The summer issue of Action,Yes has arrived. A lot of people gave us a lot of great work. Go start reading now, and you might be done before the solstice. Let me know what you think.

We’ve just posted another over-sized Action,Yes.  This continues our year-long pledge to fat issues. There’s a lot of stuff in there. Spend some time with it and let me know what you think.

Contributors include:
Per Backstrom
Bernard Bador (trans. Clayton Eshleman)
Ross Brighton
James Capozzi
Tyler Carter
Amy Catanzano
Tina Brown Celona
Juliet Cook
Marisa Crawford
Olivia Cronk
Peter Davis
Nick Demske
Geoffrey Detrani
Dot Devota
Christopher DeWeese
Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
Justin Dobbs
Claire Donato
Donald Dunbar
Tim Earley
Clayton Eshleman
Jean-Michel Espitallier (translated by Jennifer K. Dick)
Robert Fernandez
Ann Fine
Sara Greenslit
Richard Kostelanetz
Lito Elio Porto
Grzegorz Wroblewski(trans. Adam Zdrodowski)
Raul Zurita (trans. Daniel Borzutzky)
and a lot of other writers, young and old, foreign and American.

(Note: We’ve begun collecting work for an all-criticism issue to be launched sometime in late 2010-2011. Send me something if you think we’d be interested. We’re looking for essays/criticism that are unlikely to fit comfortably in other places.)

Lots of little news to catch up. My house new house is a construction site so production is slow, but I have started posting over at Big Other, with a smart and thoughtful bunch of writers. Lets of good stuff to read over there.

First off, our new Action, Yes is up. This is the first of four issues that is largely collected from our very first open submissions period. We were hoping to get one issue out of it, and then we got FOUR. I’ve heard so many tales of terror about the slush pile – but we didn’t see it – it was a rare submission that didn’t have something interesting going on. Plus we have a specially curated section from Canada.

New Pear Noir! is out, and it’s got my comic “My Brother’s Shoe.” It’s a story that takes place in autumn in New York.  Pretty similar to this movie:

And I have some drawings in the new Caketrain that accompany a series of J.A. Tyler’s Jimmy stories. Totally different project that our image-text novel Glimpse. I think it’s fair to say that the Jimmy drawings are illustrations – which I rarely do.  Here’s one of them:

Leaving for five days – three reading in Georgia. Friday night will be in Athens at Cine with Sabrina (Orah Mark) and Blake (Buter). This is the launch for Sabrina’s brilliant Tsim Tsum, and my southern celebration for The Complete Collection in the town where it was born, and Blake with be bringing his Scorch Atlas to town. Sabrina says this thing will be more party than reading  and she promises RAFFLES, which are similar to the lottery. Then Blake is hosting Sabrina and me, and Laura Carter and Sandra Simonds, at his Solar Anus series at the Beep Beep Gallery in Atlanta. Then next Tuesday I’m reading for the VOX Reading series at my alma mater back in Athens.

Speaking of Georgia, I’ve been reading Jamie Iredell’s Prose Poems: A Novel today. Really desperate stuff – I’m going to go talk about it at Big Other…