9 Oct 2018 PROSE and POETRY in ENGLISH event

Ivy Writers Paris evening of Poetry and Prose in ENGLISH 

9 october 2018

with the authors

Dylan Harris (Lux/Ire: poet and publisher of Corrupt Books)

Katy Masuga (USA/Fr: novelist)

Amy Evans Bauer (UK/Austria: poet)

and

Rufo Quintavalle (UK/Fr: poet)

9 OCT 2018 at 19h30

UPSTAIRS at DELAVILLE CAFÉ

34 bvd Bonne Nouvelle

75010 Paris

M° 8/9 Bonne Nouvelle

or M° 4 Strasbourg St Denis

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BIOS:

Dylan Harris is a poet who has authored over 11 volumes of poetry. His collections include antwerp (wurm press) and the smoke (Knives Forks and Spoons Press) as well as his most His most recent book, BIG TOWN BLUES (2018). He is also a programmer, and calls himself “a brit abroad”. He exhibits photos and founded and runs corrupt press, which publishes poetry and prose by European-based Anglophone and non-Anglophone authors writing in English. Currently based in Luxembourg, Harris can often be found travelling to read and to help promote his Corrupt Books authors. In the past, he ran “the rant of the powerless” and the Paris-based reading series, Poets-Live. His website is: arts & ego. https://dylanharris.org/ where you can find links to both his poetry and photography work, his blog and a link to help you purchase books.

Katy Masuga: Recent Henry Miller Memorial Library writer-in-resident, Katy Masuga is drawn to the disruption of conventional forms, influenced by Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald and Marilynne Robinson among others. Her publications include fiction and nonfiction among them two novels and two monographs: The Origin of Vermilion (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016), The Blue of Night (Caffeinated Press, forthcoming), Henry Miller and How He Got That Way (Edinburgh UP, 2011) and The Secret Violence of Henry Miller (Camden House, 2011), as well as numerous short stories and dozens of essays and anthology chapters on subjects ranging from contemporary altered book art to Blanchot and Wittgenstein in Beckett to Shakespeare and Company in Paris to the vegetarian diet of Shelley's creature in Frankenstein. She holds joint doctorates in Comparative Literature and Theory and Criticism and teaches for the University of Washington in Paris.

Rufo Quintavalle was born in London in 1978, studied at Oxford and the University of Iowa and lives in Paris.  He is the author of eight works of poetry, the most recent of which, hhereenow, is published by corrupt press.  In addition to his own writing, he has served on the editorial board for the literary journal, Upstairs at Duroc, was poetry editor for the online magazine, nthposition, ran the reading series, Poets Live, and has taught creative writing at NYU Paris.He has performed his poetry in Paris, London, Amsterdam and Berlin.   You can watch/listen to his work here: Rufo Q.  And read a free e-book here: https://issuu.com/theredceilings/docs/anyone_for_anymore Rufo is also an environmentalist and is currently working on a project to replant degraded land in the Brazilian Amazon.  More on that here: http://www.art2030.org/projects/planet-art

Amy Evans Bauer is a British-Austrian poet based in London. Her publications

include anti-fa-la-la: songs against statues (tender buttons/face, 2018), The Report of the Iraq Enquiry: Poetic Summary (Larynx Press, 2017), and Stalking Gerard Manley Hopkins (Salient Seedling/Woodland Pattern Book Center, 2016). Her poetry features in the anthology Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Dispatches, 2017).  Her montages appear in Chicago Review, Jacket, and elsewhere. She has performed SOUND((ING))S at waterfront locations across the US and UK, and at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. The transcript PASS PORT (Shearsman, 2018) is the fourth in a sequence of chapbooks, following on from CONT. (Shearsman, 2015), The Sea Quells (Shearsman, 2013) and Collecting Shells (Oystercatcher, 2011). She co-organises the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar at the School of Advanced Studies, IES, University of London, and is the publisher of Larynx Press.