THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2005, 8:00PM

Featured artists, Pierre Joris and
Nicole Peyrafitte at THE GOLD MINE

***followed by an Open Mic***


P i e r r e J O R I S
"To read the poetry of Pierre Joris is to listen to the ticking of
the words, to observe them preparing to move and alter themselves so
as to expose the nature of what a split second of fervor in language
can do to meaning." - Nicole Brossard

Poet/Translator/Professor at the University at Albany. Modern &
Contemporary Poetry, Poetics, Theory and Practice of Translation.
Pierre Joris is the 2005 Pen Award for Poetry in Translation for his
translation of Paul Celan's Lightduress (Green Integer, 2004). Also,
he has translated into English, along with Jerome Rothenberg, the
recently published The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems by
Pablo Picasso (Exact Change, 2005). A major collection of Pierre
Joris' works Poasis: Selected Poems 1986–1999 was published by
Wesleyan University Press, 2001. A substantial selection of his
essays A Nomad Poetics (Wesleyan University Press, 2003) investigates
the state and aims of contemporary poetry with particular critical
attention to avante-garde poetics. Pierre Joris is the author of more
than two dozen volumes of poetry and is co-editor of the anthology
Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern
and Postmodern Poetry, along with Jerome Rothenberg.

N i c o l e P E Y R A F I T T E
"Nicole Peyrafitte is a brilliant and original performer. Her
vocalizations, songs and gestures are provocative: both beautiful and
powerfully unnerving at times, the chthonic goddess come to tempt
you, scare you, transform you. Hers is a poetic lineage of Greek
tragedy, Café Voltaire antics, of dada and surrealist play but with a
post-modern, hip sensibility." - Anne Waldman

Nicole Peyrafitte is multimedia visual/voice artist. Born & raised in
Luchon, French Pyrenees, she left her hometown, where she was a cook,
in 1981, and lived in Toulouse & Paris where she modeled, cooked and
worked for theater and local television. She arrived in the United
States in 1987, where she first settled in Southern California, then
moved to Albany, New York in 1992, where she still is. Like the
willful child in Marguerite Duras' Les Enfants, she resisted going to
school "because they were trying to teach me things I didn't know."
Each step of her work attempts to fulfill her compulsion to learn
through a process of immersion that generates performances
incorporating voice / paintings / drawings / collages / writing &
even cooking. Nicole Peyarafitte has performed internationally, in
London, Paris and Luxembourg, as well as touring extensively
throughout the United States. She was voted Best Performance Artist
for the Capital Region 2005.



Dear Friends & Artists of the New Orleans Community,
The "17 Poets!" program is a weekly presentation (which returned to
New Orleans Thursday, October 13, 2005) at The Gold Mine and has
become a critical gathering place for many New Orleans artists, poets
& writers from all walks and minds throughout our community.
This weekly event also serves as a joining of hands for people in our
community to express through the Arts their deepest loves and
affections for the community of New Orleans.
Our space offers an outstanding Art Gallery as well as a generous
presentation stage and our business is family owned & operated.
17 Poets! program is sponsored by Trembling Pillow Press and The Gold
Mine and is Free Admission and Open to the Public.
We offer complimentary hot Red Beans & Rice and french bread.
Please help us celebrate Greater New Orleans by celebrating the Arts
in New Orleans!

All the Best,
Dave Brinks

The Gold Mine Saloon is located at 701 Dauphine Street (at the corner
of Dauphine & St. Peter) in the French Quarter.

Doors open at 6:00pm with a general reception between 6:00 - 8:00pm
featuring new Art installations and hot Red Beans & Rice with French
Bread.

For more information please call 504-586-0745 or 504-568-9125, or go
to: www.17Poets.com.

"It's events like these that cement New Orleans' position as the
literary center - not just of the South - but of the universe. No
Matter what Oxford thinks. - Chris Rose, Times-Picayune


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The poet: always in partibus infidelium — Paul Celan
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Pierre Joris
244 Elm Street
Albany NY 12202
h: 518 426 0433
c: 518 225 7123
o: 518 442 40 85
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.albany.edu/~joris/
blog:http://pjoris.blogspot.com/
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