poetry in action #16 | From Outgoing Vessel | Ursula Andkjær Olsen translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen
poetry in action features work by poets from around the world, translated into English. It has three rallying cries: Poets of the world, unite and take over! Resist the oppressive constraints of good, publishable poetry [...]
Poesía en acción #9: Three Poems by Jorgenrique Adoum and Translators Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
Excerpt from prepoems in postspanish and other poems By Jorgenrique Adoum Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez prepoems in postspanish and other poems is out from Action Books in March 2021! [...]
Being Human Is an Occult Practice: An Interview with Magdalena Zurawski by Aditi Machado
When Magdalena Zurawski’s pamphlet Being Human Is an Occult Practice arrived in the mail last October, I read it immediately, twice. I’d been looking forward to it because of its title and because it is [...]
Oobleck, Mannerism, and Giants by Philip Sorenson
In H. G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods, the chickens, which are the first things fed the food, grow grotesquely large and begin eating cats. Disturbance in size, thick bodied and too close, the [...]
“To approach a poem with the desire to unknow”: An Interview with Olivia Lott by Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham: In your preface to Lucía Estrada’s Katabasis, you described the collection as having the shape of a “descent.” You describe the act of translation itself as a “katabatic unearthing.” I think there is [...]
Chthonic Noise and Swarming Excess: Jake Reber’s ZER000 EXCESS by Barret White
In “The Deep,” the second episode of BBC’s nature documentary series Blue Planet II, host David Attenborough narrates the journey of a deep ocean submersible as it travels to the ocean floor near Antarctica. Along [...]