31 January 2010

February Readings & Events in Paris

THE LIST:
Part I) Paris Events & READINGS (with asterisks)
Part II) Writing Workshops in Paris
Part III) News Reviews & Reviews News: pubs & calls for work

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Part I) Events & READINGS by DATE in FEBRUARY 2010 :

(NOTE: new announcements went up Feb 7th!)

*1 February 7pm Join us to celebrate the launch of Heather Hartley’s brilliant new book of poetry, KNOCK KNOCK, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. These poems are so sly and sweet, so smart and sexy—from the poet’s bemused observation of a man on the subway holding a toilet seat, to her commemoration of the haunting suicide of four sisters “in India ink.” In her linguistic playfulness, she’s lithe and muscular as a gymnast. ‘Heather Hartley writes the kind of poetry many of us are starved for, a poetry without borders, passionate about what we savor the most on our tongues—languages, foods, lovers.’ In addition to introducing Shakespeare and Company’s Monday night readings, Heather is Paris Editor for Tin House Magazine. This event will feature music, wine and general festivities. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

*1er Février « LES LIMITES NOUS REGARDENT », de Ernesto Timor. Diaporama musicalisé avec lectures accompagnant.
http://instantnet.wordpress.com/soirees-a-venir/lundi-1er-fevrier-2010-ernesto-timor-les-limites-nous-regardent La Société de CuriositésPour connaître l'adresse, réservez à : lasocietedecuriosites@gmail.com 06 23 33 43 64 ou http://instantnet.wordpress.com/

*1 Feb from 8:30pm to LATE: SpokenWord Share your work on any theme or work on the theme of the night: "Passion"! Join SpokenWord Paris’ meetup group or see their blog at :
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/ AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix Metro Belleville/Pyrénées 75020 Paris

*3 February 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Award-winning artist and author Kadir Nelson discusses his classic children’s book, ‘We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball.’ AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

4 février de 18h à 21h Vernissage : Exposition de photographies de Suzanne Doppelt "un homme est tombé de la lune " Installation de Angela Detanico et Rafael Lain, Ryoko Sekiguchi" Ciel de Lisbonne". (exposition du 5 février au 30 février 2010) AT : la galerie Martine Aboucaya 5 rue sainte Anastase, 75003 Paris, tel 0142769275

*4 Feb at 7pm: An evening surrounding American literature with Marc Amfreville, author of Ecrits en Souffrance and also with Ada Savin, author of L'Amerique par Elle-Meme. On Ecrits en Souffrance: Comment ne pas entendre sourdre dans cette représentation sereine d'une île grecque, tirée de Fugitive Pieces, roman d'Anne Michaels, l'image inquiétante et improbable des camps de la mort auxquels Jakob, réfugié à Zakynthos, a échappé? La mer ici devient épiderme, surface qui, par sa définition même, fait éprouver le sentiment d'un insondable. Entre l'enfoui et l'émergeant, l'écriture a réussi à dire le trauma. …La réflexion vise à débusquer parallélismes, lieux de rencontre, mais aussi écarts entre psychanalyse et fiction, pour tenter de découvrir la logique de ce contrepoint. Ainsi, d'auteur en auteur— C.B. Brown, E.A. Poe, H. Melville, A. Bierce, T. Williams, J. Ellroy, F. Howe, D. DeLillo, P. Auster, A. Michaels, H. James—, cette lecture s'attache à dégager les fondamentaux métaphoriques du trauma tels qu'ils peuvent s'inscrire formellement dans divers textes et les constituer en « écrits en souffrance ». AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

*4th Feb at 7:00 p.m. Charles Glass will present and sign his book “Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-44” Americans in Paris tells for the first time the true story of the thousands of Americans who stayed in Paris during the Nazi occupation. This tale of adventure, intrigue, passion and deceit exposes the lives of Americans caught up in war from the day the German army marched into Paris in June 1944 and took many of them into the Paris underground, the Maquis and the concentration camps. Please RSVP:
books@whsmith.fr AT: WH Smith, 248, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris M° Concorde Exit: rue Cambon. For more info: http://www.whsmith.fr/

4 février à 19h PATRIMOINE : Visite de la Bibliothèque patrimoniale at the Irish Cultural Center in Paris ! Parmi toutes les bibliothèques qui peuplaient les nombreux collèges, couvents et monastères de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève jusqu'à la fin du 18ème siècle, la Bibliothèque patrimoniale du Centre Culturel Irlandais est l'une des seules qui subsiste aujourd'hui. Cette visite guidée est une nouvelle occasion de découvrir ce lieu et de pouvoir observer les trois manuscrits enluminés, véritables trésors de la collection. This visit provides a rare opportunity to see the Old Library and its treasures. Entrée libre, réservation indispensable (places limitées) CONTACT ET RESERVATIONS:
adoherty@centreculturelirlandais.com ou 01 58 52 10 30 AT : Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER Luxembourg, M° Place Monge ou Cardinal Lemoine. http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/

Thursday 4, Friday 5 & Saturday 6 February, 2010 at 20h30; Saturday 6 February matinée 14h30 INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS’ SHOW « The Lady in the Van” by Alan Bennett. At the end of the 1960s, Alan Bennett encountered Miss Shepherd, an elderly eccentric living in a van near his home in Camden Town. It was an encounter which was to lead, eventually, to Miss Shepherd’s moving her van into his garden in 1974 for ‘two or three months’ – but those three months extended to fifteen years. The Lady in the Van is the funny and moving dramatisation of his “smelly ” cohabitation with Miss Shepherd, and of her death in 1989. Special group prices are available for the matinée performance. Salle des Fetes, Quai Voltaire, Le Pecq, 78230 RER line A1 Le Vésinet - Le Pecq, Tickets 12 & 10 euros Res & info:
http://www.internationalplayers.co.uk/ or 06 31 58 62 85. Booking info: ipboxoffice@gmail.com

*5 fév à partir de 18h MICHELE MANCEAUX « La dernière à gauche en montant » Editions Nil & « L'amie » Editions Robert Laffont Lecture par Nathalie Grauwin
AT : Librairie Les Cahiers de Colette 23/25 rue Rambuteau 75004 Paris 0142729506
http://www.lescahiersdecolette.com/

FOR KIDS: * 6 February15h00-16h00 (ages 6-12) “The Story of Negro League Baseball ” Visit the Library for a special presentation by children’s book author and illustrator Kadir Nelson. He’ll talk about his multi-award winning book, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball. Publishers Weekly calls it “a sumptuous volume that no baseball fan should be without.” Read more about this amazing book on the I.N.K. (Interesting Nonfiction for Kids) blog. We Are the Ship and a selection of other books illustrated by Kadir Nelson will be available for purchase, thanks to the Red Wheelbarrow bookstore. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

6 Feb 16h10-16h45: PLATEFORM Performance by Benjamin Sabatier. Dans le cadre du programme Nouveaux Ambassadeurs qui réunit des jeunes entre 13 et 16 ans qui participent à des workshops ou à des performances menées par des artistes, Benjamin Sabatier, artiste plasticien, propose de réaliser une performance sur le thème de la manifestation intitulée PLATEFORM. Chaque jeune est invité à réfléchir à une phrase, un slogan ou un mot répondant à la question « Tu as la possibilité de dire au monde ce que tu veux, profites en ». De cette réflexion, tout un processus artistique, associant l’écrit, la parole et le geste, va se dérouler sous nos yeux, amenant les Nouveaux Ambassadeurs à se mettre en action face au public
http://www.ibk.fr/ At : Pompidou Center, Paris, France. M° Rambuteau

6 February 10h00-19h00 Used Book Sale all day AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

*6 fév à partir de 17h30 EMMELENE LANDON « La tache aveugle » Editions Actes Sud AT : Librairie Les Cahiers de Colette 23/25 rue Rambuteau 75004 Paris 0142729506
http://www.lescahiersdecolette.com/

*6 février à 18h then 20h: Reading of Oscar Wilde poem then a play : à la Maison de la Poésie "La Ballade de la geôle de Reading" d'Oscar Wilde La place 12 Euros à 18h lecture du poème en anglais par l'acteur Brittanique Geoffroy Carey (45 minutes) à 20h la pièce "La Ballade de la geôle de Reading" en français. (50 minutes) Pour lire le poème d'Oscar Wilde. More info on la Maison de la poésie : http://www.maisondelapoesieparis.com/


*8 February 7pm - Wendell Steavenson, The Weight of a Mustard Seed (non-fiction) This book tells the story of Iraq from the inside out, giving a portrait of the Iraqis behind the headlines ‘a masterly and elegantly told story that weaves together the Iraqi past and present.’ – The New York Times. Steavenson was born in New York in 1970 and grew up in London. She is the author of the acclaimed Stories I Stole (shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award) and has worked for Time and written for a variety of publications, including the Telegraph, Granta, The New Yorker and Prospect. See an interview in The New Yorker at

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/bookclub/the-weight-of-a-mustard-seed/ AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

