FEBRUARY and MARCH events and readings in PARIS, France plus CALLS FOR WRITING WORK

READINGS LISTING FOR FEBRUARY AND INTO MARCH 2014 for PARIS, FRANCE!

PART I: READINGS  AND ART EVENTS listed by date in Feb and March 2014

PART II: WRITING WORKSHOPS IN PARIS

PART III: CALLS FOR WORK, NEW BOOKS and REVIEWS: where to send YOUR work!

PART I:

FEBRUARY 2014 listing of events by date:

du 7 février au 25 avril 2014 "Get Hold of This Space" La carte de l'art conceptuel au Canada. Le Centre culturel canadien présente, en deux volets successifs, « Get Hold of This Space ». La carte de l’art conceptuel au Canada, une exposition majeure sur l’art conceptuel qui s’est développé au Canada, de l’extrême Est à l’extrême Ouest en passant par le cercle arctique, entre 1960 et 1980. Constituée d’œuvres et de documents d’archives en provenance de grands musées, écoles d’art, archives personnelles d’artistes et collections privées, cette exposition propose un regard inédit sur la diversité de l’art contemporain au Canada ainsi que les divers centres et lieux excentrés où elle s’est exercée. Plus d’une cinquantaine d’artistes et de collectifs sont exposés, parmi lesquels Carole Condé et Karl Beveridge, General Idea, Raymond Gervais, Rodney Graham, Image Bank (Michael Morris et Vincent Trasov), Garry Neill Kennedy, N.E. Thing Co., Rober Racine, Michael Snow, Françoise Sullivan, Ian Wallace, Joyce Wieland ainsi que des artistes américains et européens ayant réalisé des pièces importantes au Canada à cette époque (Lawrence Weiner, Hans Haacke, Dennis Oppenheim, John Baldessari, Jan Dibbets, David Askevold...). Cette première partie de l’exposition porte sur la critique de l’institution et le développement des réseaux, notamment par le biais de magazines et de centres d’exposition gérés par les artistes eux-mêmes. Elle montre diverses expériences de pratiques artistiques sortant des formes traditionnelles de l’art, confrontant l’artiste et le spectateur à la réflexion, la performance, l’engagement, l’utopie, l’ironie sans oublier l’ennui ou l’humour. Commissaire générale : Barbara Fischer Commissaire associée : Catherine Bédard AT : Centre culturel canadien 5, rue de Constantine - 75007 Paris t: + 33 (0)1.44.43.21.90 / www.canada-culture.org Contact presse : Jean Baptiste Le Bescam Tél : 01.44.43.21.48 / jean-baptiste.lebescam@international.gc.ca Comment venir : Métro : Invalides (lignes 8,13) Bus : lignes 28, 49, 63, 69, 83 RER : Invalides (RER C) Horaires : lundi au vendredi 10h-18h - fermé samedi/dimanche Entrée gratuite

08 février > 16 mars Festival Circulation(s) au CENTQUATRE - PARIS : La programmation s’articule autour d’une sélection de 22 artistes, d’une école et d’une galerie invitées, de projets spéciaux, et d’une carte blanche proposée à Xavier Canonne, directeur du musée de la Photographie à Charleroi (Belgique). Au total, 44 photographes présentent leurs travaux à travers des expositions, projections et installations présentés au CENTQUATRE - PARIS. au CENTQUATRE - PARIS : horaires : mardi > vendredi : 13h-19h | le week-end : 12h-19h accès libre et gratuit

10th February A Cabinet with Monsieur Moon Independent filmmaker and sound explorer Vincent Moon will be in residence in our library from opening to closing, screening films and talking about his work. Vincent Moon is an independent filmmaker from Paris who came to be known for his field work music videos of indie rock-related musicians, as well as some notable mainstream artists like Tom Jones, R.E.M., and Arcade Fire. For the past three years, he has been making experimental films and documentaries. AT:  Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

10 Feb from 8pm  SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/ 

11 February at 7:30 p.m. POETS LIVE An evening of poetry and music with Zoë Skoulding and Victor  Drinks upstairs from whenever you like, poetry starts downstairs at 19:30 BIOS: Zoë Skoulding is a poet, translator, editor and critic. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren, 2013) and Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008), poems from which have been widely translated. Her own translations include a collection by the Luxembourgish poet Jean Portante, In Reality (Seren, 2013).  From 2009 to 2011 she was, in partnership with Literature Across Frontiers, director of Metropoetica, a collaborative project on translation, gender and city space. Her critical work includes Contemporary Women's Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She is a member of the collective Parking Non-Stop, whose CD Species Corridor, combining experimental soundscape with poetry and song, was released in 2008. She is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Bangor University, and has been editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales since 2008. She is currently living in Paris for a three-month residency at Les Récollets. Victor is currently finishing a PhD in art history that led him to live between Paris and Berlin -- he is also a clandestine pop culture amateur. As a self-taught guitar player and former member of several jazz bands, Victor performs regularly in Paris’ English poetry scenes, covering calypso songs from the 1930s and constantly digging for musical diamonds in the recorded heritage of the 20th century. For Poets Live, Victor will perform excerpts from his “Des Yoyos aux Yéyés:  A Brief History of Postwar French Popular Music,” which is a cultural studies lecture in verse. Framed as a poem in tight English alexandrines, it is punctuated with live French renditions of the referenced songs. The audience can expect a subjective, somewhat insolent and completely out-of-the-box analysis of the French musical tradition; a sweeping portrait from the underground scene in the cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés to the contemporary music industry. The poem is an homage to the vibrant, multi-faceted musical heritage known as la chanson française, a heritage intimately tied to the French language itself and covers a tight selection of songs from the linguistic gymnastics of Boris Vian to France’s Anglo-Saxon pop-star wannabes, by way of Dick Annegarn’s fantastical themes and the fully-rounded, delectable work of Serge Gainsbourg (whose legacy represents the backbone of the series). This night of academic sing-along is an entry ticket into the world of French pop-culture in all its double-edged glory. AT: Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris. Métros: Tulieries and Concorde

