The evening will celebrate Pierre Joris‘s life & prolific œuvre — and most of all POASIS II, Selected poems 2000–2024 (Wesleyan University Press, 2025), a book he finished before he passed. Copies will be available at the event. The program will feature poetry, music, & tributes reflecting the scope of Joris’s decades-spanning, boundary-crossing work. As Joris wrote: “I am a space traveler trying to write myself into an oasis corner, an amen corner, as I circumambulate the polis of my life span, stopping here & there. Yet even this station, this mawqif, this poasis — as I call it with a made-up word or name in the title of one book — is never a given but always a wrestling… to start a new fire to lighten the next steps.”

We hope you can join us at 7:15pm for a reception before the event. The memorial will start at 8pm sharp.

This event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.