OCT 2013 Readings + Events List for PARIS (UPDATED 8 Oct 2013!!!!)
Part I) Paris Events and READINGS by date in OCTOBER
Part II) Writing, and Theater Workshops in Paris this month
Part III) AMAZING News Reviews and Reviews News: publications, CALLS FOR WORK, new books and more!
*Note: event details will be regularly
updated, so check back!
(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for Nov 2013 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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(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for Nov 2013 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: Oct readings and events by DATE:
1 October 2013—IVY Writers
Paris invites you to a bilingual reading with Jerome Rothenberg and Yves di
Manno BIOS: Jerome Rothenberg
is an internationally known poet with over eighty books of poems and twelve
assemblages of traditional and avant-garde poetry such as Technicians of the
Sacred and Poems for the Millennium. Recent books in French include Yves di
Manno’s translation of Techniciens du Sacré and Jean Portante’s translation of
Pologne/1931. His most recent assemblage of his own poems is Eye of
Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, and he is now working on a global and
historical anthology of “outside and subterranean poetry.”. At one point in his
life, Rothenberg was the theorist of the deep image group of poets. He has
received most of the awards one can think of, fellowships to residencies, etc,
and was even elected to the World Academy of Poetry (UNESCO) in 2001. A
complete bio may be found at: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/rothenberg/bio.html Yves di Manno est
né dans le Rhône en 1954. Il vit et travaille à Paris. Depuis les
années 1970, il a collaboré à de nombreuses revues, traduit plusieurs poètes
nord-américains (William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, George Oppen, Jerome
Rothenberg…) et publié une vingtaine d'ouvrages — parmi lesquels, pour la
poésie : Les Célébrations (Bedou, 1980), Champs (Flammarion, 1984-1987),
Kambuja (Flammarion, 1992), Partitions (Flammarion, 1995) et Un Pré, chemin
vers (Flammarion, 2003). Une nouvelle suite : Terre sienne, paraît en 2012 aux
éditions Isabelle Sauvage. Ses récits complets ont été réunis sous le titre de
Disparaître (Didier Devillez, 1997). Il est également l'auteur d’un roman
fantastique : La Montagne rituelle (Flammarion, 1998), de deux « récits en rêve
» : Domicile (Denoël, 2002), Discipline (Ed. Héloïse d’Ormesson, 2005) et de deux
traités de poétique active : « endquote » (Flammarion, 1999), Objets d’Amérique
(José Corti, 2009). Traducteur sous divers pseudonymes de littérature
populaire, responsable de la version française des Techniciens du sacré de
Jerome Rothenberg (José Corti, 2008) et de l’édition des Œuvres complètes de
Pierre Reverdy, il dirige par ailleurs la collection Poésie/Flammarion, où il a
accueilli plus de cent-vingt titres depuis 1994. Il prépare actuellement un
nouvel essai de poétique : No man’s land et la troisième édition révisée des
Cantos d’Ezra Pound. AT: LE NEXT, 17 rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris, M°
Etienne Marcel. join the IVY email list at ivywritersparis AT gmail DOT com and
we will send you the location and information for forthcoming events. OR
see our blog at http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com
1 Oct 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Anthony Flint present his upcoming narrative biography The
Raven: The Life of Le Corbusier, Maker of the Modern. 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
2 October 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Max Bryd talks about his best-selling crime novel "Paris Deadline". 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
2 octobre à 19h Rencontre avec LÉONORA MIANO pour la parution de son roman La saison de l’ombre (Grasset) Dans ce roman puissant, L. Miano revient sur la traite négrière pour faire entendre la voix de celles et ceux à qui elle a volé un être cher. L’histoire de l’Afrique sub-saharienne s’y drape dans une prose magnifique et mystérieuse, imprégnée de mysticisme, de croyances et de “l’obligation d’inventer pour survivre”. L’auteure se replace magistralement dans le contexte de l’époque, du point de vue de ceux et celles qui sont restées dans les villages après avoir vu des hommes “évaporés dans l’air”. L. Miano est née à Douala et vit en France. Nous l’avons reçue à plusieurs reprises à Violette and Co pour ses romans précédents dont Contours du jour qui vient (Prix Goncourt des lycéens). AT : Violette et 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/
2 October 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Max Bryd talks about his best-selling crime novel "Paris Deadline". 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
2 octobre à 19h Rencontre avec LÉONORA MIANO pour la parution de son roman La saison de l’ombre (Grasset) Dans ce roman puissant, L. Miano revient sur la traite négrière pour faire entendre la voix de celles et ceux à qui elle a volé un être cher. L’histoire de l’Afrique sub-saharienne s’y drape dans une prose magnifique et mystérieuse, imprégnée de mysticisme, de croyances et de “l’obligation d’inventer pour survivre”. L’auteure se replace magistralement dans le contexte de l’époque, du point de vue de ceux et celles qui sont restées dans les villages après avoir vu des hommes “évaporés dans l’air”. L. Miano est née à Douala et vit en France. Nous l’avons reçue à plusieurs reprises à Violette and Co pour ses romans précédents dont Contours du jour qui vient (Prix Goncourt des lycéens). AT : Violette et 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/
2 oct
à 19h30 7€ (entrée libre pour étudiants et demandeurs d'emploi)
Réservation conseillée Concert pop-rock The Unusual History of Ether The
Unusual History of Ether est né de la collaboration entre la chanteuse et
compositrice irlandaise Rebecca Collins et le guitariste danois Mikkel Ploug
– rejoints en tournée par le bassiste Jeppe Skovbakke et le batteur Jeppe Gram.
Oscillant entre rock alternatif, pop et folk, les délicats morceaux
de leur premier EP - Part One - explorent les thèmes de la vie humaine et du
monde naturel. Pour la presse danoise, Part One est un opus « à vous couper le souffle » et «
beau à vous fendre le cœur ». Ce concert au CCI fait suite à la sortie du
premier album du groupe, A Distant Age. Découvrez un extrait de
l'album, ainsi que la prestation
du groupe lors de l'émission « The Works » (RTE) ! AT THE CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS, PARIS
3 octobre 2013 à 19h - Entrée libre Gerald Petit « Conversation Pieces » Launch of the artist's monograph, readings and discussions in the presence of the authors, Judicaël Lavrador, Laurent Montaron, Gerald Petit. more AT Fondation d'entreprise Ricard 12 rue Boissy d'Anglas 75008 Paris www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com
3 octobre 2013 à 19h - Entrée libre Gerald Petit « Conversation Pieces » Launch of the artist's monograph, readings and discussions in the presence of the authors, Judicaël Lavrador, Laurent Montaron, Gerald Petit. more AT Fondation d'entreprise Ricard 12 rue Boissy d'Anglas 75008 Paris www.fondation-entreprise-
3 October @ 19:30h – PLU
Open Mic featuring Lisa Pasold: poet, novelist, and occasional TV
travel show host, her most recent book, Any Bright Horse, was nominated for a
Governor General’s Literary Award in Canada. She divides her time between Paris
and New Orleans. Every Thursday (in English or other languages – when in Rome,
speak French). Sign up is continuous all night, first come first served.
