12 Mai: Virginie Lalucq + Akilah Oliver

IVY WRITERS PRÉSENTE:

une lecture-rencontre (READING) en français & In English avec les auteurs
Akilah Oliver (USA)
et

Virginie Lalucq (France)

Mardi, le 12 mai 2009
à 19h30 Gratuit! Free!
AT : Le Next
17 rue Tiquetonne 75002 Paris
M° Etienne Marcel / RER Les Halles
ivywritersparis@gmail.com

Bios:

Akilah Oliver is the author of 4 books of poetry: A Toast in the House of Friends (CoffeeHouse, 2009), a(A)ugust (Yo-Yo Labs, 2007), The Putterer’s Notebook (Belladonna, 2006), An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet (Farfalla, 2004). A book of experimental prose poetry the she said dialogues: flesh memory (Smokeproof/Erudite Fangs, 1999) received the PEN American Center’s “Beyond Margins/Open Book” award. She is co-founder of the avant-garde, feminist performance group, The Sacred Naked Nature Girls (SNNG, 1994-1997) whose work is the subject of critical study in performance theory, found in In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art, (Meiling Cheng, Univ. of CA Press, 2002). Charles Bernstein said of A Toast in the House of Friends, “This poetry is a holding space, a folded grace, in which objects held most dear disappear to return as radiant moments of memory’s forgiving home”. Alice Notley comments, “Akilah Oiiver’s book is an extraordinary gift for everyone, pushing beyond itself into the aura of holy graffiti in the big night, unstable shapes that won’t break.” Oliver’s work can be found online at PennSound. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program.

Sample online poems by Akilah Oliver can be found at: EOAGH, From "Corruptions" : http://chax.org/eoagh/issue3/issuethree/oliver.html, From "A Putterer's Notebook" at Marsh Hawk Review & also on Napam Health Spa Resort 2008: http://marshhawkreview.blogspot.com/2009/02/akilah-oliver.html & then http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs08/Akilah_Oliver.htm, "interview" on The Doll Games at http://ineradicablestain.com/dollgames/akilah.html, and an interesting critical piece by Laura T. Smith focusing on Akilah Oliver's work can be read online at Vectors "Parataxis as "Strategic Provisionality" in Akilah Oliver's she said dialogues: flesh memory, Laura T. Smith": http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/222.php

NOTE: Akilah will collaborate with trumpeter Rasul Siddik. Siddick was born in St. Louis, MO. He is an internationally acclaimed jazz musician and recording artist who has worked with the Now Artet, David Murray, Archie Shepp, Kirk Lightsey, Katy Roberts, Sunny Murray, Joe Lee Wilson and Steve Mac Craven’s group “Black Studies”. He lives in Paris. Translations will be read by Poet & translator Martin Richet, his bio listed under his reading last fall: click HERE for it.

Virginie Lalucq est née en 1975 et vit à Paris. Elle est l’auteure de Couper les tiges (Act Mem/ Comp'act, 2001) et de Fortino Samano (avec Jean-Luc-Nancy, Galilée 2004). Elle a participé à l'anthologie Autres territoires, dirigée par Henri Deluy (Ferrago/Leo Scheer, 2003) dans laquelle elle écrit « Cisailles, butée, copeaux », et a publié dans plusieurs revues, notamment Action poétique, Action restreinte, L'Animal, Les cahiers de Benjy, Issue, Java, Nioques, Les Lettres françaises, La revue des ressources, Les70.com... Elle est également membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Nioques. ENS déclare que « Un désir certain d'expérimentation caractérise son travail, désir qui se traduit notamment par de nombreux projets d'écriture et de performances collectifs, et par l'utilisation de matériaux et supports divers. » Elle a publié ses textes traduits en espagnol dans Vertebra (Chili) et participe enfin aux Lettres françaises (supplément culturel de l'Humanité).

