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 by mainstream literary venues! [...]
We are looking on at a column. Resembling a serpent or a spine. It is not unstable, but flexible. Moving between limp and rigid formations. First framed as an Angelgreen Sacrament (written by Eva Kristina Olsson and translated by Johannes [...]
Adriana X. Jacobs: I want to start with a question about the title. Even readers who don’t read Russian may note that there is a difference here between the Russian and English. An early working translation of the title [...]
1. How did you start working on Osvaldo Lamborghini’s poetry? What drew you to it? I’ve been translating Osvaldo Lamborghini since the day I first attempted to read him, which was sometime in 2014. My interest in his work was [...]
Today, to have relations: and what it’s like [...]
Paul Cunningham: What led you to girlgirl? Did it begin with a particular image? How was she conceived? Kim Koga: I started writing girlgirl, I think, somewhere around 2014. It had been years since I wrote and I was looking [...]
(Carrion Bloom Books) Seventh Letter to Robot Werther / «Зашибись!» “I was afraid of one do you know devilishly afraid of hearing my beloved in a different key oh, not that one not that key that would be [...]
Madison McCartha: Admittedly, my reasons for pursuing this interview are existential; I still find myself wondering who, exactly, my poetry is 'for', and what it 'does'? For many Black poets, I imagine, questions of audience can feel particularly heavy, or [...]
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 by mainstream literary venues! [...]
1. How did you start translating Mónica Ojeda’s work? What drew you to it? I'm a big fan of local publishers Candaya Editores, and when they began publishing Mónica's novels (Nefando and Mandíbula - soon to be released in Sarah [...]