12 February at 7 PM: UPSTAIRS AT DUROC, the Paris literary journal, invites you to a READING with JONATHAN REGIER, JANE COPE, and CAROLE BIRKAN. Bios: Jonathan REGIER’s first book of poetry, Three Years from Upstate, was published by Six Gallery Press (Brooklyn) in 2008. He is also the author of a chapbook, Rotation, from Color Treasury (Austin). His poetry has appeared recently in journals such as The Volta, Diagram and elimae, and his essays/reviews in Jacket2, Drunken Boat, and the Huffington Post Science Blog. He is a PhD candidate in the history and philosophy of science at Université Paris 7. His thesis is eating up the greatest fraction of words he types. Jane COPE is a queer poet and diarist, originally from Michigan but now based in Paris. Her work has been published in Red Lightbulbs, Upstairs at Duroc, Everyday Genius and Radioactive Moat. She recently released the first issue of her zine Whatever Happened to Crazy Jane. Carole BIRKAN was born in London in 1974 and now lives and works in Paris where she researches poetry and translation. In the early 2000’s, her poems appeared in Mima’amakim (NYC), to which she also contributed as an editor. She has recent poems forthcoming in Tears in the Fence. AT: BERKELEY BOOKS OF PARIS, 8 Rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris, Métro Odéon.

13 Feb--6:30 *An Evening with novelist and playwrite Jake Lamar, Hosted by Stephanie Papa JAKE LAMAR was born in 1961 and grew up in the Bronx, New York. After graduating from Harvard University with a degree in American History and Literature, he spent six years writing for Time Magazine. Jake has lived in Paris since 1993. Jake Lamar is the author of a memoir, six novels, numerous essays, reviews and short stories and, most recently, a play. He is a recipient of the Lyndhurst Prize (for his first book, Bourgeois Blues), a prestigious Centre National du Livre grant (for his upcoming novel Posthumous), France’s Grand Prix for best foreign thriller (for Nous Avions un Rêve, the French translation of his novel The Last Integrationist), and a Beaumarchais grant for his play Brothers in Exile. He currently works as literary consultant at the MC93 Theater in Bobigny and has taught creative writing at French universities and at libraries and high schools in Paris’s working-class suburbs. In September 2013, he became an instructor in Cedar Crest College's Pan European MFA program. Jake will read from his new novel, titled Posthumous, which will be published first in France, by Rivages, in September 2014. The novel is about an art historian named Toby White and his effort to write the story of the turbulent life of the Dutch painter Femke Versloot, from Nazi-occupied Rotterdam to Greenwich Village at the height of the Abstract Expressionist revolution of the 1950s, to 21st century Northern California in the tense days after the September 11 attacks. Jake will also read from his new play, Brothers in Exile, which is about the complex relationship between three African American authors---Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Chester Himes---in Paris in the 1950s. AT: American University in Paris, Grand Salon, 31 av. Bosquet 75007 Pars. 

13 February @20h - Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring PAUL STEPHENSON Paul Stephenson has published poems in a wide range of magazines including Poetry London, Magma, The Wolf, The Rialto, The North and Brittle Star. He has been highly commended twice in the Bridport competition and came second in last year’s Troubadour International Poetry Prize. He has read at Ledbury and recently alongside Simon Armitage and Frieda Hughes. Currently he is taking part in the Jerwood/Arvon mentoring scheme 2013/14. AT:  Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix,75020. Details at parislitup.com/events

13th February 7pm We’re thrilled to present Dame Margaret Drabble, who will be discussing her acclaimed new novel, The Pure Gold Baby. Both personal and political, The Pure Gold Baby is a remarkable portrait of a family, a friendship, and a neighbourhood. It is a novel of great beauty, wisdom, and stealthy power by one of Britain’s foremost writers. Anna is a child of special, unknowable qualities. She is a happy child, always willing to smile at the world around her. But she also presents profound challenges. For her mother Jess, still in her early twenties, living alone in North London and hoping to embark on an adventurous career, her arrival will prove life-transforming. Over the course of decades, in ways large and small, Anna will affect the lives and loves of those around her. While Anna herself will remain largely unaltered by the passing years, she will live through a period of dramatic change, her journey illuminating our shifting attitudes towards motherhood, responsibility, and the way we care for one another. BIO: Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of seventeen highly acclaimed novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, and The Sea Lady. She has also written biographies, screenplays, and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2000 Honours list. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd. “Moving and meditative” – The New Yorker “Superb” – The Independent. Soirée In collaboration with Editions Christian Bourgois. AT:  Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

14 February @20h30 - Paris Lit Up and Atelier St. Marthe proudly present POETRY AND JAZZ FOR VALENTINE'S DAY with OMIT FIVE and poets DAREKA DAREMO, WINONA LINN, RUFO QUNITAVALLE and ANNIE BRECHIN, in collaboration with Atelier Sainte Marthe Back for another year, the Italian jazz quintet Omit Five are coming to create improvised sonorous collaborations between jazz and poetry without any previous rehearsal. Come experience the magic of creative spontaneity between words and sound as the Parisian poets Rufo Quintavalle, Annie Brechin, Dareka Daremo and Winona Linn perform for the first time ever with these formidable musicians.Entrance is free although donations to help support the travel costs will be gladly accepted. Alcoholic refreshments will be available and we will probably pester you to buy Omit Five’s most recent album, Speak Random (SLAM Records). AT: 26 rue du Chalet, 75020. Details at parislitup.com/events

