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for the launch of “the l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e book” in a french translation

For the launch of the The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book in a French translation by Amélie Ducroux, the publisher, Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre (PURH) has orgnizaed an events in Paris and the Université de Rouen.

Review of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, le livre  by Emmanuel Laugier in Matricule des Anges (Dec. 2021) #228: pdf

Paris: Weds., March 23, 7:30pm (19h30) 
POETES AMERICAINS de la mouvance l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e
at « l’ours et la vieille grille », 9 rue Larrey, Paris 75005, métro Monge ou Censier-Daubenton
Featuring Susan Bee, Amélie Ducroux, Sally Silvers, Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein and Christophe Lamiot Enos (invited by Paul de Brancion). Mostly bilingual.

Paris: Fri., March 25, 7:30pm (19h30), doors open 19h.
at the Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore, 11 Rue de Médicis, 75006
Andrews and Bernstein, with Lamiot Enos: English only

Rouen: Poésie, (é)motions: March 21, 2022
Université de Rouen, Mont-Saint-Aignan, Salle des Conférences / Maison de l’Université
Anne-Laure Tissut et Christophe Lamiot Enos (ERIAC)
9h30 : Ouverture de la journée : Anne-Lise Worms (Vice-Présidente du Conseil Académique), François Bessire (ancien Directeur des Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre)
I9h45-10h: Introduction —  Christophe Lamiot Enos (ERIAC, Université de Rouen)
10h-10h30 : lectures—Bruce Andrews
10h30-11h : table ronde, avec Bruce Andrews, Susan Bee, Charles Bernstein, Amélie Ducroux, Isabelle Garron, Sally Silvers, modérateurs Christophe Lamiot Enos et Anne-Laure Tissut, la revue L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E à la fin du XXème siècle (émergence, ambitions, réceptions, représentations), aux USA, en poésie et ailleurs
1h00-11h30 : discussion et pause café
11h30-12h : intervention—Susan Bee
12h-14h30 : discussion et pause déjeuner
14h30-15h30 : interventions—Sally Silvers, Charles Bernstein
16h-17h : table ronde, tous les participants, avec plus particulièrement Isabelle Garron, modérateurs Christophe Lamiot Enos et Anne-Laure Tissut, la revue L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E aujourd’hui, aux USA, en France, en poésie et ailleurs : enseignements, embranchements, jeunes pousses, avenirs, au regard du Nouveau monde, anthologie des poésies en France de 1960 à 2010.

L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, le livre is part of the TO series, edited by Lamiot. This series includes blingual collections, not otherwise published in English, by Hank Lazer, Norman Fischer, ALice Notley, Roger Kamenetz, Joe Ross, Laynie Brown, Lee Ann Brown, and others, as well as manifestoes by Lamiot.

& just before the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book launch
Marseille

Charles Bernstein (with Martin Richet)
at Le Centre international de poésie Marseille
6:30pm (18h30), Thurs., March 17, 2022 (bilingual)
and earlier that day Susan Bee and Bernstein: worskhop on collaboration

is it time to change the name of what we do? is “poetry” still the right word?

i.0148, untitled, Marco Giovenale / differx

Marco Giovenale / differx, i.0148, untitled langrid ( = language grid), green and black ink on paper, cm 10,5×15, (maybe 2015)

a question i tried to keep open to answers and doubts, here:
https://www.facebook.com/differx/posts/10158506795252212

feel free to comment.

Is it time to change the name of what we do? Is “poetry” still the right word?

david-baptiste chirot – in memoriam

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/david-baptiste-chirot-and-david-baptiste-chirot-and-c-mehrl-bennett-and-john-m-bennett/poet-on-the-right-side-of-history/paperback/product-4g6nyv.html

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After a five month stay in hospital, well-known international artist and poet, David-Baptiste Chirot (birth name, David Harris) began, in the late 1980’s, a new phase in his artistic journey at River View apartments in Milwaukee Wisconsin with artworks, films, writing, only to have it interrupted in early June 2021 by his untimely death. Friends and fellow artists/writers helped piece together this in-memoriam from notebooks, files, loose pages and artworks, salvaged from his apartment, and with works inspired by his art, writings, and their memories of father, brother, friend, artist, writer, poet & visual poet, David-Baptiste Chirot (b.1953 – d.2021).

Eds: Tom Hibbard, John M. Bennett, Catherine Mehrl Bennett

examples of a certain kind of thinking

 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Jim Leftwich: I am looking for examples of a certain kind of thinking about poetry which, if pursued to its logical extremes, would eventually include considerations of asemic and/or desemantized writing.

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-i-am-looking-for-examples.html

cia rinne @ the “haus für poesie” (berlin), today h. 19

screening today at the zebra poetry film festival, urania berlin

16h30 dealing with poetry/ umgang mit gedichten

19h: wortbilder, eine zebra lesenacht screenings+readings

an der urania 17, kleistsaal, 2g+

l’usage du mot, 7’46 min (2020)

official selection of the vienna poetry film festival, the monologues & poetry international film fest and the zebra poetry film festival berlin

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Reading and Conversation with the Poets
Jürg Halter (Switzerland) | Florence Pazzottu (France) | Jörg Piringer (Austria) | Cia Rinne (Germany) | Éric Sarner (France)

Hosted by: Daniela Seel

The event languages are German and French, with simultaneous interpretation. German translations of the French poems will be available.

