30 March 2012

April 2012 Readings and Events List

April 2012 Readings List + Calls for Work

Part I) Paris Events & READINGS by dates in April 2012
Part II) Creative Writing & other Workshops in Paris
Part III) News Reviews &Reviews News: publications, calls for work, new books & more!
(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for MAY 2012 please send those announcements as early as possible, and in the format of the listings below, to Jane Cope at parisrentree2010 AT gmail.com)
*Note: event details are regularly updated, so check back!

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Part I) Paris events & READINGS by dates in March 2012

1 April 19h30 MOVING PARTS presents a double bill of short plays. Diana Stewart & Jane Rony's Lethal Ladyes: A prison in the afternoon during visiting hours. A big book of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare lies on the table between Lavinia and Lilly. Starring STEPHANIE CAMPION and AOIFE STONE. Followed by Douglas English's Peas in a Pod. Springtime in Paris. The frozen food section of a supermarket. Owen and Claire reach for the last packet of frozen peas at the same time. Starring DAVID COBURN, CAREY DOWNER, ERIN KOVAL and JEREMY SAVOIR AT: T: Carr's Pub & Restaurant 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris Metro : Tuileries

2 April 18h30 Les lundis de l'Arsenal. Grands poètes d'aujourd'hui: Ce nouveau cycle propose d'accueillir à la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal les grands poètes vivants : ils témoigneront de leur expérience vécue de la poésie et évoqueront leur bibliothèque imaginaire en choisissant les textes emblématiques de leur univers textuels parmi leurs auteurs de références et au sein de leur œuvre. Ces dialogues seront ponctués par des lectures données par un comédien et parfois par l'auteur lui-même. Ce soir: Yves Bonnefoy. Yves Bonnefoy s'entretient avec Jérôme Thélot, Université Lyon 3. AT: Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 1, rue de Sully - Paris 75004 Métro: Sully-Morland

2 April 19h TRAVAILLER JAMAIS: Join Shakespeare & Co. for songs of love, loss and liberty with Tom Hodgkinson. Tom is a British writer and editor of The Idler, an annual periodical that campaigns against the work ethic and promotes liberty, autonomy and responsibility. Tonight Tom will regale us with singing accompanied by ukulele and chat based around the themes of laziness and independence. Tom Hodgkinson has contributed articles to the Sunday Telegraph, Guardian and The Sunday Times as well as being the author of the bestselling books How To Be Idle, How To Be Free, The Idle Parent and more recently, Brave New World. Last year he opened The Idler Academy of Philosophy, Husbandry and Merriment, a bookshop and café in West London. http://idler.co.uk/about/ AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

2 April 19h À l’occasion du 10e anniversaire de la disparition de W.G. Sebald, les Éditions Inculte ont souhaité lui rendre hommage, à travers un livre collectif, dans lequel une vingtaine d’auteurs français et étrangers s’expriment sur leur lecture de son œuvre. En présence des initiateurs du projet Mathieu Larnaudie et Gwenaëlle Aubry, et de Muriel Pic, spécialiste de Sebald et auteur d’un essai critique remarqué : WG Sebald, L’Image Papillon (Les Presses du Réel). Soirée animée par Jürgen Ritte. Né en 1944, W.G. Sebald est incontestablement l’un des écrivains européens les plus importants de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Allemand, fils d’un sous-officier de la Wehrmacht, révolté par le silence de son père et d’une partie de sa génération sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il a vécu la plus grande partie de sa vie en Angleterre où il mena une carrière universitaire. Arpenteur infatigable de l’Histoire européenne, de ses lieux, de sa mémoire, il cherche à recueillir les signes et les indices de ce qui a existé, et que la destruction ou les falsifications ont occulté et dévoyé. Avec une attention particulière pour les migrants, les ruines, les friches, les marges, il a tenté, mieux que quiconque, de sauver de l’effacement les traces de notre civilisation. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

2 April 20h onward: SpokenWord Paris: Open mic in English, open to all languages. Running since 2006 it now gets 60 to 80 people coming every week! Every Monday. Sign up/hang out in the bar from 8pm, poetry underground. From 9pm to midnight. Spoken word : 5 mins (warning bell rung at 4.45: Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.) Songs : one song. We do 2 rounds between 9pm and midnight. Stand up, Theatre, Cabaret, Dance and Magic all welcome. Chacun a son mot à dire. Make the words come alive. AT: Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes.
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/

3 April 19h The Village Voice Bookshop and Vif Editions have the pleasure of inviting you to meet Mark Strand who will read from his latest collection of poems, Almost Invisible. Fiona Sze-Lorrain will read from her French translation, published in a bilingual edition by Vif Editions under the title Presque invisible. Mark Strand is the author of 13 collections of poetry, several volumes of prose, translations, and essays on art, including a book on Edward Hopper. He has also written books for children and edited poetry anthologies. Mark Strand has received many awards for his writing, notably the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and was the United States’ Poet Laureate from 1990 to 1991. The author will be introduced by the American poet, Jeffrey Greene. AT: Village Voice Bookshop 6, rue Princesse 75006 Métro: Mabillon

3 April Lecture à plusieurs voix de poèmes et de textes de Ludovic JANVIER: Poète, Romancier, Essayiste. A l'occasion de la parution de son roman autobiographique "La confession d'un bâtard du siècle." AT: Richard Laborier 64, rue de Rochechouart
75009 Paris http://www.zigloo.eu/zexpos.html

3 April 19h30 Ivy Writers Paris invites you to a bilingual reading in French and English with Gilles Weinzaepflen (French), Sean Cole (American) and Susana Gardner (Swiss-American). Susana Gardner is the author of the full-length poetry collections HERSO an heirship in waves (Black Radish Books, 2011) and [ LAPSED INSEL WEARY ] (The Tangent Press, 2008) as well as the soon forthcoming Cuntstruck Lithe Guttersnipes (Xexoxial Press). She has published several chapbooks, including Hyper-Phantasie Constructs (Dusie Kollektiv, 2010) and Herso (University of Theory and Memorabilia Press, 2009). Her poetry has appeared in many online and print publications including Jacket, How2, Puerto Del Sol, and Cambridge Literary Review among others. Her work has also been featured in several anthologies, including KINDERGARDE (forthcoming from Black Radish Books), 131.839 slög með bilum (131,839 keystrokes with spaces) (Ntamo, Finland, 2007) and NOT FOR MOTHERS ONLY: CONTEMPORARY POEMS ON CHILD-GETTING AND CHILD-REARING (Fence Books, United States, 2007). She lives in Zürich, Switzerland, where she also edits and curates the online poetics journal and experimental kollektiv press, Dusie. See DUSIE PRESS BOOKS or Dusie Kollectiv 5. Gilles Weinzaepflen is a poet, musician and filmmaker who published the book Noël Jivaro in 2011, a collection of ten years’-worth of his poetry with publisher Le Clou dans le Fer. His work also appears on his blog and website. and in the anthologies L'Égalité des signes with Le Quartanier (Canadian publisher) and Ivar Ch'Vavar et camarades (Flammarion) as well as in the literary magazines Les Cahiers du refuge, Coïncidences, Action poétique, Nioques, Minimum Rock'n Roll, Chroniques Errantes, Petite, Le Quartanier (Canada), and Lumea de Maine (Romania) among others. To hear him read an extract under the crisp fall air of a forest, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N5NPSO-hIg Admittedly, Gilles is better known as a musician and the long-time Momus collaborator under the name Toog, his first 6 albums have been distributed widely around the globe and he has toured in the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Korea and other countries. For more on Toog go to Gilles’ homesite or watch the Youtube video song of David French singing “Goto” on the latest Toog album or see Gilles performing at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdkGV3kfyP0 He also has been making films, including the 2010 documentary «La Poésie s'appelle reviens» (56 minutes), and the 2008, «Prélude au sommeil» (52 minutes) about composer and the French pioneer of Electric sound, Jean-Jacques Perrey. Currently, Gilles Weinzaepflen is completing his 7th album, his second collection of poems, and is working on a new documentary film. Sean Cole's poems have appeared in magazines like Pavement Saw, Black Clock, Court Green, Pom Pom, Carve, Torch, Dad and Boog City. He's the author of the chapbook Itty City (Pressed Wafer) and a collection of postcard poems called The December Project (Boog Literature). He will also have a brand new Dusie Press chap for sale at the reading, called ONE TRAIN (Dusie, 2012). In the anthology "Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days," Sean's was day 95. He is also public radio reporter and producer and is currently working for the NPR program "Radiolab." This will be his first time in Paris. AT: « Le Next »17 rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris M° Etienne Marcel / RER Les Halles

4 April 18h Don't miss a rare opportunity join us at the American University of Paris or two events celebrating Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. poet laureate Mark Strand in Paris, in particular his new collection of poems Almost Invisible and its translation into French, Presque invisible by Fiona Sze Lorrain and published by Vif Editions AT: American University of Paris in the Grand Salon, 6, rue du Colonel Combes, Room C12 RER: Pont d'Alma

4 April 19h Catherine Weinzaepflen à L'Arbre à Lettres. A la parution de Celle-là. « Partir sans un mot. Traverser le pont de l'Europe. Marcher vers l'Est, en direction du jour où de tout temps le soleil renaît. Celle-là le fait, qui semble glisser à dix centimètres du sol, comme pour ne pas marcher sur la tombe de l'enfant. » AT: 62 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine 75012 Paris, France Métro: Bastille

4 April 19h Rencontre avec MONA CHOLLET pour la parution de son essai Beauté fatale : les nouveaux visages d’une aliénation féminine (Zones). Décortiquant presse féminine, discours publicitaires, blogs, séries télévisées, témoignages de mannequins et enquêtes sociologiques, M. Chollet montre comment les industries du “complexe mode-beauté” travaillent à maintenir, sur un mode insidieux et séduisant, la logique sexiste au cœur de la sphère culturelle. Mona Chollet est journaliste au Monde Diplomatique et co-animatrice du site “péripheries.net”. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

4 April 19h30 Stéphane Hessel, author of the French bestselling phenomenon Indignez-Vous!, offers an English-language presentation of the translation, Time for Outrage!
Stephan Hessel is a holocaust survivor, diplomat, writer, and a former BCRA agent and member of the French Resistance. He co-drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and was later added to Foreign Policy magazine's list of top global thinkers. Hessel is the author of Indignez-Vous!, a 32-page booklet about outrage at social injustice. The booklet’s call to stand up to indecency resounded internationally; it has sold 1.5 million copies and been translated into twelve languages since its 2010 publication. It is also credited with influencing movements like Occupy Wall Street and Los Indignados in Spain. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

5 April 18h We are thrilled to welcome Lisa Hannigan to sing amongst the books at Shakespeare and Company in advance of her European tour. Lisa's voice has a dreamy, magic lyricism combining the soulful edge of Nina Simone with the freshness of Joni Mitchell. As Herbie Hancock said of her vocals, ‘there's so much jazz in the notes and phrases that she picks...I mean some of the things sound like choices that Miles would have made.’ Lisa is a Mercury-nominated Irish singer/songerwriter. She was a member of Damien Rice’s band for several years before beginning her solo career in 2008. She has released two critically albums: Sea Sew (which has sold 100,000 copies worldwide to date ) and Passenger, produced by Joe Henry, was released last October. Hannigan has been the recipient of various award nominations and critical praise around the world. She has performed on Jay Leno - The Tonight Show and The Colbert Report and toured extensively in USA. Lisa’s new single taken from the album Passenger , ‘What I'll Do’, is out early April. She will also be playing in Paris at La Fleche D'or on April 25th. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

5 April 19h Ho rs les murs rencontre-lecture avec Bernard Noël dans le cadre de sa résidence dans le 20e arrondissement. Carte blanche à Bernard Noël. AT: Médiathèque Marguerite Duras 115, rue de Bagnolet 75020 Paris Métro: Alexandre Dumas, Gambetta ou Porte de Bagnolet

6 April 19h Vernissage de l’exposition de photos de PASCALE ANGELOSANTO “Femmes de scènes." De la croisée des regards et des voix est née cette exposition. Parce que l’artiste sur scène offre sa voix, mais bien plus. C’est le début d’une quête : saisir cet instant fugace, ce fragment de temps qui saura rendre l’émotion offerte. Merci aux artistes qui ont accepté de faire partie de l’exposition : Anne Baquet, Michèle Bernard, Céline Caussimon, Christiane AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

6 April 9h30 Rencontre littéraire avec Jean Le Boël et les éditions Henry. Présentation de "L’étrangère française" de Nora Chaouche et de Gérard Cartier pour" Cabinet de société" AT: Lucarne des Ecrivains, 115 rue de l'Ourcq, 75019 Paris Métro: Crimée

7 April 10 - 19h Monthly Used Book Sale at the American Library in Paris. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

7 April 10h15 - 17h Deuxième journée internationale de l’entretien: Parce que la Mel s’est toujours interrogée sur la manière de rendre publique la parole des auteurs, elle va, pour la 2ème année, réfléchir avec David Christoffel à cet objet hybride, entre genre médiatique et impossible littéraire : l’entretien. Il s’agira donc de poser la question de la question. Peut-il y avoir de mauvaises questions ? Comment l’entretien peut-il prendre forme littéraire ? Que peut faire un poète aujourd’hui avec les Radioscopies de Jacques Chancel ? Où s’inscrit la poésie dans ce questionnement ? Le prix de la « pire meilleure question bateau » (réservé aux étudiants ) sera décerné. Entre autres récompenses, le lauréat pourra s’entretenir avec Hervé Le Tellier. Avec : David Christoffel (auteur, chroniqueur), Dominique Quélen (poète), Nathalie Rannou (universitaire), Jacques Rebotier (écrivain, compositeur), Thomas Baumgartner (producteur) et Hervé Le Tellier (écrivain). AT: à l’auditorium du Petit Palais Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, Avenue Winston Churchill. Métro: Champs-Elysees Clemenceau