17 Feb from 8pm  SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/

17th February 7pm We’re very happy to announce the return of the wonderful Louise Doughty, who will be talking about her brilliant literary thriller, Apple Tree Yard. “There can’t be a woman alive who hasn’t once realised, in a moment of panic, that she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man. Louise Doughty, more sure-footed with each novel, leads her unnerved reader into dark territory. A compelling and bravely-written book” – Hilary Mantel Yvonne Carmichael has worked hard to achieve the life she always wanted: a high-flying career in genetics, a beautiful home, a good relationship with her husband and their two grown-up children. Then one day she meets a stranger at the Houses of Parliament and, on impulse, begins a passionate affair with him – a decision that will put everything she values at risk. At first she believes she can keep the relationship separate from the rest of her life, but she can’t control what happens next. All of her careful plans spiral into greater deceit and, eventually, a life-changing act of violence… Louise Doughty is the author of seven novels. Her first, Crazy Paving, was shortlisted for four awards including the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her sixth, Whatever You Love, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has also won awards for radio drama and short stories, along with publishing one work of non-fiction, A Novel in a Year, based on her hugely popular newspaper column. She is a critic and cultural commentator for UK and international newspapers and broadcasts regularly for the BBC. She was a judge for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and is currently Chair of Judges for this year’s Fiction Uncovered promotion. In collaboration with Belfond. AT:  Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

20 February @20h - Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring PAUL LABORDE. Our special guest this week is Paul Laborde, poet and translator. His first book, Sables, was published in 2013 by Cheyne Éditeur in their Collection Grise. Laborde teaches philosophy at Paris IV – Sorbonne and plays basketball on the university’s team. AT: Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix,75020. Details at parislitup.com/events

20th February 7pm Philosophers in the Library presents: The First Feminist Art Shows. Why did feminist exhibitions emerge in the avant-garde scenes of contemporary art in the late 60s? In which ways was Conceptualism a good ground for feminist shows to emerge? How can feminist epistemology be used to understand what was at stake in the curatorial work of Lucy Lippard? Two major figures will be presented: writer, art critic, activist, and feminist curator Lucy Lippard, and the materialistic philosopher, biologist, and feminist Donna Haraway. We will be using some Harawaian concepts such as location, embodiment, and partial perspective (concepts she developed in Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective) to analyse three exhibitions curated by Lucy Lippard, "Eccentric Abstraction" (1966), "955,000" (1970), and "c.7,500" (1973-74). Charlotte Potot is a PhD candidate at Paris 8 in Art and Political Science (Gender Studies). She received her Master’s degree in Contemporary Philosophy, Art and Creation under the direction of Elsa Dorlin at Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 1, after spending one year at Utrecht University in the Master’s program, Gender and Ethnicity. AT:  Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

21 February at 19h30 SLAM-THEATRE: Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About Digging into subjects that men may not traditionally explore like love, relationships, loss, family and self-doubt, Colm Keegan, Kalle Ryan and Stephen James Smith explore what it really means to be a man. This spoken-word performance has had hugely successful runs at the Dublin Fringe Festival. The “short play with the long name” has been nominated for the Bewleys Cafe Theatre Little Gem Award. “Each of the men brings their own energy, tone and distinct poetic style to the composite structure. (…) Between turns, the performers sit at the side of the stage, and their slumped postures and downward-turned heads reveal a vulnerability which is as moving as anything confessed in their poems.” (**** The Irish Times) http://threementalking.wordpress.comA post-show discussion will take place with the performers. €5 (€3 for students and unemployed people), reservation recommended, in English, Approx. 50 mins AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris reservations@centreculturelirlandais.com Tél : 01 58 52 10 30

23^rd Feb. at 7.30 pm A playreading organised by Moving Parts of Lance Tait’s “Comic sketches”(stageplay) AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, Metro : Tuileries

24th February 7pm Stories of the City Join us for the Paris launch of Joanna Walsh's Fractals (3:AM Press), a collection of playful, sharp-edged, and perceptive stories, in which everyday situations and relationships flip over into the absurd. A lover of algorithms, games, and the play of languages, Walsh's stories trace the haunting patterns of wanderers through the streets, cafes, stations, and bookshelves of Paris, and other cities. Paris is a particular kind of story – glamorous, lonely, life-changing – for natives and visitors alike. Joanna Walsh will talk with the critic, Lauren Elkin, author of the forthcoming Flâneuse (Chatto & Windus, 2015), a genre-blending work of non-fiction mapping the liberating power of the city for women writers and artists, about the eternal allure of Paris in fiction. An evening of the labyrinthine and fascinating enchantments of the city streets. Lauren Elkin is a novelist, academic, and literary critic. Her first novel, Une Année à Venise (Editions Héloïse d'Ormesson) was awarded the Prix des Lecteurs at the Rue des Livres literary festival, and will be published in paperback this June. She is co-author, with Scott Esposito, of The End of Oulipo? (Zer0 Books). A frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, The Daily Beast, The White Review, and other publications, she is currently writing a book about women and cities, entitled Flâneuse and forthcoming from Chatto & Windus in 2015. Joanna Walsh is a writer and illustrator. Her work has been published by Granta, The London Review of Books, The Tate, The White Review, n+1, The European Short Story Network, Narrative Magazine, and others. Her collection of short stories, Fractals, is published by 3:AM Press. As an illustrator she has worked for publications worldwide from The Economist to The New York Times, and has created large-scale drawings for The Tate Modern, The Wellcome Institute, and Shakespeare and Company. AT:  Shakespeare & Co. 37, rue de la Bucherie, 75001 Paris—M°/RER St Michel or Maubert Mutualité

24 Feb from 8pm  SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/

25 Feb  19.30 admission free, reservation necessary (space limited), in English: La Médiathèque rencontre… Thomas Martin, screenwriter. Currently writer-in-residence at the CCI, screenwriter Thomas Martin will show some of his short films, including All That Way For Love – a psychological thriller set in Malawi – which was named by CBS as one of the top five films to see at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012. Thomas is preparing to produce a feature film in east Africa in the summer of 2014. He will speak about the screenwriting process, the journey from script to screen and the challenges of making films in sub-Saharan Africa. For more details, see  « RESIDENCIES » on the Irish Cultural Center site. For events with no admission price, please telephone 01 58 52 10 30 AT:  Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com

