MARDI 30 AVRIL 2019 >> Deborah Poe, Eléna Rivera et Ashley Colley liront pour nous à la librairie Berkeley Books of Paris

Lectures par

Readings by

Deborah Poe 

Eléna Rivera &

Ashley Colley 

Soirée animée par Jennifer K. Dick

Le 30 avril 2019 

à 19h30 Berkeley Books of Paris 
8 rue Casimir Delavigne 
75006 Paris, 
M° Odéon, RER B Luxembourg 

This reading is organized to celebrate the exciting visit and residency time in France of 3 American poets—Eléna Rivera who is in France for a few months with Trelex, Ashley Colley who is on a Fulbright in France writing research-based poems and Deborah Poe, well-known book maker, who is celebrating the publication this spring of her own newest collection keep by Dusie Press. She is reading from it for the first time in Paris. We hope you will all join us at Berkeley Books to celebrate the gifts of bookmakers, grants that give us wonderful access to authors, and bookstores that give us the gift of supporting our events, and circulating our books to others. Thank you bookstores everywhere for putting poetry, by small and major presses, on their shelves. We are thrilled to be back at Berkeley Books this April! 

BIOS: 

Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections keep (Dusie Press, 2019), the last will be stone, too (Stockport Flats), Elements (Stockport Flats), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press). Deborah also co-edited Between Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction and Criticism (Peter Lang). Her work has appeared in journals like Denver Quarterly, Court Green, Loose Change, Colorado Review, and Jacket2, and in anthologies such as Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women & Place and In/Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry from the Hudson River Valley. Her visual works—including video poems and handmade book objects—have been exhibited at Pace University (New York City), Casper College (Wyoming), Center for Book Arts (New York City), University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson), University of Pennsylvania Kelly Writers House at Brodsky Gallery (Philadelphia), and ONN/OF “a light festival” (Seattle), as well as online with Bellingham Review, Elective Affinities, Peep/Show, Trickhouse, and The Volta. Deborah founded and curates the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit. She lives in Seattle. 

Ashley Colley is a poet and visual artist from Ohio who is currently a Fulbright grantee in Paris researching and writing her first poetry collection, an exploration of artistic and scientific attempts to represent animals in motion. This touches on history that spans from cave art to cinema. (Fulbright grant abstract online). Her writing has appeared in numerous literary journals including jubilat, Prelude, Black Warrior Review, Textsound Drunken Boat, Smoking Glue Gun, Catch Up and New Delta Review. Her visual poems and artwork have appeared in Seneca Review and in books from Persistent Editions and Bloomsbury. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD candidate in the University of Denver's Creative Writing Program. During her time in Paris she has perused the archives of the Natural History Museum, the BNF and other cinema and still photo collections while giving occasional readings, such as for Paris Lit Up in February. 

Eléna Rivera was born in Mexico City and grew up in France. She is a poet and translator. Her most recent book is Scaffolding (2017) available from the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Recent chapbooks include LE SOUCI FORMEL/the formal concern from Belladonna* (2016) and her bilingual artist book Disturbances in an Ocean of Air (published by Estepa Editions, France, with artwork by Kate Van Houten). Other books of poetry are Atmosphered (Oystercatcher Press), On The Nature of Position and Tone (Fields Press, https://www.fieldspress.com/books.html), and The Perforated Map (Shearsman Books), among others. Rivera’s translation of The Ink’s Path by Bernard Noël was published by Cadastre8zero (Nov. 2018) in a bilingual edition with artwork by François Rouan and her translation of Noël’s The Rest of the Voyage was published by Graywolf Press (2011), and is the recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation. Her poetry has appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, Denver Quarterly, Jacket2, and Aufgabe among others, and some work online includes: A Test of Labor at Essay Press, “The Alhambra” at Aurochs Magazine, “Wind-borne” on The Volta and Overture on Metambesen. Eléna Rivera has received residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Foundation, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Santa Fe Arts Institute and participated in a Tamaas Read Translation seminar in Paris. She is currently in Paris writing new poetry while housed by the Trelex Residency.

MARDI 23 JANVIER 2018 >> Mathieu Brosseau, Margo Berdeshevsky et Elena Rivera liront pour nous au Café La Robe et la Mousse, 75006.

IVY WRITERS PARIS vous invite à une soirée de poésie contemporaine :

discussion et lectures bilingues en français et en anglais

Le 23 janvier 2018 à 19h30 au
 CAFE LA ROBE ET LA MOUSSE
avec les auteurs :

MATHIEU BROSSEAU 
MARGO BERDESHEVSKY 
et ELENA RIVERA

Le 23 janvier 2018 à 19h30
3 rue Monsieur le Prince
75006 Paris Station Odéon.

