02 July 2013

PARIS SUMMER readings and Où faut-il bouquiner à Paris? Paris plage, of course!

IT IS SUMMER... and we are on vacation! BUT don't despair--
if you are in Paris and looking for readings, check out the websites of the regular monthly series and open mic nights listed below here:
+ See also a few specific summer events listed by date following reg list lists
Photo from "Cobblestay.com" site--for short term apt rental (http://blog.cobblestay.com/2011/08/summer-in-paris/)
 Shakespeare and Co:
Ivy Writers Paris: (event July 22):
The American Library in Paris:
Spoken Word (readings & open mic every Monday):
Paris Lit Up (readings & open mic every Thurs): 
French Feminist events at "la librairie Violette and Co":  

Other series, like Poets-Live, etc, are also on hiatus, hanging out on the beach. 

Check back in Sept for their rentrée announcements!

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A few readings and events by DATE:

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
directeur festival concordan(s)e Tel : 06 07 64 17 40
jeff.munnier@free.fr association indisciplinaire(s), 117 rue Saint-Maur 75011 Paris


3 July 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Creative Writing @ AUP invites you to a reading by Stacey D’Erasmo, Fiction Stacey D'Erasmo holds a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from New York University in English and American Literature. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University from 1995-1997. She is the author of the novels Tea, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; A Seahorse Year, which was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday, and won both a Lambda Literary Award and a Ferro-Grumley Award; and The Sky Below. She is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. Her essays, features, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Review, and Ploughshares, among other publications. Her fourth novel is forthcoming this year. She is the director of undergraduate creative writing at Columbia University. at The American University of Paris Grand Salon, 31 avenue Bosquet 75007 Contact: Jeffrey Greene 01 45 49 26 43/jgreene@aup.fr


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


8 July and all MONDAY NIGHTS19h30- 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/
 

10 July 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Creative Writing @ AUP invites you to a reading by Darcey Steinke, Fiction Author of the memoir Easter Everywhere (Bloomsbury 2007, New York Times Notable) and the novels Milk (Bloomsbury 2005), Jesus Saves (Grove/Atlantic, 1997), Suicide Blonde (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992), and Up Through the Water (Doubleday, 1989, New York Times Notable). With Rick Moody, she edited Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited (Little, Brown 1997). Her books have been translated into ten languages. Her novel MILK was translated into French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Nonfiction has appeared, among other places, in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Review, Vogue, Spin Magazine, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and the Guardian (London). Her web-story "Blindspot" was a part of the 2000 Whitney Biennial. She has been both a Henry Hoyns and a Stegner Fellow and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, and has taught most recently at Columbia School of the Arts, Barnard, and Princeton. at The American University of Paris Grand Salon, 31 avenue Bosquet 75007 Contact: Jeffrey Greene 01 45 49 26 43/jgreene@aup.fr



11 July and all THURSDAY NIGHTS 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
  


17 July at 18h30 – 20h30 Creative Writing @ AUP invites you to a Poetry Reading with Deborah Landau and Stuart Dischell. Deborah Landau is the author of The Last Usable Hour, a Lannan Literary Selection published by Copper Canyon Press, and Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Grand Street, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Antioch Review, American Literature, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, The Best American Erotic Poems, The Wall Street Journal, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and The Harvard Review, and have been translated into Mongolian, Romanian, Russian, and Greek. She was educated at Stanford, Columbia, and Brown, where she was a Javits Fellow and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. For many years she co-directed the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series and co-hosted the video interview program Open Book on Slate.com. She is Clinical Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University. Stuart Dischell teaches poetry writing as well as modern and contemporary poetry at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of four collections of poems: Evenings & Avenues, Good Hope Road, Dig Safe, and Backwards Days. He has received honors and awards from the National Poetry Series, the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among others. His work appears in a number of journals and anthologies, including Good Poems, Hammer and Blaze, and Pushcart Prize. at The American University of Paris Grand Salon, 31 avenue Bosquet 75007 Contact: Jeffrey Greene 01 45 49 26 43/jgreene@aup.fr


 

17 July at 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle  About the book “Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence—and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack—and into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his children could attend for free. Among his brood of seven, his main challenges were Ta-Nehisi, spacey and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets. The Beautiful Struggle follows their divergent paths through this turbulent period, and their father’s steadfast efforts—assisted by mothers, teachers, and a body of myths, histories, and rituals conjured from the past to meet the needs of a troubled present—to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction.” About the Author Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood. He is also a guest columnist for The New York Times. He lives in Harlem. 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


18 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

22 July at 19h30GRAHAM FAUST (a VERY funny poet to check out, see recent work in Shampoo mag), REBECCA WOLF (of FENCE magazine and press) and PAUL LABORDE (celebrating and launching his first poetry collection) reading for Ivy Writers Paris. Ivy is hosting this great summer event for anyone hanging around! AT: Delaville Café, 34 bvd Bonne Nouvelle, 75010. For full info see http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com  

25 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. Featured reader this week is Barbara MarshFor more visit here

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Part II : WRITING WORKSHOPS in PARIS
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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

Saturdays this summer:  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/

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 will be back in SEPTEMBER 2013