26 février à 19h A l’occasion de la parution de Miroirs/Miroirs n°2 (Des ailes sur un tracteur), rencontre avec CHRIS LAG, MARIE KIRSCHEN et JÉRÉMY PATINIER Le n°2 de la “revue des corps contemporains” s’intitule “Gender fucking ! Masculinités/féminités et tout le reste ?”. Jérémy Patinier, le directeur de la publication présentera la revue et ce numéro en particulier qui comporte plusieurs dossiers : “Drag King / Drag Queen” ; “Mêle-toi de ton genre” ; “Macho ?” “Eloge de la folle”. Il a invité Chris Lag à présenter son projet de documentaire sur les drags kings et Marie Kirschen membre du projet d’une nouvelle revue lesbienne Well well well dont le premier numéro paraîtra dans le courant de l’année.   http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/spip.php?article669

27 February @20h - Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring KATE NOAKES launching her new book from corrupt press, I-spy and Shanty at Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix,75020. Details at parislitup.com/events

28 février à 19h Rencontre avec ISABEL ASCENCIO pour son roman Un poisson sans bicyclette (Verticales) Le décor : l’arrière-pays varois. L’époque : les années 70. Les personnages : d’une part les jeunes femmes et les jeunes hommes venus de la ville créer une communauté libérée des oppressions (mais les femmes ne restent-elles pas à la cuisine ?!), d’autre part les habitants du village entre chasse, faits-divers et bistrot. Alternant le point de vue de Jane, qui essaie de croire en des jours meilleurs mais a la parole difficile, et de Lise, treize ans, qui voit d’un bon œil le débarquement des chevelus qui vont peut-être la tirer de son ennui mortel, le roman explore les désirs d’émancipation, les désillusions et laisse à chacune le temps de sa métamorphose. Souvenez-vous : une femme sans homme, c’est comme... Nous retrouvons avec plaisir la verve d’I. Ascencio, son humour, son inventivité de langue.  http://www.violetteandco.com/librairie/spip.php?article669

NOTE: Other sources of information on events happening in Paris this FEB: Laurel Zuckerman’s blog Paris Writers News You can follow us on twitter @pariswriters or on Facebook at Paris Writers News. Which announces This February terrific literary events and news  from Jeffrey Greene, Joan DeJean, Salvatore Di Gregorio, Jennie Goutet, Lisa Vanden Bos, Shari Leslie Segall, Alice K. Boatwright, Ann Mah, Claire Tomalin, Maggie O'Farell, Kristin Espinasse, Colm O'Regan, Donal Ryan, Margaret Drabble, Peter Ford, Patricia Wells, Amy Plum,  Louise Doughty, Emily Lodge, and more. And Calls for Submissions from The Mature Women’s Guide to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and the Historical Novel Society...  Laurel’s site also offers interviews with authors in or visiting Paris and MORE!

MARCH 2014 listing of events by date:

Some MARCH LISTINGS: A PEEK THROUGH THE MONTH TO COME (get your calendar’s ready!!!)           

             

March 3^rd from 8pm  SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/

March 5^th at 19h30—Reading and Launch of Paul Lynch’s debut novel in French translation. This is a golden opportunity to meet a ground-breaking Irish author who has garnered rave reviews from his peers. Born in Limerick in 1977, Paul Lynch grew up in Donegal and now lives in Dublin. A journalist and film critic, he writes regularly for the Sunday Times, the Irish Daily and the Irish Times. His novel Red Sky in Morning tells of a manhunt set in 1832 that leads the protagonists from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the choleric work camps of the Pennsylvania railroad. “This book makes the literary synapses spark and burn… a signal masterpiece.” Sebastian Barry. “A writer to watch out for” Colum McCann. For events with no admission price, please telephone 01 58 52 10 30 AT:  Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com

March 6 @ 8:00 pm At Paris Lit Up—featured reader Dylan Harris, publisher of some some of Paris’ finest poets in his press CORRUPT BOOKS, will be launching his new collection as our special guest this evening Dylan Harris was born in the UK. Just before the launch of Sputnik in Dublin, he cofounded & coöperated Wurm. Im Apfel (in Paris), he launched poets live and corrupt. Press (in Luxembourg), he hasn’t done much, yet his books include antwerp, the liberation of and the new: Anticipating the Metaverse.

March 7-8 19h30: Rough Magic Theatre Company presents Jezebel By Mark Cantan Director: Lynne Parker With Peter Daly, Valerie O’Connor, Margaret McAuliffe A clever comedy about the inane consequences of hot sex meeting cold statistics, presented by one of Ireland’s most successful theatre companies. Alan and Robin are a go-getting couple who want to spice up their sex life. Jezebel is a woe-fretting singleton who’s looking to get one. Put them together and the solution seems simple. But what appears to be the answer to all their problems turns out to be just the start of them. “One of the most enjoyable night’s theatre I've had all year … not in recent memory has there been so perfect a comedy on the Irish stage” (***** Entertainment.ie) “A brisk and tightly plotted new sex comedy by Mark Cantan” (**** The Irish Times) "As captivating as it is hilarious" Evening Herald "Clever and very funny" Sunday Times www.roughmagic.ie A post-show discussion will take place with the actors. €7 (€5 for students and unemployed people), reservation recommended, in English Approx. 80 mins AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris reservations@centreculturelirlandais.com Tél : 01 58 52 10 30

March 10^th at 19h30—IVY WRITERS PARIS is back with a bilingual reading. Information will be posted closer to the date, but we are pleased to announce a new venue for the night—come and check it out with us!