Virginie Lalucq fait de nombreuses lectures publiques et participe régulièrement à des revues en lignes et des weblogs, comme Les Cahiers de Benjy et http://lescahiersdebenjy.over-blog.com/article-1848563.html1848563.html, Action-writing, hypercourt, Remue.net, Revue des ressources, Sitaudis…

Photos From IVY Writers: Les Photos d'IVY

Nous aurons 3 autres lectures ce printemps:
Mardi, le 14 avril : Adeena Karasick avec Gwenaëlle Stubbe
Mardi le 12 Mai : Alikah Oliver et Virginie Lalucq
et en juin, autour de la marché de la poésie: Pierre Joris avec auteurs encore à confirmer. Donc, pour le mois de mars, on vous laisse regarder quelques photos des lectures de 2009. Merci pour votre présence aux soirées de poésie d'IVY Writers!!!! Pour être tenu au courant des lectures à venir, envoyez-nous vos coordinées: ivywritersparis@gmail.com

We will have three more readings this spring: one in April, May & June. :
Tuesday, April 14th : Adeena Karasick and Gwenaëlle Stubbe
Mardi, May 12th : Alikah Oliver and Virginie Lalucq
and in June with the Marché de la Poésie: Pierre Joris with authors TBC. Therefore, to leave you something to peruse in March, here are various photos taken over the past months of readings at IVY, both during the reading and at the bar beforehand and dinners after. We hope you have enjoyed hanging out with the wonderful authors who have come to read and want to thank you for your continued support and presence at these events!!! To receive email announcements of forthcoming readings, send your email address to: ivywritersparis@gmail.com

Michelle Naka Pierce reads in the basement of Les Têtes Brulées after a quick shift of venue on a rainy Monday evening with a crowd gathered tightly round our three readers.Michelle Noteboom and Chris Pusateri laugh at the dinner table after the reading by Pusateri. Jacques de Longueville talks with Marie Louise Chapelle and Sybilla after Chapelle's reading. Polytechnique students Divya Babin, an unknown friend and Rémi Ferrier stand by Michelle Naka Pierce after her reading. The students, along with François de Peaudecerf (Polytechnique) and Vasilena Kossastakis (EHESS) translated and read selections in French of Naka Pierce and Pusateri's poems, while selected translations of Chapelle's work were read by co-curators Michelle Noteboom & Jennifer K Dick.
Marilyn Hacker reads new work and from Desesperanto in the basement of Le Next in January 2009.
Marilyn Hacker and Marie Etienne read together from the prizewinning bilingual edition of King of a Hundred Horsemen (Farrar Strauss & Giroux) at Le Next in January 2009.

9 FEVRIER: LECTURE!!!!

LECTURE Bilingue,
lundi le 9 février 2009 /

Bilingual reading, Monday February 9th 2009

Marie-Louise Chapelle,
Michelle Naka Pierce
et

Chris Pusateri

liront leurs textes (en anglais et en français)

Come here these authors read in French and English!!!

à/at: 19h30:

Au sous-sol de

« Le Next »

17 rue Tiquetonne

75002 Paris

M° Etienne Marcel

RER Les Halles

Bios en francais:
Marie-Louise Chapelle est née à Nevers en 1974. Elle a été publiée pour la première fois par Jean Daive dans sa revue FIN (n°7, 8 et 16). Son livre mettre. (Théâtre Typographique, 2006) propose une « expérience des limites, celles du sens, des formes et des pratiques, des corps comme du texte ». Elle est l’auteur de plusieurs livres d’artistes avec Emmanuelle Pidoux : Corps finis quelconques et fractions qui s’en déduisent par la méthode de l’approximation (1999), La fille avec laquelle j’allais à l’hôtel (2000), et Plus-value (2001). Elle a également écrit des textes qui ont paru dans les Cahiers du Refuge (n°s 149 et 113) avec le cipM et dans Critique, les intensifs: poètes du XXI siècle (2008) (--voir le recensement de ce volume sur Poezibao). Lire l’entretien avec l’auteur sur le site de Double Change, volume 4.

