A Conversation with Vi Khi Nao & Jessica Alexander & Coco Picard
(Available from BlazeVOX) Coco Picard: What was it like to develop, compose, and revise a manuscript together? Did That Woman Could Be You begin from a conscious intention or did it come [...]
A Review of Liliana Ponce’s Fudekara, translated by Michael Martin Shea by Paul Cunningham
Fudekara (Cardboard House Press, 2022) Written during a Chinese ideograph calligraphy class over 14 days at the University of Buenos Aires, Liliana Ponce’s Fudekara (translated by Michael Martin Shea) presents a map with [...]
Action Books: Meet Our New Assistant Editors (2023-2024)
Camille Lendor Who are your favorite poets? My favorite poets are Claudia Rankine, Ted Hughes, Anne Carson, Denise Levertov, Mark Waldron, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Thomas Hardy. If you could only recommend three films, what [...]
poetry in action #36 | Six poems by Julia Fiedorczuk, translated by Bill Johnston
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 established [...]
“Public Access” by Victoria Dalpe | Strange Fiction Series
Art doesn’t so much mimic reality as morph, stretch, and bewitch it. The so-called rabbit holes, the night thoughts, the stray bits we dismiss, the teeming multiplicity of various “realities” – in the coming [...]
Accelerants | 11:11—Fourth of July by jj rowan and Addie Tsai
https://vimeo.com/845997931 jj rowan (they/them) is a queer nonbinary writer and dancer working in a web of fusion-based movement practices, diary, correspondence & collaboration, intuitive ritual, traveling scraps of paper, and, most recently, [...]