NEWS / EVENTS

Open Call for Language Poetry/FLUXUS event in Brooklyn
Emily Hunt is organizing a Language Poetry/Fluxus writing performance that will be on June 13 at Lumenhouse, a small performance space in Brooklyn.  The show will be after Perry Garvin's FluxConcert, which was a great success last time it went on (see www.fluxconcert.org for press release, press listings including the NYTimes Urban Eye, videos, photos and more).  

She is looking for people to submit pieces of their own and/or to commit to reading pieces that I have chosen to include by writers like Charles Bernstein, Anne Carson, Vito Acconci, etc.  If you are interested, please contact her at emilyrhunt@gmail.com.

Four extremely exciting new Action Books are now available at actionbooks.org
Thaumatrope by Brent Hendricks (illustrations by Lisa Hargon-Smith)

"Dear Reader: This wonderful book you hold in your hands (are those your hands?)
holds your fortune." —Gillian Conoley
 
"Ante up.  Brent Hendricks's Thaumatrope works like an ideogram thrown by a cardsharp, a decapitated allegory set in "the golden age of little bars."" —Daniel Tiffany

Port Trakl by Jaime Luis Huenun (translated from Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky)

"In these recent poems—published in 2001 in Chile— Huenún invents a setting influenced by Melville's vivid scenarios, Coleridge's languid morbidity, and George Trakl's silences and darkening seas.  Borzutzky's English version is as haunted, brooding, and terrific as the original." — Forrest Gander

Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers by Kim Hyesoon (translated from Korean by Don Mee Choi)

"...by far the most imaginative poet in Korea today" —Bruce Fulton
 
"Kim's animals, like her implicit human subjects, exist within a "book of pain," victims of violence from without and within. Bodies fail to protect, and there is no protection from bodies themselves […] These dark allegories are beautifully rendered by Don Mee Choi, herself a fine poet." —Susan Schultz

whim man mammon by Abraham Smith

"If Frank Stanford got up from the dead to slam (and slammed to win), what he would say might well resemble the poems in whim man mammon." —Graham Foust
 
"Mash Gertrude Stein with agrarian folk and you have the unholy matrimony of Abraham Smith's debut, whim man mammon." 
—Cathy Park Hong

Apostrophe Cast has launched!
In August, we began presenting our bi-weekly reading series at Apostrophe Cast (www.apostrophecast.com). Every other Wednesday we will post a new reading from a different contributor. Please visit the site and subscribe to our podcast and mailing list. Those of you who are interested in reading for us, please send an email to john [at] apostophecast [dot] com, with a sample or link to your work.

Voice of Ice by Alta Ifland now available from Les Figues Press
Alta Ifland's bi-lingual text Voice of Ice is part of Les Figues Press new TrenchArt Series: Parapet. Please visit www.altaifland.com or Les Figues Press for more information. Her story "No One's Story" can be found in Action,Yes - Vol. 1, Issue 4.