*8 fév 18h30-20h L'Arsenal de la poésie. Grands poètes d'aujourd'hui : Esther Tellermann. Ce nouveau cycle propose d'accueillir à la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal les grands poètes vivants : ils témoigneront de leur expérience vécue de la poésie et évoqueront leur bibliothèque imaginaire en choisissant les textes emblématiques de leur univers textuels parmi leurs auteurs de références et au sein de leur œuvre. Ces dialogues seront ponctués par des lectures données par un comédien et parfois par l'auteur lui-même. entrée libre, réservation obligatoire au 01 53 79 49 49. AT : Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 1, rue Sully, 75004 Paris. M° Lignes 7, (Sully-Morland), 1, 5, et 8 (Bastille + 8mn walk)


*8 Fév : Une signature aura lieu à L'Espace Harmattan en littérature pour « Fin de bobine » et « Dos à la mer » de Steve Moreau. Pour plus d'information, consultez l'agenda du site http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/

*8 Feb from 8:30pm to LATE: SpokenWord Share your work on any theme or work on the theme of the night! See their blog and Join SpokenWord Paris’ meetup group via their blog at : http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/ to receive emails with each week’s theme! An exciting, dynamic venue. You can read in French, too!!! Topic tonight: MIRROR. AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix Metro Belleville/Pyrénées 75020 Paris

*9 February 19h30 Dr. Monique Wells discusses ‘Black Paris and the Myth of a Colorblind France’ and presents an overview of 200 years of African-American history in Paris. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

*9 février à 19h30 The Irish Cultural Center at La Médiathèque rencontre… 2 Irish poets, Leanne O’Sullivan & Roderick Ford!!! Poet Leanne O'Sullivan, from West Cork, is still in her twenties but has already won most of Ireland's main poetry competitions. Roderick Ford has won the Listowel poetry collection and single poem prizes, and also the Francis Ledwidge Award. His second collection, “The Green Crown”, was published in 2009. Entrée libre, réservation indispensable (places limitées), IN ENGLISH. AT : Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER Luxembourg, M° Place Monge ou Cardinal Lemoine.
http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/

*9 FÉVRIER 20H Présentation de L’Inachevé de soi, ed. de l’Amandier. Poème: Claude Ber, Peintures: Pierre Dubrunquez lecture par la comédienne Frédérique Wolf-Michaux et par l’auteur + entretien entre C. Ber et P. Dubrunquez !Exposition des oeuvres de P. Dubrunquez. Entrée libre. AT : A LA MAISON DE LA POÉSIE DE PARISPassage Molière 157 rue Saint-Martin Paris 3ème

9 février, 20h-23h PERRY ARGEL announces MUSIC: “Next Tuesday night, we're doing one of our rare rock and roll shows -complete with Fender, mini-Marshall and drums. With Melissa on fiddle, Mathieu on doghouse bass and Tatou on the skins. And it's a the Lib, a real dive with a big heart, so mucho fun.” AT: Rock and roll con los Caballeros Simpáticos à la Liberté, 196 rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, 75012

*KIDS : 10th February at 3.30 p.m. Kids' Club at WH Smith’s: It is a free monthly reading in English for children ages 4-8 held every month except July. Please RSVP to books(at)whsmith (dot)fr with the child's name, age & English level & 'February Kids' Club RSVP' as the object of the message. Your child's name will automatically be registered.

*10 fév à partir de 19 heures : A l'occasion de la parution de « Georges Boris, trente ans d'influence Blum, De Gaulle et Mendès-France » Editions Gallimard, rencontre avec Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac. AT : Librairie Michèle Ignazi, 17, rue de Jouy, 75004 Paris, tel 01 42 71 17 00 M° St Paul

*10 February 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Journalist Michael Schuermann presents his book, ‘Paris Movie Walks,’ and discusses the role of Paris as a film location throughout the decades. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

10 February from 7-9 pm. “Océan plastique en Paris”: Join us for the opening of Finnish artist Tuula Närhinen's installation sculpture Océan plastique / Plastic Ocean. The event will include La Consolation de la Sirène, a presentation by French artist Paul-Armand Gette at 8 pm. Océan plastique en Paris will present from 11 February through 20 March. The installation includes Larmes de sirène / Mermaid's Tears (2007) et Frutti di mare (2008). Photographs of both installations were featured in Paris Anglophone lit mag “NEW” 4 (
http://www.new-mag.com/4_2008/narhinen_tuula/detailpage.htm). AT: Institut Finlandais, 60, rue des Écoles, 75005 Paris

10 février à 19 h Mathilde Rosier et Elena Filipovic : À l'occasion de l'exposition au Jeu de Paume de Mathilde Rosier, "Find circumstances in the antechamber", la Cité internationale des Arts organise une conversation entre l'artiste et Elena Filipovic, commissaire. Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles. Infos : 01 42 78 71 72. http://www.citedesartsparis.net/ AT : Cité internationale des Arts / Auditorium Edmond Michelet, 18, rue de l'Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris, M° Pont-Marie ou Saint-Paul

*11 Feb at 19h BILINGUAL reading with Australian author PHILIP MCLAREN. Is a descendent of the Kamilaroi, his parents are Kamilaroi from Coonabarabran in the Warrumbungle mountains the State of the « Nouvelle-Galles-du-Sud” as the French say it. Hi first novel is “Sweet Water - Stolen Land” (University of Queensland Press, 1993; édition revue Magabala Books, 2001), which received the David Unaipon Award for Black Australian Writing. 3 of his novels have been translated into French and he is here reading to celebrate his book “Utopia” receiving the prix Récits de l'ailleurs, à St-Pierre-et-Miquelon. “UTOPIA” (Nouméa : Traversées, 2007 ; N.S.W. : Cockatoo Books, 2008) AT : La Librairie des Antipodes,14, rue Servandoni 75006 Paris, M° Saint Sulpice Tél. 01 43 25 51 93 http://www.librairie-des-antipodes.fr/

*11 fév 19h-20h Les jeudis de l'Oulipo à la BNF thème « L'herbe ou le verbe ». Rendez-vous réguliers, les jeudis de l'Oulipo, chers aux amateurs de jeux de l'esprit et de littérature potentielle, continuent d'explorer des thèmes d'actualité, proposant lectures et créations originales. AT : BNF Paris, site François-Mitterrand, Grand auditorium, entrée libre. Quai François-Mauriac, Map : http://www.bnf.fr/pages/bibliotheque.htm M° Lignes 6 (Quai de la gare), 14 et RER C (Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand), bus : 89, 62, 64, 132 et 325.

*11 Feb at 7pm: An event around Jane Campion's film Bright Star. Bilingual Reading of some of the Keats' poems selected in the film with the participation of Fouad El-Etr, éditeur of La DéliranteAT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

*11 février à 19h30 Conference on "Synge of Paris: photographer, traveller, dramatist" by Nicholas Grene. In one of his first published Aran essays, Synge used four of his photographs as illustrations, with the credit 'Synge, Paris'. This is the departure point for Nicholas Grene’s illustrated talk about the way in which Synge’s travels fed into his plays. Entrée libre, réservation conseillée, In English. AT : Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER Luxembourg, M° Place Monge ou Cardinal Lemoine.
http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/

11 Feb: 19h Famous speeches will be rousingly re-enacted at Toastmasters: Public speaking and speech-making in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Guests are welcome and are never asked to give a speech AT : Le Moulin à Café (in the downstairs meeting room) 22 rue de Caumartin, Paris 9e Métros: Opéra, Madaleine, Havre-Caumartin, RER Auber Dinner and social hour from 19.00 onward. (Please arrive by 19.30 to get your dinner served on time) Meeting starts at 20.00 Participation: In exchange for using the meeting room, every member and guest attending a meeting spends a minimum of 15 Euros on food and drink. For more info: !
http://www.toastmasters75.org/

*12 fevrier à 15h « Autour du Soleil » Pérformance et Vidéo-Poème avec le poète d’origine argentine Susana Sulic. She often reads/performs in multiple languages—French, Spanish and English. Au Palais de la Découverte, Paris

*12 Feb. 7-10 pm. : HEARTS for Haiti, Fundraiser - Jazz, Gospel & Poetry performance. Artists include: Moe Seager, Bobby Few, Rasul Siddik,Sylvia Howard,Katy Roberts, Mra Oma, Ursaline Kirston,Thomas Pollard, Linda Hopkins, Gospel Angels. Info on Moe Seager http://www.myspace.com/bluenotemetaphor or http://moeseagerpariscalling.blogspot.com/ AT: American Church of Paris, 65 quai d'Orsay. Metros: Invalids (13) & Pont d'Alma(9)

*13 février à 17h Lecture de Suzanne Doppelt suivie de la projection de petits films scientifiques primitifs. AT : la galerie Martine Aboucaya 5 rue sainte Anastase, 75003 Paris, tel 0142769275

