April 2012 Readings and Events List

April 2012 Readings List + Calls for Work

Part I) Paris Events & READINGS by dates in April 2012
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 MAY 2012 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!

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Part I) Paris events & READINGS by dates in March 2012

1 April 19h30 MOVING PARTS presents a double bill of short plays. Diana Stewart & Jane Rony's Lethal Ladyes: A prison in the afternoon during visiting hours. A big book of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare lies on the table between Lavinia and Lilly. Starring STEPHANIE CAMPION and AOIFE STONE. Followed by Douglas English's Peas in a Pod. Springtime in Paris. The frozen food section of a supermarket. Owen and Claire reach for the last packet of frozen peas at the same time. Starring DAVID COBURN, CAREY DOWNER, ERIN KOVAL and JEREMY SAVOIR AT: T: Carr's Pub & Restaurant 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris Metro : Tuileries

2 April 18h30 Les lundis de l'Arsenal. Grands poètes d'aujourd'hui: Ce nouveau cycle propose d'accueillir à la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal les grands poètes vivants : ils témoigneront de leur expérience vécue de la poésie et évoqueront leur bibliothèque imaginaire en choisissant les textes emblématiques de leur univers textuels parmi leurs auteurs de références et au sein de leur œuvre. Ces dialogues seront ponctués par des lectures données par un comédien et parfois par l'auteur lui-même. Ce soir: Yves Bonnefoy. Yves Bonnefoy s'entretient avec Jérôme Thélot, Université Lyon 3. AT: Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 1, rue de Sully - Paris 75004 Métro: Sully-Morland

2 April 19h TRAVAILLER JAMAIS: Join Shakespeare & Co. for songs of love, loss and liberty with Tom Hodgkinson. Tom is a British writer and editor of The Idler, an annual periodical that campaigns against the work ethic and promotes liberty, autonomy and responsibility. Tonight Tom will regale us with singing accompanied by ukulele and chat based around the themes of laziness and independence. Tom Hodgkinson has contributed articles to the Sunday Telegraph, Guardian and The Sunday Times as well as being the author of the bestselling books How To Be Idle, How To Be Free, The Idle Parent and more recently, Brave New World. Last year he opened The Idler Academy of Philosophy, Husbandry and Merriment, a bookshop and café in West London. http://idler.co.uk/about/ AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

2 April 19h À l’occasion du 10e anniversaire de la disparition de W.G. Sebald, les Éditions Inculte ont souhaité lui rendre hommage, à travers un livre collectif, dans lequel une vingtaine d’auteurs français et étrangers s’expriment sur leur lecture de son œuvre. En présence des initiateurs du projet Mathieu Larnaudie et Gwenaëlle Aubry, et de Muriel Pic, spécialiste de Sebald et auteur d’un essai critique remarqué : WG Sebald, L’Image Papillon (Les Presses du Réel). Soirée animée par Jürgen Ritte. Né en 1944, W.G. Sebald est incontestablement l’un des écrivains européens les plus importants de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Allemand, fils d’un sous-officier de la Wehrmacht, révolté par le silence de son père et d’une partie de sa génération sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il a vécu la plus grande partie de sa vie en Angleterre où il mena une carrière universitaire. Arpenteur infatigable de l’Histoire européenne, de ses lieux, de sa mémoire, il cherche à recueillir les signes et les indices de ce qui a existé, et que la destruction ou les falsifications ont occulté et dévoyé. Avec une attention particulière pour les migrants, les ruines, les friches, les marges, il a tenté, mieux que quiconque, de sauver de l’effacement les traces de notre civilisation. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

2 April 20h onward: SpokenWord Paris: Open mic in English, open to all languages. Running since 2006 it now gets 60 to 80 people coming every week! Every Monday. Sign up/hang out in the bar from 8pm, poetry underground. From 9pm to midnight. Spoken word : 5 mins (warning bell rung at 4.45: Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.) Songs : one song. We do 2 rounds between 9pm and midnight. Stand up, Theatre, Cabaret, Dance and Magic all welcome. Chacun a son mot à dire. Make the words come alive. AT: Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes.
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/

3 April 19h The Village Voice Bookshop and Vif Editions have the pleasure of inviting you to meet Mark Strand who will read from his latest collection of poems, Almost Invisible. Fiona Sze-Lorrain will read from her French translation, published in a bilingual edition by Vif Editions under the title Presque invisible. Mark Strand is the author of 13 collections of poetry, several volumes of prose, translations, and essays on art, including a book on Edward Hopper. He has also written books for children and edited poetry anthologies. Mark Strand has received many awards for his writing, notably the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and was the United States’ Poet Laureate from 1990 to 1991. The author will be introduced by the American poet, Jeffrey Greene. AT: Village Voice Bookshop 6, rue Princesse 75006 Métro: Mabillon

3 April Lecture à plusieurs voix de poèmes et de textes de Ludovic JANVIER: Poète, Romancier, Essayiste. A l'occasion de la parution de son roman autobiographique "La confession d'un bâtard du siècle." AT: Richard Laborier 64, rue de Rochechouart
75009 Paris http://www.zigloo.eu/zexpos.html

