04 October 2011

October 2011 Readings List revised and expanded!

New & revamped: October 4^th-Oct 31^st 2011 Readings & Calls for Work

Part I) Paris Events & READINGS (with asterisks) by dates in October 2011
Part II) Creative Writing & other Workshops in Paris
Part III) News Reviews & Reviews News: publications, calls for work, new books & more!
(IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc for NOV 2011 please send those announcements as early as possible, and in the format of the listings below, to Jane Cope at parisrentree2010 AT gmail.com)
*Note: event details are regularly updated, so check back!

Have a great month of readings!—Jane Cope & Jen Dick
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Part I) Paris events & READINGS by dates in October 2011
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Until 16th Nov: Open : Mon-Fri 10h-18h (Thurs10h-19h) Free The CENTRE CULTUREL CANADIEN presents a double expo: « Through the Vanishing Point » by Lewis Kaye & David Rokeby, plus « Illuminated Manuscripts » by Robert Bean. deux expositions multimédias autour de la célébration du centenaire du grand théoricien de la communication Marshall McLuhan. Aucune personnalité n’est plus universellement associée à notre compréhension et notre vision des médias, de l’information, de la communication, et de notre transformation en une société numérique. Mettant en œuvre ses idées sur l’espace acoustique et visuel, les artistes recréent l’atmosphère des mythiques séminaires de Marshall McLuhan. La composition sonore sur six canaux de Lewis Kaye utilise des archives de ces séminaires (murmures du public, débats ainsi que des interviews). La projection multi-écrans de David Rokeby présente des images issues d’archives photos et d’enregistrements vidéos de Marshall McLuhan (séminaires, vie privée, apparitions télévisées et conférences publiques).AT : The Centre culturel canadien, 5, rue de Constantine, 75007 Paris, www.canada-culture.org M : Invalides (lignes 8,13) Bus : lignes 28, 49, 63, 69, 83 RER : Invalides (RER C)

*4 October 7pm Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck will discuss the second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1941-1956. This second, and probably most eagerly awaited volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett covers a period opening with the War years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond, and ranging to the middle of the 1950’s when some of the Irish author’s most notable works — including the brilliant series of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable, and the play which would forever revolutionize modern theater, Waiting For Godot — were first published, in French, by les Editions de Minuit. It was edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, author of Beckett in the Theatre and who was authorized by the author to edit his correspondance in 1985; Lois More Overbeck, Research Associate, Laney Graduate School, Emory University; Dan Gunn, Director of the Center for Writers and Translators at the American University of Paris; and George Craig, translator of Beckett’s letters from French to English, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck will be introduced by John Calder, Samuel Beckett’s first British publisher and author of The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett. AT: Village Voice Bookshop 6, rue Princesse 75006 Métro: Mabillon

*4 October 19h Lecture et entretien avec Alfred Grosser et Hélène Miard-Delacroix, professeur de civilisation de l'Allemagne contemporaine (université de Paris IV-Sorbonne). AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

*4 October 19h30 Evenings with an Author at the American Library in Paris: Ann Mah and Lisa Pasold discuss the challenges and rewards of travel writing. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

5 - 30 October L'Ombelle du trépassé de Jean Lambert-wild et Yann-Fañch Kemener - direction et scénographie Jean Lambert-wild. Présentation du spectacle: D’abord, l’imposante minéralité d’un haut morceau de poussière, colonne de lave sèche perçant du dedans la surface du monde. Puis il deviendra évident que l’une des extrémités de cette colonne n’est ni pétrifiée, ni muette. Comme elle bruit, comme elle respire ! C’est qu’un homme se trouve en haut de la colonne, à bon nombre de centimètres au dessus de la terre, les chevilles enlisées dans le minéral ! Mais il n’est pas prisonnier: l’axe qui descend de sa petite fontanelle et le long de ses vertèbres se poursuit au cœur de la pierre. L’homme en est la moelle autant qu’elle le transperce. Cet homme, c’est le chanteur et ethnomusicologue breton Yann-Fañch Kemener. De sa « voix d’or », il parlera et chantera des mots écrits pour lui par Jean Lambert-wild, des mots qui seront l’aboutissement d’une entreprise alchimique d’alliage, d’or et de chair, de moelle et de magma. Au cœur de ce chant, on pourra entendre le pas d’hommes, de femmes, qui ont marché, dansé. L’homme voudra danser à son tour, mais comme il ne peut libérer ses pieds de la pierre, anachorète ancré, il transmettra cette ondulation à ceux de ses membres qui sont libres. Et lors il oscillera, entre chant et parole, oscillera entre la caresse et la gifle, oscillera tant et encore qu’il se mettra à tourner sur lui-même, vite, de plus en plus vite, derviche absorbé dans la contemplation de ses propres paroles. AT: la Maison de la Poésie, Passage Molière 157, rue Saint-Martin 75003 Paris Métro: Rambuteau, Les Halles

*5 October 19h Rencontre avec TITIOU LECOQ pour son roman Les Morues (Au diable vauvert). C’est un livre qui commence par un hommage à Kurt Cobain, continue comme un polar, vous happe comme un thriller de journalisme politique et s’achève sur l’amour et le désir à l’ère d’internet. Un roman féministe, rythmé et drôle, un portrait plein d’auto-dérision d’une génération de trentenaires. Titiou Lecoq est journaliste et anime le blog girlsandgeeks.com. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

6 Oct - 7pm Mark Tungate will present and sign his sixth book Branded Beauty: How Marketing Changed the Way We Look. AT: WH Smith 248 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris. Métro: Concorde

*6 Oct 19h Lecture de Jakob Hein : Qui sait ? Peut-être même que c'est bien Vielleicht ist es sogar schön. En collaboration avec les Éditions de L'Inventaire Lecture et entretien avec Jakob Hein, Marie-Hélène Quéval et Jürgen Ritte. Modération : Brigitte Ouvry-Vial, éditrice « Pour des raisons professionnelles et familiales d'organisation, je participe rarement à des lectures ». Voilà ce qu'on peut lire sur la page d'accueil du site de Jakob Hein. Pour le public parisien, il fait donc exception en venant présenter son roman et la traduction récente de Marie-Hélène Quéval. Dans Vielleicht ist es sogar schön / Qui sait ? Peut-être même que c'est bien, Jakob Hein tente d'assimiler la mort de sa mère victime d'un cancer. Plus qu'un adieu émouvant, ce roman est une histoire de famille qui remonte le temps jusqu'à la Seconde Guerre mondiale en passant par la période de la RDA. Laconiquement, avec humour et cynisme parfois, l'auteur décrit les situations quotidiennes de son enfance et de sa jeunesse en Allemagne de l'Est, et les relie aux souvenirs qu'il a de sa mère. Portrait triste et pourtant optimiste d'une famille qui sort de l'ordinaire : « Toujours touchant, jamais pathétique, toujours digne, jamais solennel. » (Der Stern) Né en 1971 à Leipzig, Jakob Hein a grandi à Berlin. Il a étudié la médecine à Berlin, Vienne, Stockholm et Boston, et travaille aujourd'hui à Berlin comme médecin et écrivain. Il est membre de la Reformbühne, une scène expérimentale de lecture. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

6 October 19h30 BOOK club: Cornell Community Reading Project @ The American Library: Everyone is invited to read ‘Homer and Langley’ then join us for an animated discussion of the book. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

7 October 19h Rencontre autour du livre collectif Eau et féminismes (La Dispute). En présence de SYLVIE PAQUEROT, ROSE-MYRLIE JOSEPH et d’autres contributrices. Les analyses féministes du rapport des femmes à l’eau et à l’environnement replacent la perspective de leur libération ailleurs que dans le discours naturalisant et dans la charité organisée du Nord à l’égard des femmes des pays pauvres. Les auteures convoquent la critique féministe des discours à propos de la nature, des rapports de domination Nord/Sud, de la division sexuelle du travail, et font entendre le point de vue des femmes les plus discriminées. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

8 October 16h Figures d'humanité # 15 à la Maison de la poésie. Invité : Francis Marmande, écrivain, auteur de "le pur bonheur Georges Bataille " ed. Lignes. La Maison de la Poésie et les Amis de l’Humanité poursuivent pour la 3ème saison le cycle de conférences à partir d’un «dialogue» Jaurès/Derrida. Le 18 avril 1904, dans l’éditorial fondateur du journal L’Humanité, Jean Jaurès écrivait : « L’humanité n’existe point encore ou elle existe à peine ». Le 4 mars 1999, dans les colonnes du même titre, Jacques Derrida écrivait : « On n’est pas encore en mesure de déterminer la figure même de l’humanité que pourtant on annonce et se promet ainsi »… Il s’agit de proposer à des philosophes, des poètes, des penseurs, de s’interroger sur cette promesse d’humanité à la lumière de la réflexion qu’ils poursuivent dans leur propre domaine."Que leurs créations, conférence après conférence, remplissent notre projet d’une Maison de la Poésie haut lieu de la spiritualité, tel est mon souhait le plus vif." Claude Guerre , Directeur de la Maison de la Poésie. AT: la Maison de la Poésie, Passage Molière 157, rue Saint-Martin 75003 Paris Métro: Rambuteau, Les Halles

*10 Oct at 19h30 Double Change bilingual reading with Lynn Crawford & Harry Mathews. BIOS : LYNN CRAWFORD est écrivain et critique d’art. Elle vient de publier un nouveau roman, Simply Separate People, Two (Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions). Parmi ses titres précédents, on compte Solow, Blow, Simply Separate People et Fortification Resort. Ses textes ont paru dans de nombreux journaux et revues dont Parkett, Tema Celeste, Art in America, The Oulipo Compendium, Fence, The NY Tyrant et The Brooklyn Rail. Lynn Crawford a été rédactrice en chef de St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter. Membre fondatrice du MOCAD, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Detroit, elle vit à Detroit où elle s’est vu décerner une fellowship Kresge Literary Arts en 2010. HARRY MATHEWS Né à New-York en 1930. Etudie musique et musicologie à Harvard, où il est diplômé en 1952. Vient en France la même année afin de poursuivre ses études musicales qu'il abandonne peu de temps après pour se consacrer à la littérature. Premiers poèmes publiés en revue en 1956. Commence son premier roman en 1958 à la suite de la lecture de Roussel. En 1961 fonde la revue Locus Solus avec trois poètes newyorkais (dont John Ashbery, qui devient un ami proche). En 1970 fait la connaissance de Georges Perec, qui le fait entrer à l'Oulipo en 1973. Un peu plus tard entreprend la traduction de plusieurs romans français. A partir de 1978 a enseigné de façon intermittente dans plusieurs universités américaines. Sa vie actuelle est partagée entre Paris et Key West (Floride).AT : la galerie éof, 15, rue Saint-Fiacre, 75002, Paris (M° Grands Boulevards ou Bonne Nouvelle) Free/ Entrée libre

*10 October 19h Tonight Shakespeare & Co welcomes Janine di Giovanni who will read from and discuss her new book Ghosts by Daylight: a Memoir of War and Love. In Ghosts by Daylight: Janine and Bruno first fell in love as young reporters in the besieged city of Sarajevo. Years later – after endless phone calls, much of what the French call malentendu, secret trysts in foreign cities, numerous break-ups, three miscarriages, countless stories of rebel armies and a dozen wars that had passed between them – they arrive in Paris one rainy January to begin a new life together. The remnants of their separate lives, now left behind, are tentatively unpacked into their shared apartment on the Right Bank. Having met in another lifetime – in another world – ordinary, civilian life doesn’t come easily. War has become part of them and neither can quite leave it behind. The difficult journey that follows leads to an understanding of the truth that people who deeply love each other cannot always live together. AUTHOR BIO: A foreign correspondent specialising in human rights and conflict for more than two decades, Janine di Giovanni is the author of 4 other books (Against the Stranger, The Quick and the Dead, Madness Visible, and The Place at the End of the World: Stories from the Frontline). She has reported more than a dozen wars from Palestine, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Rwanda, Kosovo, East Timor, Libya, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ivory Coast. She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and also writes for The New York Times, the Times of London, the Spectator, & Granta. She currently lives in Paris. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

*10 October 20h SPOKEN WORD Paris: Come read YOUR work in ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN or any other language you would so like to share poetry in! You are also invited to play a short musical piece or read a poem by an author you admire if you so wish! 20h sign up/hang out 20h30 first round starts 15 min break 21h45 second round starts 15 min break 23h00 third round starts stop at midnight ie. the Cinderella rule (so we can all chat & socialise; the bar stays open till after one). 10 poets/singers/comedians/dancing pets per round The exact start times for rounds depend on people signing up, but stopping at midnight is fixed. AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, 75020 Paris Metro Belleville.

