Litmus Press cultivates a critical, poetic space in which disparate languages, genres, geographies, and artistic lineages converge, bringing forth singular, expansive works of contemporary literature.

Forthcoming Second Edition

Asia & Haiti

This 30th-anniversary second edition re-presents a classic book with new artwork by Will Alexander’s longtime collaborator, Byron Baker. It also includes a new preface by the author contextualizing the work within the present-day Tibetan liberation struggle and considerations of Haiti …
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Featured Translator

Jennifer Hayashida

Jennifer Hayashida is a poet, translator, and artist based in Stockholm … Her dissertation project, Feeling Translation, is an artistic research enquiry where translation is deployed as writing apparatus, pedagogical scaffold, and practice of solidarity. She is the author of A Machine Wrote This Song …
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Featured Artist Edition

Spectral Evidence: The Witch Box

Spectral Evidence: The Witch Box is a limited-edition artists’ book produced in an edition of 26 numbered and signed copies. Each boxed set contains 46 silkscreen printed cards at 5″ x 6.5″ with images by Nancy Bowen and texts by Elizabeth Willis …
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New & Noteworthy

Embroideries
By Burcu Sahin
Translated by Jennifer Hayashida
Viscera: Eight Voices from Poland
Edited by Mark Tardi
Where Not to Be Born
By Safaa Fathy
Translated by Rawad Z. Wehbe

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Posted May 29, 2024

Hocine Tandjaoui: Tribute to Allen Ginsberg

This is the second post in a series of engagements by Litmus authors, translators, and editors reflecting on the connection of their work to the ongoing struggle and violence, current and historical, in Palestine. Rooted in our commitment to creating and maintaining space for international exchange and dialogue, Litmus Press ...
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Posted April 16, 2024

Lyn Hejinian

“with sun up / and down dark on / and on as life continues / ending with urgency / —that— / a predatory subjectivity feels / drawn between banks / from higher grounds down / like an infant sliding / from a gravid mom awash / ...
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Logo of the Arab Workers Movement from 1972 to 1976 depicting a worker raising a fist in the shape of Palestine with Arabic writing below that reads Arab Labor Movement
Posted April 11, 2024

Olivia C. Harrison: On Palestine Solidarity

This is the first post in a series of engagements by Litmus authors, translators, and editors reflecting on the connection of their work to the ongoing struggle and violence, current and historical, in Palestine. Rooted in our commitment to creating and maintaining space for international exchange and dialogue, Litmus Press ...
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