Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series hosts Mia You on March 14, 2026, at Rerenga Wines
Join us on March 14, 2026, as we welcome poet Mia You (@miayou.bsky.social) to Mnemosynes. We will gather at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) from 14-16h to hear from her newest collection, Festival (Belladonna, 2025). A short Q & A will follow the reading.
An excerpt from Jason Stoneking's handwritten portrait of Richard Dailey for Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V.
"Rich’s expansive outlook has helped me feel like I too have permission to bend [the word poetry]." See @jstoneking.bsky.social's full homage to @richardinlelot.bsky.social on our site: www.verseofapril.com/jason-stonek...
Exacting Clam, No. 20, Spring 2026 cover
Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès (translated by Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy) cover
"Translated with an astute attention to detail, and crisp, continuous tonality, Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy have offered us a glimpse into the amorphous and readily engaged mind of Moussempès..." -Greg Bem, on Cassandra at point-blank range: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
A flash portrait essay, in optical illusion. With flickerings from Malik Ameer Crumpler, Phyllis of Berkeley Books of Paris, Orson Welles, Henry Griffin, Paris Heretics, the color black, and all your faces want with question.
🧐 Hm...well, in the Age of Generative AI, I guess I'll take 'dusty' if it means we're still talking about humans doing humans! I swear 2026 is so horny.
My daugther telling me, Maman il va falloir que tu move tes books.
Submissions Open for Translations of Living Poets' Work - Verse of April
Just opened an Internet window, and, man, does it feel better in here. Send us your FR>EN or EN>FR translations of living poets’ work. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions
(Drawing by Baptiste de Chabaneix)
Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series description.
Mnemosynes — ❤️🔥. We have events on the horizon. More updates soon.
Hélène Bessette
Special guesting at SpokenWord Paris last night…
Thank you for sending this energy!
We're super excited to go see @chapp010.bsky.social featuring at Spoken Word Paris tomorrow night! 🌟🤩🌟
More info at the link:
spokenwordparis.org/2026/01/20/c...
Thank you for sharing the news, Paris Heretics! Looking forward to seeing you there.
Being a mother does not make her life more sacred nor does it make her wish to dissent less important.
Y’all, please question articles that discuss foreign authors (especially dead ones) who are now appearing in English translation and receiving coverage in global outlets without any citation of sources. Biographies, in particular, are major critical sources and should not be erased.
Congratulations to @chapp010.bsky.social and Amanda Murphy on their co-translation of Sandra Moussempès, coming out April 1st! 🎉 Pre-orders are available through the publisher, Lavender Ink / Diálogos, at www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/ca...
A poem from ten years ago, first appearing in Horse Less Press:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIpv...
Hanging chad question of my 2025 is this, how can we help English translation as a field & English translators as artists to stop acting in colonial-style erasure? & with that, related, to stop fronting sanctimonious & sacrificial? I ask this of us all & take seriously my status in the conversation.
These are my top reads this year. In order read. What books have touched your 2025?
🩶🪩🩶 @lesteria.bsky.social!
Hello! Was happy to see you were here 🩶
Nomination for best vintage clothing store name in Paris. But happy to hear from other suitors.
Poster for Paris Heretics 5-year anniversary party at Point Éphémère December 16, 2025. Designed by Lucas Lecacheur.
Next Tuesday, December 16th, @parisheretics.bsky.social will celebrate their 5-year anniversary. I was so pleased to work with them on Loving Tallulah Bankhead. Hope you’ll turn out for the event at Point Éphémère, for radical love and several helpings of heresy! (Below poster by Lucas Lecacheur)
“The two sides of a secret are repression and expression, just as the two sides of the poem are the told and the untold.”
-- Mary Ruefle
Mercredi prochain, je participerai à une réflexion collective sur les écrivaines de la précarité. Je présenterai à cette occasion ma recherche sur l’œuvre d’Hélène Bessette, et en particulier les idées formelles qui se cristallisent dans Ida ou le délire (1973). www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
Next Saturday, November 29, I’ll be hosting Biswamit Dwinedy on the Mnemosynes stage. Hope you can join us for a splash in your glass and a flash in your ears at Rerenga Wines ⚡️
A beautiful new translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson of a poem from Sylvie Kandé's GESTUAIRE: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Carrie Chappell reading Hélène Bessette’s Histoire du chien
Really pleased to have a new poem @pamenarpress.bsky.social. I wrote a longish post about it on Instagram, my personal relationship with the accordance/discordance of the French "frôle" with the English "fondle." As ever, talking to the work of Hélène Bessette: www.pamenarpress.com/post/carrie-...
EWS logo in top right. Text: European Writers Salon Larger text: Pop-up salon: Paris Feuille Blanche, Café Noir 102 Rue Truffaut 75017 7-10pm CET
We’re so delighted to be hosting our first Pop-up Salon in Paris tonight! Hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @kplumhoff.bsky.social, it features wonderful readers from all over Europe
Read about them here: 👇