3 April 19h30 Ivy Writers Paris invites you to a bilingual reading in French and English with Gilles Weinzaepflen (French), Sean Cole (American) and Susana Gardner (Swiss-American). Susana Gardner is the author of the full-length poetry collections HERSO an heirship in waves (Black Radish Books, 2011) and [ LAPSED INSEL WEARY ] (The Tangent Press, 2008) as well as the soon forthcoming Cuntstruck Lithe Guttersnipes (Xexoxial Press). She has published several chapbooks, including Hyper-Phantasie Constructs (Dusie Kollektiv, 2010) and Herso (University of Theory and Memorabilia Press, 2009). Her poetry has appeared in many online and print publications including Jacket, How2, Puerto Del Sol, and Cambridge Literary Review among others. Her work has also been featured in several anthologies, including KINDERGARDE (forthcoming from Black Radish Books), 131.839 slög með bilum (131,839 keystrokes with spaces) (Ntamo, Finland, 2007) and NOT FOR MOTHERS ONLY: CONTEMPORARY POEMS ON CHILD-GETTING AND CHILD-REARING (Fence Books, United States, 2007). She lives in Zürich, Switzerland, where she also edits and curates the online poetics journal and experimental kollektiv press, Dusie. See DUSIE PRESS BOOKS or Dusie Kollectiv 5. Gilles Weinzaepflen is a poet, musician and filmmaker who published the book Noël Jivaro in 2011, a collection of ten years’-worth of his poetry with publisher Le Clou dans le Fer. His work also appears on his blog and website. and in the anthologies L'Égalité des signes with Le Quartanier (Canadian publisher) and Ivar Ch'Vavar et camarades (Flammarion) as well as in the literary magazines Les Cahiers du refuge, Coïncidences, Action poétique, Nioques, Minimum Rock'n Roll, Chroniques Errantes, Petite, Le Quartanier (Canada), and Lumea de Maine (Romania) among others. To hear him read an extract under the crisp fall air of a forest, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N5NPSO-hIg Admittedly, Gilles is better known as a musician and the long-time Momus collaborator under the name Toog, his first 6 albums have been distributed widely around the globe and he has toured in the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Korea and other countries. For more on Toog go to Gilles’ homesite or watch the Youtube video song of David French singing “Goto” on the latest Toog album or see Gilles performing at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdkGV3kfyP0 He also has been making films, including the 2010 documentary «La Poésie s'appelle reviens» (56 minutes), and the 2008, «Prélude au sommeil» (52 minutes) about composer and the French pioneer of Electric sound, Jean-Jacques Perrey. Currently, Gilles Weinzaepflen is completing his 7th album, his second collection of poems, and is working on a new documentary film. Sean Cole's poems have appeared in magazines like Pavement Saw, Black Clock, Court Green, Pom Pom, Carve, Torch, Dad and Boog City. He's the author of the chapbook Itty City (Pressed Wafer) and a collection of postcard poems called The December Project (Boog Literature). He will also have a brand new Dusie Press chap for sale at the reading, called ONE TRAIN (Dusie, 2012). In the anthology "Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days," Sean's was day 95. He is also public radio reporter and producer and is currently working for the NPR program "Radiolab." This will be his first time in Paris. AT: « Le Next »17 rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris M° Etienne Marcel / RER Les Halles

4 April 18h Don't miss a rare opportunity join us at the American University of Paris or two events celebrating Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. poet laureate Mark Strand in Paris, in particular his new collection of poems Almost Invisible and its translation into French, Presque invisible by Fiona Sze Lorrain and published by Vif Editions AT: American University of Paris in the Grand Salon, 6, rue du Colonel Combes, Room C12 RER: Pont d'Alma

4 April 19h Catherine Weinzaepflen à L'Arbre à Lettres. A la parution de Celle-là. « Partir sans un mot. Traverser le pont de l'Europe. Marcher vers l'Est, en direction du jour où de tout temps le soleil renaît. Celle-là le fait, qui semble glisser à dix centimètres du sol, comme pour ne pas marcher sur la tombe de l'enfant. » AT: 62 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine 75012 Paris, France Métro: Bastille

4 April 19h Rencontre avec MONA CHOLLET pour la parution de son essai Beauté fatale : les nouveaux visages d’une aliénation féminine (Zones). Décortiquant presse féminine, discours publicitaires, blogs, séries télévisées, témoignages de mannequins et enquêtes sociologiques, M. Chollet montre comment les industries du “complexe mode-beauté” travaillent à maintenir, sur un mode insidieux et séduisant, la logique sexiste au cœur de la sphère culturelle. Mona Chollet est journaliste au Monde Diplomatique et co-animatrice du site “péripheries.net”. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

4 April 19h30 Stéphane Hessel, author of the French bestselling phenomenon Indignez-Vous!, offers an English-language presentation of the translation, Time for Outrage!
Stephan Hessel is a holocaust survivor, diplomat, writer, and a former BCRA agent and member of the French Resistance. He co-drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and was later added to Foreign Policy magazine's list of top global thinkers. Hessel is the author of Indignez-Vous!, a 32-page booklet about outrage at social injustice. The booklet’s call to stand up to indecency resounded internationally; it has sold 1.5 million copies and been translated into twelve languages since its 2010 publication. It is also credited with influencing movements like Occupy Wall Street and Los Indignados in Spain. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

5 April 18h We are thrilled to welcome Lisa Hannigan to sing amongst the books at Shakespeare and Company in advance of her European tour. Lisa's voice has a dreamy, magic lyricism combining the soulful edge of Nina Simone with the freshness of Joni Mitchell. As Herbie Hancock said of her vocals, ‘there's so much jazz in the notes and phrases that she picks...I mean some of the things sound like choices that Miles would have made.’ Lisa is a Mercury-nominated Irish singer/songerwriter. She was a member of Damien Rice’s band for several years before beginning her solo career in 2008. She has released two critically albums: Sea Sew (which has sold 100,000 copies worldwide to date ) and Passenger, produced by Joe Henry, was released last October. Hannigan has been the recipient of various award nominations and critical praise around the world. She has performed on Jay Leno - The Tonight Show and The Colbert Report and toured extensively in USA. Lisa’s new single taken from the album Passenger , ‘What I'll Do’, is out early April. She will also be playing in Paris at La Fleche D'or on April 25th. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