*14th Feb at 7:30 Moving Parts presents a playreading of Nina Karacosta’s 4 sketches on the theme of "Relation-ships" (in English) OFF BOOK ; NO STRINGS ATTACHED ; KUAN YU and CATCH PEGASUS BY THE HEEL WHILE RIDING A TIGER "Relation-ships" are transits to other creatures : sometimes ex-lovers, sometimes soul-searching mates. It consists of a one act poetry-play and three sketches that were written in New York, sometimes depicting the New York hustling landscape and/or the searching for inner balance. Starring KIM TILBURY, EDUARDO CUE and THOMAS VICTORIO. For more, see: http://www.movingparts.org.uk/ or e-mail Stephanie Campion movingpartsparis@gmail.com for listings! Tel : 06 14 67 18 58 AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, M° Tuileries

14 Feb at 20h : music : un duo piano et violoncelle dans un programme chatoyant qui ira de Beethoven a Debussy en passant par Prokofiev et Delclaud! Avec le duo « Leos » (Miwa Rosso et Thomas Delclaud). AT : studio Le Regard du Cygne (Paris), métro 11 télégraphe ou salle des fetes

*15 February 7pm - Janet Skeslien Charles, Moonlight in Odessa (fiction) published by Bloomsbury and chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of their top ten debut novels this autumn. Janet is a good friend of Shakespeare and Company and has previously taught creative writing workshops at the bookshop. Her novel is a wry, tender, and darkly funny look at marriage, the desires we don't acknowledge, and the aftermath of communism. It is about the choices and sacrifices that people make in the pursuit of love and stability. In addition to hearing Janet read tonight, you can listen to her book being read on ‘Book at Bedtime’ on Radio 4 – the first reading starts on 15th February. ‘Charles paints a tender, bittersweet portrait of Ukraine and Odessa. Best of all, she doesn’t oversimplify difficult choices and hard decisions or resort to cardboard villains… A lively, entertaining debut…’ –Kirkus Review AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel.
http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

*15 Feb from 8:30pm til you drop: SpokenWord Share your work on any theme or work on the theme of the night! See their blog and Join SpokenWord Paris’ meetup group via their blog at :
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/ to receive emails with each week’s theme! This week is Valentine’s hangover… guelle de bois de St Valentine. An exciting, dynamic venue. You can read in French, too!!! AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix Metro Belleville/Pyrénées 75020 Paris

17 February at 7pm: Talk/Conference by Bridge Media Network member Avi Bitton – attorney. Bridge Media Network is a non-profit international association based in Paris, France that helps creative and business professionals in the entertainment industry achieve their career goals. Our mission is to encourage our members and the creative community-at-large to pursue their entertainment careers with integrity, creativity and enthusiasm! The NETWORK is a place to exchange information, a place to learn about others in MEDIA, as well as what they do and how they do it. BRIDGE interacts with talent and industry professionals who need assistance with their specialized and often complex projects. BRIDGE does this quickly by giving a support for talent and instruction to individuals while, at the same time, promoting harmonious relationships and professional efficiency. http://www.bridgemedianetwork.com/ TALK AT : Belushi’s, 159 rue Crimée, Paris

*19 February - Harriet Lye, Geoffrey Gilbert, Jeffrey Greene for “Her Royal Majesty” (online magazine launch) Join us for readings and festivities for the release party of the seventh issue of Her Royal Majesty (
ww.herroyalmajesty.ca), an independent literary magazine founded in Halifax and now based in Paris. This evening Geoffrey Gilbert will be discussing his queer translations of Baudelaire, and several of this issue's featured writers will read from their work. Jeffrey Greene, a Paris-based American poet/memoirist, will read his poem featured in this issue as well as a selection of poems from his upcoming book, Beautiful Monsters. The theme of this issue is FLESH and will be published online at the beginning of February. Though the event is free, attendees are encouraged to make a donation (either in person or online) in order to support the continuation of this free independent publication. Bring your friends and stay afterwards for a glass of wine! AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

19 février à 15 h Rencontre avec Esther Shalev-Gerz à l’ens : À l'occasion de l'exposition au Jeu de Paume d'Esther Shalev-Gerz, "Ton image me regarde !?", l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris organise une rencontre avec l'artiste. Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles, infos : http://www.beauxartsparis.fr/ AT : École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 14, rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris


*20 Feb : 10h à 16h30 “The Irish in France: Historical Relations “, lecture by Dr. Éamon Ó Ciosáin. (journée d’étude) Entrée libre (réservation indispensable), in English. Dans le cadre du Certificat de langue irlandaise, d’histoire et de culture contemporaines irlandaises. LANGUE IRLANDAISE AT : Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER Luxembourg, M° Place Monge ou Cardinal Lemoine. http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/

*20 février à 17h Readings by numerous French authors, accompanied by film projection: Lecture de Abigail Lang, Aïcha Liviana Messina, Béatrice Rateboeuf, Marcella Lista, Patricia Falguières, Jean Christophe Bailly, Jean Claude Lebensztejn, Gilles A. Tiberghien, film de Marylène Negro. AT : la galerie Martine Aboucaya 5 rue sainte Anastase, 75003 Paris, tel 0142769275

*20 février à 19h30 le K Barré avec Hélène Ferrié-Otani, Masa Otani (plasticien & performeur) & Christophe Marchand-Kiss. In the context of a « residency » at his local bar, CMK is organizing a large series of multi-genre performance readings which often fall on a weekend. A great place to grab a beer, hear a reading, see the contemporary French poets in action! AT : Chiffoniers, 90 rue Marcadet, 18e, M° Marcadet-Poissionier.

21 février à 17h Theatre in English: see "Macbeth" by Shakespeare. La place 17 Euros (for a strapontin, or more for reg seats). 2 hours without intermission. Metteur en scène Declan Donnellan. In English & subtitled in French. If you want to go with the acting troupe WordsAlive, please send them an email at wordsaliveo@gmail.com AT: Théâtre Les Gémeaux : http://www.lesgemeaux.com/

*21 Feb at 3 pm. “Life's a Bitch - We make Art!” a Moe Seager poetry reading: Poems erotic, jazz and praxis. Info on Moe Seager http://www.myspace.com/bluenotemetaphor or http://moeseagerpariscalling.blogspot.com/. AT: Tea & Tattered Pages, 24 rue Mayet, 75006 M° Duroc.

*21st Feb at 7:30 Moving Parts presents a playreading of Colin Reese’s Short scenes - a series of comic sketches (in English) For more, see: http://www.movingparts.org.uk/ or e-mail Stephanie Campion movingpartsparis@gmail.com for listings! Tel : 06 14 67 18 58 AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, M° Tuileries


*22 Feb –7pm Songbirds Kate Stables from This is the Kit and Erica Buettner will be singing and performing acoustically. Both are exquisite, lyrical musicians and writers. They will be joined by Colin Mahar who will be reading poetry. Kate is known for her music in This is the Kit

myspace.com/thisisthekit – she has received regular radio play on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 music, and recorded a live session at Maida Vale Studios. Her last album, Krulle Bol was produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Sparklehorse). She also performs as Whalebone Polly www.myspace.com/whalebonepolly. Hear Erica’s dreamy music and see her play at myspace.com/ericabuettner and with guitar and banjo at http://rockerparis.blogspot.com/2009/05/erica-buettner-oliver-peel-session-6.html AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

*22 Feb from 8:30pm to LATE: SpokenWord Share your work on any theme or work on the theme of the night! See their blog and Join SpokenWord Paris’ meetup group via their blog at :
http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/ to receive emails with each week’s theme! An exciting, dynamic venue. You can read in French, too!!! This week’s theme is Age/aging… age/vieillir. AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix Metro Belleville/Pyrénées 75020 Paris

*23 Feb at 19h30 : IVY Writers Paris bilingual reading with PASCAL POYET & Rufo Quintavalle. Poyet’s BIOS online at
http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=1060 or soon up with full details at the Ivy blog: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/ (full details up soon !) At: The Next, downstairs, 17 rue Tiquetonne 75002. M° Etienne Marcel / RER Les Halles.

*24 février 20h : Poète/publique : rencontre avec Pascal Poyet & Goria / contrat maint Dans le cadre de "poète/public", résidence d'écriture qu'il effectue au Comptoir des mots de septembre 09 à juin 10, Frédéric Forte vous invite pour rencontrer un poète et son éditeur. Comment un auteur conçoit-il un livre de poésie ? Quel est le rôle de l’éditeur ? Les invités tenteront de répondre à ces questions, et à d’autres…AU :Comptoir des mots, 239, rue des Pyrénées, Paris 75020.

