VERSAL + LARS PALM reading le 11 Oct 2011!!!!

IVY WRITERS PARIS PRÉSENTE

une lecture-rencontre (READING) en anglais
with

VERSAL MAGAZINE of Amsterdam
&
Poets-Live
Including readings by the authors:
Anna Arov,

Megan Garr,

Kate Foley,

Sarah Ream,

Jane Lewty

&

Lars Palm

Le 11 Octobre
at 19h30 (doors open at 19h

AT: Le Next,
17 rue Tiquetonne,
75002 Paris,
Metro Etienne Marcel/ RER Les Halles.
Free/ Entrée libre

IVY Writers Paris 2011-2012 season begins with this POETS-LIVE and VERSAL MAGAZINE all-English reading. Anna Arov, Megan Garr, Sarah Ream, Kate Foley and Jane Lewty—visiting authors & editors of Versal Magazine—will read with award-winning Swedish-Anglophone poet and translator Lars Palm, a POETS-LIVE invitee.


BIOS:
LARS PALM currently lives in Malmö. He has been publishing poems for 20 years & chapbooks for 10 years in Sweden, the USA, Canada, England, Scotland, Italy, Australia & Japan. His first long book road song for was recently published by corrupt press, run by Dylan Harris (an Englishman living in Paris). With his lovely wife Petra he had a photo & poetry exhibition & published two online chapbooks. He translates to & from Swedish, English & Spanish, sometimes as a part of the translators' collective,& now small press, Kompassros. Poems of his have been translated into Spanish & Japanese. He might also say that he runs a small ungovernable press, works way too much for way too little pay, & enjoys cooking & travelling.

MEGAN M GARR (b. 1979) is an American poet and the editor of the widely-acclaimed literary journal Versal (www.versaljournal.org). After just a year in Amsterdam, Megan founded the literary community organization “wordsinhere” in 2002. Activist by nature, her goal was to build a supportive infrastructure for Amsterdam’s then-scattered international writing community. By 2003, the organization boasted writing groups, the monthly literary evening “The Open Stanza” (which moved to Nachttheater Sugar Factory in 2004 and ran until 2007), and the journal Versal. Megan remains at the helm of this entirely self-funded and volunteer-run organization, which continues to support local residents through workshops, seminars and events. In 2010, she was chosen as one of 50 “Power Amsterdammers” by TimeOut Amsterdam.Versal has garnered international attention for its unique visual and literary aesthetic, and was named one of seventeen “Indie Innovator” presses by Poets & Writers Magazine (Nov/Dec 2010): “the most visible product of a passionate group helping to sustain ‘transnational networks’ for writers.” Megan’s own work as well as that through Versal have put Amsterdam on the map of the literary world. Her writings on translocalityhave been informed by years of living abroad, and her community work continues to address the concerns of writers who no longer live among their native languages and literary cultures. These writings have been published in several journals, including a piece inA Megaphone, an international anthology of some 75 works on the subject of feminism and writing, edited by Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young. Megan was also a featured panelist on translocality at the Prague Microfestival in 2011. Megan’s poetry has been published in the USA and Europe, most recently in Tuesday: An Art Journal, SpringGun,Sidebrow, VLAK, Lungfull!andCorduroy Mtn, and upcoming in Caketrain and Bateau. Her poetry collectionThe Preservationist Documentswas a finalist in several prizes, and won the Pilot Books Meddling Kids Series in 2010. It will be published by Pilot Books this fall.

JANE LEWTY's poetry can be seen in VOLT, Upstairs at Durocand other magazines in the U.S and U.K. Some recent pieces can be seen at http://www.lapetitezine.com/issue_27/jane_lewty_area_code_john_wayne_gacy.phpAndhttp://www.dearsir.org/sites_current_issue_writers_6/lewty.html Her poem “The Freight” appeared in Versal 9. She is also on the editing team of VLAK, an international journal of the arts: (http://vlakmagazine.blogspot.com/) and has co-edited two essay collections: Broadcasting Modernism (University Press of Florida, 2009) which is concerned with the impact of radio on early 20th-century writing: http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=COHEN002 and Pornotopias: Image, Apocalypse, Desire (LitterariaPragensia, 2010):http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/pornotopias.html After holding faculty positions at University College London and the University of Northern Iowa, she currently works as an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Amsterdam.

KATE FOLEY is a widely published prize-winning UK poet whose 5th collection - plus another chapbook -will be out in 2012 from ShoestringPress.

SARAH REAM is a British-born writer and editor. She has lived in the UK, the USA, France and Australia, and has been based in Amsterdam since 2008. She is the managing editor of Versal (www.versaljournal.org), the central editor of Poetry International Web (www.poetryinternational.org) and poetry editor at Polygon (www.polygonbooks.co.uk), the literary imprint of the Edinburgh-based publishing house Birlinn. She also edits fiction and non-fiction books. In the past, she has worked as a bookseller and a freelance arts and restaurant critic. Her poems and articles have appeared in various publications, including the Guardian website, The List, 14 and V, an anthology of international writing from Edinburgh. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Edinburgh University.

