02 June 2013

JUNE: la vie est belle à Paris READINGS and WORKSHOPS and CALLS FOR WRITING in Paris, France



JUNE 2013 Readings + Events List for PARIS

Part I) Paris Events and READINGS by date in June

Part II) Writing, FILM and Theater Workshops in Paris this month PLUS workshops in BERLIN and Paris in July and August—sign up for those NOW!

Part III) AMAZING News Reviews and Reviews News: publications, CALLS FOR WORK, new books and more!


(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for SUMMER 2013 (July and August) 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 No new listings received after June 25th will be added so please get information to me before then)

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Part I: JUNE readings and events by DATE:
2 june - 9 Juin from 11h - 18h daily: “Je m’existe” art show by Paris-based author and plasticienne Christine Herzer,  For more info on “je m'existe” and Christine Herzer’s work, see: http://christineherzer.tumblr.com/ and :  http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/christineherzer and : http://honeymooninthefridge.tumblr.com/ AT: Gallerie Evi Gougenheim/Artplace 14, rue Coetlogon, 75006 Paris Metro: St Sulpice

2 June: All day AM 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 1 June and Sunday 2 June during regular operating hours. Most books at €3, €2, and €1! Come to our sale and expand your collection of mystery novels, children’s books or gardening know-how, in turn helping the Library continue to renew the permanent collection.Please note that this will be our last Used Book Sale until the next one on the first weekend of September. Be sure to drop by! For details on how to donate books to the Library, see the Book Bags & Book Donations page on our website.

2 June - 9 June THE TEMPEST by Shakespeare / La Tempête de Shakespeare.  En français.  Théâtre des Quartiers d’Ivry.  link for full info.

2 juin 11h FRENCH ENGLISH POETRY FESTIVAL MOVIE NIGHT : Festival franco-anglais de poésie : projection de films vidéo réalisés autour des poèmes de la Traductière n° 31 « Poèmes que nous sommes/ Domaine roumain », en collaboration avec le Festival international du film expérimental - FIFE 2013, organisé par l’artiste roumain Mircea Bochis et en collaboration avec le Festival international du film expérimental de Baia Mare, en Roumanie - Entrée : 6 € organisé avec le Festival franco-anglais de poésie AT : Cinéma La Pagode (Paris 7e), 57 rue de Babylone 75007 Paris, M° Saint-François-Xavier (13)


2 juin ouverture à 17h30, concert 19h-19h30 (a peu près...) diner, bar après. Un concert avec Caballeros Psicodélicos  and Perry Argel AT : l'Ogresse​, 4 rue ​Prairies, Paris 20. For more info see : http://perryleopard.free.fr/ Or else www.facebook.com/perryleopardmusic

3rd June 7pm Michelle de Kretser on Questions of Travel Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events. An enthralling array of people, places and stories surround these superbly drawn characters – from Theo, whose life plays out in the long shadow of the past, to Hana, an Ethiopian woman determined to reinvent herself. Michelle de Kretser illuminates travel, work and modern dreams in this brilliant evocation of the way we live now. Questions of Travel is infused with wit, imagination, uncanny common sense and a deep understanding of what makes us tick. “Novel by novel, the Sri Lankan-born Australian has emerged as one of the most fiercely intelligent voices in fiction today. This new work, her most ambitious yet, makes globalisation and its discontents the focus of a multi-faceted story that unites grandeur and intimacy.” – Boyd Tonkin, The Independent This event will be chaired by Craig Taylor, author of Londoners and editor of the literary magazine, Five Dials. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

3 June at 7:30pm: Evening with an Author Andrew Nagorski who will present Hiterland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power. Nagorski's fascinating book explores a new aspect of this period in European history - through the perspectives of American diplomats, reporters, Olympic athletes and even U.S. citizens living in Germany who saw firsthand the construction of the Reich in real-time.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

4 June 19h30Ivy Writers Paris SPECIAL event PERFORMANCE AND POETRY NIGHT with a performance by Carole Pereira, directed by Criona Laing based on a play written by poet and dramaturge David Lescot and then readings by author, translator and Apogee press publishers and authors Edward Smallfield and 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/

4th to 9th June.  The Tower Theatre returns to the Théâtre de Verdure de Shakespeare au Jardin Pré-Catalan MAP  with its latest production “The Taming of the Shrew.”  IN ENGLISH.  For tickets see website  and contact   01 45 20 67 30

4 juin à 19h Rencontre avec CHRISTELLE ROSAR pour son témoignage J’ai survécu à la psychiatrie (Max Milo) 1,8 millions de personnes sont concernées par la psychiatrie en France. Ce système, générateur d’exclusion sociale et de stigmatisation, domine. Internée à 16 ans C. Rosar a enchaîné pendant vingt ans les hospitalisations à coup de médicaments et de traitements violents. Aujourd’hui affranchie, elle raconte ses luttes pour retrouver son autonomie et sa place, entre autres grâce à l’association Advocacy où elle travaille maintenant, elle dénonce les abus et les failles du système psychiatrique. En présence de Martine Dutoit et Marie-Claude Saint-Pé, auteures de la postface et de Jeannine Chalot de l’association Advocacy. 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/

5 juin, à 19h30 A l'occasion d'une carte blanche accordée à Eric Pesty Editeur, les Editions Corti vous invitent à venir entendre  Michèle Cohen-Halimi, Emmanuel Fournier, Martin Richet et Bénédicte Vilgrain. Biobibliographies :  Née en 1963, Michèle Cohen-Halimi, philosophe, est maître de conférences à l'Université de Paris X-Nanterre. Co-éditrice avec Francis Cohen de Je te continue ma lecture, Mélanges pour Claude Royet-Journoud (P.O.L 1999) et de Les Intensifs, poètes du XXI° siècle (Critique n° 735-736, Minuit, 2008), elle a contribué, régulièrement par des traductions, à la revue Fin de Jean Daive, et est, depuis plusieurs numéros, la critique privilégiée de la revue Anagnoste dirigée par Claude Royet-Journoud dans CCP : Cahier Critique de Poésie. Michèle Cohen-Halimi a publié, chez Éric Pesty Éditeur, une traduction du philosophe allemand Werner Hamacher : Anataxe. Virgule. Balance. Notes pour W de Jean Daive, et un essai intitulé Figuren, consacré à Théorie des prépositions de Claude Royet-Journoud (P.O.L, 2009). :::::   Né en 1959, Emmanuel Fournier est l’auteur de deux ouvrages publiés aux Éditions de l’Éclat : Croire devoir penser a paru en 1996. Le livre est composé de 999 propositions rédigées à l’infinitif, dans une langue « déconjuguée » qui fait abstraction des substantifs, en privilégiant exclusivement les modes impersonnels du verbe : l'infinitif, et dans une moindre mesure le gérondif et les participes. L’Infinitif des pensées, paru en 2000, met en parallèle différents types d’écriture : les Carnets d’Ouessant, écrits sous forme de journal, des postfaces tardives à Croire devoir penser, des transcriptions à l’infinitif de Descartes, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Kant, Aristote ou Heidegger, ainsi que des annotations, où se poursuit une méditation sur les implications et la mise en œuvre de la langue infinitive. Parallèlement à ce travail d’écriture, Emmanuel Fournier est un artiste qui utilise le dessin comme mode d’interrogation. Outre plusieurs expositions, deux livres « écrits en dessin », parus chez l’auteur à 20 exemplaires, ont précédé la publication des textes aux Éditions de l’Éclat : Sur la lecture (Corduriès, 1989) et La même chose (Corduriès, 1993). ::::: Né en 1977, Martin Richet est traducteur, éditeur et écrivain. Ont paru tout dernièrement L'ouverture du champ de Robert (Editions Corti, 2012) et Les Sonnets de Ted Berrigan (Editions Joca Seria, 2013). Attentif à ce qui a fait la spécificité de la poésie américaine du siècle dernier – voire dans sa forme de publication – Martin Richet est également éditeur d'une collection nomade intitulée « Jacataqua » dont le projet semble être de traduire et de publier, sous forme de chapbooks en français, certains des titres les plus vifs parus dans la collection historique de Lyn Hejinian : Tuumba. Après un livre de Barrett Watten publié dans la collection « Phacochère » au Quartanier en 2007, la traduction de Gesualdo de Lyn Hejinian a paru chez Éric Pesty Éditeur en 2009 dans la collection agrafée. La part de création dans l'écriture de Martin Richet forme si l'on peut dire un contrepoint à son travail de traduction. Bureau vertical / Onze pour table a paru aux Cahiers de la Seine en 2006 ; L'Autobiographie de Gertrude Stein s'offre comme une seconde cristallisation dans sa fréquentation assidue de l'auteur américaine. ::::: Bénédicte Vilgrain  crée le Théâtre Typographique en 1984, dans une cour d'immeuble, sur une presse à épreuve. Elle y imprime des livres à tirage limité d'assez grands formats, marqués par son intérêt pour les littératures orales d'Asie et d'Afrique, et l'anthropologie. Elle est rejointe par Bernard Rival en 1988 ; leur collaboration depuis lors a constitué la maison d'édition précieuse et exigeante que nous connaissons aujourd'hui : http://thty.fr/ Entre 1981 et 1991, Bénédicte Vilgrain étudie le tibétain, dans l'espoir explique-t-elle « d'établir un Wortschatz, un vocabulaire où chaque mot recensé aurait été traité comme la clef d'usages diversifiés, métaphoriques, évoqués dans des proverbes. Mais la langue tibétaine est un medium aussi éloigné de la langue française qu'un rêve peut l'être de son interprétation discursive. » (Abigail Lang, « L'interprétation des raves, Lecture de Bénédicte Vilgrain », dans les Intensifs, poètes du XXI° siècleCritique n°735-736, août-septembre 2008.) Depuis 2001, Bénédicte Vilgrain a décidé de « ranger », pour que rien ne se perde, son vocabulaire dans une « Grammaire », établie sur le modèle classique de la Grammaire de Thonmi Sombhota (VII° siècle), où chaque articulation phonologique de base de la langue tibétaine fait l'objet, sous l'aspect d'une strophe en vers de sept syllabes nommée śloka, d'un développement grammatical et phonétique. AT :  la Librairie Corti, 11 rue de Médecis, Paris 6ème, Entrée libre, http://www.jose-corti.fr/ et http://www.ericpestyediteur.com/

