Literary Paris - OCTOBER 2014
PART I: Reading and events
PART II: Writing and other workshops in Paris
PART III: Calls for work, new book and publication releases,
submission requests
PART I: Events
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Thursday 2 October @ 20h – Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring Boomie Aglietti, AT: Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix 75020
(métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/
Thursday 2 October @ 19h30
Double Change et l’atelier Michael Woolworth
en collaboration avec les
éditions Théâtre Typographique et joca seria
vous invitent
à une lecture de Dominique QUÉLEN et Anne WALDMAN
Atelier Michael
Woolworth
Place de la Bastille
2, rue de la
Roquette
Cour Février
75011 Paris
Jeudi 2 octobre
Entrée libre
Les textes d’Anne Waldman seront lus par
son traducteur Vincent Broqua. A l’occasion de la publication d’Archives, pour un monde menacé (tr. V. Broqua, joca seria, 2014)
Anne Waldman fera des lectures performances au Mans (Librairie L’herbe entre
les dalles, 8 octobre), à La Roche sur Yon (La Maison Gueffier / Le Grand R, 9
octobre) et au festival Midi Minuit Poésie de la Maison de la Poésie de Nantes
(11 octobre). Pour plus d’informations, voir www.jocaseria.fr
Bios…
DOMINIQUE QUÉLEN: né en 62; enseignant
à Lille; quelques livres (Loque, Câble à âmes multiples, Finir
ses restes, Des second & premier, Les Dispositions
de la loi, Enoncés-types...); Collaboration régulière avec le
compositeur Aurélien Dumont (Eglog, Croisées dormantes, Abîme
apogée...)
ANNE WALDMAN: Poète, performer, activiste, Anne Waldman a
co-fondé en 1974 The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics avec Allen
Ginsberg à Naropa University, où elle est aujourd'hui directrice artistique des
célèbres « Summer Writing Programs ». Anne Waldman est
l'auteur de plus de quarante livres, entre autres Kill or Cure; Marriage:
A Sentence; Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble. Son
texte poétique Outrider contient un entretien avec Ernesto
Cardenal, et des essais sur Lorine Niedecker et Charles Olson. Manatee/Humanity (Penguin,
2009),The Iovis Trilogy (Coffee House Press, 2011) et Gossamurmur(Penguin,
2013) sont parmi ses livres les plus récents. Anne Waldman est aussi
l'auteur du légendaire Fast Speaking Woman(City Lights, San
Francisco, 1975), traduit en français sous le titre Femme qui parle
vite (Maelstrom, 2008). Son site internet est
http://www.annewaldman.org/
et sa bibliographie exhaustive peut
être trouvée à
http://www.annewaldman.org/publications/.
Saturday 4 October 14
(Nuit Blanche) 7h-19h; admission free
Performance created
by Amanda Coogan at 8pm
CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS
5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
Take part in an
artistic happening !
For Nuit Blanche 2014, the CCI has commissioned a new work by Amanda
Coogan. Echoing the artist’s work for the Liverpool Biennial 2004, in which
she filmed local people head banging to Beethoven, Amanda invites Parisians to
dance to Maurice Ravel's iconic “Boléro”. An artistic happening not to be
missed, email assistant@centreculturelirlandais.com to take
part!
*Amanda’s exhibition Corpus and our historical exhibition Hospice and
Charity are open all night*
Screening: Occupy Wall Street
Drop-in any time to this special night-long
screening of six experimental documentaries by our filmmaker-in-residence Donal
Foreman. Occupy Wall Street
charts the protest movement that began on 17 September 2011 in Zuccotti Park,
New York City; the OWS slogan “We are the 99%” refers to income inequality and
wealth distribution in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the
population. Foreman’s enquiring images and sound fragments capture the
protesters and the authorities alike.
Saturday 4 October @ 18h à 2h de matin dans le cadre de la
manifestation A L'ORIGINE (peurs et délices)
organisée
par la Mairie du 19éme et la Cie des Treizième.
Nuit Blanche
Ancien
Lycée Jean Quarré - 12 rue Henri Ribière
75019
Paris - Métro Place des Fêtes (ligne11)
entrée
libre
avec performances, concerts, lectures, installations,
films
programme complet http://lestreiziemes.free.fr
Concordan(s)e, un pari original, des créations de
duos inattendus.
20.45
h.
.
Cécile Loyer et Violaine Schwartz "L'hippocampe mais l'hipoccampe"
« Cécile
Loyer et Violaine Schwartz expérimentent des jeux de langage et de mémoire
jusqu’à la surchauffe.
On
pourra découvrir les charges émotionnelles et suggestives des gestes et des
mots, en situation de mise à l’épreuve ludique. »
23.00
h.
.
Hélène Iratchet et Pauline Klein "Socle"
« C’est
comme si nous n’y croyions pas tout à fait, à ce corps qui minaude, qui séduit,
qui se met en scène.
On a voulu
le masquer, l’humilier un peu, jouer avec ce langage qui s’écoute, ressembler à
des femmes qui l’assumeraient en se trompant d’objet,
se déguiser
comme des adultes, et mimer la vie qu’un corps aurait s’il était trop conscient
de lui même. »
Jean François Munnier, directeur
festival concordan(s)e
Port 06 07 64 17 40 / mail jeff.munnier@free.fr
association indisciplinaire(s) 117
rue Saint-Maur 75011 Paris
Monday 6 October @ 20h30 Spoken Word Open Mic
Theme: I WISH WE’D STOLEN THAT DOG.