ANNA AROV is a Canadian/Russian poet who has been living in Holland for eleven years. Anna is one of the poetry editors for literary journal Versal. She organizes the International Room for the Dutch annual poetry festival, Huis van de Poezie. Anna teaches writing at the Dutch Royal Academy of Art as well as poetry workshops at the English Bookshop for wordsinhere and in elementary schools. She has performed throughout Europe and the Netherlands at various festivals and poetry podiums. Anna’s published work includes Observatory, a collection of poems illustrated by Leon M. Dekker, as well as poems in journals, CDs and in combination with exhibited art. This is her second appearance with IVY Writers Paris.

IVY avec Nicolas Carras et Truong Tran--une lecture à ne pas manquer le 22 juin 2011

IVY WRITERS vous invite à la dernière lecture de la saison 2010-2011 !
Come join us for our last reading of this year’s season!

Avec/with
les poètes
NICOLAS CARRAS (français)
et
TRUONG TRAN (américain)

MERCREDI / WEDNESDAY
le June 22
à 19h30
Toujours AU NEXT:
17 rue Tiquetonne
75002 Paris,
M° Etienne Marcel ou RER Les Halles

BIOS
(en français et ensuite en anglais / Bios in French then English):

NICOLAS CARRAS : Compositeur, arrangeur, pianiste, artiste sonore et poète. Co-fondateur du groupe sos-art.com. Vient du classique et du Jazz. A l’age de 19 ans il écrit ses premiers poèmes, travail d’écriture qu’il mènera en parallèle de sa recherche musicale, plusieurs recueils à ce jour non publiés, ainsi qu’au travail autour de la poésie. Ancien élève de l’American School of Modern Music, de Peter Giron et de Jeff Gardner. En mai 2001, Il fonde avec Tristan Mory, plasticien vidéaste, Eric Cassar, poète et architecte, Fanny Gosse, photographe plasticienne et graphiste ; le collectifhttp://www.sos-art.com/ (web galerie, organisation de soirées artistiques sur Paris). Il travaille actuellement également avec John M. Bennett poète américain et fondateur de Luna Bisonte production (poésie contemporaine) et Allan Revich (Canada) avec qui il fonde "The W.I.S Project". (word, image, sound). Il participe régulièrement aux concerts organisés par Le placard “headphone festifal”, soit en direct live soit en streaming de chez lui, ainsi qu’a des festivals de poésie contemporaine. L'écrit "dans l'herbe fraîche" sera publié dans la revue N° 7 d'Ici Là en juin, voici le lien de la revue n 6 http://www.publie.net/fr/ebook/9782814503946/d-ici-l%C3%A0-n-6 Pour plus : http://www.nicolasound.com/ Pour écouter plus d’enregistrements par N Carras : http://www.laptitemaison.com/ptitemaison/article.php3?id_article=625 Quelques vidéos avec Carras : http://www.lavideotheque.org/r%C3%A9alisateurs/nicolas-carras/

TRUONG TRAN : vient de San Francisco. Il a publié 5 recueils de poésie : The Book of Perceptions, placing the accents, dust and conscience (qui a gagné le San Francisco State Poetry Center Prize, 2002), within the margin et four letter words (2011).
Il travaille également en tant que plasticien, voir : http://www.gnourtnart.com/ et http://www.pbase.com/bobhsiangphoto/truong_tran. Lire quelques extraits de ces livres sur: http://www.apogeepress.com/authors_tran.html Vous pourrez également visiter son "blog visuel": http://truongtran.tumblr.com/

BIOS in ENGLISH:
TRUONG TRAN : Author & Visual artist, Truong has written and published five books of poetry, The Book of Perceptions, placing the accents, dust and conscience (winner of the 2002 SF State Poetry Center Prize), within the margin and four letter words. Truong’s work is innovative on the page and is engaged with troubling issues of language and culture. His poems exemplify the issues that are being explored in contemporary American poetry. You can read brief excerpts from Truong’s first three books on the Apogee Press website at http://www.apogeepress.com/ specifically via his author page at http://www.apogeepress.com/authors_tran.html. Unfortunately, the website does not yet contain excerpts from Truong’s most recent book, four letter words. Tran is also a visual artist, and is currently in Europe touring and being involved in conferences for that side of his work. Here are links to a couple of his most recent art projects: http://www.pbase.com/bobhsiangphoto/truong_tran and http://www.gnourtnart.com/ This will be his first reading in Paris! To see his visual blog: http://truongtran.tumblr.com/

