Sept. 19, 2002

Contact: Ken Irby, Department of English, (785) 864-3118.

Poet Pierre Joris to visit KU Sept. 26

LAWRENCE -- Pierre Joris, internationally known poet, translator and anthologist, will read his work at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union at the University of Kansas. Refreshments will be served at the event, sponsored by the Department of English at KU.

Joris is the co-editor, with Jerome Rothenberg, of the two-volume anthology "Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry." As a poet, translator and anthologist, Joris has written more than 20 books, most recently "Poasis: Selected Poems 1986-1999" (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). He has written many volumes of poetry, including "h.j.r.," "Out/takes" and "Winnetou Old," as well as prose, such as "Towards a Nomadic Poetics." In addition, he has translated poet Paul Celan -- notably "Breathturn" and "Threadsuns" from German -- and Pablo Picasso, among others.

Born in Luxembourg, Joris was educated there and in Paris, the United States and Great Britain. He is a professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany.

For more information, contact Ken Irby, (785) 864-3118.