7 April 18h Susan Cantrick, American Artist in Paris, shows new work in April's Salon Réalités Nouvelles show (showing from the 8th to the 15th). Come to the opening on April 7! AT: Parc floral de Paris Route du Champ de Manoeuvre Métro: Château de Vincennes

9 April 20h onward: SpokenWord Paris: Open mic in English, open to all languages. Running since 2006 it now gets 60 to 80 people coming every week! Every Monday. Sign up/hang out in the bar from 8pm, poetry underground. From 9pm to midnight. Spoken word : 5 mins (warning bell rung at 4.45: Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.) Songs : one song. We do 2 rounds between 9pm and midnight. Stand up, Theatre, Cabaret, Dance and Magic all welcome. Chacun a son mot à dire. Make the words come alive. AT: Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes.
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/

11 April 19h Lectures de slam par plusieurs auteurEs de S’lame de fond. Ce recueil de “slam féministe écrit par des TransPédéGouines” et illustré par Rose Butch propose des textes écrits lors d’ateliers dans différents lieux (Marseille, Montreuil, Lille...) et contextes (Universités d’été euroméditérranéennes des homosexualités, Festival littéraire “ô mots”, squat, scènes slam...) entre 2009 et 2010. Audrey et Caillou ont rassemblé ces textes dédiés “à la rébellion, à la rage de vivre, à la force qu’on tire de la lutte... Aux mots qui nous délivrent...”. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

11 April 19h Poets Live invites you to an evening of readings to celebrate the international quarterly Poetry Wales, with editor Zoë Skoulding and contributors to the magazine from Wales and Paris. Jean Portante was born in Differdange (Luxembourg) in 1950. He is of Italian origin and lives in Paris. He has written widely-translated novels, stories, plays and poetry, published in Luxembourg, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Québec, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, Slovakia, Argentina and Colombia. He has translated numerous poets into French, including Juan Gelman, Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre Joris, John Deane, Gonzalo Rojas and Maria Luisa Spaziani. In 2003 his book L’Etrange langue was given the Mallarmé award in France, and in the same year he won the French Grand Prix d’Automne de la Société des Gens de Lettres for his life’s work. In 2011 he was awarded the Batty Weber Prize in Luxembourg and in 2012 the Fondane Prize in Paris. His selected poems, La Cendre des mots. is published by Editions le Castor Astral (2005) His latest books are Le Travail du poumon (Editions Le Castor Astral, 2006), Je veux dire, (Editions Estuaires, 2007); En réalité, (Editions Phi, 2008), and La réinvention de l’oubli (Editions le Castor Astral, June 2010). As a novelist, his works include Mrs Haroy ou la mémoire de la baleine, which is widely translated. Since 2006, Jean Portante has been a member of the Académie Mallarmé. In 2008, he founded, in France, with poet Jacques Darras, the poetry magazine Inuits dans la jungle, while in Luxembourg he edits the literary magazine Transkrit. Zoë Skoulding’s most recent collections of poems are Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008), long-listed for Wales Book of the Year 2009, and The Mirror Trade (Seren, 2004). Her collaborative work includes Dark Wires with poet Ian Davidson (West House Books, 2007), From Here, with images by Simonetta Moro (Dusie, 2008) and You Will Live in Your Own Cathedral with sound by Alan Holmes (LAF-Seren, 2009). She is a member of the group Parking Non-Stop, whose album Species Corridor was released by Klangbad in 2008. She lectures at Bangor University and has been Editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales since 2008. Lyndon Davies is a poet, reviewer and essayist living in Powys. He has published two collections of poetry, Hyphasis (Parthian Press 2006) and Shield (Parthian Press 2010) . His poems and critical articles have appeared in various magazines, as well as in the anthologies Poetry Wales forty years (Seren 2005) and The Pterodactyl’s Wing (Parthian 2003). With poet Graham Hartill he runs the Glasfryn Seminars, a series of discussion groups on aspects of literature. He is also a co-organiser, with poet John Goodby of the yearly festival of innovative poetry The Hay Poetry Jamboree. Steven Hitchins is a poet from the South Wales valleys: born in Abercynon, currently living in Pontypridd. He tries to map these urban-rural, industrial-pastoral borderzones through collage and walking. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Wales, Fire and Chimera. His article ‘Poetry: Music: Space’ is in Junction Box issue 2. He occasionally edits the small press/little magazine/blog, The Literary Pocket Book, from which his homemade pamphlets The Basin and Palisade Winters are available. Rhys Trimble is a bilingual poet, improvisational performer and editor from Bethesda and Pontneddfechan. He is interested in heterglossic, psychogeographic, mythic and radical pastoral poetry. Rhys is published widely, including in Angel Exhaust, Poetry Wales, Skald, Tears in the Fence, Aesthetica, Seventh Quarry and elsewhere. He was a John Tripp finalist in 2009 and winner of the Cinnamon Press Collection Competition. Recent publications include Keinc (Cinnamon Press 2010) and Mynydd (Hafan 2012). AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris Metro : Tuileries

11 April 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Marilyn Waite. In her book, Sustainable Water Resources in the Built Environment, Marilyn Waite discusses the importance of water engineering and policy making in sustainable construction. She explores these issues with a particular focus on developing countries and how they can benefit from sustainable water practices. About the author: Marilyn Waite holds a Masters with Distinction in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge. Additionally, she holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (magna cum laude) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University. She also carries certificates in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and international Affairs and Environmental Studies. Marilyn has worked, studied and researched in over eight countries across four continents. She has implemented water and sanitation projects in rural Madagascar, led task forces to decrease reagent use in the spent fuel recycling process, as well as authored numerous publications in sustainable engineering topics (textile engineering, energy, and water). Marilyn currently resides in Europe, where she is focusing on low carbon energy as a source for climate change mitigation. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

11 April 21h Voix de femmes et poésie d’Amérique latine: A l'occasion de la parution aux Editions Turquoise de Voix de Femmes. Anthologie. Poèmes et photographies du monde entier. Cet ouvrage consacre un chapitre entier à la poésie de femmes originaires d'Amérique latine : s'y croisent les voix de 52 poétesses, dont Maria Mercedes Carranza, Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Rosario Castellanos, Elsa Cross, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Dulce Maria Loynaz, Cecilia Meireles, Gabriela Mistral, Yolanda Pantin, Alejandra Pizarnik, Josefina Pla, Blanca Revuelta de Guaman, Maria Sabina, Yolanda Westphalen... et à travers les traductions françaises de 76 poèmes, espagnol et guarani, quechua et portugais se rencontrent. En compagnie de Jean Portante, poète, romancier et traducteur, Lionel Ray, poète, président de l'Académie Mallarmé, Zoé Valdés, romancière, poétesse et scénariste, Vivian Lofiego, poétesse, metteur en scène et traductrice, Laure Cambau, poétesse et pianiste. AT: Maison de l'Amérique Latine 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Métro: Solférino

12 April 18h Philosophers in the Library: Lectures and discussion (no experience necessary) Our new series in the library starts off with Darren Frey On God and Evil: The History of Theodicies: Why would a loving being with the power to change the course of events allow millions to be massacred in genocides? Why would such a being sanction the enormous disparities of today's global economies? More intimately, how could a god capable of willing otherwise watch on as individuals face countless varieties of suffering, from grieving the loss of children to mourning failed relationships? There are a handful of commonplace affirmations made about the nature of god in many religious contexts. Beginning in early Judaism and continuing into contemporary Protestantism, various faiths have held that god is loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful. However, the existence and pervasiveness of evil complicates this picture. The attempt to answer questions of this sort has animated countless discussions in the history of Western philosophy and theology, and such discussions are called “theodicies”. In this introductory presentation, we'll consider the emergence of some of the earliest and most salient theodicies and then work through some of their implications. Darren Frey graduated in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and in Religious Studies at Harvard University. He has taught Philosophy and Religious studies at Emerson College and Deep Springs College, and now lives in Paris. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

12 April 19h For all you Oulipians and Oulipo fans out there, the monthly 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. Tonight’s theme “Morceaux en forme de poire" Entrée libre. AT: BNF François-Mitterrand, Grand auditorium, quai François Mauriac, 75013 Paris. Métro: Quai de la gare ou Bibliothèque.

12 April 19h The Village Voice Bookshop has the pleasure of inviting you to meet Edward Girardet who will discuss his latest book, Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of Reporting in Afghanistan, published by Chelsea Green Publishing in 2011. «An account that contains some of the best descriptions of Afghan people and events that I have read.» - Anatol Liven, The New York Review of Books. Few reporters have covered Afghanistan as intrepidly and humanely as Edward Girardet who, as a young foreign correspondent, arrived in Afghanistan just three months prior to the Soviet invasion in 1979. Now, in a gripping, personal account, Girardet delivers a story of that nation’s resistance fighters, foreign invaders, mercenaries, spies, aid workers, Islamic extremists, and others who have defined Afghanistan’s last thirty years of war, chaos, and strife. Over the years he encountered key figures in the lasting conflict such as Commander Massoud and Osama Bin Laden. Edward Girardet has reported widely from humanitarian and conflict zones in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere since the late 1970’s for major publications, including The International Herald Tribune, The Financial Times, and US News and World Report. He is also a television producer of documentary films ranging from battlegrounds to environmental issues. Edward Girardet will be introduced by Jonathan Randal, a journalist whose experience of the Middle East spans the last four decades and the author of Osama Bin Laden: The Making of a Terrorist. AT: Village Voice Bookshop 6, rue Princesse 75006 Métro: Mabillon

12 April 19h30 I Married You for Happiness is the one-night story of Nina, a woman at her husband’s deathbed. During this 12-hour literary sejour, she reflects on the defining moments of their marriage, their first meeting in Paris, and prospects for their reunion in the afterlife. As Nina remembers, she outlines her love with her husband, and how her artist’s character, juxtaposed with his mathematical inclinations, had deepened and complicated their relationship. Read more about I Married You for Happiness in The New York Times. About the author: Born in Paris, Lily Tuck is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and The News from Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award. She is also the author of the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and are collected in Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived. Lily Tuck now divides her time between Maine and New York City. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

14 April 15h Lecture de textes écrits à l’atelier d’écriture animé par CATHERINE BÉDARIDA. Toutes celles qui ont participé à l’atelier d’écriture qui s’est déroulé depuis novembre dernier à Violette and Co sont invitées à une lecture publique en public. Venez écouter des textes poétiques, drôles, engagés ou émouvants ou tout cela à la fois ! Catherine Bédarida, poète et journaliste, lira aussi quelques-uns de ses propres textes. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

16 April 19h We welcome Kate Tempest for an evening of rhymes and poetry. Kate is one of the UK’s most thrilling young performance poets. She has transfixed audiences all around the world with the power of her words and the strength of her performance, whether she is reciting Shakespeare, slam or her own poetry. Kate Tempest is a writer. She writes rhymes, lyrics, poems and plays. She began at 16, rapping in battles across London, and began performing spoken word at 21. She’s performed her writing on stages all over the world, from Latvia, Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, Austria and Munich to Sydney and New York, as well as playing all the major UK and European music festivals, including Glastonbury, where her poetry was included in the televised highlights. She has written poems for Barnardo's children's charity, the BBC, Amnesty International, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Turner Prize winning artist Chris Offili. She is 2 x poetry slam winner at the prestigious Nu-Yorican poetry cafe in New York. She has supported Billy Bragg on a UK tour with her band Sound of Rum, whose debut album 'Balance' came out in 2011 on UK independent record label Sunday Best. Her first play 'Wasted' was commissioned by theatre company Paines Plough and tours the UK from March to May 2012. Her first full length poetry book 'Everything Speaks in its Own Way' is released in April 2012, with a CD and DVD of live performance and interviews, on her own publishing imprint 'Zingaro'. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

16 April 19h Aisha Franz : Alien / Petite Terrienne Avec un sens aigu du non-dit, Aisha Franz dessine la vie quotidienne d’une mère célibataire et de ses deux filles dans une petite ville allemande. La cadette fait la rencontre d’une créature extraterrestre peut-être imaginaire. Au même moment, l’aînée fait ses premières expériences sexuelles avec un garçon sensiblement plus âgé qu’elle, et leur mère dépressive revit en boucle toutes les occasions manquées de sa vie. La petite réagit à un sentiment croissant de solitude et d’isolement, en accueillant en secret dans sa chambre cette étrange et silencieuse créature transparente qui va l’accompagner au cours de ses premiers émois. Dans son premier roman graphique, Aïsha Franz fait avec brio la description du monde des jeunes filles en fleurs dans une ambiance étrange où le malaise s’insinue progressivement. Aisha Franz a étudié la communication visuelle à l’École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Kassel, avec spécialisation en bande dessinée et illustration. Ses histoires dessinées ont été publiées notamment dans « Ku(s) ». Très active sur la scène graphique berlinoise, elle a créé avec six autres auteurs de bande dessinée le collectif The Treasure Fleet. Véritable révélation en 2010, Alien vient de paraître sous le titre Petite Terrienne aux éditions çà & là. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

16 April 20h onward: SpokenWord Paris: Open mic in English, open to all languages. Running since 2006 it now gets 60 to 80 people coming every week! Every Monday. Sign up/hang out in the bar from 8pm, poetry underground. From 9pm to midnight. Spoken word : 5 mins (warning bell rung at 4.45: Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.) Songs : one song. We do 2 rounds between 9pm and midnight. Stand up, Theatre, Cabaret, Dance and Magic all welcome. Chacun a son mot à dire. Make the words come alive. AT: Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes.
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/

18 April 19h Rencontre avec CHLOÉ DELAUME pour la présentation de la collection “Extraction” (éd. joca seria) qu’elle dirige. En présence de GUILLAUME LEBRUN et RÉMI DEULCEUX. “La collection Extraction est un geste éditorial. Faire sortir la littérature de son carcan traditionnel, tirer la poésie hors de ses codes et ses chapelles, donner la parole aux expérimentateurs. Elle se définit comme un espace de recherche en marge de l’hégémonie du roman sympathiquement rentable”. Des quatre romans publiés tout récemment, deux seront ici présentés : Méthodologie de la vie clandestine, de Rémi Deulceux (sur la lutte armée) et Prototype 876437 1-A, de Guillaume Lebrun (sur la violence familiale) et chaque auteur en fera une lecture. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

19 April 19h We welcome Jeanette Winterson, one of the world’s great storytellers and a beloved friend of Shakespeare and Company, to talk about her memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? At times hilarious, at times painful, this brave and beautiful book is one you must read and the event one you cannot miss. ‘The most moving book of Winterson's I have ever read... but it wriggles with humour...At one point I was crying so much I had tears in my ears. There is much here that is impressive, but what I find most unusual about it is the way it deepens one's sympathy, for everyone involved’
- Guardian. In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival.