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

7 June at 7 PM:  UPSTAIRS AT DUROC, the Paris literary journal, invites you to a reading of recent work by poets TIMOTHY BRADFORD, CHRISTINE HERZER and FIONA SZE-LORRAIN. Bios: TIMOTHY BRADFORD is the author of the poetry collection Nomads with Samsonite (BlazeVOX [books], 2011). In 2005, he received the Koret Foundation’s Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award for a novel-in-progress based on the history of the Vélodrome d’Hiver. From 2007 to 2009, he was a guest foreign researcher at the Institut du Temps Présent in Paris. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University.  CHRISTINE HERZER is a poet and visual artist currently in residence at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. She is the author of i cheated on Chanel No.5 (Dancing Girl Press, 2013) and i wanted to be a pirate (h-ngm_n eBooks, 2009). Her work appears in numerous international journals, art reviews and online publications such as Fence, American Letters & Commentary, The New York Quarterly, The Volta, Drunken Boat, Spiral Orb and BlazeVOX. Her art exhibition Je m’existe opened at Evi Gougenheim’s Artplace on May 30.  FIONA SZE-LORRAIN writes and translates in English, Chinese and French. Her new poetry collection, My Funeral Gondola, is published as a Mãnoa Books title by El Léon Literary Arts in 2013. Her debut poetry title, Water the Moon, appeared in 2010. In addition to her four books of translation of contemporary Chinese poets from Zephyr Press, she has also translated Romanian-born French poet Ghérasim Luca and American poet Mark Strand. A co-founder of Cerise Press, an international journal of literature, arts and culture, and a contributing editor of Mãnoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, she works as an editor at Vif Editions, Paris. Also a zheng harpist, she has performed worldwide. Reading at: Berkeley Books of Paris, 8 rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris, Metro Odéon.

8th June from noon to 3pm. SOS Help's "buy a bag of books for 5 euros" sale at St Joe's Church, 50 avenue Hoche, 75008 Paris.

8 juin, 11h, 14h30, 16h30 (Note : See time and location in this block below or on their website—as these events are all over paris all day long !) : le collectif poésie is not dead, dans le cadre du Marché de la Poésie de Paris (programme complet en pièce jointe), vous invite à la performance Rimbaudmobile II : Le Retour (http://rimbaudmobile.blogspot.fr/ ) Les poètes Jean-Paul Daoust, Joël Hubaut et Sebastien Lespinasse accompagnés du musicien-improvisateur bricoleur de sons Thomas Fernier et des vidéastes Anne-Sophie Terrillon et Christophe Acker vous convient à passer quelques minutes avec nous : 11h00 : Parvis Beaubourg, fontaine Niki de Saint Phalle et Jean Tinguely : Sebastien Lespinasse et Thomas Fernier 14h30 : Place Colette : Jean-Paul Daoust et Thomas Fernier 16h30 : Place Stalingrad : Joël Hubaut et Thomas Fernier Captation vidéo : Anne-Sophie Terrillon et Christophe Acker Conception : FM

8 June 19h30 Artist Serene Wise will talk about the inspirations behind her exhibition Homage to Daniel Buren. 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

9th June 6pm Saul Williams Saul Williams is an American poet, singer, musician, writer and actor. His work crosses boundaries and genres, but is united by his incredible talent for using words and beats in spell-binding performances. He started his career as an open-mic poet, winning the title of Grand Slam Champion at the Nuyorican Poets Café in 1996. Soon after, he featured in the film Slam (as both actor and writer), which won the Sundance Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Cannes Camera d’Or. Saul Williams has collaborated with Nas, the Fugees, Blackalicious, Erykah Badu, and Nine Inch Nails, among many others. He released his much acclaimed, self-titled debut album in 2004. Saul Williams is the author of four collections of poetry and, most recently, editor of Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, described as an anthem for a new generation of poets. Williams’s latest album, Volcanic Sunlight, was released in 2011. When asked about the purpose of poetry in a film that followed, he gave this response: “It is the window that opens, that allows some air in, some other insight, some other possibility so we can explore all that we feel, all that we think but with the space to see more than what we know, because there is so much more than we know. If I didn't open myself to the possibilities of the unknown, then I would be lost." Saul Williams’s website: Saul Williams: ‘DNA / Coded Language’. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

9th June at 7.30 pm MOVING  PARTS presents an evening of short films in French by various authors (screen) AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries

9 June Final night to see THE TEMPEST by Shakespeare / La Tempête de Shakespeare.  En français.  Théâtre des Quartiers d’Ivry.  link for full info.

9 Juin from 11h - 18h Final day to see: “Je m’existe” art show by Paris-based author and plasticienne Christine Herzer,  For more info on “je m'existe” and Christine Herzer’s work, see: http://christineherzer.tumblr.com/ and :  http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/christineherzer and : http://honeymooninthefridge.tumblr.com/ AT: Gallerie Evi Gougenheim/Artplace 14, rue Coetlogon, 75006 Paris Metro: St Sulpice

10 June 19h30- 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/

11 juin à 19h.  A l'occasion de la parution de D'une petite rafle provençale ... (Editions du Seuil)rencontre avec Nelcya Delanoë.  Ethno-historienne, traductrice, écrivain, Nelcya Delanoë est professeur honoraire des Universités. Elle a publié une dizaine de livres et de nombreuses traductions. Intriguée par un poème d’Aragon décrivant une rafle survenue en août 1942 à Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, apparemment ignorée de tous, Nelcya Delanoë décide de chercher à en savoir plus long. D’autant qu’elle réside pour partie à Villeneuve. Aucun témoignage oral disponible. Elle explore alors les archives et finit par trouver, non sans mal, la liste des dix Juifs étrangers visés par la rafle du 26 août 1942. Ce faisant, d’autres archives, parfois privées, et quelques témoignages oraux la mettent sur la piste d’une deuxième rafle, en date du 17 juillet 1943, et dont nul n’a jamais eu connaissance. Pas même un poète. Celle-ci a été menée par des organisations locales, floues et autonomes, voyous et truands compris, en étroites relations avec la police allemande et les appareils maréchalistes. Nelcya Delanoë a pu finalement établir la liste des personnes victimes de ces arrestations. D’une petite rafle provençale dévoile ainsi petit à petit les ambiguïtés mais aussi la richesse et la complexité de la vie sous Pétain dans un village du Gard, situé en zone « non occupée », pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Par la même occasion, ce travail de micro-histoire met en évidence les difficultés de l’enquête et ses croisements, inattendus, avec la vie de l’auteur. Jusqu’aux « Voisins vigilants » de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon en ce début de XXIe siècle. AT : Librairie Michèle Ignazi 17, rue de Jouy 75004 Paris métro : Saint-Paul ou Pont-Marie

12 June 12. 6:00 p.m. Reading by Jerome Rothenberg AT: the gallery of éditions Caractères, 7, rue de l’arbalete, Paris

12th JUNE  18h Please join us for a fantastic reading in celebration of the University of Southern California’s The Poet in Paris Program directed by poet and long-time part-time Paris resident Cecilia Woloch. With readings by USC The Poet in Paris faculty and friends Jeffrey Greene, David Barnes, Kate Noakes, and brief readings by Cecilia Woloch and Heather Hartley. Entrance is free, but audience members are expected to purchase at least one drink. AT: La Pierre Du Marais, 96 rue des Archives, 75003, Metro Arts et Metiers or Temple.

12 June at 7:30pm: ART TALK: Paris Art Studies lecturer Chris Boïcos returns to the Library to present the works of artist Marc Chagall reflecting themes from the exhibit Marc Chagall: Between War & Peace, now on view at the Musée du Luxembourg through 21 July. From his Russian period in his hometown of Vitebsk during the First World War to the biblical paintings evoking the rise of the Nazism and onto his post-WWII life as a refugee in the U.S., Chagall has embodied the decades of strife that defined the 20th century. Boïcos will take us on a tour through Chagall's art of these periods, both dark and hopeful. 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

12 juin à 19h Vernissage de l’exposition d’œuvres de CATY LÉVÊQUE “La grande bibliothèque de Pétaouchnock” L’artiste Caty Lévêque et sa complice Fiona Britee ont entrepris de faire connaître Pétaouchnock, un pays avec sa culture, sa langue, sa géographie, son histoire et ses coutumes, comme un vrai pays ! L’exposition présente une série de livres sous cadres accompagnés de leur quatrième de couverture, prêtés par sa Grande Bibliothèque. Des pièces uniques offrant une palette variée qui va de l’incongru à une poésie surréaliste en passant par un humour nonchalant. A noter : les auteures de ces ouvrages ne sont que des femmes ; quoi d’étonnant dans ce pays dont la déesse préférée est Hypathie d’Alexandrie, mathématicienne et philosophe grecque. Pour plus de détails : www.petaouchnock.eu 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/

13th JUNE READING with Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney! Soirée exceptionnelle avec le poète et prix Nobel de Littérature Seamus Heaney! Seamus Heaney is one of the greatest living poets in the English-speaking world. Born in Derry in 1939, he has published a dozen collections including Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), Electric Light (2001), Human Chain (2011). The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 was awarded to Seamus Heaney “for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”. A poet who is most beloved of Irish people, he will read in the courtyard of the Centre Culturel Irlandais which saw 800 people gather for its celebratory Poetry Hour last September.  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

13 juin à 19h – entrée libre POÉSIE PLATE-FORME «Des féeries informatiques depuis la nuit des temps» Jérôme Mauche reçoit Clarisse Herrenschmidt, anthropologue, et Emmanuelle Pireyre, écrivain. Ce rendez-vous « Poésie Plate-forme » rapproche deux expériences d’écriture en soi très éloignées, l’une scientifique et historique, l’autre littéraire. Chacune pourtant à leur manière propose, avec légèreté, invention et rigueur, des méthodes suggestives, étonnantes parfois, pour comprendre, nommer, reclasser et par-là inventer le réel. Clarisse Herrenschmidt, anthropologue, et Emmanuelle Pireyre, écrivain, avec précision, déchiffrent et agencent des mythes et mythologies qu’ils soient antiques ou ultra-contemporains, rendant quelquefois le réel plus fictif que nos fictions. Leurs entreprises, de plus, se caractérisent par le souci rare et bienveillant d'inscrire nos existences dans des continuités conscientes, des ruptures informées, meilleures peut-être. AT : FONDATION D'ENTREPRISE RICARD, 12 rue Boissy d'Anglas 75008 Paris, Entrée libre du mardi au samedi de 11h à 19h www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com

 

13th June 7pm Alice Boatwright on Collateral Damage In Collateral Damage three linked novellas explore the lasting effects of the Vietnam War on people living in its shadow – including both those who fought and those who didn’t. These stories from one of American history’s most divisive eras show us that Vietnam may not be as far behind us as we think. Who goes to war and why – and the consequences for them and the people who love them – are issues that we still face today. A Small Press Distribution summer bestseller in 2012, Collateral Damage received the Bronze Medal for Literary Fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards in May 2013. It was also a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. For more information: www.collateraldamage.us Alice K. Boatwright is the author of dozens of short stories which have appeared in journals such as the Mississippi Review, Paterson Literary Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Penumbra, America West, Storyglossia, and Stone Canoe, as well as anthologies of women’s writing published by Crossing Press. Since 2004, she has worked as a freelance writer, dividing her time between Paris and the U.S. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

 

13 June 19h30-00h00 Paris Lit Up Open Mic 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 visit here

14th  June 17h30 to 19h30 Please join us for a fabulous reading in celebration of the University of Southern California’s The Poet in Paris Program directed by poet and long-time part-time Paris resident Cecilia Woloch. Thirteen talented and spirited creative writing students will read poems written over their month-long stay in Paris: Amanda Kantor, Catherine von Handorff, Corinne Gaston, Melina Charis, Emily McPeek, Sari Rachel Forshner, Jackson Burgess, August Luhrs, Mallika Dhaliwal, Maria Peltekova, Tyler Ann McClure, Ruth Madievsky and Shelby DeWeese. We hope to see you for this celebration of poetry and Paris! Entrance is free but food and beverages will be available for purchase and there will be a one-drink minimum for audience members. at Le Café Rouge, 32, rue de Picardie, 75003, Metro Arts et Metiers or Temple.

 

14th June 7.30pm Shakespeare and Co Production of Much Ado About Nothing. A bookshop production of one of Shakespeare’s most loved comedies. Our performance of Much Ado About Nothing is a Shakespeare and Company community event, and involves staff, volunteers, and Tumbleweeds alike. Taking place right outside the shop, the play is an energetic version of one of Shakespeare's most hilarious comedies, and a labour of love for all involved. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/


14 juin à 19h Rencontre avec PINAR SELEK pour son roman La maison du Bosphore (L. Lévi) A Istanbul, quatre jeunes épris de liberté cherchent leur place dans une société figée depuis le coup d’État de 1980. La condition des femmes et des minorités, les conventions sociales, l’oppression politique : tout leur pèse. Quatre parcours, mais une même devise : il nous reste un demi-espoir... Premier roman de P. Selek, sociologue, militante féministe et pacifique turque, exilée en France après avoir été accusée à tort de terrorisme et subi un imbroglio juridique qui l’a condamnée en janvier dernier lors d’un procès inique. P. Selek a publié un court récit, Loin de chez moi... mais jusqu’où ? (iXe) précédé d’une préface de son collectif de solidarité, et des contes et essais (non traduits). 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/

