tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46648337301432742582024-03-04T22:53:21.235-08:00Spoken Word ParisOpen mic/scène ouverte: Performance poetry. Lire vivant. Poésie sonore. Stand up. Monologue. Stories. Beat poetry. Spoken word. English. Français. Your own original texts. Old texts from Rimbaud to Dr Seuss, Beowulf to Gil Scott-Heron. Chacun a son mot à dire. Make the words come alive.David Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.comBlogger338125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-75618433230614770352012-12-01T04:34:00.000-08:002012-12-02T23:17:26.406-08:00Hang on tight - we're taking you to the new website for SpokenWord Paris!David Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-78505201055011031212012-06-18T06:29:00.000-07:002012-06-18T06:29:42.039-07:00Spoken Word June 11 2012<br /><style>
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Report by Alberto.</div>
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Round I</div>
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Patrick Cash, Pierre P-Air Purdy, Anass, Lucy Gelman, Kate
Noakes, and our featured poet the Dada Jazz Surrealist Maestro <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Oisteanu" target="_blank">Valery Oisteanu</a>:</div>
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From the poem “Doctorine” by P-Air Purdy:</div>
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Peace, love and taco grease.</div>
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Round II</div>
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Magda, Patrick, Benjamin, Helen, Pablo about Bisexuality:
“Pick a fuckin team!”</div>
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Andrea, Caroline and our featured dancer <a href="http://www.wix.com/ciehautdela/ciehautdela" target="_blank">Lore</a>. More Lore?<a href="http://www.wix.com/ciehautdela/ciehautdela#%21__hors-sol/video" target="_blank"> Here</a>.</div>
Well, we didn’t have a tree at the Chat Noir.<br />
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Round III</div>
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Ewan translating Garcia Lorca. Tino. Hiroko Kouno. Kelly.
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Further reading:</div>
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Helen O’Keefe from The Angry Lutemaker:</div>
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Bartolommeo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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fifteen of them, they beat you in silence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They broke both my arms, but I was one of the few whose
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<i>He stretches out his arms wide, in the pose of the
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Bartolommeo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Y<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like a hammering hero in an
old Soviet monument.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No man with
biceps like that could be a capitalist parasite. </div>
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Bartolommeo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I could take out my brain, to show you how well it too has mended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My parents sent me to a bourgeois Freud
doctor, was interesting, but I told them I’d do better with my art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Grimaldi, I acted in my head,
for example, in isolation, I improved all Tony Curtis’s roles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would be sitting in ripe shit but
really I was laughing on a yacht with Marilyn Monroe. No, I cannot take out my
brain, but I can tell you about the roses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was in a cell with a window for a while, outside was
this old rose garden,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>planted from
before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DINA agents took the women
and raped them there, even they trained a dog to rape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The screams of the women and the barks
of the raping dog would mix with the smell of roses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could not stand to look out at them, their smell was sad
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<br /></div>Alberto Rigettinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269045555835818919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-41835333843457954672012-06-13T13:44:00.001-07:002012-06-13T13:44:12.599-07:00Paris Writers' Workshop Lecture Series from June 25 - 29th<br />
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<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a><b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">PARIS WRITERS WORKSHOP – Afternoon Lecture Series<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">June 25 – 29, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Open to the public [but not free! - SpokenWord editor] the lecture series covers many aspects of writing and publishing. Registration
is required and space is limited. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="color: red; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tools of the Trade
(PWU256)</span></b><b><span lang="FR" style="color: red; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Monday, June 25<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">2:00 PM - 3:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Fee : 15€<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Panelists:</span></b><b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> Samantha Chang, Kate McMullan,
Kathleen Spivack, Christopher Tilghman<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">This panel is designed to
share the talent and experience of our expert Writers-in-Residence with the
entire PWW community. PWW attendees work intensively with just one of our
accomplished faculty members, but these well-seasoned writers/teachers all have
valuable information that should be available to all workshop attendees. Join
us for what promises to be the ultimate lesson in “Tools of the Trade.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.wice-paris.org/Default.aspx?pageId=968631&eventId=450935&EventViewMode=EventDetails"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">http://www.wice-paris.org/Default.aspx?pageId=968631&eventId=450935&EventViewMode=EventDetails</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="color: red; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">How To Structure A
Good Story: Beginnings, Middles, and Endings (PWU257)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Monday, June 25<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">3:45 PM - 5:00 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Fee : 15€<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Panelist: Jami Bernard</span></b><b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">This workshop, sometimes
called SOS or secrets of structure, will review the basics of good story
structure. Does your plot need help? Do you need to review the basic elements
of structure. How will you craft a compelling beginning, middle, and end? In
SOS, you’ll learn how to get a working structure for your fiction or memoir and
how to create a blueprint for identifying the “beats” that shape and drive your
story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.wice-paris.org/Default.aspx?pageId=968631&eventId=450947&EventViewMode=EventDetails"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">http://www.wice-paris.org/Default.aspx?pageId=968631&eventId=450947&EventViewMode=EventDetails</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="color: red; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Secrets of Getting
Published (PWU261)</span></b><b><span lang="FR" style="color: red; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Tuesday, June 26<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Special Workshop with Jami
Bernard</span></b><b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">We are pleased to add a
special afternoon session on Tuesday, June 26, free for all workshop attendees.
