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, [...]
Accelerants | Two Poem-Films by Henry Goldkamp
https://youtu.be/C0cKQRnCMtQ https://youtu.be/ZS9wJmHIHwE Henry Goldkamp lives in New Orleans, where he co-runs Splice, a monthly poetry series in the Bywater, and also acts [...]
Accelerants | OF HEAVEN, TO THE LOGIC by alex cruse
[VIEW] VO text: a loamy off season, blazing fields of christ trade winds' reverse migration no more sallies keeping mum re: prewar hindsight, them's the neutrals, the levers for blue-liners, hormone antagonized smile [...]