*11 Oct at 19h30 (doors open at 19h) IVY Writers Paris 2011-2012 season begins with a POETS-LIVE and VERSAL MAGAZINE all-English reading. Anna Arov, Megan Garr, Sara Ream and Jane Lewty—visiting authors & editors of Versal Magazine—will read with award-winning Swedish-Anglophone poet and translator Lars Palm, a POETS-LIVE invitee. BIOS: LARS PALM has been publishing poems for 20 years & chapbooks for 10 years in Sweden, the USA, Canada, England, Scotland, Italy, Australia & Japan. He has dozens of books,, including the most recent road song for published by corrupt press (Paris). Lars also translates to & from Swedish, English & Spanish, sometimes as a part of the translators' collective, & now small press, Kompassros. His poems have been translated into Spanish & Japanese. MEGAN M GARR is an American poet and the founding editor of the widely-acclaimed literary journal Versal. After just a year in Amsterdam, Megan founded the literary community organization “wordsinhere” in 2002. Activist by nature, her goal was to build a supportive infrastructure for Amsterdam’s then-scattered international writing community. By 2003, the organization boasted writing groups, the monthly literary evening “The Open Stanza”, and the journal Versal. In 2010, she was chosen as one of 50 “Power Amsterdammers” by TimeOut Amsterdam. Megan’s writings on translocality have been published in several journals, including in A Megaphone, an international anthology of some 75 works on the subject of feminism and writing, edited by Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young. Garr’s poetry has been published in the USA and Europe, most recently in Tuesday: An Art Journal, SpringGun, Sidebrow, VLAK, Lungfull! and Corduroy Mtn. She has forthcoming work in Caketrain and Bateau. Her poetry collection The Preservationist Documents won the Pilot Books Meddling Kids Series in 2010. It will be published by Pilot Books this fall. JANE LEWTY’s poetry can be seen in VOLT, Upstairs at Duroc and Versal. She is on the editing team of VLAK, an international journal of the arts and has co-edited two essay collections: Broadcasting Modernism (University Press of Florida, 2009) concerned with the impact of radio on early 20^th-century writing and Pornotopias: Image, Apocalypse, Desire (Litteraria Pragensia, 2010). She currently works as an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Amsterdam. KATE FOLEY is a widely published prize-winning UK poet whose 5th collection - plus another chapbook -will be out in 2012 from ShoestringPress. SARAH REAM, a British-born writer and editor, has been based in Amsterdam since 2008. She is the managing editor of Versal, the central editor of Poetry International Web and poetry editor at Polygon (www.polygonbooks.co.uk), the literary imprint of the Edinburgh-based publishing house Birlinn. She also edits fiction and non-fiction books. Her poems and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Guardian website, The List, 14 and V, an anthology of international writing from Edinburgh. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Edinburgh University. ANNA AROV is a Canadian/Russian poet who has been living in Holland for eleven years where she is one of the poetry editors for Versal. She organizes the International Room for the Dutch annual poetry festival, Huis van de Poezie and teaches writing at the Dutch Royal Academy of Art. Anna’s published work includes Observatory, a collection of poems illustrated by Leon M. Dekker, and work in journals, on CDs and in combination with exhibited art. AT: Le Next, 17 rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris, Metro Etienne Marcel, RER Les Halles. http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com or poets-live.com for more info. Free/ Entrée libre

11 October 7pm Join us for a discussion with Natacha Henry, journalist and author of Les Mecs Lourds, ou le paternalisme lubrique and Elaine Sciolino, journalist and author of La Séduction: How the French Play the Game of Life on the subject of Men, Women, Power and the Workplace: What's Changed and What Hasn't. AT: WH Smith 248 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris. Métro: Concorde

*11 October 19h30 La Médiathèque du Centre Culturel Irlandais rencontre… Celia de Fréine & Theo Dorgan. Two writers in residence present, and read from, their work. Celia de Fréine is a poet, playwright, screenwriter and librettist in both English and Irish. Theo Dorgan writes poetry, prose and documentary scripts; he is also a well-known editor, translator and broadcaster. He was Director of Poetry Ireland and is a member of Aosdána. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER: Luxembourg. Admission free.

*12 October 19h30 Evenings with an Author at the American Library in Paris: Award-winning author Anne Marsella reads from ‘The Baby of Belleville.’ AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

*13 October - 6 November Sainte dans l'incendie de et mise en scène Laurent Fréchuret. Présentation: Poème dramatique pour jeux, voix et corps humains, Sainte dans l’incendie est une fantaisie héroïque, une suite de variations sur une petite paysanne de légende, brûlée par la vie, traversée par des voix oubliées, échafaudant une autre histoire de France, faisant théâtre de tout. La traversée au pas de course d’une petite vie infinie. Il s’agit d’une rêverie éveillée, d’une action d’enchantement, des intuitions d’une ignorance infuse, d’art naïf, d’une fraternité dans les ruines, d’un amour anachronique, d’un hommage au jeu du fou au pied du bûcher, d’une confidence, d’une lutte joyeuse, d’un dialogue public. L’ombre d’une chance. De la matière pour une athlète du verbe. AT: la Maison de la Poésie, Passage Molière 157, rue Saint-Martin 75003 Paris Métro: Rambuteau, Les Halls

*13 October 7pm The Village Voice Bookshop has the pleasure of inviting you to meet Philip Weinstein, Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College and author of several volumes of criticism on the works of the novelist William Faulkner including Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner, The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner, What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison and Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns. Philip Wienstein will be introduced by Jeanette Demeester, a former professor of American Literature at l'Institut des Sciences Politiques de Paris. AT: Village Voice Bookshop 6, rue Princesse 75006 Métro: Mabillon

14 - 16 October Salon de la Revue, 21ème du nom. Le Salon de la Revue germe, point, commence : les dates sont celles annoncées ci-dessus, troisième week-end d'octobre. Les horaires d'ouverture sont identiques à l'année passée, une nocturne vendredi de 20h00 à 22h00, un samedi de 10h00 à 20h00 et un dimanche écourté d'une demi-heure, commençant à 10h00 et finissant —Eh oui. Déjà !— à 19h30. Vous pouvez trouver là le programme détaillé ici. AT: Espace d'animation des Blancs-Manteaux
48, rue Vieille-du-Temple 75004 Plus d'infos: http://www.entrevues.org/

14 October 9h à 17h30 Colloque international: Le particulier et l'universel dans la poésie de David Rosenmann-Taub. A l'occasion de la première traduction en français de l'œuvre du poète chilien David Rosenmann-Taub. Sa poésie a été publiée au Chili, en Espagne, en Italie, au Mexique, aux Etats-Unis et en Inde et de nombreux spectacles, chorégraphies et expositions fondés sur son œuvre poétique et musicale ont vu le jour. Avec la participation de Naín Nómez, Université de Santiago du Chili, Álvaro Salvado, Université de Grenade, Teodosio Fernández, Université Autonome de Madrid, Eduardo Ramos-Izquierdo, Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV, Stefano Tedeschi, Sapienza, Université de Rome, Ina Salaza, Université de Caen, Erika Martínez, Université de Grenade, Juanita Cifuentes, Université Stendhal Grenoble 3, Sabrina Costanzo, Université de Catane, María Ángeles Pérez López, Université de Salamanque. Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV, en collaboration avec les Editions Bruno Doucey et la Fondation Corda. AT: Maison de l'Amérique Latine 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Métro: Solférino