You have to include this phrase somewhere in what you read.
Au Chat Noir, 76 rue
Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up 8pm to 9.30pm in
the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground.
Monday
6 October @ 19h; Global Book Night
Shakespeare and Company
Join us
for a 'Global Book Night' to launch 'Booktober', a month-long campaign to raise funds and awareness for
global literacy.
Created and pioneered by children's literacy charity Room to Read, Booktober
2014 will be the charity's third month-long campaign, with exciting literary
events taking place all over the world throughout the month of October. Join us
upstairs at Shakespeare and Company from 7-9pm for an evening of readings from
across the world, from countries where Room to Read is most active. There will
also be special themed snacks and drinks, and one or two other exciting
surprises. Discover new authors and learn more about this great charity---and
help us kick off Booktober in style!
Wednesday 8 October @ 19h30; Evening with an Author, Nancy Green
American Library in
Paris
Americans
living in Paris probably think we know just about all the stories and figures
and even legends of the last century. But what about the names that usually
aren't in bold? In The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses,
Wayward Youth, 1880-1941, Nancy Green explores the lesser known and
forgotten Americans who are just as key in the formation of the American
Colony, as those earlier folks referred to themselves. She even recounts a bit
about the history of the American Library in Paris and how it was viewed in its
early days. The Wall Street
Journal praised the book, writing, "Ms. Green's thorough and
perceptive study tells the 'untold story' of Americans on the other side of the
Seine, from the wealthy businessmen and American heiresses who came over in the
last decades of the 19th century to the less-glamourous American doughboys who
stayed on following World War I."
Thursday 9 October @ 20h – Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring Marilyn McCabe, AT: Culture Rapide 103 rue Julien Lacroix 75020
(métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/
Thursday 9 October @ 19h30
CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS
5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
Admission free;
reservation recommended; in English
Regard sur l’Irlande:
Polly Devlin: Writer-in-residence Polly Devlin is a writer,
broadcaster and filmmaker. Her first book All of Us There is now a
Virago Modern Classic; her last book was A
Year in the Life of an English Meadow. In 1993 she received an OBE for
services to literature. She is currently an adjunct Professor at Barnard
College, Columbia University, New York. Born in a remote part of Northern
Ireland, Polly Devlin will talk about
the complexities of identity.
Thursday 9 October @ 12h30 Bistrot Littéraire: Les Écritures de Manuel Antonio Periera
Centre
Wallonie-Bruxelles
Salle
du Foyer 46 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
Tarif:
5€
(Sandwich et boisson)
Le temps d’un
déjeuner, rencontrez l’auteur Manuel Antonio Pereira, à l’occasion des
représentations de son spectacle Permafrost qui se joue à la Maison des
métallos du 07 au 19 octobre.
Le travail de cet écrivain belge
se déploie au travers de multiples écritures scéniques. Son ambition est de
placer toujours l'exigence littéraire au centre de ses écrits, qu'ils soient
mis au service du théâtre, de la danse ou d'autres recherches (travaux à partir
d'ateliers avec des sans abris...).
Les textes de Pereira abordent
souvent le monde des "sans mots" : personnages
s'exprimant peu ou avec difficultés, étrangers qui ne maîtrisent pas la langue
d'accueil, ouvriers frustes plus familiers du langage des machines que celui
des hommes, enfants dans un stade "pré-logique" du langage, individus
taiseux, presque autistes, inaptes à la socialité, chez qui pourtant quelque
chose d'inexorable cherche à se dire... Leur réalité, ils la vivent d'abord, et
peinent toujours à la dire. La langue ici est écrite à revers, comme si l'on
retroussait l'écorce des êtres.
Loin des cloisonnements dont les
différentes disciplines font souvent l'objet, l'auteur prouve que la
modernité d'un texte, quel qu'il soit, est d'abord liée à la force de sa
recherche littéraire. Il nous montre combien, par ce chemin, le texte
théâtral se libère toujours plus, s'ouvre infiniment. Les frontières sont
ténues et l’histoire littéraire elle-même est une preuve de cette
porosité.
Un comédien du spectacle lira
des extraits des œuvres.
Sa pièce Permafrost (Espace 34,
2010) est lauréate du premier prix des Metteurs en scène
en 2012.
Sunday 12 October @ 19h30- Moving Parts Script Reading; Gary Holmes’ “Diary of a Nobody”
adapted from the book by George Grossmith
Carr’s Pub and
Restaurant; 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris; Metro : Tuileries
Monday 13 October @ 20h30 Spoken Word Open Mic
Au Chat Noir, 76 rue
Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up 8pm to 9.30pm in
the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground.
Tuesday
14 October @ 19h30; Panel Discussion: On
Writing About French Food, Alexander Lobrano and Clotilde Dusoulier
American Library in Paris
Food
writers Alexander Lobrano and Clotilde Dusoulier will discuss their latest
respective books, Hungry for France and Edible French: Tasty
Expressions and Cultural Bites. This panel discussion will explore writing
about food in France, reviewing restaurants and the different food movements in
France now, picking up the thread from Patricia Wells and Ann Mah's event last
season.
