Paris Readings and events list for MAY 2013!

FINAL UPDATE the 28^th MAY 2013 Readings + Events List for PARIS
(see new events May 30-31^st!)

 

MAY 2013 Readings + Events List for PARIS

Part I) Paris Events and READINGS by date in April

Part II) Writing and Theater Workshops in Paris this month

Part III) News Reviews and Reviews News: publications, calls for work, new books and more!

*Note: event details are regularly updated, so check back!

(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for SUMMER 2013 (June-July and August all up in JUNE) please send those announcements as early as possible, and in the format of the listings below, to Jennifer K Dick at fragment78 AT gmail.com)

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Part I: MAY Readings and events by DATE:

1er mai et jusqu’au 31 mai, “Ophélie” (sculpture, bronze, numérotée de 1 à 7) accompagnée d’une sélection d’Œuvres peints (feuille d’Or & encre de Chine) ainsi que de neuf bijoux Or (pièces uniques) par plasticienne et écrivain AnnaO sont présentés at “Chambre avec vue”, au 11 rue Debelleyme dans le troisième arrondissement de Paris. - open on sunday. Pour plus : http://annaoetc.blogspot.fr/ et
https://twitter.com/AnnaOetc

4-5 May all Day American Library book sale. The Library’s first-weekend-of-the-month book sales are getting bigger and bigger. Make a note to come to the next edition on Saturday 4 May and Sunday 5 May during regular operating hours. Most books at €3, €2, and €1! For details on how to donate books to the Library, see the Book Bags & Book Donations page on our website. AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92

5^th Mayat 7.30 pm MOVING  PARTS presents an evening of short stage plays written by various authors AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries

6 May SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/

6th May 7pm Rupert Thomson on Secrecy AT: Shakespeare and Company. “Rupert Thomson is in the front rank of English authors” Observer. In collaboration with Granta, we are delighted to present Rupert Thomson on his dark and dazzling new novel, Secrecy. Rupert Thomson is the author of eight highly acclaimed novels: Dreams of Leaving, The Five Gates of Hell, Air and Fire, The Insult, Soft, The Book of Revelation, Divided Kingdom and, most recently, Death of a Murderer, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award and by World Book Day for the Book to Talk About 2008. His memoir, This Party's Got to Stop, won him the Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Award. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

9 May 19h30-00h00  Paris Lit Up open Mic night is delighted to present a special guest this week - William Walrond Strangmeyer. Bill was born in Virginia, grew up in New York and New Jersey, where he went to Rutgers University. He has worked in many different fields of endeavor, including Palisades and other amusement parks as a caller, as well as banks, book stores, the cinema, the theater, door-to-door vacuum cleaner sales, restaurants, insurance sales, taxi driving, telephone sales, warehouses and as a tour guide — around the U.S. and in Copenhagen, Athens, Crete, London and Switzerland. Now a thirty-five-year resident of Paris, he continues to earn his living as an English language trainer and translator. His main influences are science fiction, doo-wop and psychedelic music along with the usual Eliot, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Poe, Catullus, Larkin, Elroy, Doctor Seuss, Forugh Farrokhzad, Baudelaire and also Emmylou Harris, Roy Jones Jr., Stoya, Leonard Cohen, Fedor Emilianenko, Bartok, Rodney Crowell, Nolan Strong, Leroy Griffin and Roy Orbison. Others come and go. ALSO COME READ YOUR WORK! Paris Lit Up every Thursday (in English  or other languages too – when in Rome, speak French) Sign up is continuous all night, but first come first served from 19h30. The fun starts at 20h. Rotating hosts Jason Mc Gimsey, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene. AT: the historic home of French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more or to see whether there are featured themes and readers: http://parislitup.com/ai1ec_event/paris-lit-up-open-mic/?instance_id=9260

10 May at 20h00 (in English):  MEDUSA: The Birth of a Monster, a performance and text project in progress. An international cast of 10 extraordinary performers come together from France, the US, Sweden, Greece, Poland, the UK, Australia and Japan, to share Act I of this unusual movement-theatre-poetry-sound and video experience.  While still in progress, the work offers moments of beauty, humor, power and chaos, and dares to re-tell her-story: who was Medusa and how did she come to be the monster we know today? It is a culmination of years of personal research into the roots of the myth and mystery of Medusa, the monstrous feminine that turns all who dare to see her into stone. Part of Bilingual Acting Workshop's (BAW) program New Voices New Projects See More on:  www.perspectivesinmotion.org and also  https://www.facebook.com/perspectivesann.moradian For tickets please contact : perspectivesinmotion@gmail.com (+33) (0) 689 70 23 58 AT:  Le Pavé, 48 rue de Lille, 75006  Paris (M° rue du Bac)

Le 12 mai 2013, à 18h30, aura lieu rue Paul Fort,pour la première fois.  un concert, en plein air. Deux musiciens: Joelle Léandre contrebassiste et vocaliste de musique contemporaine, musique improvisée, jazz, ….musique ! Serge Teyssot-Gay, guitariste,qui a marqué l’histoire du Rock français, au sein du groupe Noir Désir. Il  poursuit  aujourd’hui ses aventures musicales en multipliant les expériences : du rock expérimental de Zone Libre et sa rencontre avec les rappeurs Cassey et B.James, à son duo Interzone, oud et guitare avec Khaled Aljaramani ou ses performances avec peintre et danseur….en refusant toutes les frontières.

13 May SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/

13th May 7pm Concert with Gary Lucas AT: Shakespeare and Company. “One of the best and most original guitarists in America” Rolling Stone We enjoyed his gig last November so much that we've invited legendary American guitarist Gary Lucas back to the bookshop to play again.Gary Lucas is a Grammy-nominated songwriter, a soundtrack composer for film and television, and an international recording artist. He has been described as a "legendary leftfield guitarist" (The Guardian); "the thinking man's guitar hero" (The New Yorker); and "perhaps the greatest living electric guitar player" (Daniel Levitin). He has played and collaborated with Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Nick Cave and Lou Reed, among many, many others. He co-wrote two of Jeff Buckley’s most famous hits, ‘Grace’ and ‘Mojo Pin’, and, to date, has released over 20 acclaimed albums in multiple genres and performed in over 40 countries. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

13 mai au 9 juin La Tempête de Shakespeare.  En français.  Théâtre des Quartiers d’Ivry.  link

14 May at 17h30 (in French and English)  MEDUSA: The Birth of a Monster, a performance and text project in progress. An international cast of 10 extraordinary performers come together from France, the US, Sweden, Greece, Poland, the UK, Australia and Japan, to share Act I of this unusual movement-theatre-poetry-sound and video experience.  While still in progress, the work offers moments of beauty, humor, power and chaos, and dares to re-tell her-story: who was Medusa and how did she come to be the monster we know today? It is a culmination of years of personal research into the roots of the myth and mystery of Medusa, the monstrous feminine that turns all who dare to see her into stone. See More on:  www.perspectivesinmotion.org and also  https://www.facebook.com/perspectivesann.moradian For tickets please contact : perspectivesinmotion@gmail.com (+33) (0) 689 70 23 58 AT : Centre national de la danse (CND), studio 3, 1 rue Victor Hugo, Pantin (RER Pantin, M° Hoche)

