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Group exhibition together with Thomas Rösch and Mandy Wiesener at art space EULENGASSE, Frankfurt am Main,
from April 4-27, 2025 - opening: April 4, 7 pm, I'll be reading from my new volume of poetry as part of a duo performance with
multiinstrumentalist Jonathan Delazer (drums, clarinet)



New volume of poetry - with drawings by Thomas Rösch:



Conversation with South Korean artist Daewoong Kim on March 23, 2025, 4:00 pm, at Ausstellungsraum EULENGASSE in Frankfurt am Main/Germany, on occasion of his exhibition from March 7-30, 2025:





To all who speak German.
Coming soon - new volume of poems:



I'm a member of Ausstellungsraum EULENGASSE e.V. now (since 04/2024) - an artist-run space in Frankfurt am Main/Germany (https://www.eulengasse.de/):




Now on AllAboutJazz.com: Interview with master drummer Greg Paul (*1987 in Buffalo, NY), who established the magnificent Katalyst Collective in 2014:

 


Now on AllAboutJazz.com: Interview with Chicago-born bassist and photographer Leonard E. Jones (1943-2024), who was an original member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM):





Arts For Art - Jazz History Month Reading List (April 20, 2022):





To all who speak German and are around.
Poetry reading at Atelierhaus Darmstadt, Riedeselstraße 15, 64283 Darmstadt/Germany, Saturday, April 23, 2022, 2 pm - I'll be reading from unpublished (2018-22) and published material (2010, 2017):




Now on AllAboutJazz.com - my article about Buffalo, NY as a place of music history:




Now on AllAboutJazz.com - my interview with New York trombonist Clifton Anderson:





Now on AllAboutJazz.com - my interview with US-American pianist Burton Greene (1937-2021) (also appeared in German in Jazz Podium, November 2020):




From August 2019 - July 2021 I had an author's page on fixpoetry.com, a German web portal dedicated to literature and visual arts - not only from Germany; sadly, the website is down since 07/2021 due to lack of financial support.





To all who speak German.
I'll be doing an introduction to the exhibition was anders ist of Johannes Kriesche and Thomas Rösch at bok Galerie, 63065 Offenbach (Germany), Kirchgasse 29 on Thursday, March 14, 7:00 pm, and will be reading from my latest book of poems Feuer Wahn Zen (with drawings by Thomas Rösch) at that same opening and at the closing event on Saturday, March 30, 1:30-2:00 pm:







Updated interview with New York multi-instrumentalist & DJ Casey Benjamin aka Stutzmcgee (1978-2024) from 06/2018 in full-length for AllAboutJazz.com 2019ff.:

 



To all who speak German.
Interview with New York multi-instrumentalist & DJ Casey Benjamin aka Stutzmcgee (1978-2024) from 06/2018 for longstanding German music magazine Jazz Podium, February 2019, pages 18-20:



 

To all who speak German.
Published in April 2017:



Feuer Wahn Zen
41 Gedichte
Mit Zeichnungen von Thomas Rösch
84 Seiten. Zahlreiche S/W-Abbildungen
Passagen Verlag, Wien
ISBN 978-3-7092-0253-1

REVIEW:
"Die Poetin Barbara Frenz trifft - gleich Kassandra - mit einem dreifachen Begriffsschlag, ihrem Lyrikband "Feuer Wahn Zen",  ins EmpfindungsZENtrum empathischer LeserInnen. Ihr bezaubernd knapper Sprachduktus zielt synästhetisch - berührend  illustriert von Thomas Rösch - in den im Selbst mehrfach erschütterten, singularisierten Kern der Gegenwarts-Gesellschaft" (Marga Prankl / Walter Prankl, Kultur-Punkt Onlinejournal, April 2017).

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