L’atelier Michael Woolworth et double change ont le plaisir de
vous inviter le mercredi 24 septembre à 19h à une lecture de
Gabriel Gauthier
Mia You
& Claudia Rankine
Atelier Michael Woolworth
2 rue de la Roquette, cour Février
75011 Paris
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La lecture est organisée dans le cadre de l’invitation en France de Claudia Rankine par The American University of Paris et le programme de recherche Poets & Critics, soutenu par Université Gustave Eiffel, Université Paris 8 et Université Paris Cité.
Gabriel Gauthier est né à Mont-Saint-Aignan en 1992. Diplômé de l’École des Beaux-arts de Paris, il a fait paraître trois livres de poésie : Simurgh & Simorgh (Théâtre Typographique, 2016, rééd. 2024 avec Contra), Speed (Vies Parallèles, 2020) et La Vallée du Test (Corti, 2025), un an après SPACE, son premier roman.
Mia You is the author of the poetry collections Festival (Belladonna, 2025) and I, Too, Dislike It (1913 Press, 2016), and the chapbooks Rouse the Ruse and the Rush (Nion Editions, 2023) and Objective Practice (Achiote Press, 2007). Her poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, the Boston Review, nY, De Gids, Nioques and the PEN Poetry Series. Other writing has appeared in Artforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Too Little/Too Hard,and the European Review of Books. She teaches Anglophone literature at the Universiteit Utrecht and in the Critical Studies program at the Sandberg Institute, and she is completing a Dutch Research Council-funded project titled, “Poetry in the Age of Global English. »
Claudia Rankine is the author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric; three plays including HELP, which premiered in March 2020 (The Shed, NYC), and The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/ American Repertory Theater) and was published by Graywolf Press in 2019; as well as numerous video collaborations. Her recent collection of essays, Just Us: An American Conversation, was published by Graywolf Press in 2020. She is also the co-editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. In 2016, Rankine co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment of the Arts. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Claudia Rankine joined the NYU Creative Writing Program in Fall 2021. She lives in New York.
Deux livres ont été traduits en français, par Maïtreyi et Nicolas Pesquès: Si toi aussi tu m’abandonnes (Corti, 2010, 2024), Citizen, Ballade américaine (Éditions de l’Olivier, 2020).