UCSD Department of Literature Announces … New Writing Series Fall 2013 Sponsored by the Dean, Division of Arts & Humanities Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - SME Performance Space Room at 4:30 pm Pierre Joris has moved between the US, Great Britain, North Africa, France & Luxembourg for 50 years, publishing over 50 books of poetry, translations, anthologies, & essays. Forthcoming in 2013 is a translation & essay on the late poetry of Paul Celan (Farrar,Straus & Giroux). Recent publications include: Diwan Iffrikya: An Anthology of North African Writings from Prehistory to Today, co-edited with Habib Tengour (University of California Press); & Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj (Chax Press). With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn, NY & teaches poetry & poetics at the State University of New York, Albany. More info at:pierrejoris. Nicole Peyrafitte is a Gasco-Rican pluridisciplinary artist born & raised in the Gascon-French Pyrenees. Her texts, voice-work, paintings, videos, & cooking were featured in Ninon; The Bi-Continental Chowder/La Garbure Transcontinentale; Whisk don’t Churn. Her latest projects are: “Basil King: MIRAGE,” a film she co-directed with Miles Joris-Peyrafitte & “Bi-Valve: Vulvic Space / Vulvic Knowledge” a series paintings, bi-lingual texts & performance (Stockport Flats). She has performed in such venues as The Metropolitan Museum, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The University of Bordeaux, Birbeck College London, CCA Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, Poets House NYC, The Poetry Project NYC, Festival Occitania in Toulouse, Estivada de Rodez. More info at: nicolepeyrafitte The New Writing Series thanks the Department of Visual Arts for providing us with the SME Presentation Space.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:01:50 +0000