one is in space / one is in time: an online Reading and generative Writing Workshop
We’re thrilled to invite you to “one is in space and/ one is in time:” an online Launch of the digital-critical Edition of Leslie Scalapino’s It’s go in/ quiet illumined grass/ land in collaboration with CUNY Manifold, Litmus Press and guest editor Małgorzata Myk. This launch will be accompanied by writing prompts and discussion questions, […]
24-Hour International Reading, Organizing, and Direct Aid
International Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine On November 25th, we gather writers from around the world for a 24-hour reading in support of Palestinian writers, Palestinian voices in diaspora, and their allies. We gather in the spirit of fundamental respect for life and liberation. As individual poets, artists & writers, and […]
Call for Indigenous LGBTQ2SIA+ poetry
Editors Crisosto Apache and Julian Talamantez Brolaski are excited to announce a call for submissions for a new volume of Indigiqueer / two-spirit poetry, tentatively titled Gathering in the Glittering Field: Indigenous Two-Spirit Poetry. This will be the first volume of poetry dedicated entirely to the work of Native LGBTQ2SIA+ poets. We are honored to […]
Our Newest eBook: It’s go in/ Quiet illumined grass/ Land by Leslie Scalapino.
We’re thrilled to be launching our third eBook, It’s go in/ Quiet illumined grass/ Land by Leslie Scalapino – out now! This publication is part of Open Poetics Series 1: our series of free, digital-critical editions designed for readers, scholars, students and teachers. It’s go in/ Quiet illumined grass/ Land is a book-length poem, first […]
Introducing: A Guide to Teaching Standard American English by Elisabeth Houston
We are enthusiastically announcing the release of our newly published Litmus Teaching Guide, for Standard American English, the debut book by EL_S_TH H__ST_ON aka Elisabeth Houston, a writer and multidisciplinary artist, who brings her readers into the world of baby, a persona she has been developing in performance contexts for nearly a decade. In performance, Houston […]
Alchemy of Species: on Will Alexander’s The Coming Mental Range
For Will Alexander, philosophy “means inquiry into the broadest view, into the most encompassing range, taking into account the known and what is considered to be the unknown.” This malleable and generous approach is also what animates the writer’s poetics, defined by the understanding that “poetry is aboriginal utterance.” The convergence of these two principals […]
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. Mara-Ann (O Books 2009), The Supposium: Thought […]
Celebrating The Cloud Notebook by Ada Smailbegović in NYC and Providence
Can a sky or a shape that moves at another pace or rhythm be a kind of memorial for another that moves at a pace yet faster or slower than itself? — The Cloud Notebook Brimming with precise and expansive reflections on history, memory, ecology, The Cloud Notebook is finally here! The debut collection […]
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 work battles against political oppression during Morocco’s “Years of Lead,” a […]
From A to Z: Recordings, Reading Groups!
This past November we celebrated the launch for Etel Adnan’s From A to Z: the digital-critical edition with a collective reading and generative writing workshop. The event featured guest editors Alisha Mascarenhas, Lindsey Boldt and Sahar Khraibani as well as Litmus editors E. Tracy Grinnell and a.Monti and Litmus fellow Hazem Fahmy. Scroll down to watch a […]