This three-hour presentation is a step-by-step guide to getting
published, including<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">How do you know when your
book is ready?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">The role of the
agent/editor/publisher<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">The truth about the writing
life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Why you need an agent and
how to find one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Preparing your pitch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Publishing options<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">The ten biggest mistakes
that keep writers from getting published<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Tips for first-time authors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="color: red; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Literary Trends:
Self-Publishing and E-Books (PWU271)</span></b><b><span lang="FR" style="color: red; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Wednesday, June 27<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Panelists: Stephen Clarke,
Mary Duncan,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Gretel Furner, Timothy Smith</span></b><b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">What’s going on in the
literary world today? With the technology of the 21st century transforming our
lives and with brick-and-mortar bookstores disappearing in cyberdust,
everything is changing. Join an expert panel as they discuss the pros and cons
of self-publishing and the advantages and pitfalls of eBooks … which we know
are here to stay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="color: red; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Wide World of
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nonfiction
opportunities are endless. This lively and diverse panel will discuss the
similarities and differences in writing for a range of nonfiction niches (from
travel writing to restaurant reviews to essays to memoirs) and will include
some helpful tricks and tips for discovering your voice, polishing your work,
pitching yourself and your ideas, and finding publication channels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="color: red; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Welcome to the 21st
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to write a blog and have a passion for tweeting to make yourself heard, and,
even then, it’s a fight to find room in cyberspace. To talk about these
phenomena, we have assembled a true panel of experts. They’ll talk about their
own steps to finding their audience and online voice, as well as steps writers
might take to promote and publicize their work … and find a publisher. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cameron, and Louise Greenberg)</span></b><b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Our panel of literary agents
and a writer who has worked both with and without an agent will talk about the
role of the agent, what the agent looks for in a writer and in a manuscript,
and how the agent helps a client through all phases of development and
promotion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>David Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-49894786443472137592012-06-10T22:48:00.004-07:002012-06-12T13:25:00.594-07:00Report from 4th June...By David<br />
Photos by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mariedelutzphotography">Marie De Lutz</a><br />
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Round 1:<br />
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Dareka spoke the language of asteroids. He co-hosts the poetry night at the Downtown, 46 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Mondays - check it out, it's like a parallel universe in which we're all French).Benjamin brought us the planet of the flakes. The comedy sketches show he's in is on this Wednesday at the Petit Theatre du Bonheure, (info <a href="http://theatremetropole.org/">here</a>). Melanie: the glowing butter brilliance of the waxing moon. Pablo... drags your body into a bathful of ink. David (me!): heart is slow, heart is quick. Pat Cash was full of demons, dawn, gods... Celine: no bit can keep her tongue quiet. Apparently this was a response to me asking her previously ''What do you do with your tongue when you're not using it?'' Kate: archery and silicon; revealing the past is dangerous.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The moment when Helen has her big idea about castration </td></tr>
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Round 2:<br />
Nicole plunged into the abyss of love; broke a tooth in the lost room of lost hearts. Murder (also from Downtown's poetry night) has it <i>gravé dans son coeur. </i>Helene has a plan to eliminate war by turning men into castrati. Michele brought news from his earthquake-riven home town in Italy in <i>My Secret Earthquake. </i>Alec dissected an accordionist in the metro. Andrea sang. Beatrice arrived on the stage, sang God Save the Queen then ripped off various clothes and wig to reveal herself as someone else entirely! Christian saw lives bound for a collision; a selfish dream of fleeing what is essential. Alberto discoursed on drugs in <i>frog-lickin' poetry. </i>''Don't let them change you'' he intoned.<br />
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Round 3:<br />
I lost my pen so don't have notes for this. Which was great as I forgot about the report and enjoyed listening more. I do remember we had Shane's thoughts on Paris (now available in an extremely limited edition book made by Louisa), Billy, Pierre, Evan, Elena, Lucile... and 2 fantastic slam poets in town for the slam competition run by Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide: Harry Baker from England: news from a paper people world. Tobias Erehed from Sweden, with an account of how Swedish children become the flat, repressed Swedish adults we all know and love. They were definitely the big finish of the night. <br />
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Tonight - June 11th, we have a Featured Reader, Valery Oisteanu, and hopefully a dancer. Be there! Sign up from 8pm, 3 rounds starting 9pm. Hopefully Alberto arriving back from Russia to host.<br />
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Bio of Valery Oisteanu:<br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 15px;">Valery Oisteanu is a writer and artist with international flavor. Born in Russia (1943) and educated in Romania. Immigrating to New York City in 1972, he has been writing in English for the past 40 years. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 15px;">He is the author of 11 books of poetry, a book of short fiction and a book of essays: ”The AVANT-GODS”(in progress). A new collection of poetry with collage illustrations titled “Perks in Purgatory” appeared in” Fly by Night Press” New York, 2009.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 15px;">For the past 10 years he is a columnist at New York Arts Magazine and art critic for Brooklyn Rail </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 15px;">As a performer his style is : Jazz + poetry = Jazzoetry</span>
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<br />David Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-71957075021502060332012-06-03T16:09:00.001-07:002012-06-03T16:09:05.046-07:00<br />
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POET IN PARIS<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Poetry Reading<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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June 4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Barnes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Marilyn
Hacker<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hartley<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by the faculty of the University of Southern California’s “Poet in Paris”
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Three Rounds, Two Breaks, One birthday, 24 performances, two
glasses broken, six songs, one love, sisters, brothers, sweat, swearing,
swowing wows. P-Air: we are like the wine we get better with age. David Barnes
learned to dance this week, when Jazz is not a noun, it’s a verb. Gabriel &
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Michele Morselli about poets writing in Cafès, buying just
one coffee and waiting one hour for the right line. Andrea at the piano. Joy
Crane went political on her 20th Birthday (Happy Birthday!), Evan translating
Borges, Sonny Sinatra Shula did it his way, Alberto Rigettini’s Paris
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Lewis National Geographic’s french flyes fucking on my arm. </div>
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Lucy Gelman: “a clear and empty birdness of a thing.”
Beatrice and the story of Persephone: <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19144" target="_blank">A Myth of Devotion by Louise Gluck</a>.
