IVY WRITERS PARIS vous invite à une soirée de
lectures bilingues
le 8 mars 2016 à 19h30 avec les poètes :
Michaël Batalla (France)
Rachel Zolf (Canada)
et
Julia Bloch (USA/Australie)
8th March from 19h30: Ivy
Writers Paris welcomes Michaël
Batalla, Rachel Zolf and Julia Bloch!!!
le 8 mars 2016
à 19h30
Au : Delaville Café
34 bvd bonne nouvelle
75010 Paris
M° Bonne nouvelle (ligne 8 ou 9)
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3 BIOS EN FRANÇAIS suivi par les bios en anglais :
Michaël Batalla : né en
1971, est l’auteur de Poésie Possible
(Nous, 2015), Poème paysage maintenant
(Jean-Michel Place,
2007) et il vient (le Clou dans le
fer, Reims, 2002). D’autres
publications par Batalla inclut les collaborations avec des photographes et
architectes ou avec d’autres poètes (tel que le project
italo-français-américain au moulin rouge à verberie, 2013) ainsi que des cycles
de textes, notamment : Cumulus [10
petits poèmes purs] –, L’étrangère no23-24 [éd. La lettre volée] ; Théorêv’rie de la source,
Po&sie no128-129 [éd. Belin] ; et Plein centre – tentative d’observation d’un inobservable réel :
contemplation II, MIR no2 [éd. IKKO]) C’est un poète occupé par les lieux, les
paysages et les mots qui les redessinent – en même temps, butent contre. Son
travail se démarque par la conjonction d’une grande inventivité et d’un propos
politique qui s’articule à partir des « lieux » — qu’il s’agisse de paysages,
d’architectures, ou d’un centre de rétention administrative. Résultat d’un
travail mené depuis le début des années 2000, Poésie possible est un livre qui frappe aussi par son sens de
l’expérimentation formelle et typographique. Il a longtemps dirigé une
collection nommé Le clou dans le fer– tout un poème, ce nom, mais aussi tout un
paysage. Il participe à silence radio et vous pouvez trouver deux autres de ses
poèmes sur les sites projectiles et remue.net
Rachel Zolf, née 1968,
est poète et critique canadienne qui s’intéresse aux questions matérialistes
sur la mémoire, l’histoire, la connaissance et la subjectivité ainsi que sur les
limites conceptuelles du langage et du sens. Elle est l’auteur de 5 recueils de
poésie: Janey’s Arcadia (2014,
Coach House), Neighbour Procedure
(2010, Coach House), Human Resources (2007,
Coach House), Masque(2004), et Her absence, this wanderer (1999).
Elle est la fondatrice et rédactrice en chef de la revue WALRUS et a dirigé
plusieurs ouvrages. Une version cinématique de Janey’s Arcadia a été présenté
au Festival International de Rotterdam et à d’autres festivals de film. Elle
est également l’auteur du film The Light
Club of Vizcaya: A Women’s Picture, dirigé par le plasticien New
Yorkais Josiah McElheny, et qui a eu son premier à Art Basel Miami. Très intéressée
par la poésie sonore et des lectures à plusieurs voix, Zolf a dirigé un
programme d’écriture collaborative THE TOLERANCE PROJECT dont plusieurs extraits
se trouvent sur les sites web ou sur Pennsound. Pour plus
sur Rachel Zolf, voir Zolf’s EPC
page
Julia Bloch est auteur américaine-australlienne qui s’intéresse aux formes hybrides dans la poésie
du XXe siècle. Elle
a deux ouvrages édités chez Sidebrow books :
Letters to Kelly Clarkson (2013—qui est un recueil de
poèmes en prose) et Valley Fever (2015).
Elle est également l’auteur de plusieurs plaquettes de poésie. Son projet
actuel est un livre critique sur les poèmes longues : "Lyric after
Epic: Gender and the Postwar Long Poem". Ses essais, poèmes et compte rendus
ont paru dans plusieurs revues, notamment : Women’s
Studies Quarterly, How2, Mirage/Period(ical), Aufgabe, Five Fingers Review, New
Review of Literature et le Journal of Modern Literature.
Elle
est co-rédactrice en chef de Jacket2
et elle enseigne la poésie et la littérature à Penn où elle dirige leur Faculté
de Creative Writing. Pour plus, voir et écouter quelques extraits de son
travail sur PennSound.