5 April 19h Ho rs les murs rencontre-lecture avec Bernard Noël dans le cadre de sa résidence dans le 20e arrondissement. Carte blanche à Bernard Noël. AT: Médiathèque Marguerite Duras 115, rue de Bagnolet 75020 Paris Métro: Alexandre Dumas, Gambetta ou Porte de Bagnolet

6 April 19h Vernissage de l’exposition de photos de PASCALE ANGELOSANTO “Femmes de scènes." De la croisée des regards et des voix est née cette exposition. Parce que l’artiste sur scène offre sa voix, mais bien plus. C’est le début d’une quête : saisir cet instant fugace, ce fragment de temps qui saura rendre l’émotion offerte. Merci aux artistes qui ont accepté de faire partie de l’exposition : Anne Baquet, Michèle Bernard, Céline Caussimon, Christiane AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

6 April 9h30 Rencontre littéraire avec Jean Le Boël et les éditions Henry. Présentation de "L’étrangère française" de Nora Chaouche et de Gérard Cartier pour" Cabinet de société" AT: Lucarne des Ecrivains, 115 rue de l'Ourcq, 75019 Paris Métro: Crimée

7 April 10 - 19h Monthly Used Book Sale at the American Library in Paris. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

7 April 10h15 - 17h Deuxième journée internationale de l’entretien: Parce que la Mel s’est toujours interrogée sur la manière de rendre publique la parole des auteurs, elle va, pour la 2ème année, réfléchir avec David Christoffel à cet objet hybride, entre genre médiatique et impossible littéraire : l’entretien. Il s’agira donc de poser la question de la question. Peut-il y avoir de mauvaises questions ? Comment l’entretien peut-il prendre forme littéraire ? Que peut faire un poète aujourd’hui avec les Radioscopies de Jacques Chancel ? Où s’inscrit la poésie dans ce questionnement ? Le prix de la « pire meilleure question bateau » (réservé aux étudiants ) sera décerné. Entre autres récompenses, le lauréat pourra s’entretenir avec Hervé Le Tellier. Avec : David Christoffel (auteur, chroniqueur), Dominique Quélen (poète), Nathalie Rannou (universitaire), Jacques Rebotier (écrivain, compositeur), Thomas Baumgartner (producteur) et Hervé Le Tellier (écrivain). AT: à l’auditorium du Petit Palais Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, Avenue Winston Churchill. Métro: Champs-Elysees Clemenceau

7 April 18h Susan Cantrick, American Artist in Paris, shows new work in April's Salon Réalités Nouvelles show (showing from the 8th to the 15th). Come to the opening on April 7! AT: Parc floral de Paris Route du Champ de Manoeuvre Métro: Château de Vincennes

9 April 20h onward: SpokenWord Paris: Open mic in English, open to all languages. Running since 2006 it now gets 60 to 80 people coming every week! Every Monday. Sign up/hang out in the bar from 8pm, poetry underground. From 9pm to midnight. Spoken word : 5 mins (warning bell rung at 4.45: Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.) Songs : one song. We do 2 rounds between 9pm and midnight. Stand up, Theatre, Cabaret, Dance and Magic all welcome. Chacun a son mot à dire. Make the words come alive. AT: Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes.
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/

11 April 19h Lectures de slam par plusieurs auteurEs de S’lame de fond. Ce recueil de “slam féministe écrit par des TransPédéGouines” et illustré par Rose Butch propose des textes écrits lors d’ateliers dans différents lieux (Marseille, Montreuil, Lille...) et contextes (Universités d’été euroméditérranéennes des homosexualités, Festival littéraire “ô mots”, squat, scènes slam...) entre 2009 et 2010. Audrey et Caillou ont rassemblé ces textes dédiés “à la rébellion, à la rage de vivre, à la force qu’on tire de la lutte... Aux mots qui nous délivrent...”. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

11 April 19h Poets Live invites you to an evening of readings to celebrate the international quarterly Poetry Wales, with editor Zoë Skoulding and contributors to the magazine from Wales and Paris. Jean Portante was born in Differdange (Luxembourg) in 1950. He is of Italian origin and lives in Paris. He has written widely-translated novels, stories, plays and poetry, published in Luxembourg, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Québec, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, Slovakia, Argentina and Colombia. He has translated numerous poets into French, including Juan Gelman, Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre Joris, John Deane, Gonzalo Rojas and Maria Luisa Spaziani. In 2003 his book L’Etrange langue was given the Mallarmé award in France, and in the same year he won the French Grand Prix d’Automne de la Société des Gens de Lettres for his life’s work. In 2011 he was awarded the Batty Weber Prize in Luxembourg and in 2012 the Fondane Prize in Paris. His selected poems, La Cendre des mots. is published by Editions le Castor Astral (2005) His latest books are Le Travail du poumon (Editions Le Castor Astral, 2006), Je veux dire, (Editions Estuaires, 2007); En réalité, (Editions Phi, 2008), and La réinvention de l’oubli (Editions le Castor Astral, June 2010). As a novelist, his works include Mrs Haroy ou la mémoire de la baleine, which is widely translated. Since 2006, Jean Portante has been a member of the Académie Mallarmé. In 2008, he founded, in France, with poet Jacques Darras, the poetry magazine Inuits dans la jungle, while in Luxembourg he edits the literary magazine Transkrit. Zoë Skoulding’s most recent collections of poems are Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008), long-listed for Wales Book of the Year 2009, and The Mirror Trade (Seren, 2004). Her collaborative work includes Dark Wires with poet Ian Davidson (West House Books, 2007), From Here, with images by Simonetta Moro (Dusie, 2008) and You Will Live in Your Own Cathedral with sound by Alan Holmes (LAF-Seren, 2009). She is a member of the group Parking Non-Stop, whose album Species Corridor was released by Klangbad in 2008. She lectures at Bangor University and has been Editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales since 2008. Lyndon Davies is a poet, reviewer and essayist living in Powys. He has published two collections of poetry, Hyphasis (Parthian Press 2006) and Shield (Parthian Press 2010) . His poems and critical articles have appeared in various magazines, as well as in the anthologies Poetry Wales forty years (Seren 2005) and The Pterodactyl’s Wing (Parthian 2003). With poet Graham Hartill he runs the Glasfryn Seminars, a series of discussion groups on aspects of literature. He is also a co-organiser, with poet John Goodby of the yearly festival of innovative poetry The Hay Poetry Jamboree. Steven Hitchins is a poet from the South Wales valleys: born in Abercynon, currently living in Pontypridd. He tries to map these urban-rural, industrial-pastoral borderzones through collage and walking. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Wales, Fire and Chimera. His article ‘Poetry: Music: Space’ is in Junction Box issue 2. He occasionally edits the small press/little magazine/blog, The Literary Pocket Book, from which his homemade pamphlets The Basin and Palisade Winters are available. Rhys Trimble is a bilingual poet, improvisational performer and editor from Bethesda and Pontneddfechan. He is interested in heterglossic, psychogeographic, mythic and radical pastoral poetry. Rhys is published widely, including in Angel Exhaust, Poetry Wales, Skald, Tears in the Fence, Aesthetica, Seventh Quarry and elsewhere. He was a John Tripp finalist in 2009 and winner of the Cinnamon Press Collection Competition. Recent publications include Keinc (Cinnamon Press 2010) and Mynydd (Hafan 2012). AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris Metro : Tuileries