Rotating hosts JFMcG, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene. AT: the historic home of
French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more
information see: http://parislitup.com/event/plu-open-mic-featuring-jo-bell/
3 Oct at 6:30: The latest gorgeous Cahier 22, Paul Griffith's A Titled Cup, is out from the Center of Writers and Translators. We will be celebrating Griffith's short stories inspired by Japanese plays and John L. Tran's beautiful contemporary photographs of Japan. I'm looking forward to seeing you at this special event! BIO Paul Griffiths was born in Wales in 1947 and worked for thirty years as a music critic in London and New York. He is known particularly as a writer on new and recent music, his Modern Music and After, now in its third edition, being the standard work on music since 1945. Among his fictional writings are an Oulipian novel, let me tell you, and the libretto of Elliott Carter’s only opera, What Next? AT: the Grand Salon, AUP 31 av Bosquet, 75007.
3 Oct at 6:30: The latest gorgeous Cahier 22, Paul Griffith's A Titled Cup, is out from the Center of Writers and Translators. We will be celebrating Griffith's short stories inspired by Japanese plays and John L. Tran's beautiful contemporary photographs of Japan. I'm looking forward to seeing you at this special event! BIO Paul Griffiths was born in Wales in 1947 and worked for thirty years as a music critic in London and New York. He is known particularly as a writer on new and recent music, his Modern Music and After, now in its third edition, being the standard work on music since 1945. Among his fictional writings are an Oulipian novel, let me tell you, and the libretto of Elliott Carter’s only opera, What Next? AT: the Grand Salon, AUP 31 av Bosquet, 75007.
4 Oct
from 19h : La librairie Michèle Ignazi a le plaisir de vous inviter à une
rencontre avec Diego Vecchio A l'occasion de la parution
OURS (Editions
l'Arbre vengeur) AT: la librairie Michèle Ignazi, 4 rue de Jouy, 75004
Paris, M° St Paul
4 et 5 octobre 9-18h both
days : Colloque Kertész, Paris, Collège de France et ENS : 4 octobre (Collège de
France, amphithéatre Marguerite de Navarre) Matin 9h15-10h30 Ouverture
à trois voix, Catherine Coquio, Lucie Campos, Clara Royer suivi par la session « L’œuvre d’Imre Kertész en contexte
politique et littéraire »De 10h30-13h. Après-midi : session “Création littéraire et connaissance
philosophique”14h30-16h30. 17h-
18h (Présidence Paul Gradvohl) Conférence László Földényi (en hongrois avec
traduction) 18h-18h45 Dialogue entre L. Földényi et Charles & Nathalie
Zaremba 20h Accueil à l’Institut Hongrois par Balázs Ablonczy. 5 OCT : AT ENS-Ulm, salle Dussane
Matin : Éthique et forme 9h--11h15.
11h30-12h30 Table ronde « Nouvelles lectures critiques » présidée par Emmanuel
Bouju : Gabrielle Napoli (La fable rêvée du survivant), Claire Laloyaux (Le
vertige de la forme souveraine), Christiane Page (Usages de la scène). Après-midi : session « L’écriture de la
vie » 14h-18h
4 octobre à 19h Rencontre avec CATHERINE
ACHIN et LAURE BERENI pour la parution de leur ouvrage Dictionnaire
genre et science politique (Presses de Sciences Po) Les études de genre
constituent un champ d’étude dynamique qui offre des clés pour revisiter des
disciplines traditionnelles. Les 43 notices qui composent ce dictionnaire
mettent en lumière le rôle central de la différence des sexes dans
l’élaboration de théories dans la science politique, de politiques publiques,
de mouvements sociaux, les inégalités à l’œuvre dans les différents partis etc.
Cet ouvrage est la première synthèse globale en français dans ce domaine et
vient combler un manque dans la recherche. AT : Violette et 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 oct 15h Traversée de la poèsie sud-africaine 1960-2013 à deux voix, trois langues et un saxophone, avec Sonia Emmanuel et Steve Potts including Denis Hirson AT : Bibliothèque St Eloi, 23 rue du Colonel Rozanoff, 75012 Paris
5 oct 15h Traversée de la poèsie sud-africaine 1960-2013 à deux voix, trois langues et un saxophone, avec Sonia Emmanuel et Steve Potts including Denis Hirson AT : Bibliothèque St Eloi, 23 rue du Colonel Rozanoff, 75012 Paris
5 Oct at
7pm A wonderful weekend reading moment with poets Denis Hirson, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, John Mateer
and Kathryn Maris will be reading
Saturday! AT: Martha's Place, 26 rue du Chalet in the 10th. Metro
Belleville
5 October 2013 9.am to 6.30pm BLOOM: New to Paris? The Bloom Progam helps
English-speaking newcomers settle into their new life in Paris. Since
1970, the Women of the American Church have sponsored Bloom Where You’re
Planted – How to Live in France. These seminars, designed to assist
English-speaking newcomers to France, feature speakers and/or workshops on
various topics from food and wine tasting to health care and general safety,
need-to-know subjects and just plain fun. Bloom helps with understanding
cultural differences, creating a new life in Paris and getting connected with
friends and organizations throughout Paris and the surrounding areas. This
year's program includes: Speakers, including Patricia Wells, and workshops
Author signing with Cara Black Bloom Book and a goodies bag. For full
programme, see http://bloom.acparis.org/bloom-program/current-program/ AT:
American Church of Paris, 65 quai d'Orsay, 75007 Paris Registration
required—forms at: http://bloom.acparis.org/bloom-program/bloom-registration/
5 Oct10h00-19h00 and 6 October 13h00-19h00 Used Book Sale at the American Library of Paris. 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 Oct10h00-19h00 and 6 October 13h00-19h00 Used Book Sale at the American Library of Paris. 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
7 Oct from 7.30pm
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/
7 Oct at 20h Tous
les lundis soirs, des amoureux de la poésie et du partage se retrouvent.
Pendant cette soirée, totalement coupés du monde, des poètes viennent lire
leurs textes à qui veulent les entendre dans ce lieu est ouvert à tous. Pas de
réservation ni d’inscription : ici le maitre mot c’est liberté. Chaque soirée
débute par un lecture de textes autour d’un thème, d’un poète ou d’un hommage
précis. Ensuite, c’est quartier libre, les auditeurs peuvent devenir acteurs de
la soirée en lisant les poèmes qu’ils souhaitent, qu’ils les aient écrits ou
non. C’est en 1993 que ce cercle des poètes a commencé à se réunir dans la
salle La Bohème du Théâtre des Déchargeurs. L’ambiance y est conviviale, pas du
tout guindée. Souvent la soirée se termine en chansons autour du piano ! Nous
vous conseillons de tenter l’expérience, si elle ne vous plait pas, rien ne
vous oblige à y retourner. Mais nous elle ne nous a pas laissé indifférente.
Une participation est demandée à l’entrée pour les boissons servis pendant la
soirée. 8 € (avec boissons et en-cas à la pause) AT : la cave à poèmes Théâtre des
Déchargeurs, salle La Bohème, 3 rue des déchargeurs dans le 1er arrondissement,
www.cave-a-poemes.org
8 October 19h30 Curator Jerry Fielder presents the life of famed portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh. Program dates and speakers are subject to change. Please check the website for updates, see the Events and Programs page. 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
8 octobre 2013 à 19h - Entrée libre Invitations
to the Imagination «L'enromancement de la crise» Michel Maffesoli invites Gaspard Koenig,
writer, and Aurélien Fouillet, researcher at CEAQ. AT Fondation d'entreprise Ricard 12 rue Boissy
d'Anglas 75008 Paris www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com
8th to 14th October. THEATRE "Blood
Links" by William Lang. Performed in English with French
subtitles at the Théâtre
de la Cité Internationale.
