Notes from the Portal: Berlin’s kari edwards Workshop & Gathering
This past month me and Berlin-based poet and educator emet ezell gathered writers at Berlin’s Hopscotch Reading Room to write alongside the work of experimental poet and trans-rights activist kari edwards. We met on the 2nd of December, both the birth- and death-day of edwards. Poetry is always spellwork of course, but some days the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Collective Reading & Generative Writing Workshop with Etel Adnan’s From A to Z
Litmus Press and CUNY Manifold present: From A to Z: Collective Reading & generative Writing Workshop w/ Alisha Mascarenhas Lindsey Boldt Sahar Khraibani Hazem Fahmy E. Tracy Grinnell a.Monti Register here Join us for a collective reading of Etel Adnan’s From A to Z: the digital-critical edition available on CUNY Manifold. The reading will […]
Standard American English – NYC Book Launch!
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18th Please join us for an East Coast book launch of EL_S_TH H__ST_ON aka Elisabeth Houston’s Standard American English (Litmus Press, 2022). Reading and performance by EL_S_TH H__ST_ON aka Elisabeth Houston aka baby. Doors at 7pm. Performance starts 7:30pm. @ FiveMyles 558 St Johns Place Brooklyn, NY TRANSLATION-NATION: “baby” is an alter-ego created […]
Translation as Invitation: a workshop & reading
Litmus Press + Torn Page present Translation as Invitation: a workshop & reading w/ Isabelle Garron Eléna Rivera & Sarah Riggs Sunday, April 3rd, 2-5 pm EST 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 […]
An Evening of Poetry for Etel Adnan: Light’s New Measure & Journey To Mount Tamalpais
Where are we? In the middle, at the beginning, the end? Who is we, is it you plus me, or something else expandable, explosive, the salt and pepper of our thoughts the something that may outlast our divinities? – Etel Adnan in There (The Post-Apollo Press, 1997) This Winter the Guggenheim presented Etel […]
Celebrating Aja Couchois Duncan’s Vestigial & Indigenous People’s Day | Alta Mesa Center for the Arts
Aja Couchois Duncan’s Vestigial, the follow-up to her 2016 Litmus book Restless Continent, was released on August 30th. To celebrate the launch of Vestigial—a poetic narrative “exploring evolution, biomedicine, gender, lust, climate change and loneliness”— Duncan joined poet James Thomas Stevens in a virtual reading and conversation hosted by the Alta Mesa Center for the […]