Le 20 mars 2021 débute les NUITS d'Ivy Writers Paris !
Afternoons with Ivy for those of you in the USA (4pm EST), evenings if in France (9pm):
This spring 2021 we hope to add a little spice to your weekends with these Ivy Writers Paris bilingual readings on ZOOM.
Our first will be with CHARLES ALEXANDER and MARCO BOUBILLE on the 20th of March 2021.
ZOOM link below. Full information and bios is available below. FREE and OPEN TO ALL! Find us also on EVENTBRITE.
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-nuit-divy-writers-paris-avec-charles-alexandre-et-marco-boubille-146176579083
Lecture bilingue, gratuite, ouverte à toutes et à tous.
BIOS
CHARLES ALEXANDER: Artist, Poet, Bookmaker, Professor, founder/director of Chax Press. Author of 6 full-length books of poetry and 13 brief chapbooks of poetry, editor of one critical work on the state of the book arts in America, author of multiple essays, articles, and reviews. Most recent books of poetry are AT the Edge OF the Sea: Pushing Water II (Singing Horse Press), Pushing Water (Cuneiform Press), and the chapbooks Some Sentences Look for Some Periods, and Two Pushing Waters, both from Little Red Leaves Textile Series. Pushing Water III is forthcoming from Cuneiform Press. Has taught literature and writing at Naropa University, University of Arizona, and elsewhere, including the University of Houston-Victoria, where he directed the MFA Creative Writing Program and managed the UHV Center for the Arts from 2014 through 2018. He is a past recipient of the Arizona Arts Award, and has participated in the TAMAAS Poetry Translation Project in Paris, the US Poets in Mexico program, and the 7th and 8th International Chinese/American Poetry & Poetics Conferences in Wuhan and Hangzhou, China. In April 2019 he was a keynote speaker and lecturer in the Swan Shakespeare Lecture series sponsored by Southwest University in Chongqing, China. In the works is his Selected Poems, translated into Mandarin Chinese by Chen Du and to be published in China. During the pandemic year he has developed and participated in various projects (reading series, poetry videos, YouTube poetry channels, virtual conferences, virtual poetry marathons, etc.) for our more and more virtual participation in poetry & poetics, and he would love nothing better than to simply go to a live poetry reading again, somewhere in this loved world. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his partner, the painter Cynthia Miller.
MARCO BOUBILLE: Né à Nice en 1965. D'origine italienne, a vécu et fait ses études à Paris. De cinéma et de théâtre puis de philosophie. S'installe avec sa famille en Ile de France où il travaille depuis 7 ans. Il est auteur, traducteur et critique. Il a fait publié 2 livres : "Ordre aléatoire des images" (sept. 2020 Les presses du réel/Al Dante Collection Pli), "Loi N" (déc. 2008 Les petits matins). Publications en revue : - Extrait d'Ordre aléatoire des images dans Nioques N°16 nov. 2017 - Extraits d'Ordre aléatoire des images dans PLI N°4 -"Suppression des articles pendant la visite" mars 2003 dans la Revue "Passage d'encre" Numéro : "Impairs, passes & manques" Il a également fait 2 textes en duo avec Virginie Lalucq : "Le costume est fourni" pour une lecture en 2005 et "Contamination" pour Scriptopolis octobre 2012. En tant que traducteur, il a fait les traductions du texte italien "une enfance perdue" de Liliana Segre dans L'ENFANT ET LE GÉNOCIDE - Témoignages sur l'enfance pendant la Shoah Textes choisis et présentés par Catherine Coquio & Aurélia Kalisky 8 nov. 2007 description de la publication Éditions Robert Laffont Collection BOUQUINS Critiques dans "Les Lettres françaises": - "Regarder vers sa disparition" févr. 2006 A propos de "Comment faire disparaître la terre ?" d’Emmanuelle Pireyre. Éditions du Seuil. - "Automédication par le mal" déc. 2005 A propos de : "Électuaire du discount" de Jérôme Mauche.Éditions Le bleu du ciel - "Construire une fissure" nov. 2005 à propos de "Trois Contes doubles" d'Herman Melville.
ZOOM LINK FOR THE EVENT : available via Eventbrite when you let us know you are coming!