Michelle Naka Pierce est l'auteur de Beloved Integer (Pub Lush / Bootstrap Press, 2007) et TRI/VIA (Pub Lush, 2003), écrit en collaboration avec Veronica Corpuz, ainsi que plusieurs "plaquettes", notamment As transient as square or inside 32 (tir aux pigeons, 2008).. Sa poésie apparait dans les anthologies For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals et Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. Des entretiens pédagogique ont été publiés dans Rain Taxi, Teachers and Writers, et Transformations. Des extraits de son nouveau manuscrit She, A Blueprint for InterSurface, avec des collages de Sue Hammond West, ont paru ou vont paraitre dans les revues Trickhouse, Mandorla, Foursquare, Sous Rature, Bombay Gin… Elle enseigne à Naropa University aux Etats Unis et se passe actuellement une année sabbatique en Angleterre. Lire l'entretien avec l'auteur en anglais dans Tarpaulin Sky.

Chris Pusateri a publié deux recueils de poésie, Anon (BlazeVOX Books, 2008) et Berserker Alphabetics (xPressed, 2003--disponible sur le web sous forme de pdf, il suffit de cliquer sur le titre ici), ainsi que six "plaquettes", notamment DC Poems (Tir aux Pigeons, 2008), VI Fictions (Gong Press, critique sur Verse) et Flowers in Miniature (Big Game Books, 2006). Sa poésie et ses essais critiques ont paru dans plusieurs revues, notamment American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Jacket, et Verse. Des extraits de son nouveau manuscrit, Common Time, paraîtront prochainement dans les revues Mandorla, Colorado Review, Eleven-Eleven, Fence, Zoland Poetry, et Action, Yes. Né aux Etats-Unis, il habite actuellement à Londres avec sa compagnon, Michelle Naka Pierce.

Bios en anglais:
Poet Marie-Louise Chapelle was born in 1974 and had her first publications appear in Jean Daive’s review FIN (n°7, 8 & 16). Her book Mettre (Theatre Typographique, 2006) offers an “experience in limits – the limits of senses, forms, practices, bodies and text”. She is also the author of several artist books along with Emmanuelle Pidoux: Corps finis quelconques et fractions qui s’en déduisent par la méthode de l’approximation (1999), La fille avec laquelle j’allais à l’hôtel (2000), and Plus-value (2001). She has also had texts in the Cahiers du Refuge (n°s 149 & 113) with the cipM & in the anthology issue Critique: Les intensifs, poètes du XXI siècle which was reviwed recently on Poezibao's site. Read the English version of the interview by Olivier Broassard of MLC on the Double Change site, volume 4.

Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of Beloved Integer (BootStrap Press & PubLush, 2007) and TRI/VIA (PUB LUSH & Erudite Fangs, 2003), a collaboration with Veronica Corpuz & many chapbooks, including As transient as square or inside 32 (tir aux pigeons, 2008). Her work has been anthologized in For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals and Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry and her pedagogical interviews have appeared in Rain Taxi, Teachers and Writers, and Transformations. Excerpts from her new manuscript She, A Blueprint for InterSurface, with collage art by Sue Hammond West, have been published or are forthcoming in Trickhouse, Mandorla, Foursquare, Sous Rature, Bombay Gin, and elsewhere. She teaches avant-garde poetry and hybrid writing at Naropa University in the United States and is currently on sabbatical living in the U.K. Read an interview with Naka Pierce in Tarpaulin Sky. According to poet Laird Hunt, Naka Pierce’s work displays “…a complex adaptive system of memory and desire, a kind of visible city rich in ‘variably negotiated moments of production,’ in ‘oceanic felling,’ in ‘dialogues in solitude,’ in easy energy and hard-earned matter, fearlessly held up to the light, which adumbrates the deepest territories of the heart."

Chris Pusateri is the author of two books of poetry, Anon (BlazeVOX Books, 2008) and Berserker Alphabetics (xPressed, 2003--available in pdf form online, just click the title here), and six chapbooks, including DC Poems (Tir aux Pigeons, 2008), VI Fictions (Gong Press, reviewed on VERSE blog) and Flowers in Miniature (Big Game Books, DC, 2006). His work (both poetry and critical prose) has appeared in many publications, including American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Jacket, Verse, American Book Review, and many others. Excerpts from his new manuscript, Common Time, are forthcoming in Mandorla, Colorado Review, Eleven-Eleven, Fence, Zoland Poetry, and Action, Yes. Born in the United States, he now lives in London with his partner, the poet Michelle Naka Pierce. See him read a poem on YOUTUBE