Marius pleases the audience with a Norvegian Child song to get more applause. I
noticed: it works. Helen’s from her laptop. Tino at the piano singing his song
about La Gueule De Bois. Translation: The Hangover. La Resaca. I Postumi. Der
Kater. Georgina introducing Unstrung Letter N: The Paradoxical Theory of Change
by David Barnes. <a href="http://www.lucyhopkins.eu/gallery/main.php" target="_blank">Lucy Hopkins</a> is back: “Dear God, I know a group of people who
say they know you but they seem a little bit unstable.” Camille’s last song in
Paris. Margaux: “Dit moi Jacques Vous ve souvenez de la derniere fois vous etez
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They lied to you!<br />The self does not exist. The past and future do not exist. There is no causality.<br />And if you want to change the secret is to stop trying to.</div>
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This and more will be explained in my open talk on Gestalt Psychotherapy.<br />Touching on how body posture holds character, healing is through risking authentic meeting with another human being, the ways we avoid doing so, how we block our own natural growth process and much more!</div>
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Lose your head and come to your senses!<br />Or stagnate and die…</div>
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This Sunday 8pm I’m tallking on The Paradoxical Theory of Change and Gestalt Psychotherapy… open to debate with all comers at <span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">UNSTRUNG</span> <span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">LETTERS</span> in Au Chat Noir….76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011 Come! Listen! Question!</div>
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David Barnes<br />who is at the end of the 4th year of hugely expensive psychotherapy training at Metanoia, London</div>
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</div>David Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-75059935195524317852012-05-23T01:06:00.002-07:002012-05-23T01:07:57.433-07:00Lucy Hopkins show Le Foulard this Sunday - and free!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dear Spokenword folk!<br />
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I made a show!<br />
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I'll show it here and there a little over the summer and before I do I would mad love to show it to you guys here chez nous à Paris and get your comments!<br />
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No ticket price, just bring your pocket money for your refreshments and your fine selves.<br />
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I will be completely delighted and most grateful to see you Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean Pierre Timbaud, 75011, on Sunday May 27th at 330pm, for the World Premiere of this brand new malarky.<br />
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Yours,<br />
Lucy<br />
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Le Foulard will play at the Prague Fringe festival June 1st-9th:<br />
<a avglsprocessed="1" href="http://www.praguefringe.com/en/programme/le-foulard/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://<u></u><span style="display: inline-block;"></span>www.praguefringe.com/<wbr></wbr>en/<u></u><span style="display: inline-block;"></span>programme/le-foulard/</a><br />
then at the Bike Shed Theatre as part of the Exeter Ignite Festival the 5th, 6th and 7th of July,<br />
then at the Bedford Fringe Festival the 14th and 15th of July:<br />
<a avglsprocessed="1" href="http://www.bedfringe.com/2012_shows/lefoulard.php" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.bedfringe.com/<u></u><span style="display: inline-block;"></span>2012_<wbr></wbr>shows/lefoulard.php</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">A tale, of sorts. Starring a woman and a scarf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Comic and a touch surreal, featuring a motley collection of characters and a love of a show-stopping song, <i>Le Foulard</i> is a joyfully ridiculous one-woman extravaganza, made with love by an idiot.<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And here's a bit about me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lucy Hopkins won an Inspiration Award for her first solo show in 2011. She trained at the excellent and prestigious Ecoles Jacques Lecoq and Philippe Gaulier, and she lives in Paris. <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Note: show is in English.</span></div>David Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-13598601291005044272012-05-20T08:46:00.001-07:002012-05-20T08:49:18.352-07:00Spoken Word in Paris May 14 2012!Report by Alberto.
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Spoken Word Paris. Attention please the stage order may
change randomly: Jason translating Samarago and organizing the troops for a
collective premiere of On the Road. Come with us on Wednesday! Christelle and the words of Sous Le Ciel De Paris. Patrick
Cash vs Patrick Kilm. David fishing goldfish at La Defense. Kate’s tattoos,
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Moe’s on tour, if you can’t read the flyer in this photo,
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Good night. See you next monday. Same hour. (even b4).
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<br /></div>Alberto Rigettinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269045555835818919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-30831688072095139612012-05-16T03:42:00.002-07:002012-05-16T03:42:54.651-07:00Other Writers Group Sat 19th May<br />
The writers' group will still run - led by Jason, as I'll be in London and Bruce has a gig.<br />
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At Shakespeare & Co, 5pm -7pm<br />
5 euro<br />
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More details here: http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.fr/p/other-writers-group.html<br />
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Cheers,<br />
David<br />David Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-21791688995891429812012-05-13T22:21:00.000-07:002012-05-13T22:21:09.768-07:00Report from 7th MayThere were gasps and groans from the audience as Shane recounted cocoons being laid in his pubic hair. Helen read from her tale of an attempted poisoning. David Fishel ate near 50 pancakes to win a bet for his grandad. At first Lucy Hopkins was afraid, she was petrified. Jessamyn started smoking again; everythign looks like carnage in this country. I can't sleep without your warmth.<br />
Emily's eyes roared with light. Alberto was investigated for child porn and won his case when accused of horse fucking. (Wtf! Where does this stuff come from? Sometimes I read over these notes and it's like seeing icebergs loom out of the mist of my beery amnesia and settle back into reality.) Jason translated violence from Naples.<br />
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Round 2:<br />
Lucy Gellman was there "...and someone to bake it with." Moe was stealing back his life. Ben thought of others, a candle in the darkness. Lucile was left standing godless. Edward saw the rain full of ghosts. Constanza read e.e.cummings'<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>THERE ARE SO MANY TICTOC</strong></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">By e. e. cummings</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">there are so many tictoc</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">clocks everywhere telling people </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">what toctic time it is for </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">tictic instance five toc minutes toc </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">past six tic </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Spring is not regulated and does </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">not get out of order nor do </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">its hands a little jerking move </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">over numbers slowly </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">we do not </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">wind it up it has no weights </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">springs wheels inside of </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">its slender self no indeed dear </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">nothing of the kind. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">(So,when kiss Spring comes </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">lips because tic clocks toc don't make </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">a toctic difference </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">to kisskiss you and to </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">kiss me)</span>
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And then it was almost over. Caroline filled the empty space with flowers. And Evan brought us news from the internet wars - Porn vs Cats - which you can listen to <a href="http://michaeljmonroe.com/">here </a><br />
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Next SpokenWord tonight, and every Monday, au Chat Noir.<br />
Cheers,<br />
DavidDavid Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-77486503145232741272012-05-07T04:25:00.001-07:002012-05-07T04:27:41.222-07:00Spoken Word Paris 30 / 04 / 2012 <style>
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Back then Sarko was the President of France. <br />
Patrick Cash masturbation and patriotism, Melanie’s sticky
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<br /> Pansy: we splayed kiss marks all over the room.<br />
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Jessanyn: perhaps you thought no harm in letting her
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Shane the nature poem of Saint Hook (or another Saint?), Fatima’s
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is my life measured by a laughter from ear to ear? Gina
Bonati’s song: Don’t be so merciful, Don’t be too kind, I’m so used to this.
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my monkey it’s about me and my pussy. Bruce’s exact change on the bus driver’s
mind. Lucille introducing Scarecrow Collective number 3. Buy it at Spoken Word for Euro 1.50. Alex’s Baudelaire: Les
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Georgina introducing the Unstrung Letter by Kate Noakes
about Philip Larkin. French slam poetry by Murder and Afroriginal: lumieres sur
mes freres. And Hamlet came out of the blue: To be or not to be, this is the
question: whether tis nobler for the mind to suffer the slings and arrows,
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</div>Alberto Rigettinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269045555835818919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-33647147875592900962012-05-05T09:58:00.001-07:002012-05-05T10:00:36.880-07:00Kathleen Spivack will be teaching Poetry Writing at the Paris Writers Workshop June 24-29 2012 in France.<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00007b; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: #00007b;"><b>Shaping the Poem. </b>From Completion to
Publication. </span>“How do we shape a poem so that it shimmers with
meaning?</i>.” We’ll discuss how to make our work the best it can be, with
attention to communication and publication. Kathleen’s clients write their
heads off, publish widely in all genres and win major prizes and top awards.
