David Leo Lots o’ Cliché No Beret Thought-He-Was-Gay “How do you say?” Sirois here –
This is just to say that I have been invited, after coming every week like church for 3 & 1/2 years, to feature at SpokenWord! 8:30 tonight at Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris – metro Parmentier (line 3) or Couronnes (line 2). Freakin’ A! Freakin’ Zed!
Bonne Nouvelle!…”I’m writing to you today because the poetry magazine Terre à ciel is going to publish your very skillful translation of Paul Valéry’s Cimetière marin in the April issue (launch: April 15th).” –Sabine Huynh, Editor/Publisher, Poet, Translator (Extraordinaire!). 21 years of Work Not Wasted!!! 🙂 Valéry’s “Cemetery by the Sea” is considered by many to be on the level of T.S.’s “The Waste Land” & that Neruda Dude’s “The Heights of Macchu Picchu” will be read by brilliant singer/songwriter Kristina Vaughan, paired with my supposedly-not-so-silly English version. . .
Fellow wordbenders, songsharers, storytellers, joke-crackers, slackers, beauty-addicts, mystics & sincere human beings – I will be reading, as required by strict international law 😉 several poems to pigeons, but also new original poems, translations from the work of Paul Valéry, & playing a new song! (https://soundcloud.com/david-leo-957067…/ladybird-coccinelle)
The theme is Alice in Wonderland (Down the Rabbit-Hole). . .
If you’re curious about any things I may or may not have virtually been doin’ , my bio appears here: https://spokenwordparis.org/about-us/david-sirois/
Here is a pidge piece I may or may not spout out:
“Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio!” (from «Transmission» by Joy Division)
I saw children chasing pigeons at a playground
in Montmartre – As I walked by I smiled
& disapproved
They didn’t notice me
or my hair in disrepair – but I stared
in mute contemplation – of their scary
fearless unrelenting effort to scare
these multicolored humble turtledoves –
who come from everywhere
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See you at SpokenWord!
Truly, madly, deeply,
David Leo Sirois
SpokenWord’s theme this Monday is GARDENS. And the guest poet is Mitko Gogov – 
Lisa Pasold is a novelist, journalist and poet. Her most recent book of poetry, Any Bright Horse, was shortlisted for Canada’s Governor General’s Award. Lisa is the host and co-writer of Discovery World’s travel program Paris Next Stop. In the course of research, Lisa has been thrown off a train in Belarus and been cheated in the Venetian gambling halls of Ca’Vendramin Calergi. She is currently writing a long poem about New Orleans.
A disciple of the creative, Jamika is as an inter-disciplinary artist who works with different
Carey Downer is a British/Canadian actress with a wide range of experience in radio, theatre and music.She has worked with several companies on internal communication projects as a voice over artist for internal videos/ Management interviews and also in general advertising for companies such as l’Oreal and Bull. She is a founder member of “Break-a-leg”, an English language Theatre Association producing Comedies in Paris by writers such as Willy Russell, Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde. Nowadays, Carey very much enjoys performing and writing comic sketches on stage and in private soirees and writes short stories and plays for children. She is also often involved in staged play readings for “Moving Parts” and “Theatre Metropole”.She is an English Coach in presenting/debating skills for Management in International companies, a voice-over artist and a trained Shiatsu Practitioner
Henri Rizk was trained at the Theatre le Hangar in Toulouse and at a multidisciplinary Drama School in Paris where he had Valérie Antonijevich (creator of the Collectif Maquis’Arts) as a Drama teacher. He still works with her today as an Actor (in addition to English he also speaks French and Italian° and a Director Assistant on several Contemporary writings.Henri loves comedy and, in fact, his first acting experience was in Commedia dell’Arte play, he has also worked in vaudevilles of Labiche, in The Dragon (Evguéni Schwartz) and in some sketches for the screen. He also performs regularly in Theatrical tours in touristic areas of Paris.As well as comedic roles, he also likes performing more dramatic parts, as he did in many short films such as : a maffioso in Family Day (Jean-Charles Charavin), a lonely man in Apparition (Denis Dobrovda) or the desperating Mr Patissot is Sundays of a Parisian Bourgeois (Thomas Grascoeur) based on a novel of Maupassant.His last workshop brought him to London to work on the “Voice and Shakespearean text” with Nadine George (creator of the Voice Studio International)
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