15 juin à 19h Rencontre avec MICHELLE PERROT, FLORENCE ROCHEFORT et MICHEL BOZON pour leur ouvrage Au bazar du genre : féminin et masculin en Méditerranée (Textuel) Mercredi 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 June--Littérature  « Bloomsday in Paris » présenté par le Paris Bloomsday Group The Paris Bloomsday Group - Jean O’Sullivan, Declan McCavana and Michael Craig Gradwell - regularly perform readings and songs from James Joyce's work, with poet Derry O’Sullivan as MC. Their mission is to make Joyce accessible to all. Their Bloomsday 2013 programme, featuring guest artist Rosena Horan, will include excerpts from Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, in addition to poems both lyrical and satirical, and the music-hall and parlour songs favoured by Joyce. Bring a picnic and come in 1900 costume it the fancy takes you. Lyrics are provided so the audience can also put their vocal chords to work! 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

16th June at 6pm Paris Literary Prize ceremony! To celebrate the winning entries of our international novella competition for unpublished writers, the three winners will be reading a selection from their works for the first time in public. We chose to hold the ceremony on Bloomsday, a day celebrating the life and work of James Joyce, and a significant date for anyone who values books. Seats are limited and will be allocated via rsvp to prize@shakespeareandcompany.com  (email title: 'RSVP Prize Ceremony - Reservation'). Reservations will only be held until 5.45pm, after which they will be reallocated.  Extra seating will be supplied outside the shop, weather permitting. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

16 June à 18h: Virginia Galvan interprètera des textes issus du site.
Ceci sera complété par une lecture par l'auteur. Ce travail est issu d'une collaboration artistique entre Virginia Galvan, Frédéric Benhaim et Linda Blanchet (Compagnie Hanna R.).  Au Théâtre le Passage vers les étoiles, 17 cité Joly, M° Père Lachaise. Contribution libre, inscription : frederic.benhaim@gmail.com

 

17th June 7pm Join us for a summer’s evening of verse with three wonderful poets – Chris Garrecht-Williams, Tino Villanueva, and Alejandro Murguía, the San Francisco Poet Laureate. BIOS: Alejandro Murguía is the author of Southern Front and This War Called Love (both winners of the American Book Award). His non-fiction book, The Medicine of Memory, highlights the Mission District in the 1970s during the Nicaraguan Solidarity movement. He is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center. He was a founder of The Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade, and co-editor of Volcán: Poetry From Central America. Currently he is a professor in Latina Latino Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of the short story ‘The Other Barrio’ which first appeared in the anthology San Francisco Noir and was recently filmed in the streets of the Mission District. In poetry he has published Spare Poems, and this year a new collection called Native Tongue. He is the Sixth San Francisco Poet Laureate and the first Latino poet to hold the position. Chris Garrecht-Williams has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University, where he was a 2010-2011 Teaching Fellow. He is a Senior Poetry Editor at Narrative Magazine, and his poems have appeared in Forklift: Ohio, The Chattahoochee Review, Beecher's Magazine, The Chiron Review, and elsewhere. Chris Garrecht-Williams will be reading as part of our New Writers’ Series. Tino Villanueva writes and also paints. He is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including: Shaking Off the Dark; Crónica de mis años peores; Scene from the Movie GIANT, which won a 1994 American Book Award; Primera causa / First Cause; and, in 2013, So Spoke Penelope. His poems appear in many high school and college textbooks, and his paintings on the covers and inside pages of U.S. and international cultural journals: Nexos (Mexico City), Green Mountains Review, TriQuarterly, Parnassus, MELUS, Sigila (Paris), and Connecticut Review. Six of his poems have been anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2011). He teaches at Boston University. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/


17 June 19h30- 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/

18 June at 7 p.m. POETS LIVE reading with SUE CHENETTE (Canadian poet), Dylan Harris (British poet and publisher based in Luxemborg) and ANDREW PARKIN (British-Canadian poet who lives part of the year in Paris)! Series Curated by Pansy Maurer-Alvarez. Poetry downstairs at 7.30 sharp, please! Come hear and celebrate the poetry of: Sue Chenette, a classical pianist as well as a poet, grew up in northern Wisconsin, lives in Toronto, and spends time in Paris whenever she can. She is an editor for the Canadian poetry press Brick Books, and co-editor of the anthology Cry Uncle, from Aeolus Press. Her books include Slender Human Weight (Guernica Editions, 2009), long-listed for the ReLit award, and The Bones of his Being (Guernica Editions, 2012), as well as three chapbooks: Solitude in Cloud and Sun, A Transport of Grief, and The Time Between Us, which won the Canadian Poetry Association’s Shaunt Basmajian Award. Her poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in literary journals in Canada and the U.S., and in the Paris journal Upstairs at Duroc. Dylan Harris is a poet, photographer, composer and publisher who was born In 1957 in the UK just before the launch of sputnik in Dublin where he co-founded & co-operated wurm? Im apfel. In Paris he launched poets-live reading series and corrupt Press: http://corruptpress.net/ . In Luxembourg he “hasn’t done much yet”. His books include antwerp and the liberation. of [placeholder] see more works and poetry samples on dylanharris.org.  Andrew Parkin has been an active poet since emigrating from England to Canada in 1970. His rst collection, Dancers in a Web (Turnstone Press, 1987, reprinted 1991), a later one, Hong Kong Poems (Ronsdale,1997, reprinted 1999 ), and most recently Star with a Thousand Moons (Ekstasis) were all published in Canada. A distinguished Canadian critic, Jack Stewart, has published essays on Andrew’s poetry. Andrew has given readings in many dierent countries and has been asked to read in Vancouver in September this year for the Chinese Canadian Writers’ Association. He lives in Paris as well as Canada. AT : Carr’s Pub,1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Métro: Tuileries or Concorde.

18 June 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Stephane Kirkland talks about the making of a modern city in his book Paris Reborn. About the book: The French capital underwent an epic transformation in the second half of the 19th century, led by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, following the vision of Napoleon III. In his book Paris Reborn: Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City, author and architect Stephane Kirkland takes us through the evolution of Paris, the politics of its urban design and the controversy surrounding the massive project. BIO: Stephane Kirkland was born in 1969 just outside Paris. He created an architecture studio in the Midi-Pyrénées region of southwest France, building, among other things, the extension of the junior high school of Pierrefitte-Nestalas (with Pierre Cassou), the public spaces around the medieval Nestalas church, also in Pierrefitte-Nestalas, and a park in Cauterets. He obtained an MBA from the Stern School of Business, New York University, in 2000. He then worked as a strategy consultant at Marakon Associates in London and Amsterdam. In 2002, he joined international energy company Centrica plc, where he occupied roles in strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and general management in London, Paris, New York and Pittsburgh until 2011. In 2012 he returned to Paris to again practice architecture. (Author photo by Brandt Bolding).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

19 June at 19h30: Evenings with an Author: Mark Gerchick In his book, Full Upright and Locked Positions: Not-So-Comfortable Truths about Air Travel Todayaviation expert and former FAA chief counsel Mark Gerchick gives readers an inside view of the changes in air travel since 9/11. He gives a procedural look at how the business works from the inside out, as well as the politics and perspectives on all sides of this issue that affects all air travelers. Gerchick's book is more than a little indicting, yet, as Publisher's Weekly writes, "Gerchick cushions the blow with jokes, asides, and fascinating data. Despite his impressive range of knowledge, Gerchick never bores the reader with mere pedantry. While his book can’t save readers from airport purgatory, the insights provided will make the turbulence a little easier to bear."About The Author Mark Gerchick, an aviation consultant, has advised some of America’s largest airlines and busiest airports over the past fifteen years. A former chief counsel of the Federal Aviation Administration and senior Department of Transportation aviation official, he lives in McLean, Virginia. 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

19 juin à 19h Rencontre avec MICHELLE PERROT, FLORENCE ROCHEFORT et MICHEL BOZON pour leur ouvrage qu’il-elles ont co-coordonné Au bazar du genre : féminin et masculin en Méditerranée (Textuel)Cet ouvrage interroge les multiples façons d’être homme ou femme dans l’espace méditerranéen et redessine les contours d’un ordre des sexes bouleversé : mutations démographiques et maîtrise de la fécondité, revendications des femmes et des minorités sexuelles, rites, normes et nouveaux modèles, représentations culturelles... Chaque chapitre est nourri de textes, de documents et de nombreuses reproductions (affiches, photos, œuvres d’art...). Décrivant le foisonnement représentatif de la variété des interprétations d’une évolution sociétale, ce livre accompagne une exposition du MuCEM à Marseille sur l’évolution de la place du féminin/masculin dans nos sociétés. M. Perrot et F. Rochefort sont historiennes. M. Bozon est sociologue.

