how to take a subject that fascinates you as a writer and transform it into a subject that will fascinate your reader, whether through fiction or nonfiction. She will also talk about the process of writing and research. Janet is the author of Moonlight in Odessa. Originally from Montana, Janet Skeslien Charles has lived in Paris since 1999. She has led writing workshops at the American Library, WICE, and Shakespeare and Company. The backdrop of her new novel Moonlight in Odessa (Bloomsbury) is the booming business of e-mail order brides, an industry where love and marriage meet sex and money. While at the University of Montana, Janet Skeslien Charles translated letters from desperate Russian women to lonely American men. She also interpreted for Russian women married to Americans. After finishing her degree in English literature, she spent two years in Odessa, Ukraine, as a Soros Fellow. During this time, she spoke with Western men who went to socials. She also met women who found husbands through international matchmaking organizations. The interviews with these men and women before and after the wedding make up the framework of her novel. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
www.americanlibraryinparis.org

*12 nov 19h Rencontre avec les auteurs américains Hannah Tinti et Percival Everett, présentés par Hubert Artus, Organisée par Rue89 et le Centre national du livre avec la librairie Les Cahiers de Colette AT : Centre national du livre, 53 rue de Verneuil, Paris 75007 Renseignements : 01 49 54 68 68
http://www.centrenationaldulivre.fr/ or for full info : http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/

12 Nov 19.30, The Green Fields of France in the presence of the director Alan Gilsenan
admission free, reservation recommended, in English, 50 mins Marking Armistice Day, The Green Fields of France is a poetic documentary film about the Irish who died in World War One, with the voices of Frank McGuinness, John Banville and Peter Fallon as Irish poets Patrick MacGill, Francis Ledwidge and Thomas Kettle. The film was produced by Yellow Asylum Films as part of the RTE ‘True Lives’ series. Alan Gilsenan will introduce the screening and answer questions afterwards. 1998 50 mins. AT : Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER Luxembourg, M° Place Monge ou Cardinal Lemoine.
www.centreculturelirlandais.com

*13 Nov at 21h00. Jazz-Poetry Concert: Moe Seager's Blue Note Metaphor Jazz Band. The Blue Note Metaphor Band plays Moe Seager's poems arranged in Bop, Blues and Love Ballads. With: Moe Seager - Poet- Vocalist, Rasul Siddik – Trumpet, Bobby Few – Piano, Harry Swift - Bass AT: Cafe Universel, 267 rue Saint Jacques, M°s: RER Port Royal & RER Luxembourg. Tel for more info: 01 43 25 74 20. Free Admission!

*13 Nov at 6p.m.NOTE THE TIME CHANGE: Reading by 3 American authors for "Les poètes inventent l'Europe," series, with Marilyn Hacker, Jerome Rothenberg and Ellen Hinsey. BIOS: AT: La Maison de la poésie, Passage Molière, 157 rue Saint-Martin, 75003 Paris.
http://www.maisondelapoesieparis.com/

13 nov à 19h : Vernissage de l'exposition de photos de MICHEL GUILLAUME "Abandon". AT : Violette & Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny.
www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*14 nov at 15h : Bilingual English/French reading Eleni Sikelianos & Béatrice Trotignon. Reading /meet the author of poetry & lyric biography, Eleni Sikelianos, présentée par sa traductrice, Béatrice Trotignon. Béatrice Trotignon animera une rencontre avec la poète américaine contemporaine Eleni Sikelianos (qu’elle a traduit aux Editions Grèges), composée d'une lecture bilingue du California Poem / Poème Californie avec une scénographie originale. Cette lecture est dans le cadre des Belles Etrangères, organisant du 9 au 21 novembre des rencontres avec 12 écrivains américains dans plusieurs villes de France. Pour accéder au programme complet par date, ville et auteur invité par les Belles Etrangères, consulter: www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr AT : la Maison de la Poésie à Paris (Passage Molière, 157 rue Saint-Martin, 75003) Entrée libre et gratuite.

