In their recent post, Madison McCartha gestures towards the surveillance logics embedded within contemporary media. Invoking Édouard Glissant, they end with a call for poets and artists to resist the colonial desire for transparency, embracing opaque surfaces—surfaces that, like the [...]
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! [...]
“I’m afraid Jerome.” The speaker in Édith Azam’s poetry collection Tellement Belle Garçon-Belle (Éditions du Frisson Esthétique, 2007) is compelled to speak, and what is spoken is a name. The traumatic repetition of “Jerome” echoes on every page of this [...]
“Summer solstice / Noche de San Juan” By Nicole Cecilia Delgado Translated by Urayoán Noel This is how the hours slip us by: 1AM If I’ve been too political or not political enough we’ll never know. Time [...]
1. How did you start translating Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s poetry? What drew you to it? This is something of a personal project, as I have known Nicole Cecilia Delgado for over 15 years and as it is my first major [...]
Near Dark (1987) Directed by Kathryn Bigelow JP: Hi, Paul. First of all, congratulations on your upcoming collection from Schism Press. I’m really looking forward to reading it! I also really liked your essay about Decadent literature on [...]
Solaris (1972) Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Previously in "Notes Toward a Virtual Poetics": What are the poetics new media technology makes possible, and how does new media’s complicity with processes of racialization both change and charge, for [...]
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! [...]
“What is it like at the beginning of the world?” – Alice Notley, “Women and Poetry” I am most interested in writing that actively engages in citation, constellation—where deliberate movement with other voices pushes the writer beyond their self [...]
Majority Reef is a work of materiality. The poetic form rendered onto the eight faces of an octahedron (perhaps floating somewhere in the void, a space conversely immaterial). Each surface is occupied by text that fluctuates between reflexive, introspective, and [...]