20 June 19h30-00h00 Paris Lit Up Open Mic 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. Featured reader this week is Joe Ross. For more visit here

20th June 7pm B.J. Novak (of TV’s “The Office”). B.J. Novak is an actor, writer, and comedian, best known for his contributions to Emmy Award-winning comedy ‘The Office’. In addition to starring as Ryan, the temp-turned-boss-turned-temp, Novak also served as an executive producer for the series and scripted many of the show’s most memorable episodes. Novak has also been featured in films such as Quentin Tarantino’s acclaimed WWII epic, Inglourious Basterds. First discovered as a stand-up comedian, Novak continues to perform live at theatres, clubs, and universities. For this event, he will be workshopping his first book, a work of comedic fiction, scheduled to be published by Knopf in 2014. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

 

20 juin à 19h30 Lecture par Nâzim Boudjenah de « Ici dans ça » de Mathieu Brosseau. « Nous en savons beaucoup trop, bien trop pour être menacés, bien assez pour mourir à petit feu par le poison, nous n'appartenons pas au monde car le monde ne nous appartient pas, il y a une symétrie dans l'exercice de la propriété, un vol a été perpétré, celui d'une parcelle de l'âme, nous possédons ce qui nous possède dans la fiction de nous-mêmes, nous sommes des vendus et la parole nous tient par la gorge, nulle fuite possible, nous revenons d'un pays où nulle propriété ne fait loi, nous sommes en exil et la pensée nous charrie. » Ici dans ça. Page 45. AT : la médiathèque Marguerite Duras  (Paris, 20e). M° Porte de Bagnolet

 

21st June 6pm Join this month’s philosopher in the library, Darren Frey, for Dr. Heidegger or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Both folk psychology and actual empirical research suggest that technology impacts our ways of thinking. Heidegger anticipates such speculation by reflecting on the essence of technology. Instead of merely positing correlations between technology's prominence and certain modes of thinking, he suggests that one's very posture toward the world is brought into question and sometimes framed by technology. The urgent questions, Heidegger argues, do not take the correlative form: eg., Does Facebook weaken one's actual social attachments? This talk will present the questions concerning technology that Heidegger thought were most important while outlining the general contours of his own thought. So it is open to anyone regardless of their background in philosophy. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/


24 June at 19h30—New Directions editor, poet, translator and reviewer for the NYT Review of books JEFFREY YANG and paris-based poet JONATHAN REGIER will be featured authors as Ivy Writers Paris celebrates COLOR TREASURY 002, "Rotation" by Jonathan Regier and Color Treasury 003, Newspaper, a compilation of 25 visual artists and poets, both designed and published by Sarah Lariviere. Readings will include CT003 contributors Jeffrey Yang, Jonathan Regier, Sarah Lariviere, Christine Herzer, Jennifer K Dick and Jacob Bromberg. Bios for our featured authors from Color Treasury: JEFFREY YANG is the author of the poetry books Vanishing-Line and An Aquarium, the translator of Liu Xiaobo's June Fourth Elegies and Su Shi's East Slope, and the editor of Time of Grief: Mourning Poems and Birds, Beasts, & Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions. He works at New Directions Publishing and New York Review of Books.  JONATHAN REGIER’s first book of poetry was published by Six Gallery Press (Pittsburgh, PA) in 2008. He’s now toward the end of his PhD in the history and philosophy of science at Université Paris 7, where he also teaches. Recently, his poetry has appeared in journals such as Diagram, Upstairs at Duroc,  or elimae, and his essays and book reviews have appeared in Drunken Boat and the Huffington Post. He has collaborated with authors, dancers and artists. His new chapbook, Rotation, is a limited-edition handmade art object designed and illustrated by SARAH LARIVIERE, published by her imprint, Color Treasury. Complete bios of all of the readers will be available on the IVY site after June 10th: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com Join our FB group on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/101898279922603/?fref=ts  See more about Color Treasury at: http://colortreasury.tumblr.com/  reading AT: DELAVILLE cafe, 34 blvd Bonne Nouvelle, 75010 Paris, M° Bonne Nouvelle

24 June 19h30- 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/

 

24th June 7.30pm Chris Adrian and Meghan O’Rourke (in collaboration with NYU summer program) Meghan O'Rourke is the author of The Long Goodbye (Riverhead), a memoir about grief, and the poetry collections Once and Halflife (W.W. Norton). A former poetry editor for The Paris Review, she is also a culture critic for Slate magazine and a founding editor of the web site Double X. She is the recipient of the 2008 May Sarton Poetry Prize. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Best American Poetry, 32 Poems, and more. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she grew up. Chris Adrian is the author of a short story collection, A Better Angel, and three novels, Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, and The Great Night. He has received an NEA grant for fiction writing and a Guggenheim Fellowship, was selected as one of The New Yorker's 20 writers under 40, and recently completed training as a Fellow in Pediatric Hematology Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco. He is currently the Warren Adler Visiting Writer in the NYU Creative Writing Program. AT: Shakespeare and Company, 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75005. M° St Michel or Cluny la Sorbonne. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/


25 June 19h: Corrupt Press author launches new book: Lancement du livre m de Lily Robert-Foley/ Book release: m by Lily Robert-Foley; published by Corrupt Press (http://corruptpress.net/ ) M is a collaged poetic exploration and echo in the poetry of Lily Robert-Foley of Samuel Beckett’s works published by Faber & Faber and LES EDITIONS DE MINUIT S.A.: The Unnamable / Poèmes - collages à partir de L’Innommable. Get your copy HOT OFF THE PRESS at this event which will take place AT: La Mutinerie, 176 178 rue Saint Martin, 75003 Paris

 

25 June 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Novelist and Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop Lan Samantha Chang, On Writing As the Director of the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop, Lan Samantha Chang will discuss the art of writing at the Library. Chang is also the 2013 Distinguished Writers-in-Residence with WICE, and will be teaching the fiction/novel course for the WICE 2013 Summer Writing Course.  About the Author Lan Samantha Chang is the author of a collection of short fiction, Hunger, and two novels, Inheritance and All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Her work has been translated into nine languages and has been chosen twice for The Best American Short Stories. Hunger was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Inheritance won the PEN/Beyond Margins Prize for the Novel. She has received creative writing fellowships from Stanford University, Princeton University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Chang lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she is a professor of creative writing at the University of Iowa and Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the first female and Asia American Director of the Workshop. 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

 

26 June at 19h30 Evenings with an Author: David Downie will present his book Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James. 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


26 juin à 19h Rencontre avec GENEVIÈVE GUILPAIN pour la parution de son essai Les célibataires, des femmes singulières (L’Harmattan)Invisibles sur la scène sociale et historique, alors qu’elles se sont souvent exprimés par leurs journaux intimes, leurs fictions ou essais philosophiques et féministes, les femmes célibataires sont d’excellentes observatrices de la scène sociale et du jeu des rapports de sexe. L’auteure présente quelques figures de femmes, du XVIIè au XXIè siècle, et invite à écouter les propos étrangement familiers et actuels qu’elles nous adressent : récits alertes et analyses lucides du fonctionnement d’une société patriarcale qui surveille les aspirations et les comportements jugés hors normes. G. Guilpain est professeure de philosophie et titulaire d’un DEA d’études féministes.

27 juin à 19h30 BILINGUAL ENGLISH FRENCH READING WITH Double Change vous invite à une lecture de Elaine EQUI et Daniel POZNER. A l'occasion de la parution de Trois mots. Daniel Pozner en fera une lecture accompagné de Sarah MAHE-CARMONA aux percussions. BIOS : ELAINE EQUI a publié de nombreux livres de poésie dont Voice-Over qui a remporté le prix San Francisco State Poetry Award, Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, pré-sélectionné pour le L.A. Times Book Award et le Griffin Poetry Prize, et, plus récemment, Click and Clone. Les textes d’Elaine Equi ont paru dans de nombreuses anthologies ainsi que dans des publications comme The Nation, Poetry, The New Yorker, et plusieurs éditions de The Best American Poetry. Elaine Equi enseigne à New York University et dans les programmes de Master of Fine Arts de The New School et du City College of New York. Sur Ripple Effect on peut lire : http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/books/review/skloot.t.html?_r=1& DANIEL POZNER est né en 1971. Après s’être consacré à la biologie évolutive et à l’ornithologie, il a abandonné la recherche scientifique pour l’écriture. Peut-être l’autre bout d’une même lorgnette. Il est l’auteur de plusieurs livres de poèmes, notamment Pft ! (Le Quartanier, 2009), Les animaux de Camin (Derrière la salle de bains, 2009), Le géographe est ailleurs (Passage d’encres, 2010). Anne Portugal écrit de son travail : « Ça se pose là / ça décoiffe là / ça décoince ce qu’il faut / ça craque aux bonnes jointures ». Vient de paraître Trois mots (Le bleu du ciel, 2013). Daniel Pozner lira accompagné de Sarah Mahé-Carmona, aux percussions. SARAH MAHE-CARMONA. Comédienne depuis 15 ans et percussionniste depuis 12, elle marche sur ces deux chemins, qui se rejoignent parfois. Au théâtre, elle travaille « en salle » ou « en rue », notamment avec la Cie L’Échafaudage et la Cie Babylone. Elle découvre les percussions en 1999, d’abord avec la Cie Ensbatucada, dont elle fait toujours partie, puis avec Cie de la Dernière Minute, les Trackers, d’autres encore. Lecture bilingue. Entrée libre. www.doublechange.org  AT : GALERIE JÉRÔME POGGI + OBJET DE PRODUCTION, 115/117, rue La Fayette – 75010 Paris - Tél. : + 33 (0)9 51 02 51 88 M° Gare du Nord ou Poissonnière – Parking Vinci rue des Petits Hôtels http://www.galeriepoggi.com

27 June 19h30-00h00 Paris Lit Up Open Mic 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. Featured reader this week all the way from England is Claire Dyer. For more visit here

27 June: An evening of POETRY and MUSIC to close off the month of Marche de la Poésie’s around the marché events. The final magical evening of the Festival de la Périphérie in which Ireland was particularly honoured during the Marché de la Poésie will take place at the CCI. Poetry by Harry Clifton, Vona Groarke and Derek Mahon and sweet music will be followed by a buffet under the stars, sheltered by the enfolding wings of the historic old Irish College. 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

28 juin 17h, SALON LITÉRAIRE – THÉODOR STORM, accompagnée d’une diffusion du film « Der Schimmelreiter » réalisé par Klaus Gendries (Attention ! Le film ne sera montré qu’en version originale en langue allemande non sous-titrée.). L’auteur de la biographie du poète, Jochen Missfeldt, présentera son livre « Du Graue Stadt Am Meer – Der Dichter Theodor Storm in seinem Jahrhundert ». La soirée se terminera sur un apéritif. Le salon sera tenu en langue allemande. Une interprétation simultanée sera assurée. – Goethe Institut, 17 avenue d’Iéna, 75116 Paris, Métro ligne 9, Iéna, entrée libre.

29 June—REID READ annual poetry translation seminar closes the season for many locals with an annual event, often in the lovely garden at Reid Hall. This year will feature readings by a number of French and Anglophone authors. Details will be posted soon.

A peek into the first days of  JULY :
1 JULY A 20H30 DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL LES IMPROMPTUS / PAVILLON DU LAC - LES BUTTES CHAUMONT "EN AMOUR, IL FAUT TOUJOURS UN PERDANT" FABRICE RAMALINGOM CHOREGRAPHE / EMMANUELLE BAYAMACK-TAM ECRIVAIN  DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL BRUITS BLANCS PLUS D'INFORMATIONS SUR LE FESTIVAL BRUITS BLANCS http://www.lelieudelautre.com/e/festival-bruits-blancs-3/ Jean François Munnier directeur festival concordan(s)e Tel : 06 07 64 17 40
jeff.munnier@free.fr association indisciplinaire(s), 117 rue Saint-Maur 75011 Paris

4 July 19h30-00h00 Paris Lit Up Open Mic 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 visit here

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Part II : WRITING WORKSHOPS in PARIS
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JUNE:
Saturdays JUNE 1, 8 , 15, 22 and 29th: 5pm-7pm The Other Writers’ Group –Come for one or for ALL the sessions! It is up to you! – 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 22 June 17h00-18h30 (ages 12-18) Master Shot Film Club Aspiring filmmakers are invited to join the new film club led by Paris-based film-maker and writer Clarence Tokley. The purpose of this club is to allow budding filmmakers the opportunity to produce high-quality short films. Sign-up is required in ADVANCE of the film club :

JULY and AUGUST: SIGN UP NOW:
Monday 1st July- Friday 5th July THE READER BERLIN TRAVEL WRITING/MEMOIR WORKSHOP: TELLING TALES -THE ART OF CREATING STORIES Course tutors RORY MACLEAN and KIMBERLY BRADLEY will unpick the transformation of our ordinary encounters, epic journeys, family histories and imaginative quests into prose. Both amateur and professional writers are invited to apply – the only requirement is the passion to tell a story. Workshop held at: The Alte Kantine, Uferstrasse 8-11, 13357 Berlin. Cost: €350. More info: http://thereaderberlin.com/?p=622  Contact: hello@thereaderberlin.com

Monday 15th July - Friday 19th July. THE READER BERLIN FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP: WRITING OUTSIDE THE BOX - EXPLOITING YOUR IMAGINATION
Tutors TOD WODICKA and CLARE WIGFALL have been celebrated for the skill with which their work transgresses their own experience. This is a unique opportunity to work alongside two international Berlin-based authors with a working relationship that has spanned almost two decades. Workshop held at: The Alte Kantine, Uferstrasse 8-11, 13357 Berlin. Cost: €350. More info: http://thereaderberlin.com/?p=619  Contact: hello@thereaderberlin.com

ISTANBUL POETRY WORKSHOP WITH CECILIA WOLOCH, August 8 – 14, 2013.  Join American poet Cecilia Woloch for an intensive five-day poetry workshop in the heart of old Istanbul. Workshop participants stay in the lovely hotel Kybele in Sultanahmet, only minutes from the Grand Bazaar, the Blue Mosque, and Topkapi Palace. Workshops meet mornings in the Kybele’s rooftop museum, and focus on new work generated in response to prompts, readings and the sights and sounds of Istanbul. Optional afternoon and evening activities include a Bosphorous cruise, visit to the Spice Bazaar, Sufi dancing, readings and dinners and meetings with local writers and artists. Lodging (shared room), including breakfast daily, plus workshop: $1,600. (A few private rooms are available @ $2,200.) An optional, pre-workshop retreat to the world heritage site Cappadocia is also planned, Aug. 4 – 8, at an additional cost of $700/person, including roundtrip airfare from Istanbul, all airport transfers, lodging, breakfast, several lunches and tours. There are still spaces for seven poets in the workshop, and for four of those poets to join the retreat in Cappadocia. For more information, write to Cecilia (ceciwo@aol.com) with ISTANBUL in the subject line. Cecilia Woloch is an NEA fellow and the author of five award-winning collections of poetry, as well as essays and reviews. For more information, see: ceciliawoloch.com

