Launch of Upstairs at Duroc, Issue 12

Time: 27 January 2011 · 19:00 - 22:00
Location: Berkeley Books of Paris, 8 rue Casimir Delavigne, Paris, France 75006

UPSTAIRS AT DUROC is pleased to announce the LAUNCH for its ISSUE 12

Come hear new work by

AMY HOLLOWELL, NINA KARACOSTA,
...ALICE NOTLEY, JONATHAN REGIER
and JOE ROSS.

AMY HOLLOWELL is the author of Peneloping: Episodes in the Day of She and Giacomettrics, and is a contributor to numerous publications in Europe & the US. A former editor of the Paris-based review Pharos, she is a journalist, translator & Zen Buddhist teacher.

NINA KARACOSTA’s work has appeared in Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry, Best of Stain Anthology, Surreal-zine and The Melancholy Dane. An actor/poet born in Greece, she moved to NYC in 1995 & to Paris in 2009, which she now considers home.

ALICE NOTLEY has published over 30 books of poetry, including most recently, Reason and Other Women; Grave of Light, New and Selected Poems 1970-2005; and In the Pines. With her sons, Anselm and Edmund Berrigan, Notley edited The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan. She is also the author of a book of essays on poets and poetry, Coming After. Notley has received many prizes and awards including the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Award, two NEA Grants & the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. Often considered an important figure in the New York School, Notley lives and writes in Paris.

JONATHAN REGIER’s first book of poetry, Three Years from Upstate, was published by Six Gallery Press (Pittsburgh, PA) in 2008. He’s now at work on a second book, as well as doing a PhD in the philosophy of science at Université Paris 7.

JOE ROSS is the author of 12 books of poetry. In 1997, he received an NEA Fellowship and moved from Washington, DC to San Diego, where he worked for that city’s Commission for Arts and Culture and, later, as Chief of Policy for elected officials. He was awarded the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award in 2003. In 2004, he and his wife moved to Paris, where their 2 children were born, and where he continues to publish while working as an educator.

Purchase Upstairs at Duroc Online

I've just noticed that there is a rather cool development on the WICE web site which allows you to buy copies of Upstairs at Duroc online using Paypal. So now if you've always wanted to sample this excellent magazine of new writing, it couldn't be simpler: just click here.

Upstairs at Duroc Issue 11: Call for Submissions

Upstairs at Duroc is an international literary magazine edited at the offices of WICE in Paris. The editors are now accepting submissions of new work for Issue 11 of the magazine. Submissions of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, photographs and illustrations will be accepted until 31st Jan 2009. The editorial process is anonymous and submissions of new and previously unpublished work are welcome from any corner of the globe. Submission of work by e-mail is preferred. For further details of how to submit click here.

Launch of Upstairs at Duroc Issue 9

Launch of Upstairs at Duroc Issue 9.

Thursday 31st January 2008 at 7pm.

Hear new work by poets Joe Ross, Jeffrey Greene, Amy Hollowell, Linda Healey and Mark Terrill.

At WICE
20 Boulevard du Montparnasse
75015 Paris (go through big street door into courtyard)
Metro Duroc/Falguiere/Montparnasse

Upstairs at Duroc Issues 9 and 10

Upstairs at Duroc Issue 9

The editors of Upstairs at Duroc magazine are currently considering submissions of poetry, fiction and art work for Issue 10, our 10th anniversary annual issue.

Anyone, anywhere, writing in English can submit work by e-mail. We will also consider translations, particularly of French poetry.

Issue 9 will shortly be available and features work by a diverse group of writers including Amy Hollowell, Rufo Quintavalle, Sue Chenette, Todd Swift, Donna Stonecipher, Joe Ross, Anne Talvaz and George Vance.

Further details and information about how to submit work is found here.

Upstairs at Duroc Reading Series

Upstairs at Duroc magazine (literary journal of WICE) will be hosting a reading by three excellent poets in March.

They are Todd Swift, Claire Potter and Rufo Quintavalle.

at: Berkeley Books of Paris
8 rue Casimir Delavigne
75006 Paris
Tel: 01.46.34.85.73

Metro: Odeon

7 PM, Monday March 19, 2007

Todd Swift is the author of three collections of poetry: Budavox, Cafe Alibi and Rue du Regard, editor of numerous international poetry anthologies and poetry editor of nthposition.com. He has been Oxfam Great Britain's poet-in-residence since 2004.

Claire Potter is author of the chapbook 'In Front of a Comma' and a forthcoming collection of prose poems (with Vagabond Press, Sydney, 2007) is the translator of some of Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray & currently Michel Deguy's work. She was the recipient of a 2006 Young Australian Poet Awards and 2006 winner of Abbey Bookshop's Short Story competition.

Rufo Quintavalle is a British poet with an Italian name who lives in France. His work has appeared in The Wolf, Barrow Street, nthposition, MiPOesias, Louis Liard and elimae. Translations of his poems are forthcoming in Literaturen vestnik (Bulgaria).

Upstairs at Duroc - Issue 8

Issue 8 of Upstairs at Duroc magazine was launched yesterday evening with a poetry reading event. Further information about contributors and purchasing the magazine can be found here.

Until 31st January 2007, Upstairs at Duroc will be open to submissions of poetry, prose and artwork for Issue 9. For more details see here.

The complete list of contributors to Issue 8 is here below with an indication of where they are currently residing:

M.S. Allen (US, fiction)
Ian Ayres (France, poetry)
Luis Benitez (Argentina, poetry)
Frieda B.K. (France, photography)
C.P.Chang (US, fiction)
Sue Chenette (Canada, poetry)
Pierre Dehaye (France, translated poetry)
Jesse Ferguson (Canada, poetry)
Sandy Florian (US, poetry)
Megan M. Garr (Netherlands, poetry)
Noah Eli Gordon (US, poetry)
Lizzie Harwood (France, fiction)
Mark Leech (UK, poetry)
Norman Lock (US, fiction)
Alexander Maksik (France, poetry)
Gerald Mangan (France, drawings)
Christopher Mulrooney (US, poetry)
Stephen Oliver (Australia, poetry)
Daniel Pendergrass (Micronesia, poetry)
Sarah Petlin (France, poetry)
Hai-Dang Phan (US, poetry)
Véronique Pittolo (France, translated poetry)
Virginie Poitrasson (France, translated poetry)
Claire Potter (France, poetry)
Rufo Quintavalle (France, poetry)
Kristin Rasmussen (US, poetry)
Stephen Ratcliffe (US, poetry)
Matt Reeck (US, poetry)
Lisa Robertson (Canada, poetry)
Errol Scott (At sea, fiction)
Caroline Smadja (France, fiction)
Laura Solomon (France, poetry)
Elizabeth Spackman (France, poetry)
Todd Swift (UK, poetry)
Anne Talvaz (China, poetry)
Mark Terrill (On the road, fiction)
Roberta Vellvé (France, poetry)
Jason Wilkinson (US, poetry)
Cecilia Woloch (US, poetry
Jonathan Wonham (France, poetry)

Upstairs at Duroc Launch

The lastest issue of Upstairs at Duroc magazine will be launched with a reading of poetry and fiction.

Reading Poetry: Alexander Maksik, Roberta Vellvé, Jonathan Wonham and Virginie Poitrasson
Reading Fiction: Lizzie Harwood

Savouries and wine

7.30pm
Thursday 19th October
WICE
20 Boulevard du Montparnasse
75015 Paris

Metro Falguiere or Montparnasse (Metro Duroc is partly closed for "travaux").