14 October 19h Rencontre avec MIRANDE LUCIEN à propos de la réédition du roman de MARGUERITE COPPIN Ressort cassé (GayKitschCamp). Marguerite Coppin (1867-1931), connue des anthologies comme une poétesse célébrant l’effacement des femmes, est aussi l’auteure de plusieurs romans dont Hors sexe et Le troisième sexe (pour lequel elle a été suspectée d’atteinte aux “bonnes mœurs”). Mirande Lucien a choisi de republier Ressort cassé paru un an avant Le troisième sexe, dans lequel une jeune fille séduit son institutrice et plus tard analyse la situation des femmes avec une rare lucidité. “Ressort cassé est, à n’en pas douter, un roman féministe et Marguerite Coppin une femme à deux visages.” (M. L.) AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

15 October 16h Entretiens de la Poésie #1 à la Maison de la Poésie. Avec Michel Deguy, Claude Mouchard et Martin Rueff. Nous pensons que ces entretiens peuvent répondre à une demande… Montrons qu’il est devenu indispensable de s’entretenir avec la poésie. A quoi bon ? Est-il encore temps ? Pouvons-nous continuer à parler de « poètes » en un temps où ils ont fini par acquiescer à la chanson et au film en « disparaissant », et où les plus reconnaissables à un public refusent de porter ce nom ? Pouvons-nous encore distinguer les poètes et la poésie ? En examinant celle-ci sous l’angle des « poétiques », c’est-à-dire de la pensée de la poésie : les questions que sa persistance et ses transformations posent, non pas seulement à « la société », autrement dit à « la réception culturelle », mais à chacun en son être de parole et de destin, ne sont plus débattues, exposées, et passionnées, rigoureusement en dehors de la sphère de quelques auteurs… qui souvent déclarent leur méfiance à l’égard des savoirs, de la réflexion critique et théorique, de la philosophie. Il en est résulté que le débat contemporain où se croisent, se parlent et s’opposent, et sur les scènes publiques, ceux qu’on désigne comme « intellectuels » - dont il n’est pas utile ici d’énumérer les espèces, scientifiques « durs » et « mous », historiens et sociologues, littéraires et philosophes, politiques et acteurs sociaux, etc. - ne compte pas avec les poètes poéticiens. De Platon à Rimbaud pourtant, de la « gigantomachie » des Idées au « combat spirituel aussi brutal que la bataille d’hommes », de la « querelle des anciens et des modernes » à celles de la révolution (politique ou poétique ?), la poésie, parlant du monde aux autres et à elle-même, ne fut-elle pas l’engagée, la promise ou la dot – jusqu’à ce que Sartre la dégage ? Son rôle semble n’être bientôt plus que celui d’offrir un « témoignage » parmi d’autres – c’est trop peu. Nous voudrions rouvrir un débat où elle s’élance avec les autres… AT: la Maison de la Poésie, Passage Molière 157, rue Saint-Martin 75003 Paris Métro: Rambuteau, Les Halles

*17 October 19h In collaboration with Editions Christian Bourgois we welcome celebrated British author Edward St. Aubyn. He will read from At Last, a powerful reflection on pain and acceptance, and the treacheries of family. An extract will also be read in French. Edward is the author of the Patrick Melrose trilogy, and more recently, On The Edge, which was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998, A Clue to the Exit and Mother's Milk, a loose sequel to the Patrick Melrose/Some Hope trilogy, which on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. His latest book At Last is the brilliant culmination of the Melrose books. On At Last: For Patrick Melrose, ‘family’ is more than a double-edged sword. As friends, relations and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor – an heiress who forsook the grandeur of her upbringing for ‘good works’, freely bestowed upon everyone but her own child – Patrick finds that his transition to orphanhood isn’t necessarily the liberation he had so long imagined. Yet as the service ends and the family gather for a final party, as conversations are overheard, danced around and concertedly avoided, amidst the social niceties and the social horrors, the calms and the rapids, Patrick begins to sense a new current. And at the end of the day, alone in his rooftop bedsit, it seems to promise some form of safety, at last. At Last is a masterpiece of dark comedy and profound emotional truth. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

*17 October 19h30 Double Change invites you to a reaing with two outstanding American authors, pulitzer-prize winner Rae Armantrout and local poet and author of over a dozen books of poetry, Joe Ross. AT: Galérie eof 15, rue Saint-Fiacre , 75002 M° Grands Boulevards ou Bonne Nouvelle

*17 October 20h SPOKEN WORD Paris: Come read YOUR work in ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN or any other language you would so like to share poetry in! You are also invited to play a short musical piece or read a poem by an author you admire if you so wish! 20h sign up/hang out 20h30 first round starts 15 min break 21h45 second round starts 15 min break 23h00 third round starts stop at midnight ie. the Cinderella rule (so we can all chat & socialise; the bar stays open till after one). 10 poets/singers/comedians/dancing pets per round The exact start times for rounds depend on people signing up, but stopping at midnight is fixed. AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, 75020 Paris Metro Belleville.

19 October 19h Vernissage de l’exposition “L’égalité, c’est pas sorcier” présentée par l’association du même nom. Cette exposition dénonce avec humour les inégalités encore en vigueur au détriment des femmes dans cinq domaines : la langue, la liberté sexuelle, la prostitution, l’égalité professionnelle, la parité en politique. Elle se veut dynamique et offensive pour provoquer le débat en partant d’une idée reçue, et propose des pistes d’action individuelle et collective. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

*18 October 7pm One day in September, a decade ago, all eyes were turned towards New York. Where are we looking now? Through fiction, reportage, poetry and photography, Granta 116: 10 Years Later looks at how an event of the magnitude of 9/11 reverberates, with stories from Tunisia to Toronto. The Village Voice Bookshop has the pleasure of inviting you to join journalist Janine di Giovanni and author Tahar Ben Jelloun to explore this question, through readings of their work and in conversation with Ellah Allfrey, Deputy Editor of Granta. A former senior correspondent for The Times, Janine di Giovanni has reported more than a dozen conflicts and has won Granada Television’s ‘Foreign Correspondent of the Year’ Award, the National Magazine Award and two Amnesty International Media Awards. She is the author of four books, Against the Stranger, The Quick and the Dead, Madness Visible and The Place at the End of the World and is contributing editor for Vanity Fair. Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Morrocan born French novelist, essayist, critic, and poet, and is a regular contributor to Le Monde, La Repubblica and El Pais. He won the Prix Goncourt in 1987 for his novel The Sacred Night, the 1994 Prix Maghreb and the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for This Blinding Absence of Light. His latest books, Par le feu and L’Etincelle, both focus on the recent upheavals in the Arab world. AT: Village Voice Bookshop 6, rue Princesse 75006 Métro: Mabillon