Monday 12th August - Friday 16th August. THE READER BERLIN SCRIPTWRITING LAB Workshop. The Reader Berlin’s Scriptwriting Lab with DONNA SHARPE and C.J. HOPKINS is an intensive 5-day script development course designed for both beginning and more experienced screenwriters and playwrights. Workshop held at: The Alte Kantine, Uferstrasse 8-11, 13357 Berlin. Cost: €350. More info: http://thereaderberlin.com/?p=614  Contact: hello@thereaderberlin.com

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Part III: NEW REVIEWS AND REVIEWS NEWS:
CALLS FOR WORK, NEW BOOKS and MORE!!!
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CHECK OUT and consider writing for FRANCE REVISITED: edited by Gary Lee Kraut, FRANCE REVISITED is an online magazine that publishes a wide variety of journalistic and creative approaches in exploring life, travel, touring and culture in Paris and throughout France. Written 50% by Gary, 50% by contributors, FRANCE REVISITED presents a fluent mix of information, insights, reviews, personal essays, interviews, commentary, humor, poetry and vignettes, as well as photography and videos. www.francerevisited.com. Like what you read? Want to contribute? Gary likes getting work by people who have a passion for a subject or are particularly creative in their approach to travel and place. Before sending anything, read the site, then see France Revisited's Writer's Guidelines if you are still interested in submitting material:  http://francerevisited.com/contact-2/write-for-us/

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

Artist Asks Strangers & Lovers To Write Him Love Letters: It’s not often we find ourselves writing letters these days, let alone love letters, but that’s exactly what Matthew Rose is asking anyone with a pen, paper, envelope and stamp to do for his exhibition The Letters, taking place at Converge Gallery in Williamsport, Pennsylvania (July 5 – August 31, 2013). The American artist, who lives and works in Paris, France has conceived of an exhibition that is largely dominated with letters, postal ephemeral, words, texts and pictures that are notes and messages to other people, some fictional, some real exploring and reporting via letters on a variety of subjects from love and death and the National Rifle Association to suicide notes in cast-away bottles to a 10-volume set of books entitled, you guessed it, MATTHEW ROSE : THE LETTERS (The Early Years, Dirty Work, Assorted Scandals, etc). In this particular work the artist is asking artists and writers and lovers the world over to write letters care of him and mail them to the gallery. The unopened letters will be displayed for visitors to see and to take with them – unopened. Matthew Rose, known for his full on collage installations and large mail art exhibitions, is also the artist/curator of the global project A Book About Death, a world wide ongoing exhibition of mail art works on the subject of death. Here, though, the artist turns to love. “Unopened love letters touching upon all notions of love – unrequited, fulfilled, missed, forgotten, ongoing, funny, sad, tragic – would be a beautiful homage not just to love but to writing, that somewhat lost art we all used to be engaged in,” says the artist. “Largely anonymous, the letters will connect people in an abstract way, and the tension evoked will be potent and mysterious. It’s not unlike finding a love letter in an old library book. Those emotions are universal and powerful.” The artist adds that each love letter will be rubber stamped with a special logo for the exhibition. Interested writers and lovers of all ages and all places should feel free to send their love letters (from now until 25 August) to: MATTHEW ROSE, c/o Converge Gallery, 140 West Fourth Street, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 17701 United States of America. FOR more information about the exhibition check out our blog. More information about the artist: http://www.convergegallery.com/portfolio/matthew-rose/ And The Letters, which will be posted daily on Tumblr: http://thelettersbymatthewrose.tumblr.com/


SUBMIT NOW: The reading period for Gargoyle #61 opened on June 1, 2013 and will stay open till the issue fills, which may happen quickly. Don't delay!. See full guidelines PLUS announcements for issue 60 out soon at: http://www.gargoylemagazine.com/gargoyle.php

CHECK OUT: Alligatorzine : zine145 > George Schneeman & Ron Padgett Where am I? [artwork] zine144 > John Olson Extreme lectuur [essay] Nederlandse vertaling: Kurt Devrese zine143 > John Olson Five Prose Poems [poetry] zine142 > Clayton Eshleman North Tower Exploding [poetry] AT: http://www.alligatorzine.be

SUBMIT NONFICTION TO 1966—An online journal of creative nonfiction seeks pieces of literary nonfiction with a research component—anything from immersion memoir to nature writing to reportage to travel writing to ?. For submission guidelines visit www.1966journal.org.

Noah Eli Gordon’s new book is OUT from Ahsahta Press.  It's called The Year of the Rooster. Here's a link to a mini-essay on & re-print of some work from the book: http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/own_words/noah_gordon/ there's more info here: http://www.noaheligordon.com/books “Tracking the motions of these witty, reflective poems is like wandering through a chambered nautilus with a Virgil in a crisis of self-doubt about his mission. The nautilus resembles a mirrored city, then a garden, or it's sliced and pinned to the wall as art, or hung up like a human in a suit or skirt whose self-fashioned day is morphing. Audacious and brilliant work.”--Cathy Wagner “In the ocean of images a sonnet tide ebbs and returns while within that fearful symmetry identity picks a way between mirrors and windows grateful that thought has mergeable labels, that adjectives are nouns, and that no things about ideas:  The Year of the Rooster shall be your map and guide.” --Tom Raworth here's the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Rooster-New-Series/dp/1934103403 on SPD: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781934103401/the-year-of-the-rooster.aspx on the publisher's website: https://ahsahtapress.org/product/the-year-of-the-rooster/
 
Submit your books to the 2013 NATIONAL POETRY REVIEW Book Prize: $1,000 plus publication; 2013 Rousseau Prize for Literature: $1,000 plus publication. All entries considered for publication. Last year 7 manuscripts were accepted. TNPR prize deadline: June 30. Rousseau Prize deadline: October 31. Guidelines for TNPR prize at www.nationalpoetryreview.com and for the Rousseau Prize at http://home.comcast.net/~jpdancingbear/rousseauprize.html.

THE READER BERLIN MANUSCRIPT SERVICES offers to help YOU: Founded in Berlin in 2010, in response to a perceived need for writers to gain insightful feedback on their work and its potential, The Reader Berlin has what all writers seek: a careful and judicious eye. Our aim is to support artists in their creativity, offer them mentoring, honest feedback and advice. Services include manuscript assessment, proof-reading, translation, services for screenwriters and playwrights as well as seminars, creative writing courses and intensive workshops. More info at http://thereaderberlin.com/ or drop us an email at hello@thereaderberlin.com

Broken Pencil COMICS magazine is out now : Issue #59 of BP Now available! Comic-stravaganza featuring a profile of kickass comic publisher Annie Koyama, Mark Connery on his zine doodle style, all new original comics and a cover designed by John Martz! Plus: The new direction of indigenous indie artists and the winners of our 2013 Indie Writers' Deathmatch. And, of course, the latest in zines, books & independent creations. Two ways to get the latest issue in your hands asap: 1) Subscribe to Broken Pencil Magazine! 2) Buy the digital edition of BP which you can read on your computer, iThingy, Android device and other gizmos.

