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"Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius." Blake
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HATING AI IS GOOD! I have believed this. It’s good to have beliefs. To believe in the human brain and its worth. To work to preserve our dignity as a creative species.
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Our Lady of Flowers Moby Dick The Sound and the Fury
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about 1 month ago
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Split / Game of Little Deaths by Réka Nyitrai is out in two weeks! We’re honored to have these four masterful poets blurb this strange & surreal 2-in-1 book.
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“Zurita’s poetry is constantly accumulating mystical, iconic qualities while engaged with issues of violence in and against the body... This insistence on the wounded body and the wounded landscape both gives rise to a sense of allegory and disrupts the allegory.”
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“THE LIMITLESS VIOLENCE OF BEAUTY”: ON RAÚL ZURITA
[I wrote the following essay for the Swedish literary journal 10tal when in 2019 the journal introduced Raúl Zurita’s work to Swedish readers.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-196720828
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Great new issue of Mercury Firs, one of the best new poetry journals. Including poems by Mexican poet Berona Teomitz, translated by my student Adriana Toledano Kolteniuk:
www.mercuryfirs.org/8-berona-teo...
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I wrote this essay about Raul Zurita for the wonderful Swedish journal 10tal (now 20tal) when they introduced Zurita in Swedish. Here it is in English on my Substack account:
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“THE LIMITLESS VIOLENCE OF BEAUTY”: ON RAÚL ZURITA
[I wrote the following essay for the Swedish literary journal 10tal when in 2019 the journal introduced Raúl Zurita’s work to Swedish readers.
https://johannesgransson.substack.com/p/the-limitless-violence-of-beauty
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"the reason I’ve done the things I’ve done is simply because I found them beautiful. It’s beautiful to see a poem of madness, love, and death traced on the sky." - Raul Zurita
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Super congratulations to Action Books author RaĂşl Zurita, who has been awarded a Griffin Lifetime Achievement Award. He's been such a profound influence on me over the past couple of decades. Pleased to see his work recognized this way.
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Announcing the 2026 Lifetime Recognition Award - Griffin Poetry Prize
TORONTO – May 6, 2026 – The Griffin Poetry Prize is pleased to announce Raúl Zurita as the 2026 Lifetime Recognition Award recipient. Instituted in 2006, the Griffin trustees bestow the Lifetime Recog...
https://griffinpoetryprize.com/press/announcing-the-2026-lifetime-recognition-award/
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I often think about that old norse story where the hero eats the dragon’s heart and suddenly he can understand bird song. (The birds all tell him his friend is going to kill him.)
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Was working on something but fell into the Warhol Hole, writing about Warhol, Dylan and
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The Warhol Zone: On Dylan, Warhol and the Iconophilia of the 1960s
I’ve been reading/writing/thinking about Latin American “neo-avant-gardism” but this has also led me to fall down into a “Warhol/rabbit hole”, thinking a lot about Andy Warhol’s influence and the dyna...
https://open.substack.com/pub/johannesgransson/p/the-warhol-zone-on-dylan-warhol-and?r=43huy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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New Aase Berg poem, "Feminist Depression," from her new book Aase's Death up at Poetry Daily:
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Feminist Depression
Oh, how it cannot artejaculate itself
https://poems.com/poem/feminist-depression/
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Here's a poem by great Argentinian modernist Oliverio Girondo. It's from his great last - and most experimental, erotic. and combustive (so much for "late" writing being subdued) - En la masmedula, translated almost incomprehensibly wonderfully by Molly Weigl (In the moremarrow, Action Books).
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about 2 months ago
If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?
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Just got back from the New Orleans Poetry Festival. A great time - grassroots poetry is alive and well in this country. One poet asked me to grind up her book in a blender and drink it. Another told me he was "a big fan of Goransson's work" (we had no name tags). Strong recommend.
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New Orleans Poetry Festival and Small Press Fair | New Orleans Poetry Festival
https://nolapoetry.com/
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Chicagoans make sure you check out this event!
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Anna Quilici
2 months ago
Helena Boberg tr. Johannes Göransson
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪
about 2 months ago
even if you don't care about the accompanying writing prompt, I share one unreleased poem here every Sunday morning Recent writers include: Johannes Göransson, Claire Hopple, Tom Snarsky, Vi Khi Nao, Jay Besemer, Zan de Parry, Joanna Ruocco, Todd Dillard, Michael Bazzett
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Sunday Poem + Prompt | Benjamin Niespodziany | Substack
sharing a poem with an accompanying writing prompt every Sunday. Click to read Sunday Poem + Prompt, by Benjamin Niespodziany, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
https://neonpajamas.substack.com/
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I wrote a substack about some recent poems and the much-maligned idea of "poetry as therapy," which I used to dismiss but now understand differently.
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Poems about Caregiving, Poems as "Therapy"
A couple of poems from my forthcoming book The Adorations has been published by Luna Luna:
https://johannesgransson.substack.com/p/poems-about-caregiving-poems-as-therapy?r=43huy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e0_tv0&fbclid=IwY2xjawRMg2VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeoCFRf-JayDHjEwnnD7RRIMw0bDbw1m1URvgmAbm1El5gylV97mE1NeB3q2g_aem_YaoXrlxpb111y4kvspV4Pw&triedRedirect=true
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Attending a lecture on the Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld prompted me to write some thoughts in response (and on CADA and Zurita):
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The Violent Vulnerability of CADA
I went to a really interesting talk last night sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Art History department.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-193810130?source=queue
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Congratulations to Joyelle McSweeney for winning a Windham-Campbell Prize. A lovely surprise.
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Wrote a post about this poem (by Lars Norén, 1970) on substack:
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New from Action Books! Leia Penina Wilson's Call the Necromancer! "What is necromancy if not a refusal of order? Wilson’s ecstatic narrator is narrative’s transcendent rejector"
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"written at a blistering pitch in the key of Cassandra"-Lara Glenum
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Leia Penina Wilson, call the necromancer • Action Books
call the necromancer By Leia Penina Wilson ISBN: 978-0-900575-28-0 | 172 pages | Price: $20 | Release Date: 4/1/2026 “it seeped into my blood too that shade of green killer!” Incantation or hex? Curat...
https://actionbooks.org/leia-penina-wilson-call-necromancer/
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"...Berg’s shocking guinea pigs and how the poems made me feel like I felt the first time I ever Tori Amos, aged 13: winter-bad-good and crisp and freed up for comedy... girl rage charge" Olivia Cronk's "stock room picks" from the Action Books back catalog:
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"The bloody ones the long-haired ones the wind-shaping ones" The Whitmanesque beginning of Jaime Saenz's Death at the Very Touch (trans Ted Dodson):
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"I had said goodbye back in my youth, and after many years I understood, when I realized I was in love with the cold. And now I am in the cold— here I am writing about it... " - Jaime Saenz, from "The Cold"
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ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 1 What Miracle: New Revelations on the Prose Poem A Prose Poetry Network Conference at the University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway More details here:
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"Incantation or hex? Curative or curse? Buzzing, clomping, and crying out solilo-quies, Leia Penina Wilson’s call the necromancer performs boldly on the page. Be medusa’d, be transmogrified" New from Action Books today: Call the Necromancer by Leia Penina Wilson:
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Leia Penina Wilson, call the necromancer • Action Books
call the necromancer By Leia Penina Wilson ISBN: 978-0-900575-28-0 | 172 pages | Price: $20 | Release Date: 4/1/2026 “it seeped into my blood too that shade of green killer!” Incantation or hex? Curat...
https://actionbooks.org/leia-penina-wilson-call-necromancer/
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Released TODAY: a new book by the great Bolivian poet JAIME SAENZ (translated by Kit Schluter and Ted Dodson). "With Blakean intimacy, these two sequences trace a double path through life and death, a cosmic and compact universal guide."
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Jaime Saenz, Two Poems • Action Books
Two Poems By Jaime Saenz Translated by Ted Dodson & Kit Schluter ISBN: 978-0-900575-27-3 | 90 pages | Price: $18 | Release Date: 4/1/2026 “The voice is the temperature.” This indispensable bilingual e...
https://actionbooks.org/jaime-saenz-two-poems/
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PiĹĽama Press
3 months ago
“A dance of resemblances and dissemblances. A mess of mimicry.” 🎠Split / Game of Little Deaths, a two-in-one book by Réka Nyitrai, is out in May & this blurb by
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There ought to be a law against Henry coming around… Weird that I have never read anyone point out that Bob Dylan's ”Ballad of a Thin Man” is something of an homage to Berrymans Dream Songs. Is it too obvious of a point? Anyway Id be interested to know if theres any mention of this anywhere?
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4 months ago
Might be a couple more additions to the lineup 🤫 but here's what we have in store for Wednesday! Starting AWP on a high note
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New books from Action Books coming this spring! Two Poems by Jaime Saenz (trans Schluter/Dodson) and Call the Necromancer by Leia Penina Wilson. The Saenz includes the long poems The Cold and Death at the Very Touch. Both visionary masterpieces.
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Stockroom Picks presents: Candice Wuehle (Curated by Miharu Yano) • Action Books
Candice Wuehle is the author of the novels ULTRANATURAL (University of Iowa Press, 2026) and MONARCH (Soft Skull, 2022), named a Best Book of 2022 by NPR, SPIN!, Lambda Literary, Crime Reads, and Nylo...
https://actionbooks.org/2026/02/stockroom-picks-presents-candice-wuehle-curated-by-miharu-yano/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQJ0ltleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJXTG5senZ2cm9vbkJkQkljc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHoK7ZKtHyH41sIHN3shMgEvjGHyGV6Z48KcPyJuTG4aaXkhT4DBb_ihbncEv_aem_BsKOk05F6eLWwWk5l7iT4g
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"Memory is mortal. Some evenings, Billie Holiday lays her sick rose in my ears." - Antonio Gamoneda (trans. Hedeen/Nunez)
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"Almadhoun, formed in the crucible of diaspora and residing now between Stockholm and Berlin, is more an Aimé Césaire refreshed for an age of post-9/11 neoliberalism and identity politics." - Alex Tan on Ghayath Almadhoun's I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
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Out on a Limb: On Ghayath Almadhoun’s "I Have Brought You a Severed Hand" - Cleveland Review of Books
Is the hand being proffered in the spirit of a gift, or is it evidence, rather, of something damning and unnamed?
https://clereviewofbooks.com/ghayath-almadhoun-a-severed-hand/
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"The voice in the poem is not your friend." - Sean Bonney
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Because it's Valentine's Hating love Roque Dalton Without your hands my heart is the enemy in my chest.
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I wrote a substack post about the superb podcast "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs" and Bob Dylan, genius, corruption, mimicry:
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The Art of Mimicry: The History of Rock n' Roll or Any Other Art Form
Lately I’ve been obsessed with a podcast called “A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs,” created and hosted by Andrew Hickey.
https://open.substack.com/pub/johannesgransson/p/the-art-of-mimicry-the-history-of?r=43huy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Wuthering Heights? A blatant hacienda melodrama that camps out on poverty row, pushing mediocre actors & hyperbolic montage to the max, before blasting triumphantly into the stratosphere, Luis Bunuel's 1954 Mexican version is a true surrealist classic.
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Abismos de PasiĂłn (1954)
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo. Director: Luis Buñuel. Stars...
https://rarefilmm.com/2017/07/abismos-de-pasion-1954/
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The wheel upon which Minnesota broke them
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Great to see a lot of groundbreaking new work in translation from the Scandinavian countries. This morning Im reading Mette Moestrup’s brilliant To the Most Beautiful (trans Ögaard-Jensen,
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ICE AGENTS ARE FOLLOWING OBSERVERS TO THEIR HOMES. THEY ARE DOING THE EXACT SHIT JOHNSON SAYS IS INTOLERABLE!
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This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.
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Had a discussion about this yesterday so I'm posting a link to it again. And to
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Read six poems by Ann Jäderlund, translated from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson, in WPR 8:
worldpoetryreview.org/2023/05/17/a...
WPR is currently open for submissions for issue 13! Translators of poetry encouraged to apply!
worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/
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Joyelle McSweeney on Claude Cahun: "the writing is rambunctious with puns and made singular by its instinct to drive all syntaxes toward the plural. It's also stylish, sexy, and funny, a kind of handbook of what Cahun called "angel slang."
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Claude Cahun’s Survival Guide for the Ages
A new translation of the French artist’s 1930 memoir is a kaleidoscopic collection of dialogues, sketches, and Blakean proverbs.
https://hyperallergic.com/claude-cahuns-survival-guide-for-the-ages/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPy26lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEevZ_QVwpHk-dpOQx2vRtoiJIYWUSvot7NLXq7fJPIxj75qfg0T6we--pEIoQ_aem_nc4a0j65189rWijgpdz23g
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AWP 💥 BALTIMORE 🚨 Mark your calendars‼️ It’s all happening on March 4. See you there?
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