For Parts 1 and 2 of this series, visit the following links: [Part 1] [Part 2] Cepholaphoria I would like to briefly shift focus / and examine Massive’s fascination with the skull / within the [...]
1. How did you start working on this project? What drew you to it? When I participated in Bolivia’s Semana de Poesía festival, I was struck by the richness and scope of contemporary Bolivian poetry. And surprised—though not surprised—by [...]
“Seven Ways to Say Pain” (fragment) by Mónica Velásquez Guzmán Translated by Janet McAdams Possibility 1 Today, Mónica, I’d like to make you ill for a long time, mortally, withdraw you far from the world, [...]
Ronaldo Wilson's Mole End exhibition—Carmelina: Sessions—closed yesterday with a spectacular evening of masked performances, improvised songs, Louis Vuitton, and a farewell lullaby. I explore and enact narratives that interconnect, slip, and so I want some time with visitors. Carmelina: Sessions [...]
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! [...]
For me, Beauford Delaney is always connected with the sound of Elvin Jones’s ride cymbal. And if I were to think about describing that effect in terms of a particular word, not only at the level of meaning but also [...]
Austyn Wohlers talks with Honora Spicer and Anastatia Spicer about embodied learning, factory work, textile art, politics, translation, family ties, and their translation of Victoria Guerrero Peirano’s poetry book Diario de una costurera proletaria. Austyn Wohlers: Can you describe [...]
“[…] the ghost tour, like the ghost hunt, is about the sadism of the living. We want the dead to suffer for our pleasure: to continue to perform their deaths in excruciating loops because we find the spectacle of this [...]
In homage to the dialogic motion of poetry and also to Gen X. Mixed by Olivia Lott To be read in order. Track 1. Excerpt from “[a pair of eyes that have stolen from the sky]” by Víctor [...]
“Is there any other way to be in this world?” -Karla Kelsey and Poupeh Missaghi, “Matters of Feminist Practice: An Invitation” In the introduction to this series, I described citational poetics as a deliberate and relational movement with other [...]