Trump promised the tariffs would help lower grocery bills. Dept. of agriculture has money from tariffs and he is barring them from using that money to fund SNAP. Tell everyone who voted for him (the not-rich ones, the rich ones don't care). Also, ball rooms easily funded. Hungry kids, nah.

Joyelle McSweeney winning Jeopardy is a win for poets everywhere

Congrats to Joyelle for winning Jeopardy tonight...

I know it is infuriating to faculty at Ohio State that their institution is being converted into a para-governmental incubator for technofeudal collaborationist hackery like this. We’ll worry about AI slop, cognitive atrophy, AI psychosis, etc. AFTER we compel every teacher & student to use it. 🤬

My trip to Chile was incredible. Not only did I read from Verano/Summer in Neruda's house, but I found this great cafe run by a young guy and there in a fit of inspiration I finished writing my next book. I marked my gratefulness to Santiago by having this tattoo made by a Santiago artist.

”I slept, then recited my most beautiful poems. The flames of my poetry dried the Virgin’s hair. She thanked me and went off, seated on her soft rose." At Huidobro's grave in Cartagena, Chile. (Thanks Weinberger for translation.)

I'm in Santiago Chile to do some readings from Summer/Verano as well as talk about translation. It's spring here and the city is beautiful.

Now on sale! Aase Berg ’s Aase’s Death! 25% off with code DEATH at checkout! www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...

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Top advice on teaching creative writing: teach Keats' letter to Leigh Hunt. "I’ll cavern you, and grotto you, and waterfall you, and wood you, and water you, and immense-rock you, and tremendous-sound you, and solitude you..."

AASE'S DEATH (Forthcoming from Black Ocean)

Some of my Courtney Love fan fiction

Be sure to check out the internet launch of the critical-electronic edition of Joyelle McSweeney's brilliant and immensely influential Dead Youth, or The Leaks today at 3:30 eastern time. There will be reading, discussion and writing prompts. www.eventbrite.com/e/open-poeti...

"It’s difficult picking up another collection of poetry after finishing Burn the Losses; it’s such a damn compelling and spellbinding book... it is stunning both in image and in idea." Review of Gamoneda's Burn the Losses at Action, Spectacle: www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...

September issue of Poetry Magazine is up on the PF website, incl my translations of a couple poems from Aase's Death. They also posted sound files of us reading the poems, so if you want to hear what Aase Berg sounds like when she reads her poems, go here: www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/171462...

Cracked open Aase Berg's "Hackers" as part of my reading for Women in Translation month and this is the first page 🔥 Eagerly awaiting her new book later this year.

”Hers are poems of the abyss, its irresistibility, its absurdity, its gooey splendor…” Great review of Aase Berg’s Aase’s Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean) by Nina MacLaughlin open.substack.com/pub/ninamacl...

Joyelle McSweeney on the connection between grief and "disobedience" in the late great Alice Notley's work: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/171...

Looking forward to seeing Verano, the Spanish translation of my book Summer, to be published in Chile this fall. Especially look forward to it bc it's so indebted to Latin American poetry, esp Chilean poetry.

Ghayath Almadhoun's second English-language book, I Have Brought You A Severed Hand (Action Books 2025), is on the filmmaker Sepideh Farsi great list of Palestinian books here: a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/cu...

I'm syllabus-making which reminded me of Swift's "On Snow," which kind of disproves the common rhetoric that poetry should not be a riddle: poets.org/poem/snow-0

Interesting article about the homogenizing effects of Anglo/US literature worldwide but also suggests that a lot of the most ambitious new work is being written elsewhere. Tho he doesn't really explore the reason. Why is US literary establishment so normative? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

“These are refugee footnotes…” Kym Cunningham on I Have Brought You a Severed Hand by Ghayath Almadhoun (Action Books, 2025) www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...

Something to look forward to this fall!! Big fan of Aase Berg since WITH DEER, and of all things Black Ocean. Really grateful to @johannesg.bsky.social for all of these translations! 🙏

theintercept.com/2025/08/02/s... Trickledown corruption or Brownshirt DEI?

from a pageant I wrote where one of the main characters came from that Hole song. Here she is pointificating about my childhood.

from Gunnar Waerness' Friends with Everyone:

"Gudding has effectively translated through a prism of punk, allowing himself, like his source poet, to remain an agent of fire.” Gabe Gudding wins Harold Morton Prize for translation of Gunnar Waerness's groundbreaking book Friends with Everyone (Action Books). poets.org/academy-amer...

“Literature, like space travel, offers an escape, but also a way to reimagine what it means to be tethered to this planet.”

"Reads like a transmission from an other-than-human consciousness in an other-than-Earth setting. Berg’s poetry moves through alien ecologies and dystopian transformations." Atterbury on Aase Berg's visionary sci-fi epic Dark Matter @electricliterature.com : electricliterature.com/8-books-abou...

Ann Jäderlund tr. by @johannesg.bsky.social

Happy to hear from people who are ready for Aase's Death... I think it's a dark book, but Aase thinks it's funny...

I'm reading from Aase's Death (by Aase Berg) tomorrow in Chicago. Email Olivia Cronk for the secret location.

Constantly struck by how good academia is at teaching people to be critical of texts, but how poor at engaging with the beauty of the text. This suspicious mode of thinking, discussing art seems often to be a way of avoiding having that unsettling, profound encounter with the weird beauty of art.

If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...

Interesting essay that draws on Aase Berg's essay "Language and Madness," Dadaism and Benjamin to discuss the experience of interacting with a young child.

Send me something pretty & gross. I want yr disgusting, fetid, lush bouquet. Art-writing-poems-photos-trashbags-luminol stains-vampires: what is yr autoerotic aphyxiation? (think: infanticide, tigerskin rugs). My view of art is expansive: take a chance. The world is ending, time to pee yr undies

This translation from Aase's Berg's Aase's Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean this fall) is in new issue of APR. I'm very happy about that.

I see a lot of people for some reason giving their lists of the best films of the millennium and it seems many of them have forgotten/repressed that Von Trier gave us this movie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IZG...

Wrote a substack post about Bob Dylan, J Hoberman and my mom: johannesgransson.substack.com/p/a-riot-of-...

This discussion about Notley's masterpiece is one of the best discussions about the book I've ever read/heard. Excellent work @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social (+ Joyelle).

Came back to this essay from last fall: "Translations are acts of mimetic excess, they generate too-much-ness, volatility, transformation... Translation is not an economical act; it’s an act of “transgressive circulation.”" poems.com/features/wha...

Coming this fall... Aase's Death... www.amazon.com/-/es/Aases-D...

What English-language poets are in conversation with Christensen's work?

Notre Dame Review has posted some of the Inger Christensen poems from our issue #59 online. These are outtakes from her masterpiece Alphabet, poems that she either excised or heavily revised, including the legendary "O series." ndreview.nd.edu/assets/61452...

I read and loved this post about blotches. And am digging out the Angelgreen Sacrament to reread in light of its dress revelations

I wrote a post about blotches: substack.com/home/post/p-...

A super-interesting post relating Anger to Lynch, and relating both to the saturation/hyper-stylization of Art.