Extract from “Within the Margin” (copyright Apogee Press, 2004):
“
...............there are the words
margin
........because
............dare i say fuck

a boy a six year old boy concocts a scheme he learns to lie on this day the boy discovers he

discovers the truth he turns up the volume on the tv set the fantastic four vs dr doom doom

is of course doomed to fail he pretends to be watching in the living room on this day his story

begins because sometimes language is not about meaning music for example take the word

fuck float it between your lips a student in a classroom once said to him can you explain why

you choose to use this word if you want my opinion it cheapens the writing it’s too easy a”

NICOLAS CARRAS : Multitalented Nicolas Carras is equally a composer, musician, sound artist and poet. He lives in Paris where he co-founded the collective sos-art.com. For more info in English, visit the Ivy blog : http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/ Here’s a link for a video where you can hear John M. Bennett read "SPAMPOEMS" Poems by Nicolas Carras: http://www.vimeo.com/19403121 Of Carras, Bennett has composed a short essay in English we wanted to post (with his permission) here for those anglophones interested in learning more about the author we will all be having the pleasure of hearing read this Wednesday :

Nicolas Carras : an article by John M. Bennett, January 2011
..........Nicolas Carras is a video artist, sound artist, photographer, and poet, and a founding member of the Parisian art collective SOS-ART. His work has always impressed me for its originality and for the purity with which he carries out his ideas and approaches. At first glance, his work seems extremely minimal: for example a handheld shot of a curb and part of a sidewalk, with maybe a pair of feet passing through the frame, which is unmoving, and accompanied by only the barest trace of ambient sound. Many of his videos of this nature are of only a few minutes duration, but when several of them are grouped together they very quickly seem to be images, or fragments of an existence, that imply and communicate an enormous emotional content, a content which varies considerably from piece to piece. There is a real life, both a very specific one and a very universal one, inhering in them, and they can be watched again and again, each time acquiring more and more resonance and meaning.
..........His photographs are presented not so much as “photographs” but as frozen moments in a mind; a more extreme, or more pure, form of the kind of expression found in his videos. Their force, like the videos, is more conceptual and emotional than “pictorial”. Carras is not out to please the public; he is creating an experience of what it is like to be, and to experience a certain kind of perception and knowledge of the world and of being in that world.
..........I am very sympathetic to this kind of art, because it is basically what I do myself as a writer and word artist: form a vision of the universe as I experience it, with no regard to whether it “pleases” any given public or not.
..........I think that approach is clear in the collaborations we have done, in which Carras has added my texts and readings of those texts to his videos, using a variety of processes and approaches. Those works remain among my very favorite collaborations. In no way are my texts narratives of his images, nor are his images “illustrations” of my texts. Instead, the two dimensions expand the possibilities of each other in unexpected and fascinating ways. This is true collaboration. It is also important to point out that Carras works in both French and English, and even with some of the texts I wrote in my own invented language of Globbolalia. His texts in French and English treat language not as “literature” but as a visionary or experiential medium much like the images he chooses for his visual work.

From Spampoems by Nicolas Carras:

You play Les oiseaux tristes
You play Le petit corbeau
You play Les nuages gris
You play La route tordue
You play, you play La mer trouble
You play the poet from the wine !

--article By Dr. John M. Bennett, Curator, Avant Writing Collection, Rare Books & MSS Library, The Ohio State University. Some links for Bennett: http://www.johnmbennett.net/ , and http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/ , and http://johnmbennettpoetry.blogspot.com/

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Bill Bissett & Adeena Karasick le 7 juin 2011!

IVY WRITERS vous invitent à une lecture en anglais
IVY invites you to join us for an all-English reading!

le 7 juin 2011
à 19h30

avec la poète américaine
Rachel Blau DuPlessis,
et les poètes canadiens
Adeena Karasick et
Bill Bissett (image here by Bissett)