25 February: 19h A classic meeting of Toastmasters: Public speaking and speech-making in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Guests are welcome and are never asked to give a speech!
http://www.toastmasters75.org/ for address & further info

*27 février de 18h à 20h A group reading by French and international poets as part of a series at the Galerie Martine Aboucaya. Lecture de Jakuta Alikavazovic, Marie-Louise Chapelle, Daniel Heller-Roazen (lu par sa traductrice Justine Landau), Emmelene Landon, Sabine Macher, Ryoko Sekiguchi AT : la galerie Martine Aboucaya 5 rue sainte Anastase, 75003 Paris, tel 0142769275

up until 27 Feb : « Le réel, nouvel opium ? » Invité par la galerie Les filles du calvaire, le collectif Est-ce une bonne nouvelle présente une exposition qui interroge le réel comme principe fictionnel. Expo with Vidéastes : Soufiane Adel, Christian Barani, Taysir Batniji, Yann Beauvais, Edson Barrus, Raphaél Boccanfuso, Anne-Marie Cornu, François Daireaux, Frédéric Dumond, Jan Duyvendak, Agnès Geoffray, Julien Gourbeix, Patrick Hébrard, Sabine Massenet, Sara Millot, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Françoise Parfait, Patrick André depuis1966, Alex Pou, Jean-Claude Taki, Brigitte Zieger. Ecrivains : Emmanuel Adely, François Bon, Arno Calleja, Sonia Chiambretto, David Christoffel, Sophie Coiffier, Louise Desbrusses, Frédéric Dumond, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Jérôme Game, Fred Griot, Cyrille Martinez. AT : Galerie les filles du calvaire, 17, rue des Filles-du-calvaire - 75003 Paris, Ouvert du mardi au samedi de 11h à 18h30 http://www.fillesducalvaire.com/

*1 March from 8:30pm to LATE: SpokenWord Share your work on any theme or work on the theme of the night! See their blog and Join SpokenWord Paris’ meetup group via their blog at : http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/ to receive emails with each week’s theme! An exciting, dynamic venue. You can read in French, too!!! Tonight’s theme is Disguises… les déquisements. AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix Metro Belleville/Pyrénées 75020 Paris

*4 March 19h30-22h00. Moe Seager & Blue Note Metaphor band. Jazz-Poetry set to Bob, Blues and Ballad. Moe Seager-vocals, Bobby Few-piano, Rasul Siddik-trumpet,flute, Harry Swift-bass, Bop Man-drums. Info on Moe Seager and samples from his Jazz-poetry sets: http://www.myspace.com/bluenotemetaphor or http://moeseagerpariscalling.blogspot.com/. AT: Cafe Universel, 267 rue Saint Jacques, Quarter Latin. M°/RER Luxembourg & Port Royal. Free admission.

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Part II) Writing workshops in Paris! (listed by start date) :

The Other Writers' Group! David Barnes' drop in writers' workshop (just turn up!) every Saturday 5pm till 7pm. Bring 8 copies of your prose or poetry for instant feedback and discussion. Length should be up to about 3 pages (prose) or 2 poems. Suggested donation 5 euros. Upstairs in the library at Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 http://www.meetup.com/The-Other-Writers-Group/

starting 8 Fev : Atelier de création poétique, S2, niveau Master ou Doctorat, ENS-Paris IV, Animé par Alessandro De Francesco Cet atelier réunit un groupe de 12 à 15 étudiants (maximum), francophones et étrangers. Il est conçu comme un laboratoire d’expérimentation pratique, articulé avec le séminaire sur la poésie contemporaine, et reprenant les mêmes perspectives (langues, formes, supports, dispositifs). La participation au séminaire (le cas échéant comme auditeur libre) est par conséquent obligatoire. Les étudiants, pour y être admis, devront présenter avant le 10 janvier 2010 un dossier comprenant un CV, une lettre de motivation, et un texte personnel d’une longueur maximale de 5000 signes, dont ils choisiront librement la forme et le sujet. Lundi, 17-19h, salle Info 2, École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris (M° Luxembourg). Début du cours : 8 février 2010. http://www.lila.ens.fr/ or http://www.alessandrodefrancesco.net/

starting 9 Fév : POETRY CLASSES in FRENCH : École Normale Supérieure / Université Paris IV – Sorbonne La poésie contemporaine, hypothèses théoriques et critiques S2, 3 ECTS, séminaire de recherche Master 1 et 2, ENS-Paris IV Michel Murat et Alessandro De Francesco. Ce séminaire s’efforce, en s’appuyant sur les expériences effectuées et imaginées dans la période des avant-gardes, de définir les enjeux théoriques de la poésie contemporaine, dans une perspective inter-linguistique (principalement : français, anglais, italien, allemand) et inter-médiatique, mettant l’accent sur la poésie comme pratique d’art contemporain. Les trois axes principaux de la réflexion théorique porteront sur le rapport aux langues, le lien à l’expérience individuelle et commune, et le rapport entre forme, medium et communication poétique. Le séminaire est organisé par Michel Murat et Alessandro De Francesco, poète, artiste sonore et théoricien. Des poètes en plusieurs langues sont invités dans le cadre du séminaire à présenter leur réflexion et leur travail. Mardi, 9h-11h, salle D 035, Maison de la recherche de Paris IV, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris (M° Odéon). Début des cours : 9 février 2010. http://www.lila.ens.fr/ or http://www.alessandrodefrancesco.net/

PITCH YOUR CHILDRENS’ BOOK: Preparing to go to the SCBWI book fair in March (http://www.scbwibologna.org/) or looking for an agent? Julia Churchill of Greenhouse Literary Agency has offered to lead a Sat. afternoon workshop designed to improve the disposition of our quarrelsome queries & pesky pitches. 2 possible days -- Feb 27 or Mar 5. If interested in attending, RSVP ASAP & mention which date(s) you'll be available. Tioka Tokedira tokedira@aol.com

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Part III) News Reviews & Reviews News: publications + calls for work

NOW ONLINE: Lit Mag "Her Royal Majesty" (ww.herroyalmajesty.ca), This issue, the 7th for the review, and this time on the theme of “Flesh”, features artists & writers including: Alex Kanevsky, Jeffrey Greene, Geoffrey Gilbert, Rosy Lamb, James Gregor, John Gagliano, Michelle Engel, Jennifer Porter, Patricia Kim, Adam O’Reilly, Rebecca Roher, Kirby Best, Ashley Lamb, Julia Grummitt, Bryn McLeod, Isabelle Parker, Cynthia Spring, Tings Chak, and Shawna Lipton

SUBMIT to OFF-MIC and read current version ONLINE NOW : Read Paris’ gai-straight-bi-mixed everything and anything goes magazine HORS-MIC. Also seeking editors and editorial staff in French, English or open to other native languages! To see the new edition, click the link! Editor Dominic says “La nouvelle édition de notre mag parisien anglo franco et gay friendly! Lisez et pensez de nous aider avec tes ideas, photos et textes! » Seeking art, photos, fiction, nonfiction, essays/reviews and poetry. http://issuu.com/hors-micro/docs/issuezerovirguleun to see the issue. And to sign up for mailing list, send work, attend editorial meetings: contact Mag Litteraire, off_micparis@yahoo.fr .

HELP OUT: SEEKING VOLUNTEERS for SOS Help is the English-speaking, free and confidential telephone support line in Paris which is looking for volunteer listeners and support staff to help with fund-raising and publicity. If this is something you might like to do and if you are staying in Paris for at least a year, attend ONE of the information sessions held at 7pm on Wednesday February 3, Thursday February 11, OR Tuesday February 16 at the American Church, 65 Quai d'Orsay Paris 7e Metro Alma Marceau or Invalides The next Listener training course starts on March 20th. For more details visit the SOS Help website: http://www.soshelpline.org/events.html

GOING TO SPLIT ROCK POETRY FESTIVAL in DC? : Sign up before 10 Feb for early bird price to go to the “Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness”, March 10-13, 2010, invites poets, writers, artists, activists, dreamers, and all concerned world citizens to Washington, DC, for poetry, community building, and creative transformation as our country continues to grapple with two wars, a crippling economic crisis, and other social and environmental ills. The festival will feature readings, workshops, panel discussions, youth programming, film, parties, and activism -- opportunities to speak out, make common cause, imagine a way forward, and celebrate the many ways that poetry can act as an agent for social change. Featuring these visionary voices and many others: Chris Abani, Lillian Allen, Sinan Antoon, Francisco Aragón, Jan Beatty, Martha Collins, Cornelius Eady, Martín Espada, Andrea Gibson, Allison Hedge Coke, Natalie Illum, Fady Joudah, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Richard McCann, Jeffrey McDaniel, Lenelle Moïse, Nancy Morejón, Mark Nowak, Wang Ping, Patricia Smith, Arthur Sze, Quincy Troupe, and Bruce Weigl. Register today! Rates rise February 10. Details at: http://www.splitthisrock.org/

POETRY SOUGHT: Send poetry manuscripts to press or send poems to the online magazine H_NGM_N Poets Series Editor: Nate Pritts.Editorial Board: Darcie Dennigan, Robert Krut, Clay Matthews, Gina Myers.Their goal is to publish one full-length book of poems per calendar year selected through an open reading period, as well as one solicited full-length book of poems. Manuscripts are accepted from January 1st until April 30th. There is a $10 reading fee, payable through the paypal link on their site. Manuscripts are judged & read blindly; all identifying information in the manuscript will be scoured & removed before it is passed to the editors. We anticipate announcing the selected manuscript by June 1st. Publication will be in the fall of 2010. http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n-b__ks/h_ngm_n-poets.html

SUPPORT THIS CAUSE: Shakespeare’s literary festival this summer from the 18th to 20th June. This year's theme is Storytelling and Politics, where authors * Nam Le * Ian McEwan * David Hare * John Berger * Petina Gappah * and many others will be joining us. The full list of participants will be announced next month. If you would like to become a Festival Patron or Partner or help in other ways (donating frequent flyer points for flights for the authors, sponsoring the festival financially, lending apartments etc.) please contact lauren@shakespeareandcompany.com. Please note there is a tax redemption for American Patrons.