This book is that story's silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous, honest and true. ‘Boasts everything that she does best: courage, ferocity and prose that soars’
- New Statesman, Books of the Year AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

20 April 16h Come and talk to Chris Pavone who will be signing copies of his new spy thriller The Expats, which has been getting rave reviews – as Patricia Cornwell says it’s ‘Bristling with suspense and elegantly crafted’. ‘The Expats has got to be one of the best-written spy thrillers I’ve ever read. It captures in wonderful detail the texture of expatriate living while delivering a riveting story of great-game deceptions wrapped inside the smaller deceptions of marriage. At moments horrifying, hilarious, and very wise, The Expats has given Chris Pavone a permanent place on my short list of must-read authors.’ – Olen Steinhauer * Note signing-only AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

20 April 19h Margot Käßmann : Au milieu de la vie. À l’occasion de la parution de son ouvrage Au milieu de la vie aux éditions Labor et Fides. Lecture suivie d’un entretien avec Joachim Umlauf Modération : Frédérick Casadesus, journaliste à Réforme. Première femme élue à la tête de l’Église protestante allemande – fonction qu’elle occupa jusqu’au mois de février 2010 –, Margot Kässmann publie un nouveau livre, Au milieu de la vie, et se penche à cette occasion sur ce que l’on nomme communément la crise de la cinquantaine. « Se préparer à devenir vieux et accepter l’évidence que tout être humain est mortel reste une affaire très personnelle, écrit-elle. J’essaie de réfléchir à tout cela sur la base de ma foi chrétienne. Comment se présente ma propre finitude ? Que me dit ma foi à ce propos ? Est ce que je peux m’autoriser un coup d’œil par-dessus les limites ? Quiconque décide de s’atteler à ces questions se lance dans un processus important pour clarifier son existence ». Elle abordera aussi, bien entendu, les grands défis qui se posent aux Églises dans des sociétés en pleines mutations. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

20 April 19h Rencontre avec CATEL pour la parution de son roman graphique Olympe de Gouges (Casterman). Après Kiki de Montparnasse, Catel (dessin) et José-Louis Bocquet (scénario) nous offre cette fois-ci une biographie de celle qui écrivait en 1791 la Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne dans laquelle elle affirmait : “la femme naît libre et demeure égale à l’homme en droit”. Documenté, rythmé, le roman graphique est complété par une chronologie et des notices biographiques des principaux acteurs de la Révolution. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

23 April 19h Bodo Mrozek : Bedrohte Wörter. Un sauvetage amusant du vocabulaire allemand. Ce sont pourtant de très jolis mots, mais on les entend de plus en plus rarement. Les Allemands eux-mêmes ont parfois du mal à comprendre « Schwengel », par exemple, ou « Zinken », ou encore « Lorke ». « Kreiswehrersatzamt » est pratiquement passé aux oubliettes. Serait-ce bientôt le sort de « Yuppie » ? Bodo Mrozek a rassemblé ces vocables menacés pour en faire un amusant Lexikon der bedrohten Wörter, dont il nous lira quelques extraits avant de répondre aux questions du public. Bodo Mrozek, né en 1968 à Berlin, a étudié l’histoire, la littérature et les sciences politiques à Berlin et Amsterdam. Il a collaboré à différents quotidiens et hebdomadaires allemands et est membre d’un jury qui, chaque année, choisit le titre de livre le plus étrange. Il travaille à Berlin comme journaliste et historien.
Son Lexikon der bedrohten Wörter en deux volumes a paru en 2005 et 2006 aux éditions Rowohlt. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

23 April 18h30 encontre avec Lionel Ray. Lionel Ray est membre de la revue Europe et président de l’académie Mallarmé. Pour l’essentiel son œuvre poétique est publiée par les éditions Gallimard. Elle lui a valu de nombreux prix dont le Goncourt de poésie, le grand prix de poésie de la SGDL, le prix Kowalski-ville de Lyon, le prix de la Fondation Pierrette Micheloud (Lausanne), etc. Parmi ses derniers titres : Comme un Château défait suivi de Syllabes de sable (Poésie/Gallimard), Matière de nuit, L’Invention des bibliothèques, Entre nuit et soleil (collection blanche). En compagnie de : * Gérard Cartier, poète, prix Max Jacob, qui parlera de « L’invention de Lionel Ray » * Laurent Fourcaud présentera la revue Place de la Sorbonne , n°2 où figurent un entretien avec Lionel Ray et une réflexion de Michel Collot sur « le paysage brouillé de la poésie française contemporaine » * Jean Guiloineau présentera la revue Siècle 21, n°20 qui comporte deux importants dossiers, l’un sur la « Littérature anglaise contemporaine » préparé par Vanessa Guignery et la poète américaine Marylin Hacker., l’autre intitulé « Lionel Ray : le lyrisme bien tempéré » réunit les actes d’une journée d’études qui lui fut consacrée en Sorbonne en mai 2011. AT: Maison de l'Amérique Latine 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Métro: Solférino

23 April 20h onward: SpokenWord Paris: Open mic in English, open to all languages. Running since 2006 it now gets 60 to 80 people coming every week! Every Monday. Sign up/hang out in the bar from 8pm, poetry underground. From 9pm to midnight. Spoken word : 5 mins (warning bell rung at 4.45: Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.) Songs : one song. We do 2 rounds between 9pm and midnight. Stand up, Theatre, Cabaret, Dance and Magic all welcome. Chacun a son mot à dire. Make the words come alive. AT: Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes.
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/

25 April 15h Bring your children (2-6 year-olds) to the library at Shakespeare and Company for an hour of music, songs and stories in English (for all nationalities even those who don't speak English!). Led by the magic Kate Stables, mum and singer/songwriter from This is the Kit. There will be instruments to play and noise to make! Then for children over 7 years, there will be a game club afterwards with cards, scrabble, uno and many more games you might be tempted to play... * 3-4pm Music, rhythm and stories with Kate from This is the Kit (kids’ hour in the Library): For 2-6 year-olds (siblings welcome too) with parents. 4 euro donation appreciated. *4.30pm-5.30pm Games Club for 7yrs and up. 2 euro donation appreciated. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

25 April 18h30 Communautarisme et nationalisme dans le mouvement mapuche : 1910 - 2010
Conférence de Viktor Naguil Gómez. Viktor Naguil Gómez, Délégué International de Wallmapuwen, Professeur d’Histoire et Géographie, Doctorant en Sciences Politiques (Université Autonome de Barcelone), expliquera l’émergence d’un mouvement national mapuche durant les vingt dernières années, ainsi que le changement que celui-ci impose vis-à-vis de la tendance communautariste, prédominante depuis ses origines au début du XXe siècle. A partir d’une analyse historique et politique du mouvement mapuche, V. Naguil Gómez tentera de démontrer l'influence des facteurs nationaux mapuches, sociaux, état-nationaux et internationaux dans l’adoption de ces stratégies politiques. Débat animé par Hector Vásquez, Président de l'Association d’Ex Prisonniers Politiques Chiliens - France AT: Maison de l'Amérique Latine 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Métro: Solférino

29 April 18h Come to SOS Help's special benefit evening - the owners of the restaurant Verjus have kindly donated their premises, and other sponsors have donated appetizers and desserts. There will also be entertainment : a talk by David Lebovitz, music from Cat Jahnke and Heather Stimmler-Hall as MC. At 60€ per person your evening includes: "Apéro dinatoire" with wine and appetizers, a talk by David Lebovitz,
music by Cat Jahnke, MC'd by Heather Stimmler-Hall. All proceeds benefit SOS Help,the emotional support line in English. Tickets on sale via online: www.soshelpline.org AT: Verjus Restaurant 47 rue Montpensier, 75001, Paris Métro: Pyramides


30 April 20h onward: SpokenWord Paris: Open mic in English, open to all languages. Running since 2006 it now gets 60 to 80 people coming every week! Every Monday. Sign up/hang out in the bar from 8pm, poetry underground. From 9pm to midnight. Spoken word : 5 mins (warning bell rung at 4.45: Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.) Songs : one song. We do 2 rounds between 9pm and midnight. Stand up, Theatre, Cabaret, Dance and Magic all welcome. Chacun a son mot à dire. Make the words come alive. AT: Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes.
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/


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Part II) Writing, Lit & Theater Workshops in Paris in April
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Patricia LaPlante Collins organizes weekly Paris Soirees http://www.parissoirees.com/ and often has authors in. It is an evening where you have dinner and wine and then hear someone read, talk, discuss their work or projects, etc. during the evening. Patricia Laplante-Collins created Paris Soirees Dinners on Sunday and Paris Networking Cocktail events on the Ile St Louis to bring Americans in Paris together with expats, hip French and the International Community in a global meetup. Evenings feature Literary, Art, New Age, Business, African- American and Black Paris themes. There is an intimate salon atmosphere but it’s all about meeting people in Paris and creating friendships. Patricia is also the founder of African American Literary Soirees. To reserve a place, contact Patricia by email or telephone: parissoirees@gmail.com Tel: 33 (0) 6 43 79 35 18 (Locally: 06 43 79 35 18)

Saturdays 5pm-7pm The Other Writers' Group: a drop-in feedback writing & readers’ workshop. Writers! Bring 6 copies of your story, poems, etc to get feedback (up to about 10 mins reading time for prose, max 2 or 3 pages of poetry) Readers! Come & listen, give your reaction & join in the discussion. Meets: upstairs at Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de le Bucherie, Metro St Michel or Maubert Mutualite. Fee; 5 euros a meeting. For more info: http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/p/other-writers-group.html

Une nouvelle activité à Violette and Co : atelier ouvert d’échange de lectures sur le thème “Résister.” L’atelier requiert une participation active : à chacune est demandé d’apporter un livre (essai ou fiction) qui l’a particulièrement marquée, stimulée, qui l’a fait réfléchir à la notion de résistance (résister à quoi ? comment ? avec qui ? dans quel contexte ?). Les participantes ont un temps de parole de 10mn pour lire un passage de leur texte et expliquer leur choix. Les deux initiatrices de l’atelier s’assurent du respect des règle du jeu. C’est un atelier plus politique que littéraire à la fois par son propos et par sa forme. Infos complémentaires : chantal.mellies@wanadoo.fr

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Part III) News reviews & reviews news
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Lex-ICON invites you SEND WORK and READ ONLINE our project. Check out Lex-ICON's pre-confernce blog project where daily visual poems, critical thoughts on text and image today, and language-based art are being posted between 20 March & 20 May! These will be assembled into a creative publication for the attendees of the 7-9 June 2012 Lex-Icon conference at the Université de Haute Alsace in MULHOUSE, france. See also our INVITATION to contribute work to this project on the blog iteself-Hope to see you there! http://lex-icon21.blogspot.fr/ direct link for an invitation to contribute work is at: http://lex-icon21.blogspot.fr/2012/03/invitation-contribuer-notre-blog-invite.html And an in-depth explainer of the project is at: http://lex-icon21.blogspot.fr/2012/03/lex-icon-projet-de-blog-du-20-mars-au.html

PRAISE BE! SUBMISSIONS FOR A TALE OF THREE CITIES #2 ARE NOW OPEN. Following on from the peppermint-green charms of our first issue, stocked by Colette, B Store and The Wapping Project among others, we are looking for stories, photography, poetry, essays, short plays and more for issue #2 We want solid new work that stops us in our tracks. We want to print unknown writers and artists alongside globally-acclaimed ones. We want to make an issue we would sell our shoes to publish, and all we ask is that submissions have a flavour of London, Paris or Berlin* WHAT WE WANT IS FRESH EYES, AND REAL, UNEXPECTED GLIMPSES OF THESE CITIES. MAKE MUMMA PROUD. Read our manifesto. Read our magazine. SUBMISSIONS CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT CET ON APRIL 18 2012 Submitting words? Send them to rosa@taleofthree.com Submitting images? Send them to alex@taleofthree.com

Please help us spread the word about the Robin Becker Chapbook Prize, awarded annually to two LGBTQ poets. The submission period is currently open until April 16 (since the 15th falls on a Sunday this year). This series began in 2008 with Judith Barrington's Lost Lands; the most recent titles, selected last year by Barrington, are slated for release in March and April: Ellen Goldberg's Each Perfect One and D. Gilson's Catch & Release. We are delighted to share that this year's judge will be Elena Georgiou. Complete details and guidelines about the Robin Becker Chapbook Series, and all our titles, can be found at the Seven Kitchens Press site: http://sevenkitchenspress.com/series-guidelines/guidelines-the-robin-becker-chapbook-prize/ Please take a moment to share this opportunity with others you may know. Since 2007, Seven Kitchens has grown steadily through word-of-mouth and the generous support of individuals like you. Thank you, and keep writing!