AT
Le NEXT:
17 rue Tiquetonne
75002 Paris,
M° Etienne Marcel ou RER Les Halles
BIOS-:
BILL BISSETT: is the author of over 70 volumes of poetry, and is one of the most internationally acclaimed poets alive today. Best known for his use of unique orthography and for incorporating visual elements in his printed poetry, and his performances of “concrete sound” poetry, sound effects and chanting, critics have called him a visionary a linguistic mystic, shaman, prophet and a “one man civilization”, whose voice and words are featured on the Chemical Brothers award winning cd, We Are The Night. bissett is also a world renowned artist with recent shows in Whitbey Island, at the Rob Shouten Gallery in Washington State, The Cowichan Arts Center, Duncan BC as well as previous one person shows at The Vancouver Art Gallery Modern Fuel Kingston, Art Gallery Pteros Art Gallery Toronto, and The Upstairs Gallery in Toronto. His recent Cd’s are: “ths is erth thees ar peopul”, “luddites 86-91” and “deth interrupts th dansing” with Pete Dako. In 2007, bissett was awarded a lifetime achievement award from BC Bookworld; a lifetime of “work charged with the energy and formal ingenuity of enduring art". (Len Early) "bill bissett is a one-man civilization... he is a lesson to us all." -- James Reaney "bill bissett is my astral twin" -- Margaret Atwood "The greatest living poet today" -- Jack Kerouac on bill bissett, Paris Review For more, see the Bill Bissett HOME SITE: http://www.billbissett.com/
RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS: is the author of the long poem Drafts, begun in 1986, and collected most recently in two books published by Salt Publishing-- Pitch: Drafts 77-95 (2010) and The Collage Poems of Drafts (2011) Other volumes include Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt Publishing, 2007) as well as Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Précis (Salt Publishing, 2004). Her forthcoming critical book (2012) is Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry from University of Iowa Press. In 2006, two books of her innovative essays were published: Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work (2006), and the ground-breaking The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice ([1990] 2006) both from University of Alabama Press. She has written several other critical books and co-edited three anthologies as well as editing The Selected Letters of George Oppen (1990). Her work in poetry and criticism has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Serbian, with book-length collections expected in French and Italian. A feature in Jacket2 on her work, edited by Patrick Pritchett, is going up in summer 2011, and will include considerations by Eric Keenaghan and Chris Tysh. Her websites are http://rachelblauduplessis.com/ as well as http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/duplessis

ADEENA KARASICK is an internationally acclaimed and award winning poet, media-artist and author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory, as well as 4 videopoems regularly showcased at International Film Festivals, including the audacious “I Got A Crush on Osama”, aired on Fox News. All her work is marked with an urban, Jewish, feminist aesthetic that continually challenges linguistic habits and normative modes of meaning production. For over 20 years her linguistically provocative, philosophically complex wordplay continues to excite audiences worldwide. She has recently been granted the “Exuberance is Beauty” Award for Amuse Bouche and the MPS Mobile Award for being the world’s first “Mobile Poet”, where her work is now on mobile devices (cell phones and smart phones and karaoke apparati throughout the world. Engaged with the art of combination and turbulence of thought, it is a testament to the creative and regenerative power of language and its infinite possibilities for pushing meaning to the limits of its semantic boundaries. Her writing has been described as "electricity in language" (Nicole Brossard), "plural, cascading, exuberant in its cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory" (Charles Bernstein) "a tour de force of linguistic doublespeak" (Globe and Mail) and "opens up the possibilities of reading" (Vancouver Courier). She lives, writes and teaches in New York City.

Rachel Blau Duplessis, Bill Bissett et Adeena Karasick le 7 juin, et Nicolas Carras et Truong Tran le 22 juin

Coming Up At IVY: More on both of these events in mid-May!

IVY WRITERS PARIS vous invitent à nos 2 dernières lectures pour la saison automne 2010-printemps 2011!

le 7 juin 2011 à 19h30
avec les poètes américains
Rachel Blau Duplessis,
Adeena Karasick et
Bill Bisset (soirée anglophone)

et
le 22 juin 2011 à 19h30
(un mercredi, exceptionnellement)

LECTURE BILINGUE
avec le poète français Nicolas Carras (FR)
et le poète américain Truong Tran (USA)

Toujours AU NEXT:

17 rue Tiquetonne

75002 Paris,

M° Etienne Marcel ou RER Les Halles

BIOS-pour le 7 juin 2011 :

BILL BISSETT: is the author of over 70 volumes of poetry, and is one of the most internationally acclaimed poets alive today. Best known for his use of unique orthography and for incorporating visual elements in his printed poetry, and his performances of “concrete sound” poetry, sound effects and chanting, critics have called him a visionary a linguistic mystic, shaman, prophet and a “one man civilization”, whose voice and words are featured on the Chemical Brothers award winning cd, We Are The Night. bissett is also a world renowned artist with recent shows in Whitbey Island, at the Rob Shouten Gallery in Washington State, The Cowichan Arts Center, Duncan BC as well as previous one person shows at The Vancouver Art Gallery Modern Fuel Kingston, Art Gallery Pteros Art Gallery Toronto, and The Upstairs Gallery in Toronto. His recent Cd’s are: “ths is erth thees ar peopul”, “luddites 86-91” and “deth interrupts th dansing” with Pete Dako. In 2007, bissett was awarded a lifetime achievement award from BC Bookworld; a lifetime of “work charged with the energy and formal ingenuity of enduring art". (Len Early) "bill bissett is a one-man civilization... he is a lesson to us all." -- James Reaney "bill bissett is my astral twin" -- Margaret Atwood "The greatest living poet today" -- Jack Kerouac on bill bissett, Paris Review

RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS: is the author of the long poem Drafts, begun in 1986, and collected most recently in two books published by Salt Publishing-- Pitch: Drafts 77-95 (2010) and The Collage Poems of Drafts (2011) Other volumes include Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt Publishing, 2007) as well as Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Précis (Salt Publishing, 2004). Her forthcoming critical book (2012) is Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry from University of Iowa Press. In 2006, two books of her innovative essays were published: Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work (2006), and the ground-breaking The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice ([1990] 2006) both from University of Alabama Press. She has written several other critical books and co-edited three anthologies as well as editing The Selected Letters of George Oppen (1990). Her work in poetry and criticism has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Serbian, with book-length collections expected in French and Italian. A feature in Jacket2 on her work, edited by Patrick Pritchett, is going up in summer 2011, and will include considerations by Eric Keenaghan and Chris Tysh. Her websites are http://rachelblauduplessis.com as well as http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/duplessis

ADEENA KARASICK: is an internationally acclaimed and award winning poet, media-artist and author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory, as well as 4 videopoems regularly showcased at International Film Festivals, including the audacious “I Got A Crush on Osama”, aired on Fox News. All her work is marked with an urban, Jewish, feminist aesthetic that continually challenges linguistic habits and normative modes of meaning production. For over 20 years her linguistically provocative, philosophically complex wordplay continues to excite audiences worldwide. She has recently been granted the “Exuberance is Beauty” Award for Amuse Bouche and the MPS Mobile Award for being the world’s first “Mobile Poet”, where her work is now on mobile devices (cell phones and smart phones and karaoke apparati throughout the world. Engaged with the art of combination and turbulence of thought, it is a testament to the creative and regenerative power of language and its infinite possibilities for pushing meaning to the limits of its semantic boundaries. Her writing has been described as "electricity in language" (Nicole Brossard), "plural, cascading, exuberant in its cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory" (Charles Bernstein) "a tour de force of linguistic doublespeak" (Globe and Mail) and "opens up the possibilities of reading" (Vancouver Courier). She lives, writes and teaches in New York City.

BIOS-pour le 22 juin 2011 :

* exception: un mercredi!

NICOLAS CARRAS : Compositeur, arrangeur, pianiste, artiste sonore et poète. Co-fondateur du groupe sos-art.com. Vient du classique et du Jazz. A l’age de 19 ans il écrit ses premiers poèmes, travail d’écriture qu’il mènera en parallèle de sa recherche musicale, plusieurs recueils à ce jour non publiés, ainsi qu’au travail autour de la poésie. Ancien élève de l’American School of Modern Music, de Peter Giron et de Jeff Gardner. En mai 2001, Il fonde avec Tristan Mory, plasticien vidéaste, Eric Cassar, poète et architecte, Fanny Gosse, photographe plasticienne et graphiste ; le collectif www.sos-art.com (web galerie, organisation de soirées artistiques sur Paris). Il travaille actuellement également avec John M. Bennett poète américain et fondateur de Luna Bisonte production (poésie contemporaine) et Allan Revich (Canada) avec qui il fonde "The W.I.S Project". (word, image, sound). Il participe régulièrement aux concerts organisés par Le placard “headphone festifal”, soit en direct live soit en streaming de chez lui, ainsi qu’a des festivals de poésie contemporaine. L'écrit "dans l'herbe fraîche" sera publié dans la revue N° 7 d'Ici Là en juin, voici le lien de la revue n 6 http://www.publie.net/fr/ebook/9782814503946/d-ici-l%C3%A0-n-6 Pour plus : http://www.nicolasound.com/ Pour écouter plus d’enregistrements par N Carras : http://www.laptitemaison.com/ptitemaison/article.php3?id_article=625 Quelques vidéos avec Carras : http://www.lavideotheque.org/r%C3%A9alisateurs/nicolas-carras/

TRUONG TRAN : Author & Visual artist, Truong has written and published five books of poetry, The Book of Perceptions, placing the accents, dust and conscience (winner of the 2002 SF State Poetry Center Prize), within the margin and four letter words. Truong’s work is innovative on the page and is engaged with troubling issues of language and culture. His poems exemplify the issues that are being explored in contemporary American poetry. You can read brief excerpts from Truong’s first three books on the Apogee Press website at www.apogeepress.com . Unfortunately, the website does not yet contain excerpts from Truong’s most recent book, four letter words. Tran is also a visual artist, and is currently in Europe touring and being involved in conferences for that side of his work Here are links to a couple of his most recent art projects: http://www.pbase.com/bobhsiangphoto/truong_tran and www.gnourtnart.com This will be his first reading in Paris!

Sandy Florian, Eric Houser et Bremner Duthie le 22 mars 2011!!!