*14 Nov at 20h THE SAW PROJECT (Le projet de la scie) de Chim N. au Studio Coriandre, propose une poésie-musique: concerts et "works-in-progress" réguliers (mensuel/bimensuel) autour de la scie musicale, son instrument de prédilection. En collaboration avec des artistes clefs, des voix distinctes (Bobby FEW, Harry SWIFT, Ramon LOPEZ, Joëlle LEANDRE, Tatsuya NAKATANI...) l'axe principal de ce projet est et a toujours été la poésie et la musique, leur complementarité aussi bien que ce qui les sépare, déchire--c'est-a-dire leurs contours incandescents--à la recherche d'une synergie avec d'autres formes artistiques. With Joëlle LEANDRE: Contrebasse & Chim NWABUEZE: Scie Musicale, Etc. Participation: 10 euros /8 euros: tarif reduit "J'ai toujours voulu sortir la scie musicale/lame sonore du contexte du cirque et d'une certaine image "convenue" qui l'a trop souvent confinée au rang de simple curiosité. J'ai donc tenté une autre approche, très personnelle, et d'autres mises-en-jeu. The Saw Project est l'expression, parmi d'autres, d'un tel plaisir". AT : Le lieu: Studio Coriandre, 86 rue Gaston Lauriau, Montreuil, Tel: 06 17 80 61 49 M°: Marie de Montreuil

*16 Nov at 19H/ Jerome Rothenberg is reading with Jean-Pierre Faye for PEN Club français and Double Change at 6, Rue François Miron, 75004 Paris. Watch for complete info on
http://www.penclub.fr/ or Double Change’s site www.doublechange.org.

* 16 Nov 7pm Prize-winning novelist, critic and cultural historian Marina Warner reading from her work-in-progress novel inspired by her father’s bookshop in Egypt in the Fifties and discussing her writing on the 1001 Nights. Marina Warner writes fiction, children’s books, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of female myths and symbols. Marina is also currently writing a book about magic and magicians, with the working title Stranger Magic. Marina has received a CBE and was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
www.marinawarner.comMuch of Marina Warner’s writing is concerned with an analysis of the mythology, folklore and archetypes surrounding the feminine throughout history. Her non-fiction books include Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (winner of Fawcett Book Prize), From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers and No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock. Researching fairy tales at the Getty Research Institute, Marina became only the second woman to deliver the BBC’s Reith Lectures, published as Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time. Other books include Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds, a collection of writing spanning 25 years Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature & Culture & Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors and Media into the Twenty-first Century. Her fiction includes The Lost Father (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize), Indigo, The Leto Bundle, Mermaids in the Basement & Murderers I Have Known and Other Stories. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 35 rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

*16 nov 17h. Rencontre avec Yuri Slezkine et Annette Wieviorka présentés par Alain Blum Organisée par les éditions La Découverte et l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales (EHESS) AT : EHESS, 105 Boulevard Raspail - Paris 75006. Renseignements : 01 49 54 25 25
http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/ for program and bio.

16 Nov : Journées du livre européen : L’Europe gourmande Regina Sexton The Journées du livre européen were set up to promote European literature and encourage intercultural dialogue. For this second edition (14 – 21 Nov 09), the theme is gastronomy and the cookery book. Food historian Regina Sexton is the author of ‘A Little History of Irish Food’. Designed to entice people to try cooking as they did in Ireland years ago, her book looks at food from the farm and farmyard, the garden and the dairy, hunting and fishing, as well as soups, breads, desserts and drinks. Combining food with social history, Regina Sexton has also gathered numerous quotes from historical sources and traditional Irish lore. An Bord Bia invites you to taste Irish cheeses and other delicacies - an Irish gastronomic treat. AT : Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER Luxembourg, M° Place Monge ou Cardinal Lemoine.
www.centreculturelirlandais.com

*16 nov 19h Meet and hear American authors Hannah Tinti & Colson Whitehead, présentés par Nathalie Crom. Organisée par la Bibliothèque publique d’information (BPI) avec la librairie Flammarion, AT : BPI – Centre Beaubourg, Centre Georges Pompidou - Petite Salle (niveau -1) - Paris 75004. Renseignements : 01 44 78 44 49
http://www.bpi.fr or http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/