Tuesday 14 October @ 19h30 POETS LIVE presents a
evening of poetry and music, with a book launch and a CD launch, with Patrick
Williamson, Joe Horgan, Adrian Boyle. Drinks at the bar from whenever you like, poetry starts
downstairs at 19h30
Patrick
Williamson is
an English poet who currently lives near Paris. He has published a dozen books
of translations and poetry, and recently branched out into music and filmpoems
(Exile for FIFE 2014, as part of the Festival franco-anglaise de poèsie,
and Afterwords, set to music by Mauro Coceano). His poetry is also
published in French, Italian, Bulgarian and Georgian. He is the editor and
translator of The Parley Tree, An Anthology of Poets from French-speaking
Africa and the Arab World (Arc Publications, 2012). His most recent poetry
collections: Nel Santuario (bilingual English-Italian, Samuele Editore,
2013) and Gifted (Corrupt Press, 2014). Joseph
Horgan was born in Birmingham, England of Irish immigrant parents. He is a
poet, author, reviewer and journalist. Amongst other acknowledgements he is a
past winner of The Patrick Kavanagh Prize and the recipient of an Arts Council
Bursary. The author of three critically acclaimed poetry collections and a
prose work that was chosen to be broadcast on Irish radio his current work, Men
Without Names, is a collaborative work of poetry and traditional Irish
music about the experience of Irish emigration. He has written all of the text
for the CD.
Adrian Boyle is a traditional Irish musician from Bray in County
Wicklow. Reared within the tradition itself he was taught to play music by his
father. A respected session musician he is a multi-instrumentalist, playing
flute, whistle and various percussion instruments. He also plays, on the CD, an
accordion that was passed down to him by his father. He has either composed,
arranged or co-arranged all of the music on the CD. Adrian and Joseph
would also like to fully acknowledge that Men Without Names has included the
work of a number of other musicians and performers. Una
Fitzgerald and Kitty Sisson will be performing at with Joseph and
Adrian. At Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris. Métros:
Tuileries or Concorde. http://poets-live.com December preview: Alice Notley
Wednesday
15 October @ 18h; The Bard-en-Seine
Readings Shakespeare and Company Throughout 2014, in honour of
the 450th
anniversary of
Shakespeare’s birth, we’re hosting the Bard-en-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 this very newsletter. For October, the play will be Hamlet and the reading will take
place on Wednesday 15th at
6pm, in the library. 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-en-Seine
Readings will only be open to those taking part.
Wednesday 15 October @ 20h – Festival Francophonie Métissée: Ecritures du Sénégal
Centre
Wallonie-Bruxelles
Salle du Foyer 46 rue
Quincampoix 75004 Paris
La littérature
sénégalaise est l'une des plus importantes de l'Afrique francophone. Au sein
d’un exceptionnel corpus, découvre ce pays des lettres avec trois de ses
représentants parmi les plus emblématiques : Aminata SowFall, Nafissatou Dia
Diouf et FelwineSarr.
La comédienne Solo Gomez lira des extraits des œuvres.
Aminata SowFall, pionnière de la littérature africaine
francophone et figure de proue de la modernisation culturelle de son pays, est
une observatrice de la société sénégalaise, dont elle se fait la portraitiste,
en ancrant son œuvre dans le quotidien de ses concitoyens.
Ecrivain, universitaire et
musicien, Felwine Sarr appartient à la nouvelle lignée d’intellectuels
qui tendent à changer la société sénégalaise. Empreinte de spiritualité, son
œuvre déploie une écriture singulière et nourrie de réflexions
philosophiques.
Tout à tout littéraire, Nafissatou
Dia Diouf passe aisément de la nouvelle à la poésie, avec des
incursions dans la littérature jeunesse et les chroniques de société. Teintés
de réalisme et d’humour, certains de ses textes sont des satires de la société
sénégalaise contemporaine et de l’homo senegalensis en situation de
travail.
Soirée animée par la journaliste
Catherine Pont-Humbert.
C'est par le chant que Solo
Gomez pénètre dans le monde du théâtre. En 1997, elle chante et joue dans
la pièce de Koltes Dans la solitude des champs de coton, mise en scène par
Frédéric Dussennes.A cette occasion, elle travaille avec Vincent Goesthals,
l'actuel directeur du théâtre du Peuple à Bussang. Cette collaboration sera
renouvelée sur plusieurs de ses créations.
Solo Gomez travaille
actuellement à la mise en scène d'un conte pour adolescents qu’elle a écrit et
qui sera joué en novembre 2014 en France et en juin 2015 à Saint Louis du
Sénégal.
Elle anime également des
ateliers théâtre et conte pour les enfants à partir de 6 ans.
En collaboration et avec le soutien de l'Organisation internationale
de la Francophonie, avec l’aide du département Francophonie
de Wallonie-Bruxelles International, de la Délégation générale
Wallonie-Bruxelles et du Ministère français de la Culture et
de la Communication. En partenariat avec TV5MONDE, Africa
Vivre et Africa N°1.
