Introducing Double Change

Double Change was founded in 2000 in order to juxtapose, unite and reunite the poetries of France and the United States in a new bi-national, multi-faceted forum. Established as a not-for-profit organization in Paris and with editorial boards in both France and the U.S., Double Change looks to represent a diverse, eclectic spectrum of poetic activity in both countries.

Double Change hopes to open new lines of communication between poets who may or may not already be well known outside of their own countries. The organization has two principal aims: to discover new poets and rediscover poets in expanded bi-national contexts; and to represent in our forums poets and other artists who are in dialogue with their texts.

For these goals we have two essential venues: a reading series in Paris, and a Web site featuring a poetry magazine.


Reading Series

A series of readings has already begun in Paris. American and French poets read together at the jazz club the Duc des Lombards, in the center of Paris, close to the Pompidou Center. Readings are free and open to the public.


Web Site

The Web site was conceived as a comprehensive venue for French and American poetries and poetic cultures and communities. An online magazine features poems by both French and American poets (in translation and in the original language), as well as articles, interviews (with poets and editors, for example), reviews and conversations. The site will also list reading dates and times well in advance.

We hope the site will offer readers a glimpse of places and ways in which poetry is active, complex and ever-more-diverse in both countries.


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