March 10^th from 8pm  SpokenWord – open mic/scène ouverte: performance poetry, stand up, monologue, stories, beat poetry, sketches, songs, spoken word. Primarily in English but open to all languages. Your own original texts or favourite old texts – from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron.  Sign up in the bar from 7.30pm for your 5 minutes of fame. Poetics begin underground from 8.30pm. Make the words come alive. Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Run by David Barnes & Alberto Rigettini. http://spokenwordparis.org/

March 11^th from 19-21h—Venez fetez la sortie de Traduire: transmettre ou trahir? Réflexions sur la traduction en sciences humaines. Come celebrate the publication of Jennifer K Dick and Stephanie Schwerter, editors, collection : Traduire : transmettre ou trahir? Réflexions sur la traduction en sciences humaines. Publication préfacée par Jean-René Ladmiral. Monsieur Ladmiral et Mmes Schwerter et Dick seront présents. Le discutant et animateur de la soirée serait Monsieur Rette. To repeat in English : With guest editors of the book Jennifer K Dick and Stephanie Schwerter alongside eminent publisher and theorist on the topic of translation, Jean-René Ladmiral, the soirée will be animated by Monsieur Rette from the MSH. AT: la librairie de la Fondation MSH au 86 rue Claude Bernard (à deux pas de la rue d'Ulm), PARIS. For more information on the book itself, see : http://www.editions-msh.fr/livre/?GCOI=27351100637810

March 13, 6:30 Combes C-12: Writing & the Paris Persona A reading and panel discussion with with Geoffrey Gilbert, Heather Hartley, and Neil Gordon. An AUP event in conjunction with Franklin University Creative Writing AT: American University in Paris, Salle Combes C-12, 31 av. Bosquet 75007 Pars. 

March 13^th from 18.30-20.00, admission free Vernissage . Show will then go from 14 March – 27 April 2014, Tuesdays to Saturdays from 2pm to 6pm (late opening on Wednesdays until 8 pm) Sundays from 12.30 to 14.30 and closed Mondays. Micheal Farrell: Une retrospective One of the key Irish artists of his generation, Micheal Farrell (1940-2000) left Ireland for Paris in 1971, where he moved into the famous studios of La Ruche; like many exiles, however, he kept a sharp eye on his native country throughout his career. His exceptional draughtsmanship and ability to incorporate different artistic strands literally transformed the face of Irish art. His early work was characterised by abstract formalism, in the vein of Frank Stella who he met during an intense year spent in New York. Fiercely political, his reaction to the outbreak of the Troubles in the early 1970s led him towards far greater figuration. His acerbic wit and subversive views on Irish history, identity and culture (evident in his notorious Madonna Irlanda series) form the backbone of this selection of paintings and works on paper on exhibition at the CCI. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris reservations@centreculturelirlandais.com Tél : 01 58 52 10 30

March 13^th  18.30-20.00 admission free Open studio: Ruth O’Donnell Artist-in-residence Ruth O’Donnell invites you to come and see her work-in-progress. She is making an extended series of studies - drawings and watercolours - of ceramics in Parisian museums as well as researching images of ceramics in still-life and narrative paintings as part of her continuing investigation into the survival of the fragile. O'Donnell is primarily a printmaker specialising in etching, monotype and carborundum prints. She has been an active member of Graphic Studio Dublin since 1991. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris reservations@centreculturelirlandais.com Tél : 01 58 52 10 30

March 14^th at  19h30, €10 (€7 for students and unemployed people), reservation recommended Come hear some Pop-Folk from Ireland with  Declan O’Rourke Since the release of his first studio album in 2004, Since Kyabram, Declan O’Rourke has gained a reputation for being one of Ireland’s greatest singer-songwriters.  With his velvety voice and captivating interpretations, he has played to packed-out venues in Ireland, Britain, Australia and the US. He returns to Paris for this acoustic concert in the intimate setting of the CCI and will charm us with ballads and pop-folk titles taken from Since Kyabram as well as his recent albums Big Bad Beautiful World (2007) and Mag Pai Zai (2011).  “[Declan O’Rourke]… writes the sort of classic songs that people don’t write anymore, songs that sound like they’ve been around forever. Listen to Galileo, which is possibly the greatest song written in the last 30 years.” (Paul Weller, Mojo Magazine) www.declanorourke.com AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris reservations@centreculturelirlandais.com Tél : 01 58 52 10 30

March 15^th @ 8:00 pm At Paris Lit Up—featured reader It is our great pleasure to welcome an eminent Welsh poet to our stage this week. Tony Curtis is Emeritus Professor at the University of Glamorgan (USW) where he set up Creative Writing thirty years ago. Later this year his play about three Welsh painters Augustus,Gwen and Nina is to be prooduced and the bi-lingual book with Grahame Davies Alchemy of Water is to be published.

16 March at 19h30, €15, reservation necessary (space limited) Irish traditional music with North Cregg, along With Claire Anne Lynch (vocals, fiddle), Christy Leahy (accordion), Liam Flanagan (fiddle, banjo, mandolin), Ciaran Coughlan (piano), Martin Leahy (drums, percussion, guitar) North Cregg produces some of the freshest and finest sounds to be heard in Irish music today. With beautiful vocals, spirited accordion-playing, fiddle, banjo and a tight rhythm section, North Cregg is rooted in the vibrant traditional music of their native County Cork. With past appearances at prestigious music events such as Glastonbury Festival, Milwaukee Irish Fest, Tønder Festival Denmark, Cambridge Festival, Celtic Connections Glasgow and hundreds more besides, North Cregg are one of the most popular live acts in the world of folk music today. The band have produced four critically acclaimed and award winning albums, their most recent and successful being The Roseland Barndance (2007). North Cregg will also give a free concert at the Music Kiosque in the Jardin du Luxembourg from 2-3pm on 16 March. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris reservations@centreculturelirlandais.com Tél : 01 58 52 10 30 www.centreculturelirlandais.com

March 18th at 19.00, admission free, reservation necessary (space limited) Old Library visit The Old Library of the Irish College (in which the CCI is situated) is one of the few surviving libraries of the many colleges, convents and monasteries which were situated in the Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève area of Paris until the end of the 18th century. This visit provides a further opportunity to see the treasures of the Old Library - its three illuminated manuscripts dating from c.1500. AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
reservations@centreculturelirlandais.com Tél : 01 58 52 10 30 www.centreculturelirlandais.com

March 20th, 6:30 Grand Salon: An Evening with Poets Margo Berdeshevsky and Zoë Skoulding, hosted by AUP’s Sian Dafydd. AT: American University in Paris, Grand Salon, 31 av. Bosquet 75007 Pars. 

