Nicole Peyrafitte

PoemTalk: Pierre Joris & Jerome Rothenberg @Kelly Writers House
2025-09-10 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
Philadelphia — September 10, 2025
The Kelly Writers House, UPENNSpecial Episode of PoemTalk: Pierre Joris & Jerome Rothenberg6:00 PM in personCo-sponsored by: The Creative Writing ProgramRSVP here to attend in person

NYC launch/memorial : Pierre Joris — Poasis: Many Tongues, Many Fires
2025-09-12 19:15 | The Poetry Project, NY, United States
Friday September 12, 2025
Pierre Joris — Poasis: Many Tongues, Many FiresThe Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church131 E 10th St, New York, NY
Reception 7:15PM
Reading: 8PM sharp
The program will feature poetry, music, & tributes reflecting the scope of Pierre’s decades-spanning, boundary-crossing work
— and most of all POASIS II (Wesleyan University Press), selected poems from 2000–2024.
Copies will be available at the event, and you can also order the book online if you cannot attend.
Book link: https://www.weslpress.org/9780819501950/poasis-ii/

Pierre Joris — Poasis & Beyond: Always the Many @ NYSW BookFestival Albany,NY
2025-09-27 16:00 - 21:30
Albany — September 27, 2025
Pierre Joris — Poasis & Beyond: Always the Many
Part 1: Panel — 4:00–5:30 p.m. in UAlbany Campus Center Auditorium,
Sponsored by NYSWI and Department of English.Part 2: Reading & Performance — 6:30 p.m. in UAlbany Campus Center Multipurpose Room following a 5:30 p.m. reception. Hosted by Department of English with support from NYSWI. More details TBA.
Presented by The English Department, New York State Writers Institute, and University at Albany, as part of NYSWI Book Festival

Stand 4 Gallery : A Degree of Uncertainty II
2025-11-15 12:00 - 2025-11-23 15:00 | STAND4 Gallery, 414 78th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11209, United States
A Degree of Uncertainty II
Stand4 Gallery & Community Art Center
414 78th Street, Brooklyn, NY
November 15 – 23, 2025
Gallery hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 12–3 PM
I’m pleased to take part in this invitational small-works exhibition exploring how every measure—of art, life, or science—carries its own degree of uncertainty.
Works are available for purchase online through Stand4 Gallery’s shop & webiste:https://stand4-gallery.square.site/s/shop

CHARTING THE NARROWS & THE HARBOR SPECIAL PROGRAMMING
2026-05-23 15:00 - 16:00 | STAND4 Gallery, 414 78th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11209, United States
May 23 3:00 – 4:00 Place: Stand4 Gallery Nicole Peyrafitte artist and poet, reads from Interglacial Narrows by Pierre Joris, a collection that draws on his own poems and his work as a translator and essayist, and was conceived at the edge of The Narrows. Peyrafitte participated in Essential Shore / Permeable Future at Stand4 last year. Charting the Narrows & The Harbor, a solo installatio Peyra. This is McGregor’s first exhibition as an artist at Stand4 Gallery. She was the curator of Stand4’s first and second public art biennials, Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens and Essential Shore, Permeable Future, which focused on the community and ecology of Bay Ridge. McGregor’s immersive biennial work with Stand4 is the inspiration for this place-based installation. Collaborations with past biennial artists, Jan Mun and Nicole Peyrafitte will be included in the exhibition’s programming

Water, Agent of Life & Mementos of a Living Practice
2026-06-18 18:00 - 2026-07-04 17:00 | 198 Gallery, 198 24th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Besty Damon :Water, Agent of Life
Nicole Peyrafitte: Mementos of Like Practice
June 18 – July 5, 2026
Two artists whose work bridges art, ecology, performance, and activism.
Betsy Damon, a Guggenheim Fellow and pioneering ecofeminist artist, presents recent paintings and collages inspired by the creative agency of water itself:
“Every piece in this exhibition is created from two basic water images: one is water spinning into vortices in a creek and the other is the movement of healthy microbes in a drop of water as seen through a microscope. In this intense investigation from which all life is created.” – Betsy Damon
Nicole Peyrafitte presents paintings, bird studies, performance-based work, and reflections drawn from an ongoing interdisciplinary practice spanning visual art, food, language, and observation.

Opening Reception: June 18, 6–9pm
Action Painting Performance at 7pm

Betsey Damon & Nicole Peyrafitte — Living Practices: Short Films/Conversations
2026-06-26 19:00 - 20:30 | 198 Gallery, 198 24th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Living Practices
Friday, June 26, 7pm Short Films & Conversations, Betsy Damon & Nicole Peyrafitte
Moderated by Alex Jones

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Bird State : a Performance Reading
2026-06-30 19:00 - 21:00
Bird-State: A Performative Reading
Tuesday, June 30, 7 PM
Free event but RSVP here
Please join Nicole Peyrafitte at the gallery for Bird-State: A Performative Reading, an evening of bird poems, field notes, voice, and embodied attention presented within the exhibition.
She will read from her ongoing Bird-State series, alongside selected bird poems by Pierre Joris.
Rooted in fieldwork, memory, shores, migration, and the other-than-human world, the evening will bring together poetry, observation, and performance as part of Peyrafitte’s living practice of Bird-State

Her exhibition, Mementos of a Living Practice will also be on view (running June 18 – July 4, 2026).
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
