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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, ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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
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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
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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 ...
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Feminist Bookstore News & The Post-Apollo Press
Part I: All the News... It arrived between four and six times a year, a 7-by-8.5-inch, saddle-stitched booklet with colored card stock covers printed in black ink, holding anywhere between 50 and 150 pages of feminist & queer nerd ...
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New Teaching Resource: on the poetics of kari edwards
We are thrilled to share the newest resource from our series of educational tools for instructors, students and general readers of experimental poetry. The poetics of kari edwards is a *free* Teaching Guide ...