[Yale-readings] A poetry reading with Oscarine Bosquet, Sarah Riggs, and Omar Berrada this Friday

[Nancy Kuhl]

WORD of MOUTH, the monthly reading series @ ARTS + LITERATURE LABORATORY
invites you to join us for a reading with Oscarine Bosquet, Sarah Riggs, 
and Omar Berrada.

Friday, May 20th at 7pm
Oscarine Bosquet is the author of Chromo (Fourbis, 1996). Her poem series 
"By Day" is forthcoming as a chapbook with Duration Press in May 2005. 
Extracts of the poem, translated by Omar Berrada and Sarah Riggs, are 
published in this year’s The Poetry Project Newsletter #203 and Chain #12. 
The original French version of “Par Jour” appeared in the journal If in 
1998. Bosquet’s work has previously appeared in English translation in 
Raddle Moon 16, translated by Michael Palmer. Oscarine Bosquet completed 
the co-translations at the Royaumont Abbey of Benjamin Hollander, and 
participated in translations of Michael Palmer. Born in 1964 in Paris, 
Bosquet has lived in recent years on the island of Groix in Brittany with 
her daughter. She currently teaches in Brest.

Sarah Riggs was born in New York in 1971, and has lived in Paris since 
2001. She is the author of Word Sightings: Poetry and Visual Media in 
Stevens, Bishop, & O’Hara (Routledge,‘02). Her poetry appears in American 
Letters & Commentary, Aufgabe, Chain, Conjunctions, New American Writing, 
Petite, and 1913—A Journal of Forms. She is part of Double Change, a 
bilingual poetry association in Paris that organizes a reading series and a 
web journal. Her translations include Isabelle Garron’s Face before against 
(Seeing Eye Books’05) and, with Omar Berrada, Marie Borel’s Fox Trump 
(Issue 4, www.doublechange.com) and Oscarine Bosquet’s By Day (Duration 
Press ’05).

After growing up in Casablanca, Omar Berrada has been living in Paris for 
about 10 years. He has translated works by Joan Retallack, Jennifer Moxley, 
Avital Ronell, Rod Mengham, Mark Ford into French and, with Sarah Riggs, 
works by Marie Borel and Oscarine Bosquet into English. He is a member of 
Double Change, a French and American association devoted to poetry and 
translation (www.doublechange.com). He hosts and produces the radio program 
‘La nuit la poésie’ on France Culture and is a contributing editor of Les 
Lettres françaises.

As usual, an open mic will start the evening. Please come a few minutes 
early to sign up.

ALL 5 EDWARDS STREET NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT

The gallery is located at the corner of State and Edwards Street. Parking 
is available on the street or in a nearby lot.
For more information, please visit the website at www.allgallery.org or 
call 203-671-5175.


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