Reading: Se croiser en poésie
Saturday 20 September
17:30 - 18:30
Price: Gratuit - Gratis - Free
Language: French
Location:
with
Stéphane Martelly, Colette Nys-Mazure & Mélanie Godin
Presentations
Two poetic voices respond to each other: one from Haiti and living in Quebec, Stéphane Martelly, who publishes 'Mourir est beau' ; the other, Colette Nys-Mazure, a major voice in Belgian poetry. An unprecedented encounter where their writings intersect and illuminate one another, celebrating the living power of poetry.
ABOUT MOURIR EST BEAU
"To think of death through the lens of Black poets of the Americas is inevitable for me, who has already traversed the margins and even madness. Dying is beautiful, to make beautiful this death that is promised to us and that we even demand. To desire as beautiful this death that already engulfs us. To summon it in order to clearly define the acceptable boundaries of our dignity. To think this death by unfolding the writing, by shaping the poem, is no doubt the only way to think of our poetry and of what it holds to keep us moving through life".
Our speakers
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Colette Nys-Mazure
Colette Nys-Mazure was born in Wavre and now lives in Tournai, on the banks of the Scheldt. A trained philologist, literature teacher and lecturer, she forges links with artists and works of art. For her, living, reading and writing are inseparable.
Stéphane Martelly
Born in Port-au-Prince, Stéphane Martelly is a writer, painter, and researcher. She is the author of a research-creation essay, Les jeux du dissemblable. Folie, marge et féminin en littérature haïtienne contemporaine (Nota bene, 2016). Her most recent publications include the poetry collection Inventaires and the illustrated book-poem L’enfant-Gazelle (Remue-ménage, 2018). In 2020, she founded the collection MARTIALES at Éditions du Remue-Ménage, dedicated to the writings of Black women. Stéphane Martelly is a professor in research-creation and Caribbean literatures at the Department of Arts, Languages, and Literatures at the Université de Sherbrooke. Since 2021, she has co-directed the transcultural research group VersUS.
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Mélanie Godin
Delicate yet strong, Mélanie Godin has driven and expanded the Midis poésie project for several years. She is an editor at L’Arbre de Diane, co-director of Maison poème, an archivist of beautiful spoken texts (Sonalitté), and a literature teacher at the 75.