Thursday 16 October @ 20h – Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring Megan Bullick, AT: Culture Rapide 103 rue Julien Lacroix 75020
(métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/
Thursday
16 October @ 18h30 The American
University of Paris (AUP) presents Dan Gunn, presentation of THE LETTERS OF
SAMUEL BECKETT VOLUME III.
Grand Salon, 31 avenue
Bosquet 75007
Friday 17 Saturday 18 October @ 19h30
HotForTheatre
presents… I ♥ ALICE ♥ I
7€ (5€ for students
and unemployed), reservation recommended, in English
Running time: 65 mins
(approx.)
CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS
5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
Written and directed by Amy Conroy
With Clare Barrett, Amy Conroy
Alice and
Alice are coming out … finally.
This stirring piece of documentary theatre is an unflinching and acutely personal love story that spans six decades. Two exceptional, opinionated women were spotted winking at each other in Crumlin Shopping Centre. Now they are, reluctantly, in a show. Defying stereotype, they’re here to share with you something they’ve never dared before. A fresh, human and hilarious piece from defiant new company HotForTheatre, I ♥ Alice ♥ I explores the monumental journey of a most unlikely couple. It will seduce you, it will move you, it will touch you … in all the right places.
This stirring piece of documentary theatre is an unflinching and acutely personal love story that spans six decades. Two exceptional, opinionated women were spotted winking at each other in Crumlin Shopping Centre. Now they are, reluctantly, in a show. Defying stereotype, they’re here to share with you something they’ve never dared before. A fresh, human and hilarious piece from defiant new company HotForTheatre, I ♥ Alice ♥ I explores the monumental journey of a most unlikely couple. It will seduce you, it will move you, it will touch you … in all the right places.
Friday 17 October @ 19h; Philosophers in the Library: The Politics
of Style
Shakespeare and
Company
What is literary style? In what sense can it be said to be
political? In this talk, Daniel Hartley will give a brief overview of the
history of the concept of style and will explain why and how it became central
to the work of three Marxist literary critics: Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton
and Fredric Jameson. He will provide an overview of the politico-philosophical
problems that style raises (e.g., the advent of novelty, transindividual
experience and historical temporality) and will share with the audience some of
the concepts he himself has developed for the political analysis of literary
styles.
Daniel Hartley is Lecturer in English and American Literature and
Culture at the University of Giessen (Germany). His book, The Politics of
Style: Marxist Poetics in and beyond Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton and
Fredric Jameson, will be published by Brill in 2015.
Saturday 18-26 October - Exhibition: VERNISSAGE
Susan Cantrick is an American visual artist who began her
work at WICE. She will be showing at the annual Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, opening October 18th--to see a sample
piece by Cantrick and to read her bio and past show history as well as an artist
statement in French, see http://www.realitesnouvelles.org/exposants/2009.php?id=658&artiste=cantrick-susan.
For complete information on the event and all of the
artists showing, see: ahttp://www.realitesnouvelles.org/ and for a closer
look at Réalités Nouvelles and what they are about, keep up with their blog at http://realitesnouvelles.blogspot.fr/
AT: the Parc Floral de Vincennes on the edge of paris. M° Vincennes.
Monday 20 October @ 20h30- Spoken Word Open Mic
Au Chat Noir, 76 rue
Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up 8pm to 9.30pm in
the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground.
Monday 20 October @ 19h; Discussion with Bonnie Greer
Shakespeare and
Company
We’re
delighted to present the wonderful Bonnie Greer, who will be discussing her new
memoir, A Parallel Life, and the search for an authentic voice over the
course of her career.
Bonnie Greer is an
award-winning playwright and has written more than a dozen plays for BBC Radio,
a short film for BBC2, a documentary for BBC television, two novels, and a
biography of the writer and social activist Langston Hughes. She has also
turned her hand to acting, playing Joan of Arc on the Paris stage. Bonnie Greer
has lived in the United Kingdom since 1986 and was awarded an OBE in the
Queen's Birthday Honours 2010 for her contribution to the arts and, the
following year, she was named one of the UK's Top 300 Public Intellectuals. A
regular contributor to Sky News Paper Review, BBC2's The Review Show and Radio
4's Any Questions, she also writes occasionally for The London Evening
Standard, the Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph.
A Parallel Life is the first volume of Bonnie Greer’s emotive,
outspoken, and inspiring memoirs. It tells the story of a young
African-American girl born into the black working class, growing up in a
culture of racism and limited opportunity in 1960s Chicago—and ultimately
receiving an award from the Queen for her contribution to the arts in the UK.
Tuesday 21 October @19h30 Ivy Writers
Paris invites you to a special spectacular bilingual reading with American
author Julie Carr and French poet Leslie Kaplan. The authors will read from
published work but also will be sharing new translations on the night!
At : Delaville Café (1er
étage) 34 bvd bonne nouvelle 75010 Paris M° Bonne nouvelle (ligne 8 ou 9)
BIOS:
Julie Carr is the author of six books of
poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta, 2010), RAG
(Omnidawn, 2014), and the forthcoming Think Tank (Solid Objects, 2015).