11 April 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Marilyn Waite. In her book, Sustainable Water Resources in the Built Environment, Marilyn Waite discusses the importance of water engineering and policy making in sustainable construction. She explores these issues with a particular focus on developing countries and how they can benefit from sustainable water practices. About the author: Marilyn Waite holds a Masters with Distinction in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge. Additionally, she holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (magna cum laude) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University. She also carries certificates in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and international Affairs and Environmental Studies. Marilyn has worked, studied and researched in over eight countries across four continents. She has implemented water and sanitation projects in rural Madagascar, led task forces to decrease reagent use in the spent fuel recycling process, as well as authored numerous publications in sustainable engineering topics (textile engineering, energy, and water). Marilyn currently resides in Europe, where she is focusing on low carbon energy as a source for climate change mitigation. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

11 April 21h Voix de femmes et poésie d’Amérique latine: A l'occasion de la parution aux Editions Turquoise de Voix de Femmes. Anthologie. Poèmes et photographies du monde entier. Cet ouvrage consacre un chapitre entier à la poésie de femmes originaires d'Amérique latine : s'y croisent les voix de 52 poétesses, dont Maria Mercedes Carranza, Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Rosario Castellanos, Elsa Cross, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Dulce Maria Loynaz, Cecilia Meireles, Gabriela Mistral, Yolanda Pantin, Alejandra Pizarnik, Josefina Pla, Blanca Revuelta de Guaman, Maria Sabina, Yolanda Westphalen... et à travers les traductions françaises de 76 poèmes, espagnol et guarani, quechua et portugais se rencontrent. En compagnie de Jean Portante, poète, romancier et traducteur, Lionel Ray, poète, président de l'Académie Mallarmé, Zoé Valdés, romancière, poétesse et scénariste, Vivian Lofiego, poétesse, metteur en scène et traductrice, Laure Cambau, poétesse et pianiste. AT: Maison de l'Amérique Latine 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Métro: Solférino

12 April 18h Philosophers in the Library: Lectures and discussion (no experience necessary) Our new series in the library starts off with Darren Frey On God and Evil: The History of Theodicies: Why would a loving being with the power to change the course of events allow millions to be massacred in genocides? Why would such a being sanction the enormous disparities of today's global economies? More intimately, how could a god capable of willing otherwise watch on as individuals face countless varieties of suffering, from grieving the loss of children to mourning failed relationships? There are a handful of commonplace affirmations made about the nature of god in many religious contexts. Beginning in early Judaism and continuing into contemporary Protestantism, various faiths have held that god is loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful. However, the existence and pervasiveness of evil complicates this picture. The attempt to answer questions of this sort has animated countless discussions in the history of Western philosophy and theology, and such discussions are called “theodicies”. In this introductory presentation, we'll consider the emergence of some of the earliest and most salient theodicies and then work through some of their implications. Darren Frey graduated in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and in Religious Studies at Harvard University. He has taught Philosophy and Religious studies at Emerson College and Deep Springs College, and now lives in Paris. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

12 April 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 “Morceaux en forme de poire" Entrée libre. AT: BNF François-Mitterrand, Grand auditorium, quai François Mauriac, 75013 Paris. Métro: Quai de la gare ou Bibliothèque.

