The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Sarah Riggs, Lindsay Turner, Charles Bernstein, Omar Berrada, and Emma Ramadan for a series of readings of Liliane Giraudon’s work, as well as a film and exhibition of Giraudon’s visual work.
Liliane Giraudon: Poetry from Marseille
In celebration of Giraudon's poetry collections, Sphinx (Litmus Press) and Love is Colder Than the Lake (Nightboat).
Readings by
Sarah Riggs
Lindsay Turner
Charles Bernstein
Omar Berrada
Emma Ramadan
Followed by Screening of a short film by Marc-Antoine Serra featuring Liliane Giraudon reading from her new poetry collections.
This event will include a special exhibition of Liliane Giraudon’s visual works.
Liliane Giraudon was born in the South of France in 1946. She continues to live and work in Marseille, and her writing is inseparable from the place, shaped by the vibrant community of poets and writers and artists Giraudon has herself shaped, as well as by the city’s gritty and diverse cosmopolitanism. Giraudon’s many books have, since 1982, been primarily published by France’s P.O.L. editions. Giraudon has also been instrumental as an editor for influential reviews such as Banana Split, Action Poétique, and If. She performs and collaborates widely, including with Nanni Balestrini, Henri Deluy, Jean-Jacques Viton, and many others. Two of her prose books, Fur and Pallaksch, Pallaksch were published in English by Sun & Moon Press in 1992 and 1994, respectively. Her most recent collections Sphinx (2023) and Love is Colder than the Lake (2024) were published in English by Litmus Press and Nightboat.
Sarah Riggs is a poet and multivalent activist. She is the author of seven books of poetry in English, most recently: Pomme & Granite (1913 Press, 2015), Eavesdrop (Chax, 2020) and The Nerve Epistle (Roof Books, 2021). She has translated and co-translated seven books of contemporary French poetry into English, including Etel Adnan's TIME (Nightboat, 2019), recipient of the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Best Translated Book Award in 2020. Riggs lives in Brooklyn, after many years in Paris.
Lindsay Turner is the author of the poetry collections Songs & Ballads (Prelude Books, 2018) and The Upstate (University of Chicago Press, 2023). She has received two French Voices awards and two Albertine Grants for her translations from the French, which include books of poetry and philosophy by Stéphane Bouquet, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Duforumantelle, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and others. She is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Charles Bernstein’s most recent books are Topsy-Turvy (2021) and Pitch of Poetry (2016), both from the University of Chicago Press. His work was the subject of Charles Bernstein: The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences (Duke University Press, 2021) edited by Paul A. Bové. The Course, a collaboration with Ted Greewald, was also released by Roof Books in 2021.
Omar Berrada is a writer and curator whose work focuses on the politics of translation and intergenerational transmission. He is the author of the poetry collection Clonal Hum (Éditions M. Obultra, 2020), and the editor or co-editor of several books, including La Septième Porte (Kulte Editions, 2020) a posthumously published history of Moroccan cinema by Ahmed Bouanani, and Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets (Litmus Press, 2024). He is currently studying racial dynamics in North Africa while living in New York.
Emma Ramadan is an educator and literary translator. She is the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize, the Albertine Prize, two NEA Translations Fellowships, and a Fulbright Grant. Her translations include Anna Garréta’s Sphinx (Deep Vellum, 2015), Ahmed Bouanani’s The Shutters (New Directions, 2018), Abdellah Taïa’s A Country for Dying (Seven Stories Press, 2020), Marguerite Duras' The Easy Life (Bloomsbury, 2022), and Barbara Molinard's Panics (The Feminist Press, 2022).
Marc-Antoine Serra is a multidisciplinary French artist. Born in 1971 in Arles in the South of France, Serra moved to Paris in 1990 where he worked as a graphic designer for an advertising agency. Serra was an art director for Max magazine from 2000–2004, and for Têtu magazine from 2004–2010. Based in Europe, Serra works between Marseille, Paris, and London.
Admission
Free
Location
51 Bergen St.