She is also the author of Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of
Desire in Late Victorian Poetry (Dalkey Archive, 2013), and the co-editor
of Active Romanticism: The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and
Contemporary Poetic Practice, forthcoming from University of Alabama Press
(2015). Her co-translations (with Jennifer Pap) of Apollinaire and Leslie
Kaplan have been published in Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere and a chapbook of selections from Kaplan's
"Excess-The Factory" has recently been released by Commune
Editions. Carr was a 2011-12 National Endowment of the Arts fellow and is an
associate professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Her work has been
anthologized widely, including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton
Anthology. She has been the recipient of various awards including The
Sawtooth Poetry Award, and The National Poetry Series. She lives in Denver and
is a co-founder of Counterpath Press (http://counterpathpress.org/)and Counterpath
Gallery. Leslie Kaplan est née à New-York en 1943, elle a été élevée à Paris dans une
famille américaine, elle écrit en français. Après des études de philosophie, d'histoire et de psychologie,
elle travaille deux ans en usine et participe au mouvement de Mai 68. Elle
publie depuis 1982 (L'Excès-l'usine, Hachette/P.O.L, repris en 1987 aux
éditions P.O.L), des récits et des romans (Le Pont de Brooklyn, Le
Psychanalyste, Depuis maintenant-Miss Nobody knows, Millefeuille...),
des essais (Les Outils), des pièces de théâtre (Toute ma vie j'ai été
une femme, Louise, elle est folle, Déplace le ciel). Site de
l'auteur : lesliekaplan.net
For
more information see the IVY blog at http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/
or join IVY’s FB group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/101898279922603/
Thursday 23 October @ 20h – Paris Lit Up Open Mic featuring Chris Newens, AT: Culture Rapide 103 rue Julien Lacroix 75020
(métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/
Saturday 25 October @ 17h - Les Rendez-vous de la Librairie presenté
“Vera” de Jean-Pierre Orban
Centre
Wallonie-Bruxelles
Librairie
Wallonie-Bruxelles 46 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris
Un samedi par mois, la Librairie vous invite à rencontrer un auteur dont
l’ouvrage est récemment paru.
Au
retour de Rome, quand j’ai aperçu la silhouette d’Augusto dans l’immense hall
de la gare Victoria où il était venu m’accueillir, j’ai eu honte. Le train nous
avait ramenés. Je ne peux le dire qu’ainsi. Au sens propre. Ce n’était plus
nous qui nous emportions. Qui nous lancions vers l’avant comme à l’aller, les
cheveux au vent, penchés par la fenêtre, la poussière me battant le visage,
venue, on aurait dit, du sol de l’Éden. Le train nous ramenait. Tels des corps
que l’on détachait de la terre offerte. On nous reconduisait dans le pays où
nous vivions. Mais c’était quoi la vie ? Et c’était où ?
Londres, 1930 : Vera vit à Little
Italy avec ses parents, Ada et Augusto, immigrés italiens. Rapidement la
jeune fille se laisse enrôler dans une organisation à la gloire de Mussolini.
Elle croit naïvement que l’idéologie fasciste lui forgera une identité. Mais
l’arrivée de la guerre chamboule ses espérances. Écartelée entre sa langue
maternelle et celle du pays d’adoption, Vera se laissera emporter par d’autres
dérives. Puis elle croira enfin venu le temps de construire le récit de sa vie
et de l’Histoire. De trouver sa vérité, elle dont le prénom signifie «vraie»,
et de la transmettre…
Peuplé de personnages décrits à
l’encre noire, ce roman bouleversant nous parle d’identité et de racines. Et de
l’espoir, parfois déçu, de les dépasser.
Vera est le premier roman de Jean-Pierre Orban,
qui a écrit pour le théâtre et la jeunesse. Il vit entre Bruxelles et Paris.
Sunday 26 October @ 19h30- Moving Parts Script Reading; Elisabeth Piermé-Boï’s “A chacun son arc-en-ciel”
(scénario en
français)
Carr’s Pub and Restaurant; 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris; Metro : Tuileries
Monday 27 October @20h30 Spoken Word Open Mic
Au Chat Noir, 76 rue
Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up 8pm to 9.30pm in
the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground.
Tuesday
28 October @ 19h30; Evening with an
Author: Mimi Thorisson
American Library in Paris
Many
people dream of leaving city life to live in a French village and raising a
family surrounded by vineyards and fields. Blogger and food writer Mimi
Thorisson did just that when she moved from Paris with her photographer
husband, Oddur Thorisson, and their family of 7
children and 14 dogs to Médoc in the southwest region of France. Mimi started
to blog about her life in Médoc, of which food and cooking played a big part.
Her widely-read blog Manger was winner of the 2013 Saveur Best Food Blog - Best Regional Cuisine Blog.
She has a cooking show on Cuisine+ and featured in many magazines including Elle,
Bon Appetit, Vanity Fair, and Glamour, with recent features
in the French Elle (July 2014) on "BARBECUE D'ÉTÉ CHEZ MIMI
THORISSON." She
will be talking about her first cookbook, A Kitchen in France: A Year of
Cooking in my Farmhouse, along with her husband Oddur, who was the
photographer for the book.
Wednesday
29 October @ 19h30; Evening with an
Author: Emmanuel Carrère American
Library in Paris On the occasion of his award-winning book’s translation into
English, celebrated French writer Emmanuel Carrère speaks (in English) about
Edward Limonov, the man at the center of this marvel of a book: a portrait of
postwar Russia through a personal odyssey that is more improbable than fiction.
