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...

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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recent book mail courtesy of @asterismbooks.bsky.social @actionbooks.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social @ferrifrigida.bsky.social @essaypress.bsky.social

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...

| Literary Feature | 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

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... @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.

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!

April 2025! actionbooks.org/catalog/

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...

"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...

@actionbooks.bsky.social has joined Bluesky!