AUSTIN INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL

AUSTIN INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL

We are almost in Austin after an exhilarating  drive through America and some memorable visits — special mentions to Serpent Mound and to Paris, Kentucky; you can find the documentation of these moments on my Instagram & Facebook pages.
We  are ready & very much looking forward to an intense 4 days of poetry readings & performances, reconnecting with old friends & meeting new ones.
Below, our specific reading times — but do check out the full schedule for details here.

Thursday 04/04/2019
Pierre: 2:30 PM Social Justice I @ Holiday Inn Austin Midtown: 6000 Middle Fiskville Rd. 78752 /Learning Center

Nicole: 4:30 PM Woman Read @ Book Woman: 5501 N. Lamar Blvd. Austin 78751

Friday 04/05/2019
Pierre: 11:00A AM Social Justice @ Kick Butt Café 5775 Airport Boulevard Austin 78752
Nicole: 1:00 PM Visual Poetry @ Holiday Inn Austin Midtown: 6000 Middle Fiskville Rd. 78752

Saturday 04/06/2019
Pierre & Nicole : 1PM A full Domopoetics Action @ Holiday Inn Austin Midtown: 6000 Middle Fiskville Rd. 78752
Pierre & Nicole : 5PM PANEL w/ Roger West: The Role of the international poet in an age of increasing isolationism and nationalism.

Lori Anderson Moseman & Nicole Peyrafitte at Berl’s Poetry Brooklyn

Lori Anderson Moseman & Nicole Peyrafitte at Berl’s Poetry Brooklyn

I am delighted to share this event with my long time art-sister Lori Anderson-Moseman.
We both have recent books out and we will launch them together!
Lori’s book : Y (The Operating System, 2019)
& mine is : Landsc0pe (Plaine Page, 2018)
reading at Berl’s Poetry Brooklyn
Thursday March 14 2018 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

About us:
Image result for lori anderson mosemanLori Anderson Moseman’s poetry collections include Y, (The Operating System, 2019), Light Each Pause (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017), Flash Mob (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016), All Steel (Flim Forum Press, 2012), Temporary Bunk (Swank Books, 2009), Persona (Swank Books, 2003), and Cultivating Excess (The Eighth Mountain Press, 1992). Her collection DARN is forthcoming from Delete Press in 2019. Her collaboration with book artist Karen Pava Randall, Full Quiver, is available from Propolis Press. Her collaborations with artist Sheila Goloborokto are featured in Talon Review v.2 n.1 and Dusie 17: The Ecopoethos Issue. A former educator, she ran the press Stockport Flats from 2006-2016. See: www.loriandersonmoseman.com

Nicole Peyrafitte is a Pyrenean-born pluridisciplinary artist whose writings, films/videos, paintings & voice-work draw on her eclectic background & the experiences of shaping identity across two continents and four languages. Latest books & projects: Landsc0pe (Plaine Page 2018) Bi-Valve, Vulvic Space | Vulvic Knowledge (Plaine Page 2016) Carnets 1 & 2 ( RedFox Press 2016-2019) Liminal Thread (Venternier 2017). In 2018 she completed Things Fall Where They Lie, an impro-cinéma-vérité documentary film. In 2017, she created Domopoetic Works, a three-tier exhibition of art- and video-works at the Galerie Simoncini in Luxembourg, with her husband & often-times collaborator Pierre Joris. They reside in Brooklyn. More at: www.nicolepeyrafitte.com

2 0 1 9 !

2 0 1 9 !

A HAPPY 2019 TO YOU ALL!

We started the year “en fanfare” with a short installment of a new Domopoetic-Karstic-Action, “Two, Zero, One, Nine: a line, a cave, a hand, a song” at the 45th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading for The Poetry Project. You can watch the live video above. Thank you, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte for the phone-video-capture.
Below, some news about upcoming events & publications. We are looking forward to see you in 2019 — keep in touch!
Nicole & Pierre

EVENTS:

Tuesday January 22  6:00PM
Washington, D.C
Pierre & Nicole w/ Charles Bernstein and other poets.
A Night With American Poets Against US Sanctions on Iran on the night of the State of the Union
Busboys And Poets
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
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Saturday February 9  1:30PM
Albany N.Y
Nicole feature poet
Know Reading
The Excelsior Pub
54 Philip St, Albany, NY 12207, USA
April 4-7  
Austin, Tx
Pierre & Nicole at the Austin International Poetry Festival 
April 18-21
New-Orleans, La
Pierre & Nicole translation panel & poetry readings at New Orleans Poetry Festival 

2018 PUBLICATIONS:

Pierre
Revolution Goes Through Walls, by Safaa Fathy 
(SplitLevel Texts). Translated from the Arabic by Safaa Fathy and Pierre Joris; now long listed for the 2019  PEN Award for Poetry in TranslationPurchase
Adonis & Pierre Joris : Conversation in the Pyrenees  Contra Mundum Press, 2018 
with a Pyrenean Invocation by Nicole Peyrafitte
Méditations sur les Stations de Mansour al-Hallaj  Pierre Joris (translated into French by Habib Tengour; APIC Algiers)

N & P
Junction Box Issue 11
A very special edition, featuring a number of papers & documentation delivered at the Black Mountain College symposium, which took place in Crickhowell, Wales, over a weekend in May 2018.
We both participated and here are our contributions:
Pierre JorisOlson Now
Nicole Peyrafitte:  Basil King: Mirage (A Film) — A great opportunity to see the entire film if you haven’t yet —plus drawings from Carnets

Nicole
LANDSC0PEÉditions Plaine Page, June 2018
U.S book release TBA / disponible chez votre libraire et/ou en vente ici
CARNET 2, an artist book by Redfoxpress, Ireland, August 2018.
available here  / en vente ici
Requiem for Gaza  available here
LiveMag #15  online
TESTE 32  

Pierre
Forthcoming in 2019:
Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj (translated into Arabic by Safaa Fathy; Cairo)
Arabia (Not So) Deserta Essays on Maghrebi and Mashreqi Literary & Cultural Matters. (Spuyten Duyvil, New York)
Microliths : The Complete Posthumous Prose by Paul Celan (attem press).

Fall 2018 Events + Summer pix & videos +

Fall 2018 Events + Summer pix & videos +
From “Carnet 2,” Nicole Peyrafitte, Redfoxpress (Ireland), August 2018
The summer is winding down & we sure had a busy & productive one (see details below).
We are looking forward to reconnect with you all & we have events & books coming out !
Meanwhile wishing you a beautiful fall.
Nicole & Pierre
EVENTS:

SEPTEMBER:
Pierre Joris 
Tuesday, September 11 | 7:30 pm-8:45 pm
Not Invisible Today: Winners of PEN Translation Prizes
WORD Bookstore, 126 Franklin St. Brooklyn, NY 11222
Meet the translators behind prize-winning translations. Sponsored by PEN America’s Translation Committee and moderated by Committee member Jonathan Cohen, this program showcases three translators talking about translation and reading from their works. We will hear from Pierre Joris, 2005 Poetry in Translation Award winner for Lightduress (Paul Celan); Tess Lewis, 2017 PEN Translation Prize winner for her translation from German of Angel of Oblivion (Maja Haderlap); and Sandra Smith, 2007 PEN Translation Prize winner for Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky). 

Nicole Peyrafitte 
Friday, September 21  5-7pm 
Book signing CARNET 2 (Redfoxpress, Ireland)
NY Art Book Fair  @ MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101
also available online / en vente ici

Pierre Joris 
Thursday, September 20 7:30 pm
With Pierre’s Words
UAlbany Performing Arts Center, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222
Pierre & the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company perform ”With Pierre’s Words” with music composed by Joel Chadabi, as part of the College of Arts and Sciences 25th anniversary celebration.

Pierre Joris
Sunday, September 30 7-9 pm
Reading for International Translation Day
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St NYC 10003
Pierre Joris reads extracts from his translation of Safaa Fathy’s “Revolution goes through Walls”(SplitlevelTexts 2018).

