Litmus Press

04/08/2022

Hi there to our friends in #Glasgow 🖐️ ☀️ Did you know that you can now find Litmus books at the amazing @goodpressgallery ?

Good Press is a workers cooperative dedicated to the promotion, distribution and production of independently or self published printed matter, with a focus on visual arts and writing, occasionally music or artist objects. It is a bookshop, event space, Risograph printer & bookmaking studio based in the centre of Glasgow.

All of the publications you find in-store and on-line are either self published or produced by an independent small press, gallery, group or organisation.

If you're based in Glasgow or just passing through, check them out!!

https://goodpress.co.uk/

#bookshop #poetrycommunity #workerscoop #bookmaking

04/07/2022

Thrilled for our upcoming release of Elisabeth Houston's Standard American English (out June 10th!). Here's a peek at the cover with art by Lauren Kelley and design by HR Hegnauer.

Houston's debut book was selected by Tracie Morris in our 2020 Open Call. Write us at [email protected] or DM us if you're interested in reviewing!

A magnificent upending of language.
— Khadijah Queen

[A] rollicking hybrid tour-de-force… Houston indicts every individual’s displaced capacity for cruelty under the patina of hipness.
— Tracie Morris, author of Who Do with Words

There are writers who write and use language that already exists and lead us into new ways of seeing. There are also writers who invent language and form who carve out words and names and experiences from earth’s substance and bring a new universe into existence. Elisabeth Houston is an interdisciplinary artist, a poet, and is such an inventor, a new voice to ready ourselves for, a voice we need.
— Pamela Sneed, author of Funeral Diva

#newrelease #poetry #performance #whoisbaby123 #whoisbaby

04/01/2022

Indiana Review’s Blue Light Reading

TUESDAY, APRIL 5th @ 7:30 pm EDT

Indiana Review’s Blue Light Reading

⚡️ Will Alexander ⚡️
🔥 Rochelle Hurt 🔥
🌪️ Pedro Ponce🌪️

Join the editors of Indiana Review to celebrate new and forthcoming books by Rochelle Hurt, Pedro Ponce, and Will Alexander!

Reading begins at 7:30 pm EDT and will be followed by a short Q&A. The webinar is free and requires pre-registration.

Register:
#poetryreading #WillAlexander #newrelease

Fiction and poetry reading by Rochelle Hurt, Pedro Ponce, and Will Alexander!

03/31/2022

"I’ve felt when writing these texts as if I were both looking down and gazing up simultaneously, infused with an insatiable vertigo not unlike strange moons casting occulted rays through heathen binary suns that seem to spin at once in conflicting dimensions at differing levels of speed. The result from this turbulent tidal seismicity is that light emits itself via frictive streaks and angles, through darting shards of voltage... This, for me, is The Coming Mental Range where psychic light naturally casts its rays out of ciphers."
— Will Alexander, from the Introduction

Get ready for Will Alexander's *The Coming Mental Range* out this summer from Litmus! Here's a sneak peek at the covers, with art by the inimitable Will Alexander & stunning design by HR Hegnauer.

#newrelease #WillAlexander #artoftheessay #coverdrop #bookcover #bookdesign

03/30/2022

BODY WAS is a book-length sequence of small moments, gestures and expressions stretched to incredible lengths; stretched not as a way of thinning, but as a way to articulate and pause, each moment fragmented into portions, and where lightning strikes in such slow-motion that every spark appears, if in the briefest sense, self-contained: brilliant, held and heard.
— Rob McLennan

A beautiful review of Isabelle Garron's *Body Was* translated by Eléna Rivera at Rob McLennan's blog!

Check it out and ALSO check out Eléna & Isabelle & Sarah Riggs' translation workshop and reading THIS SUNDAY at Torn Page. In-person workshop & hybrid reading. Free/by donation! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/translation-as-invitation-isabelle-garron-elena-rivera-sarah-riggs-tickets-295669514477

#bookreview #translation #poetryworkshop #poetryreading #poetrycommunity #tornpage

03/29/2022

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Artist Talk : Youmma Chlala. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

TOMORROW, Wednesday, March 30th 6-8PM EST, join Youmna Chlala at Fridman Gallery for the opening of a group exhibition, "FORWARD GROUND." 🔥

On view is Youmna Chlala's This Is A City Not A Cake II, a large-scale drawing where memoryscapes and implied architectures become a blueprint of Beirut, a myth and a speculation.

Fridman Gallery, 169 BOWERY | NYC
FORWARD GROUND March 30 – May 8, 2022
Wednesday, March 30, 6-8pm: Opening reception
Sunday, May 8, 6-8pm: Closing reception
https://www.fridmangallery.com/forwardground

ALSO stay tuned for Youmna's artist talk for VCUarts Qatar's “Decolonizing Art Narratives: Arab Women Artists Today” series on Wed, April 6th at 12:00 PM NYC/8:00PM. Youmna will be talking about her ongoing series, The Museum of Future Memories as well as her book The Paper Camera (Litmus Press, 2019). Register here:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Artist Talk : Youmma Chlala. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

03/27/2022

Do you know about the Litmus Teaching Guides 🖇️ ? Our guides are free resources for instructors, students and readers for the study of poetry published by Litmus Press, O Books, and The Post-Apollo Press. They offer introductory information as well as detailed lesson planning ideas related to selected titles.