March 25, 2014  Next Poets Live reading at Carr’s Restaurant. For info see:  http://poets-live.com

March 27, 7 p.m. Grand Salon: Mirror Visions Ensemble.  Musical settings of poetry by Linda Pastan and Jeffrey Greene. Music based on the poems of Linda Pastan and Jeffrey Greene, including two American premieres -- songs to poems of Greene by Russell Platt, and a song cycle by Richard Pearson Thomas, to poetry of Pastan. Both Linda Pastan and Jeffrey Greene will be in attendance, discussing the intricacies of setting poetry to music. The program will also include works by Christopher Berg.  With Margaret Kampmeier, piano. AT: American University in Paris, Grand Salon, 31 av. Bosquet 75007 Paris. 

PART II: WRITING WORKSHOPS IN PARIS

15 February@16h - Paris Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop at Cafe Apparemment, 18 Rue des Coutures Saint-Gervais, 75003, Details at parislitup.com/events

Atelier d’écriture animé par CATHERINE BÉDARIDA Samedi 15 février de 11h à 13h
Catherine Bédarida, écrivain et journaliste (Le Monde, Mouvement) organise des ateliers d’écriture créative avec des institutions culturelles et associatives. L’atelier à Violette and Co, qui reprend pour une nouvelle saison, offre un lieu solidaire pour écrire en toute liberté quelque soit son expérience. En partant de thèmes variés et de pistes de réflexion en lien avec les questions de genre, de minorités sexuelles et adossés à l’expérience littéraire féministe, l’atelier permet d’explorer et d’inventer ses propres mots. Horaires : un samedi sur deux, de 11h à 13h. L’inscription ponctuelle en cours d’année est possible. Tarif : 20 € par atelier. Renseignements et inscriptions : catherine.bedarida@leboutdelalangue.com

22 February@16h - Paris Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop at Cafe Apparemment, 18 Rue des Coutures Saint-Gervais, 75003, Details at parislitup.com/events

SIGN UP NOW FOR PARIS’ SUMMER WORKSHOPS! At the AUP Summer Creative Writing Institute!!  Here is the link: http://www.aup.edu/academics/summer/three-week-summer-session/literature-creative-writing  SUMMARY: We are delighted to announce the 3rd edition of our lively Summer Creative Writing Institute at the American University of Paris.  We hope you will share the enclosed brochure with students who would enjoy three weeks in Paris working with attentive faculty and sharing their writing with talented workshop members.  The 2014 version of this intensive program runs from July 2 to July 23 and provides two workshops: Writing Fiction and Crafting Personal Narrative.  The program also includes weekly readings by internationally recognized authors, combined classes for guest speakers and Paris literary field trips, and, always one of the best parts, a final student reading and party.  Open weekends allow students to take advantage of the University’s Cultural Program excursions in France and parts of Europe or simply have time to write and absorb the wonders of being in Paris.  Summers are packed with literary events at Shakespeare & Co, Spoken Word, and other venues.  The Summer Creative Writing Institute faculty has decades of experience in teaching writing at excellent institutions.  Also the American University of Paris is fully active in the summer, providing accommodation and library and technical support so that students can work optimally. AUP is the home for the prestigious Center for Writers & Translators, a Master of Arts in Cultural Translation, and a large Department of Comparative Literature, which offers a major in Literature and the Creative Arts along with a minor in Creative Writing.  A Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing will be offered in the near future. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions. Thank you, and best wishes, Jeffrey Greene

PART III: NEWS REVIEWS AND REVIEW’S NEWS:

CALLS FOR WORK, NEW BOOK and MAGAZINE ANNOUNCEMENTS and MORE!

SEND WORK TO Upstairs at Duroc, a literary journal published in Paris, France, seeks submissions for its Issue # 16. We publish English language poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction & translations. We especially welcome experimental forms, cross-genre work, prose poems & flash fiction, as well as standalone excerpts from longer works. Previously unpublished material only! / Submit up to 5 poems, or 5 flash fiction pieces, or 2 longer prose pieces not exceeding 2000 words each. Attach as a single Word file, one poem per page. Include cover sheet with name, address, phone number, email address, word count for prose, & a short Bio. / We also seek visual art pieces: etchings, drawings, black & white photographs. Also a few color pieces for the cover. Send in jpeg format. / Mail submissions to upstairsatduroc@wice-paris.org. / For complete guidelines & examples of published work, see our Website: upstairsatduroc.org / Deadline: February 28, 2014.

CALL FOR RADIOPLAYS The Parislab, a new hour-long radio show on the digital radio station, World Radio Paris, that performs and records radio plays and spoken word shorts live in front of a Paris audience, is seeking submissions for its upcoming season. About The Parislab: Founded and produced by Christopher Mack and Clarence Tokley, two Paris-based director/actors who work professionally in film and theatre in Paris, Parislab is dedicated to staging and recording gripping and entertaining radio plays and spoken word stories in front of live audiences. All effects and recordings are done in front of an audience. To submit entries, REQUEST GUIDELINES BY EMAIL and then send your properly formatted radio scripts in pdf format to theparislab@gmail.com Some basics on the guidelines:1. Length: 10-30 minutes in length. All spoken word stories must be 5-15 minutes in length. 2. Genres: All genres will be considered. 3. Remuneration: This non-profit radio program is just beginning and cannot, at this point, offer financial compensation to the writers whose works are selected. But if your piece is selected, it will be performed in front of a live audience and recorded, then broadcast on our show on World Radio Paris. 4. Language: English. 5. Radio play script guidelines. We recommend you follow BBC radioscript format guidelines http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/bbcradiocue.pdf. See also: http://www.storyinsight.com/techniques/media/BBCradio.html 6. Spoken word story submission guidelines: Stories must be 5-15 minutes in length. Selected stories will be performed by the storyteller live, in front of a Paris audience, without notes or script in hand. For spoken word story telling, we are very much inspired by the Moth (http://themoth.org/) We can only consider Paris-based submissions, for the moment. Send us an mp3 recording of your story. 7. Radio play script submissions in pdf format. FOR MORE INFO: theparislab@gmail.com