9th Oct 3pm Children’s
Hour with Kate Stables 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 Co Paris, 37 Rue de la
Bucherie 75005 Paris
9 oct à 18h30 Double signature pour le lancement de deux BD
! BLAN et GALOU pour La p’tite
Blan. Guide de survie en milieu sexiste (éd. Blandine Lacour) + OCÉANEROSEMARIE et SANDRINE REVEL pour La
lesbienne invisible (Delcourt Après des aventures très
autobiographiques, La p’tite Blan est de retour avec autant d’humour pour vous
aider à survivre dans une société hautement sexiste : conseils pratiques,
décorticage des idées reçues, répliques cultes et mortelles... Le livre
comporte une préface décapante de Virginie Despentes. Quant à Océanerosemarie
elle revient avec l’adaptation de son spectacle La lesbienne invisible
en BD avec la complicité de la dessinatrice Sandrine Revel. Réussi et
jubilatoire ! AT : Violette et 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/
10 October @ 19:30h – PLU Open Mic featuring Louis Armand and Thor
Garcia: two writers from Equus Press and proud residents of Prague, Louis Armand and Thor Garcia, invade PLU for the second
time. Every Thursday (in English or other languages –
when in Rome, speak French). Sign up is continuous all night, first come first
served. Rotating hosts JFMcG, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene. AT: the historic
home of French Slam poetry, Culture
Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix,
75020. For more information see: http://parislitup.com/event/plu-open-mic-featuring-louis-armand-and-thor-garcia/
10 octobre à
19h - Entrée libre Urban Liturgys , Philippe Vasset «Prophéties»,
shortcuts by Alain Della Negra and Kaori Kinoshita. Last
screening of the serie about the transfigured city on the occasion of the
publication of the book « La conjuration » by Philippe Vasset. Projection
in the presence of the author, 5 boulevard Malesherbes, Paris 75008 (near the
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard) more AT Fondation d'entreprise Ricard 12 rue Boissy d'Anglas 75008 Paris www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com
10th Oct 7pm Kathleen
Spivack on Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton in Lowell’s Early Workshop:
Fierce Friendships and Raw Rivalries The friendships and rivalries among the
poets, especially Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, in Robert Lowell's circle in
Boston were complex and multi-layered. Respect, help, support, competition,
jealousy, and even a suicide pact were some of the aspects. Kathleen Spivack
will read from her book, With Robert Lowell and His Circle, and add her own insights into what she, as a
young writer in Lowell’s workshop, personally observed through her own
long-term friendships with the poets involved. In 1959, Kathleen Spivack won a
scholarship to study at Boston University with the poet Robert Lowell. Her
fellow students included Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton among others. In her
book, Kathleen Spivack tells the story of her time among some of the most
esteemed artists of a generation. She looks at friendships, addiction, despair,
perseverance and survival, and how social changes altered lives and
circumstances. AT: Shakespeare and Co Paris, 37 Rue de la
Bucherie 75005 Paris
12 oct à
partir de 9 h-13h and 14h30 to 17h30. Journée d'étude de la
revue Marges, consacré aux "temps" de
l'art. Il sera question d’interroger les différentes
temporalités des mondes de l’art contemporain dans leur articulation et leur
confrontation. Il s’agira de questionner les rapports temporels – de synchronie
et/ou de diachronie – entre la conception, la production et la réception des
différentes pratiques artistiques contemporaines. L’un des enjeux de la (des)
temporalité(s) de l’oeuvre d’art est de relever son action pragmatique, ses
conséquences factuelles, sociales, sur une culture qui tend à se globaliser.
Quelles sont les conséquences des temporalités des oeuvres d’art sur leur mode
d’existence, sur les rapports entre l’artistique et l’esthétique ? Quels sont
les mécanismes qui induisent le travail du temps, qu’il soit latent, implicite
ou au contraire revendiqué par l’artiste et de quelle manière cela
questionne-t-il le statut de l’oeuvre ? Organized by Stéphane Reboul AT; l'INHA Salle
Giorgio Vasari, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris (Métro Bourse)
12 Oct—from 7pm: Please
join us for a special English language poetry (with translations) event in
honor of the release of VLAK literary review No. 4! Readers at the event will include: Louis Armand, Jennifer
K. Dick, Andrew Hodgson, Jane Lewty, David Vichnar &
surprise guests including MUSIC!
VLAK is an international curatorial project with a broad focus on contemporary
poetics, art, film, philosophy, music, science, design, politics, performance,
ecology, and new media. BIOS: LOUIS ARMAND is a Sydney-born writer & visual artist
who has lived in Prague since 1994. He has worked as an editor, publisher, art
consultant & curator, & as a
subtitles technician at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival; currently he lectures
in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University & is an editor of VLAK
magazine. He has published five novels,Breakfast at Midnight (Equus, 2012),
Clair Obscur(Equus, 2011), Menudo (Antigen, 2005), The Garden(Salt, 2001) and
most recently Canicule (Equus, 2013). In addition, he is the author of seven
collections of poetry–most recently, Letters from Ausland (Vagabond, 2011)
& Synopticon (with John Kinsella; Litteraria, 2012)–& of a number of
volumes of criticism, including Solicitations: Essays on Criticism &
Culture (Litteraria, 2008). His poetry has appeared in the anthologies Thirty
Australian Poets, The Best Australian Poems,Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian
Poets & The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry. In 1997 he received the
Max Harris Prize (Adelaide) and in 2000 the Nassau Review Prize (New York).
Louis Armand’s paintings have been exhibited at Art Prague, with solo shows at
Galery ArtNatur, Gallerie Gambit, Hunger Gallery & Indigo Space. His
screenplay forClair Obscur won honourable mention at the 2009 Alpe Adria
Trieste International Film Festival. He is the founder of the Prague
Micro-Festival. #### JENNIFER K DICK is the
author of CIRCUITS (Corrupt Press, 2013), ENCLOSURES (BlazeVox eBook, 2007),
FLUORESCENCE (Univ of GA Press, 2004), and 3 chapbooks including BETWIXT
(Corrupt, 2012), TRACERY (Dusie, 2012) and RETINA/Rétine(Estepa Editions,
France, w/art by Kate Van Houten, tr. R. Bouthonnier). CONVERSION, A new art-chapbook
is forthcoming in fall 2013 with Estepa Editions and Kate Van Houten. Jennifer
teaches at Université of Haute Alsace in Mulhouse, France. She also
co-organizes Ivy Writers Reading Series in Paris, the Ecrire l'Art
mini-residency at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, is a poetry editor for VERSAL out of
Amsterdam, writes regular poetics articles for Tears in the Fence and reviews
for Drunken Boat. In addition to her poetry, she is co-editor with Stephanie
Schwerter of the translation theory books Transmissibilityand Cultural
Transfer: Dimensions of Translation in the Humanities (Ibidem Verlag,
Stuttgart, 2012) and Traduire - transmettre ou trahir - réflexions sur la
traduction en sciences humaines (Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme,
Paris, 2013). An essay on Susan Howe’s documentary poetics and essay writing is
just out onSeventeen Seconds, issue 7, at: http://www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds/ New poems are forthcoming this fall in Tears in the Fence (UK), Vlak
(Prague), Similar Peaks and other magazines. #### JANE LEWTY
is the author of Bravura Cool (1913 Press: 2013),
the co-editor of Broadcasting Modernism (University Press of Florida, 2009) and
Pornotopias: Image, Apocalypse, Desire(Litteraria Pragensia, 2010). Her poems,
reviews and essays have appeared, or will be appearing in, The Blackwell Companion
to James Joyce (2008), Blazevox, MAKE, Otoliths,The Laurel Review, The Iowa
Review, VOLT, The Volta, Blackbox Manifold, and others. She is a poetry editor
for VERSAL magazine out of Amsterdam and for VLAK. She has been the recipient
of an Iowa Arts Fellowship and the Ailene Barger Barnes Award from the Iowa
Writers’ Workshop (2009). She has held faculty positions at University College
London, the University of Northern Iowa, and currently is an Assistant
Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Amsterdam.
