vendredi 9 mai 2014

BARBARA TOMASH, ROB HALPERN ET JODY POU le 27 mai 2014 à 19h30 au Delaville!

IVY est RAVI de vous inviter à une lecture BILINGUE 
le 27 mai 2014 à 19h30 
au café DELAVILLE, 34 blvd Bonne Nouvelle, avec les poètes:
BARBARA TOMASH, 
JODY POU 
et 
ROB HALPERN
A cette soirée, nous aurons le plaisir de fêter le lancement du nouveau recueil multilingue de Jody Pou: "I thought j'irais en bloom" de la maison d'édition Bleu du Ciel et we will also
have the pleasure of celebrating the publication of Barbara Tomash's new book Arboreal in the presence of her publisher, Ed Smallfield of Apogee Press, and of hearing Rob Halpern’s collaborative work with French musician Christian Passera. Lastly, to accompany the poetry soirée, we will have the great honor of getting to hear visiting musician Ed Masuga who is an American singer-songwriter from Berkeley, California. Check out Ed's work, for example, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFD0kzDotpI

AT:
DELAVILLE CAFÉ

(A l’étage dans le salon merguery)

34 Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle

75010 Paris, M° Bonne Nouvelle

entrée libre

BIOS:

BARBARA TOMASH: is the author of three books of
poetry: Arboreal (Apogee Press 2014), The Secret of White (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009), and Flying in Water, which won the 2005 Winnow First Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, New American Writing, Verse, VOLT, Witness, and many other journals. She lives in Berkeley, California, and teaches creative  writing at San Francisco State University.
 
JODY POU: Après avoir effectué des études de littérature aux États-Unis, Jody Pou vient en France suivre des cours de chant. Titulaire du premier prix de chant lyrique du Conservatoire de Paris, elle remporte plusieurs prix internationaux en chant baroque, avant d’amorcer une carrière tournée vers le répertoire contemporain. Elle est l'auteur de Will (Les Petits Matins, Paris, 2009) et de I thought j'irais en bloom (Le bleu du ciel, Bordeaux, 2014.) // ENGLISH: Jody Pou has lived between the US and France for many years. After receiving a first prize in singing from the Paris conservatory where, she studied Lyric and Baroque music, she began a career as a soprano soloist. She has won prizes in international competitions and sung with many ensembles throughout Europe and the US. She is the author
of Will (Les Petits Matins, Paris, 2009) and I thought j'irais en bloom (Le bleu du ciel, Bordeaux, 2014), both of which are written in English and French, mixed. See Jody reading with Tracie Morris for Double change online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AW6QmIN0fY

ROB HALPERN: is the author of Rumored Place (Krupskaya 2004), Disaster Suites (Palm Press 2009), and most recently, Music for Porn (Nightboat Books 2011). Ugly Duckling Presse will publish Common Place later this year, concluding an imagined tetralogy. Together with Taylor Brady, he also co-authored the book length poem Snow Sensitive Skin (Displaced Press 2011). Rob’s translations of Georges Perec’s early essays on aesthetics and politics can be found in various journals, including Review of Contemporary Fiction, and will appear as a collection in 2016 (Nightboat Books). He lives in San Francisco and Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he teaches at Eastern Michigan University and Huron Valley Women’s Correctional Facility. Examples from recent poems, essays, and translations can be found here:








http://theclaudiusapp.com/5-perec.html

Ed Masuga is an American singer-songwriter from Berkeley, California. His music is characterized by acoustic guitar fingerpicking and a strong, mellifluous vocal style. Best known for his intricate guitar work, Masuga accompanies himself on piano, banjo, ukulele, mandolin, and harmonica. He has released three independent albums: "Ed Masuga" (2006), "Lonely Dog" (2008), and "Let Me Tune My Heartstrings" (2010). Check out one of his Youtube videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFD0kzDotpI

vendredi 28 mars 2014

Eléna Rivera et Stéphane Bouquet lecture bilingue le 7 avril 2014 à 19h00 au Delaville Café