PARIS LIT UP wants YOUR WORK: SUBMIT the second edition of the hugely successful Paris Lit Up magazine will be published in the autumn of 2014. Since we planning to double the length of the magazine, we are looking for many high quality submissions. Anything goes: poetry, prose, articles, essays, interviews, photographs, artwork, comics, translations – if you can put it on paper, we want it. No rules, no limits. Deadline: Midnight CET on 28 February 2014 PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES CAREFULLY—at : http://parislitup.com/plu-magazine-call-for-submissions-2014/

SHORT MEMOIRS WANTED: Creative Nonfiction is seeking new work for an upcoming issue dedicated to memoir. Be honest, accurate,
informative, and intimate. 4,000 words or fewer. Deadline May 31. Cash prize for best essay. Guidelines at www.creativenonfiction.org/submit.

GET YOUR COPY! The essay collection from the conference on American experimental poetry  held at the University of Toulouse-Mirail which includes papers by  American, British and French writers, has been published as a special  bi-lingual issue of Anglophonia/Caliban entitled "Tailor-Made Traditions: The Poetics of US Experimental Verse, from H.D. to Michael Heller." More information is available at the website: http://w3.pum.univ-tlse2.fr/~no-35-Traditions-sur-mesure~.html

NEW BY SIMON CUTTS currently visiting author in Paris:  Letterpress New & material poems by Simon Cutts. As a visual artist, Simon Cutts is a poet, and as a poet he is a visual artist. This is no glib turn of phrase, but  a lived reality insofar as he conceives how one artistic practice can show the ways of opening the other.  For some time now he has insisted that the book is not merely (or simply) a vehicle for poetry, but is itself  part of a poem’s form. He extends the idea of a poem being a field of dynamic action beyond the boundaries of the page so as to encompass the book as whole. To read Letterpress is to become a participant in its total
and encompassing range. Richard Deming ISBN 978 0 9568559 7 8 ; 128pp, 234 x 142, sewn paperback with flaps 2013, £12.00

Sidebrow Books is pleased to announce the preorder availability of Joshua Marie Wilkinson's The Courier's Archive & Hymnal and Elaine Bleakney's For Another Writing Back.  Both books are available at a discount of $3 off the cover price, and have been paired with other Sidebrow titles for additional discounts.  More information about the books may be found below, or on our website: The Courier's Archive & Hymnal: http://www.sidebrow.net/books/joshua-marie-wilkinson-couriers-archive-hymnal For Another Writing Back: http://www.sidebrow.net/books/elaine-bleakney-for-another-writing-back Click here to purchase both new books together for $22: http://www.sidebrow.net/cart/add/p5995_q1_a3o14?destination=cart Our Preorder Special will extend through mid-March. Sidebrow http://www.sidebrow.net

PARTICIPATE IN PLAYREADINGS IN PARIS: Announcing… The Bard-sur-Seine Readings AT SHAKESPEARE AND CO In honour of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, we’re delighted to announce a year-long project that we really hope lots of you will get involved with – The Bard-sur-Seine Readings. The goal is simple: to revisit and celebrate some of Shakespeare’s most loved plays. So, once a month, we will be hosting informal read-throughs in the library, which will be recorded and sent out as podcasts in our newsletter, so you’ll all be able to share in the theatrical fun. The first play will be Romeo and Juliet, and the read-through will take place in the library on February 27th at 6pm. If you’d like to take part, please email Milly Unwin at milly@shakespeareandcompany.com and tell her whether you’d prefer a larger or a smaller role. Parts will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis, and we’ll let you know a week in advance of the reading whether you have a role. No preparation necessary, and we’ll provide the scripts. Please note that, due to space restrictions, the Bard-sur-Seine Readings will only be open to those taking part. The allocated plays for each remaining month of 2014 are as follows: February – Romeo and Juliet, March – The Tempest, April – King Lear, May – As You Like It, June – Henry IV (Part 1), July – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, August – Othello, September – The Merchant of Venice, October – Hamlet, November – Twelfth Night and in December – Anthony and Cleopatra. Again, if you’d like to take part, please email Milly Unwin at milly@shakespeareandcompany.com

The February issue of The Volta is up and features a special issue on poetry and poetics anthologies, with responses, essays, conversations, and interviews by the editors of over many, many poetry anthologies that I edited. Evening Will Come: anthology feature includes: Laynie Browne; Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, & Ravi Shankar, Joshua Corey & G.C. Waldrep; Rita Dove & Jericho Brown; Michael Dumanis & Cate Marvin; Camille Dungy; Clayton Eshleman; Forrest Gander; Arielle Greenberg; Susan Harris & Ilya Kaminsky; Cynthia Hogue & Elisabeth Frost; Pierre Joris; Brett Fletcher Lauer & Lynn Melnick; Miranda Mellis; Wayne Miller & Kevin Prufer; Aldon Lynn NIelsen; Oliver de la Paz & Stacey Lynn Brown; Jed Rasula; Jeffrey C. Robinson; Jerome Rothenberg; Abraham Smith & Shelly Taylor; Cole Swensen; TC Tolbert & Trace Peterson; and Jeffrey Yang. In Review Matt Longabuco reviews three books by Dana Ward. Heir Apparent: a long series from Rachel Blau DuPlessis The Conversant features interviews and conversations with Wanda Coleman & Paul Vangelisti; Brenda Hillman; GIles Benaway; Jessica Baran; Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Anne Snitow; Sara Mumolo; Daniel Tiffany; Joseph Harrington; Rodrigo Toscano; Leonard Schwartz; Daniel Alexander Jones; Feliz Lucia Molino; Norman Finkelstein; Tim Bowling; Susan Gillis; Brian Kornell & Justin Lawrence Daugherty; Philip Metres & Olesia Nikolaeva; and David Bartholomae They Will Sew the Blue Sail: new poems by Dexter Booth, Karen An-hwei Lee, & Richard Taggett Medium features Chris Peebles & BLENKO The Volta Blog is featuring 365 book reviews this year, edited by Caleb Beckwith and Daniel Borzutzky Takes Down the Clouds http://www.thevolta.org/