STAGING GROUND MAG announces they have published online our first installment of Translation Caravanserai -- Melina Kameric translated from the Bosnian by Jennifer Zoble; Edmond Amran El Maleh translated from the French by Lucy McNair; and Kim Cheom Seon translated from the Korean by Matt Reeck and Angela Choi. Please check it out -- http://staginggroundmag.com/ Staging Ground Magazine also accepts submissions of translations and original work—to see more, look at their site or request info at:  info@staginggroundmag.com

Call for work: The Volta “trash” issue…Is it peace, /Is it a philosopher's honeymoon, one finds / On the dump?”—Wallace Stevens. Where was it, as Wallace Stevens asked, that we first heard “the the”—and what are the ongoing costs of our constant negotiations between what matters and what appears to be mere matter? We are seeking poetry, poetics, audio, images, film, reviews, interviews, and conversations for a January 2014 special issue of The Volta on the topic of “trash." Garbage. Junk. Waste. Refuse. Rubbish. Despite a 50-year-old modern environmental movement, we send more of it to landfills and incinerators today than ever before. Perhaps your work takes up directly the problem of the proliferation of physical trash. Or, perhaps you approach the topic at a slant, grappling with related concepts or experimenting with an aesthetics of trashiness; wasting; value and (de)valuation, worth and worthlessness; transience, reusing, remixing, recycling; toxicity and contamination; abjection, excess, disgust. Consider sending completed projects, documents, or work-in-progress for consideration. We are looking for previously unpublished work to (land)fill The Volta’s various territories: Evening Will Come (poetics), Friday Feature (reviews), Heir Apparent (long poem or series), Medium (film), They Will Sew the Blue Sail (poetry), Take Down the Clouds (interviews). That said, we’re also interested in “trashing” the usual format a bit, featuring work that does not fit neatly into any component part. For poetry, poetics, audio, images, and/or film: please attach your work or link us to your files. For documents on works-in-progress or completed projects, reviews, interviews, and/or conversations: please query first. Send your materials to both angelamariehume@gmail.com and lmullen@lsu.edu. The deadline to submit is September 1, 2013. We look forward to hearing from you! —Angela Hume and Laura Mullen, curators / dumpster divers See more on The Volta at http://www.thevolta.org

Susan M Schultz’s new book is out!  "She's Welcome to Her Disease": Dementia Blog, Volume Two_ from Singing Horse Press. "SHE'S WELCOME TO HER DISEASE" [DEMENTIA BLOG, VOLUME TWO] is Susan M. Schultz's follow-up to the highly successful DEMENTIA BLOG (Singing Horse Press, 2008). Continuing the blog format of the first book, Schultz's new book tracks the final stages of her mother's battle with Alzheimer's disease. "Schultz brings to her sad and difficult project an impressive range of writing abilities; she gestures through theatre, choreography, poetry, medical, critical, and philosophical exposition, and yet manages to shape this all into an accessible and engaging journal. It is a poignant treatise on dementia written with grace and compassion, as well as a story that honors death and dying with intelligence and art."—Fred Wah. Susan M. Schultz is a poet, critic, and publisher who lives in Kane`ohe, Hawai`i on the island of O`ahu. She is author of ADDENDA (Meow Press, 1998), ALEATORY ALLEGORIES (Salt Publishing, 2000), MEMORY CARDS AND ADOPTION PAPERS (Potes & Poets Press, 2001), And Then Something Happened (Salt Publishing, 2004), No Guns, No Durian (Tinfish Press, 2004), A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 2005), DEMENTIA BLOG (Singing Horse Press, 2008), MEMORY CARDS: 2010-2011 SERIES (Singing Horse Press, 2011) and "SHE'S WELCOME TO HER DISEASE" [DEMENTIA BLOG, VOLUME TWO] (Singing Horse Press, 2013); and she edited The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 1995). She edits Tinfish Press and teaches at the University of Hawai`i-Manoa. TO ORDER: Please have a look here: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780935162516/quotshe39s-welcome-to-her-diseasequot-dementia-blog-volume-two.aspx
EVIL GIRLFRIEND MEDIA—call for STORIES for anthology. Do you love a great story with witches, vampires, or zombies? We are looking for stories between 5,000–15,000 words for our series, Three Little Words. We pay $20 per story with bonuses. Submit to evil…Visit www.evilgirlfriendmedia.com.

POETRY AND MUSIC? Yes--DARK TREE records is proud to announce its new release: STEVE DALACHINSKY • JOËLLE LÉANDRE “THE BILL HAS BEEN PAID” STEVE DALACHINSKY  voice and words, plus JOËLLE LÉANDRE  double bass, voice  €15 (free shipping worldwide) Feel free to visit our website (www.darktree-records.com) for more info, soundclips and/or to order your copy!

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


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 See May listings or this link for more info and to order!

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!

SUBMIT or SUBSCRIBE TO: Sand Journal: ''Our Rainbow-Colored Beauty: SAND 7 is out already - Haven't had a chance to check out SAND 7 yet? Get your copy of their beautiful translation-themed issue at in Berlin or email sales@sandjournal.com to order a copy. Check them out and then send in YOUR work for their next issue!!!!

JUST OUT ! : "ANTHOLOGIE DE LA POESIE GRECQUE, 1975-2005", Kostas Nassikas et Demosthene Agrafiotis. bilingue, traduit du Grec par Kostas Nassikas et Herve Bauer. L Harmattan,(levee d ancre), 2012. ISBN:978-2-296-56907-2.

THE FIRST ANNUAL Best American Experimental Writing (“BAX”) anthology, to be published in the spring of 2014 by Omnidawn, is open for submissions until November 15. Guest editor: Cole Swensen; Series editors: Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani. Submit 9 pages or 3 pieces for $9. For details, visit our website: www.omnidawn.com/bax.

Berlin-based poet Catherine Hales has a new collection, feasible strategems, out now from London publisher Veer Books http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/Veer_Publications/Veer052 and makes an appearance in the relaunched magazine Molly Bloom, edited by Aidan Semmens, who read at the 2012 Poetry Hearings http://mollybloompoetry.weebly.com/catherine-hales.html

UP ONLINE NOW: The June issue of The Volta is alive. Evening Will Come is guest edited by Kate Bernheimer on for a special issue on Book Magic, and includes contributions from: Matt Bell, Sara Blackman, Rikki Ducornet, Tara Goedjen, Lily Hoang, Noy Holland, Michael Martone, Ashley McWaters,  Alissa Nutting, Brian Oliu, Dawn Raffel, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Lucas Southworth, Vanessa Vaselka, Joni Wallace, & Kellie Wells. Heir Apparent: a suite from Stephanie Ann Whited In Review: Robert Archambeau on the ouvre of C.S. Giscombe  The Conversant: conversations and interviews, featuring Andy Fitch with Amaranth Borsuk, Bhanu Kapil, Lisa Robertson, Lytle Shaw, & Eleni Sikelianos; Krystal Languell with Erica Doyle; Cynthia Arrieu-King with Kate & Max Greenstreet; Jeffrey Williams with William Spanos & Adolph Reed; HL Hix with Juliana Spahr, Lisa Fishman, Kristi Maxwell, & Jacqueline Jones LaMon; Miranda Mellis with Frances Richard; Nature Theatre of Oklahoma with Tom Sellar; Virginia Konchan with Vanessa Place; Rusty Morrison with Paul Hoover & Cyrus Console; Jon Curley with Michael Heller; Douglas A. Martin and Michael Klein; J'Lyn Chapman with J.Hillis Miller; Philip Metres and Alexander Mkarov-Krotkov; Thomas Fink with Jill Magi; Mark Allen with Brody Condon; and Luke Fidler with Anthony Opal They Will Sew the Blue Sail: poems by Andrew Joron, Jane Lewty, & Rob Schlegel Medium: Brandon Downing reads from Mellow Actions just out from Fence And Khadijah Queen Takes Down the Clouds http://www.thevolta.org

Submit! CHUFFED BUFF BOOKS invites fresh poetry submissions on theme of cities for next anthology. Send up to 3 poems, max 80 lines each. We pay £4 per poem. Also considering science-inspired novella/novelettes (15,000-25,000 words) for possible anthology, send us your pitch—synopsis and first 2 chapters. (No fees.) Visit www.chuffedbuffbooks.com.

Submit! 9TH ANNUAL Burnside Review Poetry Chapbook Prize. Judge: Ed Skoog. Runs March 15–June 30. Winner receives $200 and 10 copies of the published chapbook. Letterpressed covers. Beautiful design. 18–24 pages of poetry. Entry fee: $15. Complete details are available on our website, www.burnsidereview.org.
       
WOMEN WHO WRITE 2013 International Poetry & Short Prose Contest. Deadline: June 30. First, second and third place winners selected in prose and poetry, 6 winners total. First prize: $300 and publication in 20th Annual Calliope anthology. Open to all women 18+. Complete rules and guidelines at www.womenwhowrite.com.

AND to end--a little quote from the Writers' Digest "72 of the Best Quotes for Writers" page:  “Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.” —Ray Bradbury, WD