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Tagged: Bowery Poetry Club

Live Reading / Poetry readings

May 2, 2010

Alice Notley at BPC

Here is a hand-made or -held recording of the final poem Alice Notley read yesterday afternoon at the Bowery Poetry Club’s Segue Reading Series. It is “At Poe’s Grave” from Reason and Other Women,...

Performance / Poetry readings / Uncategorized

January 16, 2010

Joris & Peyrafitte Reading

Adishatz or Hello! Sunday January 17th @ 4 p.m. Bowery Poetry Club “Event # 85785“ George Wallace presents: Pierre Joris, Nicole Peyrafitte & Allan Goldschmidt 4PM $6 308 Bowery (between Houston & Bleecker ),...

Bowery Poetry Club / Performance

May 13, 2009

"Whisk! Don't Churn!" Concert @ Bowery Poetry Club

Adishatz! Hello! Bonjour! We are looking forward to our NYC CD release multimedia concert of: “Whisk! Don’t Churn!” Nicole Peyrafitte (voice, video, electronics & whisk) Michael Bisio (double bass) & with guest poet &...

March 5, 2009

Nicole Peyrafitte & Michael Bisio's New CD

“Whisk! Don’t Churn!” The live cd recorded at Justin’s on November 20th 2008 is OUT! Nicole Peyrafitte & Michael Bisio are looking forward to see you at the Albany release concert at Justin’s (of...

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.