14 May at 19h30 Ben Fountain will join us at the AMERICAN LIBRARY on 14 May to present Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Dubbed “the Iraq War’s Catch-22," it's an exploration of American culture, its relationship to the military and what heroism means in the 21st century. Those who haven’t read Ben Fountain’s  collection of short stories, Brief Encounters With Che Guevara, or his highly acclaimed National Book Award-nominated novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, may be familiar with him from a 2008 New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell about late bloomers in the arts. After several years as a real-estate lawyer, Fountain quit his job and devoted himself to writing fiction. Almost twenty years later, as Gladwell relates, “the ‘young’ writer from the provinces took the literary world by storm at the age of forty-eight.” AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92

14 mai 19h30-21h : La Mel propose une rencontre intitulée "Poésie comme pensée" afin de présenter la revue de l'association des amis de l'œuvre de Claude Vigée : Peut-être  Les écrivains Anne Mounic, Jean-Louis Giovannoni, Jérôme Thélot et Robert Misrahi questionneront à nouveau la relation entre la poésie et la philosophie.  Ils s'entretiendront avec Benoît Conort, poète et universitaire. Poésie et philosophie ‒ en cet attelage, et peut poser problème, à moins de se situer au commencement, à l’instant éthique de la reprise, au moment où le sujet en sa singularité transcende la durée qui lui est donnée ainsi que sa propre histoire tout autant que la nôtre. Au regard rétrospectif qui ne prend acte que de l’inéluctable et de la nécessité, poète ou philosophe substituent dans cette perspective le possible de l’avenir, liberté déduite de leur propre puissance d’être. La voix poétique, la pensée philosophique brisent alors la clôture tragique et s’adonnent à l’Ouvert, notion chère à R.M. Rilke. Tel est le sens du peut-être, nom que prend le devenir au sein de la conscience réflexive propre à l’acte de parole ‒ Peut-être, titre de la revue de l’association des amis de l’œuvre de Claude Vigée, qui écrit : « Demain la seule demeure ». Anne Mounic infos sur : http://annemounic.fr Autres infos sur : http://temporel.fr et aussi :  http://revuepeut-etre.fr AT : Café Mab du CROUS Mabillon - 3, rue Mabillon 75006 Paris (métro : Mabillon) - Entrée libre et gratuite.

15th May 3pm Shakespeare and Co Children’s Hour with Kate Stables. Children’s Hour – music, rhythm and stories for kids: Bring your children (2-6 year-olds, siblings welcome too) 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, this lovely event has become an institution. There will be instruments to play and a lot of noise to make! Four euros donation appreciated AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

15 May OPEN STUDIO.  6pm - 10pm.  CHRISTINE HERZER. Drawings, Video, Poetry. "Je m'existe". Studio 8209.  La Cité Internationale des Arts. 18, rue de l‘Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris, Metro: Pont Marie [Ligne 7].  For more information http://christineherzer.tumblr.com/; To schedule a studio visit at another time, please call 06 43 25 55 78, or email roseconsciousness AT gmail DOT com 

15 May18.30-20.00, ART opening (admission free)  « Traces de Peter Rice » This exhibition presents the work of one of the great engineers of the 20th century whose name is largely unknown to the general public. A specialist in steel structures, Dundalk-born Peter Rice (1935-1992) was a driving force within the design teams for landmark architectural projects including the Sydney Opera House, Centre Pompidou, the ‘Nuage’ of La Défense and the Pyramide inversée of the Louvre museum. Architectural models, drawings, large-scale images and personal notebooks are brought together here for the first time; combined with archival films on the construction of key buildings and on Peter Rice himself, they will bring the past to life. New work by artist Vivienne Roche, commissioned for the exhibition, reveals the qualities that characterised Rice – lightness, an innovative sense of scale and detail, a love of tactility and surprise, and a distinctive awareness of construction as a profoundly human activity. Organised in collaboration with Arup Phase 2, London, the Office of Public Works at Farmleigh, Dublin, and with the support of RFR, Paris, this exhibition will be opened by the well-known Italian architect Renzo Piano.Curator: Kevin Barry AT: The Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Pars--RESERVATION STRONGLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL EVENTS: see email on their site at:  For more info : www.centreculturelirlandais.com

15 May at 19h30 Nancy Kricorian reads from her novel, All The Light There Was, set in the Armenian community in Paris during the Nazi occupation. It tells the story of a 15-year-old girl growing up in the Bellville neighborhood, experiencing love and loss in that time of terror.  Kricorian's novel sheds light on a lesser-known minority's World War II experience in the French capital. Her talk will include a slideshow documenting her intense research for the novel. AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92

15th May 7pm “Grand, intimate and joyous” – The New York Times In collaboration with Albin Michel, we are delighted to present Ben Fountain, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara. Ben is here to discuss his stunning debut novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk ("The Catch-22 of the Iraq War" – Karl Marlantes), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award. A razor-sharp satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. The story follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders. Ben Fountain grew up in North Carolina and has lived in Dallas, Texas, since 1983. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

15 mai à 19h Rencontre avec AYERDHAL pour son roman de politique-fiction Rainbow Warriors (Au diable vauvert), animée par ANNE LARUE Ayerdhal a publié plus de 20 romans, pour la plupart thrillers ou science-fiction, et a reçu plusieurs prix dont, en 2011, le prix Cyrano pour l’ensemble de son œuvre. C’est un raconteur d’histoire hors pair, et il nous tient ici en haleine avec ce roman qui mêle les genres littéraires (on pourrait parler de “transfiction”) et sociologiques : presque tous les personnages sont gays, lesbiennes, trans ou intersexes. Il imagine une armée LGBT qui serait mise sur pied pour intervenir dans un pays imaginaire africain particulièrement homophobe. Avec humour et une solide documentation derrière lui, il critique l’homophobie, le sexisme, le racisme et le néo-colonialisme. La rencontre est animée par A. Larue, admiratrice de son œuvre et professeur de littérature, arts et culture qui vient de publier Dis papa, c’était quoi le patriarcat ? (iXe) http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/article.php?id_article=623 AT : la librairie Violette and Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07  www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

16 mai à 18 h 30 COMLE HEAR THE Fabulous poet Jacques Demarcq pour une lecture d'Avant-taire his brand new book from NOUS publishers in France. AT : la librairie À Balzac À Rodin, 14 bis, rue de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, 6e, M° Vavin

16 May  19h30-00h00 Paris Lit Up Open Mic night every Thursday (in English  or other languages too – when in Rome, speak French) Sign up is continuous all night, but first come first served from 19h30. The fun starts at 20h. Rotating hosts Jason Mc Gimsey, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene. AT: the historic home of French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more or to see whether there are featured themes and readers: http://parislitup.com/ai1ec_event/paris-lit-up-open-mic/?instance_id=9261

17th May 7pm Elliot Perlman on The Street Sweeper AT: Shakespeare and Company. “Harrowing, humane and brilliant” The Times. In collaboration with Editions Robert Laffont, we are thrilled to welcome Elliot Perlman on The Street Sweeper.Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past. Meanwhile Adam Zignelik, the son of a prominent Jewish civil rights lawyer, is facing a personal crisis: almost 40-years-old, his long-term relationship is faltering and his academic career has stalled. It's only when one of his late father's closest friends, the civil rights activist William McCray, suggests a promising research topic that the possibility of some kind of redemption arises.Dealing with memory, racism and the human capacity for guilt, resilience, heroism, and unexpected kindness, The Street Sweeper spans over fifty years, and ranges from New York to Melbourne, Chicago, Warsaw and Auschwitz, as these two very different paths – Adam's and Lamont's – lead to one greater story. Elliot Perlman is the acclaimed author of a collection of short stories and three novels: Three Dollars, Seven Types of Ambiguity, which was a ‘New York Times Notable Book’ and a national bestseller in France, where it was described as “one of the best novels of recent years, a complete success” (Le Monde), and The Street Sweeper. A barrister, he lived in New York for many years and currently lives in Melbourne. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

20 May SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/

21^st May at 20h (Please note our new time this month!) IVY WRITERS PARIS— Ivy Writers invites you to a bilingual reading with Deborah Poe and Déborah Heissler with translations read by Jacob Bromberg. BIOS: DEBORAH POE is the author of the poetry collections the last will be stone, too, (Stockport Flats, 2013), Elements (Stockport Flats, 2010), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords, 2008), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press, 2012) as well as many chapbooks, including Keep (above/ground, 2012). Deborah is co-editor of Between Worlds: An Anthology of Fiction and Criticism (Peter Lang). She is assistant professor of English at Pace University and founder and curator of the annual Handmade / Homemade Exhibit. Deborah Poe is thrilled to be coming back to France to celebrate the publication of her hybrid book Hélène, as the book's conception was fueled by a Michele Foucault comment in Discipline & Punish, which mentioned Jujurieux. As Poe worked on her book, she went to Jujurieux and Lyon in spring 2007 to complete research, and the novella in verse was published in fall 2012 with Furniture Press. For more  on Poe see:  www.deborahpoe.com and the IVY site. DEBORAH HEISSLER: est l’auteur de plusieurs recueils de poésie. Depuis la publication en octobre 2010 de son 2^ème recueil, Comme un morceau de nuit, découpé dans son étoffe, chez Cheyne éditeur, un recueil en partie rédigé dans le Hunan pendant son séjour en Chine, qui sera récompensé par le Prix international de poésie francophone Yvan Goll en 2011 ainsi que le Prix du poème en prose Louis Guillaume en 2012, Déborah Heissler se consacre le plupart de son temps à la poésie et à la création. Elle est actuellement à Rennes grâce à la CNL qui lui a attribué en 2012 un crédit de résidence pour la Villa Beauséjour (Maison de la poésie de Rennes). Heissler a reçu le Prix de la Vocation de la Fondation Bleustein-Blanchet en 2005, pour son premier recueil Près d'eux, la nuit sous la neige publié chez Cheyne éditeur et au printemps 2011, elle a bénéficié d'une bourse d'auteur du Centre Régional du Livre de Franche-Comté. Déborah Heissler a également fait des séjours nombreux en Inde, en Chine, puis en Thaïlande, au Vietnam et dans l'Asie du Sud-Est, où elle enseignait le français. Ce soir, sa lecture sera accompagnée par des traductions inédites en anglais de Jacob Bromberg. Pour plus d’infos sur Déborah Heissler, voir : http://deborahheissler.blogspot.fr/ JACOB BROMBERG is a poet, translator, and contributing editor to The White Review. He lives in Paris where he co-organizes the IVY Writers reading series. His work appeared online and in print as part of the 2012 “Lex-ICON” text and image project in Mulhouse, France. Most recently, he has collaborated with visual artist Camille Henrot, writing the words to her film Grosse fatigue, to be featured at the 2013 Venice Biennale. The translations he will read tonight for IVY Writers Paris are part of a larger project for which he was invited to Rennes this May 2013 with and by Deborah Heissler as part of her artist residency. READING AT: DELAVILLE cafe, 34 blvd Bonne Nouvelle, 75010 Paris, M° Bonne Nouvelle More info at : http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/

21 May at 19h30 Told from the first person, Jerome Charyn’s latest novel The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson fleshes out the inner life of the 19th century reclusive poet whose name is so well known but whose secrets remain shrouded. As Charyn wrote on the Library’s blog, “sometimes I feel that her one great advantage was that she seemed to inhabit both sexes, depending on her mood and her will. She could be male and female, and was often both in the same poem.” Charyn will tell us more about Dickinson and how he came to write this novel, on 21 May at the Library. AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92

21 mai à 19h Rencontre avec COLETTE AVRANE pour son essai Ouvrières à domicile. Le combat pour un salaire minimum sous la Troisième République (PU Rennes). En présence (sous réserve) de MICHELLE PERROT, auteure de la préface et de Mélancolie ouvrière (Grasset)Entre 1880 et 1915 (date de la “Loi sur le salaire minimum des ouvrières à domicile dans l’industrie du vêtement”), les conditions de travail de ces “oubliées” de l’industrie intéressent de  nombreux groupes politiques, syndicats, intellectuels, religieux. Ce livre présente non seulement la situation de ces ouvrières et ce qu’elles font, les causes et la préparation de la loi, mais aussi son application pendant les 25 ans qui suivent son vote. Au delà de l’aspect historique, cette recherche permet de s’interroger sur la situation actuelle des quelques milliers d’ouvrières à domicile, trop souvent isolées et encore une fois oubliées. C. Avrane est diplômée d’ethnologie et docteure en histoire. Elle est membre du CA de l’association Archives du féminisme. Dans son dernier ouvrage, M. Perrot présente Lucie Baud, ouvrière en soie, syndicaliste acculée, femme rebelle et elle aussi oubliée, une héroïne “ordinaire”. http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/article.php?id_article=626 AT : la librairie Violette and Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07  www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

22 May at 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Ann Saul presents and discusses the work of Danish-French artist Camille Pissarro in Pissarro's Places. AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92

23^rd May @ 6 p.m. A reading with Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar & Cecilia Woloch Opening Celebration for University of Southern California’s "The Poet in Paris" Program Three American poets, well-known and well-loved for their moving, accessible and beautifully-crafted poems, will read their work in conjunction with the University of Southern California’s The Poet in Paris Program, directed by poet and long-time part-time Paris resident Cecilia Woloch. Dorianne Laux is the author of The Book of Men, Facts about the Moon, Awake, Smoke and other books. She has published widely in magazines and reviews and teaches poetry in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University. Joseph Millar is the author of Blue Rust, Fortune, Overtime, and Bestiary, among other books. His work has appeared in numerous journals and he teaches at Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program. Cecilia Woloch is the author of Carpathia, Late, Sacrifice, Narcissus, and Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem and is the Director of The Poet in Paris Program. She teaches at the University of Southern California and is delighted to be hosting this fabulous month with students and guest faculty. Entrance is free with one drink minimum! AT: La Pierre Du Marais, 96 rue des Archives 75003/ M: Arts et Metiers or Temple

23 MAY 7:30PM -9PM BALZAC’s Birthday bash with Terrence Gelentier’s “Paris Thru Ex-Pat Eyes” group. As Terrance explains the event: “Please join me, actress Ninon Brétécher and filmmaker Laurent Canches (L’IMPROBABLE RENCONTRE) for a tour of the Maison de Balzac and a screening of his film about Rodin’s statue of Balzac on the Blvd. Raspail and the controversy surrounding it.Wine & Cheese to follow”. About Balzac: The revered author of THE HUMAN COMEDY, a collection of over 100 short stories and novels describing life in post-Napoleonic France. Along with Zola, Stendhal, Flaubert and Hugo, Balzac is essential to understanding the French. He was a keen observer of detail and unfiltered representation of society and is considered one of the founders of realism in European literature.  Marcel Proust, Emile Zola, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac and Italo Calvino are but a few of the authors who have been influenced by his work. To this day he serves as an inspiration for writers, filmmakers and critics. L’IMPROBABLE RENCONTRE (The Unlikely Encounter) relates the past and present story of the Monumental Balzac by Rodin. The film is set in the very same places where the statue’s story happened. It also shows the international circulation of an extraordinary work of art from Paris to New York, Caracas and Melbourne. Until his death, Rodin never allowed for the statue to be cast in bronze after the scandal caused by its first public display in 1898 in Paris. Why? Ninon and Laurent start an investigation on that dramatic story as eventful as a ‘soap opera’. It begins with Balzac’s death and includes an imaginary dialog between Rodin and Balzac who never met the sculptor. View a clip from the film. EVENT AT : Mason de Balzac 47 rue Reynouard 16eme. Reservations required at: Terrance@paris-expat.com. Tickets: 20 euros

