535 West 22nd Street,5th Floor $6 general admission; $3 Dia members, students, and seniors Advance ticket purchases recommended Tickets are also available for purchase at the door, subject to availability.
Benno Barnard: Does Belgian poetry exist? Bernard Dewulf YM Dangre striking TXT Caroline Lamarche Vincent Tholomé&MajaJantar Werner Lambersy Jan H. Myshkin Pascal Leclerq & Stephan Balleaux Antoine Boute with Alexandra Crouwers & Jean DL Marie-Laure Bérand (different parts of this event will be in Dutch, French, English & German)
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Friday, June 15, 8:00 PM Foreign poetries
Ron Silliman (USA) ChusPato (Spain) Jan Lauwereyns (Belgian / Japan) Will Stone (UK) Ronelda S Kamfer (South Africa) EmilianGalaicu-Paun (Moldova / Romania) Leonard Nolens (Belgium) Swoon (Belgium) & Alastair Cook (Scotland) Bernard Dewulf (Antwerp’s Poet Laureate) Luc Fierens (Belgium) Dirk Elst (Belgium) dance Dance (Belgium)
Jerome Rothenberg @ 80 being the first of four videos from the celebration @ CUNY December 9, 2011 with Charles Bernstein, Pierre Joris, AmmielAlcalay, Bruce Andrews/Sally Silvers, HomeroAridjis, Steve Clay, Peter Cockelbergh, Monica de la Torre, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Al Filreis, Michael Heller, Susan Howe, & Ligorano/Reese
The other 3 videos, with Ligorano/Reese, Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Pete Monaco, Charlie Morrow/Maija-LeenaRemes, Rochelle Owens, George Economou, Nicole Peyrafitte, George Quasha, Jeffrey Robinson, Diane Rothenberg, Horoaki Sato, CaroleeSchneeman, Danny Snelson, Anne Tardos, Lee Ann Brown/Tony Torn, Ian Tyson, Anne Waldman, Mark Weiss, Charles Bernstein reading David Antin’s tribute & (of course!) Jerome Rothenberg can be found here
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.