You will too! <b><u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://pariswritersworkshop.org/">http://pariswritersworkshop.org</a><br />
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</span></u><span style="color: #0000fb;">*******************************<u><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">bio, Kathleen Spivack<br />
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Kathleen Spivack’s memoir<b><i> With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Plath,
Sexton, Bishop, Rich, Kunitz</i></b> will be published in 2012 by University
Press of New England. A student and friend of poet Robert Lowell, Kathleen
Spivack has written about the poets of his time, notably Sylvia Plath, Anne
Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz and others who took her under their
wing, with a focus on how they approached their work.<br />
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She is the author of seven previous books of prose and poetry (Doubleday,
Graywolf, etc), has published in over 300 magazines and anthologies, and
received numerous awards. Named “Best Writing Coach” by the NWU,
Kathleen teaches in Paris and Boston. <br />
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</span>David Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-10597003755535843362012-04-30T04:28:00.000-07:002012-04-30T04:50:01.911-07:00Shakespeare's Death Day: report from 23rd Aprilby David.<br />
Photos by Marie De Lutz<br />
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It was Shakespeare's Death Day. And somebody's birthday too, who could it be? Oh yes, me! <span style="font-size: x-large;">Unsex me now!</span>cried Kate, filled to the top with direst cruelty. "You're not drunk - the floor's just moving," responded James. Alberto took arms against a sea of English grammar. Jason filled the breach with English dead, which may be 'cos he doesn't like the English or may be because he was out to antagonise the French against us. Troy responded to Jason with words from Cassius. And then, and then... I'll come to more non-Shakespearean stuff in a sec but first - the witches! Check out the witches, fresh from Tesco:<br />
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How cool is that!<br />
Some other fragments:<br />
Shane's nomad conversing with a dead dolphin. Pablo's panic attack. Melanie skipped a step when she should have said <span style="font-size: x-large;">"Fuck you!"</span> Moe leaned into the afternoon. Sonny Shula sang. Ferdia with a deleted scene from Hamlet. Gina: Life as a whore. Antonia:<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write a poem to heal yourself!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Transcend
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">of leftover dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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More tonight, and every Monday, downstairs at the Chat Noir!</div>
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Magda Rosinski opens sending him to sleep with a story,
already? Roxanne reading A.A.Milne (the creator of Winnie The Pooh?) Kate
ravaging the land. Jason translating Cane Rabbioso by Angelo Petrella. Yann on
the roof of the Montparnasse Tower. Julien Calas about some romance ended, but
not regrets. “Liar!” somebody shouts from the audience. Caroline: we all have
some great great from Italy, 8 aunts, 22 cousins. Alberto dropped a tea bag
from the fourtheen floor. Moe’s spring poem: maple up my ass. Sid wanted to
learn a poem by heart written by a British poet for the British Poetry Month
then she found out the poet is American and they don’t even have a British
Poetry Month, just a British Poetry Day. Vicki Feaver. Isn’t she English?
Gabriel and a saxophone:<br />
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"I miss the white of night in January." <br />
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Patrick Cash shared with us a poem about very embarrassing
things you don’t want to tell anybody. Last time for Debbie Hu: Stomach Acid:
the first throw up was yellow. <a href="https://plus.google.com/117110490868077017989/posts" target="_blank">Keep in touch.</a> Vanessa Wright on racism. Chris Newens introducing next
sunday Unstrung Letter aka Jason’s lecture: “From factory to facebook, a marxist critique of the current
crisis.” James’s letter to Dana, Dana’s letter to James. “The Canadians will
raise the prize of water. Assholes!” Lucy Gelman for her neighbour! Jessanyn: “No
sex on Ikea tables, we were different.” Fatima Naravati’s first time or
advanced apology to her parents. Gina Bonati’s song: “What should I do? What
did I do? He was fleshy.” Camille and Betty doom doom Mathe-Mama-Ma-Tic. Ben’s
shadows upon their knees. Kirby Mason’s Discovery, Robin Lee and a final act by
Rhys Trimble. See you next Monday to celebrate William Shakespeare’s Death Day
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Hansel and the Candy Crook, by Troy:</div>
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Tonight<br />
Troy showed up. He'd threatened to respond to Jason's stripping (and wasn't there a poem involved?) 3 weeks ago. He's still threatening, as Jason didn't show up. <br />
We had disobedience, A.A.Milne style, with cellular sensations all the way down to the double helix.<br />
Then a right hook from a headcase called Sharon, in Prague.<br />
<i>That </i>solidified the experince for David Fishel; he looked for a swarm of words.<br />
There are 3 kinds of mindless violence.<br />
"The easter eggs are hidden in the nettle patch and the timer is running," said Emily, as she ran off to work in marketing. Someone was secreting away hours in cigarette boxes, unlocking spaces in him he'd forgotten he had.<br />
Alberto's twin brothers pretended to be Siamese. It was spring time in Paris and Troy had a poem about Christmas.Georgina towered in Babel.<br />
Edward read Stuart Leonard's Taking Brooklyn Bridge - see<a href="http://www.occupythepress.org/content/taking-brooklyn-bridge"> here at Occupy The Press</a><br />
And David F, here on loan to us from his Ginsberg-Gainsbourg night in New York, refused to say the "ch" word, out of respect.<br />
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Say cheese!<br />
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Next SpokenWord: tomorrow, Monday, featuring Rhys Trimble and his stick as star guest.David Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-53066617783575745702012-04-09T07:09:00.008-07:002012-04-09T08:51:33.792-07:00Spoken Word in Paris 02/04/2012Report by Alberto<br />
Photos by Marie De Lutz.<br />
Music by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQR0bXO_yI8">Frank Sinatra</a>.<br />
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Attention please: the running order might change at random. Kate’s tribute to Adrienne Rich and to the new Nokia vibrating tattoo. Ian W. Sperber’s Impro. Guest crooner Sonny Shula singing “One of Those Things.”<br />
