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! Only [...]
1. How did you start translating Daniel Lipara’s poetry? What drew you to it? I met Daniel Lipara on a trip to Argentina in 2017, and I first read Otra vida, his debut, the year after. I was struck [...]
It all started with a face. The face had been a kite. (The kite had been a face.) Or before. It had started with an obsession. There had been an obsession in making, in the production and distribution of the [...]
From Another Life By Daniel Lipara Translated by Robin Myers Another Life is out now with Eulalia Books! Liliana, lily blossom My mother’s five-foot nine she has big bones [...]
On a Thursday night in northern Michigan, Emily Pittinos and I drove to a local ice cream shop on a farm. There, I would interview her about her stunning debut book, The Last Unkillable Thing—notably, the winner of the 2020 [...]
I first became acquainted with Evan's work on Twitter. A short video: just a set of hands constructing Mike Corrao's SELFFUCK chapbook Avian Funeral March. Pages collected, folded, aligned, pressed. Edges cut, again, cut again, again, aligned. Sticker there to [...]
Ava Hofmann’s [...] is a corrupted text. Pulling on a lineage of leech books and grimoires, now distorted by time into strange digital constructs. Restorations performed in the occulted settings of Microsoft Word, with shape and line tools. Their language [...]
Candice Wuehle: Your recent collection, Anti-Heroines, navigates between a number of fascinating genres or modes—wisdom literature, grimoire, a series of epistolary poems addressed to the moon, epyllion, and…more! There’s even a version of a panel presented at the 2018 American [...]