17 Nov at 19h30 : Bilingual reading, IVY Writers with Christophe Marchand-Kiss and Beverley Bie Brahic ! BIOS: Beverley Bie Brahic is the author of a collection of poems, Against Gravity (Worple Press, 2005), and of ten translations from the French, most recently Hélène Cixous’s Hyperdream (Polity Press, 2008) and Francis Ponge’s prose poems, Unfinished Ode to Mud (CBeditions, 2008, shortlisted for the 2009 Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation). Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Notre Dame Review, The TLS, Verse, Fence, and elsewhere. She has been awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant and a residency at Yaddo. A Canadian she lives in Paris, and Stanford, California. Other books of translation by Brahic include: Julia Kristeva’s This Incredible Need to Believe (Columbia UP, 2009), Jacques Derrida’s Geneses, Genealogies, Genres and Genius (Columbia UP, 2006, and 6 books by Hélène Cixous: Manhattan (Fordham, 2007), Dream I Tell You (Columbia UP, 2006), The Day I Wasn’t There (Northwestern UP, 2006), Reveries of the Wild Woman (Northwestern UP, 2006), Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint ( Columbia UP, 2004), and Hélène Cixous with Roni Horn: Agua Viva (Rings of Lispector) (Steidl Verlag, 2006) Christophe Marchand-Kiss est né en 1964. Il a dirigé la collection « L’Œil du poète » aux Éditions Textuel. Auteur de performances, traducteur de l’anglais (Herman Melville, Edgar Poe, John Cage, Gertrude Stein, Peter Greenaway, Yoko Ono, Erns Jandl (de l'allemand) et de jeunes poètes américains), il est l’auteur de Regard fatigué (Aleph, 1998), Traduire en poésie (collectif, Farrago, 2001),Léo Ferré, la musique avant tout(Textuel, 2004),Gainsbourg, le génie sinon rien (Textuel 2006). Livres récents :• aléas, Le bleu du ciel, Bordeaux, 2007.• Moins quelque chose, première partie, Idp éditeur, 2007.• Gainsbourg, le génie sinon rien, éditions Textuel, Paris, 2005.• alter ago suivi de biography, éditions Textuel, Paris, 2005.• Text and Line in Figurated Poems and Calligrams, in Spatula, edited by Gordon Shrigley, Marmalade, London, 2004. • Poésie ? détours (collectif), Textuel, Paris, 2004.• Haus/raus-aus, avec Natacha Nisic, La lettre volée, Bruxelles, 2003.• Léo Ferré, la musique avant tout, Textuel, Paris, 2003.• Ich bin nicht Innerlich (collectif) - à propos de Gottfried Benn, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 2003. AT: Le Next, 17 rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris. M° Etienne Marcel, RER Les Halles.
http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com

*18 Nov at 19h30: Design authority Stephen Bayley discusses his new book, Woman as Design, a completely original look at how design has appropriated the female form If woman had been designed, what was the brief? Stephen Bayley discusses how the female body works as a sign, a symbol, a designed object. He takes us from Aphrodite to the Delta of Venus to the industrialization of the brest (in bra form), examining pin-ups and stereotypes, and reappraising that most familiar, yet mysterious of things, the female body -- a masterpiece of design, the perfect marriage of form and function. For over thirty years, Stephen Bayley's articles and books have changed people's perceptions of design. With Terence Conran, he created the influential Boilerhouse Project in London's V&A and the unique Design Museum which resulted from it. An award-winning commentator on art and design, he was made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts in 1989. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
www.americanlibraryinparis.org

*18 nov à 19h : Rencontre avec PASCALE MOLINIER et PATRICIA PAPERMAN sur la question du "care". AT : Violette & Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny.
www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*FOR KIDS: the 19th of Nov 10h30-11h00 (ages 1-3) Mother Goose Lap Sit : Rhymes, songs, and stories in English. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire. www.americanlibraryinparis.org

*19 nov 16h Les étudiants de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales (EHESS) rencontrent Richard White Organisée par l’EHESS AT : EHESS, 105 bd Raspail – Paris 75006. M° St Placide. Renseignements : 01 49 54 25 25
http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/

*19 Nov 7 pm sharp. Author Etel Adnan will present two of her books, Seasons and Master of the Eclipse & Other Stories. The latter is a new collection of stories about displacement, love, loss, poetry and war, from the Lebanese poet and painter who has been called "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab-American author writing today" (Melus) The stories in Master of the Eclipse are populated by filmmakers, poets, girls, professors, and prostitutes who live in Beirut, Paris, Sicily, California, Saddam's Iraq, and New York. The world of these stories is ours, with the same occupations and wars--a "world that would be a cemetery" were it not also a place where taxis are "yellow flowers floating down the avenues." From the collection's title story, a long meditation on history and war, power and poetry, to its concluding tale, a strangely quiet vision of a tree floating in a Damascus stream, Etel Adnan's painterly vision, her cosmopolitan flexibility, and her philosophical bent are on full display. This is a woman, after all, trained in philosophy at the Sorbonne, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley, who became a painter, and then a poet. Her voice comes to us as something the opposite of her title: She is a master of light and revelation, of language, variety, and color. To see is to think writes Etel Adnan in Seasons. This means that she keeps her attention at the constant intersection of our selves with climate and environment. The result is a kind of inner platonic dialogue between the senses and the mind, one s skin and the world.AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
www.villagevoicebookshop.com

