2019

13/12 2019

rape enters the scene

12/12 2019

De Das Mag Eindejaarsshow

Gastprogramma [uitverkocht]

7/12 2019 — 8/12 2019

Tafelzuur

Gastprogramma van Theatergroep Zout

4/12 2019

Dating Apocalypse

Gastprogramma: Late Night Talks w/ Fatima Warsame

29/11 2019

One thousand milligrams vitamin C

26/11 2019

De biografie in psychoanalyse

Elisabeth Lockhorn over Andreas Burnier

22/11 2019

Clarities

an evening with Cammisa Buerhaus, Geo Wyeth,
and Ivan Cheng

15/11 2019

The Worlds and Works of
Janelle Monáe

1/11 2019

Open Microfoon

Perdu's tweede open mic!

20/10 2019

Radical
Read-in

A Sunday afternoon in Black Achievement Month

12/10 2019

An Intimate Approach

Perdu tijdens Read My World

8/10 2019

De tijdgeest duiden

De Biografie in psychoanalyse

27/9 2019

The Currents

Een gesprek over gemeenschap, kritiek en herkenning

28/6 2019

Ageing Versus Immortality

EINDFEEST: 35 JAAR PERDU!

27/6 2019

Eindpresentatie schrijfworkshop

21/6 2019

'Cause the written word is mineral

Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee return to Perdu!

19/6 2019

[FULLY BOOKED] Radical Read-In with Eileen Myles + Screening 'The Trip'

11/6 2019

[SOLD OUT] Something unearthly about today

An evening with Eileen Myles

7/6 2019

Belonging in the Mess II

Repercussions of a Malfunctioning System

31/5 2019

Mona Kareem & Momtaza Mehri

On Lineage and Lingua

30/5 2019

Perdu X Marché de La Poésie

24/5 2019

World is Constantly Touching

Op zoek naar de kritische mogelijkheden van intuïtief werk

22/5 2019

Rosily I Will Squander Myself

An evening with Lisa Robertson and Mia You

17/5 2019

Thinking through (to) the end of the world

Life before, during and after the apocalypse

10/5 2019

A Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness Without Sorrow

A programme guest-curated by artist Christian Nyampeta

3/5 2019

Found in Translation

A programme guest-curated by Urok Shirhan

19/4 2019

Vers van het Mes XXXIX

Perdu, deBuren en de Nwe Tijd slaan wederom de handen ineen voor een nieuwe editie!

12/4 2019

Open microfoon

Perdu's allereerste open mic!

6/4 2019

Beyond the Sentence – Stein as Open Text

A co-production of Gertrude Stein European Network, Perdu and Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON)'s Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Group (Utrecht University)

5/4 2019

Longing for, in the mud

Looking for liminality in abjection

29/3 2019

Onze * Tori

Perdu i.s.m. The Black Archives: Woordkunst over verborgen verhalen

22/3 2019

Onder dieren

Hoe verhouden we ons tot dieren? Of beter gezegd: tot andere dieren?

15/3 2019

Poem as storm, not as refuge

Poëzie als interventie

8/3 2019

Historical Debris

Collecting the leftovers of history

1/3 2019

Am I lovely? Of course!

Drie Russische dichters te gast + presentatie Tijd van de aarde van Galina Rymboe

22/2 2019

Perdu Leest Langzaam #7

We lezen de nieuwe bundel van Anneke Brassinga: Verborgen tuinen

15/2 2019

Perdu Invites: Twee Roemeense dichters

Met Doina Ioanid, Claudiu Komartin en hun vertaler Jan H. Mysjkin

8/2 2019

The Worlds and Works of Octavia E. Butler

De derde avond in onze sciencefictionreeks!

31/1 2019

30+30 Dichters­marathon 2019

DIT EVENEMENT IS UITVERKOCHT!

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31 mei 20:00 2019

Mona Kareem & Momtaza Mehri

On Lineage and Lingua

Praktisch

Doors open: 19:30
Start: 20:00
Entrance: €9 / €6 (discount)

Met
Bezig met verzenden..
Gelukt en hiermee bevestigd!

In her poem ‘How Emily Dickinson saved all of poetry’, Mona Kareem suggests that Dickinson wasn’t a hermit, but a vibrant soul who had to seclude herself to fully live: ‘Is it isolation // when you isolate the world from your world?’ She concludes that Dickinson has been such an inspiration precisely because she wasn’t concerned about her legacy.

How do writers become part of a tradition? Do they place themselves in existing lineages or is it the other way around: do writers choose their own predecessors or, rather, do they create their own predecessors?

Perdu has invited the aforementioned Mona Kareem and Momtaza Mehri to dive into these questions of tradition and relate them to their multilingual poetry. How does multilingualism complicate these questions? After reading from their respective works, they will enter into conversation about lineage and lingua.

Programme in English

Mona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections in Arabic and the 2019 Poet-in-Residence at Poetry International in Rotterdam. Her first English manuscript Masters and Lovers will come out next. Her poetry has been translated into nine languages and published in anthologies. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and has taught literature and writing at State University of New York, Rutgers, and City University of New York. Her work has appeared or will be published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Ambit Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, PEN English, Modern Poetry in Translation, Two Lines, and Specimen. She has been a fellow at the Norwich Writers' Center, Banff Center, and the Forum Transregionale Studien. Her translations include the selected work of Alejandra Pizarnik, Ra'ad Abdul Qader, and Ashraf Fayadh's Instructions Within, which was nominated for the BTBA 2017 awards.

Momtaza Mehri is a poet, essayist and meme archivist. She is the co-winner of the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Her work has been widely anthologised and has appeared in Granta, Artforum, Poetry International, BBC Radio 4, Vogue and Real Life Mag. She is the former Young People’s Laureate for London and a columnist-in-residence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Open Space. Her chapbook sugah lump prayer was published in 2017.