Citational Poetics: A Series | Part 4: Mothers and the Dead
“Is there any other way to be in this world?” -Karla Kelsey and Poupeh Missaghi, “Matters of Feminist Practice: An Invitation” In the introduction to this series, I described citational poetics as a deliberate [...]
A Thousand Flowers / Flowers of Evil by Zack Anderson
What we used to call art begins at a distance of two meters from the body,” writes Walter Benjamin in “Dream Kitsch.” “But now, in kitsch, the world of things advances on the human being; [...]
Pre-Articulation: On John Trefry’s Unfinished Massive | Part 2 by Mike Corrao
Informatic Accumulation Particulates gather on the surface / the kino eye’s amassed output / not only dashcam footage / but poetry and paintings / the lives of Osip and Nadia Mandelstam / [...]
Burning Books by Adalber Salas Hernández
[Venezuelan writer Adalber Salas Hernández recently translated and published a poetry collection by Louise Glück for the small, independent poetry press, Pre-Textos, based in Valencia, Spain. The following is his response (in my translation) to [...]
poetry in action #13 | Kinga Tóth | Translated by Owen Good
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: Three Poems by Alejandro Albarrán Polanco and Translator Rachel Galvin
Three Poems by Alejandro Albarrán Polanco Translated by Rachel Galvin from Algunas personas no son caballos from Algunas personas no son caballos [...]