Ashland Poetry Press's 2012 Snyder Prize: One month remains to enter your manuscript in the 2012 Richard Snyder Publication Prize, judged by Elizabeth Spires. Entries for this year's contest may be submitted electronically or by mail. The deadline for this year's contest is April 30, 2012. See our blog for more information.

JUST LAUNCHED: That Other Word, a podcast run jointly by Daniel Medin and Scott Esposito of the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco. Each episode features a discussion between Daniel and Scott on recent noteworthy literature in translation, and then an in-depth interview with writers, translators, editors, and publishers. The podcast hopes to celebrate and explore various and under-appreciated aspects of translation, not only into and out of English, but other languages as well. In this first episode, the two hosts chat about the accidental poetry and reasonable plausibility of César Aira’s Varamo, the miraculous strangeness of László Krasznahorkai’s Satantango, and the hopping city at the heart of Robert Walser’s Berlin Stories. They also mention recent and upcoming events at their respective centers, including the CWT’s publication of the latest in The Cahiers Series, A Labour of Moles by Ivan Vladislavić, and the upcoming visit of Jay Rubin and J. Philip Gabriel, translators of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, at the CAT. Afterward, Scott Esposito is joined by Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review and former senior editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. They discuss editing the English version of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s 03 (translated by Mitzi Angel), procuring the rights to Roberto Bolaño’s works and editing Natasha Wimmer’s translations, failure and what separates translation from other kinds of writing, ‘living with books’, and why The Paris Review publishes what it does. The conversation concludes with Edouard Levé, touching on his aphoristic influences, his humor, his suicide, and his book Autoportrait, which Stein has recently translated from the French. We're hoping to make That Other Word available on iTunes soon; in the meantime, we invite you to listen to the first episode on either the Other Word site or on the CAT's. Episode 2, which will air in April, includes an interview by Daniel Medin with Petra Hardt, director of foreign rights at Suhrkamp Verlag

NEW CHAPBOOKS OUT by Michelle Naka Pierce and Chris Pusateri. Continuous Frieze Bordering Red by Michelle Naka Pierce. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press
96p. $19 (paper); $45 (cloth).Buy it here. Common Time by Chris Pusateri. Normal, IL: Steerage Press, 2012. 106p. Price: $9.99 (paper) $0.99 (Kindle edition)
Buy it here.

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH AT THE BOSTON REVIEW: At Boston Review, every month is poetry month. We've supported a vibrant international poetry culture for more than three decades, publishing new and well-established poets and critics in every issue along side our in-depth political coverage. But that doesn't mean we're NaPoMo curmudgeons. National Poetry Month is a great opportunity to strengthen the bonds of the community and introduce new readers to the challenge and pleasures of verse. This year, BR will publish a new poem online every weekday throughout April along with additional poetry reviews and essays. Sign up for the weekly Poetry Matters email newsletter for updates, new poems, multimedia, poetry news, and more. And don't forget: our 15th Annual Poetry Contest is now accepting submissions. This year's judge is Matthea Harvey, winner of the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and author of, most recently, the acclaimed collection Modern Life. First prize for the BR poetry award is $1,500 plus publication in the November / December issue of Boston Review.

NOVO art Crit mag (based in Mulhouse) has a new issue up online. A free paper version will soon be available for those in Mulhouse! NOVO N°19 est en ligne sur www.novomag.fr… et bientôt disponible en version papier près de chez vous.

DONATE to Paris/Chicago based magazine Omnia Vanitas's Kickstarter: Omnia Vanitas Kickstarter's page is live! Omnia Vanitas Review is a delicate mixture of Féminine Écriture, New Narrative, and Clit Lit. We enjoy explicit descriptions of sex written in white ink. Deflowering language. Multiple orgasms with multiple climaxes. The playful touching of intertextuality. Deliberately elusive linguistic weavings. Words who slow dance with Aphasia and flirt with Amnesia. Words wet with formlessness. Words pregnant with child. With twins, with quintuplets. Esoterica. Etcetera. Erotica. Though we consider ourselves an erotica magazine, we also interpret “erotica” rather loosely. We think of the act of writing—words penetrating the void, pen piercing paper—as an erotic endeavor, and though some of our submissions are transparently risqué, we can’t think of anything more racy than the pure desire to write. The money we receive from kickstarter will enable us to pay our web designer and our printing costs: in short it will allow us to make the review happen. In a world dominated by corporate media and art and literature subordinated to market pressures, we believe it's important to provide outlets for alternative forms of art and media. Omnia is one of these outlets. If you ever wish to speak with us, about our project, any of the individual pieces, or for any other reason, please, don’t hesitate to contact us at: omnia.vanitas.review@gmail.com

01 March 2012

March 2012 Readings and Events List

(Note: updated 6 march 2012!)
March 2012 Readings List + Calls for Work

Part I) Paris Events & READINGS by dates in March 2012
Part II) Creative Writing & other Workshops in Paris
Part III) News Reviews &Reviews News: publications, calls for work, new books & more!
(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for APRIL 2012 please send those announcements as early as possible, and in the format of the listings below, to Jane Cope at parisrentree2010 AT gmail.com)
*Note: event details are regularly updated, so check back!


The editors here at Paris Literary Events list are deeply saddened by the recent losses of John Kliphan and Stacy Doris. In memory of their rich contributions to the poetry community, we invite you to watch the following readings of their work:
John Kliphan reading his poetry from anuliina savolainen on Vimeo.




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Part I) Paris events & READINGS by dates in March 2012

14e Printemps des poètes du 5 au 18 mars 2012: Le Printemps des Poètes will be hosting a wide variety of literary events throughout the month of March. For a full program of the events happening in Paris, click here.

2 March 19h Rencontre avec MONIQUE SELIM, IOANA CIRSTOCEA et MATHIEU CAULIER pour le n° 47 de la revue Multitudes “ONG, monde, genre.” Consacré aux ONG et leurs rôles dans la gouvernance mondiale libérale, ce dossier montre comment ces organismes qui prolifèrent depuis plus de trente ans sont devenus le relais de la norme occidentale y compris féministe. Les ONG pensent global et réalisent local que ce soit au Mexique ou en Roumanie, et favorisent une professionnalisation du secteur humanitaire souvent au détriment des acteurs sociaux, en particulier des femmes. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

Until 3 March at 21h "En Attendant Godot" se joue au Théâtre de Nesle jSaviez-vous que Beckett a écrit cette pièce d'abord en français et après il l'a traduit vers l'anglais ? Did you know that Beckett first wrote this play in French and then translated it himself into English. Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot" is on stage at the Théâtre de Nesle. Pour les Amis de Words Alive O le tarif est de 8 euros. Les billets sont à règler au théâtre par chèque ou en espèces le soir du spectacle. Pour réserver, veuillez téléphoner 01 46 34 61 04 ou aller directement au théâtre. AT: Théâtre de Nesle, 8 rue de Nesle 75006 Métro Odéon, Pont-Neuf

3 March 10 - 19h and 4 March 13h - 19h Monthly Used Book Sale Weekend at the American Library in Paris. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

3 March 18h30-20h La Jeune Fille honteuse: pièce de Jean Verdun avec Charles Gonzales (Sophie), Albert Delpy (le gardien), Yves Beauget (le directeur des Beaux-Arts), Jean Verdun (le conservateur) et Sonia Masson (meneuse du jeu). Entrée 10 €, 16 € pour 2 personnes. AT: American Center for the Arts, dorothy’s gallery, 27 rue Keller, Paris 11
M°Bastille, Voltaire

3 March 18h30-20h DANSE BUTÔ Amour déchu avec Hélène Barrier et Denis Sanglard. Elèves de Léone Cats-Baril, danseuse de la compagnie Ariadone, de Carlotta Ikeda. Costume: Olivier Petigny. Entrée libre, participation appréciée. AT: American Center for the Arts, dorothy’s gallery, 27 rue Keller, Paris 11 M°Bastille, Voltaire

Until 4 March: Exposition de collages de CÉLINE DÉLAS “Barbie au tapis” Décembre 2008 : Betty Page, l’Ange Noir des pin-up, image culte de la révolution sexuelle, décède. Décembre 2008 : Barbie la Prude fête son cinquantenaire et continue de dicter la vie des petites filles. Une solution s’impose : unies, Betty Page et Wonder Woman croisent le fer pour envoyer Barbie-des-Bois dans les cordes. http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/article.php?id_article=544 AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

4 March à partir de 11h La Librairie Le Divan et les éditions de la Table Ronde vous invitent à une rencontre avec Valérie Rouzeau et le comédien Jacques Bonnaffé pour une lecture d’extraits de Vrouz le dimanche 4 mars à partir de 11 h. Les dédicaces et discussions se poursuivront autour d’un verre. AT: Librairie le Divan 203, rue de la Convention 75015 Paris Métro: Convention

4 March 13h SPECIAL EVENT: John Kliphan's wake, The Highlander.Many of you will know that Poets Live was inspired by Live Poets, the reading series created by John Kliphan. Unfortunately, John died last month. In accordance with his wishes, there will be a celebration of his life held in The Highlander, the old Live Poets pub, at 1pm on March 4th. The wake will feature readings from his posthumously published collection LOW LEVEL FLYING, to be launched at the event. Profits from the book will launch a memorial fund to support the publication of new young anglophone poets from Paris. LOW LEVEL FLYING by John Kliphan, published by corrupt press US Trade, 140 pages, €12. John Kliphan (b.1933, Boston - d. 2012, Paris) was a passionate and compassionate poet, teacher and lawyer. His poems are accessible, incisive, lyrical and often humorous. First published in Boston, then San Francisco, where he lived for many years, Kliphan befriended the Beats and was counsel for the North Beach art community. In the 1980's Kliphan moved to Paris, where he founded and directed the Live Poets Society, an internationally recognized series of readings celebrating the oral tradition of poetry while providing a venue for new voices and verse in Paris, the city's longest-running series of its kind. Invited to perform his work at events and festivals around the world, Kliphan was author of three books of poetry as well as individual poems and articles published in the United States and Europe. AT: The Highlander, 8 rue Nevers, M Pont-Neuf / Odéon

4 March 19.30 MOVING PARTS presents the second reading of a play by Gwyneth Hughes. Bones of Contention: Will a psychiatrist be able to free Julia from the demands of a ghost who relentlessly torments her? Starring: Jenny Bennitt, Chloe Dunn, Beth Jervis, Chloe Lauverjon AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris Metro : Tuileries

5 March 19h With Carcanet Press, we are delighted to welcome five acclaimed poets and translators: Sasha Dugdale, Jane Draycott, Mimi Khalvati, Olivia McCannon and Stephen Romer. Come join us for a rare Parisian celebration of some of Carcanet’s finest poets.Based in Manchester (UK), Carcanet has published outstanding international poetry for the last four decades. Sharing between them an impressive array of awards and publications, these five poets will lead us through a diverse range of poetries and cultures. From Stephen Romer’s meditations on home and exile to Olivia McCannon’s memories of Merseyside, from Sasha Dugdale’s evocations of Russia to Mimi Khalvati’s Persian poetic heritage and Jane Draycott’s translation of the medieval dream vision Pearl, this promises to be a far-reaching evening of poetry and translation. Jane Draycott has published three acclaimed Carcanet poetry collections, including the Forward prize-shortlisted Prince Rupert’s Drop and T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted Over. Her recent translation of the 14th-century dream vision Pearl was awarded the Stephen Spender Prize for Translation. Sasha Dugdale is an Eric Gregory award-winning poet and Russian translator. She founded the Russian New Writing Project with the Royal Court Theatre, has published several collections of Russian poetry in translation and three Carcanet poetry collections. Her latest collection Red House (2011) evokes the ghosts and presences on the margins of our lives. Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran and currently lives in London, where she founded The Poetry School. She has published six Carcanet poetry collections, including The Meanest Flower (2007), which was shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2006 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her poems, David Constantine writes, ‘say what it feels like being human, the good and the ill of it, with passion, tact and lightness.' Olivia McCannon is a French translator and poet based in London and Belleville, Paris. She has published poetry in Modern Poetry in Translation, Penguin’s Poems for Life and the Carcanet OxfordPoets Anthology 2007 and a translation of Balzac’s Old Man Goriot was published by Penguin Classics last year. Her debut Carcanet poetry collection Exactly My Own Length was published in November. Stephen Romer regularly writes on French literature for the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement. He has published four Carcanet collections and edited Faber’s anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poems. His poems were recently published in French translation by Editions le temps qu’il fait in 2007. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

