[Paris]

Bilingual Lecture: Charles Bernstein, Patrick Beurard-Valdoye, & Jennifer Moxley
November 24, 2016, 7:30 pm
at Atelier Michael Woolworth

As part of the international colloquium organized by the Paris-Diderot University and the Paris-Sorbonne University, join Charles Bernstein, Patrick Beurard-Valdoye, and Jennifer Moxley for a poetry reading and lecture in Paris. Entry is free. Charles Bernstein's Pitch of Poetry, new essays, was published this spring by the University of Chicago Press. His most recent books of poems are Recalculating (Chicago, 2013) and  All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2010). Bernstein is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is co-director of PennSound.  Born in French-speaking Alsace, Patrick Beurard-Valdoye lives in Paris. In the 1980s he founded and edited Cahiers de Leçons de Choses, a magazine whose literary and visual singularity was hailed by Claude Simon and John Cage. He is a professor at l’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon where he co-founded the Station d'arts poétiques, a training programme for the writing of poetry. The author of 25 books, he has just completed Flache d'Europe aimants garde-fous, the seventh book in the "Cycle des exils." Jennifer Moxley is the author of six books of poetry, a book of essays, and a memoir. Her 2014 book, The Open Secret, was awarded the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry prize. Her 1996 chapbook Enlightenment Evidence was collectively translated at the Foundation Royaumont on 1998 and published by Edition Créaphis under the title Evidence des Lumières (edited by Juliette Valéry). Moxley has translated three books from French and her translations of nine poems by Marcel Proust were included in the Viking Penguin Collected Poems. Her essay comparing three different translations of Stephane Mallarmé’s “Sonnet en –xy” is forthcoming in Into English (Greywolf, 2018). She teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Maine. More info here.