####DAVID VICHNAR is the author of Joyce Against Theory (Litteraria Pragensia,
2010). He is a co-editor of VLAK: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts and an
editor and publisher wthi Equus books. He is completing a PhD in comparative
lit. DRINKS at 7pm and the READINGS starting
at 7:30pm. As this reading will be hosted in a home, please RSVP by email AT
LEAST 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE for the complete address and info to david.vichnar AT
gmail.com . The address will be on Villa
Marcel Lods, 75019 Paris (off passage de l’Atlas)
12th October at 7 pm.
"Daughter of Gaia - The 7 Lives of a Celtic Goddess Told
Through Storytelling and Song." Performed in English by Chloé Dunn.
Théâtre de Nesle 8 rue de Nesle 75006.
Until 13th October "Macbeth" by
Shakespeare. Performed in French. Directed by Laurent Pelly. For
evening performances, there is a navette from the RER directly to the theatre
before and after the show. Théâtre Nanterre
Amandiers link. 7, avenue
Pablo Picasso 92022 Nanterre.
Sunday 13th October. From 12 pm to 4 pm SOS Book Sale Books for 1 and 2 euros. at Orrick Law Offices 31, avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie 75016 Paris
13th Oct 7pm The
Living Library: A living library aims
at providing an opportunity to question prejudices and stereotypes and let real
stories emerge. It has been conceived for transcultural dialogue, where the
‘living books’ are individuals, ready to respond with the utmost sincerity to the
questions of their readers. Transeuropa
Paris’s living library will adapt the concept in an attempt to break prejudices
on precarity as a result of the economic crisis and share perspectives on
coping strategies. Our living books, imported from Paris, Amsterdam, and
London, were all affected by the experience of precarity or even exclusion, but
also developed resilient strategies and displayed resourcefulness, adaptation,
and innovation, often challenging traditional employment models. AT: Shakespeare
and Co Paris, 37 Rue de la Bucherie 75005 Paris
14 Oct 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/
14th Oct 7pm The Breakfast Bible with Seb Emina & David Lebovitz.
Join us for an informative and unorthodox discussion of all things (well, lots
of things) breakfast-y with Seb Emina, author of the highly acclaimed The
Breakfast Bible and creator of much-loved blog The London Review of Breakfasts,
and legendary Paris-based cook, author, and blogger David Lebovitz. When it
comes to the most important meal of the day, The Breakfast Bible is the book to
end all books, a delectable selection of recipes, advice, illustrations, and
miscellany. The recipes in the robust volume begin with the iconic full English
– which can mean anything as long as there are eggs, bacon, sausages,
mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding, bread, potatoes, and beans involved –
before moving confidently on to more exotic fare such as kedgeree, omelette Arnold
Bennett, waffles, American muffins, porridge, roast peaches, channa masala from
India, borek from the Balkans, and pães de queijo from South America. There are
also useful tips like the top songs for boiling an egg to, and how to store
mushrooms. Check out The London Review of Breakfasts David Lebovitz began
working in restaurants at the age of sixteen, ending up at Chez Panisse in
Berkeley, California, where he worked with Alice Waters and co-owner, the
Executive Pastry Chef Lindsey Shere, for nearly thirteen years. In 1999 he
launched his cult website to coincide with the release of his first book, Room
for Dessert. The site was intended as a place to share recipes and stories and,
in 2004, to coincide with his move to Paris, he turned the site into an official
blog. David Lebovitz was named one of the Top Five Pastry Chefs in the Bay Area
by the San Francisco Chronicle and has been featured in Bon Appétit,
Chocolatier, Cooking Light, Food+Wine, Cook’s Illustrated, The Los Angeles
Times, Newsweek, Travel and Leisure, The New York Times, People, Saveur,
Sunset, and USA Today. AT: Shakespeare and Co Paris, 37 Rue de la
Bucherie 75005 Paris
14 Oct at 20h Hommage a MONDOLIUS. Tous les lundis soirs, des
amoureux de la poésie et du partage se retrouvent. Pendant cette soirée,
totalement coupés du monde, des poètes viennent lire leurs textes à qui veulent
les entendre dans ce lieu est ouvert à tous. Pas de réservation ni
d’inscription : ici le maitre mot c’est liberté. Chaque soirée débute par un
lecture de textes autour d’un thème, d’un poète ou d’un hommage précis.
Ensuite, c’est quartier libre, les auditeurs peuvent devenir acteurs de la
soirée en lisant les poèmes qu’ils souhaitent, qu’ils les aient écrits ou non.
C’est en 1993 que ce cercle des poètes a commencé à se réunir dans la salle La
Bohème du Théâtre des Déchargeurs. L’ambiance y est conviviale, pas du tout
guindée. Souvent la soirée se termine en chansons autour du piano ! Nous vous
conseillons de tenter l’expérience, si elle ne vous plait pas, rien ne vous
oblige à y retourner. Mais nous elle ne nous a pas laissé indifférente. Une
participation est demandée à l’entrée pour les boissons servis pendant la
soirée. 8 € (avec boissons et en-cas à la pause) AT : la cave à poèmes Théâtre des
Déchargeurs, salle La Bohème, 3 rue des déchargeurs dans le 1er arrondissement,
www.cave-a-poemes.org
15 Oct.7pm Poets Live with Joshua Edwards, Michelle Noteboom and Lynn Xu. BIOS: Joshua Edwards was born in Galveston, Texas. He directs
Canarium Books, is the author of Imperial Nostalgias (Ugly
Duckling, 2013) and Campeche (Noemi, 2011), and translated Mexican poet
María Baranda's Ficticia (Shearsman, 2010). He currently lives in
Stuttgart, Germany, where he's a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude.
His third collection, Architecture for Travelers, will be published
in late 2014 by Edition Solitude and is part of a collaboration with Alan Worn,
Lynn Xu, and others that will also involve the design and construction of a
home, a series of photographs, and a 700-mile walk across Texas. More
information can be found at www.architecturefortravelers.org A
native of Michigan, Michelle Noteboom
is the author of the newly released collection Roadkill (Corrupt Press,
2013), which will be launched at the Poets Live reading. Her other collections are: The Chia
Letters (Dusie Kollektiv, 2009), Edging (Cracked Slab Books, 2006)
which won the 2006 Heartland Poetry Prize, and Hors-cage in French
translation by Frédéric Forte (Editions de l'Attente, 2010). She has lived in
Paris since 1991, where she co-founded and helped curate the bilingual reading
series Ivy Writers Paris for several years. Lynn Xu is the author of Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn,
2013) and a chapbook, June (Corollary, 2006). Her poems have also
appeared in Best American Poetry 2008, Boston Review, Critical
Quarterly, Zoland Poetry, and elsewhere. She's a co-editor of
Canarium Books and a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University
of California, Berkeley. Born in Shanghai and raised in Chicago, she now
lives in Stuttgart, Germany and will soon be moving to Marfa, Texas. Drinks upstairs at the bar from 7 p.m., poetry starts downstairs at
7:30 sharp, please! AT :
Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris
Métro: Tuileries or Concorde
15 Oct
from 19h : La librairie Michèle Ignazi a le plaisir de vous inviter à une
rencontre avec Hubert Lucot et Eugène
Nicole A l'occasion de
la parution de Je vais, je vis (P.O.L) Les eaux territoriales (Editions
de l'Olivier) AT: la librairie Michèle Ignazi, 4 rue de Jouy, 75004
Paris, M° St Paul
15 OCT de 19h à 22h !(les
lectures commencent à 20h) ATELIER DE
L’AGNEAU ÉDITEUR vous invite à une soirée de RENCONTRE-LECTURES
PRÉCÉDÉE(S) D’UN COCKTAIL. Participation des auteurs-traducteurs :
Pierre DROGI (Herta MÜLLER) Philippe DI MEO (A.
ZANZOTTO) Lucie
TAÏEB (F.MAYRÖCKER) des traductrices :
Brigitte VAN
HOVE et Mick GEWINNER et des auteurs :
Vianney LACOMBE et Fred GRIOT pour son livre CARGAISON Jean-Pierre
BOBILLOT pour son livre JANIS & DAGUERRE / qui veut des POèmes ? À LA MAISON D’AQUITAINE DE
PARIS, 21 RUE DES PYRAMIDES, métro PYRAMIDES
16 octobre à 19h Rencontre avec BIBIA PAVARD et MICHELLE ZANCARINI-FOURNEL pour la parution de leur ouvrage Luttes de femmes. 100 ans d’affiches féministes (Les Échappés) A l’image des mouvements qui les ont produites, les affiches féministes sont hétéroclites, foisonnantes, utopiques. Elles ont pour objectif de rendre visibles les femmes, les oppressions dont elles sont victimes et leurs combats. Il s’agit de convaincre de la légitimité des revendications et d’influencer les mentalités, souvent avec force et humour. Les affiches féministes sont ainsi en dialogue avec celles des partis politiques, mais aussi avec celles de la culture de masse, en particulier la publicité. Cette histoire des luttes des femmes s’appuie sur une collection privée exceptionnelle et forme un livre richement illustré.AT : Violette et 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/
17 October @ 19:30h – PLU Open Mic featuring Margo Berdeshevsky. Jerome Rothenberg has written: “There is
in Margo Berdeshevsky’s work a rare persistence of the lyric voice,
used with a sense of ecstasy & grief almost religious in its evocations.”
Every Thursday (in English or other languages – when in Rome,
speak French). Sign up is continuous all night, first come first served.
Rotating hosts JFMcG, Kate Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene. AT: the historic home of
French Slam poetry, Culture
Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix,
75020. For more information see: http://parislitup.com/event/plu-open-mic-featuring-margo-berdeshevsky/
17th October at 7pm Jonathan
Coe will present and sign his new novel EXPO 58 at WH
Smith’s.Returning to the acidic humour of What a Carve Up! and
The Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe's new novel stirs elements of Ealing comedy,
Hitchcockian thriller and political farce into an
incisive, affecting portrait of Britain as it stands at a postwar crossroads,
faced with crucial choices between America and Europe,
the future and the past. AT: WHSmith
- 248, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris - M°Concorde - www.whsmith.fr
17th to 19th October Literary
Festival Poésie et Prose Events in English and French;
See link for programme details.
Roddy Doyle, Robert McLiam Wilson, Edna O'Brien, Colm Toibin, Leontia
Flynn, Lucy Caldwell, Iggy McGovern, Katie Donovan, Martin Page, Turtle
Bunbury. Reservations 01 58 52 10 30. AT the Irish Cultural Centre 5, rue
des Irlandais 75005 Paris.
18 oct de 18h à 19h30. La seconde séance des rencontres « Les Amériques en Livres » avec *Bertrand VAN RUYMBEKE *(Université de Paris 8) Il présentera son ouvrage « L'Amérique avant les Etats- Unis. Une histoire de l'Amérique anglaise 1497-1776 », Prix France-Amériques. Son intervention sera suivie d'un commentaire par Marie-Jeanne ROSSIGNOL (Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7). Institut des Amériques Espace Tocqueville 60, boulevard du Lycée 8eme étage 92170 Vanves Métro: Corentin Celton (Ligne 12) Tram 3a: Porte de Versailles Station velib : n° 21311 Plan en ligne: <http://www.institutdesameriques.fr/repository/pages/Acc_s_locaux_IdA_V
anves.pdf>
18 Oct 19h30 Rencontre littéraire : poets Leontia Flynn and Iggy
McGovern, novelist Lucy Caldwell Chair: Nell Regan, Director, West Cork
Literary Festival Northern
Irish poet and academic Leontia Flynn’s third collection of
poetry, Profit and Loss (2011), confirmed her “unrivalled capacity as a
good-humoured but devastating observer of the modern secular scene” TLS Books
of the Year. Award-winning
author Lucy Caldwell’s latest novel, All the Beggars Riding (2013),
centres on the narrator’s confrontation with her past and that of her
father’s, a prominent
plastic surgeon and Irishman, who had honed his skills on the bomb victims of
the Troubles. Poet and professor in the School of
Physics at Trinity College Dublin, Iggy McGovern’s new sonnet
sequence, A Mystic Dream of 4, evokes the life of William Rowan
Hamilton, 19th century Irish mathematician and poet. admission
free, reservation recommended, in English AT the Centre Culturel Irlandais 5 rue des Irlandais.
75005. Reservations: 01 58 52 10 30
19 Oct 16h00, Premiere of ARTE
documentary: L’Irlande de Roddy Doyle, Robert McLiam Wilson, Edna O’Brien et
Colm Toíbín Written and directed by Mathilde Damoisel What does it
means to be Irish, what is “Irishness”? Eminent Irish writers Roddy Doyle,
Robert McLiam Wilson, Edna O’Brien and Colm Toibin each bring their own
response to these questions. They evoke different facets of their country and
its peoples, from the outskirts of Belfast and Dublin to provincial Southern
towns and the West of Ireland, all the while revealing aspects to which they
are more or less attached. Heritage, history, religion, landscape, exile,
resistance and revolt - this writers’ portrait of Ireland past and present is
being screened for the first time at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in the
presence of the documentary’s director Mathilde Damoisel. admission
free, reservation recommended, in French, 52 mins AT the Centre Culturel Irlandais 5 rue des Irlandais. 75005.
