Litmus Press, 925 Bergen Street #405, Crown Heights, NY (2025)

12/04/2025

Join Belladonna* Collaborative, Futurepoem, Litmus Press, Winter Editions, and World Poetry Books to celebrate our new small press collective, POETRY CORP!

This will be a holiday party and a rent fundraiser for our shared Crown Heights studio space with books for sale, food & drink, music, and poetry.

Readings from Claire DeVoogd, Lila Zemborain, a.Monti, Aiden Farrell, and Christopher Rey Pérez, starting at 4pm.

Tarot readings by James Loop and playlist by Rachael Wilson.

December 12th
3-7:30pm
@ Poetry Corp HQ
925 Bergen St. #405
$15 at the door

Readings begin at 4pm

**Accesibility note: the studio is on a 4th floor walk-up, with freight elevator access only available until 5:30pm

✨️ See link in bio for a recent article about Poetry Corp. in Publishers Weekly, written by Daniel Yadin ✨️

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ABOUT POETRY CORP.

The seed for Poetry Corp. was planted in 2008, when Litmus and Belladonna went in on a shared studio space in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood, which has since expanded to house the three other presses, World Poetry Books, Futurepoem, and Winter Editions. Aside from splitting costs related to space rental, Poetry Corp. members share office supplies, pool shipping expenses, and table together at book fairs, all of which reduces labor and spending for each press individually. We also share fundraising know-how, exchange editorial skills, and occasionally work as co-publishers. Now, after years of evolving these practices organically, we are formalizing them in order to secure a sustainable model for resource-sharing into the future.
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12/03/2025

🗞📚ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH

Join us this Sunday afternoon for a virtual reading with our international Litmus authors from this fall’s new releases!

Yes, I Am a Destroyer by Mira Mattar

ERODE by Biswamit Dwibedy

The Unlikeness of Things by Virginie Poitrasson, translated by Michelle Noteboom
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Register for free on Eventbrite — link in bio.

12/02/2025

🗞📚ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH

Join us this Sunday afternoon for a virtual reading with our international Litmus authors from this fall’s new releases!

Yes, I Am a Destroyer by Mira Mattar

ERODE by Biswamit Dwibedy

The Unlikeness of Things by Virginie Poitrasson, translated by Michelle Noteboom
&

Register for free on Eventbrite — link in bio.
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12/02/2025

🗞📚ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH

Join us this Sunday afternoon for a virtual reading with our international Litmus authors from this fall’s new releases!

Yes, I Am a Destroyer by Mira Mattar

ERODE by Biswamit Dwibedy

The Unlikeness of Things by Virginie Poitrasson, translated by Michelle Noteboom

Register for free on Eventbrite — link in bio.

12/02/2025

Join us virtually on Dec 7 · 12pm ET for a Sunday reading gathering our international Litmus authors from this Fall’s releases.

Yes, I Am A Destroyer · Mira Mattar
ERODE · Biswamit Dwibedy
The Unlikeness of Things · Virginie Poitrasson with translator Michelle Noteboom

Get cozy and listen in as they read and talk about their books.

Register for free on Eventbrite — link in bio.

11/12/2025

💫 Donate or become a member at the link in our bio 💫

Despite threats on all fronts, we’re keeping vital 20th‑century poetic experiments alive, because we’re aware of the urgent need for the radical and imaginative models left to us by our progressive and feminist forbears.

To sustain this work, we need your help.

Your membership or donation today goes directly toward:

-Payments to authors, translators, and artists
-Fair wages for our small, dedicated staff
-Printing costs for new and backlist titles
-Free reading and teaching resources that make bold, forward-thinking contemporary writing accessible to all

Every gift helps! 🌖 ✨

11/04/2025

We’re excited to be en route to the American Literary Translators Association conference in Tucson this week AND to be launching our new blog, THE ETHER SEA, with an interview by Clarise Reichley with Virginie Poitrasson and Michelle Noteboom on The Unlikeness of Things!

“I wanted to write an intimate and physical adventure leading to the troubling encounter of the ‘other of oneself,’ because there is something immensely unstable within us, and one of the main challenges of writing is no doubt to invent—in each book—a poetics of this instability of bodies,” says Poitrasson.

