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!
Will Alexander Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry by Beyond Baroque
Will Alexander has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry by Beyond Baroque!
LAMENT; Or, The Mine Has Been Opened Up Well @ Digital Trash
On show until DEC. 7, Digital Trash raises questions about what counts as “trash” and how digital technology is impacting the environment. Jennifer Scappettone and collaborators Abraham Avnisan and Judd Morrissey have an immersive installation in this show called LAMENT; Or, The Mine Has Been Opened Up Well. LAMENT is […]
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.
Nicole Trigg reviews Mary Burger’s Then Go On for Jacket2
In her new book Then Go On, Mary Burger explores how to occupy space and time with language and thought, how to expand the self, transgressing its borders, how to exhaust thought, how to suspend time and the self, and how to exceed language with itself. Read Review on Jacket2