5 March 20h onwards SPOKEN WORD Paris (now in a new location!): Come read YOUR work in ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN or any other language you would so like to share poetry in! You are also invited to play a short musical piece or read a poem by an author you admire if you so wish! 20h sign up/hang out 20h30 first round starts 15 min break 21h45 second round starts 15 min break 23h00 third round starts stop at midnight ie. the Cinderella rule (so we can all chat & socialize; the bar stays open till after one). 10 poets/singers/comedians/dancing pets per round The exact start times for rounds depend on people signing up, but stopping at midnight is fixed. AT: the basement of Le Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Métro Parmentier/Couronnes/Oberkampf

6 March 19h A l'occasion de la parution de Apostille (Editions du Seuil), venez à la Librairie Michèle Ignazi pour une rencontre avec Gérard Genette AT: Librairie Michèle Ignazi 17 rue de Jouy 75004 Paris 01 42 71 17 00 Métro: Saint-Paul

6 March 19h Le Condottière: Rencontre à l'occasion de la parution du roman inédit de Georges Perec (1936-1982) Du Condottière, Perec dit qu’il est « le premier roman abouti » qu’il parvint à écrire. Plus d’un demi-siècle après sa rédaction (1957-1960), trente ans après la mort de Perec, le 3 mars 1982, on va pouvoir enfin découvrir cette œuvre de jeunesse, égarée puis miraculeusement retrouvée. Gaspard Winckler, le héros de ce roman, s’est voué depuis des mois à réaliser un faux Condottière qui rivalise à tout point de vue avec celui du Louvre, peint par Antonello de Messine en 1475. Prince des faussaires, il n’est pourtant que le simple exécutant d’un commanditaire, Anatole Madera. Tel un roman policier, la première page du livre s’ouvre sur l’assassinat de Madera par Winckler. Pourquoi ce meurtre ? Pourquoi Gaspard Winckler a-t-il échoué dans son projet d’égaler Antonello de Messine ? Que cherchait-il en devenant un virtuose du faux ? Que voulait-il capter dans l’image de maîtrise et d’énergie donnée par le visage de ce guerrier ? Pourquoi vit-il l’assassinat de Madera comme une libération ? Le thème du faux parcourt toute l’œuvre de Perec. Le personnage de fiction nommé Gaspard Winckler apparaît dans La Vie mode d’emploi et W ou le souvenir d’enfance. Le dernier roman publié du vivant de Perec, Un cabinet d’amateur, est une éblouissante construction autour des sortilèges de la copie et du faux. Le Condottière permet d’entrevoir les enjeux de cette quête : comment, en se débattant avec le faux, parvenir à la conquête du vrai. Roman inédit, Le Condottière est le dixième titre de Georges Perec publié dans « La Librairie du XXIe siècle » au Seuil. www.seuil.com/ En compagnie de Michel Bénabou, Claude Burgelin, Maxime Decout et Maurice Olender. En association avec les Editions du Seuil, la Librairie Gallimard et la revue Europe qui consacre son n°992-993 à Georges Perec. AT: Maison de l'Amérique Latine 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Métro: Solférino

7 mars-25 mars 2012 : "Laissez-nous juste le temps de vous détruire" est un spectacle à la Maison de la poésie de Paris pour lequel Gilles Weinzaepflen a composé la musique et les ambiances sonores. Pour acheter vos places : http://www.maisondelapoesieparis.com/index.php?url=spectacle/spectacle.php&cle=100 Pour plus d’infos sur Gilles : gillesweinzaepflen.com

7 March Dans le cadre du Printemps des poètes, l'Alliance française invite 3 auteurs publiés à Cheyne. Blandine Merle - prix de la vocation 2011 pour Par Obole. Mikaël Hauchamp : Formant série sans trace. Antoine Wauters : Césarine de nuit. Venez-y nombreux ! AT: 101 boulevard Raspail, Paris. Métro Notre-Dame-des-Champs ou Saint-Placide

7 March 19h Prochaine rencontre de "Entretiens sur l'art" - entrée libre. « Registres d’absence » Patrick Javault reçoit l’artiste LATIFA ECHAKHCH en compagnie de DEAN INKSTER, critique d'art et commissaire d'expositions. L'exposition TKAF à la galerie Kamel Mennour offre l'occasion d'une discussion avec Dean Inkster, critique d'art et commissaire d'expositions. Latifa Echakhch dit que son enseignement a été
déterminant pour elle. AT: FONDATION D'ENTREPRISE RICARD 12 rue Boissy d'Anglas 75008 Paris Métro: Madeleine or Concorde

7 March 19h Lecture de Daniel Pozner, Pierre Drogi et Jayrôme C. Robinet à l'invitation d'Olivier Apert, dans le cadre de sa résidence d'écrivain AT: Mairie du 8, rue de la Banque, 75002 Paris / Salle des mariages Métro: Pyramides[Renseignements sur remue.net / rubrique Des résidences puis Ile de France puis Olivier Apert puis Evénements]

7 March 19h30 Lisa Immordino Vreeland presents the biography Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel. Born in Paris in 1903, Diana Vreeland was an American original whose impact on fashion and style was legendary. Beginning in 1936, when she became a fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar, Vreeland established herself as a controversial visionary with an astonishing ability to invent and discover fashion ideas, designers, personalities, and photographers. In addition to Harper's Bazaar, she also worked at Vogue and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. About the author: Lisa Immordino Vreeland runs her own fashion design and production consulting business. She is the producer of a documentary film about Diana Vreeland, and is married to Vreeland’s grandson Alexander. Read about the book (in French) in Vogue magazine. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

8 March 18h Come and watch a relaxed (and much-anticipated!) performance in the library with actors from Actors of L'École Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq including ex-tumbleweed Lorenza Gentile. They will perform Sure Thing a short play by David Ives. We live between reality and possibility. Every one of our actions is but a choice among many and it shapes and determines what comes next. The premise of this performance is simple - a man approaches a woman in a café - but the outcome is unpredictable. Will they manage to have a real encounter or will they miss the opportunity of genuine communication? Through comedy and parody, Sure Thing explores the dynamic of human interaction and identity. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

8 March 19h Eva-Maria Berg : Flux. En coopération avec les Éditions TranSignum.
Dans le cadre du Printemps des Poètes. Lecture des poèmes d’Eva-Maria Berg en allemand, et en français par Max Alhau. Performance : Isabelle Maurel (danseuse) et Denis Parmain (comédien), avec les « Habits à lire » de Luana Dragoiescu et Eva-Maria Berg. Cette lecture est aussi l’occasion d’ouvrir à la bibliothèque du Goethe-Institut l’exposition « Trans-Rhin-Express » (9 – 17 mars), qui présente des livres de bibliophilie franco-allemands publiés par les Éditions TranSignum. Eva-Maria Berg, née en 1949 à Düsseldorf, a fait des études de germanistique et de romanistique.Depuis 1979, elle se consacre à l’écriture et publie des ouvrages en prose, des essais et surtout des recueils de poésie, parmi lesquels ins leben der räume (2006) et Flux (Édition originale allemande-française-anglaise, photographies de Sylvie Pesnel, TranSignum, 2011). AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

8 mars : Vernissage À PARTIR DE 18H30 jusqu'à minuit FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL EXIT 2012. LOW TECH : une vingtaine d’installations, 13 artistes et collectifs, une série d’innovations visuelles et sensitives recréées avec les outils du passé. Radicale, immersive, intense, festive, la 19ème édition du festival international EXIT présente les artistes internationaux qui font bouger les lignes des arts vivants et des arts visuels aujourd'hui.  L'exposition LOW TECH sera présentée lors du festival  EXIT du 8 au 18 mars à la Maison des Arts de Créteil.  EXPOSITION ACCESSIBLE À TOUS TARIFS : de 3 à 5 euros.  LES  VE 09, LU12, MA 13, JE 15, VE 16 mars de 18H00 à minuit ME 14 mars de 9H30 à 12h00 et de 14hOO à 18H00 / SA 10, 17 mars de 14H00 à minuit, DIM 11, 18 mars de 14H00 à 19H00 /  Gagnez des places pour l'exposition "LOW TECH" : mac@maccreteil.com AT : CRETEIL MAISON DES ARTS, PLACE SALVADOR ALLENDE 94000 CRETEIL Tél 01 45 13 19 19  réservez en ligne : www.maccreteil.com (se rendre à la Maison des Arts EN METRO LIGNE 8 Station Créteil - Préfecture  Accéder au Centre Commercial par la sortie droite du metro, Traverser le centre commercial, Ressortir porte 25 (proche Carrefour même niveau) pour rejoindre la place S. Allende. Le théâtre se trouve alors au bout de la place. (temps du parcours 5 minutes) Retour gratuit en navette assuré en soirée jusqu’à la place de la Bastille, dans la limite des places disponibles.)

9 March 19h L’appropriation des livres par des personnages miniatures qui curent le long des phrases, découvrent les mots, escaladent les pages, rebondissent de paragraphes en chapitres... Quelle est leur véritable relation ? Une mise en scène pleine de poésie, qui sait en même temps être réaliste et évident, comme ce supplément d’âme que J. Poupé insuffle à ses personnages. Les voilà qui lisent... Comme nous ? AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

10 mars 2012 à 15 heures : A l’occasion de la parution du numéro 3 de Peut-être,
l’Association des Amis de l’Œuvre de Claude Vigée vous convie à son Après-midi poétique avec Patricia Sustrac, qui nous parlera de Max Jacob,  Marie-Brunette Spire, qui évoquera André Spire, Jean Witt, Hélène Péras, Jessica Stephens qui s’intéresse à la traduction des Quatre Quatuors de T.S. Eliot par Claude Vigée, et Claude Vigée (sous réserve). AT : Institut du Monde anglophone, 5, rue de l’Ecole de médecine - 75006 Paris - Métro Odéon

10 March 16h Figures de l'humanité: Réflexions sur un silex taillé. La poésie et le temps. Conférence de Jaques Darras. La Maison de la Poésie et les Amis de l’Humanité poursuivent pour la 3ème saison le cycle de conférences à partir d’un «dialogue» Jaurès/Derrida. Le 18 avril 1904, dans l’éditorial fondateur du journal L’Humanité, Jean Jaurès écrivait : « L’humanité n’existe point encore ou elle existe à peine ». Le 4 mars 1999, dans les colonnes du même titre, Jacques Derrida écrivait : « On n’est pas encore en mesure de déterminer la figure même de l’humanité que pourtant on annonce et se promet ainsi »…Il s’agit de proposer à des philosophes, des poètes, des penseurs, de s’interroger sur cette promesse d’humanité à la lumière de la réflexion qu’ils poursuivent dans leur propre domaine. Ce mois-ci, c’est au poète, essayiste et traducteur Jacques Darras que nous proposons de s’interroger sur cet indéterminé et cette promesse. Jacques Darras est un des poètes importants de notre époque. Il chante l’univers au travers des hommes qui peuplent les fleuves, la terre et la mer du Nord. Il aime les fleuves parce qu’ils jointent les territoires en les traversant, il aime les frontières qui collent les langues l’une contre l’autre avec de formidables désirs d’histoire. Jacques Darras compose en marchant, et, maître traducteur de l’anglais, nous donne à entendre les sublimes souffleurs de poèmes d’outre Manche et d’Amérique. Ce grand poète n’aime rien tant qu’agir. Il voyage, il connaît les poètes, édite plusieurs revues, aime faire débat et être présent dans les soucis du monde avec la poésie. Depuis la grande plaine au centre de l’Europe, il exalte la connaissance et l’union des peuples. Et c’est ainsi que nous invitons Jacques Darras à nous donner, à son tour, en conférence, sa pensée à propos de la maintenant fameuse phrase de Jaurès : « L’humanité n’existe point encore ou elle existe à peine ». C’est un homme des lumières que nous recevrons le 10 mars, nourri de critique et d’espérance, débatteur impitoyable et militant de l’humain, poète-diseur au large visage. Sans doute le Whitman moderne européen. Claude Guerre. En partenariat avec les Amis de L’Humanité. Tarif unique de 5€. AT: la Maison de la Poésie, Passage Molière 157, rue Saint-Martin 75003 Paris Métro: Rambuteau, Les Halles

10 March 18h Rencontre avec WENDY DELORME pour la parution de son roman La Mère, la Sainte et la Putain (Lettre à Swann) (Au diable Vauvert). Les trois visages d’une femme qui raconte la gestation d’un enfant fait de mots car ici le texte est sa première mise au monde avant l’être à venir. On suit toutes les étapes traversées par cette amazone libre, étapes formés par les trois statuts du titre du roman en forme de cri violemment imposés au corps féminin dans un monde décrit sans concession. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