On translating, Michelle Noteboom writes: “Virginie’s book itself is underpinned by defamiliarization, as the body is constantly thrust into situations that demand—and produce—a different sort of perception, or altered perception... In my ‘day job’ as a translator in the audiovisual business, producing voiceover or subtitles, it is all about ‘massaging the French out’ of the English until no traces of it are left. Here, the English remains stained by the French (hopefully in a good way), and that may be what gives it a sense of ‘defamiliarization.’”

Read on at the link in our bio!

https://litmuspress.org/the-ether-sea-blog/

11/01/2025

Litmus Press & Wave Archive invite you to a reading on Thursday, November 6th with performances by Magdalena Zurawski, Raquel Gutiérrez, Kareem James Abu-Zeid, poupeh missaghi, and James Loop. Doors 8pm. Free / by donation at Wave Archive, 197 Toole Ave. Tucson. 🌊

We’re excited to be at the American Literary Translators Association ALTA conference book fair this year! Check us out at the fair and at our offsite reading!

See you in Tucson!

10/23/2025

As part of the Publishing-In-Transit Series, where publishers discuss their work, our very own Monti—usually hard at work editing books here at Litmus—will talk about their publishing circuits and projects beyond Litmus, alongside the magnificent Cole Swensen and writers/publishers Erin Honeycutt and Katharina Ludwig.

Tune in online through this coming Wednesday at 1 PM EST!

10/02/2025

What people are saying about Mira Mattar’s Yes, I Am A Destroyer:

“An astonishing, contrary, visionary rush – insightful, poignant and ecstatic.”
—China Miéville

“[A] dazzling hybrid of experimental prose, autofiction, and poetry that resists the stricturing confines of embodiment, selfhood and identity at every turn.”
—Odhran O’Donoghue

“What if the self were necessary to its own undoing? As in: the only one capable of dismantling the first-person’s tightly wound ideological conglomerate—on which literature so heavily depends—is the self itself...This is an extraordinary book. Everyone who is someone should read it—to become no one.”
—Mirene Arsanios

“...[M]y words fail. This is the kind of book that pulls me in at ungodly hours, holds me transfixed in its questionings: ‘what can I recall without memory?’ asks Mattar’s speaker of family objects, or ‘why may they have their eyes when we may not have our own?’ .... A work of ineffable brilliance from one of my favorite Palestinian poets alive.
—George Abraham, author of Birthright

“[Yes, I Am A Destroyer] leaps beyond the cloying contract of capital with the feminine, of intimacy with violence, to animate a lush document of the refusal of subjection.... This glorious tract ends with a call for the anarchical vigour of the animal body we share. Read it and flourish. You will perhaps be invoiced.”
—Lisa Robertson

Yes, I Am A Destroyer is available via the link in bio.

First published in 2020 by MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE in the UK and Europe, we are honored to make *Yes, I Am A Destroyer* available to a North American audience.

As always, you can support Palestinian liberation and an end to the genocide in Gaza. You can materially support Palestinian life in Gaza by donating to a green resistance movement working towards reviving Gaza’s farmland by building food sovereignty. Protest, boycott, donate NOW.

09/25/2025

"DEAD YOUTH 1: How’s the dawn?

DEAD YOUTH 2: Bilious. An ugly thing. So new, yet it glooms like cholangiocarcinoma. & glops its cellophane.

DEAD YOUTH 1: And how’s the moon?

DEAD YOUTH 2: Green Cheese.

DEAD YOUTH 1: Yuk yuk"

Online edition and workshop today at the link in bio

[Photo taken during the production of Dead Youth, or, The Leaks, written by Joyelle McSweeney, performed and produced by Runaways Lab Theater, Chicago, 2017.
Pictured are Dylan Fahoome, Candace Hundell, Gannon Reedy, Ronen Kohn, Will Green]

09/23/2025

Only 2 days until we gather online for the launch of Dead Youth, or, The Leaks!

With writing prompts, readings + conversation from Joyelle McSweeney & Tonya M. Foster.

🔗 RSVP at the link in bio

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