Translated by poet Gabriel Gudding with an ear attuned to the absurdities of intimacy, and vice versa, FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE may just tell the story of speech itself. actionbooks.org/gunnar-waernes…

This'll be an absolute cracker, 29th June! Three of my favourite performers ripping up the mic with their words!! Can't wait 😍🥳 katherine m. hedeen Dr. Caleb Nichols & Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. Get your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sleep…

Check out Mike Corrao's SURFACE STUDIES and Maria Hardin's CUTE GIRLS WATCH WHEN I EAT AETHER featured in #DennisCooper's annual "Favorite Poetry" list. Thank you Dennis! 🔥🔥🔥 denniscooperblog.com/mine-for-yours…

reading w/ Palestinian poet #najwandarwish in Havana #casavitiergarciamarruz #cesealfuegoya

“I didn't know that a poet was something you could just become, that I thought all poets were already dead.” Up today at Firmament Online, “Listen or Die”, an essay on Swedish poet Ann Jäderlund by Sara Abdollahi Lekta, translated by Johannes Göransson sublunaryeditions.com/magazine/liste…

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"ask them gawkers: can i have my face back now?" Today, #DestinyHemphill's "a prophet-mother, moonstruck & star-stricken" is featured in Poetry Daily! MOTHERWORLD: A DEVOTIONAL FOR THE ALTER-LIFE is available from #ActionBooks poems.com/poem/a-prophet…

Excellent book post today, thanks to Asterism Books: two recent Action Books releases.

Really an honor to have my weird little ekphrasric essays included in this series!

“the greatest living poet in the Spanish language” —Raúl Zurita

I come from methylene and love; I was cold beneath the death tubes. Now I contemplate the sea. I am unafraid and hopeless. —Antonio Gamoneda, translated by katherine m. hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez Action Books actionbooks.org/2022/01/poesia…

Have you heard about Woodland Pattern's new Small-Press Bundle subscription? For $50 a month, subscribers will receive three new titles every month! The September bundle will include Anaïs Duplan's I NEED MUSIC. Sign up by August 15th! woodlandpatternbookcenter.com/products/small…

"Paul Cunningham’s #FallGarment (Schism, 2022) is an elegiac examination of #fashion and destruction, compressed with rural post-industrial history" Many thanks to innovative fashionista and neo-decadent masterchef Justin Isis and X-R-A-Y! xraylitmag.com/justin-isis-re…

Will work on bringing in a lot of exciting international voices and putting them in dialogue with US poets.

excited to talk about translating gamoneda’s poetry in his hometown of león. his latest in english (tr. VRN &me) “burn the losses” is out soon w/ Action Books!!!

Lovely how translation/Action Books help create these strange routes of circulation.

ALTA is delighted to announce the longlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards in Poetry & Prose! literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/ann… 2024 is the 26th year for the NTA + the 10th year to award separate prizes in poetry & prose. Congrats to all translators, authors & publishers here!

excited to see this!!!