12 March 19h Shakespeare and Co. welcomes Caroline Brothers who will be reading from Hinterland, her exquisite, unsettling novel about refugees and what it is to be underage, homeless and invisible in a foreign land . . . Caroline Brothers has worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Latin America. She writes for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. On Hinterland: It is night, and two boys are crossing a river that is also a border. They have nothing but the clothes on their backs, their inheritance stitched into the lining of a belt, and the courage of an enormous gamble: that Europe will offer them a future they can no longer wait for Afghanistan. Travelling by truck, by boat, by train, by bus and on foot, Aryan and his younger brother Kabir have embarked on an epic journey, clinging to an itinerary they repeat like a mantra so as not to lose their way: Kabul Tehran Istanbul Athens Rome Paris London. There are moments of wonder and adventure but also battles against cold, heat, hunger, violence and exhaustion. Whether they are harvesting half-frozen oranges in Greece, or hiding behind a false wall on a truck to Italy, or sleeping under the rafters of a sawmill in France, the brothers are exploited for their labour, hustled for their money and ignored by almost everyone, except the police. Hinterland is a novel about two children in the aftermath of trauma; underage, homeless and invisible in a foreign land. It shows what happens when the adult world rushes in, and what our universe looks like from the other side of the glass, to those displaced children who are out there, even now, on the road. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

12 March 20h onwards SPOKEN WORD Paris (now in a new location!): Come read YOUR work in ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN or any other language you would so like to share poetry in! You are also invited to play a short musical piece or read a poem by an author you admire if you so wish! 20h sign up/hang out 20h30 first round starts 15 min break 21h45 second round starts 15 min break 23h00 third round starts stop at midnight ie. the Cinderella rule (so we can all chat & socialize; the bar stays open till after one). 10 poets/singers/comedians/dancing pets per round The exact start times for rounds depend on people signing up, but stopping at midnight is fixed. AT: the basement of Le Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Métro Parmentier/Couronnes/Oberkampf


13 mars 2012 à 19h - Entrée libre  «La comédie du réel» Jérôme Mauche reçoit Alain Guiraudie, cinéaste, et Fred Léal, romancier Poésie Plate-forme est un cycle de rencontres consacré à la poésie contemporaine et proposé par l'écrivain Jérôme Mauche. BIOS : Alain Guiraudie, qui est aussi scénariste de ses films, met en place un univers picaresque et drôle, politique à sa manière, ancré dans les réalités sociales et locales, filmant principalement en Aveyron où il vit et travaille. Il est l’auteur de sept moyens ou courts métrages depuis Les héros sont immortels en 1990, notamment Tout droit jusqu’au matin (1994), Du soleil pour les gueux (2001), Ce vieux rêve qui bouge (2001) lequel a été récompensé par le Prix Jean-Vigo. On lui doit par ailleurs trois longs métrages Pas de repos pour les braves (2003), Voici venu le temps (2005) et Le Roi de l’évasion (2009), lesquels ont été sélectionnés dans de nombreux festivals, à Cannes entre autres, et ont rencontré un succès critique et public grandissant. Fred LÉAL est médecin à Bordeaux et auteur d’une œuvre réjouissante et sophistiquée, où les formes de la culture populaire sont aussi les moteurs de la narration.
On lui doit des romans et des récits : Selva, 2002 ; Bleu note, 2003 ; Let’s let’s go, 2005 ; Un Trou sous la brèche, 2006 ; La porte verte, 2008 ; délaissé, 2010 publiés aux éditions P .O.L et Mismatch, 2002 ; Le peigne-noir, 2004 ; In terroir gâteau, 2005 ; Le peigne-rose publiés aux éditions de l’Attente ; ainsi qu’un journal Comme le loup blanc paru à l’occasion de la Biennale d’Anglet, Le bleu du ciel, 2011. http://fondation-entreprise-ricard.com/conferences/poesie_plateforme/conf/la_comedie_du_reel/ AT : Fondation d'entreprise Ricard 12 rue Boissy d'Anglas, 75008 PARIS  T. 33 (0)1 53 30 88 00

14 March 19h Rencontre avec DANIELE KERGOAT pour la parution de son livre Se battre, disent-elles... (La Dispute). Ce recueil des principaux textes de D. Kergoat, militante féministe et pionnière de la sociologie du travail et du genre en France, éclaire la construction d’analyses et de concepts qui font aujourd’hui référence sur la division sexuelle du travail, des rapports sociaux de sexe et leur intrication avec les rapports de classe et de race. L’ensemble permet de retracer le chemin intellectuel et politique de l’auteure. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

14 March 19h Printemps des Poètes: Rencontre with Maureen Boyle, Deirdre Cartmill and Moyra Donaldson. We celebrate “Printemps des Poètes” with three poets who are recipients of an Artist's Career Enhancement Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for ‘rising stars of the art world’. Maureen Boyle won the Strokestown International Poetry Competition and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Prize; Deirdre Cartmill has published two collections and was a finalist in the Scottish International Poetry Competition; and Moyra Donaldson has won the Allingham and the Cúirt New Writing Awards. All are spending a year affiliated with the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University, Belfast. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER: Luxembourg

15 March 19:30 PM UPSTAIRS AT DUROC, the Paris literary journal, invites you to a reading in celebration of Le Printemps des Poètes! Poetry and Poetry Translation will be at the center of this event with work by ANNE TALVAZ, FIONA SZE-LORRAIN and HELEN BURKE. Bios: ANNE TALVAZ is a poet, novelist and translator who has lived in China and Brazil. She has published 5 poetry collections, including Panaches de mer, lithophytes et coquilles (Comp’Act, 2006) and Confessions d’une Joconde suivi de Pourquoi le Minotaure est triste (L’Act Mem, 2010). Among the books she has translated from English to French are 4 poetry collections by John Ashbery and an anthology edited by Jerome Rothenberg. She will be reading her own poems as well as her French-to-English translations of work by Marie Etienne, a contemporary French poet. FIONA SZE-LORRAIN writes and translates in English, French and Chinese. Her poetry collection, Water the Moon (Marick Press, 2010) is an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Eric Hoffer Book Award. She is one of the founding editors of Cerise Press, an international journal of literature, arts and culture. She will read both from her own work and from her English translations of the poems of Lan Lan, one of the most influential poets in China today. HELEN BURKE, from the UK, writes poems, plays and comedy sketches, as well as being a visual artist. Her widely published and anthologized work, which has been described as witty, surreal, and humane, has won a number of prizes in the UK. Burke is a regular reader of her poems on ELFM Radio. Her most recent book is The Ruby Slippers (Valley Press, London). AT: THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS, 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Ecole Militaire or RER Pont de l’Alma

16 March 17h Shakespeare and Co is thrilled to welcome Irish folk singer/songerwriter Fionn Regan to Shakespeare and Company to sing amongst the books. We have been playing Fionn’s music in the bookshop for some time and his lyrics are so poetic people have been known to tattoo themselves with them. He has been called the ‘pied piper’ of folk (Guardian) and ‘his generation’s answer to Bob Dylan’ (Lucinda Williams). His music might also make you think of Nick Drake, Saul Bellow or Dylan Thomas (he’s even performed in Dylan Thomas’s boathouse). His albums include The End of History, The Shadow of an Empire and 100 Acres of Sycamore and oh they’re good. In preperation listen at http://www.fionnregan.com/ AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

Le SALON DU LIVRE: 16-19 mars 2012:  http://www.salondulivreparis.com/ for many events linked to this annual salon of the book. A great opportunity to find publishers and new books, listen to authors, or discover what the French literati are thinking about these days...

17 March 16h Les entretiens de la Po&sie: Qu'est-ce que philosopher aujourd'hui ? avec Gisèle Berkman, Patrice Loraux et Jean-Michel Rey. Qu’est-ce que philosopher aujourd’hui, à l’heure de la crise de la pensée sans précédent que nous traversons ? Comment « s’orienter » dans la pensée à l’ère du « temps de cerveau disponible » pour Coca-Cola, de la disparition des humanités classiques et de la marchandisation des biens culturels ? C’est ce dont s’entretiendront Gisèle Berkman, Patrice Loraux et Jean-Michel Rey. À quelles conditions peut-on relancer une pensée critique héritière des Lumières? Comment cartographier les pensées actuelles, entre positivisme triomphant et spiritualisme renaissant, entre triomphe des neuro-sciences et retour du Sujet ? Cela implique d’interroger ce qui, en notre «extrême contemporain », constitue tout ensemble un empêchement et un défi à penser. AT: la Maison de la Poésie, Passage Molière 157, rue Saint-Martin 75003 Paris Métro: Rambuteau, Les Halles

18 March 18h30 Rencontre avec Alan Riding. A l'occasion de la parution du livre Et la fête continue. La vie culturelle à Paris sous l'Occupation, traduit par Gérard Meudal, Ed Plon. Littérature > Rencontre avec Alan RidingA quoi ressemblait la vie de Sartre et de Beauvoir sous l'Occupation allemande? Comment Picasso contournait-il l'interdiction officielle de son œuvre ? Comment artistes et intellectuels ont-ils vécu cette époque de peur et de restrictions ? Quelle liberté créatrice leur restait-il ? La vie culturelle française ne s'est pas arrêtée après la défaite de 1940. Rapidement, théâtres, cinémas, galeries et boîtes de nuit ont rouvert leurs portes pour assurer la subsistance des artistes et divertir un peuple démoralisé. Alan Riding déploie dans ce livre l'éventail des chanteurs, écrivains, peintres ou acteurs, retrace leurs parcours et explore leurs cas de conscience. Etait-ce collaborer que de se produire devant un public en partie allemand, comme le firent Maurice Chevalier et Edith Piaf ? Etait-ce manquer de patriotisme que de publier des romans ou de réaliser des films pendant la guerre, comme le firent Albert Camus et Marcel Pagnol ? Sans céder à un moralisme stérile, cette enquête vivante et rigoureuse nous amène, à travers une mosaïque de portraits, à questionner la responsabilité de l'artiste en période de troubles. "Depuis que j'ai couvert en tant que journaliste les dictatures miliaires d'Amérique latine dans les années 1970 et 1980, j'ai toujours été intrigué par la façon dont artistes et écrivains réagissaient à la réalité politique et sociale. Là-bas les élites culturelles sont restées très discrètes ou bien ont soutenu la résistance armée ou encore ont protesté depuis l'étranger, mais il y en a peu qui aient collaboré avec les dictateurs." Alan Riding a été le correspondant culturel européen du New York Times pendant douze ans. Il est l'auteur de Distant Neighbors : A Portrait of the Mexicans. En compagnie de Fernando Carvallo et Maurizio Serra. AT: Maison de l'Amérique Latine 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Métro: Solférino

18 March 19h30 Moving Parts presents Marco Panzani's "Un Amour de Concierge" (stage play in French). AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris Metro: Tuileries

19 March 19h Sébastian Fitzek : Le briseur d´âmes. Lecture et discussion avec l'auteur
Modération : Joachim Umlauf. En coopération avec les éditions de l'Archipel. Un psychopathe sévit dans les environs de Berlin. Lorsque la police retrouve ses victimes, elles sont vivantes, n’ont subi aucuns sévices, mais se trouvent prostrées dans un état végétatif, psychologiquement anéanties, comme privées de conscience… D’où le surnom de « briseur d’âmes » que lui a donné la presse. Comme dans ses précédents romans, Sebastian Fitzek s’appuie sur un scénario machiavélique pour jouer avec les nerfs de ses lecteurs et leur offrir un finale inattendu. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

19 March 19h Come and join us to find out all about the love lives of those artists and writers you admire. Tonight we welcome Dan Bullen the author of The Love Lives of the Artists and Lesley McDowell, the author of Between The Sheets, who will be in conversation, discussing these famous literary and artistic liaisons that have captured our imagination. The Love Lives of the Artists tells the stories of Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Diego and Frida, and Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin—five couples who approached their relationships with the same rebellious creativity as they practiced in their art. ‘A captivating exploration’ Kirkus. Between the Sheets: Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle want to marry Ezra Pound when she was attracted to women? Why did Simone De Beauvoir pimp for Jean-Paul Satre? Focusing on the diaries, letters, and journals of each woman, Between the Sheets explores nine famous literary liaisons of the twentiety century. 'formidably well-read...controversial and provocative' - The Independent. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

19 March 20h onwards SPOKEN WORD Paris (now in a new location!): Come read YOUR work in ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN or any other language you would so like to share poetry in! You are also invited to play a short musical piece or read a poem by an author you admire if you so wish! 20h sign up/hang out 20h30 first round starts 15 min break 21h45 second round starts 15 min break 23h00 third round starts stop at midnight ie. the Cinderella rule (so we can all chat & socialize; the bar stays open till after one). 10 poets/singers/comedians/dancing pets per round The exact start times for rounds depend on people signing up, but stopping at midnight is fixed. AT: the basement of Le Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Métro Parmentier/Couronnes/Oberkampf

20 mars à 19h30: Ivy Writers Paris invites you to a bilingual reading with French author Aden ELLIAS, American poet  Kit SCHLUTER with his translator Sylvain BURGAUD and Ivy’w new co-curator Sarah LARIVIERE (American author) BIOS in ENGLISH: Kit SCHLUTER is co-founder and bookmaker of O'Clock Press & CLOCK magazine along with Andrew Durbin and Allen Edwin Butt. His translation of Marcel Schwob's 1894 work, The Book of Monelle, is forthcoming from Wakefield Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts) in October 2012. You can find recent work of his online in Stonecutter, ditch, >kill author and otoliths, as well as download his chapbook, Journals & Other Poems, here. As a Bard College student, he was awarded the Glascock Prize in 201. He lives in Villefranche de Rouergue, France. His reading will feature French translations of his work read by his translator Sylvain Burgaud. Kit Schluter’s translator Sylvain BURGAUD who was born in 1970 near Lyon, a winemaker and avid reader who considers poetry as a philosophy. They will read selections from the book “Journals”. Aden ELLIAS, performer and writer, is the author of "Aucune Bretagne" (2004), "Synopsis" (2008 & 2010), "Beauté & beauté" (Un homme pour toi 2008), and "Envoi" (2008 & 2009). He keeps an online blog (http://adenellias.blogspot.com/) and is a web journalist who has published other writings under various pseudonyms. His first novel is forthcoming in 2012 from éditions MF.   Sarah LARIVIERE is an American novelist, short story writer and poet who currently resides in Paris. She has poetry in Fence, recently completed a novel and is looking via her agent for a publisher, and used to run a poetry segment on WHMP radio in Northampton, MA. Tonight, Larivière will be sharing her work with us as a way to get to know her as the new Ivy Writers’ Paris co-organizer. We hope you will come out and celebrate this new addition to the Paris literary scene!!!! AT : le bar de nuit « Le Next », 17 rue Tiquetonne 75002 Paris, M° Etienne Marcel / RER Les Halles  Accès libre! Free! (+infos sur le blog: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com)