23rd May 2pm Come to Shakespeare and Co to hear John Smith: who is the guitar man from Devon who has quietly become one of the most exciting voices on the new British folk scene. Touring relentlessly as headliner and support act, he has opened shows for John Martyn, Iron and Wine, Seth Lakeman, Davy Graham, John Renbourn, David Gray, Cara Dillon, James Yorkston, Martin Carthy, Jools Holland, Tinariwen,           Martin Simpson, Gil Scott-Heron and Chris Thile. John was named Young Acoustic Guitarist of the Year in 2003 and hasn’t stopped to look back, unless it’s to pick up a banjo. He’s released four records; The Fox and the Monk (2006), Map or Direction (2009), Eavesdropping (2011), and his latest release, Great Lakes (2013). AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

23 May 19h30-00h00 Paris Lit Up Open Mic night every Thursday (in English  or other languages too – when in Rome, speak French) Sign up is continuous all night, but first come first served from 19h30. FEATURED READERS from Univ of CA workshop tonight! The fun starts at 20h. Rotating hosts Jason Mc Gimsey, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene. AT: the historic home of French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more or to see whether there are featured themes and readers: http://parislitup.com/ai1ec_event/paris-lit-up-open-mic/?instance_id=9261

24 mai à 19h Rencontre avec ANNE SYLVESTRE et DANIEL PANTCHENKO auteur de la biographie Anne Sylvestre. Et elle chante encore ? (Fayard) On ne présente plus cette grande dame de la chanson française qui sort ces jours-ci son 21ème album ! Première biographie, ce livre a bénéficié de sa participation active et s’est enrichie de quelques 80 interviews inédites de proches, de collaborateurs, de journalistes, d’artistes. De ses débuts en 1957 à aujourd’hui, ce panorama offre des clefs pour mieux comprendre et apprécier ses chansons dans lesquelles elle cultive finesse, émotion et humour. Depuis 1973, A. Sylvestre autoproduit ses disques et ses spectacles (le prochain, unique, aura lieu de 15 mai au Casino de Paris) et cette indépendance lui permet d’écrire des chansons en résonnance avec son époque y compris avec le mouvement des femmes. D. Pantchenko, spécialiste de la chanson française, a été titulaire de la rubrique “chanson” du journal L’Humanité et a publié en 2010 une biographie de Jean Ferrat. http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/article.php?id_article=627 AT : la librairie Violette and Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07  www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

25 May 20-23h Grand Bal Swing avec L'Esprit Jazz Big Band, dans le cadre du Festival Jazz à Saint-Germain-des-Prés Paris. Lors d’une inoubliable soirée printanière en 2012, le Grand Bal Swing faisait à nouveau chavirer le cœur de plus de mille danseurs et amateurs de jazz swing. Dirigés par Jean-Pierre Solvès, les quatorze musiciens de L'Esprit Jazz Big Band, sublimés cette année par la voix de la chanteuse américaine Gilda Solve, nous feront plonger au cœur des années swing de l'après-guerre et des fameux orchestres tels ceux de Count Basie, Duke Ellington ou Glenn Miller. Dans une ambiance de fête des années 50, cette formation exceptionnelle accompagnera les jupes légères et les danseurs émérites dans la cour du CCI. Venez habillés ou coiffés d’époque et vous bénéficierez du tarif réduit…Avec Jean-Pierre Solvès (direction, saxophone, flûte), Gilda Solve (chant), Joël Chausse, Jean Gobinet et Yves Le Carboulec (trompettes), Jean-Christophe Vilain, Jean-Louis Damant et Denis Leloup (trombones), Alain Hatot et Vincent Chavagnac (saxophones, flûtes), Stéphane Chausse (saxophone, clarinette), Claude Terranova (piano), Marc-Michel Le Bévillon (contrebasse), Robert Ménière (batterie)www.myspace.com/espritjazzbigband
and www.gildasolve.com Programmation détaillée du festival : www.festivaljazzsaintgermainparis.com AT: The Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Pars--RESERVATION STRONGLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL EVENTS: see email on their site at:  For more info : www.centreculturelirlandais.com

25 mai à 17h00 et 20h30 je suis une personnespectacle pour deux salles superposées et une comédienne Spectacle écrit pour une comédienne jouant en simultané pour deux salles superposées, construit sur l’impossibilité de parler à tout le monde en même temps. Je suis une personne est une description « en creux » de l’enfermement, le témoignage d’une emprisonnée, le récit de l’amour qu’elle a du monde dans ses petits détails, celui de sa fuite, de son échappée. Je suis une personne, c’est comment, emprisonnée, me revient l’amour que j’ai du monde, dans ses petits détails.Deux containers de 6 mètres de long l’un sur l’autre. Un gradin dans chaque container. Deux publics isolés l’un de l’autre. Une comédienne qui passe d’une salle à l’autre à la force de ses bras.Pour te redire que je suis une personne et pour me rappeler que tu en es une. Et toujours, elle garde le sourire. AT : Palaiseau, RER B, Parking de la Gare de Palaiseau - réservations : 01 69 31 56 20 www.ville-palaiseau.fr plus d’infos : www.ktha.org/jsup.php

26^th May  at 7.30 pm MOVING  PARTS presents Roy Lisker’s "Commerce and Illusions" (a screenplay reading) AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries

26th May 6pm Carol Ann Duffy (British Poet Laureate) swings by Shakespeare and Co for a reading NOT TO MISS! “In the world of British poetry Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar” The Guardian “Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself” Scotsman It is a huge honour to present Carol Ann Duffy, one of the most important and best-loved voices in contemporary British poetry. Born in Glasgow in 1955, Duffy published her first full-length collection, Standing Female Nude, in 1985. This was followed by Selling Manhattan (1987), The Other Country (1990), and Mean Time (1993), which won an award from the Scottish Arts Council, the Forward Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. ‘Prayer’ from this volume, a sonnet that concludes with the mantra of the BBC shipping forecast, has become one of her most loved poems. Next came The World’s Wife (1999), a brilliantly imagined series of dramatic monologues from the wives of famous men (there’s Mrs. Midas, Mrs. Faust, Mrs. Darwin). Feminine Gospels followed in 2002, the same year Duffy became CBE (having received an OBE in 1995). In 2005, Picador published Rapture, 52 poems charting the rise and fall of a love affair, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 2009, Duffy was appointed Britain’s Poet Laureate, the first woman and Scot to hold the position in the 400-year history of the award. Her laureateship has been marked by her generous creation of opportunities for other poets; she notably donates her Laureate payment as a Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Duffy’s most recent collection, Bees, described as “swooningly glorious” by The Times and “indisputably her best volume” by The Sunday Times, was published in 2011. Pre-order your signed copy of The Bees AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