Reservations: 01 58 52 10 30
19 Oct 19h30 Rencontre littéraire: poet Katie Donovan, author Martin Page
and historian Turtle Bunbury. Chair: Nora Hickey
M’Sichili, Director, Centre Culturel Irlandais Katie Donovan has published four books of
poetry including Rootling: New and Selected Poems (2010). She has
written on the marginalisation of Irish women writers and co-edited the
anthology, Ireland’s Women: Writings Past and Present in 1993. Frenchman
Martin Page’s latest novel L’apiculture selon Samuel Beckett
(2013) is composed as a journal kept by a young PhD student who has been asked
by Beckett to classify his paperwork. It reflects upon Beckett’s stature today,
in terms of both his image and legacy. Turtle Bunbury is a
best-selling author, travel writer and historian. The fourth volume of
his Vanishing Ireland series will be launched this evening. These
invaluable portrait interviews with the ‘unsung elders of Irish society’ were
produced in collaboration with photographer James Fennell. admission free,
reservation recommended, in English and French AT the Centre Culturel Irlandais 5 rue des Irlandais.
75005. Reservations: 01 58 52 10 30
21 Oct 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 Oct at 20h HOMMAGE to Réné Char as part of this open mic series. Tous les lundis soirs, des amoureux de la poésie et du partage se
retrouvent. Pendant cette soirée, totalement coupés du monde, des poètes
viennent lire leurs textes à qui veulent les entendre dans ce lieu est ouvert à
tous. Pas de réservation ni d’inscription : ici le maitre mot c’est liberté.
Chaque soirée débute par un lecture de textes autour d’un thème, d’un poète ou
d’un hommage précis. Ensuite, c’est quartier libre, les auditeurs peuvent
devenir acteurs de la soirée en lisant les poèmes qu’ils souhaitent, qu’ils les
aient écrits ou non. C’est en 1993 que ce cercle des poètes a commencé à se
réunir dans la salle La Bohème du Théâtre des Déchargeurs. L’ambiance y est
conviviale, pas du tout guindée. Souvent la soirée se termine en chansons
autour du piano ! Nous vous conseillons de tenter l’expérience, si elle ne vous
plait pas, rien ne vous oblige à y retourner. Mais nous elle ne nous a pas
laissé indifférente. Une participation est demandée à l’entrée pour les
boissons servis pendant la soirée. 8 € (avec boissons et en-cas à la pause)
AT : la cave à poèmes Théâtre des
Déchargeurs, salle La Bohème, 3 rue des déchargeurs dans le 1er arrondissement,
www.cave-a-poemes.org
22nd of Oct at 19h30 Ivy Writers Paris hopes you will join us for a reading by Pierre Drogi
(French poet) and British poets Kate Noakes and James Brookes. BIOS James Brookes was born in 1986 and grew up in rural Sussex, a few
minutes’ walk from Percy Shelley’s boyhood home. After studying at Warwick
University, he received a major Eric Gregory Award in 2009 and a Hawthornden
International Writer’s Fellowship in 2011. He has published a pamphlet, The
English Sweats, with Pighog Press and is currently the Williams Librarian
at Cranleigh School in Surrey, where he also teaches. His first full
collection, Sins of the Leopard (Salt, 2012) is
currently longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the
Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Pierre Drogi est né à Metz le 15 mars 1961.
Il est enseignant, poète et traducteur (du roumain, principalement et de
Nichita Stanescu en particulier). Il est l'auteur de Encordelé, cahier de
bouches et autres textes, Aspect, 2008, Tablatures, Tarabuste, 2008,
Charbonnier, Atelier de l’Agneau, 2008, Métamorphoses, en
collaboration avec Alain Dubois, Le Pommier, 2008, Afra / vrai corps,
suivi de Nom de fée & Carnets d’éther, Le Clou dans le fer,
2010 (présentation de ce
livre), Levées,
suivi de : sa filleule, éd. Atelier de l’Agneau, Saint-Quentin-de-Caplong,
novembre 2010, ascendant descendant, en deux livraisons, dans la revue Passage
d’encres, Romainville, première partie (“ombre attachée”), n° 42,
mars 2011 ; seconde partie (“Talitha koumi : parole cherchant un acte”),
n° 43, mai 2011 et cette année: Animales, Le Clou dans le fer, 2013. Il
est aussi traducteur: 5 poètes roumains, Éditions Comp’Act, 1995 (Emil
Botta, Nichita Stanescu, Virgil Mazilescu, Dan Verona, Dinu Flamand, voir ici) Pierre Drogi a également publié un article
important, Effacements du poème dans le numéro 156 de la revue Littérature,
décembre 2009. Il est actuellement directeur de
programme au Collège
international de Philosophie.Pour un bibliographie complète et quelques
extraits des textes, voir http://www.m-e-l.fr/pierre-drogi,ec,767 Kate
Noakes is the author of Ocean to Interior (2007,
Mighty Erudite Press), The Wall Menders (Two Rivers Press, 2009) and Cape
Town (Eyewear Publishing, 2012). I-spy and Shanty is forthcoming in
2014 from corrupt press. Her work has also appeared in a number of magazines
including Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland Review, Envoi, Magma,
Mslexia, Poetry News, Cadenza, Iota, Other Poetry, Poetry Salzburg Review,
Tears in the Fence, Citizen 32, South, Seam, Planet and The Wolf. It
has been anthologised by Cinnamon Press, Leaf Books, Two Rivers Press and
Seren. Noakes blogs at boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com
and is a founding member of Paris Lit Up: See parislitup.com. She divides her time between Caversham,
Berks and Paris. She has degrees in Geography, and English Literature from
Reading University and an MPhil in Creative Writing from the University of
Glamorgan. She is an elected member of the Welsh Academi and has taught
creative writing for Oxford University. At DELAVILLE CAFE, 34 boulevard bonne nouvelle, 75010
More info on: the IVY email list at ivywritersparis AT gmail DOT com OR our FB
Group or our blog at http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com
22 Oct—18h00 La librairie Wallonie-Bruxelles donne
régulièrement rendez-vous aux lecteurs passionnés, aux libraires et
bibliothécaires férus de découvertes. Une occasion de parcourir les richesses
du catalogue de nos éditeurs en compagnie de critiques avisés. Au
programme, une
soirée consacrée à l’écrivain Paul
Emond qui présentera ses
deux nouveautés : - Nous sommes tous des K, librement inspiré du Château
de Franz Kafka (Lansman) - Les vingt-quatre victoires d’étape du
peintre Belgritte : fiction (maelström reEvolution) AT : La libraire Wallonie
Bruxelles, 46 rue Quincampoix, 75004
Paris FREE ENTRY
24 October @ 19:30h – PLU Open Mic featuring Nicholas Manning:
Maître de conférences in American Literature at the Sorbonne. He is
the founding editor of The Continental Review and the author
of two poetic cycles: Novaless. Elements Towards a Metaphysic,
and Homo Sentimentalis. A Guide In Verse To Modern Emotional Intimacy.
