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human/nature poems

Weaving intimate portraits of home with what could be the travel journals of a 21st-century troubadour, Tracie Morris’s human/nature poems is a hymn to the human and more-than-human world…
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Will Alexander

Will Alexander works in multiple genres. In addition to being a poet, he is also a novelist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, and pianist. His influences range from poetic practitioners, such as Aimé Césaire, Bob Kaufman, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Philip Lamantia, to the encompassing paradigm of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga..
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Featured Teaching Guide

Experimental Peformance Scenarios

Experimental Performance Scenarios provides an array of entry points to the featured works and their authors. These three texts explore the relationship between the written word and performance, and with this digital resource the works can be taught individually or as a collection…
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Posted April 05, 2023

New Teaching Resource: Experimental Performance Scenarios

We are pleased to share our newly published Litmus Teaching Guide, Experimental Performance Scenarios, a three-book reference map exploring the constellation of thinking around performance writing. For this guide, we have prepared discussion questions and generative prompts focusing on containment scenario: DisloInter MedTextId entCation: Horse Medicine by M. ...

Posted March 16, 2023

Shooting the Moon: I, Caustic and the Labor of Revolution

I, Caustic, the first English-language edition of Moroccan writer Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Moi, l’aigre (Éditions du Seuil, 1970), translated by Jake Syersak, raises a mobilizing cry against colonization and state violence, weaving drama, historical narrative, and literary manifesto together to incite revolution through poetics. The ...

Posted July 16, 2022

Feminist Bookstore News & The Post-Apollo Press

Part I: All the News... It arrived between four and six times a year, a 7-by-8.5-inch, saddle-stitched booklet with colored card stock covers printed in black ink, holding anywhere between 50 and 150 pages of feminist & queer nerd heaven. Feminist Bookstore News, a trade publication intended for book ...

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