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Literary magazine Upstairs at Duroc celebrates Printemps des Poètes with a reading reflecting some of the many facets of English-language poetry being written in Europe today.

Rufo Quintavalle was born in London in 1978, studied English at Oxford and the University of Iowa, and now lives in Paris.  His poems have appeared in Barrow Street, The Wolf, The London Magazine, Upstairs at Duroc, MiPOesias and elimae.  A chapbook, Make nothing happen, has recently come out from Oystercatcher Press.

Alistair Noon's first chapbook At the Emptying of Dustbins was recently published by Oystercatcher Press, and his translation of Pushkin's Bronze Horseman has just appeared online at Horizon Review. His essay Translocal Underground: Anglophone Poetry and Globalization appeared in issue 3 of Bordercrossing Berlin and suggests some new terminology for English-language poetry written outside of Anglophone countries. He lives in Berlin.

Ohio-born poet George Vance was most recently involved in experiments with word/image fusion, tags & street art.  His hybrid language & image video installation, "Heights", was exhibited in Brussels in 2006, & he recently designed a 'totem' scupture with a Kanak artist.  Author of Bent Time, a chapbook, his poems have appeared in Paris in Pharos and Upstairs at Duroc.  Vance has lived in Liberia, Austria, Germany, France and the French Overseas 'Country' of New Caledonia/Kanaky.

The American poet and translator Alexander Dickow was born in 1979.  He completed a DEA in French literature in Nantes in 2003-2004, and continued his graduate studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey.  He is now based in Chatillon near Paris, and pursuing his dissertation research on 20th-Century French poetry.  In addition to poems and articles published in French and American journals, he is the author of Caramboles, a biligual collection of poems in French and English published by Argol Editions in 2008.

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Upstairs at Duroc is an English-language literary and art journal featuring the work of established and emerging artists from Paris and abroad.

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