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Just Out! William S. Merwin, Un temps au jardin, trad. Thomas Dutoit et Cécile Roudeau, Périgueux, Fanlac, 2022 & Lecture, 19.10.22, Librairie EXC, Paris

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William S. Merwin, Un temps au jardin, traduction par Thomas Dutoit et Cécile Roudeau
ISBN: 9782865773206 Editions Fanlac
 
Un temps au jardin, dernier recueil de W. S. Merwin publié en 2016 sous le titre de Garden Time, est le legs d’un poète qui laisse à ceux qui vivent encore la trace poétique d’un présent partagé, une mémoire entretissée d’oubli. Veilleur du crépuscule, le poète fuit la lumière décapante, celle qui découpe et capture et appauvrit le monde, et nous engage à goûter ce qui toujours échappe. Maintenant. Une fois pour toutes, c’est-à-dire, dans la reprise infinie qu’est le temps du poème, le temps au jardin.
 
Un temps au jardin est présenté dans une version bilingue, traduit en français par Thomas Dutoit et Cécile Roudeau.
Le volume comprend leur commentaire, « L’éblouissement de l’ombre : écrire à l’approche du crépuscule », et leur traduction inédite d’un essai biographique de Robert Becker, « La forêt de palmiers de W.S. Merwin », qui rappelle l’attachement profond du poète à sa palmeraie de Maui à Hawaï.
 
W. S. Merwin est né à New York en 1927. Grand traducteur de poésie, auteur depuis le début des années 1950 d’une vingtaine de recueils de poèmes et de récits et essais en prose, W. S. Merwin reçut deux fois le prix Pulitzer de poésie : en 1971 pour The Carrier of Ladders et en 2009 pour The Shadow of Sirius. Au début des années cinquante, il avait acheté une vieille bâtisse à moitié en ruines dans le causse du Haut Quercy où il rédigea une partie de son œuvre, dans ce qu’il appela « l’autre pôle de ma vie ». W. S. Merwin s’est éteint en mars 2019 dans sa maison d’Haiku à Hawaï où il s’était installé dans les années soixante-dix. Merwin n’oublia pas le causse où il avait planté un jardin de roses anciennes, et où il revenait souvent. À Maui, le poète jardinier sema 14 000 palmiers ; il en survit aujourd’hui environ la moitié.
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Le colloque Merwin Across Borders Conference (Université Paris Cité et ENS Ulm, 20-21 octobre) s’ouvrira par une lecture bilingue des poèmes de W.S. Merwin à la librairie EXC, Passage Molière, 75003 Paris, Mercredi 19 octobre à 18h.

https://merwinacrossborders.weebly.com/special-events.html

Inaugural meeting of the Network for New York School Studies (NNYSS), Wednesday 20 April 2022, Université Gustave Eiffel

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© Martin Spychal, 2019

Paris 2022: What We Talk About When We Talk About The New York School

The inaugural meeting of the Network for New York School Studies (NNYSS) will be held on Wednesday 20 April 2022 at Université Gustave Eiffel (Champs sur Marne). 9:45 am-5 pm, room 3V071, third floor, Bâtiment Copernic, 5 Bd Descartes, 77454 Champs-sur-Marne. 

How to get to Université Gustave Eiffel.

When you walk into the Copernic building, you can either take the elevators to the third floor (the elevators are located behind the staircase below) or take the stairs up to the third floor.

Room 3.071 will be on your right as you reach the third floor (if you take the stairs) or right in front of you (if you take the elevators)

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The inaugural meeting of the NNYSS will conclude with a poetry reading at Michael Woolworth’s atelier, located off the Place de la Bastille, 2, rue de la Roquette, Cour Février, 75011 Paris, at 7:30 pm. How to get to Michael Woolworth’s atelier. 

The Alice Notley Poets & Critics Symposium will be held on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 April 2022 at Université Gustave Eiffel.

What We Talk About When We Talk About The New York School

The inaugural symposium of the Network for New York School Studies (www.nnyss.org) will feature short talks, close-readings, interdisciplinary discussions, presentations of archival work, joint presentations, work-in-progress, artistic responses, and other conventional or unconventional responses to a variety of New York School poetry, art, and writing. Together, we will explore the place of New York School poetry, both in its emergent moment, and since:

  • how did New York School poetry define itself in its moment?
  • what has it come to mean?
  • who are its artists and poets?
  • what “schools” or movements has it influenced?
  • how did / does it sit within broader New York / American / global writing and culture (including film, music, and art)?
  • what can be said of 3rd and 4th generation New York School writing?
  • what do we talk about, now, when we talk about the New York School?

The event will be informal, inclusive, conversational, interdisciplinary, and intersectional. It will conclude with a poetry reading in the evening (poets TBC).

This event is organized by Rona Cran (University of Birmingham) and Yasmine Shamma (University of Reading) and hosted by Olivier Brossard (Université Gustave Eiffel.)

If you would like to attend, please email r.cran@bham.ac.uk.

NY SCHOOL & ALICE NOTLEY SYMPOSIUMS & NORTH AMERICAN POETRY CONFERENCE RESCHEDULED TO 2021

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Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the inaugural meeting of the Network for New York School Studies (NNYSS), the Alice Notley Poets & Critics Symposium (originally planned 1-3 July 2020), and the “North American Poetry 2000-2020: Poetics, Aesthetics, Politics” Conference (originally planned 15-17 October 2020) are rescheduled as follows:

N E W 2 0 2 1 D A T E S :

❃ The inaugural meeting of the Network for New York School Studies (NNYSS) will be held on Wednesday 23 June 2021 at Université Gustave Eiffel. More information HERE.

❃ The Alice Notley Poets & Critics Symposium will be held on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 June 2021 at Université Gustave Eiffel. More information to follow in due course.

❃ The North American Poetry 2000-2020 Conference will be held from Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 October 2021 at Institut Universitaire de France, Paris. CALL FOR PAPERS HERE.

2020 Poets & Critics program: save the dates!

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Thursday 13 and Friday 14 February 2020: Poets & Critics Symposium with Lyn Hejinian. Université Paris Diderot

Wednesday 1 July 2020: “New Work on the New York School” symposium with Rona Cran‘s and Yasmine Shamma’s research collective, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham and the University of Reading. Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée. See Call For Papers below or here.

Thursday 2 and Friday 3 July 2020: Poets & Critics Symposium with Alice Notley. Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée.

More information to follow.

Call for Papers for the inaugural meeting of the Network for New York School Studies (NNYSS), 1 July 2020, Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée

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Call for Papers:

What We Talk About When We Talk About The New York School

one need never leave the confines
© Martin Spychal, 2019

We welcome short papers addressing any aspect of New York School poetry, art, and writing for the inaugural meeting of the Network for New York School Studies (NNYSS). This event builds on the research network scholars and poets began to form during the illuminating New Work on the New York School symposium and poetry evening held at the University of Birmingham in 2018. We hope it will be the second international meeting of many.

We are particularly interested in presentations that deal with the place of New York School poetry, both in its emergent moment, and since:

  • how did New York School poetry and art define itself in its moment?
  • what has it come to mean?
  • who are its artists and poets?
  • what “schools” or movements has it influenced?
  • how did / does it sit within broader New York / American / global writing and culture (including film, music, and art)?
  • what can be said of 3rd and 4th generation New York School writing?
  • what do we talk about, now, when we talk about the New York School?

Talks are expected to be 5-10 minutes in length. Close-readings, interdisciplinary discussions, presentations of archival work, joint presentations, work-in-progress, artistic responses, and other conventional or unconventional responses to the New York School, broadly conceived, are especially welcome. Like last time, the event will be informal, conversational, interdisciplinary, and intersectional. It will conclude with a poetry reading in the evening (poets TBC).

This event is organized by Rona Cran (University of Birmingham) and Yasmine Shamma (University of Reading) and hosted by Olivier Brossard (Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée). It will take place at the Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée, on July 1, 2020, and will be followed by a 2-day Poets and Critics symposium focusing on the poetry of Alice Notley.

Paper / presentation proposals are welcome for submission until January 1, 2020. Please submit 200 words along with a 1-2 sentence bio to nwonthenys@gmail.com.

10 February 2020. Jeffrey Lependorf: Lecture on John Ashbery’s Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror

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Sorbonne Université et l’Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée

vous invitent à une conférence de Jeffrey Lependorf

directeur de The Flow Chart Foundation (Fondation John Ashbery)

le lundi 10 février à 18h

Amphithéâtre Cauchy

17, rue de la Sorbonne

75005 Paris

Toute personne extérieure à Sorbonne Université est priée de s’inscrire afin d’assister à cette conférence en écrivant à Clément Oudart avant le 5 février : clement.oudart@sorbonne-universite.fr

“THE REFLECTION ONCE REMOVED: Looking and Seeing Through John Ashbery’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror“

Evénement organisé par le groupe Poets & Critics (UPEM) et l’axe de recherche Poetry Beyond (VALE) avec le soutien de l’Institut Universitaire de France. 

Jeffrey Lependorf, an accomplished musician, composer, visual artist and nonprofit arts professional, serves as Executive Director of The Flow Chart Foundation (www.flowchartfoundation.org), an organization dedicated to exploring the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of poet John Ashbery. He currently also serves as Executive Director of Small Press Distribution, a nonprofit literary book distributor, and directs the Art Omi: Music International Musicians Residency, a program he created to foster international artistic collaboration. He received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin Conservatory, and his masters and doctorate degrees from Columbia University, where he taught for a number of years.

How to get there? > Université Paris Diderot, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges > Room M19

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To come to Paris Diderot University, take metro line 14 to the “Bibliothèque François Mitterand” stop and then walk to Batiment Olympe De Gouges, 8 rue Albert Einstein, 75013 Paris. See detailed map below. To have an estimate of the time it will take you to get to the university from your location in Paris, please click HERE.

Olympe de Gouges, P

Once at the university, walk past the cement pillars/stilts pictured above and walk towards reception / security desk (in the hallway). However,no need to get a visitor pass at security to access room M19. To the left of reception (see below), go past the glass doors, walk up the first flight of stairs, turn right then left and you will see room M19. Room M19 is located on the mezzanine floor between the ground floor and the first floor.