*19 nov 19h30 Hear American author Percival Everett/ Rencontre avec Percival Everett présenté par Valérie Martin Organisée par la librairie Voyelle AT : Librairie Voyelle, 98 rue des Entrepreneurs - Paris 75015. Renseignements : 01 48 56 05 74
http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/

*19th November at 7:30 pm at the American Library: REMINDER FOR SCREENWRITERS Judith Merians presents the third in her monthly series of lectures. The French Connection: Discover why a film has to have a protagonist and an antagonist who are of equal strength to make the story compelling. http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/index.php?view=details&id=154%3Aa-night-at-the-movies-with-judith-merians&option=com_eventlist&Itemid=807. AT : The American Library.

20 nov : Violette and Co tient une table de vente au Colloque Renée Vivien organisé par les éditions ErosOnyx (association Nixetnox) au Reid Hall, Paris VIè

*20 Nov 7 pm sharp. Dr. Nafisi will discuss her new memoir “Things I've Been Silent About” as well as touch on issues relating to current events in Iran. Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution. A girl's pain over family secrets; a young woman's discovery of the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval - these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir, as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and "reminds us of why we read in the first place" (Newsday). “Things I've Been Silent About” is also a powerful historical portrait of a family that spans many periods of change leading up to the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79, which turned Azar Nafisi's beloved Iran into a religious dictatorship. Writing of her mother's historic term in Parliament, even while her father, once mayor of Tehran, was in jail, Nafisi explores the remarkable "coffee hours" her mother presided over, where at first women came together to gossip, to tell fortunes, and to give silent acknowledgment of things never spoken about, and which then evolved into gatherings where men and women would meet to openly discuss the unfolding revolution. AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
www.villagevoicebookshop.com

*20 nov 18:00-21:00 Rencontre avec Claude Como : Projections, lectures, intermède musicalEntrée libre pendant l’expo Art Stories : fantasmes dévoilés ... (expo jusqu’au 6 décembre 2009) COMO KITO TUROVER MILSHTEIN Commissaire, Véronique Grange-Spahis AT : Dorothy’s Gallery, 27 rue Keller PARIS11 MER JEU VEN SAM de 13h à 19h et MAR DIM de 16h à 19h M° Bastille 01 43 57 08 51 dorothysgallery@gmail.com or http://www.dorothysgallery.com/

*21 Nov: 17 h. Danielle Mémoire au Centre Pompidou! Danielle Mémoire sera l'invitée du Festival Rosebud. AT : Galerie Sud, Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou , 75004 Paris

21 November, opening at 10:30am “Revue d'ici là #4”: Preview. Show continues until Thursday, January 21 at 1:00pm. AT: 19 rue Eugène Varlin 75010 Paris


22 Nov : 17 h. Olivier Cadiot au Centre Pompidou. Olivier Cadiot reviendra sur son parcours dans le cadre du festival Rosebud. AT : Galerie Sud, Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou , 75004 Paris

*22nd Nov at 7.30 pm MOVING PARTS presents a reading of a play by Georgia Smith: "Natural Religion" For more, see:
www.movingparts.org.uk or e-mail Stephanie Campion movingpartsparis@gmail.com for listings! Tel : 06 14 67 18 58 AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, M° Tuileries

*23 nov 18h30-20h : L'Arsenal de la poésie. Grands poètes d'aujourd'hui « Salah Stétié » avec Maxime Del Fiol, Poète ; Antoine de Meaux, Poète ; et Raphaëline Goupilleau, Comédienne, Lecteur. Soirée en hommage au poète Salah Stétié en sa présence. Ce nouveau cycle propose d'accueillir à la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal les grands poètes vivants. entrée libre MAIS réservation obligatoire au 01 53 79 49 49. AT : Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 1, rue Sully75004 Paris, Tél : 33(0)1 53 79 39 39 M° Lignes 7, (Sully-Morland), 1, 5, et 8 (Bastille), Bus : 67, 86, 87


