Youmna Chlala on Multilingualism, Text & Image in The Paper Camera
Here’s a snippet from Mónica de la Torre’s interview of Youmna Chlala at BOMB Magazine: Mónica de la Torre: You’re a polyglot working with multiple languages—verbal (French, English, Arabic), two-dimensional (drawing, photography, film), and three-dimensional (performance, sculptures, installations). You bring some of these together in The Paper Camera, which intersperses film stills of urban exteriors and […]
Experimental Writing and Beyond — Joan Retallack Interviewed at Place
The following is an excerpt from Jan Baetens’ interview with Joan Retallack, “Experimental Writing and Beyond An interview with Joan Retallack,” in the January 2021 issue of Place magazine. Baetens: …[Y]ou repeatedly draw attention to a certain analogy between scientific experimentation and poetic writing. The scope of this analogy seems clear, but what are the […]
BOSCH’D – A Dialogue in the Swamp w/ Retallack, Moten, de la Torre, and Gander
Joan Retallack’s poetry collection, BOSCH’D—fables, moral tales & other awkward constructions, reminds us of the beauty that can be found when relinquishing what we can’t control and of the rejuvenation that comes from realizing the possibility of our own actions. My journey through the many worlds of BOSCH’D began with a digital launch recording hosted […]
Off-World Fairy Tales — Now Available at SPD
Off-World Fairy Tales has landed! Susan Bee and Johanna Drucker's third collaboration brings together Bee's vibrant, playful collages with Drucker's speculative poetic stories for intrepid readers of all ages.
Announcing the results of Our 2020 Open Call
Litmus Press is thrilled to announce the two manuscripts chosen for publication from our 2020 Open Call for First and Second Books!
AAWW “Cities of the Future” Reading with Chlala, Foster, and Gladman
"Cities of the Future" features Youmna Chlala, Sesshu Foster, and Renee Gladman at the Asian American Writers Workshop
Aufgabe, 2001–2014 (ed. E. Tracy Grinnell et al.) | Jacket2
Aufgabe, 2001–2014 (ed. E. Tracy Grinnell et al.) The task of recounting the work of Aufgabe is formidable. Founding editor E. Tracy Grinnell initiated the magazine in the Bay Area in 1999. Over the next fifteen years, Aufgabe has featured seventy editors, roughly 700 writers, nearly 150 translators, and twenty artists from twenty-three countries. The […]
natural death, co-elaboration, & the change is the change: E. Tracy Grinnell on the end of Aufgabe
Litmus Press editor E. Tracy Grinnell reflects beautifully on the life and (natural) death of Aufgabe and the possibilities of exchange and transformation in poetic communities on the Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet.