SpokenWord Paris | open mic writers community

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Latest update on what s happening (Sept 20th 2020): Next open air, outdoors, off-line SpokenWord is Monday 21st September. Keep an eye on the events on our Facebook page for details closer to the time or sign up for the mailing list (click on the blue stamp on the righthand side of this page).Spoken World Online continues. This is weekly on Tuesdays. Again, keep an eye on our Facebook page for details.AWOL writers workshop has gone back to the live off-line version at Au Chat Noir. The AWOL Masked Summer Edition is currently running every Sunday 6.30 8.30pm. The format is the same as usual except that masks are obligatory. See their Facebook page for details. SpokenWord Paris is one pole of a nomadic tribe of people who love poetry, writing and song. A home for creatives and lost anglophones. We do an open mic night called SpokenWord every Monday at the Chat Noir and an allied writers workshop every Sunday. We do a literary journal called The Bastille and Tightrope Books published many of us in the book Strangers in Paris. Click on the blue stamp on the right to sign up to the mailing list.Open 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. Acoustic songs also welcome.Poetry video clips on our instagram at spokenword_parisSpokenWord SoundsA taste of Monday nights at the Chat Noir, by Victor. Listen or download here.SpokenWordEvery Monday except August. Come to the Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up at 8pm in the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground. More info here. Paris biggest and longest-running English open mic night, started in 2006. All languages welcome. Free entry. Exit one euro.ThemesCheck next week s theme here. Themes are a suggestion to inspire you but you don t have to follow them. Indeed, many people don t.AWOL writers workshopAWOL takes place every Sunday evening, 6.30pm 8.30pm at the Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Check AWOL s facebook page. Free. Bring your writing or just come and listen and join in the discussion. Hosted by Bruce Sherfield, Simon Millward, Thibaut Narme and Camille Adnot. Friendly and insightful and afterwards you re welcome to come for a drink. In a previous incarnation this ran for 10 years as The Other Writers Group and AWOL continues that group s ethos of giving invaluable insightful feedback and providing a supportive space to hone your writing craft. Plus community among writers. Click here for a more detailed description. WICE have asked me to run my successful poetry class again,Writing Poetry Craft and Inspirationstarting 30th September.This will be a hybrid class you can attend either in person or online. That way we can run it successfully despite Covid, strikes or bad weather. You can attend any or all of the classes online, whether it s just that you re outside Paris or it s because you need to self-isolate.Course description:A poet needs both something to write about and skill in writing. We will focus on these two themes so important in strong poetry finding inspiration and mastering elements of craft. Each week we will do some writing in class and a homework task will be set so that we can share what we ve written the following week. Teaching will cover how to write stronger poetry and where to find sources of inspiration. All levels of experience welcome.I m confident the class will thrive as it has in previous years developing a strong sense of mutual support and community around the writing and sharing of poetry.Maximum of 7 participants.Dates and times:It will be 3.30pm 5.30pm every Wednesday for 6 weeks.Sept 30thOct 7th, 14th, 21st, 28thNov 4thFees: €195 euros + WICE membership fee of €25/30/50Staying safe:In the classroom we ll wear masks and be 1m apart. Everyone will have their own desk and chair and surfaces will be wiped down. If anyone develops symptoms that could be Covid then they can still attend online. Similarly if they have been in close contact with someone contagious.About the teacher:David Barnes is a British poet who ran a weekly writers workshop at Shakespeare Company for a decade and organises and runs the open mike poetry night SpokenWord Paris, now in its 15th year. He is the Editor in Chief of The Bastille literary magazine and was co-editor of Strangers in Paris New Writing Inspired by the City of Light (2011, Tightrope Books) which included work by such writers as Alice Notley, Jorie Graham and John Berger. His poetry has been published in various magazines. He is a teacher and psychotherapist.In August he was the featured poet at Literary