Laura Mullen, Dan Machlin, and Jacques Demarcq

Futurepoem editor and poet Dan Machlin will be traveling to Paris next week to read with Futurepoem author Laura Mullen (Murmur) and French poet/translator Jacques Demarcq in the IVY Reading series curated by Michelle Noteboom & Jennifer K Dick.

Laura Mullen is a Professor at Louisiana State University and the author of 3 collections of poetry—The Surface, After I Was Dead, and Subject—as well as two hybrid books, The Tales of Horror (Kelsey Street Press 1999), and Murmur (futurepoem books 2007). She has received Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, a Board of Regents ATLAS grant, an NEA Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award. Her recent work appeared or is forthcoming in Octopus, 1913, Bomb, Hotel Amerika, the Corpse, & Ploughshares. Her fourth collection of poetry is forthcoming from the University of California Press in 2011.

Dan Machlin is the author of Dear Body: (Ugly Duckling Presse 2007), 6×7 (Ugly Ducking), This Side Facing You (Heart Hammer) and In Rem (@ Press). His poems and essays have recently appeared in a few instant anthologies curated by Tan Lin,’ in One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe (Sarabande Books), and in American Book Review and Crayon. His poetry has also recently been displayed at PS1 Art Museum and he has also collaborated on a full length Audio CD with singer/cellist Serena Jost (Immanent Audio). Dan is the Founder and Executive Editor of Futurepoem books, a collaborative focused on innovative literature.

Jacques Demarcq: “interrogates the limits of meaning, questions cultures” according to CipM’s site. A member of the TXT collective from 1979 to 1985, Demarcq born in 1946 at Compiègne now lives in Paris. Writer, translator, art critic, journalist and editor, he is known for his extensive translations of e.e. cummings, as well as translations of Gertrude Stein and Andrea Zanzotto. He has published more than a dozen books of his own work, including most recently: Les Zozios, Nous, 2008, and Nervaliennes, Corti, 2010. Some shorter recent works include La Vie Volatile, Chantiers navals, 2008 ; Folle Genèse, Passage d’Encres, 2008; Si ma tante, Wigwam, 2009; Infolao, Passages d’Encres, 2010.