Seattle Doin's--
PRESS RELEASE
WHAT: Action Books! reading @ the Jewelbox
WHO: Joyelle McSweeney (Alabama), Johannes Goransson (Alabama), Don
Mee Choi (Seattle), Kreg Hasegawa (Seattle)
WHERE: Jewelbox Theater at the Rendezvous: 2322 2nd Ave. / Seattle,
WA (Bell Town) / 206-441-5834
WHEN: Dec. 10th (Sat.), 7:30 pm
HOW MUCH: Free
CONTACT: Kreg Hasegawa
gerky@earthlink.net
206-661-4110
BIOS:
JOYELLE MCSWEENEY is the author of The Red Bird and The Commandrine and Other Poems, both from Fence Books. She writes for The Constant Critic and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Alabama. She recently co-founded Action Books with Johannes Goransson.
JOHANNES GORANSSON was born in Sweden but now he lives and teaches in Tuscaloosa, AL. The most recent issues of the journal Fourteen Hills and the on-line journal Typo_feature his selections of innovative
Swedish poetry from the the past 100 years. Remainland: Selected
Poems of Aase Berg is now out from Action Books, and Ideals
Clearance by early Finland-Swedish Modernist Henry Parland is
forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.
DON MEE CHOI lives in Seattle and translates the poetry of
contemporary Korean women poets. Her forthcoming books of
translations include When the Plug Gets Unplugged_(Tinfish 2005) and
Words of Anxiety (Zephyr Press, 2006). More translations of Kim
Hyesoon's poetry are scheduled to be published by Action Books, 2007.
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> KREG HASEGAWA lives in Seattle. He occasionally puts on readings such as this. He usually doesn't book himself to read but Joyelle twisted
his arm. He writes stories. They have been published in The News, Sal Mimeo, Spring Formal, and Greetings. He apologizes to the poetry
community for not getting out much lately, but he's in graduate
school. He hopes no one has taken this personally. He wishes
everyone well.
MORE INFO:
Johannes Goransson and Don Mee Choi will be reading translations of
Aase Berg and Kim Hyesoon, respectively. Here is some information on
them.
Sweden. She has published four books: With Deer, Dark Matter,
Transfer Fat and Uppland. She has recently given reading tours of
the US and the former Yugoslavia, and her work has been translated
into several European languages. She is currently translating the
complete works of H.P. Lovecraft into Swedish.
Her books include Seoul, My Upanishad, Poor Love Machine,
Calendar Factory, Factory Supervisor, Please Look and A Cup of Red
Mirror. She also writes feminist literary criticism.
ABOUT ACTION BOOKS: Action Books is for poetry that goes too far. We started this press in the spirit of internationalism, and to that end
we are publishing both emerging American poets and contemporary poets in translation. Our debut volumes, available now on
www.actionbooks.org
The Hounds of No, an entirely unheimlich debut by Lara Glenum,
whose blog of the same name has gained a wide following in the blog
world, and whose debut volume Claudia Rankine has called "morbidly brilliant" and K. Silem Mohammed has called "zoologically savage."
Greenberg, whose work Publishers Weekly has called "both slippery and
sharp, like ice skates in use."
Remainland, a selection of disarmingly visceral miniatures from the
internationally acclaimed Swedish poet Aase Berg. Lisa Jarnot has
characterized Remainland as "a place of weird music and visceral
delight."