For more information see: http://parislitup.com/event/plu-open-mic-featuring-nicholas-manning/
24th October 8.30pm LITERARY CONCERT! Piers Faccini & Francesca
Beard at the Maison de la Poésie Piers
Faccini will be joined by the acclaimed poet Francesca Beard for a night of
performance poetry and music. Francesca and Piers will perform their poetry as
well as a selection of the songs they wrote in the late nineties, during their
time together in the band Charley Marlowe. PF’s
site: http://www.piersfaccini.com/ Plus
d’infos : http://quefaire.paris.fr/fiche/69921_piers_faccini_francesca_beard
AT : the Maison de la Poésie, Passage Molière, 157 rue Saint Martin,
75003 PARIS-RESERVATIONS STRONGLY ADVISED !
24 Oct 6:30 p.m. Andrew Davidson The Gargoyle BIO Andrew Davidson was born in Pinawa, Manitoba, and graduated in 1995 from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. in English literature. For many years he worked as a teacher in Japan and as a writer of English lessons for Japanese Web sites. He is currently a student at, and the Writer-in-Residence of, the American University of Paris. The Gargoyle, his first novel, was a New York Times best-seller, an international best-seller, and is available in thirty languages. AT: AUP, Grand Salon, 31 av Bosquet, 75007
25th October 6.30pm Philosophers
in the Library: This month’s
Philosophers in the Library will explore: 'The New American Cinema' in the 1960s – re-making a cinematic tradition. Discussing some
major figures and films of 'The New American Cinema' of the 1960s, we will
explore the mindset that launched this extraordinary cinematic scene. We will
discuss both the challenges of producing films without the influence of large
studios and the emerging aesthetics and technologies of the era, all of which
gave rise to such legendary films as Shadows (1959) by John Cassavetes, Pull My
Daisy (1959) by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, and The Connection by Shirley
Clarke (1961). The talk, by Cecile Tourneur, will give an introduction to this
key episode in the history of American cinema. AT: Shakespeare and Co Paris, 37
Rue de la Bucherie 75005 Paris
28 Oct 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/
28th October 7pm Halloween
celebration of Dracula (with Jacques Sirgent). In
homage to Halloween, please join us for a special themed evening celebrating that
great gothic classic – Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Jacques Sirgent, founder and
director of Musée des Vampires and all-round vampire
expert, will give a lecture on Dracula, exploring contemporary reaction,
historical context, modern interpretation, and those many film adaptations… AT:
Shakespeare and Co Paris, 37 Rue de la Bucherie 75005 Paris
29th October at 7 pm. "A Heatless Man"
Written and
performed in English by painter comédien Bill Griffith. He worked in
London during the 1960s where he befriended George Dyer, the troubled
lover, of the self- obsessed monster that was the artist Francis Bacon.
With a unique insider knowledge he now questions many of the myths surrounding
their vola- tile and tragic relationship. Théâtre de Nesle 8, rue de Nesle
75006 Paris.
30 oct-3 nov. Festival international de films lesbiens et féministes organisé par Cineffable Avec comme chaque année plusieurs signatures d’auteures au stand de Violette et Co : Agnès Vannouvong, Deborah Sundhal, Barbieturix... Un nouveau lieu pour la 25è édition du Festival (réservé aux femmes) : Espace EFCB, 23/25 rue Emile-Zola, 93100 Montreuil, m° Robespierre. Infos : cineffable.fr
31 October @ 19:30h – PLU Open Mic Halloween Extravaganza. Come celebrate Halloween poetically! Costume contest
with prizes in different categories, dunking for apples, pumpkin carving
contest and our special mystery punch for all! Every Thursday (in
English or other languages – when in Rome, speak French). Sign up is
continuous all night, first come first served. Rotating hosts JFMcG, Kate
Noakes, Emily Ruck-Keene. AT: the historic home of French Slam poetry, Culture Rapide, at 103 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020. For more
information see: http://parislitup.com/event/plu-open-mic-halloween-extravaganza/
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Part II: OCTOBER WORKSHOPS—writing and acting for YOU!
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WORDS ALIVE COURSES in ENGLISH and FRENCH for actors can be joined anytime. So join now. Info at Words Alive O Theatre in English Classes & Workshops in Paris 75001. OPEN TO NATIVE and NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS. Contact: wordsaliveo@gmail.com 06 37 66 27 98 / 01 77 15 71 90
6 October @
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm – Paris Lit Up Writing Workshop. Plenty, Plenty, Plenty: the
theme for October’s PLU writing workshop is The Harvest in its widest sense.
Using examples from contemporary anglophone writing, Kate Noakes will provide
writing prompts and ideas for poems, flash fiction and short pieces of prose on
working the land and bringing the countryside into town. Gather sheaves of
paper or other writing equipment and join her at Shakespeare & Company
Bookstore. Suggested donation 10 euros. For more information: http://parislitup.com/event/paris-lit-up-writing-workshop/
9 October 4:00 p.m. Grenelle 24 Open creative writing/combined class with
Paul Nelson 147, rue de Grenelle (behind Eglise St. Jean) 75007 Paul Nelson is the author of eight
collections of poems including the Associate Writing Programs Series
Award-winner Days Off. His I
Brought her Juicy, Thin-Skinned Lemons was published in 2012 and Burning the Furniture is coming out on
Guernica Editions in 2014. He receive an
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and while professor of English at
Ohio University he served as Director of Creative Writing. His poems have
appeared in numerous periodicals including Ploughshares,
Poetry, and North American Review
and the anthologies Poetry Hawaii, Main Poets, and Honolulu Stories. He has
directed the Hawaii Literary Arts Council and severed as editor for Kaimana.
WRITING WORKSHOP IN FRENCH : 26 octobre de 11h à 13h Atelier d’écriture animé par CATHERINE BÉDARIDA Catherine Bédarida, écrivain et journaliste (Le Monde, Mouvement) organise des ateliers d’écriture créative avec des institutions culturelles et associatives. L’atelier à Violette and Co, qui reprend pour une nouvelle saison, offre un lieu solidaire pour écrire en toute liberté quelque soit son expérience. En partant de thèmes variés et de pistes de réflexion en lien avec les questions de genre, de minorités sexuelles et adossés à l’expérience littéraire féministe, l’atelier permet d’explorer et d’inventer ses propres mots. Horaires : un samedi sur deux, de 11h à 13h. L’inscription ponctuelle en cours d’année est possible. Tarif : 20 € par atelier. Renseignements et inscriptions : catherine.bedarida@
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Part III: NEW REVIEWS AND REVIEWS NEWS:
CALLS FOR WORK, NEW BOOKS and MORE!!!
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THE BASTILLE is looking for writing and art with a strong
point of view for our 3rd issue. We want your Art - Photography - Poetry -
Rants - Interviews - Articles - Prose – Stories - Opinion pieces - Documentary
work (art, photos or words) – Journalism WRITERS (journalists, poets, ranters, storytellers,
visionaries…) Write about something you feel strongly
about (passionate or angry). Something personal or political, about life or the
world. And give us a twist. Be radical - reach down to the root of
things. Why should the reader care? Experiment - Break your own mould - push
your limits. Don’t do what is familiar and easy for you. Have fun. This could
be an article, a rant, an interview, a poem, anything… it could be a mix of prose
and other forms. ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHERS Put your passion into your
work. Make it about something personal or political, life or the world. Find
something to say. Be radical, get to the root of things, take a side, document,
have a strong
point of view. Break your own mould - push your limits. Don’t do what is
familiar and easy foryou. Experiment and… have fun. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Work must not have
been published before. Simultaneous submissions fine if you tell us as
soon as you get accepted elsewhere. Include a 50 word bio with your submission.