19 October 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Cookbook celebrity Joan Nathan sets the table for ‘Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France.’ AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

20 Oct : 9am to 18h : Day one of « Conférence internationale : Gertrude Stein et les arts » Organisée par Isabelle Alfandary et Vincent Broqua. 9h : Accueil des participants (Entrée Champs-Elysées, Square Jean Perrin) 10h30 -11h30: Joan Retallack (Bard College) : Stein and the Arts: What is the Question 11h30-12h30: Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University) : A Cessation of Resemblances : Gertrude Stein’s Duchamp Collection. Déjeuner.14h30-15h15: Isabelle Alfandary (Paris-Est) : Gertrude Stein et Eadweard Muybridge. 15h15-16h00: Abigail Lang (Paris-Diderot) : Stein cinématographe. Pause. 16h15-17h00: Marie-Claire Pasquier (Paris-Ouest) : Théâtre et théâtralité de Gertrude Stein. 17h-18h: Conversation Dominique Fourcade et Charles Bernstein (UPenn) AT : the Auditorium du Grand Palais, Paris. RESERVE : IMPORTANT access is free BUT you can only be granted access with an invitation to l’Auditorium du Grand Palais. Get your invitation at the Grand Palais « accueil » no more than 7 days before the event, OR : request an invitation by mail via isabelle.alfandary@free.fr or vincentbroqua@gmail.fr

*20 Oct at 19h30: Bilingual reading « around Gertrude Stein » with authors Charles Bernstein, Thalia Field & Abigail Lang, Jean-Marie Gleize, Joan Retallack, Martin Richet organized by Double Change. AT: la Galerie éof, 15 rue St-Fiacre, 75002, Métro Grands Boulevards. Free

*20-22 October Festival of Poésie et Prose at the Centre Culturel Irlandais: Ireland’s literary output continues to astonish. This year we have some themed readings: an evening devoted to the ‘polar’, another to memoir. Wonderful writers such as Jennifer Johnston, Gerry Stembridge and Keith Ridgway are making return visits to the CCI. New faces and voices include two Irish language poets, Louis de Paor and Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh; novelists Declan Hughes, Jane Casey, Gene Kerrigan, Alan Glynn; memoirists Molly McCloskey and Greg Baxter; and poets Enda Wyley and Michael O’Loughlin. Dublin became the fourth UNESCO City of Literature in 2011 and its writers are part of its everyday landscape. Poésie et Prose offers an opportunity of savouring the contemporary literary imagination which this designation celebrates. There will be a special session for young people on Saturday afternoon when Nicola Pierce will read from, and discuss, her recent very topical book Spirit of the Titanic – parents also welcome! For more information about the authors, download a pdf of the full programme here.

*20 October 19h For all you Oulipians and Oulipo fans out there, the monthly Rendez-vous réguliers, les jeudis de l'Oulipo, chers aux amateurs de jeux de l'esprit et de littérature potentielle, continuent d'explorer des thèmes d'actualité, proposant lectures et créations originales. Tonight’s theme “Ô les choeurs” Entrée libre. AT: BNF François-Mitterrand, Grand auditorium, quai François Mauriac, 75013 Paris. Métro: Quai de la gare ou Bibliothèque.

*20 October, 19.30: Jennifer Johnston, Louis de Paor, Gerry Stembridge read at the Centre Culturel Irlandais as part of the Poésie and Prose festival. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER: Luxembourg. Admission free.

21 Oct : 10 :30am to 18h15 : Day two of the « Conférence internationale : Gertrude Stein et les arts » Organisée par Isabelle Alfandary et Vincent Broqua.10h30-11h30: Antoine Cazé (Paris-Diderot) : Stein: Méditations sans images. 11h30-12h30: Wanda Corn (Stanford University) : Portraiture and the Making of Gertrude Stein. Déjeuner. 14h30-15h15: Vincent Broqua (Paris-Est) : Gertrude Stein traduite en art 15h15-16h00: Jean-Marie Gleize (ENS-LSH) : « Et maintenant c’est aujourd’hui » Pause. 16h15-17h: Catherine Gonnard : Les femmes dans L’autobiographie d’Alice B. Toklas 17h15-18h15: Table ronde « Stein au présent » : Jean-Marie Gleize, Thalia Field, Marie-Claire Pasquier et Alexis Forestier (la troupe des Endimanchés) AT : The Grand Palais, Entrée Champs-Elysées, Square Jean Perrin. RESERVE : IMPORTANT access is free BUT you can only be granted access with an invitation to l’Auditorium du Grand Palais. Get your invitation at the Grand Palais « accueil » no more than 7 days before the event, OR : request an invitation by mail via isabelle.alfandary@free.fr or vincentbroqua@gmail.fr

21 October 11h Pour la rentrée, Au Crayon qui tue publie Six instants fataux, par l'Oulipo. Poèmes de Jacques Roubaud, Frédéric Forte, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Jouet, Olivier Salon et Paul Fournel. Signature de Six instants fataux, par l'Oulipo. AT: Au crayon qui tue, éditeur, 51 A rue du Volga, 75020 Métro: Maraîchers

*21 October, 19.30: Soirée MEMOIRES: Molly McCloskey, Enda Wyley, Greg Baxter read at the Centre Culturel Irlandais as part of the Poésie and Prose festival. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER: Luxembourg. Admission free.

*22 October, 14.30: Après-midi JEUNE PUBLIC - Nicola Pierce at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. Part of the Poésie and Prose festival. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER: Luxembourg. Admission free.

22 October 16h La République des Poètes #33 à la Maison de la Poésie. En présence de: Editions Le Bruit du temps, Antoine Jacottet, Brigitte Gautier et Pierre Pachet. La République des Poètes a pour vœu d'accueillir poètes, traducteurs, essayistes, éditeurs, responsables de revue : tous ceux qui d'une manière ou d’une autre font « l'actualité poétique ». Faire connaissance suppose ici d'entrer dans les textes des auteurs invités ou publiés, de partager ces langues poétiques aussi diverses soient-elles pour que la singularité de chacune trouve sa place, simplement, justement, le temps d'une rencontre. Dialogue, mais également moment de lecture, exigeant, de textes par l’auteur, le traducteur ou un acteur. La République des Poètes, animée par Marc Blanchet, a lieu une fois par mois le samedi après-midi. Programme du 22 octobre 2011 : rencontre avec Antoine Jaccottet, responsable des éditions Le Bruit du temps, Brigitte Gautier, traductrice, et Pierre Pachet, écrivain, pour la publication de Corde de lumière ("Œuvres poétiques complètes I") et Le Labyrinthe au bord de la mer du poète polonais Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) AT:la Maison de la Poésie, Passage Molière 157, rue Saint-Martin 75003 Paris Métro: Rambuteau, Les Halles

*22 October, 16.30: Alan Glynn, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Keith Ridgway at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. Part of the Poésie and Prose festival. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER: Luxembourg. Admission free.