* 23 Nov 7pm A bilingual poetry reading: French poet Celine Zins, will be reading in French from her collection of poetry Adamah and her American translator Peter Schulman will be reading his English version. Celine and Peter will also talk about the caveats and collaborative techniques of translation. Celine Zins is a widely published poet/writer in France and is a translator for writers such as Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Carlos Fuentes, Ernest Hemingway, and others. Adamah was originally published by Gallimard in French and has just been released in a bilingual edition by Gival Press. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 35 rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

FOR KIDS: 25th Nov 3:30 p.m. WH Smith’s November Kids' Club Theme: Where the Wild Things Are 'Max and the MaxiMonsters' (in theatres 16th December) Kids' Club is a free monthly reading in English for children ages 4 to 8 held on the last Wednesday of every month, though Dec will meet the 9th of Dec, too, due to holiday travels. RSVP to have kids attend the Nov event by writing to
books@whsmith.fr with 'November Kids' Club RSVP' AT: WH Smith, 248, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris M° Concorde Exit: rue Cambon for more: http://www.whsmith.fr/evenementsE.htm

25 Nov 4pm (exceptional event) Left Bank walking tour and book signing with Michael Schuermann, author of Paris Movie Walks – starting and ending at Shakespeare and Company. Join us for a special tour with Michael Schuermann, author of Paris Movie Walks. Michael will take you to his specially chosen Parisian haunts, passing Notre Dame Cathedral and exploring the Rive Gauche as he describes classics such as An American in Paris, A Bout de Souffle and of course Before Sunset which was partly shot at Shakespeare and Company. The walk is free and will last for 60-90 minutes and will start and finish at Shakespeare and Company with a book signing. Just turn up and come along!AT: Shakespeare & Co., 35 rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel.
http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

*25 nov 20h : Poète/publique : rencontre avec Fred Léal & Franck Pruja & Françoise Valéry / l’Attente Dans le cadre de "poète//public", résidence d'écriture qu'il effectue au Comptoir des mots de septembre 09 à juin 10, Frédéric Forte vous invite pour rencontrer un poète et son éditeur. Comment un auteur conçoit-il un livre de poésie ? Quel est le rôle de l’éditeur ? Les invités tenteront de répondre à ces questions, et à d’autres…AU :Comptoir des mots, 239, rue des Pyrénées, Paris 75020. http://poete-public.blogspot.com/ for more & to read Forte ‘s installments on this continued « residency » experience.

*25 Nov at19h30: French journalist and author of De la Culture en Amérique, Frédéric Martel discusses American culture from Roosevelt to Obama -- how the arts have been created, financed and received by Americans.Based on his travels throughout the United States, and compiled from four years of research and over 700 interviews, Martel's De la Culture en Amérique is a provocative look at the factors that shape modern American culture. It is also a challenge to the conventional French view that culture must be financed and organized by government. BIO: A former French cultural attaché in Boston, Frédéric Martel's articles have appeared in l'Express, The Nation, and Le Monde. He is currently a professor at Sciences-Po, Paris and the HEC's MBA. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
www.americanlibraryinparis.org

*25 nov à 19h : Rencontre avec EVELYNE LE GARREC pour la publication de son livre Séverine (1855-1929). Vie et combats d'une frondeuse (L'Archipel). AT : Violette & Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny.
www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*26 Nov à 19h30. Celine Dubois, Anne Portugal et Stacy Doris au Centre Pompidou A l'occasion de l'accrochage "elle@centrepompidou", Caroline Dubois, Anne Portugal et Stacy Doris interpèteront Paramour (POL), le livre de Stacy Doris. 19 heures 30Musée du Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou , 75004 Paris

*27 nov à 18 h L’INVITÉE DU MOIS DE NOVEMBRE 09 : Denise DESAUTELS. Denise Desautels vient de recevoir le prix Athanase-David, l’un des 11 Prix du Québec décernés à des personnalités de la science et de la culture pour l'ensemble de leur carrière.Derniers livres parus : L'oeil au ralenti, Éd. du Noroît, Montréal 2007 Le coeur et autres mélancolies, Éd. Apogée, Rennes 2007. présentation de Quai Rimbaud, texte de Denise Desautels avec cinq aquatintes de Gabriel Belgeonne, coédition Roselin et Tandem 2009. AT : Salon Page(s) Espace Charenton 327, rue de Charenton 75012 Paris informations et invité du mois sur le site http://www.claude-ber.org/