Lavatory, Obejvak, Prague.Signing up for the course:Register online hereor contact WICE and give the course code or name:WS301 Writing Poetry Craft and InspirationWICE: Where Internationals Connect in Englishwww.wice-paris.orgTel 01 45 66 75 5010 rue Tiphaine, 75015 ParisCheers all,David Barnes This week hosted by Sophia Lucia!Meet at the Place Louis Aragon from 8pm.It s the western end of the Île Saint-Louis.Open air poetry starts at 9pm.Theme BoredomWe may move to other locations nearby. So if you arrive and we re not there, text +33 626901326Bring your own drink.Wear a mask and respect social distancing otherwise the police may fine you 135 euros and close down the event.We ll probably wind up in a bar after the words have been said, the songs sung.Cheers all,David BarnesOrganiser Monday Aug 10th theme Hot ColdMonday Aug 17th theme On the RoadMeet at the Place Louis Aragon from 8pm. It s the western end of the Île Saint-Louis. Open air poetry starts at 9pm. If you can t find us, text +33 626901326 Bring your own drink.We ll probably wind up in a bar after the words have been said, the songs sung.Who was Louis Aragon?Poet, surrealist, Communist, journalist and editor, novelist. Born in Paris in 1897, involved in Dada before founding the surrealist review Littérature with André Breton. Many of his poems were put to music and sung. He died in 1982.The essentialsI love you by black pathsLike those who have no homeAnd who walk all nightEverywhere, exerting themselvesI write your name on all the wallsThat my love won t die with meLet them be memory at my whisperAnd proof of where I passedWhere I lost my human shadowWhere I mixed living and my dreamsWhere I took your hand in my palmAnd crossed your steps with my stepsSo much that finally the time that risesAs well as a perfume, completeThe dawn of us whose wonderIs that we will not see it from Je t aime par les chemins noirs David (technical assistance) and Cesar (poetry) in July.Here s a poem he wrote in 1944 about his city:ParisOù fait-il bon même au coeur de l’orageOù fait-il clair même au coeur de la nuitL’air est alcool et le malheur courageCarreaux cassés l’espoir encore y luitEt les chansons montent des murs détruitsJamais éteint renaissant de la braisePerpétuel brûlot de la patrieDu Point-du-Jour jusqu’au Père-LachaiseCe doux rosier au mois d’août refleuriGens de partout c’est le sang de ParisRien n’a l’éclat de Paris dans la poudreRien n’est si pur que son front d’insurgéRien n’est ni fort ni le feu ni la foudreQue mon Paris défiant les dangersRien n’est si beau que ce Paris que j’aiRien ne m’a fait jamais battre le coeurRien ne m’a fait ainsi rire et pleurerComme ce cri de mon peuple vainqueurRien n’est si grand qu’un linceul déchiréParis Paris soi-même libéréLouis Aragon, 1944Cheers all,David BarnesOrganiser And we re back!with an outdoor SpokenWord in Paris.Gather at the Chat Noir from 8pm on Monday 6th July.At 8.45pm we ll set off for a secret open air, outdoors location nearby.At 9pm the poetry starts!Chat Noir address 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Metro Parmentier or Couronnes.The exact location of the SpokenWord will be posted here and here closer to the time.Meanwhile in cyberspace Spoken World Online continues theme: StillnessAn online Spoken Word for these strange times.Now hosted by David Leo Sirois.Sign up from 8pm.Poetics begin 8.30pm.Cheers all,David BarnesOrganiser Sharon Mesmer s most recent poetry collection, Greetings from My Girlie Place (Bloof Books) was one of Entropy s Best of 2015. Her other collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo,2008), The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose, 2008), and Half Angel, Half Lunch (Hard Press, 1998). A chapbook, Vertigo Seeks Affinities, was published by Belladonna Press in 2006. Four poems appear in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition). She has also published several collections of short fiction, including Ma Vie á Yonago (Hachette, in French, 2005). She has had essays in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Paris Review and the Brooklyn Rail. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches literature and creative writing at NYU and the New School.An online Spoken Word for these strange times.Thanks to a Zoom room provided by The University of the 3rd Horizon.Sign up from 8pm.Poetics begin 8.30pm Jeffrey Banks is poetically known as Big Homey . He s worked with notable people such as the late Fred Rerun Berry of What’s Happening!, Stellar Award-Winning Gospel Singer Maurette Brown Clark, GRAMMY-Nominated Soul Singer and Television Star Syleena Johnson, 2000 Olympic Gold-Winning NBA Legend Allan Houston, New Jack City Actor Singer Christopher Williams, Gospel Trailblazer Dr. Bobby Jones and others. He’s been featured in national media such as ESSENCE Magazine, Sirius/XM Satellite Radio, Radio-One Inc., the CBS Early Show and BLACK ENTERPRISE Magazine. Big Homey s album, Exposed-The EP, is the poetic testimonial of the trials victories of a Christian Believer. He s had the opportunity to perform across the USA and has done numerous engagements on East Coast college campuses. He’s a nationally-recognized event planner who was named one of the “Top 40 under 40” American Meeting Planners of 2013 by Rejuvenate Magazine. He has been a grant writer since 2008 and has been awarded numerous grants. He was a 2018 finalist in Day Eight’s DC Poetry Project and is currently continuing a collaborative relationship with grants each party was awarded from the DC Commission on the Arts Humanities. He’s been published in short-run anthologies in conjunction with DC Public Libraries (2009) and the National Association for Poetry Therapy (2019). Most recently, he’s been a contributing writer to the online publication, DC Theatre Scene..An online Spoken Word for these strange times.Thanks to a Zoom room provided by The University of the 3rd Horizon.Sign up from 8pm.Poetics begin 8.30pmDominique Christina is an award-winning writer, performer, educator, and activist. She holds five national poetry slam titles in the three years she competed, including the 2014 2012 Women of the World Slam Champion and 2011 National Poetry Slam Champion. She is presently the only person to have won two Women of the World Poetry Championships. She is also the 2013 National Underground Poetry Individual Competition Champion (NUPIC), and 2013 Southern Fried Poetry Slam Champion. She is presently an actor/writer for the HBO series High Maintenance Season 2 and does branding for Under Armour s #UnlikeAny campaign. Dominique Christina has performed and conducted workshops for hundreds of colleges/universities, schools, community art spaces, nonprofit organizations, and conferences across the country. She has opened for Cornel West, appeared in Season 3 of Verses and Flow on TV One, performed for the Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till families at the Shiloh Baptist Church, and was a keynote speaker at the Emerging Women Conference, TedxMSU Denver, the LOHAS Conference, and was invited to China to perform her poetry in Chengdu. Dominique’s fourth manuscript “Anarcha Speaks” won the National Poetry Series 2017 She is published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. Published Books: The Bones, The Breaking The Balm: A Colored Girl s Hymnal (Penmanship Books NY 2014), They Are All Me (Swimming With Elephants Publishing 2015), This is Woman s Work (SoundsTrue Publishing Oct 2015). (Presently writing a Young Adult Book for Random House/Knopf Publishing).*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *  *An online Spoken Word for these strange times.Thanks to a Zoom room provided by The University of the 3rd Horizon.Sign up from 8pm.Poetics begin 8.30pm Jose Padua’s first full length book, A Short History of Monsters, was chosen by former poet laureate Billy Collins as the winner of the 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and is now out from the University of Arkansas Press. His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in publications such as Bomb, Salon.com, Beloit Poetry Journal, Exquisite Corpse, Another Chicago Magazine, Unbearables, Crimes of the Beats, Up is Up, but So Is Down: New York s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, and others. He has written features and reviews for Salon, The Weeklings, NYPress, Washington City Paper, the Brooklyn Rail, and the New York Times, and has read his work at Lollapalooza, CBGBs, the Knitting Factory, the Public Theater, the Living Theater, the Nuyorican Poets Café, the St. Mark s Poetry Project, and many other venues. He was a featured reader at the 2012 Split This Rock poetry festival and won the New Guard Review’s 2014 Knightville Poetry Prize. After spending the past ten years with his wife (the poet Heather L. Davis) and children in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, he and his family are back in his hometown, Washington DC. His poetry and essays appear regularly at Vox Populi (voxpopulisphere.com) and he writes the blog Shenandoah Breakdown (shenandoahbreakdown.wordpress.com/).An online Spoken Word for these strange times.Thanks to a Zoom room provided by The University of the 3rd Horizon.Sign up from 8pm.Poetics begin 8.30pm

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