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Serge Gavronsky was born in Paris in 1932 and fled Hitler in 1941. He received his BA, MA, and Ph.D in European History from Columbia University and is now professor and chair of the French department at Barnard College.

Poetry in French:

  • Lectures et compte-rendu, poèmes. Coll. "Textes", Flammarion, 1973.
  • Je le suis, poème, illustrations by Michel Kanter, artists’s edition, 1995.
  • L’interminable discussion, poem with six original woodcuts by JM. Scanreigh. Editions Philippe Millereau, 1996.
  • Reduction du tryptique, poème, with 4 original woodcuts by Scanreigh, Philippe Millereau, 1996.

Forthcoming Poetry:

  • L’Obscur d’ici with 4 original woodcuts by Scanreigh, Editions Delangle, 1997.
  • L’heure creuse/The Hollow Hour limited boxed edition with 3 original drawings by Koschmieder. Printed in Calcutta, 1997.
  • Le Temps mort, poémes, with a photograph taken by the poet as frontispiece, Ulysee fin de siecle, 1998.

In Magazines (a selection):

  • Tel quel, Les Temps Modernes, Siécles à main, Action poétique, Nioque, Po&Sie Banana Split, IF, Jalouse pratique, Sotto Voce
  • Translations:
  • Books
  • Poems and Texts, October House, 1969.
  • Modern French Poetry (with Patricia Terry), Columbia U. Press, 1975.
  • Francis Ponge and the Power of Language, University of California Press, 1979.
  • Ten Poems/Dix poemes de Francis Ponge, Greenwood Press, 1983.
  • Toward a New Poetics: Contemporary Writing in France, University of California Press, 1994.
  • Joyce Mansour, Cris/Screams, Post Apollo Press, 1995.
  • Six Contemporary French Women Poets, Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.

Forthcoming:

  • Emmanuel Hocquard, The Cape of Good Hope, Sun & Moon Press, 1998.
  • Joyce Mansour, Dechirure/Torn Apart, The Bitter Oleander Press, 1998.
  • Private Arts Magazine, Francis Ponge, Sandra Moussempes and Michelle Grangaud.

Poetry in English:

Magazines (a selection):

Two Cities, Plumed Horn, The Nation, Boulevard, Talisman, Dada and Surrealism, Response, Battered Bride, Lunch, Bakunin, Exquisite Corpse, Innovations, Washington Review.

Anthologies (French and English):

  • Where’s Vietnam? 87 American Poets Respond, Doubleday, 1967.
  • In the Time of Revolution, Random House, 1969.
  • Man in the Poetic Mode, MacDougal, Little, 1970.
  • The New Voices, Scribner’s, 1971.
  • For Neruda/For Chile, Beacon, 1975.
  • Cervo Volante, Rome, 1983.
  • Anthologie immediate, Fourbia, 1996.
The World of Poetry

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Performer Bios:
Meena Alexander
María Auxiliadora Alvarez
Berty Barranco
Raúl Barrientos
Regie Cabico
Charles Cantalupo
Guillermo Castro
Bei Dao
de la rosa
Linh Dinh
Miguel Falquez-Certain
Luis H. Francia
Eric Gamalinda
Serge Gavronsky
Roger Greenwald
Katrine Marie Guldager
Peter Laugesen
Yang Lian
Jaime Manrique
Malena Mörling
Murat Nemet-Nejat
Wanda Phipps
Wang Ping
Alexis Gómez Rosa
Tomaz Salamun
Tanikawa Shuntaro
Tomas Tranströmer
Virlana Tkacz
Cecilia Vicuña
Eliot Weinberger
Emanuel Xavier
Lydia Zacklin


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