SUBMIT TO NATIONAL POETRY PRIZE : The National Poetry Series seeks book-length manuscripts of poetry written by American citizens. A length of 48-64 pages is suggested. See full guidelines at: http://www.nationalpoetryseries.org/ Deadline: postmarked between 1 January 2010 & 16 February 2010. 5 books will be selected.

PARIS HOSTS NEEDED: for Childrens’ book writers & publisher’s group: Contact: Tioka Tokedira tokedira@aol.com

SEE the trailer for the documentary John McNulty is making about the Paris writers’ scene! Posted on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=463910135264&ref=mf

JUST OUT: Cleaves Journal, issue one. The curious editorial position of this journal created by Harry Godwin is to invite guest editors to select innovative poetry work from people in their communities, thus the editors create mini sections of 3-5 pages each from different regions of the UK and Europe. Some editors also included a brief intro to their selections. A print version of the journal is super cheap at lulu: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/cleaves-journal/8166212 but you can also read Cleaves Journal “One” online and see the Paris section chosen by Jennifer K Dick and including poems by Joe Ross, Michelle Noteboom, and then the collaborative pair Sara Nolan and Rick Benjamin. http://www.cleavesjournal.com/

DONATE BOOKS: for the SOS annual BOOK SALE (March 20th is the sale date, so get them to SOS as soon as you can!) To donate books please stop by on the day of the book sale and drop them off or contact us at soshelpbooksale@gmail.com to donate large quantities in advance. Chris Payne, Publicity Coordinator at 06 22 41 61 85 The SALE will be held AT: Orrick Law Offices, 31, avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, 75016, Paris. Drop off books at SOS, contact them for their address.

READ my Article: Yes, to end with a little self-promotion. Because I am very excited to see my French article entitlted ""La Pop Culture. De la publicité dans la poésie: un renversement de l'ordre économique" (by Jennifer K Dick) at the lovely Université de Paris III review Trans, in issue number 9, an issue dedicated to Pop Culture and Literature, edited and with a lovely preface ("Editorial") by Emilie Lucas-Leclin! There are also articles by other scholars on Elfriede Jelinek, Richard Morgan, Maurice G. Dantec, Marcos López, Alejandro López, Cucurto, French Rap, the word Geek in books by Douglas Coupland, and "fanfictions" and role-playing games. To read my text, which is IN FRENCH, go to http://trans.univ-paris3.fr/spip.php?article387
To just read abstracts (French then followed by English) http://trans.univ-paris3.fr/spip.php?article388

11 January 2010

January into Feb 2010 Readings in PARIS!!!!

Part I) Paris Events & READINGS (with asterisks) by dates in January + a few in February 2010
Part II) Writing Workshops & courses poetry reading, acting, etc in Paris
Part III) News Reviews & Reviews News: publications, calls for work, new books & more!
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Part I) Events & READINGS by DATE in JANUARY 2010 :

*11 Jan at 7 pm – Poet Marilyn Hacker: Shakespeare & Co is honoured to present prize-winning poet Marilyn Hacker as she reads from her new book of poetry Names. ‘Hacker is, to use a trite term, a major poet. More than that she is exciting and true.’—George Szirtes. In Names, Marilyn Hacker juxtaposes glimpses of contemporary lives with dialogues undertaken in signal poetic voices. Using her signature wit, passion, and mastery of received and invented forms, she convinces us to believe in a world made possible by language—prescient, playful, polyglot, and often breathtaking. This is the European launch reading of Names , published in the United States by W.W. Norton and Co. last month. BIO: Hacker's virtuosic rhymes, syllabics and other traditional devices give discipline and elegance to her learned, yet direct, clear, personal, work: her daily life in Paris and New York, her affection for other writers, her lesbian identity and her left-wing politics find generous expression in this 12th book. Those who found her earlier work of the 1990s too casual could find real power here: reacting to violence in Iraq and in the Middle East, to America's sometimes baleful foreign policies, and contemplating the mortality of her friends, Hacker achieves a sometimes grim compression. “I tease out metaphors to link desire/ and stasis, coffee, shadows, lavender;/ in my name, sons and sisters die Elsewhere.” So she writes in an abbreviated crown of sonnets; a ghazal (one of 11, all composed according to strict older rules) rebukes the poet for “easy, dishonest verses./ Nothing protects your poetry from the love that kills.” Hacker has herself become an eminent translator (of Vénus Khoury-Ghata and Claire Malroux, among many others); her attention to Francophone and Arabic writers, alongside and against her American Jewish heritage, helps give this collection its sometimes surprising force. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

*11 Jan from 8:30pm to LATE: SpokenWord Share your work or work on the theme of the night: "Junk": Junk food, junkies, junk yard, Chinese boat, stuff you wanna junk, Who says what's to be called junk anyway? Reinventing uses for "junk" ! AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix Metro Belleville/Pyrénées 75020 Paris

*11th January, American author James Ellroy will read from his latest novel at the Theatre du Rond-Point. In French. Details on their website.

*12 Jan at 7pm : Author Nam Le will present The Boat and will be introduced by Charles D'Ambrosio. The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection The Boat take us across the globe, from the slums of Colombia to Iowa City; from the streets of Tehran to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea. They guide us to the heart of what it means to be human ? and herald the arrival of a remarkable new writer. Nam Le was born in Vietnam, and raised in Australia. His work has appeared in Zoetrope, A Public Space, One Story, Conjunctions, and the Pushcart Prize and Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. Currently the fiction editor of the Harvard Review, he divides his time between Australia and the United States. AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

*12 January 19h30 A Night at the Movies: Tama Carroll discusses ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ and changing a book’s ending to please the film’s audience. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

*13 January 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Suzy Gershman, of the ‘Born to Shop’ travel book series, offers shopping tips and discusses her memoir, ‘C’est la Vie.’ AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

KIDS: 13th Jan at 3:30 p.m. Join us in the Kids' Corner to celebrate Spot's birthday! PLEASE Kids' Club is a free monthly reading in English for children ages 4-8 held on every month except July. NOTE: Kids' Club will now be held on the second Wednesday of every month, instead of the last Wednesday. To RSVP for this event, please send an email with the child's name, age and English level to:
books@whsmith.fr with 'January Kids' Club RSVP' as the object of the message. Your child's name will automatically be registered on our guest list. Thank you for your understanding. AT: WH Smith, 248, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris M° Concorde Exit: rue Cambon. For more info: http://www.whsmith.fr/

14 Jan à partir de 19h - VERNISSAGE pour JULIE LEGRAND « Fourmillement » Galerie Anton Weller – Isabelle Suret, 9 rue Christine, 75006 Paris T. +33 (0)1 43 54 56 32antonweller@noos.fr ou http://www.anton-weller.com/

*14 Jan at 7:30pm. Lecture à la galerie d'Aréa par SAPHO. Where: Galerie d'Aréa, 50 rue d'Hauteville - Paris 75010

14 jan à 19:30 Nina Zivancevic a le plaisir de vous inviter, avec M. l'ambassadeur de la Serbie, au Centre Culturel Serbe (voir les details sur leur site web) Centre culturel de Serbie, 123 rue Saint Martin, 75004 Paris + 33 1 42 72 50 50 tél + 33 1 42 72 52 80 fax
http://www.ccserbie.com/ ou www.myspace.com/centrecultureldeserbie)

*14 Jan at 7pm: Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier will present their new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's classic, The Second Sex. Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology, and a host of other disciplines to analyze the Western notion of "woman" and to postulate on the power of sexuality. Sixty years after its initial publication, The Second Sex is still as eye-opening and pertinent as ever. This long-awaited new translation pays particular attention to the existentialist terms and French nuances that may have been misconstrued in the first English edition, and reinstates significant portions of the "Myths" and "History" chapters, including Beauvoir's accounts of more than seventy historical female figures that were originally cut due to length. A groundbreaking exploration of woman as "other," The Second Sex is a document that continues to provoke and inspire, continually and dramatically revising the way women talk and think about themselves. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, both American, are longtime residents of France and former teachers at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris. AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