26 mai à 17h00 et 20h30 je suis une personnespectacle pour deux salles superposées et une comédienne Spectacle écrit pour une comédienne jouant en simultané pour deux salles superposées, construit sur l’impossibilité de parler à tout le monde en même temps. Je suis une personne est une description « en creux » de l’enfermement, le témoignage d’une emprisonnée, le récit de l’amour qu’elle a du monde dans ses petits détails, celui de sa fuite, de son échappée. Je suis une personne, c’est comment, emprisonnée, me revient l’amour que j’ai du monde, dans ses petits détails.Deux containers de 6 mètres de long l’un sur l’autre. Un gradin dans chaque container. Deux publics isolés l’un de l’autre. Une comédienne qui passe d’une salle à l’autre à la force de ses bras.Pour te redire que je suis une personne et pour me rappeler que tu en es une. Et toujours, elle garde le sourire. AT : Palaiseau, RER B, Parking de la Gare de Palaiseau - réservations : 01 69 31 56 20 www.ville-palaiseau.fr plus d’infos : www.ktha.org/jsup.php

27 May SpokenWord!– open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/

28 May at 7 p.m. POETS LIVE invites you to an evening of poetry and image, with an English poet, a Swedish poet and a Swedish photographer—the reading, as always, will be in English.  Come at 7 p.m. for a drink at the bar, the reading will begin at 7.30 (on the dot), downstairs in “le cave.” BIOS: lars palm lives with his lovely wife Petra, currently in Malmö.  he’s the author of three books:  road song for (corrupt press, 2011) http://corruptpress.net/?q=node/16 , chaos on/chaos off (obvious epiphanies press, 2012) & means (The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, forthcoming) as well as many chapbooks in print & online, most recently mulhouse (greying ghost pamphlet #39, 2012).  he has held a few odd jobs in a few places, including Stockholm, Dublin & Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is trained as an actor/playwright, organic producer & assistant nurse & has a slow career as a model.  he blogs at mischievoice, http://larspalm.wordpress.com Carol Watts lives in London. Her work includes Wrack (2007) and Occasionals (2011), both published by Reality Street http://www.realitystreet.co.uk/carol-watts.php, and a number of chapbooks including the When Blue Light Falls series with Oystercatcher Press http://www.oystercatcherpress.com/books.html, and Mother Blake (Equipage, 2012). Her work across media includes an ongoing collaboration with sound artist Will Montgomery, which began with Pitch in 2011: http://delirioushem.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/pitch.html Carol's collection Sundog is forthcoming with Veer Books in 2013. She directs the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck, University of London. PHOTOGRAPHER Petra Palm, a.k.a SocialPhotographer, lives in Malmö, Sweden (at least at the moment) with her beloved husband Lars Palm. She works for the people in various creative areas: photo, radio, film, football songs, childrens books...  Some of her work has been exhibited and some published. Petra and Lars collaborate as PoFot. Follow her work at:  http://socialphotographer.wordpress.com AT: Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Métro: Tuileries

28 mai 2013 à 20h00 : Lecture et rencontre avec Fanny Cottençon et Jean-Luc Outers. Sur fond de mutations politiques et sociales, ce roman retrace le parcours croisé de trois étudiants pris dans les grandes utopies des années 1970. Désir d’engagement et revanche personnelle les poussent à l’action et à la création d’une école alternative, ouverte aux adolescents en rupture scolaire. Au théâtre, Fanny Cottençon a joué dans Fragments d’elle(s) d’Anne Rotenberg, Après la répétition d’Ingmar Bergman et récemment La Vérité de Florian Zeller, aux côtés de Pierre Arditi. Au cinéma, elle a tourné entre autres avec Jean Becker, Alexandre Arcady, Joyce Bunuel, Serge Meynard, Manuel Poirier et Fabrice Cazeneuve. Elle a également interprété de nombreux rôles pour la télévision. Avec l’association TEXTES & VOIX, elle a lu des oeuvres de Claudio Magris, Zahia Ramani, Mercédès Deambrosis, Zoé Valdès, Marie Nimier.“Dans le quotidien sombre qu’on vit aujourd’hui, avec un ciel plombé et un horizon incertain, on se remémore les temps pas si lointains où on croyait encore pouvoir rendre le monde meilleur. (…) En même temps que la parole de Mao, on découvrait l’amour, plus libre que jamais grâce à la pilule et à la libération des moeurs. Jean-Luc Outers nous fait très bien revivre ces temps si proches mais si lointains à la fois. On n’avait alors pas peur de l’avenir (…)”Guy Duplat, La Libre Belgique. La lecture sera suivie d’une rencontre avec l’écrivain et d’une séance de signatures. En collaboration avec l’association TEXTES & VOIX. Le service de la AT : Libraire Wallonie-Bruxelles, Salle de spectacle, 46 rue Quincampoix, 75004 Paris Tarifs : 5euros.

28 mai à 19h Rencontre avec ANN LAURA STOLER pour son essai La chair de l’empire. Savoirs intimes et pouvoirs raciaux en régime colonial (La Découverte) et Repenser le colonialisme (Payot, avec Frederick Cooper)L’historienne et anthropologue états-unienne montre comment l’empire, quel qu’il soit et où qu’il agisse, est obsédé par la police de l’intimité : il régule les relations sexuelles, entre prostitution, concubinage et mariage, la reconnaissance des enfants métis et l’éducation des enfants blancs. Les savoirs sexuels du colonisateur sont aussi des pouvoirs raciaux, tant la mise en ordre est également un rappel à l’ordre. Et l’auteure souligne que si notre présent est travaillé par l’histoire, c’est que les “débris d’empire” continuent de joncher notre actualité. Dans les deux ouvrages, elle nous invite à penser ensemble le colonisateur et le colonisé, la métropole et l’outre-mer. A. L. Stoler enseigne à New York et est traduite pour la première fois en français. http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/article.php?id_article=621 AT : la librairie Violette and Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny. Bus 46, 56, 76, 86. tél : 01 43 72 16 07  www.violetteandco.com/librairie/

29th May 6pm Philosophers in the Library at Shakes and Co. This edition of Philosophers in the Library will explore the shifting meanings of the concept of law. "Law" is one of the words which we use every single day without stopping to think about it: “That’s not fair.” “I know my rights.” “Isn’t that against the law?” But different countries have radically different ways of understanding these general terms, shaped by the twists and turns of history, legal philosophy, and street-level culture. Does the French “loi” mean what English and Americans mean by “law”, or is it more specific? What do the French mean by the word “droit”, and how does this relate to the idea of fairness or rights used in the Anglo-Saxon world? Join a conversation led by Gregory Bligh, doctoral student in legal philosophy at Paris II and the French child of English parents, for an exploration of law, rights, and fairness in two very different languages. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

29 May at 19:30. Evenings with an Author: Fanny Howe, Come and See.  Fanny Howe will join us to read poems both old and new and discuss her work. Of her most recent poetry collection, Come and See (Graywolf Press, 2011) the Library Journal wrote, “These are poems of multiple selves and multiple eras, of oppression and the search for justice, of time’s fleeting and relentless passage and the inevitability of both. Sometimes stylized poetically and sometimes arranged in more proselike paragraphs, Howe’s lines reflect her meditative stance, asking questions, probing for answers, searching for truths. . . . Recommended for all readers of contemporary poetry.” Many of her poems have been translated into French by Vincent Dussol in a collection called O'clock and were written in Ireland, but the more recent poems in Come and See cover a landscape that is wide and shadowed by events of the 20th century. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris. Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92. www.americanlibraryinparis.org

