At The Louvre

Abd Al Malik, Ali Al Attar, Nujoom Alghanim, Rachael Allen, Jean D'Amérique, Antonella Anedda, Rae Armantrout, Simon Armitage, Linda Maria Baros, Polina Barskova, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Jay Bernard, Emily Berry, Zéno Bianu, Jacob Bromberg, Hannah Brooks-Motl, Mercedes Cebrián, Patrick Chamoiseau, Cecila Chapduelh, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Louise Chennevière, Pierre Chopinaud, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Ann Cotten, Jacques Darras, Najwan Darwish, Pauline Delabroy-Allard, Hélène Dorion, Michael Edwards, Jean Frémon, Albane Gellé, Peter Gizzi, Robert Glück, Kim Gordon, Stefan Hertmans, Fanny Howe, Simon Johannin, Nuno Júdice, Sylvie Kandé, John Keene, István Kemény, Wayne Koestenbaum, Abdellatif Laâbi, Nick Laird, Amadou Lamine Sall, Lan Lan, Yitzhak Laor, Dorothea Lasky, Monica De La Torre, Gérard Le Gouic, Lisette Lombé, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Tedi López Mills, Maialen Lujanbio, Gérard Manset, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Karthika Naïr, Vivek Narayanan, Bena Nimrod, Alice Notley, Gaëlle Obiégly, Eugene Ostashevsky, Norbert Paganelli, Fani Papageorgiou, Charles Pennequin, Serge Pey, Jana Prikryl, Oxmo Puccino, Olivier Py, Marie De Quatrebarbes, Ariana Reines, Blandine Rinkel, Andrés Sánchez Robayna, Albert Roig, Martin Rueff, James Sacré, Barry Schwabsky, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Yomi Ṣode, Ariel Spiegler, Aleš Šteger, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Véronique Tadjo, Esther Tellermann, Camille De Toledo, Krisztina Tóth, Milène Tournier, Andreas Unterweger, André Velter, Jan Wagner, Wang Yin, Elizabeth Willis, Xi Chuan, Jeffrey Yang, Cynthia Zarin This January, The Kitchen presents a collaboration with the Louvre and the New York Review Books. First a royal palace, then a museum, the Louvre has inspired poets for centuries – from Renaissance authors to modern day practitioners of the spoken word. For At the Louvre, a joint initiative of the museum, New York Review Books and Seghers leading to a book published in 2024, celebrated poets from around the world were invited to compose a poem about the palace-museum. The book came out in French and in English. To complement this publication in two languages, a soundtrack was composed, for which 95 of the 102 poets read their poem in their own tongue, thereby making a statement for an open-ended perception of the museum and, with it, of a multiple approach to humankind. This soundtrack is also an experimental, performative piece, in which voices are heard across cultures and times – echoing through the many lives of art. The Kitchen presents this historic project for a special week-long sonic installation. This program is organized by Donatien Grau and Nicolas Marbeau (musée du Louvre), with Antoine Caro (Seghers) and Edwin Frank (NYRB) with Robyn Farrell (The Kitchen). At The Louvre is made possible through Leadership Support from Elisa Nuyten.