3 BIOS IN ENGLISH :
Rachel
Zolf (born 1968) is a Canadian poet and scholar whose artistic practice
explores materialist questions about memory, history, knowledge, subjectivity
and the conceptual limits of language and meaning. She is particularly
interested in how ethics founders on the shoals of the political. Her five
books of poetry include Janey’s
Arcadia (2014--nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and a Raymond
Souster Memorial Award), Neighbour
Procedure (2010) and Human
Resources (2007-- won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and
was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), all from Coach House Books. Her
earlier collections include Masque(2004), which was shortlisted for the
2005 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and Her absence, this wanderer(1999),
the title poem of which was a finalist in the CBC Literary Competition. She was
the founding poetry editor for The Walrus magazine and has edited
several books of poetry. Her film version of Janey’s
Arcadia has shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and
other venues. Among her many collaborations, she wrote the film The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women’s Picture,
directed by New York artist Josiah McElheny, which
premiered at Art Basel
Miami; and she conducted the first collaborative MFA in Creative Writing ever,
The Tolerance Project. She has
taught at The New School (where she earned an MFA), the University of Calgary,
and the University of Pennsylvania. Her archives are held at York University in
Toronto, Ontario, and at Simon Fraser University's Special Collections in
Vancouver, BC. To read some sample works, see Rachel
Zolf’s EPC page with more links
to
Online Works: Sound and Video Files: Rachel Zolf PennSound page Poems: excerpts from Neighbour Procedure, excerpt from Human Resources, from Human Resources Read an interview: 7 discourses with Rachel Zolf on
Jacket2 at: http://jacket2.org/interviews/seven-discourses-rachel-zolf
Julia Bloch is a USA/Australian author whose interests in twentieth-century poetry and
poetics include the American long poem; formal hybridity; subjectivity; gender
and sexuality; and genre theory. Her first book of prose poems,
Letters to Kelly Clarkson (Sidebrow,
2013), was a finalist for
the 2013 Lambda Literary Award, and her second book of poetry,
Valley Fever, appeared in
April 2015 from Sidebrow Books. She is also the author of the chapbook Hollywood Forever (Little Red Leaves). Her current book project, "Lyric after
Epic: Gender and the Postwar Long Poem," investigates generic concordance
and contention in the innovative American long poem, looking at issues of
gender, ideology, and the place of the lyric. Julia’s poetry, reviews, and
essays have appeared in
Women’s Studies Quarterly,
How2, Mirage/Period(ical), Aufgabe, Five Fingers Review, New Review of
Literature,
Journal of Modern
Literature, and elsewhere; She is coeditor of the international
poetics journal
Jacket2. From 2011 to 2013 she served as assistant professor
of literature at the Bard College MAT Program in Delano, California. From 2013
to 2015 she was associate director of the Kelly Writers House. She now directs the creative writing program at Penn
and teaches literature and creative writing. Bloch received a BA in political
philosophy at Carleton College, an MFA in creative writing/poetry at Mills
College, and an MA and PhD in English literature at the University of
Pennsylvania. For more on Julia, check out her PennSound page, or
read the Bookslut
review of Letters to Kelly Clarkson
Michaël Batalla, French poet, was born in
Reims but currently lives and works in
Paris.
His books include Poésie possible, (éditions NOUS,
2015), Poèmes paysages maintenant, (Jean-Michel Place, Paris,
2007) and il vient, (le Clou dans le fer, Reims, 2002). Other
publications include Cumulus [10 petits poèmes purs] –,
L’étrangère no23-24 [éd. La lettre volée] ; Théorêv’rie de la source,
Po&sie no128-129 [éd. Belin] ; and the chapbook Plein centre – tentative d’observation
d’un inobservable réel : contemplation II, MIR no2 [éd. IKKO])
as well as collaborations with photographers and architects: the 2010 edition
from les éditions VMCF, photos by French architecture and landscape photographer
Benoit Fougeirol Autour/Around and a series of 20 poems by
Batalla (in French and English--translated by Christophe Marchand-Kiss) or the
2014 DAMDI éditions book CONCRETE with ECDM architects (in French,
English--translated by Jennifer K Dick, and Korean): http://www.damdi.co.kr/zb/skin/architecture/print.php?id=architecture&no=33. ONline one can also see
his photo-text project "Projectiles-traverses: Habitation Poétique" a
crossing of Algeria http://project-iles.net/traverses/habitation-poetique-par-michael-batalla. As this work shows,
Batalla's poetry can be read as a kind of research on the
effects of
abstraction and the formal consequences of the hyper-precision of meaning. One
of the methods he employs to this end is a kind of elongated observation of
diverse societal or mental phenomena. He also co-organized and participated in the trilingual summer 2013 collaboration at the Moulin Rouge in Verberie, France from which the publication from the Benway Series (pictured at the left) and a series of short films appeared. He teaches at the École Spéciale
d'Architecture in France: http://www.esa-paris.fr/Batalla-Michael.html He was also
the long-time publisher, directing the collection expériences poétiques for le
Clou dans le fer, founded in 2001 http://espace-livres-creation.be/editeur/le-clou-dans-le-fer/ and which still has its old
FB page at https://www.facebook.com/lecloudanslefer .