Send to themag.paris@gmail.com [1] WORDS Send as an attachment .doc or .rtf
[not .docx] Use Perpetua 12. Prose - send us 50 to 2000 words. Poems - send us
up to 3 poems of up to 40 lines each. ART, PHOTOS Send as jpeg 300dpi Deadline
15th December
LISTEN TO PODCAST OF
WILL EVANS: THAT OTHER WORD EPISODE 11 The newest episode of Two Lines
Press's joint podcast with the Center for Writers and Translators finds us
talking with Will Evans, proprietor of the new translation press Deep Vellum.
For the first time ever, Will unveils his first four authors, and he also
explains just how one starts a translation press these days. Plus, there's the
usual selection of interesting new translations and chatter from hosts Daniel
Medin and Scott Esposito. Listen
to it all at the link.
2013 ALL ACCESS SCREENWRITING COMPETITION CALL FOR ENTRIES! Our
eleventh annual All Access Screenwriting
Competition is now open for entries. You can choose to take advantage of an
extraordinary opportunity for talented screenwriters to open the door to
Hollywood and its deal-makers and have your work submitted to participating
companies that have already requested our top three Winners. When we asked
writers what they really wanted from a screenwriting competition the response
was overwhelming, ACCESS TO HOLLYWOOD. We've taken this a step further to give
THREE WINNERS unprecedented levels of industry exposure and access, plus some
cool prizes and cash on top.There are also plenty of other opportunities and
prizes to go around, with five finalist prize packages and random entry prizes.
There's a lot of stuff just waiting to be won. Enter by
October 31st and qualify for lower entry fees. Moviebytes users receive a 10%
discount! Check it out at www.SellAScript.com
9TH ANNUAL Calvino Prize.
For short story, short story collection,
novel or novella in the fabulist, experimental vein of Italo Calvino.
Sponsored by the University of Louisville. Final judge for 2013: Tobias Wolff, acclaimed
author of This Boy’s Life, many short stories, and the Ward W. and Priscilla B.
Woods Professor at Stanford University. First prize, $1,500 plus
publication in The Salt Hill Journal. Second prize, $300. For short story,
short story collection, novel or novella in the fabulist, experimental vein of
Italo Calvino. First place winner invited, expenses paid, to read winning entry
at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture held in February at the
University of Louisville. Fee: $25. Deadline: October, 15. Submission details:
louisville.edu/english.
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.
NONFICTION SOUGHT: 1966—An
online journal of creative nonfiction seeks pieces of literary nonfiction with
a research component—anything from immersion writing to nature writing to
travel writing to memoir with some element of research to ??. To read
submission guidelines and our current issue, visit www.1966journal.org.
Paris Sci Fi novelist Barry Kirwan announces that the third book
in the Eden Paradox series, Eden's Revenge, is now out on Amazon in ebook,
with paperback to follow later in the year.
SLAB (winner of AWP’s 2012
National Directors Prize) wants your on-the-cusp, interesting, and plain-out
weird creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and text/image pieces.
We love
flash too. Reading period: late summer until December 1. All submissions read
by mammals, not computers. Samples & more info at slablitmag.org.
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
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/
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
Naughty Paris for the rentrée? If you have not gotten a copy
yet, order Heather Stimmler-Hall’s Naughty Girls
Guide to Paris or subscribe to her newsletter, "Secrets
of Paris" www.secretsofparis.com which started fifteen years ago
and has a loyal following of over 10,000 readers.
SUBMIT EXPERIMENTAL WRITING:
THE 1ST
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 www.omnidawn.com/bax.
GET INVOLVED IN
PARIS LIT UP, or keep track of what they are up to! ABOUT PARIS LIT UP, a site you
can check into for MORE on PARIS : Paris Lit Up does not exist.* Or
rather, Paris Lit Up isn’t any individual project or person. Paris
Lit Up is the space between the independently run projects that trace its
outline. Paris Lit Up shines as a constellation of these bright literary
stars in the Parisian night. Paris Lit Up lives in the visible and
invisible connections between these ventures and the groups that animate them. Paris
Lit Up dwells somewhere deep inside each of these projects because they
enrich and empower the people around them. Paris Lit Up aims to build
this open community while nurturing the goodwill to collectively share and grow
together. Paris Lit Up pulses through the rhizomes of shared practices,
common spaces and cooperative spirit. Paris Lit Up explodes in the
creative potential of the international literary scene in our beloved City of
Lights, Paris. Paris Lit Up includes, reviews and lists events for:
Barbara Beck – Co-editor of Upstairs at Duroc
Lucy Binnersley – Reviewer for Paris Lit Up
James Bird – Co-editor of Belleville Park Pages
Will Cox – Co-editor of Belleville Park Pages
Missy Green – Reviewer for Paris Lit Up
Helen Cusack O’Keeffe – Co-host of The Paris
Writers’ Group and co-editor of PLU Magazine
Jennifer K. Dick –Curator of Ivy Writers
Jason Francis Mc Gimsey –Co-host of PLU Open Mic,
co-editor of PLU Magazine and web monkey
Kate Noakes – Co-host of PLU Open Mic, host
of PLU Writing Workshop and co-editor of PLU Magazine
Julie Poole - Co-editor of PLU Magazine
Pansy Maurer-Alvarez -Host of Poets Live
Emily Ruck Keene – Special contributor to Paris Lit
Up, Keene as Mustard and co-host of PLU Open Mic Bruce Sherfield – Founder
and coordinator of MegaloManiacs
Demian Smith -Founder and editor
of Underground Paris Hassle us on Facebook, molest us on Twitter and join the fray with meetup for events, parties, readings and random outings.
Got something to contribute ? Got a bone to pick ?
Write us at: info@parislitup.com. For more information: http://parislitup.com
OPEN
READING PERIOD for POETRY. Steel Toe Books, the hardest-working press in po-biz, is reading
full-length poetry manuscripts in September and October. Guidelines at www.steeltoebooks.com/submit.html. Send c/o Tom C.
Hunley, Director, English Department, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College
Heights Blvd. #11086, Bowling Green, KY 42101.
PICAYUNE
LITERARY Magazine accepts submissions from September 15 to December 15, annually, in short
fiction (1,250 words max), flash fiction (250 words max), nonfiction and
creative nonfiction (1,250 words max), poetry (3 per submission), and black
& white line art. Submit writing as .doc and art as PDF to: picayunemagazine@yahoo.com or danielrmtz@nmhu.edu. More information
at: www.nmhu.edu.
QUERCUS
REVIEW PRESS Annual Book Award. $1,000 prize, book publication, generous royalties. Deadline:
December 13. Send manuscript and $25 reading fee to Quercus Review Press, Dept.
of English, Modesto Junior College, 425 College Ave., Modesto, CA 95350. New
and emerging writers especially encouraged to submit. More info: quercusreviewpress.com.
SLEET MAGAZINE seeks irregulars,
flash, poetry, cnf and the elusive short story.
THE WHIRLWIND REVIEW, an online
literary journal focusing on the connections between writing and spirituality,
is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Emerging
and unpublished writers are encouraged to submit. For guidelines go to
writingasasacredpath.blogspot.com
