Somnographists

The Sleep of Reason / Dormez Vous?

The poet Saint Pol Roux hung a Do Not Disturb sign on his door whenever he went to sleep. It read "Poet at Work."

2 poets who write in their sleep will read from their dreamwork on May 26 at 7:30pm at the Café de la Plage, Paris.

By this we do not mean that they wake, remember, then write down what they have dreamed. No. They write while they are fast asleep.

Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle is the author of Kook! a parapsychological pulp-noir thriller. His short story Ick-a-Body first appeared in Kilometer Zero 03, while his poetry has been published in Purple, The Paris Times, The Boston Review, Jacket, Fence, Verse, Action Yes, etc. He is a poetry critic for Rain Taxi and an art critic for The Brooklyn Rail.

Virgile Novarina (French) has published 2 books of drawings and writings from sleep. He recently returned from a performance in the West Indies where he slept through the opening in his bed—shipped from Paris—in the gallery exhibiting his works.

May 26, 19:30 PM, 2009
59 Rue Charonne (at Rue Trousseau) Metro Ledru-Rollin, or Charonne

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