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 [...]
From Hope is Tanning on a Nudist Beach By Ethel Barja Cuyutupa Hope is Tanning on a Nudist Beach is out now with Oversound! Hope does not rise in [...]
curated by Katherine M. Hedeen Reviewing poetry in translation recognizes translators as authors destabilizes narrow definitions of originality, authenticity, and authorship makes visible the artistry of translation is dissent, defiance, disobedience, subversion, solidarity Where better than the Action Books blog to [...]
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 [...]
(Available from BlazeVOX) Coco Picard: What was it like to develop, compose, and revise a manuscript together? Did That Woman Could Be You begin from a conscious intention or did it come about organically? Jessica Alexander: Both. [...]
Fudekara (Cardboard House Press, 2022) Written during a Chinese ideograph calligraphy class over 14 days at the University of Buenos Aires, Liliana Ponce’s Fudekara (translated by Michael Martin Shea) presents a map with no discernible destinations, only an [...]
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 would they be? That’s a [...]
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 [...]
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 months, the Action Books Strange Fiction [...]
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, a treehouse in a little [...]