20 - 21 March 20h00 Word for Word performs Sorry Fugu: The American Library is delighted to welcome back the celebrated San Francisco theater company that puts great American short stories on stage - word for word. Returning to Paris for the seventeenth year, Word for Word presents Sorry Fugu, a short story written by satirist T. C. Boyle and directed by John Fisher. Presented with the generous support of The Florence Gould Foundation and The Annenberg Foundation. Albert, a self proclaimed “great culinary artist,” is determined to win over Willa, the hard-nosed food critic, who visits his restaurant. Disaster ensues — until Albert concocts a diabolical plan. T.C. Boyle (“an explosively gifted satirist” — N.Y. Times) writes of food and passion in Sorry Fugu, his witty, wicked look at restaurants and critics. You can find the short story in Boyle's If the River Was Whiskey, available at the Library (call #F B6971). T. C. Boyle is the author of thirteen novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), The Women, Talk Talk and When the Killing's Done. His most recent story collections are The Human Fly and Other Stories and Wild Child. Learn more about the author on his website. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire


21 March 18h In collaboration with Granta, Shakespeare and Co. welcomes Justin Torres to read from his new novel and one of the most exciting books recently published, ‘an indelible and essential work of art.’ – Paul Harding (Pulitzer-winner). There will also be a short extract read in French. Justin Torres grew up in upstate New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is a recipient of the Rolón United States Artist Fellowship in Literature, and is now a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. We the Animals: Three brothers tear their way through childhood-smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to forge his own way in the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and incredibly powerful. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

21 March 19h Rencontre avec DANIELLE MICHEL-CHICH et DIANE SAMBRON sur les femmes pendant la guerre d’Algérie. De manière fort différente, les deux auteures traitent des rôles des femmes pendant cette guerre de libération, femmes ayant pris les armes ou femmes enjeu entre le FLN et l’armée française, par exemple. D. Michel-Chich vient de publier Lettre à Zohra D. (Flammarion), témoignage et réflexion autour de l’attentat dont elle a été victime en 1956. D. Sambron, historienne, est l’auteure de Femmes musulmanes. Guerre d’Algérie 1954-1962 (Autrement) AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

22 March 18h Please join The American University of Paris for a very special evening hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature & English and the Masters in Cultural Translation. THE YOUNG WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS AT THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS READING. CHLOE RASH will be introducing the following readers: OLIVIA BAES,
JENNIFER CARR, MAXIMILIANE DONICHT, WILL INRIG, and JESSE T. LICHTENSTEIN. AT: American University of Paris 6, rue du Colonel Combes, Room C12 RER: Pont d'Alma

22 March 19h For all you Oulipians and Oulipo fans out there, the monthly 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. Tonight’s theme “Couplains et reflets" Entrée libre. AT: BNF François-Mitterrand, Grand auditorium, quai François Mauriac, 75013 Paris. Métro: Quai de la gare ou Bibliothèque.

22 March 19h Arne Bellstorf : Baby's in Black L'histoire vraie d'Astrid Kirchherr & Stuart Sutcliffe. En coopération avec les éditions Sarbacane. Présentation de l’ouvrage, discussion et projection. Modération : Richard Robert. Lorsque Stuart Sutcliffe rencontre Astrid Kirchherr à Hambourg en octobre 1960, les Beatles ne sont que de tout jeunes musiciens de rock et donnent leurs premiers concerts au fameux Star Club de Hambourg. Baby’s in Black relate l'histoire de l'amour naissant entre le cinquième Beatles et la photographe, et la gloire émergente du plus grand groupe de rock ayant jamais existé. Aux feux de la gloire et du rock, et malgré l'insistance de son meilleur ami John Lennon, Stuart préférera ceux, plus feutrés, de l'amour d'Astrid et de la peinture, sa première passion. Amours frémissants et brûlants, qui se finiront comme dans les plus belles tragédies antiques, dans la fureur et la mort. Né en 1979, Arne Bellstorf est illustrateur et auteur de bandes dessinées. Son premier roman graphique Acht, neun, zehn lui a valu le Prix Newcomer en 2005 et le Prix de la meilleure bande dessinée indépendante en 2006. Il écrit et illustre pour les journaux Spiegel et Berliner Zeitung. Baby’s in Black est son deuxième roman graphique, paru en France aux éditions Sarbacane dans une traduction de Marie Delaby. Arne Bellstorf / Photo Oliver Görnandt. Compositeur et guitariste, Richard Robert est surtout connu comme critique musical. Il a écrit dans le magazine Les Inrockuptibles pendant dix-sept ans et dirige aujourd'hui la webrevue musicale L'Oreille Absolue. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

22 March 19h30 Rilla Askew will discuss her body of fiction. The Village Voice Bookshop has the pleasure of inviting you to meet Rilla Askew who will discuss her three novels and her collection of short stories. Rilla Askew started writing after studying Drama and moving from her native Oklahoma to New York in 1980 to pursue an acting career. Bringing her acting acumen to writing, Rilla’s work displays a mastery of rhythm and an ear for the sounds of language. She is the author of three novels: The Mercy Seat, Fire in Beulah (winner of the American Book Award in 2002), and Harpsong. Among other awards, her work has been nominated for both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. She continues to devote time to the theater and, in 2011, she played the part of Eunice in a staging of «Strange Business,» adapted from her eponymous short story, first published in her 1992 collection Strange Business. «Rilla Askew is known for the energy, emotional range and formal complexity of her fiction. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes lyric, sometimes funny, always engaging, her fiction like Faulkner’s explores the related tragedies of family and history. As in the work of Cormac McCarthy, Askew shows how an unforgiving landscape resonates in human fate.» - Patricia Eakins Rilla Askew will be introduced by Françoise Palleau-Papin, Professor of American Literature at the University of Paris 13 and author of Ceci n’est pas une tragédie, a critical study of the works of David Markson. AT: Village Voice Bookshop 6, rue Princesse 75006 Métro: Mabillon

22 March 19h30 Double Change vous invite à une lecture à l’occasion de la publication de *Pied bot* de Charles BERNSTEIN, traduit par Martin RICHET, avec une postface de Jean-Marie GLEIZE et des photographies de Susan BEE par les éditions joca seria (www.jocaseria.fr) et du symposium consacré à l’œuvre de Charles Bernstein les 22 et 23 mars (http://poetscriticsparisest.blogspot.com/). CHARLES BERNSTEIN est l’auteur de quarante livres: recueils de poèmes, essais, traductions et collaborations; dont *My Way: Speeches and Poems* (U. of Chicago Press, 1999), *Girly Man* (U. of Chicago Press, 2006), et récemment, *All the Whiskey in Heaven* (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010) ainsi que *Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions* (U. of Chicago Press, 2011). On lui doit aussi des livrets d’opéra dont *Blind Witness* (Factory School, 2008) et *Shadowtime* (Green Integer, 2005), traduit par Juliette Valéry (Temps d’ombre). Charles Bernstein enseigne la littérature américaine et comparée à l’université de Pennsylvanie. Avec Bruce Andrews, il a dirigé la revue L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E de 1978 à 1981. Il est le co-fondateur de PENNsound (writing.upenn.edu/pennsound) et du Electronic Poetry Center (epc.buffalo.edu) qu’il dirige. En français ont déjà paru *Un test de poésie*, traduction collective (Un Bureau sur L’Atlantique, 1995), *Asile*, traduction Paol Keineg (Un Bureau sur L’Atlantique, 1998), et *Longues files de voitures revenant de la plage*, traduction Martin Richet (contrat maint, 2011). *Pied bot*, traduit par Martin Richet, avec une postface de Jean-Marie Gleize et des photographies de Susan Bee, publié par les éditions joca seria est diponible à http://www.jocaseria.fr/Catalogue/Livres/Fiche%20livre/piedbot.html JEAN-MARIE GLEIZE poursuit depuis *Léman* une méditation en prose (« prose en prose », « post-poésie ») qui prend la forme d’une enquête, investigation narrative discontinue (littérale, documentaire) à partir de traces ou données matérielles images (photographie, polaroïd, vidéo) ou textes. Professeur émérite de littérature à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon où il a été responsable du Centre d’Etudes Poétiques de 1999 à 2009. A dirigé les collections NIOK (éditions Al Dante) et « Signes » (ENS éditions), et créé la revue NIOQUES qu’il anime depuis 1990. Bibliographie sélective : *Poésie et figuration*, Seuil, 1983, *Simplification lyrique*, Seghers, 1987, *Francis Ponge*, Seuil, 1988, *Léman*, Seuil, 1990, *A noir*, Seuil, 1992, *Le Principe de nudité intégrale*, Seuil, 1995, *Les Chiens noirs de la prose*, Seuil, 1999, *Non*, Al Dante 1999, *Néon*, Seuil, 2004, *Film à venir*, Seuil 2007, *Sorties*, Questions Théoriques 2009, *Tarnac, un acte préparatoire*, Seuil 2011. MARTIN RICHET a récemment traduit Bruce Andrews (*Praxis*, éditions de l’attente), Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley (*Là*, Héros-Limite) et Alan Davies (*NOM*, le clou dans le fer). Il s’intéresse maintenant à la lettre E. Son *Autobiographie de Gertrude Stein* a paru chez Eric Pesty Éditeur. On ne s’étonnera pas d’apprendre qu’il est né un 4 juillet. MARTIN GLAZ SERUP a publié six livres pour enfants, dont le plus récent est *When Granddad Was a Postman* (2010), trois livres d’essais, ainsi que six livres de poèmes. Le dernier en date est *The Field* publié au Danemark, aux États-Unis et à paraître en Finlande et en Suède. Serup a fondé et dirigé la revue de critique littéraire *Litlive* ainsi que la revue littéraire *Apparatur*. Il est aujourd’hui rédacteur en chef de la revue *Hvedekorn*, consacrée à la poésie. Il enseigne le creative writing à The University of Southern Denmark et à l’École de littérature pour enfants à l’Université d’Aarhus. Il écrit une thèse à l’Université de Copenhague. En 2006, Martin Glaz Serup a reçu le prix de poésie Michael Strunge ; en 2008, il a reçu la plus haute distinction de l’Université de Copenhague pour son essai *Poetry and Relational Aesthetics*, à paraître aux Presses Universitaires du Sud Danemark. AT: la galerie éof 15, rue Saint-Fiacre, 75002 M° Grands Boulevards ou Bonne Nouvelle

25 March 12 pm to 16 S.O.S. Book Sale: Paperbacks are only 1€ and hard covers are 2€. We have books in every category, with a ton of general fiction, young adult, and parenting. Be sure to tell your friends about this great way to get inexpensive books, meet other people in the English-speaking community, and support our organization! We'll also have a bake sale where you can pick up your favorite sweet and savory treats from back home We appreciate your donations! To donate books in good condition, you may drop them off at the venue Saturday, March 24, 12-4pm or Sunday, March 25, 12-4pm. All proceeds to SOS Help 01 46 21 46 46 from 3 to 11pm daily http://www.soshelpline.org AT: Orrick Law Offices 31, avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie 75016 Paris Métro: Alma-Marceau

26 March 19h Présentation du dernier livre de CLAUDE LEVEQUE, Nevers let love, en
compagnie de l’artiste et de ERIC TRONCY, critique d’art AT: FONDATION D'ENTREPRISE RICARD 12 rue Boissy d'Anglas 75008 Paris Métro: Madeleine or Concorde

26 March 19h Günter Lamprecht lit Berlin Alexanderplatz d'Alfred Döblin.Le roman d’Alfred Döblin est considéré comme le premier et le plus important en Allemagne ayant la grande ville pour décor. Berlin et le personnage de Biberkopf en sont au même titre les deux protagonistes. Depuis la diffusion en 1980 des quatorze épisodes de la version télévisée de Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günter Lamprecht est l’incarnation de Franz Biberkopf. C’est le rôle de sa vie, aujourd’hui encore, plus de trente ans après l’événement de la première diffusion. Günter Lamprecht, né en 1930 à Berlin, suit un apprentissage d’orthoprothésiste et prend des cours de théâtre auprès d’Else Bongers à partir de 1953. Engagé en 1955 au Théâtre de Bochum, puis au Deutsches Schauspielhaus de Hambourg et à la Freie Volksbühne Berlin, il revient travailler en 1974 au Théâtre de Bochum, alors sous la direction de Peter Zadek. Berlin Alexanderplatz marquera le début d’une collaboration artistique intense avec la télévision. Günter Lamprecht, qui a participé à plus de deux cents productions, a reçu de nombreux prix. Il vit aujourd’hui à Bornheim près de Cologne. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

