in the grassesis an annual publication series seeking works that specifically address performance's ability to transcend political and geographical limitations. This series investigates within and without boundaries of genre while focusing on works whose poesis involves the transformation of the social, often involving the collaborative in their production. These works are printed as a limited edition saddle-stitched pamphlet, and also published as pdfs.All pamphlets are available free of charge. To order please send inquiries to whathappenswhathappens@gmail.com The editor would like to thank Judith Goldman and the Gray and McNulty Chairs of the Poetics Program at SUNY — University at Buffalo, for their support of this project.::04 Manifesto on Translations of Hospitality by Sondos Zaghari, Christin Alhalabi, Rajnesh Chakrapani [pdf]
Incorporating multiple genres such as performance documentation, family history, and conversation between translators, "Manifesto" reveals the soft inner lining of translation which gets lost in reducing it to its use-value, or expectations of input and output. Birthed out of the 2022 Critical Practice Studio, hosted by Al-Quds Bard College, but not limited by it--this collaboration between Sondos Zaghari, Christin Alhalabi, and Rajnesh Chakrapani (compiled by Chakrapani), plays with our codified conceptions of translation, and asks us to look at the material in the “background” of a translation. Limited-edition saddle-stitched pamphlet, to order to a copy email delivery instructions to whathappenswhathappens@gmail.com
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::03 water signatures by Dana Venerable, 2022 [pdf] 
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::02 a meditation on intimacy and collapse by Joey Yearous-Algozin, 2022[pdf] this title is out of stock
[audiobook+] read by Rainer Diana Hamilton, layered with “tracing back the radiance” by jefre cantu-ledesma
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::01 ECLIPSE by Amelia Bande, with Ignacio Perez and Javier Riveros, et al. 2021[pdf] this title is out of stock
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"This type of connection is internal interruptionErupting horizons Stretch your arms and sight and seeHow far you’ve comeHow far you’ve goneRecognize what you’ve always neededIf you still hold your stressHold your head highSoar like all the airSigns signal mindless behaviors Caress the calmest second of your lifeRelease dramatics and drudgeries Make for yourself what you have been missing" water signatures, Dana Venerable
"here and now is simplya place of waitingand in this wayeach case is terminalbut waiting can assume its own contours and geographymotionless and still suggesting a shape to the sloping land that falls away from your resting bodyin the same way thatsay a red winged blackbird’s presence in the grass surrounding a retention pondat the back of a parking lot of a half-built subdivisionarticulates the larger field around itas it rises uptaking flight"a meditation on intimacy and collapse, Joey Yearous-Algozin
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Bambi: If I close my eyes I can still hear the crunch of his bones and all the screams. The tear gas truck was there and this kid came out running out of nowhere and the cops didn’t stop, they went faster. He was run over. ppl were screaming, throwing rocks, I was frozen, I didn’t know what to do, I saw it from faraway cos I was scared that the tear gas truck was going to run over me too. I went home, my legs trembling the whole time.