OCTOBER:
Pierre Joris & Richard Sieburth
Monday, October 1, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
The Imagination of Henri Michaux
Albertine bookstore, 972 5th Ave, New York, NY 10075
Join Richard Sieburth & Pierre Joris as they discuss Sieburth‘s new translation of Henri Michaux’s “A Certain Plume” (NYRB).

Pierre Joris
Thursday, October 4 – Friday, October 5 
Symposium on “Ethnopoetics”
UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093
Details to be announced.

Joris/Peyrafitte & …
Saturday, October 20   4pm
Poetry & music in tribute to Gerrit Lansing
The Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston, NY 12401
with Michael Bisio, bass
Don Byrd, Pierre Joris, Robert Kelly, Chuck Stein, George Quasha, Tamas Panitz, T. Urayoan Noel

NOVEMBER:
Nicole Peyrafitte
Wednesday, November 14   8pm
Trickster Feminism with Anne Waldman & Friends
The Poetry Project, New York
This event will highlight Anne Waldman’s new book Trickster Feminism, Penguin, 2018. With musicians, vocalists: Fast Speaking Music (Devin Brahja Waldman and Ambrose Bye) with special guests: Melanie Dyer, Janice Lowe, Thurston Moore, and the premiere of a short video “Crepuscular” by No Land, 2018.

NEW PUBLICATIONS:

Nicole Peyrafitte:
LANDSC0PEÉditions Plaine Page, June 2018
U.S book release TBA / disponible chez votre libraire et/ou en vente ici
CARNET 2, an artist book by Redfoxpress, Ireland, August 2018.
also available online / en vente ici

Pierre Joris:
Stations d’al-Hallaj, translated by Habib Tengour, Apic Editions, Algiers, 2018
Safaa Fathy, Revolution Goes Through Wallstranslated by Pierre Joris with Safaa Fathy, SplitLevel, 2018

Forthcoming later this year:
Adonis & Pierre Joris: Conversations in the Pyrenees, Contra Mundum Press, 2018
Paul Celan, Microliths (Posthumous prose) translated by Pierre Joris, attem-verlag, 2018

DOCUMENTATION OF SUMMER
click for full photo & more videos gallery

Video sample:




Pierre Joris at Black Mountain Ghost Jam  May 2018.
Pierre Joris, with Nicole Peyrafitte and Camilla Nelson. Filmed by Penny Hallas with iphone-recorded soundtrack by Sarah Rhys. Projected films by Penny Hallas, projected still images arranged by Allen Fisher. Recorded sounds by Lyndon Davies. 

Radio interviews:
Pierre Joris interviewé Catherine Farhi  Enregistré à Sète le jeudi 27 juillet 
Nicole Peyrafitte & Seyhmus Dagtekin sur Radio Lenga d’Oc interview Bruno Cécillon
Enregistré à Sète le jeudi 26 juillet 

8 DAYS / 16 READINGS in Sète, France-Occitanie

8 DAYS / 16 READINGS  in Sète, France-Occitanie

From July 20-28 2018

16 readings in 8 days @
Festival Les Voix Vives de Méditerranée

Details below for Nicole, but both Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte will present daily performance/readings
Full schedule programme here/ : here/ici

VENDREDI 20 JUILLET
SOIREE D’OUVERTURE

SAMEDI 21 JUILLET
15H-16H
VOIX À VOIR :POÉSIE SONORE ET VISUELLE
HALLES DE SÈTE, PARVIS RUE GAMBETTA • PLAN 24
Nicole Peyrafitte
Présentation : Antoine Simon

18H-19H
POÉSIE ET OCCITANIE
LA POÉSIE EN OCCITANIE, LECTURE / DÉBAT
HALLES DE SÈTE,
PARVIS RUE GAMBETTA • PLAN 24
Nicole Peyrafitte
Présentation : Dominique Aussenac

DIMANCHE 22 JUILLET
15H-16H
Rencontre d’un poète avec les enfants.
Nicole Peyrafitte
Animation : Nicole Drano-Stamberg
POÉSIE POUR JEUNE PUBLIC : LECTURE, JEUX, ANIMATIONS
IMPASSE BROUILLONNET • PLAN 9