This Spring we are thrilled to be working on a new teaching guide in collaboration with erica kaufman & Julian T. Brolaski, dedicated to the poetics of kari edwards. ✨

Previous guides have included the work of Aja Couchois Duncan, Etel Adnan, Hugo García Manríquez, amongst others.

Find out more on our website! Link through bio 🤓

#teachingguide #poetry #experimental #pedagogy #openaccess #lessonplanning #freeresource #teachmorepoetry #kariedwards #ajacouchoisduncan #eteladnan

03/26/2022

READ Issue 9: Out on April 15th ⚡️⚡️

READ: A Journal of Inter-Translation documents and probes experimental translation by and between poets of diverse origins and generations. READ is a new collaboration between Tamaas and Litmus Press, extending our work as publishers into the digital realm. ✨

We are thrilled to make READ available as an open-access, digital edition through our website soon. Be on the lookout 🔎

#read #experimental #translation #collaboration #poetry #poetrycommunity #pedgagogy #journal #openaccess

03/25/2022

Sunday, April 3rd: RSVP for our translation workshop & reading! - https://mailchi.mp/litmuspress.org/workshop-and-reading

03/24/2022

Can't make it to AWP this year? Neither could we!

Never fear, SPD is running a virtual AWP sale with 30% off select titles with code AWP2022. https://www.spdbooks.org/Pages/Item/60112/Virtual-AWP-2022.aspx

Snag a copy of Aja Couchois Duncan's Vestigial AND Isabelle Garron's Body Was, translated by Eléna Rivera, with the discount code! ...and then come to our translation seminar & reading with Isabelle, Eléna, and Sarah Riggs on Sunday, April 3rd at Torn Page! https://litmuspress.org/translation-as-invitation/

#poetry #booksale #translation #seminar #poetryworkshop #poetryreading #AWP2022

03/23/2022

The sign that greets us every day as we enter our studio! ❤️ 😂

But seriously... we *are* working hard to bring you some mind-bending books of poetry in 2022, and we are also very excited to be bringing out several FREE, open-access digital publications in the coming year— including the 9th annual READ journal of inter-translation, co-published with Tamaas, and new Open Poetics digital-critical editions on our Manifold platform (***Etel Adnan's From A to Z and Lyn Hejinian's Happily***).

We've also got a kari edwards teaching guide coming your way very soon, made in collaboration with Julian Talamantez Brolaski and erica kaufman. And in case you missed it, our new Aja Couchois Duncan teaching guide, made in collaboration with the author, is also live on our site!

Maybe we should amend the poster: "Everything for Everyone / Everything for Ourselves!"

Teaching Guides: https://litmuspress.org/resources/teaching-guides/
Open Poetics: https://litmuspress.org/resources/open-poetics/
READ (tk soon!!): https://litmuspress.org/read-anthology/

#readerresources #openaccess #poetry #smallpress #gifteconomy #teachingguide #kariedwards #AjaCouchoisDuncan #EtelAdnan #LynHejinian #OpenPoetics #Tamaas #translation #newreleases

03/11/2022

Nathalie Khankan, Saretta Morgan, and Sarah Riggs, at Medicine for Nightmares | The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives

A week from today! What a line-up @thepoetrycenter — Nathalie Khankan, Saretta Morgan, and Sarah Riggs, reading & in conversation. This Poetry Center event is live in-person and streaming. More info at https://bit.ly/3vRVfPC

We are thrilled to be working with Sarah Riggs and Tamaas / Earth Arts Justice on not one but *two* publications this year: The 9th annual READ anthology from the Tamaas translation seminars, which will be published as a free, digital edition this spring, AND a print volume of contemporary Arab poetry in translation, coming your way winter 2022/23... with more details TBA! ✨

#poetryreading #sarahriggs #Tamaas #collaboration #forthcoming #translation

Join us for this in-person event in San Francisco's Mission district, with poets Nathalie Khankan, Saretta Morgan, and Sarah Riggs, reading their work then engaging in conversation with one another and the audience.

03/09/2022

***Save the date!***

Sunday, April 3rd, 2-5 pm EST

Litmus Press + Torn Page present

Translation as Invitation: a workshop & reading

w/
Isabelle Garron
Eléna Rivera
& Sarah Riggs

In-person translation workshop from 2-3:15 pm EST at Torn Page: 435 W22nd Street, New York, NY 10011

Followed by a student reading, and a reading by Isabelle Garron & her translators: Eléna Rivera, Body Was (Litmus Press, 2021) and Sarah Riggs, Face Before Against (Litmus Press, 2008), from 3:30-5 pm EST

The reading portion of this event will livestream starting at 3:30 pm EST. Register on Eventbrite for the in-person workshop + reading, or the livestreamed reading only: link TK

More info @ www.litmuspress.org/blog

#poetryreading #poetryworkshop #translationworkshop #translation #Frenchpoetry #event #IsabelleGarron #ElénaRivera #SarahRiggs #TornPage