12 April 19h The Village Voice Bookshop has the pleasure of inviting you to meet Edward Girardet who will discuss his latest book, Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of Reporting in Afghanistan, published by Chelsea Green Publishing in 2011. «An account that contains some of the best descriptions of Afghan people and events that I have read.» - Anatol Liven, The New York Review of Books. Few reporters have covered Afghanistan as intrepidly and humanely as Edward Girardet who, as a young foreign correspondent, arrived in Afghanistan just three months prior to the Soviet invasion in 1979. Now, in a gripping, personal account, Girardet delivers a story of that nation’s resistance fighters, foreign invaders, mercenaries, spies, aid workers, Islamic extremists, and others who have defined Afghanistan’s last thirty years of war, chaos, and strife. Over the years he encountered key figures in the lasting conflict such as Commander Massoud and Osama Bin Laden. Edward Girardet has reported widely from humanitarian and conflict zones in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere since the late 1970’s for major publications, including The International Herald Tribune, The Financial Times, and US News and World Report. He is also a television producer of documentary films ranging from battlegrounds to environmental issues. Edward Girardet will be introduced by Jonathan Randal, a journalist whose experience of the Middle East spans the last four decades and the author of Osama Bin Laden: The Making of a Terrorist. AT: Village Voice Bookshop 6, rue Princesse 75006 Métro: Mabillon

12 April 19h30 I Married You for Happiness is the one-night story of Nina, a woman at her husband’s deathbed. During this 12-hour literary sejour, she reflects on the defining moments of their marriage, their first meeting in Paris, and prospects for their reunion in the afterlife. As Nina remembers, she outlines her love with her husband, and how her artist’s character, juxtaposed with his mathematical inclinations, had deepened and complicated their relationship. Read more about I Married You for Happiness in The New York Times. About the author: Born in Paris, Lily Tuck is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and The News from Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award. She is also the author of the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and are collected in Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived. Lily Tuck now divides her time between Maine and New York City. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

14 April 15h Lecture de textes écrits à l’atelier d’écriture animé par CATHERINE BÉDARIDA. Toutes celles qui ont participé à l’atelier d’écriture qui s’est déroulé depuis novembre dernier à Violette and Co sont invitées à une lecture publique en public. Venez écouter des textes poétiques, drôles, engagés ou émouvants ou tout cela à la fois ! Catherine Bédarida, poète et journaliste, lira aussi quelques-uns de ses propres textes. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

16 April 19h We welcome Kate Tempest for an evening of rhymes and poetry. Kate is one of the UK’s most thrilling young performance poets. She has transfixed audiences all around the world with the power of her words and the strength of her performance, whether she is reciting Shakespeare, slam or her own poetry. Kate Tempest is a writer. She writes rhymes, lyrics, poems and plays. She began at 16, rapping in battles across London, and began performing spoken word at 21. She’s performed her writing on stages all over the world, from Latvia, Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, Austria and Munich to Sydney and New York, as well as playing all the major UK and European music festivals, including Glastonbury, where her poetry was included in the televised highlights. She has written poems for Barnardo's children's charity, the BBC, Amnesty International, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Turner Prize winning artist Chris Offili. She is 2 x poetry slam winner at the prestigious Nu-Yorican poetry cafe in New York. She has supported Billy Bragg on a UK tour with her band Sound of Rum, whose debut album 'Balance' came out in 2011 on UK independent record label Sunday Best. Her first play 'Wasted' was commissioned by theatre company Paines Plough and tours the UK from March to May 2012. Her first full length poetry book 'Everything Speaks in its Own Way' is released in April 2012, with a CD and DVD of live performance and interviews, on her own publishing imprint 'Zingaro'. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

16 April 19h Aisha Franz : Alien / Petite Terrienne Avec un sens aigu du non-dit, Aisha Franz dessine la vie quotidienne d’une mère célibataire et de ses deux filles dans une petite ville allemande. La cadette fait la rencontre d’une créature extraterrestre peut-être imaginaire. Au même moment, l’aînée fait ses premières expériences sexuelles avec un garçon sensiblement plus âgé qu’elle, et leur mère dépressive revit en boucle toutes les occasions manquées de sa vie. La petite réagit à un sentiment croissant de solitude et d’isolement, en accueillant en secret dans sa chambre cette étrange et silencieuse créature transparente qui va l’accompagner au cours de ses premiers émois. Dans son premier roman graphique, Aïsha Franz fait avec brio la description du monde des jeunes filles en fleurs dans une ambiance étrange où le malaise s’insinue progressivement. Aisha Franz a étudié la communication visuelle à l’École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Kassel, avec spécialisation en bande dessinée et illustration. Ses histoires dessinées ont été publiées notamment dans « Ku(s) ». Très active sur la scène graphique berlinoise, elle a créé avec six autres auteurs de bande dessinée le collectif The Treasure Fleet. Véritable révélation en 2010, Alien vient de paraître sous le titre Petite Terrienne aux éditions çà & là. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

16 April 20h onward: SpokenWord Paris: Open mic in English, open to all languages. Running since 2006 it now gets 60 to 80 people coming every week! Every Monday. Sign up/hang out in the bar from 8pm, poetry underground. From 9pm to midnight. Spoken word : 5 mins (warning bell rung at 4.45: Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.) Songs : one song. We do 2 rounds between 9pm and midnight. Stand up, Theatre, Cabaret, Dance and Magic all welcome. Chacun a son mot à dire. Make the words come alive. AT: Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes.
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/

18 April 19h Rencontre avec CHLOÉ DELAUME pour la présentation de la collection “Extraction” (éd. joca seria) qu’elle dirige. En présence de GUILLAUME LEBRUN et RÉMI DEULCEUX. “La collection Extraction est un geste éditorial. Faire sortir la littérature de son carcan traditionnel, tirer la poésie hors de ses codes et ses chapelles, donner la parole aux expérimentateurs. Elle se définit comme un espace de recherche en marge de l’hégémonie du roman sympathiquement rentable”. Des quatre romans publiés tout récemment, deux seront ici présentés : Méthodologie de la vie clandestine, de Rémi Deulceux (sur la lutte armée) et Prototype 876437 1-A, de Guillaume Lebrun (sur la violence familiale) et chaque auteur en fera une lecture. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

19 April 19h We welcome Jeanette Winterson, one of the world’s great storytellers and a beloved friend of Shakespeare and Company, to talk about her memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? At times hilarious, at times painful, this brave and beautiful book is one you must read and the event one you cannot miss. ‘The most moving book of Winterson's I have ever read... but it wriggles with humour...At one point I was crying so much I had tears in my ears. There is much here that is impressive, but what I find most unusual about it is the way it deepens one's sympathy, for everyone involved’
- Guardian. In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival.

