2011-2014 CALENDAR
2016 CALENDAR
February 4-5 EILEEN MYLES > + Feb. 4 poetry reading
2015 CALENDAR
December 14-15 FRED MOTEN > + Dec. 14 poetry reading
2014 CALENDAR
December 15-16 ANN LAUTERBACH > + Dec. 15, 8pm poetry reading
May 12-13 ANNE WALDMAN > + May 12 Poetry Reading, 8pm, Maison de la poésie de Paris : Anne Waldman & Patrick Beurard-Valdoye
2013 CALENDAR
FINAL SYMPOSIUM Dec. 11-12 COLE SWENSEN > + Dec 11 Poetry Reading, 8pm, Maison de la poésie de Paris : Cole Swensen & Nicolas Pesquès
Sept. 26-27 CLARK COOLIDGE> + Sept. 26, 8 pm Poetry/Music Reading, CLARK COOLIDGE & THURSTON MOORE, Maison de la poésie de Paris
April 11-12 MARJORIE WELISH > + April 11, 7:30 pm Poetry Reading MARJORIE WELISH & JACQUES ROUBAUD, Galerie éof, Paris
2012 CALENDAR
December 13 & 14 LISA ROBERTSON> Thursday December 13 7:30pm poetry reading with Lisa Robertson, Anne Parian and Pascal Poyet, galerie éof, Paris.
September 27 & 28 REDELL OLSEN
March 22 & 23 CHARLES BERNSTEIN
2011 CALENDAR
September 29-30 VANESSA PLACE at Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée
June 30 July 1 CAROLINE BERGVALL at Université Paris Est Créteil
June 15 DAVID ANTIN at Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée
Flash Labels by NBT
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Thursday 26 September: Poetry Reading and Musical Performance by Clark Coolidge and Thurston Moore, Maison de la Poésie de Paris
| Art work (c) George Schneeman Design (c) HR Hegnauer; cover image from http://www.hrhegnauer.com/ |
Friday, July 26, 2013
Clark Coolidge's Page at the Electronic Poetry Center with links to poems and texts
Monday, June 10, 2013
Clark Coolidge Symposium at Université Paris Est Créteil Thursday 26 September & Friday 27 September
We will be meeting in the morning of September 26 at 10 am to prepare our sessions with Clark Coolidge. Clark Coolidge will be joining us at 2 pm on the 26th. He will also be with us all day on the 27th.
So far, we’ve tried to focus on the writer’s own (creative and critical) work on the first day of the P&C symposia and on broader issues of poetics and practice-based criticism with the writer on the second day. But there’s no specific preconceived program for the 2 days of the symposium: as the previous sessions of the program have shown, it seems important to let the conversation take its own course.
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| Photo (c) Kevin Killian |
Clark Coolidge was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Though associated with the Language Poets, his work predates the movement and despite close contact with many of them he remains distinct from any movement, literary or political. His primary literary influences are Rilke, Beckett, and Kerouac, but jazz, geology, and painting also play a large part. This poetic purist shares with many avant-garde artists of the 1950s and 1960s the belief that art is discovery, and so creates an exploratory ‘improvisational momentum’ in its composition which aims to ‘tell the story that has never been thought before’ in a writing which is itself the primary focus, rather than its subject matter. The author of more than 20 books of verse and prose, including Own Face, At Egypt, The Crystal Text, The Maintains, Solution Passage, and Mine: One That Enters the Stories, he is also the editor of Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations (The Documents of Twentieth-Century Art), 2010.
Online works available :
Clark Coolidge books at Eclipse Archive online. Click on image below.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Pascal Poyet on Clark Coolidge's Polaroid
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| Les couvertures des deux livres - américain, 1975 et français (2 cd audio), 2007 |
-écouter Polaroïd (lu par Eric Pesty) :
This essay was originally published on Françoise Goria's blog Picturediting, 25 April 2011. Many thanks to Françoise Goria and Pascal Poyet for allowing us to post the essay on the Poets & Critics blog.