Yann’s first time: Horses, Orchids and Credit Cards:<br />
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Some people like horses.<br />
Big mammals, like a giant<br />
dog with square teeth,<br />
towering, rippling canvas bags<br />
of muscle and primitive thought.<br />
Horses are just another large thing<br />
that makes me very uneasy.<br />
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Emily Ruck Keen’s Poem on my mother and wine:<br />
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My Mother<br />
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She is a sad breathless frog<br />
on a parched armchair<br />
Remote control, locus of the room's energy<br />
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Silence hangs here like cigarette smoke<br />
There is nothing to tell, except that<br />
Loneliness is framed<br />
in family photos<br />
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David Barnes’s “Higher than a high wire walker.”<br />
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she orbits earth/satellites the world<o:p></o:p></div>
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her 3 year old son<o:p></o:p></div>
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Arazo: Happy Birthday Mina. I hide in the bottle. I can hear my name. Brianna wrote in a Starbucks. Patrick I’m not a Crazy Messiah. Ex stripper Jason redeem his soul translating Saramago. Sid wanted to read from her novel but a situationist avangard action by Ashley, Chris, Ferdia, Shane and Emma broke in promoting Fifth Wall, the new international comedy troupe.<br />
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Debbie: If I had three wishes:<br />
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1. Something.<br />
2. No more something.<br />
3. Three wishes.<br />
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Lizzie goes fishing. Leonie leaves Paris and poetry sounds poetic. Georgina’s Mithological trip. Rigettini’s Falling Stars Kamikazes. Austin’s one liner: I’m always moving from side to side. Magda glares with hatred, she wants to destroy you. (Who? David Barnum? The Bartender Nico?) Rachel: This man has a big dick (D.B.? The bartender N.?) I’m Jewish. I don’t know what that means.” Jane: I said what? and she said: Dig! I said: Are you Roger? and she said: Who’s not? Shane: I knew I had an important life catching frogs and throwing rocks. Lucy: The Only Enjoyable Part of Writing a Thesis. Is that your clitoris becomes a drumset. Sonny Sinatra Shula. Fly me to the moon. Let me play among the stars. Let me see what spring is like on a, Jupiter and Mars. In other Spoken Words, hold my hand, baby, kiss me.Alberto Rigettinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269045555835818919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-3202726141637771322012-03-28T03:06:00.002-07:002012-04-01T15:13:12.889-07:00bits of Monday 26th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Eyelids like wet towels<br />
Wax melting on the skull vault;<br />
a purring razor.<br />
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Shane reading from Word Legs: 30 Irish poets under 30<br />
Downloadable ebook for next to nothing here:<br />
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Always carry the disease with you - may you never get well!<br />
Songs about drowning<br />
A letter from Henry James: Don't melt too much; Content yourself with the terrible algebra of your own problems.<br />
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Marie Baby & Light Leaks previewed their concert Thursday 5th April<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Above me, a mosquito flies in and out of
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The fucker's already bitten me twice, on
my left big toe, and my right eyelid. I had no idea there was place in insects'
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I wonder what would happen if I tried to
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Would you be terrified by my insults, and
run down, wearing only one shoe and clutching to your crotch the few clothes
you managed to grab on your way out, crouching, lost and ashamed?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my belly button. Is there such a thing as mosquitoes with eating disorders?
Maybe it's throwing up all my blood somewhere in my bedroom. I hope it's on
your face, and it's this kind of thought that makes me realize: I need. To go.
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Lucile's zine launch:<br />
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<br />David Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-86340634386937062042012-03-25T02:57:00.010-07:002012-03-25T03:44:07.907-07:00Spoken Word Paris March 19 Report or “On the difference between Beauty and Booty”Report by Alberto.<br />Photos by Marie. The whole album is on our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150699802468216.426293.165517768215&type=3">Facebook Page</a>.<br />Magda trilingually opens. Cristelle and Beatrice bilingually singing “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUE80DTNxK4">Dis, quand reviendras-tu?</a>”. Brian is the referee for Socrates vs The Sophists . Troy: "Stop texting me, Mr. Beautiful."<br />A few lines from The Ventriloquist by Leonie Shulte about beautiful people:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3HCXPcbLWeDALeTVFr-N-amZvgj1zNoCsPoyxHYyxYPPq53358GcgoAeDncWLwkVXv_bNQLWwqpdqaVdaixXHL3W-4CoRZciKFT4geAYm7ECE-6HqrSWtZbjhUl7bQXtuERoQ8OvVVliH/s1600/leonia.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3HCXPcbLWeDALeTVFr-N-amZvgj1zNoCsPoyxHYyxYPPq53358GcgoAeDncWLwkVXv_bNQLWwqpdqaVdaixXHL3W-4CoRZciKFT4geAYm7ECE-6HqrSWtZbjhUl7bQXtuERoQ8OvVVliH/s320/leonia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723779852184306706" border="0" /></a><br /><br />....<br />you boy, afraid of your shadow<br />you’ll jump down an elevator shaft<br />for a drop of their spit<br />you’ll shine their shoes<br />take a beating or two<br />for one night in their arms<br />when they’ll remember your name<br />and kiss you<br />and kiss you<br />and kiss you<br />insane.<br /><br />Claire is back from London and notices: There’s a puberty of poets in this room.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwpszL0mJGznkc6SJovCu4xmVVZfSqKBqPVYw7YtJ66MYalU86PgF1OewEchjtVlHKykzI1D669-JFAiEWxSqgPEDr9gZ95hqQ9A_Qhq94UaWoSO1v0aUaeG0vgGiEe3bySB3TXn6A_qYh/s1600/claire.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwpszL0mJGznkc6SJovCu4xmVVZfSqKBqPVYw7YtJ66MYalU86PgF1OewEchjtVlHKykzI1D669-JFAiEWxSqgPEDr9gZ95hqQ9A_Qhq94UaWoSO1v0aUaeG0vgGiEe3bySB3TXn6A_qYh/s320/claire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723780288306235026" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Marie and Georgina:<br /><br />I kissed a girl and I liked it<br />The taste of her cherry chapstick<br />I kissed a girl just to try it<br />I hope my boyfriend don't mind it<br />It felt so wrong<br />It felt so right<br />Don't mean I'm in love tonight<br />I kissed a girl and I like it<br /><br />it must be true, yes, I heard about that secret sex tape. Charlie would be Robert for a free coffee and a free stool.