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The Brooklyn Rail – Publishing-in-Transit: OEI

Editors of OEI magazine Cecilia Grönberg and Jonas (J) Magnusson join Rail contributor Cole Swensen for a conversation on Zoom.

Jonas (J) Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg are editors, authors, artists and researchers based in Stockholm and Paris. Since 2001 they have been working together on different publishing projects: books, magazines, exhibitions. Their work often revolves around questions on archives, images, documents, montage, locality and counter-historiography. They have been running the publishing structure OEI as a literary and artistic project since the early 2000s. OEI is a magazine for extra disciplinary spaces and de-disciplinizing moments – experimental forms of thinking, montages of art, poetry, theory, film, and documents; critical investigations, infrastructural poetics, archaeologies and counter historiographies. The latest issue of OEI, #110–111, is on “megaliths & other stones”.

Cole Swensen is the author of twenty volumes of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023), which was long-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays, Art in Time, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over twenty volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and won the 2024 ALTA National Translation Award and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Translation Award.