Jan 20
The #ActionBlog returns with a new series ("Stockroom Picks") curated by Asst. Editor Miharu Yano. First up is three picks from #MikeCorrao:
actionbooks.org/2026/01/stoc…
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9 Dec 2024
REAR WINDOW: 'Korean Horror Out in the Midday Sun'
This month's #ActionBlog essay
@HelenQuah discusses the horror film 'The Host' alongside the poetry of @PoetKimHyesoon & Kim Yideum
Check out the post here:
actionbooks.org/2024/12/rear…
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23 Oct 2024
"I write for girls who doubt that they are real"
New at the #ActionBlog! @JohannesGoranss interviews #MariaHardin about CUTE GIRLS WATCH WHEN I EAT AETHER:
actionbooks.org/2024/10/cute…
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10 Oct 2024
"@PoetKimHyesoon disorients the prose poem with the infusion of pain directly into the body"
The #ActionBlog returns with @HelenQuah's all-new Rear Window series. Check out today's post: "Transgression of the prose poem, inside the pink box"
actionbooks.org/2024/10/rear…
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5 Jun 2024
"You were in that pine forest
and the others pallid quick
and unverifiable in the profit
of a pensive underworld garden"
Today on the #ActionBlog: excerpts from #AmeliaRosselli’s DOCUMENT, translated by Roberta Antognini & Deborah Woodard from Italian
actionbooks.org/2024/06/from…
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25 Apr 2024
A new installment of #microreviews in #poetry in #translation is here! Feat. reviews of new and forthcoming titles from @uglyducklingprs @coimpress @worldpoetrybook @EulaliaBooks @CopperCanyonPrs
Thanks @kmhedeen for curating!
actionbooks.org/2024/04/apri…
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31 Jan 2024
Formerly known as "Mai Ivfjäll," Maria Hardin's 'cute girls watch when i eat aether' is the full-length version of her #SickSonnets chapbook (which @p_cunning published in 2020). Check out their conversation at the #ActionBlog below:
actionbooks.org/2020/10/sick…
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19 Dec 2023
New #PoetryInAction feat. @Naseem96481462:
"While #transness is a resistance methodology to the norms of #gender, #translation can function as a mode of resistance to linguistic structures and cultural barriers that proliferate oppression"
actionbooks.org/2023/12/poet…
#ActionBlog
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15 Dec 2023
"The darkest forest is only the pause before a flash."
Poesía en acción #34 is now live! Featuring three #poems by #AugustoLunel, translated by @immanentfields! Thanks goes to @oliviamlott for curating!
actionbooks.org/2023/12/poes…
#ActionBlog #ActionBooks #Translation
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29 Nov 2023
New translations of Alexandra Bernhardt are live on the #ActionBlog today. Translated by @hannahvwarren:
"Bernhardt's poems often self-emulsify, creating mise en abyme effects for the reader"
29 Nov 2023
"Under the cocooning poplar
wail my heartseed forth
But above the seedsated earth
catch me: sowingseed smoke"
Today at the #ActionBlog! Four poems by Alexandra Bernhardt, translated by @hannahvwarren:
actionbooks.org/2023/11/four…
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29 Nov 2023
"Under the cocooning poplar
wail my heartseed forth
But above the seedsated earth
catch me: sowingseed smoke"
Today at the #ActionBlog! Four poems by Alexandra Bernhardt, translated by @hannahvwarren:
actionbooks.org/2023/11/four…
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19 Sep 2023
"I recognize a deep kinship between writing a manuscript and developing intimacy—they both feel like unfoldings, discoveries, also with effort"
Today at the #ActionBlog: @cocolarolo talks with @vikhinao and @iateaghost about THAT WOMAN COULD BE YOU
actionbooks.org/2023/09/a-co…
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3 Aug 2023
"my father used to call me tender-hearted"
"the letter with a single stone in it"
"beyond my skin"
"so much handwriting"
#Accelerants continues with a collaborative poem-film from #jjrowan & @addiebrook:
actionbooks.org/2023/08/acce…
#ActionBlog #poetry #dance #film
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26 Jul 2023
"to break the carpal of one’s vacant heart
black chore coat scraps for mourning hive
amazon bogarts brazilian flame, this poison’s
all warning"
New #Accelerants! Today's featured poemfilm is #alexcruse's OF HEAVEN, TO THE LOGIC
actionbooks.org/2023/07/acce…
#ActionBlog #poetry #film
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24 Jul 2023
"The art of cutting water with a knife, the art of uselessness, who should I show it to?
Water lying silent like a knife, who should I feed it to? Whose neck should I pour it into?"
2 new translations of #HwangYuwon by #JakeLevine via the #ActionBlog:
actionbooks.org/2023/07/two-…
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20 Jul 2023
New Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine translations by @JSyersak in this month's #PoetryInAction!
"now is the hour where moths fiddle their way through my cells
eating a hole through every gesture through every word
the hour you emerge"
actionbooks.org/2023/07/poet…
#ActionBooks #ActionBlog
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5 Jul 2023
"Are nightmares a hypothesis? For me, my writing is a dreaming"
New #Accelerants! Check out #Gemini, a new #poemfilm by #GingerKo:
actionbooks.org/2023/07/acce…
#ActionBlog #ActionBooks #poetry #film #shortfilm
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28 Jun 2023
Four stills from @ChopraSerena's DAYAWATI, FULL OF MERCY! Now live at the #ActionBlog as part of our #Accelerants series. (Curated by @p_cunning)
actionbooks.org/2023/06/acce…
#ActionBooks #poemfilm #film #poetry #poems #shortfilm
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28 Jun 2023
"Daya confronts tragedy, uses one's means to drown suffering"
Our #Accelerants poem-film series continues with @ChopraSerena's DAYAWATI, FULL OF MERCY
actionbooks.org/2023/06/acce…
#ActionBooks #ActionBlog #SerenaChopra #poetry #film #poemfilm #shortfilm
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26 Jun 2023
New #Accelerants poem-film feature:
MAD FLORA AND FAUNA by @stephanie_heit & Charli Brissey (A video/movement/poem composed of lines from Heit’s #PsychMurders)
actionbooks.org/2023/06/acce…
#ActionBooks #ActionBlog #poetry #film #poemfilm
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