30 mai at 20h LEBEAU & ASSOCIÉS présente « GUITAR POETRY TOUR » in Paris ! THURSTON MOORE (SONIC YOUTH)  + ANDY MOOR (THE EX)  + ANNE-JAMES CHATON + JEAN-MICHEL ESPITALLIER* + OLIVIER MELLANO* GUITAR POETRY TOUR donne à voir, à entendre, à sentir ces expériences toujours en mouvement. Les duos ne sont pas constitué à l’occasion de la création de ce festival itinérant. Les formations existent, elles ont déjà joué, l’écrivain et le musicien se connaissent pour avoir déjà donné, ici ou là, dans un théâtre, une salle de musique actuelle, une galerie, un concert... Mais à chaque concert il s’est agit pour chaque artiste de retrouver ce qui fait la raison de leur entente, l’entrelacs de l’inscrit et de l’inédit qui ne survient qu’avec la scène. Seulement, ces formations n’ont jamais été rassemblée à un moment donné dans un endroit donné. Des poètes et des guitaristes «on stage» : l’idée est née des acteurs eux-mêmes, de ce qui trouble et interroge aujourd’hui les frontières de deux scènes de la création contemporaine, des rencontres qui ont déjà eue lieu dans des festivals de musique improvisée, de performance, de poésie. GUITAR POETRY TOURne avec des soli et initie les écoutes. Autour, à coté, en marge ou au centre, des poètes et des guitaristes en solo lisent et jouent et laissent perçevoir comment ça se fabrique, quels cheminements mènent du texte à la corde, de la voix au rif. Les lectures et les concerts ponctuent les temps de duos, ils accompagnent l’oreille, ouvrent des respirations, tissent des liens entre les instruments et les textes.  GUITAR POETRY TOUR réunit les écritures; la performance, l’improvisation, l’amplification, l’écrit et le parlé, l’écoute et l’imprévu s’installent sur le plateau, sur la scène ou à même le sol, pour une suite de soli et de duos, Sachant que ces distinctions de genres et de styles, à tout moment, sous l’effet des dB, peuvent imploser.  production & diffusion: lebeau & associés francoise.lebeau@gmail.com co-production: le lieu unique, nantes remerciements : Centre d’Art Mobile, Besançon Soyouz music. AT : la Gaîté Lyrique* - Paris
http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/evenement/guitar-poetry-tour-thurston-moore-andy-moor-anne-james-chato

30th May at 17h30: Three wonderful Paris-based poets will share their original work in French and English at Le Café Rouge on Thursday, May 30th, at 17h30. This festive evening is part of a month-long series of events celebrating the University of Southern California's "The Poet in Paris Program," directed by poet and long-time part-time Paris resident Cecilia Woloch. Featured poets are Gabrielle Althen, Margo Berdeshevsky and Heather Hartley. They will be introduced by Cecilia Woloch.  Entrance is free but food and beverages will be available for purchase and there will be a one-drink minimumfor audience members. From 17h30 to 19h30 at Le Café Rouge, 32, rue de Picardie, 75003, Metro Arts et Metiers or Temple. Please join us! 

30 May  19h30-00h00 Paris Lit Up Open Mic night every Thursday (in English  or other languages too – when in Rome, speak French) Sign up is continuous all night, but first come first served from 19h30. The fun starts at 20h. Rotating hosts Jason Mc Gimsey, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene. AT: the historic home of French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more or to see whether there are featured themes and readers: http://parislitup.com/ai1ec_event/paris-lit-up-open-mic/?instance_id=9261

30th May – 1st June International Conference on Vladimir Nabokov The Enchanted Researchers Society, also known as Société Française Vladimir Nabokov, is organizing its first International Conference in Paris. Many of the most knowledgeable Nabokov scholars from Europe and North America will be rallying together around the conference's theme, "Nabokov and France", exploring the various facets of this relationship: how did French culture influence Nabokov? What kind of creative dialogue did he entertain with his French peers, dead and contemporary? What image of France does his fiction offer? What role does the French language play in his writing? How can the specifics of French thought engage with Nabokov's art? What legacy has he left among today's French writers? Alongside the daytime conference, several evening events will broaden the conference's perspective: a performance-happening by two visual artists, Alexandra Loewe and Indira Tatiana Cruz, and a reading of Mademoiselle O, Nabokov's only French short story, by Denis Podalydès; a film adaptation made by students followed by a debate on how to teach Nabokov; and, to conclude, a guided tour on Sunday morning around "le Paris de Nabokov". The conference is free and open to all. Please register if you wish to attend. For further information and registration, please visit their website at: http://www.vladimir-nabokov.org/ Each day’s events are held in different places, so do consult their site AND “register”—many free events require your name on a list.

31 mai à partir de 19 heures A l'occasion de la parution de la revue « Celebrity Café – 01 » présentation de la revue  par Jacques Donguy, Jean-François Bory et Sarah Cassenti AT : Librairie Michèle Ignazi, 17, rue de Jouy, 75004 Paris, 01 42 71 17 00, métro : Saint-Paul ou Pont-Marie

A PEEK into JUNE’s events…

3 June SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/

4 June 19h30—Ivy Writers Paris SPECIAL event with a ONE-ACT play performance by Carole Pereira adapting a play by David Lescot, and readings by Apogee press publisher and author Edward Smallfield and by Valerie Coulton. BIOS: Valerie Coulton is the author of open book, The Cellar Dreamer, passing world pictures, the lily book, and, most recently, lirio (a chapbook collaboration Edward Smallfield). Her poems have appeared in the EtherDome Anthology As if it Fell from the Sun, and many journals and websites, including Front Porch, kadar koli, New American Writing, 26, Parthenon West Review, Barcelona INK and e-poema. She has participated in poetry conferences in Delphi, Paou, Paros, and Sofia, and lives in Barcelona with her husband, the poet Edward Smallfield. Edward Smallfield is the author of The Pleasures of C, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (a book-length collaboration with Doug MacPherson), locate (a chapbook collaboration with Miriam Pirone), equinox, and, most recently, lirio (a chapbook collaboration Valerie Coulton). His poems have appeared in alice blue, Barcelona INK, bird dog, e-poema.eu, Five Fingers Review, New American Writing, Páginas Rojas, Parthenon West Review, 26, Wicked Alice, and many other magazines and websites. He has participated in poetry conferences in Delphi, Paou, Paros, and Sofia, and lives in Barcelona with his wife, the poet Valerie Coulton.AT: DELAVILLE cafe, 34 blvd Bonne Nouvelle, 75010 Paris, M° Bonne Nouvelle More info at : http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/

6-9th June all day and evenings too:  L'Irlande, pays invité du Marché de la Poésie Marché de la Poésie is one of the major literary events of the year when hundreds of booksellers, publishers, writers, musicians and lovers of poetry occupy place Saint-Sulpice on the Left Bank of Paris. Ireland has been chosen as ‘country of honour’ this year and will be represented by Eavan Boland, Ciaran Carson, Eamon Grennan, Biddy Jenkinson, Medbh McGuckian, Maighréad Medbh, Paula Meehan, John Montague, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Joseph Woods. Together with readings and discussions, two new anthologies and two new collections in French translation will be launched. Two concerts - traditional music and jazz (see Music section) – will resound in this beautiful square in the centre of the 6ème arrondissement. In conjunction with the Marché de la Poésie, a month-long series of poetry events is taking place in Paris and its outskirts. The CCI is organising three evenings for this Périphérie, the first of which is the launch of the Marché and its Périphérie at the Embassy of Ireland on 27 May in the presence of the great poet Paul Durcan (by invitation only). On 13 June, Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate, will give a special reading in the courtyard of the Centre Culturel Irlandais; on 27 June the final evening of the Périphérie will feature readings by Harry Clifton, Vona Groarke and Derek Mahon. (Details below) Full details of the programme for the Marché and its Périphérie: www.poesie.evous.fr For more info on the Irish Cultural center events : www.centreculturelirlandais.com

