Author: Pierre Joris

Here’s a snippet extract from “The Hands of Gargas,” the complete poem being 1/16th of tonight’s première of  4 – 4 – 2 Michael Bisio Benjamin ChadabePierre Joris Nicole Peyrafitte 4 Compositions –...

The French student uprisings — now also involving many highschools — warm the cockles of my old ’68ish heart. Though I wonder if what drives today’s uprising is the same desire to find the...

… here is another poem by New Orleans poet Dave Brinks from his excellent Caveat series: the caveat onus ::: sixty-seven Mina dreamed all the trees were brokentoday it’s the same sunbut further awaythe...

The Rachel Corrie play that was censored in NYC a few weeks back will be performed tomorrow. Details below — but first a quote from a Harold Pinter interview published in The Guardian on...

This past saturday’s post (concerning an upcoming gig) got a “comment” from an anonymous mailer with the handle “why palestinians usually get it wrong,” and which concerned Rachel Corrie and the censored play based...

Friday & Saturday March 24 & 25 20068:00 PMSTEAMER Nº 10 Theater500 Western Avenue(518) 438-5503 – Albany – NY 4 – 4 – 2 Michael Bisio Benjamin ChadabePierre Joris Nicole Peyrafitte 4 Compositions –...

That was a superb reading by Tom Raworth last night — beyond the call of duty, given the nasty bronchitis with which he had come down. Go catch him in Baltimore, Denver, Boulder &...

For anybody in the Albany & mid-Hudson Valley region, here’s where to go tonight: Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson John Ashbery Poetry Series Thursday, March 16, 2006 Reading by Tom Raworth. Time: 6:30 pm Location: Campus...

In a recent article in The Independent, entitled “Climate change ‘irreversible’ as Arctic sea ice fails to form,” Steve Connor writes: Sea ice in the Arctic has failed to re-form for the second consecutive...

from: Meditations on the Forty Stations of Al-Hallaj 1. manners (adab)