*22 October, 19.30: Soirée POLAR Gene Kerrigan, Jane Casey, Michael O’Loughlin, Declan Hughes at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. Part of the Poésie and Prose festival. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER: Luxembourg. Admission free.

*24 October 19h We welcome Tristan Garcia one of the most exciting young novelists in France today. He will read from Hate: A Romance, which won the Prix de Flore in France and received critical acclaim when published in English earlier this year. ‘It’s frenetic and French, for a reader who knows Deleuze from Derrida, who will chuckle when Garcia refers to the “domestic troubles” of Althusser. . . taut and readable’ – The New York Times. Tristan Garcia was born in 1981 in Toulouse and attended Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, where he specialised in Philosophy. He is the author of a book of philosophy, The Image, published in 2007. Hate: A Romance is his first novel which won the celebrated Prix de Flore and was published in English this year. Since then he has published in French a novel narrated by a chimp, Mémoires de la jungle, and is currently writing his third novel set in the nineties about a young boy who thinks he's the Devil. About Hate: A Romance: Paris in the eighties. Four friends. Three men and one woman. Two affairs that destroy a life.   In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships and love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals - Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism - come to an end. As Elizabeth Levallois, a cultural journalist, looks back on this decade and on the ravages of the AIDS epidemic in Paris, a drama unfolds - one in which love turns to hate and fidelity turns to betrayal, in both affairs of the heart and politics.   With great verve and ingenuity, Garcia lays claim to an era that promised freedom as never before, and paints an indelible, sharp but sympathetic portrait of intellectuals lost in the age of MTV. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

*24 October 20h SPOKEN WORD Paris: Come read YOUR work in ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN or any other language you would so like to share poetry in! You are also invited to play a short musical piece or read a poem by an author you admire if you so wish! 20h sign up/hang out 20h30 first round starts 15 min break 21h45 second round starts 15 min break 23h00 third round starts stop at midnight ie. the Cinderella rule (so we can all chat & socialise; the bar stays open till after one). 10 poets/singers/comedians/dancing pets per round The exact start times for rounds depend on people signing up, but stopping at midnight is fixed. AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, 75020 Paris Metro Belleville.

*26 October 18h30 Rencontre avec Jacobo Machover à l'occasion de la parution de son livre Raul et Fidel. La tyrannie des frères ennemis, Ed François Bourin, coll. "Les Moutons noirs" Avec la participation de Jean-François Bouthor. AT: Maison de l'Amérique Latine 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Métro: Solférino

*27 October 17h Following its warm reception last August, The Note Well Listening Salon is delighted to visit Shakespeare & Co again. Alice Shyy & Co of The Note Well, a London-based music friendship project, will present and discuss a curated list of six songs with the theme of SPOOK MUSIC. You are cordially invited to come listen, learn, and share. We hope you will gain a new tune, a new friend, a new story. Upstairs in the Library at Shakespeare and Company. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

*31 October 19h Shakespeare & Co is thrilled to launch the latest issue of The Moth Magazine, the quarterly arts & literature magazine published in Ireland. Christine Dwyer Hickey will read from her acclaimed novel The Cold Eye of Heaven, the brilliant and elusive Robert McLiam Wilson will read something surprising, and prize-winning poet Rebecca O’Connor will read a selection of her work and some of her favourite poems from the last six issues of the magazine. Afterwards stay for the swinging tunes of a stupendous Parisian swing band. Christine Dwyer Hickey is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Twice winner of the Listowel Writers' Week short story competition, she was also a prize-winner in the prestigious Observer/Penguin short story competition. Her best-selling novel Tatty was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award. She lives in Dublin. Robert McLiam Wilson has published three novels, and is currently working on his fourth. He is the recipient of the Rooney Prize, the Hughes Prize, a Betty Trask Award and an Irish Book Award. He is also the author of a non-fiction book about poverty, The Dispossessed, and has made television documentaries for the BBC. He lives in Paris. Rebecca O'Connor is a recipient of the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, a New Writing Ventures Poetry Award, two Tyrone Guthrie Bursaries and a Virago/Marie-Claire short story prize. Her chapbook Poems was published by the Wordsworth Trust, where she was a writer in residence in 2005. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Review, The Spectator and The Stinging Fly. She designs and edits The Moth and the Moth editions, and works as a freelance commissioning editor for Telegram in London. You can read some of her poems on www.rebeccaoconnor.net. The Moth was launched at the Flat Lake Festival in 2010 in a small tent where guests could sketch with pastels and drink absinthe. The quarterly arts & literature magazine features poetry, short fiction and pictures by established and up-and-coming writers and artists from Ireland and abroad. Each issue also features two interviews with such Irish luminaries as Anne Enright, Patrick McCabe, Leanne O'Sullivan and Christine Dwyer Hickey. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

*31 October 20h SPOKEN WORD Paris: Come read YOUR work in ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN or any other language you would so like to share poetry in! You are also invited to play a short musical piece or read a poem by an author you admire if you so wish! 20h sign up/hang out 20h30 first round starts 15 min break 21h45 second round starts 15 min break 23h00 third round starts stop at midnight ie. the Cinderella rule (so we can all chat & socialise; the bar stays open till after one). 10 poets/singers/comedians/dancing pets per round The exact start times for rounds depend on people signing up, but stopping at midnight is fixed. AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, 75020 Paris Metro Belleville.

This bring us into NOV--so PLEASE send on your announcements for readings as soon as you can!

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Part II) Writing, Lit & Theater Workshops in Paris in Oct/Nov
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christineherzer To Register or for more information contact Christine Herzer at roseconsciousness[AT]gmail[DOT]com; 0643255578

Saturdays: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 OCT: 5pm-7pm The Other Writers' Group: a drop-in feedback writing & readers’ workshop. Writers! Bring 6 copies of your story, poems, etc to get feedback (up to about 10 mins reading time for prose, max 2 or 3 pages of poetry) Readers! Come & listen, give your reaction & join in the discussion. Meets: upstairs at Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de le Bucherie, Metro St Michel or Maubert Mutualite. Fee; 5 euros a meeting. For more info: http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/p/other-writers-group.html

Daily THEATER WORKSHOPS in FRENCH and ENGLISH: Words Alive O classes and workshops start this week.THEATER: Wednesdays beginning 5th October, Niveau intermédiaire 20h15-21h45; Thursdays beginning 6th October, Niveau faux-débutant 18h-19h15; Fridays beginning 7th October, 20h-22h. Theatre Workshop in English for natives and anglophones with a good level of fluency.; Saturdays beginning 8th October, 17h-19h. New Workshop. Public Speaking & Conversation in English. A 2-hour workshop for anglophones of all nationalities and natives. For more information, please write wordsaliveo@gmail.com or call 01 77 15 71 90. www.wordsaliveo.info you can add-in after the first séance, so don’t hesitate to join!