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbh7OdUtZMgB-ONeqSXuBnmITah2yT0TBl04XWKbOQCPFboPH1dwU-qAu9k3Ck8QW1q8GXOp24IvhyphenhyphenYU_7yNiKRWBafmPpv9QWuA2yn7IOnb4rKR4LJKQFAoh31BmCjXvBPbzquePedNk/s1600/sediata.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbh7OdUtZMgB-ONeqSXuBnmITah2yT0TBl04XWKbOQCPFboPH1dwU-qAu9k3Ck8QW1q8GXOp24IvhyphenhyphenYU_7yNiKRWBafmPpv9QWuA2yn7IOnb4rKR4LJKQFAoh31BmCjXvBPbzquePedNk/s320/sediata.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723780671415626770" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I mixed up Ian, Mandoline, Mark Strand, Katie Grosso: The first intelligentsia was in love with the 2nd intelligentsia that was in love with the third Intelligentsia. Who wrote that? Calvin Jason Kline was stripping...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9R1edrINu5Ev2Qr9aTHzHLYXah5s6KiSeb0FqkEOIkIq_nS4THLv-Zib9URNV80dcZPGN2CJJ7ZCZUMFKjxt-WrVu2i6Q2JFdkq5ZsxUNV4aPgYuidpe2wGkeo0V1n4_ATkqUEnhsACHD/s1600/jason+strip+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9R1edrINu5Ev2Qr9aTHzHLYXah5s6KiSeb0FqkEOIkIq_nS4THLv-Zib9URNV80dcZPGN2CJJ7ZCZUMFKjxt-WrVu2i6Q2JFdkq5ZsxUNV4aPgYuidpe2wGkeo0V1n4_ATkqUEnhsACHD/s320/jason+strip+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723781168519810738" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfuGqGscoc5ZT8ibxvRXQwcnzrhLUSbvWc1y0SA1XBS4xLHs_F7d8YRRzrZs-TBBnqV8c7P30rSz1LIkha5kQN_P2suICey_pjFrxndzoYWsRXItdkQ_w6ERfYqnHncs4q-6sXECM0OooO/s1600/jason+strip+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfuGqGscoc5ZT8ibxvRXQwcnzrhLUSbvWc1y0SA1XBS4xLHs_F7d8YRRzrZs-TBBnqV8c7P30rSz1LIkha5kQN_P2suICey_pjFrxndzoYWsRXItdkQ_w6ERfYqnHncs4q-6sXECM0OooO/s320/jason+strip+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723781352194257474" border="0" /></a><br /><br />If anyone remember what was the poem about, write us. Lucy: it’s something like lovemaking. Mr. Yorke at the piano on Alberto’s When you sleep and your flower reposes from <a href="http://tightropebooks.com/strangers-in-paris-new-writing-inspired-by-the-city-of-light/">Strangers in Paris</a>. Anna mugged for her memory. Patrick started this Booty or Beauty thing. Uncle James telling us a story of vampires...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2dfSWTeDSwT9Jquju0gqiyVmgB15JE9t0kgrvnA8dCzzYvgBYqhk6if9ufTv4KpSR8T2fZ7VRfbyGevgYrifm1BWb4BqYEJq6giuMLIv_XqX6pF6axYgJzusX8gR56CciDtleeyONFi7/s1600/uncle+james.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2dfSWTeDSwT9Jquju0gqiyVmgB15JE9t0kgrvnA8dCzzYvgBYqhk6if9ufTv4KpSR8T2fZ7VRfbyGevgYrifm1BWb4BqYEJq6giuMLIv_XqX6pF6axYgJzusX8gR56CciDtleeyONFi7/s320/uncle+james.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723781827603780562" border="0" /></a><br /><br />... but it’s Georgina who send us to bed with a fairytale about Princesses and bushes.<br /><br />P.S. Mr. Troy Yorke openly challenged by Jason (as we can see in the back f the picture) promised he will answer to this provocation.<br />When? Next Monday?Alberto Rigettinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269045555835818919noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-69143510939430383912012-03-22T00:58:00.001-07:002012-03-22T13:28:44.722-07:00Report from 12th March<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Report by David.<br />
Photos by Marie Lutz. More <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100427529693879.2564144.1822653&type=1&l=47e4f44f98">here</a><br />
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What do I remember from that far off night?<br />
Magda drifting into oblivion...<br />
Gary's quick fish...<br />
Marie Lutz & Christelle's altercation on a bus...<br />
Kate's jazz over the drowned city.<br />
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Then Nicolas the barman interrupting with his poem (partly written by Alberto and me, it has to be said):<br />
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Fanculo! Fanculo! Fanculo!<br />
I keep hearing it from the apartment downstairs.<br />
What does it mean? Do you know?<br />
I like to think they are words of love.<br />
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Fanculo! say it like you say <i>I love you.</i><br />
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Ah, Patrick... Declan McManus's oily slick on a wind-up world.<br />
Then Lucy overheard on a Thursday afternoon.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">I like to think that Jason was reminding us of what St Paul said: "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do." Do do do not judge for yourself with his recording <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk60HdTHvLY">here.</a></span><br />
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Camilla saw worms moving in the red dust. Troy: ''It's fun to play with fire.'' Marie Baby was In Heaven. And then it was half-time, time to party. </div>
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LN carried out sunflower surgery. Rufo: "Here on our iceberg, these are the best times we'll ever know." Ashley had a love poem for Heisenberg, wet and electric. Brian had a stoney assed grope. Alberto explained about courtesy farts (between gentlemen). Amelia let the wind move her. Henry: "...dipping our biscuit minds into cups of art." And Ben, in a song-story, followed in her ghost-footsteps.</div>
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Salut maintenant.</div>
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David</div>David Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-12361471268028764792012-03-11T15:29:00.007-07:002012-03-11T16:55:44.399-07:00Report from Spoken Word in Paris March 5 2012Report by Alberto<br />Pictures by Marie De Lutz (Visit <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spoken-Word-in-Paris/165517768215">our facebook page</a> for more photos)<br />Featured Poet: Kate Noakes!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfb-r0lsng_vquVx1BobtfKZad9thcdtShpctOpNJakQDq-JSf3j7ko9rWfbvM8-wJk4urCfqm-w7lQcpEEd1bHzwprCKNUewSoZYhJStVpu1m6oNQvRZtGJdWBwAS99WSxUQr5IbDWtdJ/s1600/Kate.