*27 nov à 19h : Rencontre avec FRANCK CHAUMONT pour la parution de son essai Homo-ghetto. Gays et lesbiennes dans les cités : les clandestins de la République (Le Cherche midi). Pendant deux ans, Franck Chaumont, persuadé qu'il existe une société à deux vitesses sur la question de l'homosexualité, a recueilli les témoignages de Nadir, Sébastien, Dialo, Nadia... Tous et toutes ont en commun le mensonge et la schizophrénie liés à leur double vie et à la peur d'être démasqués : ce sont les homos des cités de Clermont-Ferrand, Paris ou Toulouse. Il nous restitue ici leurs témoignages et ne manque pas de souligner le lien entre homophobie et sexisme. La deuxième partie du livre est consacrée à un état des lieux de cette république à deux vitesses. Franck Chaumont a été journaliste à Beur FM et à RFI ; il a dirigé la communication de Ni putes ni soumises jusqu'en 2007. AT : Violette & Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*28 nov: 2 - 8 pm Book party and photo exhibit for steve dalachinsky and jacques bisceglia's new book “reaching into the unknown” - rogueart 2009. Reading at 6 pm w/ didier lasserre - batterie AT: the home of michel dorbon, 30 rue rambuteau paris 75003

*29 nov 2- 6 pm steve dalachinsky reading at 6 pm w/joelle leandre contrabassAT: the home of michel dorbon, 30 rue rambuteau paris 75003


* 30 November 7pm Thaddeus Rutkowski, Roughhouse & Tetched and novelist Charles D’Ambrosio reading from a selection of their work. Rutkowski’s first novel, Roughhouse was a finalist for an Asian American Literary Award. He has received four Pushcart Prize nominations. He teaches fiction writing at the Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA in New York. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter. See samples of his work and videos of Thaddeus performing on his website
www.thaddeusrutkowski.com On Tetched: A Novel in Fractals ‘. . . tough and funny and touching and harrowing.’ - John Barth‘. . . one of the most original writers in America today.’ – Alison Lurie. D’Ambrosio has published two collections of short stories, The Point (finalist for the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year) and The Dead Fish Museum (winner of the 2007 Washington State Book Award for Fiction) and a collection of essays Orphans. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Stranger, The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and A Public Space. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 35 rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

A PEEK INTO December's Readings:

*1 déc à 19h30. Bilingual reading for IVY Writers with Stephen Rodefer and Julien Blaine, poète sonore, Julien Blaine, poète, artist, performeur, cinéaste, is the author of dozens of books, editor of Doc(k)s, organizer of many cultural events and reading series in France--he created the CiPM!, & a highly sought out performer. To name a few, his books include: “Sogno ad occhi aperti », portfolio, éditions Tracce, 2009 ; Tshakapesh, éditions Fidel Anthelme X, 2008 ; Mé dire, éditions Althæa, 2008 ; Sou dan, édition Beaux-Arts de Besançon, 2007 ; Julien Blaine au Blockhaus DY 10, éditions Dernier Télégramme, 2007 ; Qui sommes-nous & À quoi jouons-nous, éditions Leuwers-Billet, 2007 ; 1 2 3, éditions le Trident neuf, 2007 ; Fables, édition PLAine Page, 2006 ; Le vent, collection Tourni-Paix, édition à ciel ouvert,2004 ; Diptyque : affiches n° 35 & n° 36, édition le bleu du ciel, 2004 ; ENvers:inversé, édition Beaux-Arts de Metz, 2003 ; Éclats d'éveil (bréviaire) traduction au carré g&g, édition Al Dante, 2002 ; Comment je parle et d'où et quoi je dis, édition Lazlo de Toulon, 2002 ; Je ne suis pas américain ®, édition Al Dante,2001 ; À SViVRE, édition ARTCi-Lab, 1999 ; Y A 1 Lézard, édition Derrière la Salle de Bains, 1997 ; Horizons avec Yves Jolivet, édition Le mot et le reste, 1996 ; & ( ), avec Jacques Clauzel, édition À travers, 1996 ; Pour tous ceux qui flambent, édition Les Cahiers de la Sérane, 1994 ; Carnet(s) de piste, édition Jacques Clauzel, 1993 ; Le Troisième mot, édition Doc(k)s, 1989 ; Poëmes n° 12909 (Les Anartistes), 1987 ; Origina (e)(i)(o)(u)l, édition E.A. Vigo, 1987 ; Discours, avant-propos, édition Manicle, 1983 ; Genèse, édition Hercule de Paris, 1983 ; Ch'i, Unfinitude édition NèPE, 1982 ; Autopsies 1, 2, 3, édition Tau/Ma, 1976 ; Dernière tentative de l'individu, édition Geiger, 1970 ; Cette carte et autres faits, édition Approches, 1968 ; and Les Ponts sont des mots étirés, édition Robho, 1967. A list of his art shows & books can also be found at
http://documentsdartistes.org/cgi-bin/site/affiche_art_web.cgi?&ACT=1&SEL=bio&ID=255 A few sites on Julien Blaine : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Blaine, or http://www.averse.com/j-blaine/ or http://www.la-poesie-elementaire.net/Poetes%20ordinaires/blaine.htm and also http://www.sitec.fr/users/akenatondocks/DOCKS-datas AT: Le Next, 17 rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris. M° Etienne Marcel, RER Les Halles. http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com

