Folks, if we're all still on the planet this coming Tuesday, May 14, and you happen to be on the island of Manhattan, won't you join me in conversation with the glamorous Terrence Arjoon at 192books ? Our style, devilish, and our wit, rapier-like, as per always, O my brothers--

So grateful for this immense review essay by David Woo that explores Phantom Pain Wing and other works by KimHyesoon 김혜순시인 🕊️☄️💫🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋💫🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
New Directions Action Books

Much to love about this deeply engaged reading of KimHyesoon 김혜순시인 's work - including the attention to Don Mee Choi 's translation process (and the Korean) and to the longview of her work (including several of the Action Books titles).

I must also take this opportunity to plug Jeffrey Angles' translation of #Godzilla from U of MN Press

'Godzilla stomped his way into the grounds of the station. With just his toes, he sent rows of freight trains flying into the air.'

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There are so, so many aspects of this essay that I adore, from the writer David Woo to the subject the great KimHyesoon 김혜순시인, the translator/poet Don Mee Choi and of course, On The Seawall for celebrating them all. Read!

Don Mee Choi's translations of Kim Hyesoon appeared in The Poetry Review Spring 2018.

A multi-award-winning poet, Choi will be making a visit to the UK to give this year's Poetry Society Annual Lecture on Thursday 9 May, 7pm.

Book your ticket here: bit.ly/DonMeeChoiLect…

Thanks Maureen Thorson ! From Falble of an Inconsolable Man pub by Action Books

it's a great book!

For anyone interested in reviewing / writing about my new book, Surface Studies, I'm happy to provide digital copies, and I'm sure Action Books has a few physical to spare!

Don't hesitate to reach out!

We're just a wee lil lit mag trying to do our part by spreading the news of the goodness that's out there in publishing poetry and small press 😇 🧵

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With FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE, Gunnar Wærness has written a monstrous book about spirit, speech and empire.

The late great #TyroneWilliams said Wæreness 'treat[ed] the poetic line as a vector'

@caconrad88 Magdalena Zurawski Don Mee Choi

actionbooks.org/gunnar-waernes…

'Víctor Rodríguez Núñez’s poetry represents a profound renewal of poetic language. It forces us to see that poetry accounts for itself precisely because it accounts for the world.'

— Raúl Zurita on #midnightminutes , trans. by katherine m. hedeen (Now available!)

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Friends, should you find yourself in Baltimore tmmrw (Weds) nite, won't you join me and these delectables-- Madelaine Lucas Hanif Abdurraqib Chin-Sun Lee-- at the Hidden Palace reading series for general efflorescence? Upstairs @ fadensonnen @ 7PM!

Víctor is retiring from Kenyon College after 23 years! we're celebrating w/ a launch of midnight minutes Action Books this thursday, may 2 at 7 pm at Oden Auditorium. the event will be livestreamed:
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Hope to see you there!

“There is definite and definitive greatness to Alice Notley—a capacity, a surge, a stamina and a munificence.”

Joyelle McSweeney on Alice Notley for our new series on the poet, whose Art of Poetry interview appears in our Spring issue. buff.ly/3wlHcV1