This book is that story's silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous, honest and true. ‘Boasts everything that she does best: courage, ferocity and prose that soars’
- New Statesman, Books of the Year AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

20 April 16h Come and talk to Chris Pavone who will be signing copies of his new spy thriller The Expats, which has been getting rave reviews – as Patricia Cornwell says it’s ‘Bristling with suspense and elegantly crafted’. ‘The Expats has got to be one of the best-written spy thrillers I’ve ever read. It captures in wonderful detail the texture of expatriate living while delivering a riveting story of great-game deceptions wrapped inside the smaller deceptions of marriage. At moments horrifying, hilarious, and very wise, The Expats has given Chris Pavone a permanent place on my short list of must-read authors.’ – Olen Steinhauer * Note signing-only AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

20 April 19h Margot Käßmann : Au milieu de la vie. À l’occasion de la parution de son ouvrage Au milieu de la vie aux éditions Labor et Fides. Lecture suivie d’un entretien avec Joachim Umlauf Modération : Frédérick Casadesus, journaliste à Réforme. Première femme élue à la tête de l’Église protestante allemande – fonction qu’elle occupa jusqu’au mois de février 2010 –, Margot Kässmann publie un nouveau livre, Au milieu de la vie, et se penche à cette occasion sur ce que l’on nomme communément la crise de la cinquantaine. « Se préparer à devenir vieux et accepter l’évidence que tout être humain est mortel reste une affaire très personnelle, écrit-elle. J’essaie de réfléchir à tout cela sur la base de ma foi chrétienne. Comment se présente ma propre finitude ? Que me dit ma foi à ce propos ? Est ce que je peux m’autoriser un coup d’œil par-dessus les limites ? Quiconque décide de s’atteler à ces questions se lance dans un processus important pour clarifier son existence ». Elle abordera aussi, bien entendu, les grands défis qui se posent aux Églises dans des sociétés en pleines mutations. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

20 April 19h Rencontre avec CATEL pour la parution de son roman graphique Olympe de Gouges (Casterman). Après Kiki de Montparnasse, Catel (dessin) et José-Louis Bocquet (scénario) nous offre cette fois-ci une biographie de celle qui écrivait en 1791 la Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne dans laquelle elle affirmait : “la femme naît libre et demeure égale à l’homme en droit”. Documenté, rythmé, le roman graphique est complété par une chronologie et des notices biographiques des principaux acteurs de la Révolution. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny

23 April 19h Bodo Mrozek : Bedrohte Wörter. Un sauvetage amusant du vocabulaire allemand. Ce sont pourtant de très jolis mots, mais on les entend de plus en plus rarement. Les Allemands eux-mêmes ont parfois du mal à comprendre « Schwengel », par exemple, ou « Zinken », ou encore « Lorke ». « Kreiswehrersatzamt » est pratiquement passé aux oubliettes. Serait-ce bientôt le sort de « Yuppie » ? Bodo Mrozek a rassemblé ces vocables menacés pour en faire un amusant Lexikon der bedrohten Wörter, dont il nous lira quelques extraits avant de répondre aux questions du public. Bodo Mrozek, né en 1968 à Berlin, a étudié l’histoire, la littérature et les sciences politiques à Berlin et Amsterdam. Il a collaboré à différents quotidiens et hebdomadaires allemands et est membre d’un jury qui, chaque année, choisit le titre de livre le plus étrange. Il travaille à Berlin comme journaliste et historien.
Son Lexikon der bedrohten Wörter en deux volumes a paru en 2005 et 2006 aux éditions Rowohlt. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

23 April 18h30 encontre avec Lionel Ray. Lionel Ray est membre de la revue Europe et président de l’académie Mallarmé. Pour l’essentiel son œuvre poétique est publiée par les éditions Gallimard. Elle lui a valu de nombreux prix dont le Goncourt de poésie, le grand prix de poésie de la SGDL, le prix Kowalski-ville de Lyon, le prix de la Fondation Pierrette Micheloud (Lausanne), etc. Parmi ses derniers titres : Comme un Château défait suivi de Syllabes de sable (Poésie/Gallimard), Matière de nuit, L’Invention des bibliothèques, Entre nuit et soleil (collection blanche). En compagnie de : * Gérard Cartier, poète, prix Max Jacob, qui parlera de « L’invention de Lionel Ray » * Laurent Fourcaud présentera la revue Place de la Sorbonne , n°2 où figurent un entretien avec Lionel Ray et une réflexion de Michel Collot sur « le paysage brouillé de la poésie française contemporaine » * Jean Guiloineau présentera la revue Siècle 21, n°20 qui comporte deux importants dossiers, l’un sur la « Littérature anglaise contemporaine » préparé par Vanessa Guignery et la poète américaine Marylin Hacker., l’autre intitulé « Lionel Ray : le lyrisme bien tempéré » réunit les actes d’une journée d’études qui lui fut consacrée en Sorbonne en mai 2011. AT: Maison de l'Amérique Latine 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Métro: Solférino

23 April 20h onward: SpokenWord Paris: Open mic in English, open to all languages. Running since 2006 it now gets 60 to 80 people coming every week! Every Monday. Sign up/hang out in the bar from 8pm, poetry underground. From 9pm to midnight. Spoken word : 5 mins (warning bell rung at 4.45: Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.) Songs : one song. We do 2 rounds between 9pm and midnight. Stand up, Theatre, Cabaret, Dance and Magic all welcome. Chacun a son mot à dire. Make the words come alive. AT: Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes.
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/

