I was recently invited to write and read one of my Sky Sketches at a beautiful group exhibition hosted by the Château de Fleury-en-Bière. Thank you to Noëmi Manser and Sebastien de Ganay for including me in the event, and to Leslie McAllister for filming ✨ www.youtube.com/shorts/xhoTp...

Sky over Fleury-en-Bière - July 30, 2026 - 16h30

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I appreciate every musician, I don't care what kind of music they play. I appreciate anything that any musician does on a planet like this one. (Sun Ra)

Lucas Lecacheur just sent us a wild batch of black and white photos from our event at Serpent a Plume. More on our ig and fb, and plenty more to come!

Thanks to everyone who came out last night for the premiere of the new @lesteria.bsky.social video in Paris! For those who couldn't make it, the video is now online. We hope you'll watch, like, comment, share, give the artist some flowers 💐 #soundart #videoart #performanceart youtu.be/QAWGOIisG-c

Lesteria - Won't you come for dinner?

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Happy Birthday to our very first Heretic, the one and only Stained Glass Poet, @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social 💖. We're so grateful for you, and we look forward to all your years to come! 🥳🎉💃🎈

Wed, July 22, we'll be releasing the new video by @lesteria.bsky.social with a special screening in Paris. Join us from 19h at Out of the Blue, 9 rue Saint-Maur, 75011 🎉

My new video is premiering 7pm, July 22nd at Out of the Blue, 9 rue Saint-Maur, 75011 Paris!

Thanks to Dutch art and poetry blog Yes the Void for featuring my Text Embodiments project! We had a fun conversation about it, which you can hear on their site: yesthevoid.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/t...

Text Embodiments

The Text Embodiments are bodily interpretations of language. It is a series by poet Jason Stoneking, in which he invites dancers and other movement artists from a variety of disciplines to interpre…

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Wed, July 22, we'll be releasing the new video by @lesteria.bsky.social with a special screening in Paris. Join us from 19h at Out of the Blue, 9 rue Saint-Maur, 75011 🎉

Tomorrow in Paris! Skye Jackson at Rerenga Wines, hosted by our friends at @verseofapril.bsky.social 3 Rue de la Fidélité, 75010, at 14h

The new poetry/music single by Giselle Linder is now on bandcamp! You can listen for free, or buy the track and support the artist ✨ gisellelinder.bandcamp.com/track/howeve...

However Far I Go, by Giselle Linder

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Giselle Linder gave a triumphant debut performance of her new poetry/music single last night at Serpent a Plume, and now the video clip is live on youtube! Please go watch, like, comment, and give this queen her flowers! 💐🖤 #poetry #poet #spokenword www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujzc...

However Far I Go

YouTube video by Giselle Linder

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The legendary Balkan-Irish poet and performer @andrej_kapor will be with us Tuesday for the official Paris release of his book+EP Fragments from the End of Days, performing the entire EP with live instrumentation for the first time in France! Serpent à Plume, July 7, 20h

We're excited to introduce you to Giselle Linder, the newest member of the Heretics family! Giselle is a captivating poet and performer, who will be releasing her first poetry+music single with us on Tuesday night at Le Serpent a Plume in Paris! Find her on ig at lawdymsclawdy🖤

Paris people, don't miss this one. Giselle Linder dropping her hypnotic debut spoken word + music single, along with the launch of Andrej Kapor's dark psychedelic book+EP, plus a live set by the goth prince of svrf, Lucas Lecacheur. 🖤 July 7, doors 20h, Serpent à Plume, 24 Pl. des Vosges, 75003

It was great performing at Balades Sonores for their Nuit Off Sonore event during the #nuitblanche festival. Thanks to @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social for the invitation, to everyone who came, the other performers, Hugo for tech support, Yann Lagoutte and @parisheretics.bsky.social for the photos!

We were so moved by this great new piece from @chapp010.bsky.social in @berlinlit.bsky.social. It's a candid, passionate, vulnerable homage to Hélène Bessette, and to taking ownership of what we want to say: berlinlit.com/la-femme-aux...

La femme aux yeux orange. - berlin lit

The first time I mistranslated Hélène BessetteI called her poet and not novelist. I guess I was confusedBy her lines except that they seemed to me, and still do,To contain some of the most important v...

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We love this shot of poet Biba Ndiaye rocking his @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social merch at Spoken Word Paris this week! Captured by Sabine Dundure 🤩

Not sure what to do this Saturday evening for Nuit Blanche? Check out this great program of sound and performance at Balades Sonores, featuring sets by Heretics @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social and @lesteria.bsky.social ✨

This weekend I was invited to read my Portrait of the Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre for the vernissage of their 40th anniversary show. Thanks so much to Arnaud and everyone who came out! And to @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social + Leslie McAllister for the photos!🌹

I got to collaborate with some great artists on this video we made from my written portrait of Andrej Kapor. Featuring photos of Andrej by Lammert de Jong, assembled and edited by Leslie McAllister. I hope you'll have a look! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R02B...

Portrait of Andrej Kapor

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Check out Paris poet Malik Crumpler, getting down on these vibes from Bastien Keb and Mark Millington live at Mozinor in Montreuil 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zCf...

Live at Mozinor - Bastien Keb, Mark Millington and Malik Ameer Crumpler

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Delighted to have a new Hélène Bessette poem — bluesy, pantoumy, linguistically achy — in the latest issue of Painted Bride Quarterly. You can read the full piece here as well as listen to my audio recording of it: pbqmag.org/carrie-chapp...

Happy Birthday to this Heretic! Wishing a year of revery to @richardinlelot.bsky.social , and looking forward to releasing a new project with him in the fall! 🥳🎉✨

On April 18th, Mnemosynes is proud to host French poet, translator, and critic Lénaïg Cariou for a reading from her new collection, les dires (Éditons MF, April 2026). 14h at Rerenga Wines!

Thanks to everyone who joined me Monday night at Spoken Word Paris! For those who missed it, the piece I wrote for the occasion is now on YouTube. Thanks to Leslie McAllister for filming! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui-1...

Jason Stoneking at Spoken Word Paris

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This Monday I'll be the featured performer at the Spoken Word Paris open mic. I look forward to seeing you there! In the basement of the Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011. Readings start at 20h30. spokenwordparis.org/2026/04/07/j...

Pleased to have my new poem "English Translation" up with @lunchticket.bsky.social's Amuse Bouche series: lunchticket.org/english-tran...

English Translation - Lunch Ticket

Poet, essayist, translator, editor, and educator, Carrie Chappell searches futilely for the lost work of Hélène Bessette in this poem.

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"I think that I am very tender for category errors. And footnotes," writes @minxmarple.bsky.social in the opening of her homage to Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse. You can read and hear her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/isabella-str...

Finally posting one of the skies I read at the rooftop vernissage for my Sky Sketches project this past summer. Thanks to Valentine and Markus for hosting, to everyone who came out, and to Leslie for the 📹🌞 www.youtube.com/shorts/2m3NU...

Sky over rue Lacépède - April 11, 2025 - 15h

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