*15 Jan 3:00-6:00pm scbwifrance hosts their first Show & Tell of the year Join us for tea and Show & Tell AT: the Tea Corner , 6, rue Mandar, 75002 Further info: Tioka Tokedira
tokedira@aol.com
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*15 Jan at 6 pm – A signing with novelist Wally Lamb. In Paris for the publication in French of The Hour I First Believed (Le Chagrin et la Grâce), the New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb will be with us for a signing of his books and some mulled wine! Lamb was the 1999 recipient of the New England Book Award for fiction. I Know This Much Is True won the Friends of the Library USA Readers’ Choice Award for best novel of 1998, and the Kenneth Johnson Memorial Book Award, which honoured the novel’s contribution to the anti-stigmatization of mental illness. She’s Come Undone was a 1992 “Top Ten” Book of the Year selection in People magazine and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Best First Novel of 1992.Wally Lamb’s third novel, The Hour I First Believed, explores chaos theory by interfacing several generations of a fictional Connecticut family with non-fictional American events; the Civil War, the Columbine High School shootings of 1999, the Iraq War, and Hurricane Katrina. Since 1999, Wally Lamb has contributed time as a volunteer facilitator at the York Correctional Institute, a maximum-security prison for women. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and three children. Wally Lamb's most recent work, Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story, was published in November 2009. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel.
http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

*15 jan à partir de 18h nous vous invitons à rencontrer MARIE DARRIEUSSECQ « Rapport de police » Editions POL AT : Librairie Les Cahiers de Colette, 23/25 rue Rambuteau, 75004 Paris, 0142729506
http://www.lescahiersdecolette.com/ et sur Facebook

15 jan de 19h30 à 21h Vous êtes invités à une soirée exceptionnelle: Création d’œuvre en live par Eric Turlot L’art contemporain dans tous ses états, Rétrospective France, USA, Corée, Chine, Japon, Allemagne - 30 artistes Expo Jusqu’au 31 janvier 2010. 20 artistes qui proposent une vision panoramique de l’art contemporain international. 27 rue Keller Paris 75011 M° Bastille 01 43 57 08 51
dorothysgallery@gmail.com http://www.dorothysgallery.com/

until 16th January: Sami Frey in "Premier Amour". Have a look at this and a list of the numerous Shakespeare productions, Oscar Wilde, The Footsbarn, Gary Cole and texts by Edgar Allan Poe taking place in English in Paris and ile de France: See the events for theatre list online at:
http://wordsaliveo.wordpress.com/english-language-authors/

*16 janvier à 19 heures 30 : Art, Musique et Poésie. autour de « Temps solaire » poèmes de Cécile Oumhani, accompagnés par des gravures de Myoung-Nam Kim éditions Voix d'encre. Ivan Bellocq et Anja Thomas présenteront leur mise en espace d'extraits du recueil Myoung-Nam Kim exposera ses gravures, Cécile Oumhani lira des poèmes. La soirée sera suivie d'un verre de l'amitié. AT : la librairie La Lucarne des Ecrivains, 115 rue de l'Ourcq 75019 Paris. Tél : 01 40 05 91 29. M° Crimée, ligne 7

*16 janvier à partir de 17h30 nous vous invitons à rencontrer CHRISTOPHE PRADEAU « La Grande Sauvagerie » Editions Verdier AT : Librairie Les Cahiers de Colette, 23/25 rue Rambuteau, 75004 Paris, 0142729506
http://www.lescahiersdecolette.com/ et sur Facebook

17 janvier à 16h30 Récital chant & piano au profit de l'association Mon Montrouge Oeuvres de Scarlatti, Purcell, Haendel, Schubert, Quilter, Fauré, De Falla...Thé & tartes avec les musiciens après le concert Places : le concert 12 € , la “saison” de 3 concerts 30 € (Pour les membres des associations du collectif : le concert 10 €, la saison 25€) AT : 20 rue Louis Rolland à Montrouge Réservations :
m@monmontrouge.com ou au 06 07 95 52 92

*18 Jan at 7 pm – Author and critic Luc Sante. A special reading from celebrated author and critic Luc Sante, who is in Paris for Christian Boltanski's Monumenta exhibition at the Grand Palais. Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He has also recently done the foreword for The Possible Life Of Christian Boltanski and is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College. Luc’s most recent publication is Folk Photography (Yeti Publishing, 2009), a beautifully printed book documenting the phenomenon of the real-photo postcard in the early 20th century, together with a major critical essay by “one of the handful of living masters of the American language, as well as a singular historian and philosopher of American experience.” AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel.
http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

18th to 21st January : The company Théâtre en Anglais presents three plays in English to be performed at The Bataclan. For more information contact 01 55 02 37 87. "Romeo and Juliet," "Sherlock Holmes" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray." For youth and adults.

*19 January 19h30 WICE@The Library - Writers on Writing: Chip Martin on publishing, writing and American literary expatriation in Europe. He'll touch on his work and in particular his affinity for the form of the 'blest nouvelle', as Henry James called it. Chip Martin was born n Philadelphia, grew up in California and has lived largely in London since 1973. He is the author of more than a dozen interlinked novellas and, as Stoddard Martin, of five books of literary and cultural criticism. He has been a social worker, a wood merchant, a layer of irrigation pipeline, a professor of college English on U.S. warships, a teacher of writing at Harvard and a lecturer in literature at Oxford and at Warsaw Universities. He has a degree in history from Stanford and a Ph.D. in English from the University of London, where he retains a visiting fellowship.In the 1980s, he edited Avantgarde and Status UK magazines; his reviews and articles have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, San Diego Union, Jewish Chronicle and elsewhere. He served for many years on the management committee of English PEN. He is sole proprietor of the small press Starhaven, which received the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Poetry Book of 2008 for Poems from Dry Creek by John Dofflemyer. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

*20 January 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Award-winning Russian translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky discuss the translation process and their newest work on ‘Doctor Zhivago.’ AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

*21st Jan at 7:00 p.m. On the occasion of the publication of the English translation of Napoleon's “Clisson and Eugénie”, join us for a conversation about Napoleon with Peter Hicks, historian at the Fondation Napoléon, and Steven Englund, author of “Napoleon: A Political Life.” Completed when Napoleon was only 26, the tragic story of Clisson and Eugénie reveals one of history’s great leaders to be also an accomplished writer of fiction and offers a fascinating insight into the young man’s view of love, women and military life.
Peter Hicks and Émilie Barthet have created the definitive version of Clisson and Eugénie from original fragments of manuscript. This edition includes their notes and commentary on Napoleon the writer, and an introduction by Napoleonic specialist, Armand Cabasson, on the man behind the legend. Please RSVP:
books@whsmith.fr AT: WH Smith, 248, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris M° Concorde Exit: rue Cambon. For more info: http://www.whsmith.fr/

*21 Jan at 7pm: Lorraine Liscio will present her book Paris and Her Remarkable Women. To visit a city is to wander through its stories and glimpse its ghosts. This book evokes Paris from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century through sixteen exceptional women whose lives intersected with Paris in remarkable ways and whose eventual fame depended on the city itself. The women profiled include: Mme. Roland, St. Genevieve, Marie Curie, Coco Chanel, Mme. de Sevigné, Heloise, Christine de Pizan, Catherine de Medici, Emilie du Châtelet, Francoise d'Aubigne, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, Rachel Felix, George Sand, Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Camille Claudel. Their stories bring to life medieval culture, Enlightenment ideas, the court of Louis XIV, the chaos of the Revolution, the nineteenth-century art scene, and twentieth-century breakthroughs in science and fashion. Whenever possible, the author allows these women to speak for themselves. The sites associated with each women are located in the central parts of Paris that most visitors explore, and even those women whom most people thought they knew may prove surprising. AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

*24th Jan at 7.30 pm MOVING PARTS presents a reading of a play by Timothy Jay Smith "Little Eden" (screenplay) For more, see:
http://www.movingparts.org.uk/ or e-mail Stephanie Campion movingpartsparis@gmail.com for listings! Tel : 06 14 67 18 58 AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, M° Tuileries

*25 Jan at 7 pm – Poet, novelist and actress Margo Berdeshevsky. Author, actress, and poet Margo Berdeshevsky, born in New York City, won the American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick award for innovative fiction for Beautiful Soon Enough, her new book of illustrated short stories (University of Alabama Press, 2009). Her poetry collection But a Passage in Wilderness was published by Sheep Meadow Press (2007). Honours include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, The Chelsea Poetry award, Kalliope’s Sue Saniel Elkind Award, places in the Pablo Neruda and Ann Stanford Awards, five Pushcart Prize nominations and two Pushcart special mention citations for works in leading literary journals including Kenyon Review, New Letters, Agni, Pleiades, The Southern Review, Poetry Daily, and Poetry International. In Europe her work has appeared in Poetry Review (UK), The Wolf, Siecle 21, & Europe. Her novel Vagrant is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. She currently lives in Paris, where she is considering conversations with Madame de Sévigné's ghost who lurks, maybe, in the courtyard. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel.
http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