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Part II : WRITING WORKSHOPS in PARIS

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5 May 12h30-14h30 Paris Lit Up Writing Workshop first Sunday (in English, write in the language of your choice). Drop in, monthly themed workshop lead by Welsh Poet and Performer Kate Noakes. Bring writing kit and something to lean on. Donation 10 Euros suggested. AT: The Library at Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. For details on the workshop theme: http://parislitup.com/upcoming-events/ 

Saturdays: 11, 18 and 25 May 5pm-7pm The Other Writers’ Group – a drop-in feedback workshop for 5 euros. Bring 7 copies of your poems or prose and/or discuss the work others’ bring in an atmosphere of constructive criticism. Socialise afterwards. At Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005. Métro St Michel. http://spokenwordparis.org/the-other-writers-group/

Attention teens! Saturday 11 May 17h00-18h0 (ages 12-18) Teen Writing Group Join fellow aspiring writers in a relaxed and creative setting where you can share your ideas and get feedback. This meeting will be hosted by Anne Heltzel, author of Circle Nine and The Ruining. Sign-up is required CONTACT THE LIBRARY. Event AT: the AMERICAN LIBRARY in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou 75007 Paris Metro: Ecole Militaire (line 8), Alma-Marceau (line 9), RER: Pont de l'Alma (line C), Bus Routes: 42, 63, 69, 80, 82, 87, 92

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Part III: NEW REVIEWS AND REVIEWS NEWS: CALLS FOR WORK, NEW BOOKS and MORE!!!

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PLAYWRITE? SCREENPLAY AUTHOR? Contact Stephanie Campion to book a reading of YOUR play for MOVING PARTS in PARIS. Bookings now being taken for Autumn 2013 Programme subject to change. Check the website for the latest version : www.movingparts.org.uk Or send an e-mail to the movingpartsparis address at gmail.com For further information contact : Stephanie Campion on : 06 14 67 18 58

CHECK OUT Black Herald Press http://blackheraldpress.wordpress.com/ And http://blackheraldpressblog.wordpress.com/ To follow us on Facebook / nous suivre sur Facebook http://www.facebook.com/BlackHeraldPress & Twitter

http://twitter.com/Blackheraldpres Black Herald Press, éditeur indépendant, publie une revue de littérature en partie bilingue, The Black Herald, ainsi que des ouvrages de poésie. Black Herald Press, Paris-based independent press, publishes a partly-bilingual magazine, The Black Herald, and poetry books.

FICTION AND POETRY WANTED for GINOSKO + ART for website too: Accepting short fiction & poetry, creative nonfiction, spiritual insights for Ginosko Literary Journal. Editorial lead time 1-2 months; accept simultaneous submissions & reprints; length flexible, accept excerpts. Receives postal submissions & email—prefer email submissions as attachments, .wps, .doc, .rtf.  Authors retain copyrights.  Read year-round.  Publishing as semiannual ezine.  Check downloadable issues on website for tone & style, http://GinoskoLiteraryJournal.com/.  ezine circulation  8000+. Website traffic 1000+ hits/month. Ad space available. Also looking for books, art to post on website, and links to exchange.  Ginosko (ghin-océ-koe)  To perceive, understand, realize, come to know; knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment. The recognition of truth from experience.  Member CLMP.  Est 2002. Listed in Best of the Web 2008, 2010. Publish annual print anthology. Ginosko Literary Journal, Robert Paul Cesaretti, Editor, PO Box 246, Fairfax, CA 94978

FOR SCI FY FANS!  PARIS AUTHOR’s NEW BOOK! The third book in the Eden Paradox series by Paris novelist BARRY KIRWAN, Eden's Revenge, is now out on Amazon in ebook, with paperback to follow later in the year. For those of you who have read books 1 & 2, Gabriel is back, and looking for revenge...here it is!

POEMS WANTED: Contributions are now being accepted for Boscombe Revolution, edited by Simon McCormack and Paul Hawkins, to be published in conjunction with Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival, September 2013. Poems are invited on any theme, but the editors particularly invite poems which address, in some way, the themes of revolution and place. The deadline is 30 June 2013. General contribution information We welcome poems that have not been previously published, either in print or online. Poems may be sent by email and will be acknowledged on receipt. Contributors will receive a copyof Boscombe Revolution and be invited to read at the launch. Max 6 poems per poet, and poems of 30 lines maximum. Email contributions to boscomberevolution at gmail.com We strongly prefer for poems to be sent in the body of an email rather than as attachments. If, for formatting reasons, you feel that you must send an attachment, then combine all your poems into one file. For more info see: http://boscomberevolution.wordpress.com/submissions/

GET THIS GREAT NEW BOOK BY DUSIE PUBLISHER!: Susana Gardner's new book Caddish is now available from BLACK RADDISH PRESS! Susana Gardner is also the author of HERSO An Heirship in Waves (Black Radish, 2011) and [lapsed insel weary] (The Tangent Press, 2008). http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780985083779/caddish.aspx "CADDISH mourns dishonorable modes of historical masculinity by celebrating our slutty embodiment in a studied poetry that is hyper-literary, arch, and punk rock. In this book Ezra Pound goes in drag as H.D.'s sister and illuminates the modernist poem in its full feminist promise—a gendered-undoing that Modernism promised even as it so often performed masculinized pomp. Involved with the textual layers—the wild dress—of poets from the Pre-Raphelites through the Beats and sounding the DIY of Punk and Pussy Riot, we have here a feminist poetry ready for the ecological age of gender's superfluity."—Alicia Cohen "To be in CADDISH is to be delightfully awash in some strange type of dystopia where the language one swims in is so clear; clever; and refreshing that one doesn't want to stop bathing in its vocabulary that exposes the contradictions we live in and are pained by, in this post-capitalism period. Will we escape the cataclysm to come? CADDISH's beautifully constructed chaos urges us to embrace the complexity as a beacon from a lighthouse. Susana Gardner is our Siren, but with the difference that her song may just lead us to shore."—Joe Ross "The fierce, audacious poems in Susana Gardner's CADDISH weave gorgeous forms and lithe melodies out of broken language and broken love (for what else is a poet to do?). The enthused, garment-rending drama of these 'intense smutty darling dreams' will leave you...quite...cuntstruck. 'Toot allure!'"—Nada Gordon "A good passionate, ocean-tossed read."—Tom Pickard