On 13, 20, October, 3, 17 Nov and 1 Dec (Thurs): Lit course “The Migrant Soul: Living and Coping with International Lifestyles” WICE's new literature course. Description: With the growing trend towards international living, more and more of us are leaving behind the familiar world of family and friends to reinvent ourselves abroad. How do these decisions change our outlook, our sense of self, community, family and home? Do people “back home” ever really understand who we are once we leave? This series of six lectures uses extracts from literature to spark discussion on these and other issues, such as creating a home away from home, raising children abroad, or even choosing a place to retire. Feeling invigorated or lost between two cultures? Then join us. We have a lot to tell each other. Instructor: Gretel Furner, MA German and French literature, Oxford, PhD German Literature, U. of Saarbruecken; formerly a professor at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Become a member of WICE to register. Sign up now!

7^th Oct: 7-10 PM. Literary Salons in Paris presents a “Salon for Busy People”: Joyce’s (“The Dead”) and Raymond Carver’s (“Cathedral”) Two short stories for a lively evening’s discussion. Sign up now and step into the smoke and falling snow of these gorgeous works. But Tobias Wolff, who is one of our great contemporary masters of the short story, says that the difficulty of the short story is its own reward. "The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story," he once said. And the writer's thrill is "working a miracle, making life where there was none" in the space of a few precisely and elegantly distilled pages. Both of these writers dig at the jagged edges and shards of our human experience and come to some glimpse of the greater rhythms that give life pull and purpose. I can't articulate what they do in a few glib sentences...nor do I want to summarize: this is the work of the Salon conversation and beautifully, it is the ensemble of ideas and opinions that opens up each of these gorgeous and hard works. Either way, you will have considered two rich works… Cathedral is available here: http://www.misanthropytoday.com/cathedral-by-raymond-carver-weekend-short-story/ The Dead: http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/958/ Salon: 30 € http://www.litsalon.co.uk/events/short-story-salon-paris-october-7th/ To sign up to receive the information on where the salon is being held, visit the Salon website: http://www.litsalon.co.uk/ or contact Toby at litsalon@gmail.com.

8th Oct: Literary Salons in Paris “Paradise Lost” by John Milton 5-10 PM (one space remaining) 45 € For registration information, visit the Salon website: http://www.litsalon.co.uk/ or contact Toby at litsalon@gmail.com.

Saturday/Sunday, October 22/23, 10-1 & 3-6pm “LOVE IS HARD BECAUSE LOVE CONTINUES” a Creative Writing/Poetry-Intensive workshop in Paris. Content: Instead of following the traditional workshop-model [intensive peer-critique], this workshop values play, process, expansion, difficulty and silences. As a group we will experience a wide range of poetry through writing, reading, thinking, speaking and making objects. I hope you will be surprised. I hope you’ll investigate your practices, interests, goals, that you will feel inspired, refreshed, met. Bring one object. Bring your favorite book. Bring your eyes. Price: € 350 Instructor Christine Herzer is a poet and visual artist. She is the author of ‘I cheated on Chanel N 5’ {Dancing Girls Press, 2012] and received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work appears in numerous international literary magazines, art reviews and online publications such as Fence, American Letters & Commentary, The New York Quarterly, elimae, Drunken Boat, Spiral Orb, BlazeVOX, Inertia, WoodCoin, Blackbox Manifold, MoonMilk Review, Platform Magazine [India], Upstairs at Duroc [France]. In 2011 she designed and led the two week Poetry-Workshop “WE DIE AND BECOME ARCHITECTURE” for the National Institute of Design [NID], in Ahmadabad, India. Christine divides her time between India and Paris. http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/christineherzer To Register or for more information contact Christine Herzer at roseconsciousness[AT]gmail[DOT]com; 0643255578

November 25^th: Literary Salons in Paris “Frankenstein” 5-10 PM 45 € For registration information, visit the Salon website: http://www.litsalon.co.uk/ or contact Toby at litsalon@gmail.com.

November 26^th: Literary Salons in Paris “Jane Eyre meets Wide Sargasso Sea”: 5-10 PM 45 € For registration information, visit the Salon website: http://www.litsalon.co.uk/ or contact Toby at litsalon@gmail.com.

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Part III) News reviews & reviews news
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SUBMIT to VERSAL: Prose, poetry, art, hybrid work is sought for VERSAL 10: Versal Magazine, an English language arts and literature annual based in Amsterdam and annually represented at AWP and other conferences is now accepting work for its exciting 10^th edition! Versal has garnered international attention for its unique visual and literary aesthetic, and was named one of seventeen “Indie Innovator” presses by Poets & Writers Magazine (Nov/Dec 2010): “the most visible product of a passionate group helping to sustain ‘transnational networks’ for writers.” The editors will be on site in Paris on Oct 11^th for an IVY reading (see part I of listings above) so come and get a sense of what they are seeking. Amsterdam's acclaimed literary & art annual, Versal, began reading for its 10th edition on September 15th. Its editors are looking for excellent prose, poetry, art and the inbetween to fill the pages of this exciting anniversary issue.Guidelines and (online only) submissions here: http://www.versaljournal.org/guidelines A $2 reading fee applies, or submit for free between October 1 and October 7, 2011. For a close look at Versal's tastes, or to just help keep art and literature happening, purchase the current no. 9 or a back issue: http://www.versaljournal.org/order. Pre-order Versal 10 when you submit and we’ll waive the submission fee. The deadline for submissions to Versal 10 is January 15, 2012. Local Paris poet, Jennifer K Dick, is also part of the poetry editoral staff at Versal.

SUBMIT: to Stoked Journal! It is currently accepting submissions on a rolling basis for upcoming volumes. For more information about the journal, check out their website. Submission guidelines can be found here.