*26 January 19h30 : IVY Writers Celebrates 5 years of bilingual readings with JOE ROSS, COLIN MAHAR & Guest French author TBA with poetry in English & French and poetry put into music. JOE ROSS will be launching his newest book, his 12th collection of poems: “Strata” (published by Dusie Press) and COLIN MAHAR will be punctuating the evening with his musical creations. BIOS: ROSS: Author of twelve books of poetry, Joe Ross was born in Pennsylvania. In 1997 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award for his poetry and moved to San Diego, where he worked for The City of San Diego Commission's for Arts and Culture. His poetry reveals close links with the "Language" poets but seeks in its often disjunctive structure, puns, and linguistic riddles, to be accessible to a large audience. Many of Ross's poems are subliminally political while concerned with love and interrelations between individuals. The American Voyage, in particular, concerns the idealism of American culture and its failures as a culture to live up to those ideals. Recent publications include: EQUATIONS =equals (Green Integer Press, 2004), Strati (Bi-lingual Italian/English, La Camera Verde, 2007), FRACTURED // Conections … (Bi-lingual Italian/English, La Camera Verde, 2008) & Strata (Dusie Press, 2008). He has also had poetry in dozens of magazines & anthologies, including the Debut Edition of - The Best American Poetry 1988, Scribner/MacMillan Publishing Company, John Ashbery, editor. MAHAR: Born in New York City, raised in Montréal, Colin moved down to San Francisco to pursue poetry. Started writing songs on a pawn-shop-bought mariachi guitar. His first chords were learned from Punk Rock Pete. Back in Montréal his musical training was taken up by local poet/composer David Ranger and with his help Colin wrote my first tunes. He soon left for Paris and not long after, David ended up there too. After a return to SF (to study poetics at the New College of California) and then a return to Paris (to write and drink wine ) Colin joined David, Amanda Watters and Florent Selig to form HAMPER - a great rock band that is now on semi-permanent hiatus after the bassist and lead guitar player decided to have a baby together and move to Ottawa. Check out some of his music at:
www.myspace.com/colinmahar At: The Next, downstairs, 17 rue Tiquetonne 75002. M° Etienne Marcel / RER Les Halles. See http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/ for full details (up soon !)

*27 janvier 20h : Poète/publique : rencontre avec Jacques Roubaud & Benoît Casas / Nous Dans le cadre de "poète/public", résidence d'écriture qu'il effectue au Comptoir des mots de septembre 09 à juin 10, Frédéric Forte vous invite pour rencontrer un poète et son éditeur. Comment un auteur conçoit-il un livre de poésie ? Quel est le rôle de l’éditeur ? Les invités tenteront de répondre à ces questions, et à d’autres…AU :Comptoir des mots, 239, rue des Pyrénées, Paris 75020.

*28 Jan 7 PM. UPSTAIRS AT DUROC, the Paris-based literary journal, is proud to invite you to the Launch Reading for Issue 11.. Come hear exciting new work by four of our contributors: JÉROME MAUCHE, JENNIFER K. DICK, RICHARD TOOVEY and BONNY FINBERG. BIOS: Jérôme Mauche is the author of Électuaire du discount (Le Bleu du ciel, 2004), as well as of many other books and chapbooks, including Le Placard en flammes, La Maison Bing and Fenêtre, porte et façade. He directs the poetry collection "Grands soirs" with Les Petits Matins publishers, and curates reading series for the Musée Zadkine and the Ménagerie de Verre, in Paris. Jennifer K. Dick, from Iowa, is the author of Fluorescence (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2004), the chapbook Retina/Rétine (Estepa Editions, Paris, 2005) and the BlazeVox eBook Enclosures. Her poetry translations appear in the anthology New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008) and in journals. Several of her translations of Jérôme Mauche's prose poems appear in Upstairs at Duroc Issue 11. Richard Toovey is an architect and translator who has lived in Berlin since 1989. He helped found Border Crossing magazine, chairs the Creative Writing Group e.V. and assists with the Poetry Hearings festival. His poetry, which has been commended in the Arvon Competition and nominated for the Forward Prize, appears most recently in Orbis, The Salzburg Review and The SHOp. Bonny Finberg's chapbook of short stories, How the Discovery of Sugar Produced the Romantic Era (Sisyphus Press) was featured on the DVD 5 Guys Read Finberg. Her work appears in Evergreen Review, The Brooklyn Rail, four Unbearables Anthologies, Lost and Found: New York Stories from Mr. Beller's Neighborhood and Best American Erotica. She has been translated into French, Hungarian and Japanese. AT: BERKELEY BOOKS OF PARIS, 8 rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris, Metro Odéon.

*28 Jan at 7pm: Diane Johnson will discuss the work of author Leonard Michaels. First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them in sexual fantasias, paranoia, drugs, and the extreme intimacy of self-destructive violence. Reproducing a time and place with extraordinary clarity, Leonard Michaels explores with self-wounding honesty the excruciating particulars of a youthful marriage headed for disaster. Leonard Michaels (1933-2003) was the author of Going Places, I Would Have Saved Them If I Could, and The Men's Club, among other books. FSG will publish his Collected Stories in June to coincide with the reissue of Sylvia. AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

28 January 8 :30pm : Beer Necessities presents in concert in Paris for the 4th time from America Erin McKeown & Anais Mitchell. This is a truly great album, in some ways it feels like Erin's "Pet Sounds" and in others a concept album, though Karel Beer has no idea what the concept is. (he'll have to ask her) So let's pack the place and make these girls the stars that they deserve to be! Erin McKeown la nouvelle signature de Righteous Babe, le label d’Ani Di Franco Produit par Sam Kassirer et mixé par Brian Deck (Modest Mouse), Hundreds of lions est une perle de songwriting à la fois folk et pop. Cet album enregistré sur trois ans marque l’apogée d’une artiste unique ayant déjà 10 ans de carrière AT: La Java, 105 rue du faubourg du Temple Paris 10 tickets on the night / Fnac etc 15e. To get on events mailing list :
karelbeer@free.fr

*29 Jan at 7 pm – Novelist Salvatore Scibona. In Paris for the French publication of The End, National Book Award finalist Salvatore Scibona will read from his prize-winning novel. Excerpts will also be read in French. The English paperback edition was published in autumn 2009.The End is a brilliant debut novel about a single day in 1953 as experienced by six people in an Ohio carnival crowd and spanning half a century of Italian immigrant history. The End was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library, and the Norman Mailer Cape Cod Award for Exceptional Writing. His work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best New American Voices, and the New York Times. Salvatore Scibona administers the writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. "Like no other contemporary writer, Salavatore Scibona is heir to Saul Bellow, Graham Greene, and Virginia Woolf, and his masterful novel stands as proof of it—a concordance of the immigrant experience from the beautiful to the brutal and everything in between." ZZ Packer, author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel.
http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/

A PEEK INTO READINGS in FEBRUARY 2010 :

*4 Feb at 7pm: An evening surrounding American literature with Marc Amfreville, author of Ecrits en Souffrance and also with Ada Savin, author of L'Amerique par Elle-Meme. On Ecrits en Souffrance: Comment ne pas entendre sourdre dans cette représentation sereine d'une île grecque, tirée de Fugitive Pieces, roman d'Anne Michaels, l'image inquiétante et improbable des camps de la mort auxquels Jakob, réfugié à Zakynthos, a échappé? La mer ici devient épiderme, surface qui, par sa définition même, fait éprouver le sentiment d'un insondable. Entre l'enfoui et l'émergeant, l'écriture a réussi à dire le trauma. …La réflexion vise à débusquer parallélismes, lieux de rencontre, mais aussi écarts entre psychanalyse et fiction, pour tenter de découvrir la logique de ce contrepoint. Ainsi, d'auteur en auteur— C.B. Brown, E.A. Poe, H. Melville, A. Bierce, T. Williams, J. Ellroy, F. Howe, D. DeLillo, P. Auster, A. Michaels, H. James—, cette lecture s'attache à dégager les fondamentaux métaphoriques du trauma tels qu'ils peuvent s'inscrire formellement dans divers textes et les constituer en « écrits en souffrance ». AT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/

*4th Feb at 7:00 p.m. Charles Glass will present and sign his book “Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-44” Americans in Paris tells for the first time the true story of the thousands of Americans who stayed in Paris during the Nazi occupation. This tale of adventure, intrigue, passion and deceit exposes the lives of Americans caught up in war from the day the German army marched into Paris in June 1944 and took many of them into the Paris underground, the Maquis and the concentration camps. Please RSVP:
books@whsmith.fr AT: WH Smith, 248, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris M° Concorde Exit: rue Cambon. For more info: http://www.whsmith.fr/

Thursday 4, Friday 5 & Saturday 6 February, 2010 at 20h30; Saturday 6 February matinée 14h30 BOOKING NOW FOR THE NEXT INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS’ SHOW « The Lady in the Van” by Alan Bennett. At the end of the 1960s, Alan Bennett encountered Miss Shepherd, an elderly eccentric living in a van near his home in Camden Town. It was an encounter which was to lead, eventually, to Miss Shepherd’s moving her van into his garden in 1974 for ‘two or three months’ – but those three months extended to fifteen years. The Lady in the Van is the funny and moving dramatisation of his “smelly ” cohabitation with Miss Shepherd, and of her death in 1989. Special group prices are available for the matinée performance. Salle des Fetes, Quai Voltaire, Le Pecq, 78230 RER line A1 Le Vésinet - Le Pecq, Tickets 12 & 10 euros Res & info:
http://www.internationalplayers.co.uk/ or 06 31 58 62 85. Booking info: ipboxoffice@gmail.com

*11 Feb at 7pm: An event around Jane Campion's film Bright Star. Bilingual Reading of some of the Keats' poems selected in the film with the participation of Fouad El-Etr, éditeur of La DéliranteAT: The Village Voice Bookstore, 6 rue Princesse, Paris 6°, m° St Germain, or Mabillon.
http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/


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Part II) Writing, reading & acting workshops in Paris! (listed by start date) :

ACTING: Words Alive O theatre classes and workshops start again on Wednesday 13th January. Merci de bien vouloir confirmer votre présence par email ou téléphoner. Catch up on the latest on http://www.wordsaliveo.com/ and see times, prices, etc for workshops. Confirm your place by calling Words Alive O!