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfb-r0lsng_vquVx1BobtfKZad9thcdtShpctOpNJakQDq-JSf3j7ko9rWfbvM8-wJk4urCfqm-w7lQcpEEd1bHzwprCKNUewSoZYhJStVpu1m6oNQvRZtGJdWBwAS99WSxUQr5IbDWtdJ/s320/Kate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5718771043588555298" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Waiting for “I spy and Shanti”, her forthcoming book, we celebrated her birthday and we discovered her South African Poems. If you missed it <a href="http://www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com/">more poems here</a>. We had Gary with a vignette titled The Frisbee. Cristelle’s tales with empty words. Lisa’s motel rooms and Cafè con leche, Jason translating Samarago and words licked and stuck, words like stamps. Marie and Patrick:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-Y334FOpGaHEu6R2P0cQWJLLNRloJ-AIDF4Ix9zxpZcN8kKdDiAVrbkn4eZE56FEdH8baB9Nnuq8Bxy4o7oh_VFdT6tUE5rgVY7xh4PLPGWTJfQhxEuIi-130fGA7K1qYj1GwYrMrDPf/s1600/Marie+and+Pat.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-Y334FOpGaHEu6R2P0cQWJLLNRloJ-AIDF4Ix9zxpZcN8kKdDiAVrbkn4eZE56FEdH8baB9Nnuq8Bxy4o7oh_VFdT6tUE5rgVY7xh4PLPGWTJfQhxEuIi-130fGA7K1qYj1GwYrMrDPf/s320/Marie+and+Pat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5718771983412245890" border="0" /></a><br /><br />James Simpson furious like an average Macbeth: “He deserve to suffer an unpleasing death!”. Awoko singing: Licky Licky. (Is this the proper spelling?) Main difference between Rigettini, Shakespeare and Petrarch. Brian’s party guests and parents’ friends.<br />Georgina introducing unstrung letter C. with Troy York:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFIIG3sL02J56pm7pOkNuvgBp3sRAqccDRl4eMhQZVg_Pl3Yd03BSW_1CvStexqXhmBETE0TlMjnj8iX1PsP1yQZs4XN_mhyRBCu0gn1AWgu5tX8ZrMaEBkTXSOgDi7ctpG7VWO0ZQ38a0/s1600/Georgina+and+troy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFIIG3sL02J56pm7pOkNuvgBp3sRAqccDRl4eMhQZVg_Pl3Yd03BSW_1CvStexqXhmBETE0TlMjnj8iX1PsP1yQZs4XN_mhyRBCu0gn1AWgu5tX8ZrMaEBkTXSOgDi7ctpG7VWO0ZQ38a0/s320/Georgina+and+troy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5718772480681508770" border="0" /></a><br /><br />crushed by the tables he’s sleeping under. “I’m a donut, fuck me.” Helene. French. Merci. Patrick: Exctasy makes you cry harder. Shane: We are creatures built to struggle. Griffin takes part to 40 poems in 40 days. Ferdia featuring Patrick, Shane and Marie in “The discount superheroes agency”.<br />Ambjorn featuring Charles Dickens:<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaQ8WgmIu4h6kquy_BYawgW1QexedraHm1dr16riIU3w84OLHE_JLlJy9xJlPLA1_JrMXeRQqnsdCqmRE_t7K24atBBt2ht5sj9fIpel8w0U1LAKWsrX9hHycE6U95ZToBb8uZ52U-icUW/s1600/Ambjorn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaQ8WgmIu4h6kquy_BYawgW1QexedraHm1dr16riIU3w84OLHE_JLlJy9xJlPLA1_JrMXeRQqnsdCqmRE_t7K24atBBt2ht5sj9fIpel8w0U1LAKWsrX9hHycE6U95ZToBb8uZ52U-icUW/s320/Ambjorn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5718773033510419938" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Debbie: We work too hard, we are too tired to make love”. Amelia in a museum where you can touch statues. Pablito: is this an haiku?<br /><br />Come on, sobbing girl<br />Wipe the tears off your iPhone<br />I'm uncomfortable<br /><br />What do you think? Is it? And we closed with Silvio:<br /><br /><object id="BLOG_video-FAILED" class="BLOG_video_class" contentid="FAILED" height="266" width="320"></object>Alberto Rigettinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269045555835818919noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-23222393075834006202012-03-04T13:00:00.000-08:002012-03-04T13:31:08.972-08:00Report from the 27th February 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Every week either me or Alberto is faced with the challenge of organising a SpokenWord. We agonise that the lighting will fail, the tango class will refuse to vacate the cellar at 9pm without some kind of physical fight, or that the beer will run out. Last week, one of these terrible things did indeed happen! Nevertheless we switched to wine and continued to the end of the night. </div>
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Here you can see the concentration with which we choose the running order for the night.<br />
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Thanks to Margaux for these photos!<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">This week, James was one of the poets clever enough to see things that aren't there. </span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">Lisa asked the right questions of souls reincarnated as caged birds.</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">Gary called in about therapy.</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">- Habibi? </span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">- Yes, amore.</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">- You don't like lying because you're American. </span><br />
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Marie knew they don't love you like I love you. And she said so.<br />
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Ferdia pitched his story idea to Chris:<br />
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Magda explained he was nothing to write home about.<br />
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Scott's machine birds were singing.<br />
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Brian had been getting way too much sleep. He steered the conversation past an awkward subject with the grace of an acrobat.<br />
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Suddenly it was round two and Lucky Hopkins emerged from an unexpected alcove. Like a beast with its horn, like a baby stillborn, she tried in her way to reach out to you.<br />
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"What a waste of space is man, so quick to coalesce in clan" complained Chris W. But Awoko kept smiling. And singing. And playing guitar. Chris N had Shakespeare off shagging Belinda Big Jugs while Hamlet got philosophical. Troy took his heart and ate it. Like Kate and a few others he's writing a poem a day for Lent. Margaux ended the night with some Gainsbourg, amongst which, for your edification and delight we reproduce this one here:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Moi je fais pareil et</span></div>
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Tomorrow night SpokenWord will have <a href="http://boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com/">Kate Noakes</a> as our Special Guest Poet. That's Monday 5th March, Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean Pierre Timbaud. Sign up in the bar from 8pm, poetry starts from 9pm underground.<br />
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Meanwhile just a note to say Rest In Peace to the much loved John Kliphan, poet of Boston, San Francisco and Paris who ran The Live Poets Society. <a href="http://vimeo.com/11742952">Here's a clip of him reading his poetry.</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">John Kliphan (b.1933, Boston - d. 2012, Paris) was a passionate and compassionate poet, teacher and lawyer. His poems are accessible, incisive, lyrical and often humorous. First published in Boston, then San Francisco, where he lived for many years, Kliphan befriended the Beats and was counsel for the North Beach art community. In the 1980's Kliphan moved to Paris, where he founded and directed the Live Poets Society, an internationally recognized series of readings celebrating the oral tradition of poetry while providing a venue for new voices and verse in Paris, the city's longest-running series of its kind. Invited to perform his work at events and festivals around the world, Kliphan was author of three books of poetry as well as individual poems and articles published in the United States and Europe.</span>