Notre blog: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.fr/
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BIOS:

MATHIEU BROSSEAU, qui a dit « Écrire, c'est provoquer l'avenir. » est un écrivain et bibliothécaire français, né à Lannion, et qui vit à Paris. Il travaille une prose dynamique, « qui tend vers le flux». A la fois romancier et poète, il a fait paraître onze livres qui creusent les questions du corps, de l'identité, du temps, de l'animalité, du désir ou encore de la gémellité. France Culture, dans leur présentation d’un pocast d’extraits d’ici là en 2013 déclare que « Mathieu Brosseau est un poète des limites, de celles qu'il expérimente et pour reprendre le titre de Lacoue-Labarthe, on comprend, en lisant Mathieu Brosseau qu'il fait de la poésie une expérience. Ce qui est donné à lire ne décrit pas, ne témoigne pas, mais produit des vertiges. La langue n'est plus une fin permettant de retranscrire a posteriori le vécu mais un moyen pour éprouver frénétiquement le vécu tel qu'il se déroule, ici dans ça. Là où nous habitons le monde, là où nous nous habitons. Poète des limites donc mais aussi poète de la réconciliation car, pour lui, il s'agit de trouver la clé des limites, là où elle s'accordent et donnent réponse. » (source : https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-mathieu-brosseau) Poésie : L'Aquatone, La Bartavelle Éditeur, 2001 (ISBN 9782877446310), Surfaces : journal perpétuel, Éditions Caractères, 2003 (ISBN 9782854463521), Dis-moi, livre d'artiste, Éditions La Canopée / La Rivière échappée, 2008, La Nuit d'un seul, Éditions La Rivière échappée, 2009, Uns, Le Castor astral, 2011 (ISBN 9782859208639) (paru auparavant sur Publie.net en 2009). Illustrations par Winfried Veit et préface de Jean-Luc Nancy, L'Espèce7, éditions Mots tessons, 2009, Et même dans la disparition, Wigwam éditions, 2010, La Confusion de Faust, éditions Le Dernier Télégramme, 2011 (ISBN 9782917136454), Ici dans ça, Le Castor astral, 2013 (ISBN 9782859209438). Illustrations par Jean-Marc Scanreigh., L'Animal Central8, Le Castor astral, 2016. Frontispice par Edmond Baudoin. Roman : Data Transport9,10,11,12, éditions de l'Ogre, mai 2015 (ISBN 9791093606101)). Postface de Sandor Mychkine (pseudonyme de l'astrophysicien Aurélien Barrau), Chaos13, éditions Quidam [archive], février 2018 (ISBN 978-2-37491-075-8) Il a été administrateur à la Société des gens de lettres entre 2015 et 2017. En tant que bibliothécaire dans le 3ème arrondissement de Paris, il organise de nombreuses manifestations littéraires et s'occupe d'un fonds poésie et écritures contemporaines.
Il tient un site « Plexus-S » sur la poésie : http://www.mathieubrosseau.com/ 

ELENA RIVERA was born in Mexico City, and spent her formative years in Paris. Her new book Scaffolding (2017) is available from the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Recent chapbooks include LE SOUCI FORMEL/ the formal concern from Belladonna* (2016) and her bilingual artist book Disturbances in an Ocean of Air (Estepa Editions, France, artwork by Kate Van Houten. 2016). Other books of poetry are Atmosphered (Oystercatcher Press, 2014), On The Nature of Position and Tone (Fields Press, 2012) and The Perforated Map (Shearsman Books, UK, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, Denver Quarterly, Jacket2, The Volta and Aufgabe among others. She won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize from the National Poetry Series for her translation of Bernard Noël’s The Rest of the Voyage (Graywolf Press, 2011) and is a recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation. 

MARGO BERDESHEVSKY, born in New York city, often writes and lives in Paris. Her newest poetry collection, Before The Drought, is from Glass Lyre Press, published in late September 2017. (In an early version, it was finalist for the National Poetry Series.) Carolyn Forché said of Berdeshevsky’s new work that “Before the Drought is a lyric meditation on corporeal existence, suffused with atavistic spirit and set in historical as well as cosmic time, a work of radical suffering and human indifference but also sensual transport” Kevin Prufer  declares that “Here, Margo Berdeshevsky offers us vast interiorities—sensuous, erotic, complexly feminine.  These poems may be distinguished for their musical intricacy and formal variation, but they are also profoundly moving, their speakers subsumed in memory, the constant presence of their bodies, the certainty mortality, and the intrusive violence of the worlds they inhabit.” Lisa Russ Spaar writes that ““Drought” (Middle English, from Old English drūgath, from drūgian) dates back to the twelfth century, and, as with many of our earliest words, articulates a primal human condition—in this case thirst, want, dearth. With the temporal, shape-shifting fluidity of myth, Before the Drought is both lambent with pre-Lapsarian plenitude and vexed by post-Lapsarian lack. The speaker in these poems—part transgressive nun, part revolutionary alchemist—confronts at every turn what it means to live in time, in a body […]” Berdeshevsky is also the author of Between Soul & Stone, and But a Passage in Wilderness, (Sheep Meadow Press.) Her book of illustrated stories, Beautiful Soon Enough, received the first Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award for Fiction Collective Two (University of Alabama Press.) Other honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, a portfolio of her poems in the Aeolian Harp Anthology #1 (Glass Lyre Press,) the & Now Anthology of the Best of Innovative Writing, and numerous Pushcart Prize nominations. Her works appear in the American journals: Poetry International, New Letters, Kenyon Review, Plume, The Collagist, Tupelo Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Southern Humanities Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The American Journal of Poetry, among many others. In Europe her works have been seen in The Poetry Review (UK) The Wolf, Europe, Siècle 21, & Confluences Poétiques. A multi genre novel, Vagrant, and a hybrid of poems, Square Black Key, wait at the gate. She may be found reading from her books in London, Paris, New York City, or somewhere new in the world. Her “Letters from Paris” may be found in Poetry International, here: http://pionline.wordpress.com/category/letters-from-paris/  For more information, kindly see:  http://margoberdeshevsky.com    and  http://margoberdeshevsky.blogspot.com