PJ & NP: Harvard & Boston Gigs

by Pierre Joris · Published November 15, 2011 · Updated November 15, 2011

We will be in the Boston area these next three days for 3 different events.

Come to see us or pass on the info!

Very best

Nicole & Pierre

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM

With Paul Celan Into the 21st Century: Pierre Joris

Poetry/Prose Eminent poet and translator Pierre Joris meditates on his 50-year engagement with the work of Paul Celan. A multimedia show, produced by Nicole Peyrafitte, the event integrates a range of elements including live narrative and translated poems, and a slideshow of visual materials including photographs, manuscript pages, etchings by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, historical documents and other relevant and resonant materials. Gazette Classification: Humanities.. Speaker(s): Pierre Joris.

Cost: Free and open to the public. Contact Info: davis2@fas.harvard.edu. ..

Poetry/Prose. Organization/Sponsor:

Edison-Newman Room, Houghton Library

For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu.

GLOUCESTER

The Gloucester Writer’s Center

November 16, 2011 7:30 pm

Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte : A Double Reading

126 East Main Street Gloucester MA 01930

http://gloucesterwriters.org/2011/events/pierre-joris-nicole-peyrafitte/

HAVARD UNIVERSITY

Thursday, November 17, 2011, 5:00 PM – 6:45 PM.

The Making of “Diwan Ifrikiya,” or How to Put 2,500 Years of Maghrebian Literature into One Book

Humanities This event is open to the public; no registration required. Gazette Classification: Humanities. Lecture. Poetry/Prose. Social Sciences. Organization/Sponsor: Moroccan Studies Forum at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Speaker(s): Pierre Joris, poet and translator, professor of English, SUNY Albany, NY & produced by Nicole Peyrafitte.

Contact Info: Liz Flanagan: elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu.

Thursday, November 17, 2011, 5:00 PM – 6:45 PM.

CMES,

38 Kirkland Street, Room 102, Cambridge, MA.

For more info visit cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu.

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www.nicolepeyrafitte.com

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Poo says:

November 15, 2011 at 11:50 am

Put me down as there in spirit!

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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.