OUT NOW online: DIAGRAM your way, featuring our Essay Prize Winner and a whole lot of other excellence. The new issue is 13.2. Find it here: http://thediagram.com. She includes: TEXT BY: [C. Dylan Bassett] [Monica Berlin & Beth Marzoni] [A. M. Brant] [Callista Buchen] [Adam Day] [Meryl DePasquale] [Kathleen Heil] [Nora Hickey] [Rosalie Moffett] [Andy Mozina] [Judith Nichols] [Colleen O'Brien] [John Proctor] [Levi Rubeck] [Xenia Schiller] [Susan Tacent] [Eszter Takacs] [Leia Penina Wilson] [Monika Zobel] REVIEWS: [Tony Mancus on Cynthia Arrieu-King] [P. R. Griffis on Aisha Sabatini Sloan] [on Susan Steinberg] [Adam Kullberg on Steve Tomasula] & SCHEMATICS: [Diagrammatic Representation of an Electrode Assembly Implanted within the Brain and Anchored to the Skull] [Fig. 20-19 and Fig 20-20] [Fig. 257. —Detachment of the Retina, Showing a Large Tear. Fig. 258. —The Same Fundus as Shown in Fig. 257, after Electrocoagulation Operation.] [A Fracture at the Ankle Had Failed to Heal.] [More Ways of Filling a Hole Partially (a, b) or Completely (c, d).] [The Raw Materials of Collective Survival] [Schematic Representation of a Thick Accretion Disc around a Giant Black Hole with the Formation of Jets] [The Space-Time Continuum of Special Relativity]

NEW BOOK “Diary of Use” is out now! This collection of poems by J. Vera Lee launches from taut opening lines like "A songbird inside an elephant," "A cloud broken by wire," and "The waves are suede cutlets." Lee is a writer who lives in Honolulu; she is also at work on a novel about translating Emily Dickinson's poetry into Korean. Hailed by poet-critic Paul Naylor as a collection of poems that "entangle and untangle themselves with and from the world they abide in" and by poet-translator Don Mee Choi as "a tiny world of curious beauty and intoxicating chatter, a crystallized world of incompleteness." Readers will appreciate the visual and meditative push and pull in these poems. Diary of Use is now available for purchase at www.tinfishpress.com or www.spd.books.org. You can view the sample poem "The waves are suede cutlets" from the book at http://tinfishpress.com/?projects=diary-of-use.

SUBMIT STORIES and POEMS: Enter your story or poems to Lit POP by May 31st, and receive a free year subscription to Matrix Magazine (a 25 dollar value)! This year’s judges are the acclaimed writers Eileen Myles (Poetry) and Sheila Heti (Fiction)! The POP Montreal International Music Festival and Matrix Magazine have once again joined forces to rock your literary world with Canada's most innovative and exciting literary competition. We are looking for writing that really pops. So if you can bring the noise with poetry and/or short fiction, it’s time to smash some bottles and trash some hotels (but not really though). If you have what it takes, you will get your work published in Matrix, and get free travel to POP Montreal for a night in your honour. The winners, one from each category, will receive a round-trip ticket to POP Montreal from September 25 - 29, 2013, a VIP pass to the Pop Montreal Festival, free accommodation at a bed and breakfast, fall publication in Matrix Magazine with full honorarium, and presentation at a special Matrix Lit POP event during the festival. This contest is open to residents of Canada and the United States. The deadline for all submissions is June 30, 2013. Winners will be notified in August. Poets are asked to send no more than 5 poems; fiction writers should send stories of no more than 3000 words. Each entry is 25$ and entries and entry fees should be mailed to Matrix Publications, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., LB 658, Montreal QC, H3G 1M8. Please include your email address. Cheques or money orders should be made out to "Matrix Publications." PayPal is also available. Multiple entries are welcome. Entries can also be emailed to Litpop2013@gmail.com and will be considered valid once payment is verified. Full contest details can be found at http://www.matrixmagazine.org/litpop/

OUT IN MAY: PRE ORDER this NEW BOOK: Flesh a long poem by Paul Stubbs  Black Herald Press, 20 May 2013 introduction by Ingrid Soren 130×170 – 54 pages - 10 € / £ 8.50 / $13 ISBN 978-2-919582-05-1  http://blackheraldpress.wordpress.com/books/flesh-paul-stubbs/

The book, to be released on May 20^th, can be pre-ordered here:

http://blackheraldpress.wordpress.com/buy-our-titles/

SUBSCRIBE! PREPARE TO SUBIT! TO: The Black Herald – 4 Literary magazine – Revue de literature Issue #4 – September 2013 – Septembre 2013, 160×220 – 15 € Before sending

any work, please read our submissions guidelines.

TRANSLATORS: submit books or book extracts of translations of books (novels, poetry, etc) to TWO LINES press: http://catranslation.org/submission-login for full guidelines. They are looking for books, extracts from books and more. Run by a great translation center, this new press is really an exciting one to get involved with!

NEIL SHEPHARD, Poet, announces “For those with a Kindle or a Nook or some other App that accesses the eBook-- I'm delighted to announce that Northampton House Press (VA) will reprint my four Mid-List Press print-books as eBooks. We're taking them one at a time, starting with the oldest, SCAVENGING THE COUNTRY FOR A HEARTBEAT (First Book Award, 1993), which is now available, electronically, from Barnes & Noble or Amazon. (For those of you without the technology, you can still order the book in paperback.) If you purchase the eBook, please let me know how you like it in the electronic format. And if you enjoy it enough to write a short review on Amazon or B&N website, I'll be a happy man.” If you recall his sabbatical in Paris a few years ago and his readings then, you will really be delighted to get ahold of ALL of his new and old works!

SEND POETRY for: Boston Review Poetry Contest 2013, Deadline: June 3, 2013, Prize: $1,500 plus publication, Judge: Linda Gregerson The 2013 Boston Review Poetry Contest deadline is only one month away! Enter by June 3 for a chance to win $1,500 and be published in the magazine besides such luminaries as John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, Jean Valentine, and Dara Weir. Award-winning poet Linda Gregerson is this year's contest judge. Every contest entrant receives a complimentary six-month subscription to the magazine. For complete details and to enter online, visit: http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/index.php#Sixteenth

WILLIAM WALTZ’s NEW BOOK—selected for publication by the 2012 Cleveland State Poetry Center Open Competition, the book, Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America, is out now and available to interested parties. To order: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780986025716/default.aspx
and also http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/openbook/

AMPERSAN BOOKS ANNOUNCES: We are proud to announce the release of our newest Bloody Fine Chapbook: Ear to the Wall by Carrie Causey.  This little collection is not only, in the words of poet Rick Hiles, "immensely powerful, dream-haunted and river-wise," but is also a stunning achievement of book design wizardry.   Ear to the Wall captures the awe, terror, and tension of a metamorphosis underway. Carrying both a child-like love of place and family, as well as a deep curiosity toward the dark, its voices play on the other side of the wall–the realm of memory, dreams, and ecstatic travel. Intensely alone, observant, surrounded by the ghosts of family and personal lore, speakers cover their fear with imaginative power. A girl conjures up a woman and a woman conjures up a child; purgatories, superstitions and apocalyptic visions blend with familiar images of pin cushions and stairwells, bedroom mirrors and backyards. Read some excerpts, see people say nice things, and pick up your copy at Ampersand Books.

The Aesthetica Creative Writing contest is now open for entry, offering both existing and aspiring writers the chance to showcase their work to a wider, international audience. Now in its sixth year, the competition celebrates creative writing and nurtures talent, inviting writers to submit imaginative work that pushes the boundaries of the two categories for entry: Poetry and Fiction. Submissions previously published elsewhere are accepted, and the deadline is 31 August 2013. The selection of fantastic prizes includes: ·   £500 prize money – Poetry winner  ·     £500 prize money – Short Fiction winner ·  Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual ·         Complimentary copy of the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual ·         A selection of books from competition partners  For more information please visit: www.aestheticamagazine.com/creativewriting To hear more about the Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition, please contact: Sophie Newstead, Aesthetica Magazine, PO Box 371, York, YO23 1WL, England, Tel: 01904 479168 www.aestheticamagazine.com