Wednesday 29 October @ 19h La
Bande Dessinée Est Une Sport De Combat (Conférence-débat)
Centre
Wallonie-Bruxelles
Salle de Cinéma 46 rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
Animée par Erwin Dejasse, historien
de l’art et théoricien de la bande dessinée,
Thierry Van Hasselt, auteur et cofondateur des éditions Frémok, et
Anne-Françoise Rouche, fondatrice et directrice artistique de La “S” Grand
Atelier.
De nouveaux horizons se sont ouverts à la
bande dessinée qui ambitionne plus que jamais de se redéfinir au-delà des
frontières qui lui ont été assignées. En partant d’une approche historique de
la bande dessinée dans l’art brut et outsider, Erwin Dejasse exposera
les jalons de cette rencontre entre deux territoires aux frontières élastiques.
Thierry Van Hasselt présentera les pratiques de bandes
dessinées du collectif Frémok, sa volonté de questionner la notion d’auteur,
plus particulièrement à travers le projet Match de Catch.
Anne-Françoise Rouche rendra compte de l’aventure de Match de
Catch à Vielsalm, de ses nombreuses retombées, interrogera les nombreux
questionnements qu’elle suscite et les enjeux de reconnaissance des artistes
déficients mentaux.
Thursday 30 October @ 20h – Paris Lit Up Open Mic Halloween Bananza, AT: Culture Rapide 103 rue
Julien Lacroix 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com
Thursday 30 October
@ 19h The Creative Writing Program at AUP invites you to
An Evening Celebrating The Plume Anthology of Poetry
Daniel Lawless
(Editor), Marilyn Hacker, Claire Malroux, Emmanuel Moses, Molly Lou Freeman,
and Jeffrey Greene
October 30, 7 p.m.
Grand Salon, 31 avenue Bosquet 75007
Daniel Lawless is the founder and editor of PLUME: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry (www.plumepoetry.com). He will be speaking about poetry and
publishing with university students at AUP on Oct. 29th at 3:30 p.m.
in an open class format: Grenelle G21.
Marilyn Hacker’s most recent books are Names, Essays on Departure,
and Desesperanto, and an essay
collection, Unauthorized Voices. Her
translations from the French include Marie Etienne’s King of a Hundred Horsemen, which received the 2009 American PEN
Award for Poetry in Translation, Emmanuel Moses’ He and I, and Rachida Madani’s Tales
of a Severed. For her own work, she is a past recipient of the Lenore Marshall Award for Winter Numbers, the Poets’ Prize for Selected Poems, the National Book Award
for Presentation Piece, an Award in
Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American PEN
Voelcker Award for poetry, and the Argana International Poetry Prize from
Morocco’s Bayt as-Sh’ir. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
She lives in Paris, and is an editor of the journal Siècle 21. Stranger’s
Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2013 will be published by W. W. Norton in the winter of 2014.
Claire Malroux is the author of a dozen collections of poems,
including Ni si lointain and La Femme
sans paroles, both published by Le Castor astral, and also two innovative
hybrids. Chambre avec vue sur l’éternité,
traces the encounter of two poets – Emily Dickinson and Claire Malroux. Neither a biography of the former nor a
memoir of the latter, it is a work of the imagination that reenacts the
fascination the American poet has for her French “correspondent,” Traces, sillons takes the form of a
journal of the poet’s process, as she reflects on books read or remembered, on
translating some of those books, and on the emergence of new poems, also given,
sometimes in multiple versions, in the text.
Emmanuel Moses was born in Casablanca in
1959. He spent his childhood in Jerusalem and moved to Paris in 1986 where he
has been living since. He is a writer and translator, working between Hebrew,
German, English, and French. Amongst the authors he has translated are S.Y.
Agnon, Yehuda Amichaï, and Raymond Carver. He is the author of more than twenty
books of poetry and fiction, including most recently L'animal, Le rêve passe,
and He and I (translated by Marilyn
Hacker).
Molly Lou Freeman teaches at the International School of Paris and
was a recent lecturer in poetry for the Creative Writing Departments at NYU and
Columbia University. Molly Lou received
honors in Poetry from Brown University and the University of Iowa Writers
Workshop (M.F.A) where she won an Academy of American Poets Award. She has
twice been awarded poetry grants from the French national literary endowment
(CNL). She is currently writing a novel and translating into French the poetry
of New York Poet Geoffrey Nutter as well as the late poems of Barbara
Guest. Her poetry has been published
widely.
Jeffrey Greene is the AUP Creative Writing Coordinator. His forthcoming book in 2015 is based on the
cult of wild edibles. He is the author
four collections of poetry, a memoir, and two nature books. His most recent book is Shades of the Other Shore, Cahier Series, is a multi-genre
exploration with the artist and AUP professor Ralph Petty.
PART II: Workshops
Saturday 4 October @ 16h-18h – Paris Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop, AT: Le Barbouquin, 1 rue
Dénoyez 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info:
http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/
Sunday 5 October @ 18h30-20h30 The Other Writers’
Group:
Shakespeare
& Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie,
75005. An
excellent feedback workshop for 6 euros. Join us afterwards for happy
hour at The Gentleman, 1 bis rue Hautefeuille, 75006, behind place St Michel.