OPEN CALL: ANTHOLOGY OF TRANS AND GENDERQUEER POETRY : We are creating an anthology of the best poems out there by trans and genderqueer writers and we would love to include your work in the book. While this project exists in a historical context of several important anthologies that gather marginalized and under-represented writers (This Bridge Called My Back, No More Masks, The World in Us, Premonitions, The Open Boat, etc), this will be the first anthology to foreground the poetic writings of trans and genderqueer authors. We are seeking writing that makes us wet our panties a little bit and wonder what the f* have we been doing with our lives all this time. Subject matter and/or content is open – you do not need to send us only poems about gender (although you may). One thing that makes this anthology unique is that it will include a statement on poetics by each participant, along with your poems. This is a chance for you to tell us something about your writing process, writing practice, theory of life, or whatever you like. This anthology is edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Peterson (Trace)—both trans-identified poets. It will be published by EOAGH Books in early 2012, and you can bet it will be widely distributed! We encourage submissions by people of color, people with disabilities, people educated by life or school or some of both or neither, people with no publications or a gazillion. The book will feature 7-10 pages of work from approximately 35 poets and we hope you will be one of them!
Deadline for Submissions: Nov 30, 2011 What to Submit: 7-10 pages of poetry, and a prose “poetics” statement. See website: www.transanthology.com Where to Submit: email us at transanthology@gmail.com

OUT in OCT: A reissue of Ariana Reines' Coeur de Lion will be released October 25 from Fence Books. To order a copy, head to the Small Press Distribution website. Check out Paul Scott Stanfield's review of Coeur de Lion on the Ploughshares blog.

READ ONLINE: Gently Read Literature October 2011 issue is at http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/octoberissue It includes, among other texts, An Other Woman: Metaxa Cunningham on Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz; You Feel Sung: Stephen Page on Gary Snyder’s Left Out in the Rain; Gathered Threads Weave: Deb Baker on Deborah Brown’s Walking the Dog’s Shadow; A Territory of Welcome: Nick Courtright on Your Father on the Train of Ghosts by G. C. Waldrep and John Gallaher & Loving the Complexity of Art: Daniela Olszewska on Maggie Nelson’s The Art of Cruelty Also, consider supporting GRL's fundraising campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danielcasey/gently-read-literature

OUT ONLINE NOW! For your reading pleasure, the new issue of Evening Will Come is up: including a roundtable on poetry and race, featuring Francisco Aragón, Jaswinder Bolina, Veronica Golos, Amy King, J. Michael Martinez, Farid Matuk, Evie Shockley, Juliana Spahr, Orlando White, and Timothy Yu. Read it Here: http://www.eveningwillcome.com/

EXPERIMENTAL BOOK SUBMISSIONS SOUGHT: The editors at Apostrophe Books are pleased to announce our third open reading period. They say: We will accept manuscript submissions between September 1^st, 2011 and October 31^st, 2011. If you are interested in submitting, please read our mission statement and follow the guidelines below: We are interested in writing that expands the potential definitions of poetry. With this in mind, we actively seek work that investigates language, and consciousness in language, in innovative and/or subversive ways. APOSTROPHE strives to publish work that complicates and challenges the idea of a “well-crafted” poem by disclosing its own operations and undermining presumptions about what actually constitutes a poem. This means we are pursuing writing that challenges the categories and generic distinctions most often associated with poetry. For examples of what we mean by this, we suggest purchasing one of our books through Small Press Distributors (spd.org), or Amazon.com. When submitting your manuscript, we request a reading fee of $20.00. This fee supports the rising printing costs of doing print runs that sustain distribution through SPD and sales through the usual online retailers. This fee supports promotion of the press through our presence at bookfairs and hosted readings at small art galleries. This fee is your way of telling us that not only do you seek a publisher, but that you support the authors and editors of this publisher. If you don't have a manuscript now to send but you know of people who might be interested in sending a manuscript to us, please forward this email to them. We appreciate any help you can provide to us in getting the word out.Thank you, APOSTROPHE BOOKS Richard Greenfield and Mark Tursi, Editors

READ/ GET A COPY: MARTIN RICHET on GERTRUDE STEIN IN FRENCH:This lovely book would be a great addition to any library ! A paraître en octobre, L’autobiographie de Gertrude Stein par Martin Richet, Eric Pesty Editeur, 128 pages, ISBN : 978-2-917786-12-3, 14 euros. L’Autobiographie de Gertrude Stein, par Martin Richet, serait à l’œuvre de l’auteur américaine ce que Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded, de Gertrude Stein, est à Enfances de Georges Hugnet. Non pas œuvre de circonstance comme on l’a souvent cru, où l’ennui et l’indifférence amènent progressivement une capitulation à l’égard du projet initial de traduction, mais, au sens complexe du terme, un reflet : « Les véritables sujets du poème, écrit Martin Richet à propos de Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Frie,dship Faded, sont les prépositions et pronoms, “in”, “which”, “with”, “away”..., qui opèrent et définissent constamment le travail de Gertrude Stein. Pénétrant DANS le texte de Georges Hugnet, Stein en capte la construction, l’architecture ou le pliage et écrit, en reflet, AVEC ce qu’elle y trouve, les éléments ou indices non-ressemblants QUI recréent ou traduisent le sujet en lignes et phrases qui se décollent, aussi, DE leur sujets, du nom des choses, pour affirmer l’intensité de leurs propres mouvements et de leur équilibre (...) ». A poursuivre notre analogie, on avancera que l’Autobiographie de Gertrude Stein, non moins que Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded, forme le projet d’une redéfinition des enjeux de la traduction par l’écriture.Que ce projet passe par l’épellation du nom même de Stein dans un titre volontiers paradoxal : L’Autobiographie de Gertrude Stein (lui-même transposé de la fameuse Autobiographie d’Alice Toklas), c’est faire droit à une intensité à réinventer, et cela dans la forme éminemment steinienne – et chez elle également toujours grammaticale – du portrait. Ce portrait de Gertrude Stein, le livre de Martin Richet l’effectuera à travers l’essai de diverses formes, souvent minimales : quatrains composés de vers d’un mot, palindromes, acrostiches sur le nom de l’auteur américaine, traductions littérales ou déplacées par la postérité de Stein, etc. Où le minimalisme de la composition confère une matérialité palpable au phrasé, et une incandescence toute particulière à la question du sens, que n’aurait sans doute pas désavoué l’auteur de Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded. Aussi bien : à déplier le nom de Gertrude Stein, le texte s’enjoint-il de réaliser cette intensité en quatorze mouvements, que désigne la table des matières en fin de volume, et qui sont opérations dialectiques, steiniennes-richetiennes, – ou pour employer ici un mot important, comme celui de mariage. De sorte que l’objet du livre (l’œuvre de Stein) n’est jamais indépendant du regard érudit porté sur elle et sa postérité, ni séparable des circonstances présentes de la composition de cette « autobiographie » qui en ressaisissent dès lors un portrait réfléchi : tout de méditation.

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2014-2015 GUEST BLOGGER was LOUISE COOPER

One of the newest editions to the Ivy Writers Paris team, Louise Cooper, has stepped up to the challenge of maintaining Paris’ monthly calendar of literary events and calls for work. Lou is a recent graduate of the Oakland University School of Music, Theatre and Dance in Detroit, MI where she pursued a BA in Theatre. She spent the last year backpacking through Europe and teaching in India before settling down in Paris. An au pair by day, in her spare time she hopes to explore written word as a new medium and delve into the artistic happenings here in Paris!