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<br /></div>David Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773459677471075105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-68705389832351111472012-02-26T12:41:00.003-08:002012-02-26T12:42:57.824-08:00Welcome...to the much more girly-looking SWParis blog. I'm experimenting with my feminine side. Also, I'd really like to know if you think black text on a white background is easier to read than the old white text on black background we had before.<br />
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Paris. 06.02.2012By Alberto<br />Photos By Jeanne Gustafson<br />Videos by Jeanne Gustafson from the Spoken Word Paris Facebook<br /><br /><br /> Young Ian not Yelling:<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkX2ifPnj1JrieeyI_ZH61vp4rEHB85qN_azoRxAisd1YvJDg-Ssct2BavxH0wZ2uGOcdHHQZVvvKAKxozw-bBzLpT3VS0xgb1KB_TQTurI9nq1YkdmYOBnRy8lWlIG6NOygb6ekiNkXtJ/s1600/spoken+word+paris+feb+2012+IAN.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkX2ifPnj1JrieeyI_ZH61vp4rEHB85qN_azoRxAisd1YvJDg-Ssct2BavxH0wZ2uGOcdHHQZVvvKAKxozw-bBzLpT3VS0xgb1KB_TQTurI9nq1YkdmYOBnRy8lWlIG6NOygb6ekiNkXtJ/s320/spoken+word+paris+feb+2012+IAN.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707872945441689410" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Welcome swingers, downstairs au Chat Noir, our weekly featured poet was Kerrie O’Brien, from Dublin, emerging talent of the 2011 International Yeats Poetry Competition, introducing her book <a href="http://www.kerrieobrien.com/out-of-the-blueness.html">Out of The Blueness</a>, which you still buy on line if you weren’t there. <a href="http://jeannegustafson.net/">Jeanne</a> on the ambiguity of the word “baiser”, while meeting an italian stereotype called Max Massimiliano. Do you want to hear the whole story? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hih3OXQ7p08&context=C3039d0fADOEgsToPDskJO61KAuT_ORZ63T-9tapfi">Here</a>. Theko played the loser song. If you want play it <a href="http://www.myspace.com/theko4u/music/songs/looser-song-mp3-76773932">one more time</a>. Luisa Claire Dunnigan:<br /><br />"Chewed up child, raging pink/ Blinking back tears and screaming/<br />Like a bath unplugged"<br /><br />Christelle: “Dandelions and lobsters, a cup of tea and a sunny day.” Sandra and Shawn brought a new licence plate from Alabama!!! Shall we be twins forever: “I felt rich already and I haven’t even danced”, Lucy was a spider chewing in a few precise bites, Chris Wallen’s love poems with 2 syllables a lines, Brian’s “Aphrodite didn’t give a shit” and other Olympus tales. Awoko’s song from <a href="http://www.rencontresessonnedanse.blogspot.com/">Qudus Onikeku’s show, for two weeks in France. </a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFtz3rG4ak0Pfb16n_0kg4Nm7RnaKihSC2wSb4CQpNEUeSRry0e6JXljQ9KYEy5q7UyPn-U32InbUoID_p7QhpKkiKRmnV9Vc8VAX-Oa9Q4aq-t1mH59GM72Mx_Z8aP6OysLeCfAlR7Rbu/s1600/spoken+word+paris+feb+2012+smiling+audience.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFtz3rG4ak0Pfb16n_0kg4Nm7RnaKihSC2wSb4CQpNEUeSRry0e6JXljQ9KYEy5q7UyPn-U32InbUoID_p7QhpKkiKRmnV9Vc8VAX-Oa9Q4aq-t1mH59GM72Mx_Z8aP6OysLeCfAlR7Rbu/s320/spoken+word+paris+feb+2012+smiling+audience.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707875707838737650" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMzZ0Bl05E57t-OuOIzo4i3X7FB_K7TSXqHTsl0b7hii_XVxxoh7xu7wjjKvD8ZODbjLND3qqPfiBcuDg3Vb2fldDReOoF5Ev2UFspzMqpmpumVlm8mWkwvpYTYEOQ6JtqyKq9rFqdYJb/s1600/spoken+word+paris+feb+2012+J.D.+and+friends.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMzZ0Bl05E57t-OuOIzo4i3X7FB_K7TSXqHTsl0b7hii_XVxxoh7xu7wjjKvD8ZODbjLND3qqPfiBcuDg3Vb2fldDReOoF5Ev2UFspzMqpmpumVlm8mWkwvpYTYEOQ6JtqyKq9rFqdYJb/s320/spoken+word+paris+feb+2012+J.D.+and+friends.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707876114850626818" border="0" /></a><br /> Joy.<br /><br />In Round II, Moe: “I masturbate 5 days a week, it’s a full time job.” Jason: “People should be paid for masturbate.” Troy: “Glued to the joystick”, Georgina: “Masturbatory fantasies.” Which was the theme of the night? “I lay like a carrot”. Beatrice: Erri De Luca and Cesare Pavese in translation. The great “I pensieri di Dina” from “Lavorare Stanca” (Hard Labor)1936. Marie Babie warming the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/light-leaks/288193887095">Light Leaks</a> up for the weekend. Gavroche: seeking to discover a more meaningful gold”. Katie “You left me in Jersey”, Betty's collective performance: “You and Me and a thing called Chi? Chris Newens monologue:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEignk8hMQGP-4DFZHrDTFtMHAxY4GKsTzLF_N7N3Bs8jcDi-MHnoVFKxseOdocvh904NMc0ZQu0pFU-Ebie5ktGBEEWfWBrSANKTHfhjMrJU0JYLuJY-AdtZAc30oYG9JtG09YFIZ5bG5v9/s1600/spoken+word+paris+feb+2012+newens+reading.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEignk8hMQGP-4DFZHrDTFtMHAxY4GKsTzLF_N7N3Bs8jcDi-MHnoVFKxseOdocvh904NMc0ZQu0pFU-Ebie5ktGBEEWfWBrSANKTHfhjMrJU0JYLuJY-AdtZAc30oYG9JtG09YFIZ5bG5v9/s320/spoken+word+paris+feb+2012+newens+reading.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707877757362457746" border="0" /></a><br /><br />“When I was a kid I had a cuddly toy called Ronald. He was my best friend. He was a stuffed octopus.” <br /><br />Tim from the <a href="http://us.glasspetals.com/">Glass Petals</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQkK2BPWFYA&feature=related">Have a look</a>.<br />Jamie for the first time here, reading a poem by Cat Stevens. Emilija “The wine ran out, but lies didn’t”. Maya’s hit: “I like you, you are sexy and cute / and your eyes are greenish blue”. Jack’s song with no words. Lizzie “Voided, spilled, delighted”. Then was too late and we had to close down. For all those who missed it, for all those who couldn’t find space on the stage list and for all those who enjoyed it, see you next monday.<br />More Pictures and Videos at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spoken-Word-in-Paris/165517768215">Spoken Word in Paris Facebook Page</a>.<br />CiaoAlberto Rigettinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07269045555835818919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664833730143274258.post-60134402585950023572012-02-10T09:57:00.001-08:002012-02-10T10:00:21.266-08:00Georgina's series continues:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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