SUPPORT WORLD RADIO PARIS: After 6 months of successful online broadcasts, World Radio Paris is now only a few weeks away from its final objective : Being heard on the Paris Radio dial.  We are launching a crowd-funding campaign to help finance the costly transmitter installation on the Montmartre Hill.  You can donate whatever you can using this Ulule page : http://www.ulule.com/worldradioparis-launchovertheairwaves/ All the funds we are collecting will go direcly to the purchase of necessary broadcast equipment. Without your help, we might not be able to launch as planned and as a result, our license might be revoked. Please forward, twit, text and tell all your friends and family about this. Even a 5€ donation will help. Generous donors will receive radio sets, mugs, and other WRP goodies. So please take a minute to check out our crowdfunding page. The campaign ends on Feb 21st. World Radio Paris - 99, Rue Duhesme - 75018 Paris - France

SUBMIT TO COLERE, a journal celebrating explorations of cultural experiences, welcomes thought-provoking fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork for its 2014 issue. Please limit submissions to 8 poems or 20 pages on experiences abroad or at home. Submissions (deadline: January 15) or subscriptions ($5 annually) to Colere, Coe College, 1220 1st Ave. NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402.

MICHAEL HELLER ANNOUNCES Jerry Rothenberg has very kindly posted on his Poems and Poetics blog my “Ode to the Sky on the Esplanade of the New,” a reworking of one of the longer odes from Segalen’s Odes Suives de Thibet,” with a short note describing my aims in the project of these “transpositions.”  The link is: http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/

The newest issue of Matrix is available now! Issue 97 features comics by Hanna Vole, Grace An, Georgia Webber, Rebecca Kraatz, Christopher Olson, Zach Weinersmith, and more! This issue also features out 2013 Lit Pop winners, Rebecca Wolff and Ben Gottleib. Go check out your local independent bookseller or magazine stand today

HORSELESS PRESS invites you to read their blog and submit, subscribe to and help support their authors by buying books that might interest you. To get to know them--It's February in The Year of the Horse, and there's a new (horse-y) LINES post up. Today ADAM CLAY writes about Larry Levis, Horses Troughs & Punctuation.  Read it here: CLAY'S LINES

Special issue: Poetry about Work : Issue 48-49 (2013) of Semicerchio. Rivista di poesia comparata has been just published. Its monographic section, which runs to 215 large-format pages (followed by reviews of Italian, Lithuanian and Anglo-American poetry, literary journals and essays), is dedicated to poetry about work. It offers theoretical contributions and critical anthologies of poetical texts, including authors from France and French-speaking countries, Germany, the UK, the Czech Republic, Spanish-speaking countries, Italy, the USA and China; it also includes articles on migrants poets and songwriters. We hope the volume will interest you and we attach a summary and the cover, with a purchase coupon at a 30% discount (also available online at http://www.pacinieditore.it/?p=15797), to be used by you or by your institution's library.

UNDERCASTLE is officially out from Magic Helicopter Press! It can be ordered from Magic Helicopter Press, Small Press Distribution, (preferably not) Amazon, and soon from Powell's Bookstore. If you'd like copies for review, ask Mike Young at Magic Helicopter Press and he'd be so happy to send you one.  The cover photo is from when Ben Segal and I went to Tokyo last summer to be stuffed and vacuumed sealed in a plastic bag by Haruhiko Kawaguchi a.k.a. Photographer HAL * * * There are a few orders left that come with a chapbook essay about being vacuumed sealed in a plastic bag in Tokyo. Magic Helicopter Press: • DESCRIPTION • Part Valley strip mall heaven memoir, part encyclopedia of transistor feelings, part lonely caregiver, part philosopher pen pal, and so totally the book the 90s owe the world, Feliz Lucia Molina's genre scuzzing debut "povel" Undercastle is a deft and defiant A-B-Up-Down combo of curiosity and intimacy that chews up all our screens and heroes and fills our breath with glint. Cover photo by Haruhiko Kawaguchi  • BLURBS • "Really wonderful and important work. A great writer writing in the most contemporary of mediums." — Kenneth Goldsmith "My address is these poems. It's amazing here! Dear Feliz, this is a love letter saying we're about to give your book the Pulitzer Prize without the committee's consent! Feliz Lucia Molina is the best kind of genius, she's a poet, she believes in our phoenix rising!" — CAConrad

SEND POETRY! ACCENTS PUBLISHING 2014 Poetry Chapbook Contest. Two winners—1 selected by independent judge Patty Paine, and 1 by founding editor Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. $300 prize, publication of perfect-bound chapbook and 30 copies. All entries are considered for publication. Send manuscript plus $15 reading fee by April 30. www.accents-publishing.com.

CHECK IT OUT! The new Versal website is now live! After many years of prep and reflection, this site is FABULOUS! Check it out, sign up for the Versal Monthly newsletter on the "about" page, get info on the FEB 2014 event JOURNAL PORN taking place in Seattle, WA for AWP and prepare your own work for submission by subscribing and reading previous issues!!! http://www.versaljournal.org