Sunday 5 October @ 12h30-14h30 – Paris Write Up – A Workshop to Enliven Your Creative Genius with
Shannon Cain, AT: Shakespeare and Company (upstairs library), 37 rue de la
Bûcherie 75005. For more info: http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/
Saturday 11 October @ 16h-18h – Paris Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop, AT: Le Barbouquin, 1 rue
Dénoyez 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info: http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/
Saturday 11 October @ 14h-16h; Autofiction
Writing Workshop with Shannon Cain
American Library in
Paris
In
this two-hour workshop with fiction writer Shannon Cain, participants will
explore autofiction, through presentation by Ms. Cain, followed by group
discussion, a writing exercise a discussion of a text that will be assigned in
advance. To take part in the workshop,
please RSVP by email to programs manager Grant Rosenberg at rosenberg@americanlibraryinparis.org. Non-members can attend by
purchasing a 15 € day pass.
Sunday 12 October @ 18h30-20h30 The Other
Writers’ Group:
Shakespeare
& Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie,
75005.
An excellent feedback workshop for
6
euros. Join us afterwards for happy hour at The Gentleman, 1 bis rue
Hautefeuille, 75006, behind place St Michel.
Saturday 18 October @ 16h-18h – Paris Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop, AT: Le Barbouquin, 1 rue
Dénoyez 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info:
http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/
Sunday 19 October @ 18h30-20h30 The Other
Writers’ Group:
Shakespeare
& Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie,
75005. An
excellent feedback workshop for 6 euros. Join us afterwards for happy
hour at The Gentleman, 1 bis rue Hautefeuille, 75006, behind place St Michel.
Saturday 25 October @ 16h-18h – Paris Lit Up Drop-in Writing Workshop, AT: Le Barbouquin, 1 rue
Dénoyez 75020 (métro Belleville). For more info:
http://parislitup.com/writing-workshops/
Sunday 26 October @ 18h30-20h30 The Other
Writers’ Group:
Shakespeare
& Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie,
75005. An
excellent feedback workshop for 6 euros. Join us afterwards for happy
hour at The Gentleman, 1 bis rue Hautefeuille, 75006, behind place St Michel.
PART III: Reviews,
Releases, Submission Requests
Call for Submissions!
Paris Lit Up Press,
an independent publishing collective based in the City of Light, is looking for
innovative creative expressions of any sort. Prose, poetry, spoken word, visual
artwork, audio, video, you name it: if you can dream up a way to “publish” your
work, we want to hear about it. There are no submission fees and, although
we are not exclusively Paris-centric, we do love the chance to sit
and chat at cafés with our writers. For more info: http://press.parislitup.com
Paris Lit Up
Community Events Calendar
Reading in Paris?
Promoting your new book? Does your band rock? Want to promote your event? Add
your own event to the Paris Lit Up community calendar! With over 100 visitors
per day, our free, open community calendar is the best way to get the word out.
For more info: http://parislitup.com/events)
Paris Lit Up Magazine n°2 (2014)
Back with a boom, Paris Lit Up Magazine n°2 is much more than a simple repetition.
Now with 200 full-color pages, a stunning semi-transparent dust jacket and
over 100 contributors, this independent publication is truly a
testament to grassroots DIY publications. It is available in both print as well as 2
digital versions, including a new multimedia ibook format [coming soon] that includes
special video content. Poetry, short-stories, flash fiction,
photography, artwork, interviews and even comic books: Paris Lit Up Magazine
n°2 has something for every connoisseur of
contemporary writing.
Order online now at http://press.parislitup.com/ or purchase
from Shakespeare and Company, Les Mots de la Bouche, or any PLU open mic event!
#43 The Journal
- available now - has Andy
Hickmott's critical faculties challenged by collections from Tim Allen, Pansy
Maurerz-Alvarez, Kate Noakes and Tom Watts; while Emma Lee & myself
struggle to make unified sense of collections by Diana S Adams, John Barron,
Bibi Jacob, Mark Russell, Alan Baker, James Byrne, A.C. Evans & Rupert M
Loydell, Gavin Goodwin, Chrys Salt, Todd Swift, Adam Williams; a coffee table
book by Kevin Reid & George Szirtes; and more collections from Gareth
Farmer, Dylan Harris, Patrick Lodge & D.E.Oprava. Don't anyone dare accuse
us of a 'lack of commitment'.
Poetry
being The Journal's raison d'être there is of course new work in #43 from MA C Bevan, R G Bishop, Robin Brumby, Ian Clarke,
Daniel Roy Connelly, Jim Conwell, David Cooke, Seth Crook, John
Daniel, Gram Joel Davis, Clive Donovan, Frank Dullaghan, Ann
Egan, Marilyn Hammick, Andy Hickmott, Richard Hughes, Khalid
Khan, Noel King, Allan Johnston, Emma Lee, David Mac, Alwyn
Marriage, Darren Millard, Paul Murphy, Tendai R. Mwanaka, Emyr
Payne, Andrew Pidoux, Terry Quinn,
Gordon
Scapens, AM Spence,
Elaine Taylor, J.S.Watts and Gareth Writer-Davies.