Mardi, le 22 mars 2011 à 19h30: Ivy Writers présente une lecture-rencontre


en français & anglais avec les poètes
Sandy Florian
et
Eric Houser
et avec la participation musicale de
Bremner Duthie



à 19h30
au Next (downstairs - au sous-sol)

17 rue Tiquetonne 75002

ParisM° Etienne Marcel / RER Les Halles
http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/

BIOS (en français, puis en anglais)

Bremner Duthie est chanteur et acteur. Ses interprétations incluent le role de Timothy avec La Scene National de Quimpers dans leur production de Strike Up The Band de George Gershwin; Mr. Mister dans Cradle will Rock, de Marc Blitzstein, avec les Clefs de Chants et Lille Opera; plusiers roles dans Jaques Brel is Alive and Well, de Mort Shuman,avec le companie Parisbrel, Figaro dans Les Noces de Figaro de Mozart, avec Westcoast Opera. Interprète de musique classique et contemporaine, ses interprétations incluent la performance avant-garde Eight Songs for a Mad King de Sir Peter Maxwell Davies et Time and Beyond de Leslie Basset. Son spectacle ‘one-man’ avec des chansons de Kurt Weill a gagne des critiques de quatre etoiles partout dans le monde. Né à New York Bremner a vécu et chanté au Canada, en Ecosse, aux Etats-Unis, et en France. Il réside à Paris. http://www.bremnerduthie.com/

Sandy Florian est d'origine Latino-Américaine et l'auteur de cinq livres: On Wonderland & Waste (Sidebrow Press, 2010) Prelude to Air From Water (Elixir Press, 2010), The Tree of No (Action Books, 2008), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007) and Telescope (Action Books, 2006). Ses textes ont été publiés dans plus que 50 journals à travers le monde et elle a reçu plusieurs prix littéraires. Elle a vecu au Panama, Mexique, Londre, Paris, San Franciso, Denver et actuellement à West Virginia ou elle est professeur.

Eric Houser est né à Lyon, et vit et travaille à Paris. Il a écrit et publié quelques livres de poésie : (le couteau) (contrat maint, Marseille, 2005), Encore vous précédé d’Auto-di-Dax (Les petits matins, Paris, 2006), Mon journal pour Nina (éditions de l’attente, Bordeaux, 2007), Poèmes en langue vulgaire (éditions Action poétique, Paris, 2009). Il écrit régulièrement des chroniques et des critiques pour Action poétique, Cahier Critique de Poésie, et sur sitaudis.fr. Il a traduit des passages de Semiramis if I remember de Keith Waldrop (publiés dans la revue Vacarme, n° 41 en 2007 et n° 46 en 2009) et il y aura quelques traductions en anglais de ses propres textes dans la revue Aufgabe. Le titre de son projet actuel d’écriture est Les souffrances du jeune houser, une sorte de roman en poèmes de 12 lignes chacun.

ENGLISH BIOS: EN ANGLAIS:

Baritone Bremner Duthie is equally at home on the opera stage, in music theatre and performing challenging contemporary vocal works. He has sung Guglielmo in Cosi Fan Tutte and Figaro in the Marriage of Figaro. He has performed in Sir Peter Maxwell-Davie’s Eight Songs for a Mad King and Gruber’s Frankenstein!!. He has performed several world and North American premiers of new song cycles and new music theater works. His One-Man show with the songs of Kurt Weill was awarded ‘Outstanding Solo Performance’ at the Ottawa Theatre Festival and ‘Outstanding Musical Production’ at the Winnipeg Theatre Festival. London’s Musical Stages Magazine said: "Bremner Duthie has.... a voice of power and inner beauty that commands the whole space..... It takes more than just an expressive voice to really communicate Kurt Weill songs - it takes love, fear, regrets, wistfulness, loneliness, tragedy and charm. Duthie has it all." http://www.bremnerduthie.com/

Of Colombian and Puerto Rican descent, writer and scholar Sandy Florian was born in New York and raised in Latin America. She holds an MFA from Brown and a PhD from University of Denver. She is the author of five prose-poetry collections: On Wonderland & Waste (Sidebrow Press, 2010) Prelude to Air From Water (Elixir Press, 2010), The Tree of No (Action Books, 2008), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007) and Telescope (Action Books, 2006). Her creative work has appeared in over 50 international journals including Bombay Gin, Gulf Coast, /nor, Gargoyle, Indiana Review, and New Orleans Review, and she's been awarded a residency at Caldera Arts, a writer's grant supported residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and an affiliate residency at Headlands Center for the Arts, as well as literary prizes from Elixir Press, New Voices, and Brown University. She has made residence in Panama, Mexico, London, Paris, San Francisco, Denver, and now West Virginia, and her current semi-autobiographical project focuses on the hybridity of generic identities as a reaction to postmodern trauma. She also serves as one of the "other" editors for Tarpaulin Sky Journal.

