looking at some jean paul lemieux paintings on my phone

breathing continue to devolve more and more into wheezing... the wildfire smoke is so bad, was outside for a couple hours on monday eve and feel like my eyes, throat and head are going to explode.

another afternoon shift in the finnish translation factory

They said nobody could do it, but we’re pleased to announce that we will be publishing David M. Smith’s translation of Thure Erik Lund’s THE MYSTERY OF WHAT BEFELL IN THE DITCH, a novel often spoken of as untranslatable. Preorder now UK: uk.bookshop.org/a/1044/97819...

one of the best book covers i've seen in a while...

I wrote a little bit about asking different questions in international environmental policy for the @ucdavis.bsky.social Feminist Research Institute 🌞 fri.ucdavis.edu/news/transit...

I love it when new (to me) poems arrive in the mail.

New Ia Genberg! Been waiting for this one for a while, translated by @kirajosefsson.bsky.social.

Extremely stoked to have a few poems from my new project on whiteness, discard, everyday life and labor, etc. in the 2026 issue of you are here: the journal of creative geography! Also stoked that yah is printing the issues at a Tucson union print shop this year :) peacesupplies.org/products/you...

trax

finished both of these books today & feeling very inspired by words & actions.

here are all the books that i finished in may

New on the website. Some words on Funeral Music For Freemasons by Lars Gustafsson. 1983. (Trans. from the Swedish by Yvonne L. Sandstroem). lonningspils.ca/2026/05/29/f...

Read an interview with Erkka and I about the translation that started this collaboration, and what I hope will be a long term co-project with Finnish and international avant garde theorists and poets, at @lonningspils.bsky.social: lonningspils.ca/2025/12/18/i...

some albums that i listened to this week

Headed to CBC this fall. :) www.newswire.ca/news-release...

My book Myth of the Garbage Patch is out now on Thousands Press! I’m grateful to Sally Boyd for publishing this accumulation archive. 🌊 thousandspress.com/shop/p/myth-...

New on Substack, some poetry for a season of doubt and Ostrogoths: open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

late night åsmund sveen

up late looking at jessie oonark's work

Happy Earth Day; here's a new film my friend Zoe Rosenblum and her co-director Matthew Busch made about protections for whales in the face of climate change! 🐳 @latimes.com www.latimes.com/0000019d-b1f...

it appears that the peak era for poetry in the entire world was winnipeg in the 1980s. i wouldn't have guessed that myself, but all i can do is share my findings.

music that i listened to this week

london, ontario review of books

Great piece by Jenna Grace Sciuto in Elsewhere Journal. www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

what i listened to over the past week

Olga Ravn reading from The Wax Child

The Coffin of Honey by Geoffrey D. Morrison has been selected for The Booksellers’ List Spring 2026! ‘An existential romp and a heartfelt cry for an international humanitarian awakening.’ – Basil Sylvester, Flying Books Out May 12: chbooks.com/Books/T/The-...

music that i listened to this week 🌌

A stack of every book that I finished in March.

New on Lønningspils. I interviewed Geoffrey D. Morrison about learning Norwegian, UFOs, long sentences, opening a branch of the Vancouver Public Library in Ontario, humour in Pynchon & Bolaño, Dag Solstad & his forthcoming novel "The Coffin Of Honey". lonningspils.ca/2026/03/29/i...

She’s as cute as Nokia 3310.

new books :)

new project

another weekly five by five

a stack of the books i finished in february

New Article: Exploring Icelandic & US Southern Lit. Our former podcast guest Jenna Grace Sciuto discusses her book "Intersecting Worlds" lonningspils.ca/2026/02/15/i...

can't wait for this, "the details" by ia genberg is one of the best pieces of translated lit coming out of the nordics in recent years (high praise!)

A fun one from Olav H. Hauge i think about a lot: BERTOLT BRECHT A versatile fellow: playwright, actor, poet His verse was handy to step into, it stood on the door-step like a pair of wooden clogs.

I love the last three lines of the poem Everyday from 1966's Drops in the East Wind (trans. Robin Fulton)

five by five

I interviewed Jenna Grace Sciuto about her book "Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures" We touch on Faulkner, Laxness, Svava Jakobsdóttir, Skriðuklaustur, McCullers & much more. lonningspils.ca/2026/02/15/i...

great write up from the best site. i'm still grappling with where it stands in his oeuvre... outside of his Big 3 great works, this may be my favourite so far.

New on the website. Noah Vølund Fechter reviews "they" by Helle Helle (trans. Martin Aitken). @ndbooks.bsky.social lonningspils.ca/2026/02/10/t...

Forthcoming from New Directions in October: my translation of LONDON by Louis-Ferdinand Céline! Probably the most difficult book of all the 50+ books I've translated, for many reasons...