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Featured Open Poetics Edition

Memory Play

Originally published by Leslie Scalapino’s O Books in 1994, Carla Harryman’s visionary experimental performance work will be released in April in an expanded, open-access digital edition with multimedia resources that offer historical and critical context for the work. …
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Featured Author

Danielle Collobert

Iconic French writer Danielle Collobert kept a journal for a 22-year period from age 16 in 1956 to the end of her life in 1978. Forthcoming this year, the second edition of her Notebooks restores passages in the journals that were left untranslated and unpublished in the first English-language edition from 2003. …
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Featured Translator

Teresa Villa-Ignacio

Co-editor of Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics, Villa-Ignacio has translated Anne-Marie Albiach’s The Mezzanine, forthcoming from Litmus Fall 2026 …
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New & Noteworthy

Yes, I Am A Destroyer
By Mira Mattar
ERODE
By Biswamit Dwibedy
The Unlikeness of Things
By Virginie Poitrasson
Translated by Michelle Noteboom

New from The Ether Sea

Posted October 30, 2025

"Taking the measure of instability": An Exchange with Virginie Poitrasson and Michelle Noteboom on The Unlikeness of Things

Clarise Reichley: As I was reading and re-reading The Unlikeness of Things over the past weeks, so many of the themes unraveled across the book have been synchronistically appearing in my own life and the other texts I’m reading. In Unlikeness, the speaker’s attentiveness to things reminded me of Francis ...

Posted December 18, 2024

An Interview with Burcu Sahin and Jennifer Hayashida on Embroideries

To celebrate the poetry debut Embroideries by Burcu Sahin, translated from Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida, Litmus Press intern Dahlia Olivo interviewed Sahin and Hayashida on writing, crafting, translating and finishing the collection. Plus, some advice for young writers and translators! Read more below. ...

Posted December 03, 2024

Adnan's Voyage, War, and Exile

This is the third 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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