Time
to take out/renew the subscription?
UK
only - copies available for £4.00
[incl. p&p UK] annual subscription (3 issues) £11.00
(all cheques in UK currency please
and made payable to 'Sam Smith'. Or through PayPal.)
Moving Parts Call for Original
Plays
Have
an original play that you would like to hear read?
Contact
Stephanie now to book a reading of YOUR play
Bookings
being taken for Winter 2014-2015 Check the website for the latest schedule : www.movingparts.org.uk or send an e-mail to movingpartsparis@gmail.com
Recent Release of The Bastille! THE BASTILLE is an upstart literary magazine published in Paris. It
is the voice of the community of poets and storytellers that is SpokenWord
Paris. In
Paris you can get it at SpokenWord or from Shakespeare & Company. All 3 beautiful back
issues are available for €5 – email themag.paris at gmail.com or ask
at SpokenWord.
The bi-monthly publication, Belleville Park Pages, calls for
writers! Submission Mission: The Pages are focused on supporting
the growth of writers from around the world. We publish all forms: poetry,
short stories, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, etc. Submissions
will be considered for both print and online publication. Submit your work to: words@bellevilleparkpages.com
Stop by http://www.bellevilleparkpages.com for more information and to find a Pages
vendor near you!
The Montmartre Dionysia is
looking for plays for the third edition of its biannual English-language
theatre festival in Paris!
Montmartre
Dionysia III: Of honeyed words but evil mind
Festival
running through the 1st - 6th of December 2014
Submit
your 12-20 min play together with a short bio by the 21st of October to:
More
info about the festival & competition guidelines at http://www.montmartredionysia.com/
Actors! 7.30 pm on the 28th of
October is the festival's casting day, at a venue TBA. Save the date.
Open call from the Poetry
Brothel:
For its Parisian event, The Poetry Brothel is looking for a
batch of poetry whores: male and female, emerging and established, local
and international. Are you a poet? Do you enjoy reading poetry in your bedroom
at home? Have you ever put on a costume and changed your name? Would you like a
glass of absinthe right now?! If so, please send five poems (no longer than two
pages each) , your professional bio, a Poetry Brothel "character" bio (thepoetrybrothel.com/meet.html),
and a photo of yourself to The Madame at thepoetrybrothel@gmail.com. We'll be
soon announcing the date and venue but we can say already that the Paris Poetry
Brothel will occur during the weekend that goes from November 14th
to 16th. You'll be paid by the clients for private readings that you give.
Perks include free booze for those of drinking age and professional photography
sessions. Serious inquiries only.
About The Poetry Brothel:
The Poetry Brothel is a unique and immersive poetry event that
takes poetry outside classrooms and lecture halls and places it in the lush
interiors of a bordello. Based in concept on the fin-de-siecle bordellos in New
Orleans and Paris, many of which functioned as safe havens for fledgling,
avant-garde artists, The Poetry Brothel's "Madame" presents a
rotating cast of poets as "whores," each operating within a carefully
constructed character, who impart their work in public readings, spontaneous
eruptions of poetry, and most distinctly, as purveyors of private, one-on-one
poetry readings in back rooms. For a small fee, all of the "poetry whores"
are available for these sequestered readings at any time during the event. Of
course, any true brothel need a good cover; The Poetry Brothel's is an
immersive cabaret, offering a full bar, live jazz, burlesque dancers, painters,
and fortune-tellers, with newly integrated themes, performances and
installations at each event. Central to this experience is the creation of
character, which for poet and audience function as disguise and as freeing
device, enabling The Poetry Brothel to be a place of uninhibited creative
expression in which the poets and audience can be themselves in private. Past
guest readers have included Paul Muldoon, Mark Doty, Jerome Rothenberg,
Dorianne Laux, Dorothea Lasky and Ariana Reines, among dozens of others.
NEW RELEASE from KEVIN VARRONE
:: Furniture Press Books presents BOX SCORE : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Furniture
Press is happy to release Kevin Varrone's Box Score : An Autobiography, which is
limited to 150 copies, each signed and numbered by the author, and with cover
images/collages created by artist Randel Plowman. Shipping is free on this
title.
As
an added bonus, the first 20 book purchases (from the website) come with a
signed frameable Giclée print of one of the twenty original collages by Randel
Plowman which were commissioned specifically for Box Score.
You’re
invited to the Online Release of BlazeVOX14, an online journal of voice!
BlazeVOX
[books] presents innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary
poetry. Our books push at the frontiers of what is possible with our innovative
poetry, fiction and select non-fiction and literary criticism. Our fundamental
mission is to disseminate poetry, through print and digital media, both within
academic spheres and to society at large. We seek to publish the innovative
works of the greatest minds writing poetry today, from the most respected
senior poets to extraordinarily promising young writers. We select for
publication only the highest quality of writing on all levels regardless of
commercial viability. Our outlets of publication strive to enrich cultural and
intellectual life, and foster regional pride and accomplishments. BlazeVOX
consciously acquires a collection of titles providing focus, continuity, and a
basis for the development of future publications. BlazeVOX is committed to the
dissemination of knowledge.
To
explore the publication and the just released Fall 2014 edition, please visit http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/journal/.
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