26 March 20h onwards SPOKEN WORD Paris (now in a new location!): Come read YOUR work in ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN or any other language you would so like to share poetry in! You are also invited to play a short musical piece or read a poem by an author you admire if you so wish! 20h sign up/hang out 20h30 first round starts 15 min break 21h45 second round starts 15 min break 23h00 third round starts stop at midnight ie. the Cinderella rule (so we can all chat & socialize; the bar stays open till after one). 10 poets/singers/comedians/dancing pets per round The exact start times for rounds depend on people signing up, but stopping at midnight is fixed. AT: the basement of Le Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Métro Parmentier/Couronnes/Oberkampf

28 March 19h Rencontre avec JOANNA HELLGREN pour la parution de sa bande dessinée Frances (épisode 3) (Cambourakis). J. Hellgren avait présenté ici le 1er épisode de sa BD toute en finesse tant dans le trait que dans le scénario. Nous retrouvons la petite fille Frances, personnalité forte et indépendante recueillie par sa tante Ada qui s’occupe de son vieux père et a une relation amoureuse avec sa voisine. Par des allers-retours entre la toute jeunesse de Frances élevée par son père avant sa mort et la Frances qui grandit dans son nouvel environnement, J. Hellgren mêle avec sensibilité questions sociales et familiales. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

28 March 19h30 Frederick Turner explores how Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer was written, banned, and then un-banned only to become an American classic in RENEGADE: Henry Miller and the Making of “Tropic of Cancer” About Frederic Turner: With a doctorate in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania, Frederick Turner has re-imagined American literary figures as windows into national culture and has made a career of writing on diverse subject matter, ranging from the American West to food and wine. His essays have appeared in American Heritage, Smithsonian, The Nation, Wilderness, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The International Herald Tribune, Blair and Ketchum's Country Journal, The Massachusetts Review, Southern Review, Men's Journal, Tin House, and Outside. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

29 March 18h Tonight in collaboration with Albin Michel Shakespeare and Co. welcomes Donald Ray Pollock for his first literary event in France. He will read and discuss his new novel The Devil All The Time, a taut and gritty tale that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. ‘Donald Ray Pollock’s engaging and proudly violent first novel…suggests a new category of fiction—grindhouse literary. Subtle characterization: check. Well-crafted sentences: check. Enthusiastic amounts of murder and mayhem: check, check.’—Daily Beast Donald Ray Pollock, recipient of the 2009 PEN/Bingham Fellowship, made his literary debut in 2008 with the acclaimed story collection, Knockemstiff. His work has appeared in, among other publications Granta, and the New York Times. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

29 March 19h30 Rencontre with Sorj Chalandon. In October 2011, journalist and writer Sorj Chalandon was awarded the prestigious Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for Retour à Killybegs, a fascinating and poignant novel about Northern Ireland and the bitter pain of betrayal. The discovery that one of his friends, an IRA hero, was also a double-agent working for the British authorities provided the starting point for Chalandon’s acclaimed novel My Traitor (2008). In this new book, the ‘traitor’ Tyrone Meehan returns to his childhood home in Killybegs, sparking off a mental journey into the past and an attempt to explain the course his life has taken. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER: Luxembourg

29 March at 20h30 "Big and Small" at the Théâtre de la Ville. In English with French subtitles. Text by Botho Strauss, translated by Martin Crimp. Performed by the Sydney Theatre Company. Performance time: 2h40. Tickets 22€ and 21€ (<30 ans). If you would like to join us this evening, kindly confirm your name and number of tickets to wordsaliveo@gmail.com (Payment in advance) Participants, kindly pay for tickets during classes. The play runs from 29th March to 8th April. AT: Théâtre de la Ville 16 Quai Gesvres Paris Métro: Chatelet

30 March 18h30 Clôture du colloque se déroulant à Caen les 28, 29 & 30 mars 2012, avec la participation du comité organisateur du laboratoire ERLIS : Fernando Orihuela, Geneviève Vilnet, Marie Christine Peña-Soubras et Milagros Palma. Table ronde avec six écrivaines latino-américaines : Leyla Bartet (Pérou), Mariposa del Castillo (Equateur), Nora Komatzu (Chili), Luisa Futoransky (Argentine), Olga Pinilla (Panama) et Lucie Moreno-Ducreux (Panama). Editions Indigo-Côté Femmes www.indigo-cf.com AT: Maison de l'Amérique Latine 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Métro: Solférino

30 March 19h « Teatro delle Esposizioni #2 » - entrée libre. Présentation du catalogue du Teatro delle Esposizioni #2 de l’Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis. Table ronde en présence de ERIC DE CHASSEY, directeur de l’Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis, MARCELLO SMARRELLI, commissaire du Teatro delle Esposizioni #2 et ALESSANDRO RABOTTINI, commissaire du Teatro delle Esposizioni #3 AT: FONDATION D'ENTREPRISE RICARD 12 rue Boissy d'Anglas 75008 Paris Métro: Madeleine or Concorde

A peek into April: IVY WRITERS Paris invites you on April 3rd to their next reading. See their blog for full infob closer to the date!

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Part II) Writing, Lit & Theater Workshops in Paris in March
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EXPERIMENTAL MOVEMENT THEATRE WORKSHOP avec Ann MORADIAN: Seeking the adventurous.If you have experience in one or more of the following, then this workshop is for you: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Martial Arts, Dance, Movement, Yoga... Come and explore material from the multi-disciplinary movement-theatre production of Medusa, updated and re-told. Some understanding of English is needed. All workshops participants will be considered for a later casting. http://annmoradian-perspectives.blogspot.com/2012/02/call-for-performers-experimental.html

SIMPLY SOUND - The next Simply Sound workshop will take place on Saturday 3rd March 17h-19h. A series of theatre workshops for individuals with an intermediate level of English. This workshop is specifically geared to improve pronunciation and syntax. The workshop will incorporate acting techniques, exercises, games, short texts, and improvisation. Une serie des ateliers ouvert aux personnes ayant un niveau intermédiaire d'anglais. L'atelier propose des exercices d'acteur, jeux, court textes et improvisation comme moyens d'apprivoiser la prononciation, sons et le syntaxe. Pre-registration is required. Please call 01 77 15 71 90 / 06 37 66 27 98 or write wordsaliveo@gmail.com Venue: 35, rue St. Roch 75001 Paris. M° Pyramides, Tuileries, Opera. MAP Samedi le 3 mars 17h-19h. Fee for one session 18€ Students 15€ For students already enrolled in other classes, sessions are 11€. Tarif 18€ étudiants 15€ Pour participants des autres cours, le tarif est 11€

Saturdays 5pm-7pm The Other Writers' Group: a drop-in feedback writing & readers’ workshop. Writers! Bring 6 copies of your story, poems, etc to get feedback (up to about 10 mins reading time for prose, max 2 or 3 pages of poetry) Readers! Come & listen, give your reaction & join in the discussion. Meets: upstairs at Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de le Bucherie, Metro St Michel or Maubert Mutualite. Fee; 5 euros a meeting. For more info: http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/p/other-writers-group.html

Ateliers d’écriture animés par CATHERINE BÉDARIDA, écrivain et journaliste (Le Monde, Mouvement) qui organise des ateliers d’écriture créative avec des institutions culturelles et associatives. Découvrez ou retrouvez le plaisir d’écrire ! L’atelier offre un lieu solidaire pour écrire en toute liberté quelque soit son expérience. En partant de thèmes variés et de pistes de réflexion en lien avec les questions de genre, de minorités sexuelles et adossés à l’expérience littéraire féministe, l’atelier permet d’explorer et d’inventer ses propres mots. Horaires : un samedi sur deux, de 11h à 13h (Prochain atelier : 3 mars 2012). Tarif : 20 € par atelier. Renseignements et inscriptions : catherine.bedarida@leboutdelalangue.com

Une nouvelle activité à Violette and Co : atelier ouvert d’échange de lectures sur le thème “Résister.” L’atelier requiert une participation active : à chacune est demandé d’apporter un livre (essai ou fiction) qui l’a particulièrement marquée, stimulée, qui l’a fait réfléchir à la notion de résistance (résister à quoi ? comment ? avec qui ? dans quel contexte ?). Les participantes ont un temps de parole de 10mn pour lire un passage de leur texte et expliquer leur choix. Les deux initiatrices de l’atelier s’assurent du respect des règle du jeu. C’est un atelier plus politique que littéraire à la fois par son propos et par sa forme. Infos complémentaires : chantal.mellies@wanadoo.fr

Seeing Paris Through Literature Part III. Thursdays March 22, 29; April 5, 12 You must be a member of WICE to attend. Course Description: In part three of this lecture and reading series we will cover Paris in the novels of Balzac, Flaubert and Zola all the way to Proust’s Paris and Sartre presiding at the Cafe Deux Magots with Simone de Beauvoir. A not-to-be-missed delight of realism, fiction and entertainment. Were Balzac’s boarding houses as greasy as he describes them and was Nana typical of nineteenth-century prostitutes? Instructor: Dr Gretel Furner. Oxford University. PhD on the modern novel, University of the Saarland, Germany. Assoc. Professor of German, George Washington University. Instructor, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Since 2003 instructor at WICE in French Literature and History, the Migrant Soul series and Creative Writing.

Writing Workshops at the American Library in Paris: Thursday 8 March at 10h30 author and journalist Lisa Pasold leads Writing with Your Brain aimed at flexing your writing muscle! Then on Saturday 31 March at 14h00 editor and writer Heather Hartley leads Left Bank Literature, where you'll take inspiration from the writings of Left Bank authors to develop ideas in your own prose. Free to members of the Library, registration is required. Visit the program pages of the sessions noted above for details.

WICE is now accepting registrations for the 2012 Paris Writers' Workshop. As PWW celebrates its 22nd year, the workshop team has put together an outstanding program for June 24–27. The creative week provides a valuable combination of practical guidance; hands-on writing tools; review/critique of your works in progress; inspiration from faculty, presenters and your fellow writers; afternoon lectures/panels covering all aspects of the writing and publishing process; individual consultations with writing coaches and literary agents, and readings and receptions to add to the fun of our PWW community. Our writers-in-residence are exceptional authors who also have a gift for teaching (Samantha Chang for Novel, Christopher Tilghman for Short Story, Mimi Schwartz for Creative Nonfiction, Kathleen Spivack for Poetry, and for our newest genre ... Kate McMullan for Children's Literature/Young Adult). For more information, visit http://www.pariswritersworkshop.org/ and read a recent blog post at http://www.wiceblog.org/2012/02/paris-writers-workshop.html. The early bird deadline is March 31, and the workshops are filling up fast, so don't delay. We hope you can join us!

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Part III) News reviews & reviews news
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New Chapbook: The Rat Minaret by Mac Wellman. Mac Wellman! Mac Wellman! Mac Wellman! The spritely and sordid and surly take their places. Take there. Shake their tales. Even Stevens could wrangle language in this particular way. So we sew and sew and sew and happily announce the release of this 43-page chapbook with stretchy psychedelic cover. More info available here.

The Paris based literary review Do Not Look at the Sun is currently accepting submissions for issue #7 'Paperplane Poems, Paperplane Prose." Submit before the March 15 deadline!

Now available as an ebook: Aveyron, A Bridge to French Arcadia, a journey to the most remote and best of rural France is now available through amazon as an ebook, kindle and others. Get your copy here: www.aroundandaboutparis.com www.thirzavallois.com

Paris Atlantic is happy to announce its theme for Spring 2012, The Swag Issue.: s.w.a.g.: Swag is movement; a contemporary permutation of self ornamentation. When attempting to define swag, it seems to slip through your grasp. In its fluidity lies its identity - far from ineffable. We invite you to fashion your swag from the rough, create with us and pierce the limits of style and sensibility. Come into the realization of your essence and interact as others follow suit. Paris/Atlantic is ecstatic to welcome back Chanel Arif and Jennifer Victor, who will together serve as editors-in-chief for this upcoming issue. We would also like to introduce the rest of the team: Alena Mealy our copy editor and Bessie Turner, arts director. We are open to and are now accepting any and all submissions including but not limited to photography, paintings, illustrations, fashion photography, drawings, installations, poetry, prose, anthologies, scripts, essays, short stories. The deadline for all submissions will be March 26th. Submissions may be sent to us along with a short biography at parisatlantic@gmail.com with a limit of 1,500 words. Please feel free to contact us at any time, we are happy to work with you.

 NEW BOOK OUT BY VIRGINIE POITRASSON : parution du dernier livre de Virginie Poitrasson publié aux éditions de l'Attente: Il faut toujours garder en tête une formule magique,  http://editionsdelattente.com/site/www/index.php/livre/front/read?id=121 à partir de 20 € d'achat, les frais d'envoi sont offerts. Éditions de l'Attente c.immediat@free.fr
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ANNOUNCING a NEW FRENCH PRESS : lancement de bazar editions http://bazaredition.com/ check out this new French publishing house and see what they are all about !!!!

John Kliphan's book LOW LEVEL FLYING: Given the sad passing of John Kliphan, Corrupt Press has put out John’s final collection of poetry entitled LOW LEVEL FLYING. Available for order via Lulu or directly through Corrupt Press’ website: http://corruptpress.net/?q=node/35

JUST out: Jean-Michel Espitallier’s new book De la célébrité: théorie & pratique, Editions 10/18. Parution: 2 février 2012 see more on http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2012/02/02/connais-moi-toi-meme_1637654_3260.html