French Poet Eric Houser is originally from Lyon but lives in Paris. His publications include Poèmes en langue vulgaire (éditions Action poétique, Paris, 2009), Mon journal pour Nina (éditions de l’attente, 2007), Encore vous précédé d’Auto-di-Dax (Les petits matins, 2006); (le couteau) (contrat maint, 2005); Impressions de Mormoiron (avec Claudine Capdeville, Jacques Jouet & Pierre Laurent) (Éditions Plurielle, 2003); Un composte (Éditions de l’Attente, 2002); Chapelle & Discrétion (sonate de chambre) (Éditions Patin & Couffin, 2002); Sortes scories (Éditions de l’Attente, collection Week-end, 2000). He has also published texts in micro-editions: somatic limit (Little Single, Éric Suchère, 2003), je ne suis pas je t’ - rup & rud, (Sébastien Smirou, 2004) as well as in anthologies: patch ! (edutec) (anthologie Autres territoires, Biennale en Val-de-Marne, farrago, 2003) and sørlandet (anthologie de la 7ème Biennale des poètes en Val-de-Marne, farrago, 2004). He has led workshops in Fine Arts Schools in both Bourges and Saint Etienne, and in 2005 developed a reading series at the gallery La Box (Ensa Bourges).

Philippe Beck et Guy Bennett le 18 janvier 2011 à 19h30

IVY Writers Paris vous invite à une lecture bilingue
mardi le 18 janvier 2011 à 19h30 avec
GUY BENNETT et PHILPPE BECK












(Ivy invites you to come out for a spectacular BILINGUAL reading with French & American poets, critics and translators PHILIPPE BECK and GUY BENNETT the 18 Jan at 7:30pm!)

Au bar:

Le Next (au sous-sol)
17 rue Tiquetonne
75002 Paris
(M° Etienne Marcel /RER Les Halles)


BIOS (en français then in English):
Philippe Beck, écrivain de la poésie et de la prose, philosophe, professeur et traducteur, est né en 1963 à Strasbourg et vit à Paris. « Proche en cela des Romantiques allemands, Beck ouvre l’acte poétique au mouvement réflexif infini. »--a écrit Laurent Margantin http://www.oeuvresouvertes.net/spip.php?article230 Cela vient surement de sa recherche à la fois de la littérature et de la philosophie. Puisqu’après une maîtrise de lettres et une agrégation de philosophie, Philippe Beck a soutenu une thèse de doctorat de philosophie (Histoire et imagination) sous la direction de Jacques Derrida. Maître de conférences en Philosophie à l'université de Nantes depuis 1995, il y dispense spécialement des cours dans le domaine de l'esthétique, s'attachant notamment à préciser la différence entre littérature et philosophie. En 1990, il est un membre fondateur de la revue de phénoménologie Alter (ENS de Saint-Cloud). Fondateur et rédacteur en chef de la revue de poésie Quaderno (éd. MeMo, Nantes, de 1998 à 2000), il est l'auteur de nombreux articles de poétologie et de critique. Il est par ailleurs membre du comité de rédaction des revues Cités et Droits de cités (PUF) ainsi que de la revue Agenda de la pensée contemporaine (Flammarion). Derniers livres de poésie parus : Poésies didactiques ,(éd.Théâtre Typographique, 2001), Aux recensions , (éd.Flammarion, 2002), Dans de la nature ,(éd.Flammarion, 2003), Élégies Hé (éd. Théâtre Typographique- mars 2005), Déductions (éd. Al Dante- avril 2005), Chants populaires (éd. Flammarion- 2007), De la Loire, (Argol, 2008) et Lyre Dure, (Nous, 2009). Beck a également écrit des livres de prose : Contre un Boileau (esquisse), (Horlieu, 1999), Du principe de la division de soi in Le colloque de nuit, (Le temps qu'il fait, 2000), Beck, l'Impersonnage : rencontre avec Gérard Tessier, (Argol, 2006) et Un Journal, (Flammarion, 2008). Son travail de poète ("tenir la langue et tenir à la tenue de la langue" a dit Jean-Luc Nancy) est l'occasion de rencontres et de collaborations avec des musiciens et compositeurs contemporains. Il est le co-auteur du livret de l'opéra Pastorale de Gérard Pesson qui a également mis en musique des poèmes tirés de Chants populaires pour l'ensemble vocal Accentus. En 2009, a été créée une Oeuvre acousmatique de Philippe Mion d'après Lyre Dure. Régulièrement invité en France et dans le monde pour des lectures de son oeuvre et des conférences, il a été, en 2008, écrivain en résidence au Château de Blandy-les-Tours et, en 2009, lauréat de la "Mission Stendhal" en Chine. En tant que poète, il figure au sommaire de nombre de revues et anthologies. Certains de ses livres et poèmes ont été traduits en anglais, néerlandais, coréen, galicien, allemand. A Laurent Margantin de terminer : « En l’occurrence la dimension « didactique » de cette écriture inverse les positions : la poésie n’est pas de la « pré-philosophie » qui demanderait à s’achever dans le philosophème. Au contraire, l’acte didactique en poésie permet un mode de pensée poétique qui incorpore et re-densifie la réflexion philosophique qui sombrerait vite dans le discours jargonnant. La poésie en vers critique telle que la pratique Beck se définit comme une pensée rythmée, avec une réelle profondeur et une espèce de souplesse qui maintient l’esprit en éveil. » Pour plus, voir son page Wikepedia : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Beck Le dossier consacré à Beck sur Remue.net : http://remue.net/spip.php?rubrique281 La page sur lui au Centre Atlantique de la Philosophie : http://caphi.univ-nantes.fr/_Philippe-Beck_ ou le site consacré à lui avec plusieurs liens vers des textes chez Sitaudis : http://www.sitaudis.fr/Auteurs/philippe-beck.php

