Andrew Shuta: An Interview by Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham: How long have you been designing books for Action Books? Can you share some of your favorite cover designs with us? Andrew Shuta: I believe I’ve been designing for Action since 2010. The [...]
Aase Berg: An Interview by Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham: How did you and Johannes Göransson first meet? Aase Berg: Johannes first came across my work when he read Hos rådjur (With Deer), my debut collection, and he wanted to translate it. He [...]
Navigating the Translations of Johannes Göransson | Part I: Johan Jönson and Aase Berg by Mike Corrao
Enter the wound. We are traversing a series of five platforms. Crawling via woven sphagnum between open tomes. Each projecting a surface pockmarked with anglophonic plateaus. Ink raised above the white matter of the page. [...]
Abraham Smith: An Interview by Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham: Action Books published your debut poetry collection—Whim Man Mammon—in 2007. What can you tell us about how this book came into being? Abraham Smith: Gave a reading at Notre Dame. Joyelle and Johannes [...]
“Crosswind” by AM Ringwalt
Crosswind, not California. Metal vessel hurtling up mountain. A screen tells me my elder died— my father’s voice repeats it. I drive over land and wish for folding road, a direct path to [...]
poetry in action #18 | Mohammed Bennis Translated by Aaron Boxerman and Phoebe Bay Carter
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 [...]