Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.

Category: Poetry readings

Intellectuals / Palestine / Poetry readings / Translation

February 20, 2024

Reading Against Anti-Semitism

On Sunday 2.18.24 “A Poetry Reading in Response to Antisemitism” was held at The Museum of Jewish Heritage here in New York. Cultural critic and keynote speaker Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: How They Rise, Why...

Poetry / Poetry readings / Uncategorized

July 15, 2023

Re: Birthday Reading & Greetings

Wow! Deeply moved by the vast number of birthday greetings that reached me via email, phone, Face-book, Messenger, etc. Many thanks, mercis, shukrans & Danke Schöns to you all, family, friends & acquaintances. Nicole...

Poetry / Poetry readings

August 16, 2021

Brooklyn Rail Radical Poetry Reading with Pierre Joris

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ART, POLITICS, AND CULTURE • INDEPENDENT AND FREE THE NEW SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT#366 Featuring poetry read by Allen Fisher, Randall Horton, Layli Long Soldier, & Tracie Morris Wednesday, August 18, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific...

Performance Art Actions / Poetry / Poetry readings / Translation

May 30, 2021

KARSTIC ACTIONS/WORKS Luxembourg & More!

Hello everyone! After a year & more sheltering at home in Brooklyn we are happy to head out to Europe, fully vaxxed, to pick up on gigs delayed by the pandemic. Four events are...

Intellectuals / Poetry readings / Uncategorized

April 28, 2020

Safaa Fathy: Souffler un autre esprit / Breathe another spirit

Egyptian/French poet, filmmaker & philosopher Safaa Fathy gives a reading/talk in the context of “Philosopher en temps d’épidémie” with English subtitles. also check out:

Performances / Poetry / Poetry Festival / Poetry readings

April 12, 2019

The Austin International Poetry Fest—Events & Pix

via Nicole Peyrafitte’s blog with a few additions: Here are a few shots of our Domopoetics event in Austin. Above is the Kasrtic-Action Painting made during the performance. Thank you Roger West & Kate...

Poetry / Poetry Festival / Poetry readings / Reading / Translation

April 2, 2019

Nicole Peyrafitte & Pierre Joris @ Austin International Poetry Festival

We are almost in Austin after an exhilarating drive through America and some memorable visits — special mentions to Serpent Mound and to Paris, Kentucky; you can find the documentation of these moments on...

Poetry / Poetry readings

October 22, 2018

Lace Mill Homage to Gerrit Lansing

The Lace Mill, Kingston, NY. Saturday, 20 October 2018 A Celebration of Gerrit Lansing Public · Hosted by Michael Bisio with Don Byrd, Pierre Joris, Robert Kelly, George Quasha, Tomas Urayon Noel, Tammas Panitz,...

Live Reading / Poetry / Prose / Translation

September 29, 2018

International Translation Day with PEN America: Readings @ KGB Bar

Celebrate International Translation Day with the PEN America Translation Committee KGB BAR 85 east 4th street NYC September 30, 2018 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Join us for an evening celebrating International Translation...

Poetry Festival / Poetry readings

July 18, 2018

Pierre Joris: Voix Vives de méditerranée en méditerranée

Nicole Peyrafitte & I will be at the Voix Vives de méditerranée en méditerranée Festival in Sète from Saturday 21 to Saturday 28 July, reading/performing on a daily basis — in the company of some...

Pierre Joris, born in Strasbourg, France in 1946, was raised in Luxembourg. Since age 18, he has moved between Europe, the Maghreb & the US & holds both Luxembourg & American citizenship. He has published over 80 books of poetry, essays, translations & anthologies — most recently Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021) & Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello, both from Contra Mundum Press. In 2020 his two final Paul Celan translations came out: Microliths They Are, Little Stones (Posthumous prose, from CMP) & The Collected Earlier Poetry (FSG). Forthcoming are: Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge” (Small Orange Import, 2023) & Diwan of Exiles: A Pierre Joris Reader (edited with Ariel Reznikoff, 2024). For a full list see the right column on this blog.

In 2011 Litteraria Pragensia, Charles University, Prague, published Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-between, edited by Peter Cockelbergh, with essays on Joris’ work by, among others, Mohammed Bennis, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher, Christine Hume, Robert Kelly, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jennifer Moxley, Jean Portante, Carrie Noland, Alice Notley, Marjorie Perloff & Nicole Peyrafitte (2011).

Other work includes the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; Mitch Elrod, guitar; Ta’wil Productions). With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry, and with Habib. Tengour Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3: The University of California Book of North African Literature.

When not on the road, he lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his wife, multimedia praticienne Nicole Peyrafitte. A volume of their collaborative work, to be called Domopoetics, will be published in the near future.