Nicolas Grenier
FRENCH POET
French poet, Nicolas Grenier has published around twenty works in poetry and literature. A former student of Sciences Po Paris and Humboldt University, he has been published in about a hundred French and international journals and contributes to educational works. He is a member of literary prize juries (novel, poetry, essay, haiku...). He has taught at HEC, the Ecole Centrale de Paris, Sciences Po Paris, and has given talks for public and private institutions in France and internationally. Book publications: — Snow Landscape, Monoliths, unpublished, 2025, preface by Pierre Brunel. — Voltaire, freedom in a deck chair, 2023. — The Republic on the Move by Émile Zola, selected and presented letters, 2022. — The Little Literary Neuilly, 2021. — Paris all in verse, from the Louvre to Père-Lachaise, a panorama of Parisian poetry, 2021. — Renovation works: plumbing, DIY, electricity, essay on French, European, and global poetry, 2021. — Writers in the ring: boxing gloves, 2020. — A Small Anthology of the Cosmos, 2019, preface by Jean-François Clervoy. — A Small Sports Anthology & Other Literary Pleasures, 2019. — 1,001 General Knowledge Q.C.M, 2019. — Game, set and match: a literary anthology of tennis, 2019, preface by Patrick Clastres. — Le Puy-en-Velay: letters to God, 2018. — The Little Queen: literary anthology of cycling, 2017. — From Sport to Pen: anthology of sports literature, 2016, preface by Nelson Monfort. — Rosetta (followed by Philae), 2015, preface by Francis Rocard, afterword by Luis Mizon. — Palais de l'Élysée Hôtel de Matignon Ministry of Foreign Affairs & other power places of the French Republic in haikus, 2015, preface by Salah Stétié. — Next to the Seine, at the bend of La Défense one hundred twenty-seven haikus, 2015, preface by Jérôme Attal. — Periphery(s), 2014, preface by Luis Mizon. — As for Saint-Germain-des-Prés, thirty-one tanka on the hand after, Paul Éluard Prize, 2011, preface by Jean Orizet.
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The Haiku, a Zen Effect...
In the 21st century, the haiku is in vogue. This tiny Japanese poem awakens the curiosity of everyone. Mystery? Happiness? Zen? Around a workshop, let’s glide towards the Land of the Rising Sun... with a few words, to compose your haikus. Welcome, konnichiwa!
Being a Poet in the 21st Century
In the 21st century, poetry is still present. What is poetry today? Is everything a poem? How does a poet write? In what way does the poet perceive reality? And many other topics. This will be an opportunity to listen to a poet and to answer your questions.
Creative Writing: Inspire, Innovate
Creation and recreation... Experience and experimentation, these are the key words of this creativity workshop through writing. Dialogue, short story, poem, haiku... Inventing, recreating, innovating, this is the creed of the 21st century. The goal of this workshop is to free words and share one's adventure with the treasure of the French language... with playfulness.