POETS LIVE IN JANUARY

with Christine Herzer, Rethabile Masilo and Joe Ross

When: January 28, 2014
Where: Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris
Métros: Tuileries and Concorde
Drinks at the bar from whenever you like. Poetry starts downstairs at 7:30 p.m.

Christine Herzer is a poet, visual artist, and teacher living between India and Paris. She received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. In 2013 she performed her poetry at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai and her artworks were on display at La Cité des Arts, Paris; Galerie Evi Gougenheim/Artplace, Paris; Galerie Ivana de Gavardie, Paris. Christine’s poetry appears in numerous international literary magazines, art reviews and online publications such as Fence, American Letters & Commentary, The New York Quarterly, The Volta, Drunken Boat, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Inertia, elimae, Blackbox Manifold, RealPoetik, Timber, EVERYDAY GENIUS, and Platform Magazine [India]. She keeps a tumblr at honeymoon in the fridge. For more information visit http://christineherzer.tumblr.com/ and http://poets.nyq.org/poet/christineherzer

Rethabile Masilo is a Mosotho poet who lives in Paris, France, with his wife and two children. Rethabile is self-employed and works in language-teaching. He says he has been writing for a good while, learning through trial and error and picking up lots of sounds by reading and re-reading the poems that he likes. He is the author of Things That Are Silent (Pindrop Press, 2012). Rethabile was born in 1961 in Lesotho and le&#fb05; his country with his parents and siblings to go into exile in 1980. He moved through The Republic of South Africa (very short stay, on account of the weight of Apartheid), Kenya and The United States of America, before settling in France in 1987. He blogs at poefrika.blogspot.fr/ and co-edits with Phil Rice the literary magazine Canopic Jar.

Joe Ross is the author of over twelve books of poetry, most recently, 1000 Folds, due out from Chax Press in Feb., Wordlick, Green Integer Press (2011) and Strata, Dusie Press (2008). He has also published Fractured // Connections … , bilingual Italian/English, La Camera Verde Press and EQUATIONS = equals, Green Integer Press, 2004. Former Literary Editor of the arts bi-monthly The Washington Review from 1991-1997, and co-founder of both the In Your Ear reading series in Washington, D.C. and the Beyond the Page reading series in San Diego, CA, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award for his poetry in 1997 and is the three time winner of the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award in 2003, 2005, and 2006. He presently resides in Paris.

Next Poets Live reading: February 11.