19H30-20H30
MUSIQUE ET POÉSIE A CAPRICCIO
LECTURE POÉTIQUE ET MUSICALE
PLAGE DU MÔLE SAINT-LOUIS • PLAN 33
Aleš Mustar (SLOVÉNIE), Nicole Peyrafitte (FRANCE)
Azeddine Montassere, OUD Présentation : Aymen Hacen

LUNDI 23 JUILLET
10H-13H
TOUTES VOILES DEHORS
LECTURE EN MER À BORD DU VOILIER LE LAISSE DIRE
DÉPART BOUT DU MÔLE SAINT-LOUIS, BASE ÉRIC TABARLY • PLAN 35
Tarif bateau 20€ (réservation conseillée auprès du Bureau du Festival). En collaboration avec l’association Cap au large.
Nicole Peyrafitte
Coordination : Jean-Pierre Louvel.

16H30-17H
ÉCHAPPÉE POÉTIQUE
POÉSIE / PERFORMANCE
RUE GAMBETTA
(PARTIE PIÉTONNE 1) • PLAN 21
Dans la librairie L’Échappée belle. Nicole Peyrafitte
Présentation : Claudio Pozzani

MARDI 24 JUILLET
18H-19H
PERF ET FRACAS
PERFORMANCE POÉSIE SONORE ET VISUELLE
COUR ÉCOLE PAUL BERT,
ANGLE RUE VILLEFRANCHE – RUE DU MAS ROUSSON • PLAN 7
Nicole Peyrafitte
Coordination : Daniel Cardona

MERCREDI 25 JUILLET
11H30-12H
POÉSIE DE PLEIN FOUET : POÉSIE SONORE ET VISUELLE
RUE GAMBETTA
(PARTIE PIÉTONNE 2) • PLAN 22
Nicole Peyrafitte
Présentation : Frank Smith

17H-18H
POESIE HORS CHAMPS
Rue Garenne
(Terrassé du Bar du Plâteau) Plan 3
Nicole Peyrafitte
Présentation : Frank Smith

JEUDI 26 JUILLET
15H-17H
DE VOIX EN VOIX
PLACE DU LIVRE
(PLACE DU POUFFRE) • PLAN 1
De jour en jour se succèdent tous les poètes invités au Festival.
Caroline Boidé (FRANCE), Seyhmus Dagtekin (KURDISTAN/TURQUIE), Nicole Drano-Stamberg (FRANCE), Emad Fouad (ÉGYPTE), Colette Gibelin (FRANCE), Nicole Peyrafitte (FRANCE), Agron Tufa (ALBANIE) Présentation : Josyane De Jesus-Bergey

VENDREDI 27 JUILLET
11H-12H
CORRESPONDANCES : LECTURE/DÉBAT
ESPACE JEAN VILAR, 2BIS RUE ALSACE LORRAINE • PLAN 25
Quel même élan nourrit des poésies très différentes
Daniel Maximin (FRANCE / GUADELOUPE),
NicolePeyrafitte
Présentation : Antoine Simon

19H-20H
LECTURE & SIGNES
Trou de Poupou -impasse Canilhac- Plan 17
Présentation Marion Blondel

SAMEDI 28 JUILLET
11H-12H
POESIE EN VOIX ET EN MUSIQUE
Aymen Hacen (Tunisie)
Nicole Peyrafitte
Nicolas Grosso (Banjo Ukelelé
Présentation: Jean Poncet
at “Cul de Boeuf”
Ecole de Joute de la Marine Plan 31

15H-16H
ONDES POÉTIQUES
RENCONTRES RADIOPHONIQUES EN PUBLIC
RUE GARENNE (TERRASSE DU BAR DU PLATEAU) • PLAN 3
RADIO LENGA D’OC
Seyhmus Dagtekin (KURDISTAN/ TURQUIE), Nicole Peyrafitte (FRANCE) Coordination : Isabelle Bourdais

17H-18H
UN POÈTE ET SON ÉDITEUR
LECTURE/DÉBAT
PLACE DU LIVRE
(PLACE DU POUFFRE) • PLAN 1
Poète et éditeur de poésie : un lien étroit.
Nicole Peyrafitte
Éditions Plaine page Présentation : Enán Burgo.