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poésie : usa festival ’16

Double Change, The Poetry Foundation, la Bibliothèque Anglophone d’Angers, la Maison des écrivains et de la littérature d’Angers, and the publishing house Joca Seria invite you to to the festival  ‘Poésie : usa’ with

Tina Darragh

Tina was born in 1950 in Pittsburgh. Tine Darragh took seriously the task of moving the poet’s voice away from the center of the poem, and experimented with language as material in books. Her work has been included in several  L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry anthologies. Her current projects focus on ways to further the notion of “partial authorship” such as opposable dumbs. She lives in Greenbelt, Maryland with poet P. Inman and supports herself by working in a library.

De coin à corner, livre de 26 proses, est un abécédaire fou : chaque lettre correspond à une page du dictionnaire choisie au hasard et dont les mots, par les liens que la poète voit entre eux, génèrent un récit. Table périodique d’éléments verbaux très instables, le livre de Tina Darragh est une proposition d’itinéraire dans les domaines du possible de la langue, un site de rencontres lexicales pour des relations d’une page dont la fraîcheur et l’étrangeté réjouiront madame comme monsieur.

Marcella Durand

Marcella’s books include Deep Eco Pré, a collaboration with Tina Darragh (Little Red Leaves). She has translated Marcel Proust, Nicole Brossard, Eric Giraud and other poets for publications such as Fence and The Collected Poems of Marcel Proust (Penguin 2013). She lives in New York City. For an interview click here.

Dans Le jardin de M., Marcella Durand réinvente l’espace, celui de la ville, celui du langage et du poème. Lire les poèmes de Marcella Durand, c’est, à l’heure d’une cartographie totale du monde, revenir à une appréhension élémentaire de l’espace et du langage. Dans les poèmes de Rayons de l’ombre, cela passe par l’utilisation surprenante, en langue anglaise, de l’alexandrin, comme si la poète américaine, de père français, avait voulu faire rentrer sa langue dans la mesure française, comme pour la faire tenir, l’empêcher de fuir.

Tonya Foster

Tonya is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna, 2015) and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Born in Bloomington, Illinois and raised in New Orleans. In a review, Patricia Spears Jones says, ” Foster’s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities, discords, emotions and logic. She allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” .

La grammaire des os est celle d’une langue qui trébuche pour se ressaisir dans le jeu de haïkus de Tonya Foster. Dans le Harlem du 21^ème siècle, dire et parler, c’est vouloir sentir pour savoir et connaître, saisir le spectre des couleurs, du noir de la peau au rouge du sang. « Ce poème est une ville de visages désertés par l’espoir d’un nous ». Lire cette grammaire, c’est se frayer un passage, se trouver une place et en faire pour les autres sans attendre une invitation qui ne vient pas. Le poème en tient lieu.

You can sign up to take your TOEIC test here in the library. To sign up please consult the ETS website.

Time to get outside! Get on those hiking boots and take some time to revel in the great outdoors! The idea is to organise an easy walk once a month – approximately 10 km, 2 to 3 hours, in the afternoon – in order to discover or re-discover the beautiful hiking paths of the Maine-et-Loire. Come along with good walking shoes, protection against rain, cold or heat according to the season…. a bottle of water and a little “en-cas” to keep you going ! Maximum group is 20 so make sure to sign up!

Want to sign up? Easy as pie!

Sign up by sending your name, email address and phone numbers (perferably cell phone) to this email address. You will be sent full details of the walk in due time.
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Treat yourself to an afternoon of a collective reading of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry the Fourth. The activity consists of watching a BBC production on DVD and then reading relative scenes. This is a great activity for lovers of language and fans of the great wit. The activity is free for library members. Please sign up at the front desk.

Like to craft? So do we! So let’s do it together and do it at the library!

This is the latest of the many different fundraising ideas that makes our hearts beat! Get crafty, enjoy time with others AND support the library!

The library will be scheduling two full mornings for crafting as a group. If you have ideas come with your “pattern” and supplies and our little Santa’s helpers will help cut and paste and knit and design…all so much fun! Anything goes as long as it is handmade and sellable in the crafts fair! Think Christmas cards, ornaments, table setting decorations, etc…

The dates are Friday, November 25th from 10-12 am and December 2nd at the same time. The library will be offering our bottomless mugs of tea and coffee for all crafters! All crafts will be put on sale as a fundraiser for the library during the month of December. If you would like more information, contact Phoebe by sending an email.

This is a special moment when the community gathers together to talk about everything and anything (…in English of course!) and sips coffee and tea. Coffee House is free and open to all library members. Just drop in, no need to reserve! Coffee house is every Friday except during school holidays.

During the entire month of December that library will be selling crafts donated by volunteers and friends. Come and support this fundraiser while finding some great little original gifts for friends and relatives!

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Each year the local independent cinema in Angers, the “4OO coups”, organise a week of films in English catered for different age groups and fashioned for classes. For 2016 there is a great line-up of films! Take a look at the program by clicking here and book in those dates!

The next film club event will be “Opening Night” by John Cassavetes. 

John Cassavetes’ “Opening Night” tells the story of an alcoholic actress going through the final agony of bottoming out, while surrounded by people whose lives she is making impossible, and who are not nearly as angry with her as they should be. Gena Rowlands plays the role at perfect pitch: She is able to suggest, even in the midst of seemingly ordinary moments, the controlled panic of a person who needs a drink, right here, right now. The story, which takes place in the final days of the out-of-town tryout of a new play, stars Rowlands as Myrtle Gordon, a famous actress idolized by her fans. Ben Gazzara plays the director, who doggedly tries to keep the doomed production on track, Joan Blondell is the playwright, and Cassavetes himself plays the leading man. Everyone in the cast and on the production staff knows that Myrtle is a drunk, but to one degree or another they all go along with her fantasy, which is that she drinks because she is terrified of aging, and since the play is about an aging woman, the pain is simply too much for her to bear. Alcoholics can always tell you about the problems they’re drinking over, but they can never quite see how the boozing and the problems might be related.

Screening begins at 15:00 sharp. This activity is free of charge for all library members. Please reserve by signing up at the front desk in advance. A discussion in English will follow the film.

Treat yourself to an afternoon of a collective reading of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry the Fourth. The activity consists of watching a BBC production on DVD and then reading relative scenes. This is a great activity for lovers of language and fans of the great wit. The activity is free for library members. Please sign up at the front desk.