*2 déc à 19h : Rencontre avec MAYLIS DE KERANGAL et JOY SORMAN pour la parution de l'ouvrage qu'elles ont dirigé Femmes et sport. Regards sur les athlètes, les supportrices et les autres (Hélium) AT : Violette & Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny.
www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

*3 Dec 7 pm sharp. On the occasion of the publication of her new book, "The Cost of Living", Mavis Gallant will deliver a reading of her work. Mavis Gallant is admired and beloved as one of the masters of the modern short story. She is a prolific writer, and her 1996 Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant was more than eight hundred pages long. Even so, this weighty volume left out many wonderful stories that appeared in now out-of-print volumes or in The New Yorker, where Gallant has been a regular contributor for the last half century. Now The Cost of Living, with an introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri, provides an extensive new sampling of this great writer's work. Gallant's has always been a cosmopolitan sensibility, and these stories take us from Quebec to postwar Europe, with side trips to Germany and the south of France, before landing in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. A further group of stories are set in New York and New England during the Mad Men era. Everywhere the book reveals Gallant's subtly penetrating psychological insight and unsentimental sympathy for the excluded and exiled, not to mention her wicked sense of humor. AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
www.villagevoicebookshop.com

*6th Dec at 7.30 pm MOVING PARTS presents a reading of a play by Sarah Canner "What Maisie Knew" (screenplay) For more, see: www.movingparts.org.uk or e-mail Stephanie Campion movingpartsparis@gmail.com for listings! Tel : 06 14 67 18 58 AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, M° Tuileries

Jorge Luis Borges said: “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” (from thinkexist.com)

Nov 2009: Part II of listing: Courses!

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Part II) Writing (reading & other) workshops in Europe!
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*5, 12, 19 Nov & 3 Dec: 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. WICE Writers' Drop-in on Thursday evenings with Creative Writing Dept Director Suzanne Allen: Come for a coffee and stay for a kir royale! This no-host writers’ happy hour is being offered on a trial basis as a way of connecting WICE writers and readers from around the world. Consider this your own private space to come for conversations about writing. Second language learners are welcome and no pre-registration is necessary. Bring copies of works in progress or share other inspiring reading. Burning questions also encouraged. This open forum is a casual, friendly place to listen and be heard. For more: http://www.wice-paris.org/wice/creative-writing/wice-writers-drop-in Please note that NON MEMBERS ARE WELCOME, but only one time. AT: Au Chien qui Fume (which has non-stop service and a chocolate mousse to put all others to shame.) 33 Rue du Pont Neuf, 1e, where Rue du Pont Neuf ends; M°: Les Halles. PREREGISTRATION : or more info, contact Suzanne at creativewriting.wice@yahoo.fr

SATURDAYS : 7, 14, 21, 28th Nov… THE OTHER WRITERS’ GROUP. Meeting 5pm till 7pm every Saturday. Suggested donation for taking part: € 5. David Barnes, facilitator, explains: “I set up The Other Writers’ as a space where creative writers can read their work and offer feedback and criticism. It has been running since February 2005. During this time we’ve heard poetry, fiction, extracts from novels, biography and travel writing. The aim is to give useful and honest feedback while nurturing writers. The Other Writers’ is born out of love of writing and anyone who shares that passion can take part. But it’s become increasingly professional in the level of criticism and support given to the poets and writers who come. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 35 rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

