Neo-Beat Amazigh Band
It was a pleasure last week to get together with poet El Habib Louai & his band — for their lovely gig in Brooklyn that included Louai’s Arabic translation of Ginsberg’s “America” & plenty of...
Category: Music
Tomorrow: 50th B-Day of Dylan going Fender Stratocaster
As Carl Wilson remarks on Slate reviewing Elijah Wald’s book Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties: “Because history is told by the victors, rock lore holds up the Newport...
Happy 90th B-Day, Pierre Boulez!
Olivier Messiaen: “Beneath it all, Pierre Boulez is simply a poet.” Soprano Marisol Montalvo sings Pierre Boulez’s “Pli selon pli” live with L’Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Matthias Pintscher. “Pli selon Pli” is a set...
Happy 80th Birthday, Fairuz!
If you don’t know this great Lebanese singer, check here & also here, where you’ll find the poet Sargon Boulos’ biographical essay on her.
“Rigwreck”: Music by Gabriel Jackson; Poem by Pierre Joris
“Rigwreck” – Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962, UK) The Crossing gives the world premiere of Gabriel Jackson’s “Rigwreck” on the third concert of our fifth annual Month of Moderns Festival at the Presbyterian Church of...
Bye, Bye, Johnny
I’ll always remember that late night more or less incoherently right on conversation about the blues at the bar of the El Quichote, sometime in 1970. And the music, the music will always be there. Thanks.
Review of Dr. Skinnybones New Release
This review just in — first paras below; read the rest here: Dr. Skinnybones-A Last Hurrah For The Glory Of Drinking Alone November 2, 2013joshterzinoLeave a commentGo to comments My first exposure to Brooklyn’s Dr. Skinnybones came...
The Crossing Rehearsing “The Gulf (between you & me)”
The Gulf (between you and me), a major project that has taken years of planning, brought together composers, a poet, an artist, and a variety of musicians from Japan and America to join The...
Gene Coleman’s “Water Of The Last Moment” & PJ’s “Dis/Aster”
Composer Gene Coleman just posted the first 10 minutes of his composition “Water Of The Last Moment” which constituted the opening section of “The Gulf (between you and me)” commissioned by The Crossing and...
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)” Contra Mundum Press
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello” Contra Mundum Press
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux