New issue of Action Yes
The new issue of Action, Yes is up, featuring a Canadian poetry section curated by moi. You will find the work of a.rawlings, Jason Christie, Ray Hsu, Chantal Neveu, Angela Szczepaniak, gleN robsoN, Sonnet L'Abbé, cris costa, Daniel Canty, François Turcot, Hector Ruiz, Angela Carr, Sarah Dowling, Jenny Sampirisi, Jordan Scott, Darren Wershler-Henry and Bill Kennedy. François Turcot and Hector Ruiz were translated by moi. Daniel Canty translated himself. Chantal Neveu had several people translate her (there is also a video performance of her reading of d'après mentale online somewhere (it's in my bookmarks)).
It's obviously not meant to be representative of Canadian poetry, but a selection of people I know and the people they know (for this, big thanks to a.rawlings for connecting me with some of the anglophone poets, and to Angela Carr for the francophone poets). There are many more people I would have loved to have included (Donato Mancini, Nathalie Stephens, Oana Avasilichioaei who with Angela Szczepaniak has the coolest name, Aaron Peck, derek beaulieu, Larissa Lai, Sina Queyras and many many more). There was also an instant messenging interview that a.rawlings and I wanted to conduct. It obviously didn't happen, mostly for technical reasons (a. being in Iceland or Belgium, me not having a computer between April and September). Anyway, I hear this is the first time (if not, one of the rare times) where French- and English-language Canadian poets are featured together.
The issue also features the work of Anne Lesley Selcer, Scott Abels, Maureem Alsop, Kathleen Anderen, Takako Arai (tr. Jeffrey Angles), Rachel Gontijo Araujo, Cara Benson, Megan Martin and others.
It's obviously not meant to be representative of Canadian poetry, but a selection of people I know and the people they know (for this, big thanks to a.rawlings for connecting me with some of the anglophone poets, and to Angela Carr for the francophone poets). There are many more people I would have loved to have included (Donato Mancini, Nathalie Stephens, Oana Avasilichioaei who with Angela Szczepaniak has the coolest name, Aaron Peck, derek beaulieu, Larissa Lai, Sina Queyras and many many more). There was also an instant messenging interview that a.rawlings and I wanted to conduct. It obviously didn't happen, mostly for technical reasons (a. being in Iceland or Belgium, me not having a computer between April and September). Anyway, I hear this is the first time (if not, one of the rare times) where French- and English-language Canadian poets are featured together.
The issue also features the work of Anne Lesley Selcer, Scott Abels, Maureem Alsop, Kathleen Anderen, Takako Arai (tr. Jeffrey Angles), Rachel Gontijo Araujo, Cara Benson, Megan Martin and others.
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