SUNDAYS : 8, 15, 22, 29th Nov… Words Alive O: Theatre Workshop in English: This workshop is open to native and fluent English speakers and offers the participants the opportunity to explore different theatre texts and to gain practical theatre training. The workshop will focus on one play or a selection of texts in English. The work in progress will lead towards a presentation at the end of the year. Limited places. Participants interviewed. Workshop runs from October until May. Enrollment for a semester or a full year. First semester October to December. Second semester January to May. No sessions during the school holidays. Sundays 4-7 pm 35, rue St. Roch 75001 Esc A. Salle Ghesquière 6è étage. M° Opéra, Pyramides ou Tuileries. Registration required. 01 77 15 71 90 / 06 37 66 27 98 / wordsaliveo@gmail.com Contact them about rolling sign-ups. Moire info on their site: www.wordsaliveo.com

8, 15, 22, 29 November (Sundays 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.) WICE Workshop: 500 Words or Less—Using the Principles of Poetry to Pack a Punch! Say more with less: On four November Sundays, be part of a small group of WICE writers who will ponder Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s theory, "Poetry: the best words in the best order", as you practice working with imagery, allegory, allusion, and our elusive friend—the metaphor. Led by Shakespeare & Company’s most dedicated workshop facilitator, David Barnes, you will not only read and discuss exemplary works of concision, but will also generate new writings for group feedback. Try your hand at poetry, flash fiction or just sharpen your skills for blogs, emails, and those ever popular holiday letters—ones that don’t make your reader’s eyes roll back in their heads!Learn how to make your short works work. Even your truest recollections can be more vivid and entertaining when they fit on a single page! Fee: 100€ Place: Le Bis Repetita, 167 rue Saint Honoré, Place André Malraux, 75001 Paris Note: You must be a member of WICE to take this course. Preregistration required. Sign up & become member info: http://www.wice-paris.org/wice/membership

12-13 Nov at 19h / atelier 8, et samedi 14 nov 14h / Atelier 8 : Centre 104 Workshop on poetic reading style in French + performance : Lectures de textes poétiques de Laurent Roth avec Frédéric Fisbach. Cet atelier permet à des amateurs de préparer, sous la direction de Frédéric Fisbach, une lecture de textes poétiques écrits par Laurent Roth, réalisateur en résidence au CENTQUATRE. Il leur donnera la possibilité de questionner la manière de mettre en voix la poésie et de lire des écrits sur l’art. Il est ouvert à dix personnes, aucune connaissance préalable n’est indispensable. Une lecture publique aura lieu à la fin du stage. Pour s’inscrire, il suffit d’envoyer un mail détaillant votre motivation, avant le 5 novembre à resabilletterie@104.fr. Tarifs : 5 €, 3 €*, 0 €** par atelier. AT : Le 104, 104 rue d'Aubervilliers / 5 rue Curial 75019 Paris M° Riquet/Crimée (ligne 7) Site : http://www.104.fr/

22 nov from 17h30-20h00, PRANA STRETCH / YOGA WORKSHOP : Moving Encounters - 15€ En partant de la base du travail PranaStretch, nous allons vers l'autre, vers la relation, et vers «partnering» avec la force, l'attention et la sensibilité qui rendent possible «profound response ability and joy in moving together». Nous allons travailler avec des apports du yoga, des arts martiaux et de la danse, ainsi qu'avec des éléments provenant du duo «Rorchach 157» (choréographié par Ann Moradian et Tim Martin). Ann Moradian is the director of Perspectives In Motion. She has been dancing, teaching and choreographing for over 30 years. Her current work is strongly influenced by Eric Beeler (yoga) and Nguyen Thahn Thiên (martial arts). 01 40 70 07 85 pranastretch@yahoo.com or perspectivesinmotion@gmail.com or www.affinitiz.com/space/perspectivesinmotion for more or to sign up.

February 5–7, 2010: SIGN UP NOW for the GENEVA Writers’ Conference at Webster University, Bellevue/Geneva, Switzerland, with Julia Bell, Thomas E. Kennedy, Annette Kobak, Geeta Kothari, Robert Root, Richard Scrimger, Susan Tiberghien, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, John Hartley Williams, plus agents/editors/publishers (U.S./U.K./Paris), workshops, panels, readings, networking, 180 writers from around the world. For info, visit www.genevawritersgroup.org.

The Writers’ Atelier. See writing groups in Paris and sign up at Meetup : http://writers.meetup.com/561/fr/calendar/11438783/

“In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.”
—Richard Eder