Le 7 avril 2014 à 19h00 IVY Writers Paris vous invite à une soirée de lectures bilingues dans l’ambiance somptueuse de cette ancienne « maison de tolérance » avec

Eléna Rivera et  

Stéphane Bouquet 

 Ivy Writers Paris is thrilled to invite you to this bilingual reading in the lovely ambiance of the Delaville Café where we will hear from Elena Rivera and Stéphane Bouquet! NYC author Elena Rivera and French poet, translator and cinéaste Stéphane Bouquet. Rivera is the translator for Bernard Noël, and Bouquet translates into French from both Italian and English, thus it will be a real treat to speak with these authors about their writing and translation work in a QandA session following the reading of their own poetry.





A 19h00

DELAVILLE CAFÉ

(A l’étage dans le salon merguery)

34 Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle

75010 Paris, M° Bonne Nouvelle

entrée libre



BIOS :

Stéphane Bouquet est poète, critique, traducteur et cinéaste qui vit à Paris. Il a publié six livres de poésie chez Champ Vallon (Dans l’année de cet
âge, 2001 ; Un monde existe, 2002 ; Le Mot frère, 2005 ; Un peuple, 2007 ; Nos amériques, 2010 ; Les Amours suivants, 2013). Il a également traduit des poètes américains tels que Robert Creeley (Le Sortilège, éd. Nous) ; Paul Blackburn (Villes, éd. José Corti) et Peter Gizzi (L’Externationale, éd. José Corti). Pensionnaire à la Villa Médicis en 2002/2003. Il y termine Le Mot Frère dans lequel il livre quelques clefs de lecture pour ses autres livres. Il a publié des études sur Gus Van Sant (éd. Cahiers du cinéma, 2009, coécrit avec Jean-Marc Lalanne) sur Eisenstein (éd. Cahiers du cinéma, 2008) et sur L'Evangile selon Saint Matthieu de Pasolini (éd. Cahiers du cinéma, 2003).Il est par ailleurs co-scénariste après avoir été longtemps critique aux Cahiers du cinéma. Il a écrit les textes de (et joué dans) La Traversée, long-métrage autobiographique, ainsi que les scénarios de divers films de Sébastien Lifshitz (Les Corps ouverts, Presque rien, Wild Side, Les Terres froides), de Valérie Mréjen (La Défaite du rouge-gorge), de Yann Dedet (Le Pays du chien qui chante) et de Robert Cantarella. Il a participé – en tant que danseur et dramaturge –aux créations chorégraphiques de Mathilde Monnier, Déroutes (2002) et frère & sœur (2005). Pour plus sur Stéphane Bouquet, lire l'entretien avec Frank Smith sur NonFiction ICI ou l'entretien avec Emmanuel Laugier sur La Matricule des Anges ICI 

Eléna Rivera lives in New York but was born in Mexico City and spent her childhood in Paris. She is a poet and translator. The author of On the Nature of
Position and Tone, Field Press, (2012), The Perforated Map, (Shearsman Books, 2011), Remembrance ofThings Plastic, (LRL e-editions, 2010), Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), Suggestionsat Every Turn (Seeing Eye Books, 2005), Unknowne Land (Kelsey St. Press, 2000), Wale; or, the Corse (Leave Books, 1995), and a pamphlet entitled Disturbances in the Ocean of Air (Phylum Press, 2005).  She won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize 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. To listen to a recording of her reading with Bernard Noël for Double Change in Paris in 2010, click HERE. Her translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald’s Secretof Breath was published by Burning Deck Press in 2009. Recent work has appeared in The Volta: Trash Issue, 2014, guest curated by Laura Mullen. Her essay “The Perforated Map, and Writing the Unknown” appeared in 2013 in Transatlantica; Revue d'études américaines/American Studies Journal http://transatlantica.revues.org/6051. For more on Eléna Rivera, see her website at: www.elenarivera.net