Guy Bennett est écrivain, traducteur, éditeur, professeur et « musicien dans une vie antérieure ». Il est également l’auteur de plusieurs recueils de poésie, notamment : Last Words (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1998); The Row (Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2000); One Hundred Famous Views (Atlanta: 108.93, 2001); 32 Snapshots of Marseilles (Corvallis, Oregon: Sacrifice Press, 2010) ainsi que d’ouvrages de non-poésie, et de nombreuses traductions, notamment la collaboration bilingue (en anglais et italien) Drive to Cluster (ML & NLF, italie 2003), qui a été écrit avec l'artiste Ron Griffin ; avec Béatrice Mousli, Poésies des deux mondes : un dialogue franco-américain à travers les revues littéraires, 1850-2004 (2004), Charting the Here of There: French & American Poetry in Translation in Literary Magazines, 1850-2002 avec John Ashbery et Seeing Los Angeles: A Different Look at a Different City avec Béatrice Mousli. Ses écrits ont paru en revue et en anthologie aux Etats-Unis, au Brésil, en France, en Italie et au Mexique, et ont été présentés dans des festivals internationaux d’art et de poésie. Parmi ses plus récentes traductions, des livres de Mostafa Nissabouri, Nicole Brossard, Valère Novarina et Jacques Roubaud. Éditeur de Mindmade Books (anciennement Seeing Eye Books) et co-éditeur d’Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, il vit à Los Angeles et enseigne à Otis College of Art and Design.Quelques liens vers sa poésie en français : http://droitdecites.org/2010/07/17/guy-bennett-vingt-huit-poemes-evidents/ Un dialogue avec Florence Trocmé : http://www.fabula.org/revue/document1114.php Et un entretien avec Andrew Maxwell sur le site de Double Change : http://www.doublechange.com/issue2/bennettfr.htm

Guy Bennett is a poet/translator and author. He has a Ph.D. in French Literature from UCLA. His collections of poetry include · 32 Snapshots of Marseilles. Corvalis, OR: Sacrifice Press, 2010. · Without Weight of Light. Cleveland: NeO-Pepper Press, 2006. Drive to Cluster (Piacenza, Italy: ML & NLF, 2003), and, with Béatrice Mousli, . · of Poésies des deux mondes: un dialogue franco-américain à travers les revues, 1850-2004 (Paris: Ent'revues, 2004). His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, and the USA. Recent translations include works by Nicole Brossard, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Mostafa Nissabouri, Valère Novarina, Jacques Roubaud, and Giovanna Sandri. Guy Bennett is the publisher of Mindmade Books, co-editor of Seismicity Editions, and is a contributing editor to the New Review of Literature (USA) and Électron Libre (Morocco). He lives in Los Angeles and is a Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences Department and in the Graduate Writing program at Otis College of Art and Design. Link towards an extract of his text US-Moroccan relations on Litmus press : http://www.litmuspress.org/aufgabe5bennett.html

Philippe Beck, born on 21 April 1963 in Strasbourg, studied literature and philosophy at the University of Nantes. As a poet, he made his debut in 1996 at the age of thirty-two with the collection Garde-manche hypocrite (Hypocritical Oversleeve). In 2003, a thoroughly revised version of it appeared, with the title Garde-manche Deux (Oversleeve Two). During the seven years between the two versions, the author published no less than nine collections of poetry; since then, many more have appeared. If you add the extensive intellectual biography Beck l’impersonnage (Beck the Impersonality, 2006) to this list, you cannot avoid the feeling that—according to John Fenoghen (tr John Irons) that “you are dealing with a really single-minded person. The core of this single-mindedness is perhaps contained in the following statement: ‘You mustn’t simply say what is but what can be: re-read the past, re-world it, if you like.’” For more, see his bio on The English Graduate School (Switzerland) site, where he teaches an intensive summer workshop on poetry : http://www.egs.edu/faculty/philippe-beck/biography/