What would a poetry film festival be without poems being read live and the people who write them? We have invited poets from France and the german-speaking countries whose texts are playing an important part in this year’s films. They will be presenting more of their work and giving us an insight into their very own worlds of poetic imagery.

tickets & info here:
https://www.haus-fuer-poesie.org/de/literaturwerkstatt-berlin/veranstaltungen/alle_veranstaltungen/wortbilder-eine-zebra-lesenacht1

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more about “wasting my grammar”:
https://slowforward.net/2021/05/21/wasting-my-grammar-cia-rinne-in-berlin/
& https://slowforward.net/2021/05/16/cia-rinne-berlin-wasting-my-grammar/

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phone-a-poem highlights

library.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/static/poetry/listeningbooth/poets/phone-a-poem.html

Phone-A-Poem Online presents highlights from an installation that celebrates the popular Cambridge-based poetry hotline, Phone-A-Poem (1976-2001). Founded by Peter Payack (and later edited by Roland Pease), Phone-A-Poem invited hundreds of poets—including Allen Ginsberg, Jane Kenyon and James Tate—to create answering-machine length recordings of individual poems which the public could access by dialing the hotline. In honor of the series, the Poetry Room has digitized select recordings from the archive and commissioned several new answering-machine poems (of 90-seconds or less) by such poets as Dan Beachy-Quick, Charles Bernstein, C.A. Conrad, Jon Cotner, Forrest Gander, Gabriel Gudding, Dorothea Lasky, Paul Legault, Filip Marinovich and Anne Waldman.

divining dante: online version of the book (for reading & free download)

The Divining Dante anthology – online version – is now available here
thanks to the publishing house Recent Work Press

It is a completely free document, which you are in turn free to distribute, share and otherwise shout about as you like. It includes all the poems collected in the print version. It is also downloadable as a pdf and shareable.

It features over 200 poems from around the world responding vividly, elegantly, and pointedly to Dante’s masterwork.

Thanks to the publisher, Shane Strange, and to the contributing general editors Paul Munden and Nessa O’Mahony, and editors Moira Egan, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Alvin Pang, Paul Hetherington and David Fenza.

Paper book:
https://recentworkpress.com/product/divining-dante/

Online version:
adobeindd.com/view/publications/535b8362-cfa3-489d-a345-5649184ab247/8q6n/publication-web-resources/pdf/DD_web_2609.pdf

https://adobeindd.com/view/publications/535b8362-cfa3-489d-a345-5649184ab247/8q6n/publication-web-resources/pdf/DD_web_2609.pdf

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jim leftwich @ archive.org

https://archive.org/details/@textimagepoem

Six Months Aint No Sentence, Books 1 – 15, written between 04.24.2011 and 01.13.2012. Originally published by Marco Giovenale at differx hosts as Six Months Aint No Sentence, a Journal: texts and works by Jim Leftwich, 2011 – 2016 Books 1 – 187
https://app.box.com/s/l76xlrg78e5s8evbi4c4
Books 1 – 30 were published by Peter Ganick and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at White Sky E-Books.

poetry, visual poetry, asemic writing, historiography, writing against itself, useless writing, journal, textimagepoem, trashpo, desemantized writing, 21st Century American epic, collage poem, ongoing research

keep moving / jim leftwich. 2021

I was a poet, and for me that meant pushing the edges of poetry, and the edges of myself while writing poetry. The line was an edge, and the rhyme was an edge, and the stanza was an edge, and the syllable was an edge. Eventually it became impossible to ignore the idea of the letter as an edge. Once having agreed to that, it became impossible to ignore the shapes of the letter — first the shapes of the printed letters, in an array of fonts, and then the shapes of the handwritten letters.

From the outset, the idea of producing meanings had been for me subordinate to the idea of making poems. If all I had wanted to do was produce meanings, I would have written conventional sentences and paragraphs. But that was not what I wanted.

So I wrote poems, and I pushed the edges of the poem, and in doing that I was pushing the edges of myself, my sense of satisfaction and achievement, my sense of my own skills and competence, and I was never satisfied, intentionally, by choice, never satisfied, I refused to accept the sense of being satisfied, so eventually, inevitably, I found myself producing desemantized or asemic writings.

And that was a plateau, a stage, and I knew from the outset that I was only passing through, that I would never be satisfied with desemantized or asemic writing, any more than I had been satisfied with writing conventional poems.

Over the years a community of asemic writers has become active and visible and, to the extent that I am a part of it at all, my role has evolved to be a kind of advocate for incessant criticality. As a participant in the conversation around asemic writing, I can be counted on to say something similar to “yes, you are right, but…” Yes, you are right, but that is not enough, it is not even particularly important. What is important is to keep moving. Asemic writing works for you? Fantastic. Now move on and do something else.

Jim Leftwich