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February 26, 11am Discussion, 2pm Reading Admission to the 11am program is free, and the 2pm reading is $8 gen. public, $7 students & seniors, $6 members As the first in a series of readings and talks in celebration of small presses, Action Books co-editors Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson will lead a discussion on the role of the small press, the moral economy of poetry publishing, and the hows and whys of starting a press.
11am Discussion: Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson
Joyelle McSweeney is the author of two books of poetry: The Commandrine and Other Poems (Fence, 2004) and The Red Bird, which won the first Fence Modern Poets Series Prize and was published in 2002. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Poetry, Fence, Double Room and elsewhere; her verse play, 'The Commandrine,' has received staged readings in Seattle and New York. McSweeney is also the co-founder of Action Books, a press for poetry and translation. She is the staff critic for The Constant Critic, a poetry review website, and her reviews have appeared in the Boston Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Alabama.
Johannes Göransson is the co-editor of Action Books, which published his collection of translations Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg last fall. He has guest-edited special Swedish poetry issues for the journal Fourteen Hills and the on-line journal Typo. His poems and translations can be found in various journals, such as jubilat, conduit, Double Room and Octopus. 2pm Action Books Reading: Arielle Greenberg, Lara Glenum, and Johannes Göransson Arielle Greenberg is the author of Given (Verse, 2002), and the chapbook Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials
Lara Glenum was raised in the gothic South. She studied for her M.A. in English at the University of Chicago and received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The University of Virginia, where she was a
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