Carte blanche to L'Arche éditeur
Wednesday 18 Mar 2026 from 6pm to 8:15pm
Free on booking
The exploration of new poetic territories continues with carte blanche given to L'Arche éditeur.
Claire Stavaux, director of the publishing house since 2017, hosts a talk bringing together three authors: Joëlle Sambi, Sonia Chiambretto and Athena Farrokhzad.
The evening begins with a reading session showcasing their unique writing styles. Combining performative speech, language in struggle and literary creation, this meeting provides a space for reflection and sharing around contemporary forms of poetry.
She charts a course where poetry is performance, at the crossroads of forms and struggles. Her words resonate as much in activist circles as on national stages, such as the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, where she is an associate author. At L'Arche, she published vos corps seront caillasses in 2023 and will publish Maison Chaos in September 2026.
Author of a dozen books published by L'Arche, Actes-Sud Papiers, Filigranes and Éditions Nous, she is active in the field of performance and visual arts. She also publishes in poetry magazines and runs workshops in art schools. She is an associate artist at the Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs des Hauts de Belleville and the CDN Le Quai d'Angers. Latest published text: Peines Mineures (L'Arche, 2023); latest production: Oasis Love (Festival d'Automne, Paris, 2024); latest exhibition: ‘Comme un Printemps, je serai nombreuse’ (Triangle-Astéride, Marseille, 2025). Her next book will be published by L'Arche in October 2026.
She has published five books since Vitsvit in 2013 until Tragedierna in 2025, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Stockholm and has translated Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Natalie Diaz and Marguerite Duras into Swedish. Her work has not yet been published in French, but her first book, Vitsvit, is due to be published by L'Arche in 2027 in the ‘Des écrits pour la parole’ collection.