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"In an Emergency, Break Forms" We publish transnational, interlingual, radical, visionary, feminist, futurist, future-less writing"
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Congratulations Gabriel Gudding! FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE has won the 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award!
Judge Roger Sedarat writes: "Gudding has effectively translated through a prism of punk, allowing himself, like his source poet, to remain an agent of fire.”
poets.org/academy-amer...
Judge Roger Sedarat writes: "Gudding has effectively translated through a prism of punk, allowing himself, like his source poet, to remain an agent of fire.”
poets.org/academy-amer...
July 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Congratulations Gabriel Gudding! FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE has won the 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award!
Judge Roger Sedarat writes: "Gudding has effectively translated through a prism of punk, allowing himself, like his source poet, to remain an agent of fire.”
poets.org/academy-amer...
Judge Roger Sedarat writes: "Gudding has effectively translated through a prism of punk, allowing himself, like his source poet, to remain an agent of fire.”
poets.org/academy-amer...
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This week's Book of the Week is Ghayath Almadhoun's I HAVE BROUGHT YOU A SEVERED HAND, translated by Catherine Cobham and published by @actionbooks.bsky.social (US) and Divided Publishing (UK).
July 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This week's Book of the Week is Ghayath Almadhoun's I HAVE BROUGHT YOU A SEVERED HAND, translated by Catherine Cobham and published by @actionbooks.bsky.social (US) and Divided Publishing (UK).
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July 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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July 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Over at Zona Motel, I talked about Burn the Losses by Antonio Gamoneda -- now out from @actionbooks.bsky.social as translated by @hedeenk.bsky.social and Victor Rodriguez Núñez. zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-bur...
REVIEW: Burn the Losses by Antonio Gamoneda
Still in the heart there are ants.
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May 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Over at Zona Motel, I talked about Burn the Losses by Antonio Gamoneda -- now out from @actionbooks.bsky.social as translated by @hedeenk.bsky.social and Victor Rodriguez Núñez. zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-bur...
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| Literary Feature |
Sniffing Candles & Building a Bench // An Interview with Writer & Translator Hedgie Choi
www.neonpajamas.com/blog/hedgie-...
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Sniffing Candles & Building a Bench // An Interview with Writer & Translator Hedgie Choi
www.neonpajamas.com/blog/hedgie-...
@uwiscpress.bsky.social / @actionbooks.bsky.social / @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
| Literary Feature |
Sniffing Candles & Building a Bench // An Interview with Writer & Translator Hedgie Choi
www.neonpajamas.com/blog/hedgie-...
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Sniffing Candles & Building a Bench // An Interview with Writer & Translator Hedgie Choi
www.neonpajamas.com/blog/hedgie-...
@uwiscpress.bsky.social / @actionbooks.bsky.social / @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social
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9. Rose Petal Raspberry Herbal Tea & motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life by Destiny Hemphill from @actionbooks.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
9. Rose Petal Raspberry Herbal Tea & motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life by Destiny Hemphill from @actionbooks.bsky.social
“the night opens and falls
a womb
in the deserts”
3 poems from Chus Pato’s award-winning Sonora,
tr. Erín Moure
check them out here:
actionbooks.org/2025/03/poet...
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a womb
in the deserts”
3 poems from Chus Pato’s award-winning Sonora,
tr. Erín Moure
check them out here:
actionbooks.org/2025/03/poet...
@hedeenk.bsky.social
poetry in action #43 | From SONORA by Chus Pato, Translated by Erín Moure • Action Books
poetry in action features work by poets from around the world, translated into English. NOW MORE THAN EVER: Poets of the world, unite and take over! Resist the oppressive constraints of good, publisha...
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March 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“the night opens and falls
a womb
in the deserts”
3 poems from Chus Pato’s award-winning Sonora,
tr. Erín Moure
check them out here:
actionbooks.org/2025/03/poet...
@hedeenk.bsky.social
a womb
in the deserts”
3 poems from Chus Pato’s award-winning Sonora,
tr. Erín Moure
check them out here:
actionbooks.org/2025/03/poet...
@hedeenk.bsky.social
action will be at AWP!
booth 549
come check out new titles!
offsite reading happening on friday, march 28, 6-10 pm.
booth 549
come check out new titles!
offsite reading happening on friday, march 28, 6-10 pm.
March 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
action will be at AWP!
booth 549
come check out new titles!
offsite reading happening on friday, march 28, 6-10 pm.
booth 549
come check out new titles!
offsite reading happening on friday, march 28, 6-10 pm.
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New ACTION BOOKS coming this April:
• Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses
• Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
• W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer
Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!
• Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses
• Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
• W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer
Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!
March 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
New ACTION BOOKS coming this April:
• Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses
• Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
• W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer
Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!
• Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses
• Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
• W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer
Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!
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check out this list! let me know if you’re interested in reviewing! @actionbooks.bsky.social
New ACTION BOOKS coming this April:
• Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses
• Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
• W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer
Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!
• Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses
• Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
• W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer
Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
check out this list! let me know if you’re interested in reviewing! @actionbooks.bsky.social
Poets of the World Unite!
poetry in action is back.
“I am the moan, the boiling, the sneeze, I am the over-there. I am the artesian well, the kestrel’s pertinence, I am tongue. I am the intestines and the foot inside, inside of someone.”
Karen Villeda, tr. NAFTA
actionbooks.org/2025/02/poet...
poetry in action is back.
“I am the moan, the boiling, the sneeze, I am the over-there. I am the artesian well, the kestrel’s pertinence, I am tongue. I am the intestines and the foot inside, inside of someone.”
Karen Villeda, tr. NAFTA
actionbooks.org/2025/02/poet...
poetry in action #42 | From STRING THEORY by Karen Villeda, Translated by NAFTA • Action Books
poetry in action features work by poets from around the world, translated into English. NOW MORE THAN EVER: Poets of the world, unite and take over! Resist the oppressive constraints of good, publisha...
actionbooks.org
February 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Poets of the World Unite!
poetry in action is back.
“I am the moan, the boiling, the sneeze, I am the over-there. I am the artesian well, the kestrel’s pertinence, I am tongue. I am the intestines and the foot inside, inside of someone.”
Karen Villeda, tr. NAFTA
actionbooks.org/2025/02/poet...
poetry in action is back.
“I am the moan, the boiling, the sneeze, I am the over-there. I am the artesian well, the kestrel’s pertinence, I am tongue. I am the intestines and the foot inside, inside of someone.”
Karen Villeda, tr. NAFTA
actionbooks.org/2025/02/poet...
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"You could smell the fear everywhere. But under the Syrian regime, you could hide the real meaning behind your words with metaphors. Metaphors would save you," Almadhoun explains."
Ghayath Almadhoun (Action Books) on writing in a dictatorship:
www.middleeasteye.net/discover/met...
Ghayath Almadhoun (Action Books) on writing in a dictatorship:
www.middleeasteye.net/discover/met...
'In a dictatorship, metaphors can save you': The poetry of Ghayath Almadhoun
The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism
www.middleeasteye.net
February 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"You could smell the fear everywhere. But under the Syrian regime, you could hide the real meaning behind your words with metaphors. Metaphors would save you," Almadhoun explains."
Ghayath Almadhoun (Action Books) on writing in a dictatorship:
www.middleeasteye.net/discover/met...
Ghayath Almadhoun (Action Books) on writing in a dictatorship:
www.middleeasteye.net/discover/met...
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@actionbooks.bsky.social has joined Bluesky!
February 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@actionbooks.bsky.social has joined Bluesky!