READING POETRY: “The Flowers of Evil and other Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine” Date: Thursdays, January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 11, 18 Time: 10:30 a.m.– 12:00 p.m. Fascinated by the Belle Epoque? Poets of the period, especially Charles Baudelaire, wrote some of the most powerful and evocative works of the time. In this 6-session course of ‘slow’ poetry, we will discuss the works of Baudelaire, Verlaine and others, exploring Symbolism, Decadence, the Belle Epoque commercialism and, of course, love in all its variants. This course is well-suited for students of art (Baudelaire himself was an art critic as well), as well as non-French readers. All poems discussed will be presented in parallel French and English versions, with plenty of time for discussion and debate. Vive la poésie! Instructor: Gretel Furner, MA German and French literature, Oxford, PhD German Literature, U. of Saarbruecken; former professor at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. and Instructor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Code: WJ141 Fee: 120€ Place: At a member's home in Neuilly near line 1. Complete details will be provided to attendees. Note: Open to
WICE and AWG members. Pre-registration with your association required. http://www.wice-paris.org/wice/creative-writing-and-literature/the-flowers-of-evil-and-other-poetry-charles-baudelaire-and-paul-verlaine

15 Jan 19h00-21h00 (ages 12+) Teen Acting Workshop: Come as you are! Join us for a night of improvising, acting and fun with Clarence Tokley of the Bilingual Acting Workshop in Paris. Beginners are welcome and encouraged. AT: The American Library in Paris, 10, rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris RER Alma Marceau or M° Ecole Militaire.
http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

PITCH YOUR CHILDRENS’ BOOK: A pitch & query session Interested in preparing to go to the SCBWI Bologna symposium/book fair in March (
http://www.scbwibologna.org/) or thinking about looking for an agent? Julia Churchill of Greenhouse Literary Agency has offered to help SCWBI members prepare. She'll be leading a Saturday afternoon workshop designed to improve the disposition of our quarrelsome queries and pesky pitches. We are looking at two possible days -- Feb 27 or Mar 5. (Yep, that's during the winter holidays.) If you're interested in attending, RSVP ASAP and mention which date(s) you'll be available. Tioka Tokedira tokedira@aol.com

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Part III) News Reviews & Reviews News: publications + calls for work

A (LAST) VERSAL CALL: DEADLINE IS JANUARY 15, 2010! Versal wants your poetry, prose, and art for its eighth issue due out in May 2010. Internationally acclaimed literary annual published in Amsterdam, bringing together the world's urgent, involved, & unexpected. See website for guidelines and to submit:
http://versal.wordsinhere.com/. To go directly to the submission manager and attach your word files (max 5 poems thus no more than 10 pages): http://www.wordsinhere.com/versal/submgr/index.php
Inquiries (only) can be directed to:
http://versaljournal@wordsinhere.com/.

ONLINE: Check out author Dawn Michelle Baude’s new website for news of her & of her books:
http://www.dawnmichellebaude.com/.

SEEKING WORK: accepting materials for an upcoming domestic violence anthology. The anthology will be a fund raiser for domestic shelters in middle Tennesee. The book will be printed by "Published By Westview, Inc." in Nashville, TN. All submissions should come by postal mail to my home address. The deadl...ine for submissions is July 31, 2010. Thank you. Poems, photos (inspirational, humor), and a few essays or plays if I receive them. Poets may send 1-5 poems themed or in support of the project. Theme poems include victimization, surviving abuse, solving a problem, sexual assault poems, court poems or whatever the writer may come up with. Also support poems such as family humor or something uplifting. Any accepted photos must be 300 dpi or better. Plays and essays should be themed work. Please send submissions to David S. Pointer, 803 West Main Street Apt. M; Murfreesboro, TN 37129 Writers may email the editor for more information at
dspointer@hotmail.com

SUBMIT TO NATIONAL POETRY PRIZE : The National Poetry Series seeks book-length manuscripts of poetry written by American citizens. All manuscripts must be previously unpublished, although some or all of the individual poems may have appeared in periodicals. Translations, chapbooks, small groups of poems, and books previously selfpublished are not eligible. Manuscript length is not limited. However, a length of 48-64 pages is suggested. See full guidelines at:
http://www.nationalpoetryseries.org/ Deadline: manuscripts must be postmarked between 1 January 2010 and 16 February 2010. 5 books will be selected. Judges names are also online.

PARIS HOSTS NEEDED: for Childrens’ book writers and publisher’s group: If you can host the February or April SCWBI Show & Tell at your home, let me know. We usually meet: On a weeknight from 7ish until 10:30pm; It can either be organized as a potluck dinner or we can have food delivered...There's usually 5-12 of us. Contact: Tioka Tokedira
tokedira@aol.com

RADIO IN ENGLISH: Fill your ears with new voices,
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/womr/ppr/index.shtml- radio station broadcast live from Cape Cod, Massachussetts. Tune in for a special Comedy Show early Monday mornings 6 to 8 am Paris time. You can also connect with your iphone apps.

NOW OUT: “100 Notes on Violence” by Julie Carr. Winner of the 2009 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, Carr obsessively researches intimate terrorism, looking everywhere from Whitman and Dickinson to lists of phobias and weapon- store catalogs for answers. Do they lie in statistics, in statements by and about rapists and killers, in the capacity for cruelty that the poet herself admits to? This book is a dream-document both of light and innocence—babies and the urge to protect them—and of giving in to a wrenching darkness, where despair lies in the very fact that no single factor is to blame. Order now from Ahsahta Press, 1910 University Drive–MS 1525, Boise, ID 83725
http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/

POETRY BOOK PRIZE: Asahta Press will continue to read manuscripts for the $1500
Sawtooth Poetry Prize Competition which is taking place right now: each year between January 1 and March 1. Please see the guidelines for more information, at their site at: http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/contest.htm

NEW OUT : “Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet” by Stephen Ratcliffe is now out from Counterpath Press. 216 pages. ISBN 978-1933996141. $17.95. Order from Counterpath (
http://www.counterpathpress.org/aupgs/ratcliffe/ratcliffe.html) or Small Press Distribution (http://www.spdbooks.org/). "Stephen Ratcliffe’s beautiful meditation on what does not happen in Hamlet offers a fascinating view of the play, focusing on the unperformable but nevertheless essential action, recounted events, the actions that words create and that remain words, but that also enable and explain the business of the drama. This book will be compulsive reading for anyone who cares about Shakespeare." — Stephen Orgel "Stephen Ratcliffe’s new study of Hamlet is nothing short of a small miracle. A poet’s 'language book’ . . . for all seasons and all readers.” — Marjorie Perloff Also from this press : Counterpath Press is having a book sale: any 10 Counterpath titles for $100. Please visit our website at http://www.counterpathpress.org/ for details. Also, we have a new Facebook page and please visit and become a "fan" for updates about our books, authors, or to get in touch. It's at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Counterpath-Press/174863182908?v=wall&ref=ts

NEW BOOK OUT: “If not metamorphic” by Brenda Iijima. “If not metamorphic” changed by geological pressure, then what? Iijima’s newest book uses the long form, frequently in choral antiphon, to ask what kind of pressures exert change—as in the title poem, where war and human cruelty have turned even the kelp murderous—and what exactly is changed: sometimes words take on other forms before our eyes, sometimes sentences try on new endings in shameless view, and puns on popular culture poke through the deepest meditation. These poems truncate and disrupt narrative, borrowing now from the parataxis of renku, now from the verse-prose travelogue of haibun, but do not foreclose the possibility of epiphany; Iijima still envisions a “Great Swan” that holds within it creation and destruction: “Eureka / Or death?” “Iijima’s eco-provocations have the lightness and gravitas of an improbably reconsecrated world glimpsed at its hectic, interrogatively driven conception. On the edge of loss, words have taken on direct agency.” —Joan Retallack
http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/ to order.

RUFO Quintavalle’s BLOG: local poet & guest poetry editor for Nth Position has started blogging. If you're interested it's at: rufoquintavalle.blogspot.com