25 April 15h Bring your children (2-6 year-olds) 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. There will be instruments to play and noise to make! Then for children over 7 years, there will be a game club afterwards with cards, scrabble, uno and many more games you might be tempted to play... * 3-4pm Music, rhythm and stories with Kate from This is the Kit (kids’ hour in the Library): For 2-6 year-olds (siblings welcome too) with parents. 4 euro donation appreciated. *4.30pm-5.30pm Games Club for 7yrs and up. 2 euro donation appreciated. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

25 April 18h30 Communautarisme et nationalisme dans le mouvement mapuche : 1910 - 2010
Conférence de Viktor Naguil Gómez. Viktor Naguil Gómez, Délégué International de Wallmapuwen, Professeur d’Histoire et Géographie, Doctorant en Sciences Politiques (Université Autonome de Barcelone), expliquera l’émergence d’un mouvement national mapuche durant les vingt dernières années, ainsi que le changement que celui-ci impose vis-à-vis de la tendance communautariste, prédominante depuis ses origines au début du XXe siècle. A partir d’une analyse historique et politique du mouvement mapuche, V. Naguil Gómez tentera de démontrer l'influence des facteurs nationaux mapuches, sociaux, état-nationaux et internationaux dans l’adoption de ces stratégies politiques. Débat animé par Hector Vásquez, Président de l'Association d’Ex Prisonniers Politiques Chiliens - France AT: Maison de l'Amérique Latine 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Métro: Solférino

29 April 18h Come to SOS Help's special benefit evening - the owners of the restaurant Verjus have kindly donated their premises, and other sponsors have donated appetizers and desserts. There will also be entertainment : a talk by David Lebovitz, music from Cat Jahnke and Heather Stimmler-Hall as MC. At 60€ per person your evening includes: "Apéro dinatoire" with wine and appetizers, a talk by David Lebovitz,
music by Cat Jahnke, MC'd by Heather Stimmler-Hall. All proceeds benefit SOS Help,the emotional support line in English. Tickets on sale via online: www.soshelpline.org AT: Verjus Restaurant 47 rue Montpensier, 75001, Paris Métro: Pyramides


30 April 20h onward: SpokenWord Paris: Open mic in English, open to all languages. Running since 2006 it now gets 60 to 80 people coming every week! Every Monday. Sign up/hang out in the bar from 8pm, poetry underground. From 9pm to midnight. Spoken word : 5 mins (warning bell rung at 4.45: Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.) Songs : one song. We do 2 rounds between 9pm and midnight. Stand up, Theatre, Cabaret, Dance and Magic all welcome. Chacun a son mot à dire. Make the words come alive. AT: Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes.
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/


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Part II) Writing, Lit & Theater Workshops in Paris in April
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Patricia LaPlante Collins organizes weekly Paris Soirees http://www.parissoirees.com/ and often has authors in. It is an evening where you have dinner and wine and then hear someone read, talk, discuss their work or projects, etc. during the evening. Patricia Laplante-Collins created Paris Soirees Dinners on Sunday and Paris Networking Cocktail events on the Ile St Louis to bring Americans in Paris together with expats, hip French and the International Community in a global meetup. Evenings feature Literary, Art, New Age, Business, African- American and Black Paris themes. There is an intimate salon atmosphere but it’s all about meeting people in Paris and creating friendships. Patricia is also the founder of African American Literary Soirees. To reserve a place, contact Patricia by email or telephone: parissoirees@gmail.com Tel: 33 (0) 6 43 79 35 18 (Locally: 06 43 79 35 18)

Saturdays 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

Une nouvelle activité à Violette and Co : atelier ouvert d’échange de lectures sur le thème “Résister.” L’atelier requiert une participation active : à chacune est demandé d’apporter un livre (essai ou fiction) qui l’a particulièrement marquée, stimulée, qui l’a fait réfléchir à la notion de résistance (résister à quoi ? comment ? avec qui ? dans quel contexte ?). Les participantes ont un temps de parole de 10mn pour lire un passage de leur texte et expliquer leur choix. Les deux initiatrices de l’atelier s’assurent du respect des règle du jeu. C’est un atelier plus politique que littéraire à la fois par son propos et par sa forme. Infos complémentaires : chantal.mellies@wanadoo.fr

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Part III) News reviews & reviews news
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Lex-ICON invites you SEND WORK and READ ONLINE our project. Check out Lex-ICON's pre-confernce blog project where daily visual poems, critical thoughts on text and image today, and language-based art are being posted between 20 March & 20 May! These will be assembled into a creative publication for the attendees of the 7-9 June 2012 Lex-Icon conference at the Université de Haute Alsace in MULHOUSE, france. See also our INVITATION to contribute work to this project on the blog iteself-Hope to see you there! http://lex-icon21.blogspot.fr/ direct link for an invitation to contribute work is at: http://lex-icon21.blogspot.fr/2012/03/invitation-contribuer-notre-blog-invite.html And an in-depth explainer of the project is at: http://lex-icon21.blogspot.fr/2012/03/lex-icon-projet-de-blog-du-20-mars-au.html

PRAISE BE! SUBMISSIONS FOR A TALE OF THREE CITIES #2 ARE NOW OPEN. Following on from the peppermint-green charms of our first issue, stocked by Colette, B Store and The Wapping Project among others, we are looking for stories, photography, poetry, essays, short plays and more for issue #2 We want solid new work that stops us in our tracks. We want to print unknown writers and artists alongside globally-acclaimed ones. We want to make an issue we would sell our shoes to publish, and all we ask is that submissions have a flavour of London, Paris or Berlin* WHAT WE WANT IS FRESH EYES, AND REAL, UNEXPECTED GLIMPSES OF THESE CITIES. MAKE MUMMA PROUD. Read our manifesto. Read our magazine. SUBMISSIONS CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT CET ON APRIL 18 2012 Submitting words? Send them to rosa@taleofthree.com Submitting images? Send them to alex@taleofthree.com

Please help us spread the word about the Robin Becker Chapbook Prize, awarded annually to two LGBTQ poets. The submission period is currently open until April 16 (since the 15th falls on a Sunday this year). This series began in 2008 with Judith Barrington's Lost Lands; the most recent titles, selected last year by Barrington, are slated for release in March and April: Ellen Goldberg's Each Perfect One and D. Gilson's Catch & Release. We are delighted to share that this year's judge will be Elena Georgiou. Complete details and guidelines about the Robin Becker Chapbook Series, and all our titles, can be found at the Seven Kitchens Press site: http://sevenkitchenspress.com/series-guidelines/guidelines-the-robin-becker-chapbook-prize/ Please take a moment to share this opportunity with others you may know. Since 2007, Seven Kitchens has grown steadily through word-of-mouth and the generous support of individuals like you. Thank you, and keep writing!

Ashland Poetry Press's 2012 Snyder Prize: One month remains to enter your manuscript in the 2012 Richard Snyder Publication Prize, judged by Elizabeth Spires. Entries for this year's contest may be submitted electronically or by mail. The deadline for this year's contest is April 30, 2012. See our blog for more information.

JUST LAUNCHED: That Other Word, a podcast run jointly by Daniel Medin and Scott Esposito of the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco. Each episode features a discussion between Daniel and Scott on recent noteworthy literature in translation, and then an in-depth interview with writers, translators, editors, and publishers. The podcast hopes to celebrate and explore various and under-appreciated aspects of translation, not only into and out of English, but other languages as well. In this first episode, the two hosts chat about the accidental poetry and reasonable plausibility of César Aira’s Varamo, the miraculous strangeness of László Krasznahorkai’s Satantango, and the hopping city at the heart of Robert Walser’s Berlin Stories. They also mention recent and upcoming events at their respective centers, including the CWT’s publication of the latest in The Cahiers Series, A Labour of Moles by Ivan Vladislavić, and the upcoming visit of Jay Rubin and J. Philip Gabriel, translators of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, at the CAT. Afterward, Scott Esposito is joined by Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review and former senior editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. They discuss editing the English version of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s 03 (translated by Mitzi Angel), procuring the rights to Roberto Bolaño’s works and editing Natasha Wimmer’s translations, failure and what separates translation from other kinds of writing, ‘living with books’, and why The Paris Review publishes what it does. The conversation concludes with Edouard Levé, touching on his aphoristic influences, his humor, his suicide, and his book Autoportrait, which Stein has recently translated from the French. We're hoping to make That Other Word available on iTunes soon; in the meantime, we invite you to listen to the first episode on either the Other Word site or on the CAT's. Episode 2, which will air in April, includes an interview by Daniel Medin with Petra Hardt, director of foreign rights at Suhrkamp Verlag

NEW CHAPBOOKS OUT by Michelle Naka Pierce and Chris Pusateri. Continuous Frieze Bordering Red by Michelle Naka Pierce. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press
96p. $19 (paper); $45 (cloth).Buy it here. Common Time by Chris Pusateri. Normal, IL: Steerage Press, 2012. 106p. Price: $9.99 (paper) $0.99 (Kindle edition)
Buy it here.

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH AT THE BOSTON REVIEW: At Boston Review, every month is poetry month. We've supported a vibrant international poetry culture for more than three decades, publishing new and well-established poets and critics in every issue along side our in-depth political coverage. But that doesn't mean we're NaPoMo curmudgeons. National Poetry Month is a great opportunity to strengthen the bonds of the community and introduce new readers to the challenge and pleasures of verse. This year, BR will publish a new poem online every weekday throughout April along with additional poetry reviews and essays. Sign up for the weekly Poetry Matters email newsletter for updates, new poems, multimedia, poetry news, and more. And don't forget: our 15th Annual Poetry Contest is now accepting submissions. This year's judge is Matthea Harvey, winner of the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and author of, most recently, the acclaimed collection Modern Life. First prize for the BR poetry award is $1,500 plus publication in the November / December issue of Boston Review.

NOVO art Crit mag (based in Mulhouse) has a new issue up online. A free paper version will soon be available for those in Mulhouse! NOVO N°19 est en ligne sur www.novomag.fr… et bientôt disponible en version papier près de chez vous.

DONATE to Paris/Chicago based magazine Omnia Vanitas's Kickstarter: Omnia Vanitas Kickstarter's page is live! Omnia Vanitas Review is a delicate mixture of Féminine Écriture, New Narrative, and Clit Lit. We enjoy explicit descriptions of sex written in white ink. Deflowering language. Multiple orgasms with multiple climaxes. The playful touching of intertextuality. Deliberately elusive linguistic weavings. Words who slow dance with Aphasia and flirt with Amnesia. Words wet with formlessness. Words pregnant with child. With twins, with quintuplets. Esoterica. Etcetera. Erotica. Though we consider ourselves an erotica magazine, we also interpret “erotica” rather loosely. We think of the act of writing—words penetrating the void, pen piercing paper—as an erotic endeavor, and though some of our submissions are transparently risqué, we can’t think of anything more racy than the pure desire to write. The money we receive from kickstarter will enable us to pay our web designer and our printing costs: in short it will allow us to make the review happen. In a world dominated by corporate media and art and literature subordinated to market pressures, we believe it's important to provide outlets for alternative forms of art and media. Omnia is one of these outlets. If you ever wish to speak with us, about our project, any of the individual pieces, or for any other reason, please, don’t hesitate to contact us at: omnia.vanitas.review@gmail.com