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New blog post up on our website Rewatch the virtual launch event for our first digital-critical edition of Joan Retallack's Memnoir with readings by Retallack, Omar Berrada and erica kaufman. Memnoir was published as part of our new open-resource series Open Poetics. Find out more about Open Poetics, our work with CUNY Manifold and all things Memnoir over at our website. https://bit.ly/3GSploK... #openpoetics #openresource #freepoetry #pedagogy #experimental #poetics #poetrycommunity #joanretallack #omarberrada

Onward we go! Happy New Year from Litmus Press - https://mailchi.mp/litmuspress.org/support-us-5471298

...from kari edward's (O Books, 2003). We are so thrilled to begin working on our next teaching guide, which will focus on two books by kari edwards: and (Litmus Press, 2009). The guide will be co-curated by Julian Talamantez Brolaski, erica kaufman, and the Litmus staff, offering points of entry into the radical poetics of a vital queer foremother.... The Litmus Teaching Guides are a free resources designed to make academic work a bit easier for those who teach and study experimental poetry. Find out more on our website and browse through the guides, including most recently the poetry of Aja Couchois Duncan and Etel Adnan. https://litmuspress.org/resources/teaching-guides/ #pedagogy #poetry #experimental #kariedwards #visualpoetry #transpoetics#openresource #learning #poetrycommunity

Back in print!! Etel Adnan's *In/somnia* has arrived & joins the 2nd expanded edition of *Journey to Mount Tamalpais*... Get them both with our Journey to Mount Tamalpais +1 book bundle: https://litmuspress.org/shop/ #EtelAdnan #backinprint

On Monday, the Guggenheim hosted an evening of virtual readings in memory of our beloved Etel Adnan. Artists in our community -- Ammiel Alcalay, Omar Berrada, Anne Waldman, and others -- read from Adnan's incredible oeuvre, and spoke about their experiences knowing her and learning from her. A complete video recording of the event is available at this link. #EtelAdnan #Guggenheim #LightsNewMeasure #Poetry #Writing #Painting #Experimental #JourneyToMountTamalpais https://bit.ly/3GwCwM7

BODY WAS is an SPD Handpicked title 20% OFF for the month of January!! https://www.spdbooks.org//CategoryCen/HDPK/Handpicked.aspx #IsabelleGarron #ElénaRivera #translation #Frenchpoetry #poetry #sale

Tonight: An Evening of Poetry for Etel Adnan. Join us in the celebration of Etel Adnan as read by Ammiel Alcalay, Omar Berrada, Stephen Motika, Asiya Wadud, and Anne Waldman. 6.30pm EST livestreamed via the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ... Merci, Etel. https://bit.ly/3GhvZF0

A new end, a new beginning: only a few days left of Etel Adnan: Light's New Measure on at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Join us for the virtual closing event on January 10th, featuring Ammiel Alcalay, Omar Berrada, Stephen Motika, Asiya Wadud, and Anne Waldman, who will read selections from Adnan’s writings alongside their own work.... In this moment of thresholds we are also celebrating the 2nd edition of Journey to Mount Tamalpais, featuring new drawings by Etel. The event is organized by the Academy of American Poets (@poetsorg) and the Guggenheim, and will be livestreamed and free link in our bio to register for a tune-in reminder! __ First Slide: Exhibition View, Etel Adnan: Light's New Measure, Guggenheim Second Slide: Etel Adnan in Journey to Mount Tamalpais (Litmus Press, 2021) #EtelAdnan #Guggenheim #LightsNewMeasure #Poetry #Writing #Painting #Experimental #JourneyToMountTamalpais

Mark your calendars: January 10th we celebrate Etel Adnan with a poetry reading on the closing of her Guggenheim exhibition, Light's New Measure. With readings by Ammiel Alcalay, Omar Berrada, Stephen Motika, Asiya Wadud, and Anne Waldman. Originally planned as an in-person event, this reading will now take place virtually and is free to attend. Follow the link to register: https://www.guggenheim.org//an-evening-of-poetry-for-etel-. #EtelAdnan #Guggenheim #poetryreading #exhibition #painting #paintingandpoetry

As this year is closing we are looking back at five extraordinary boxes we had the pleasure of opening: (If there is one thing small presses do, it is opening and closing cardboard boxes! ) by Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino by Hocine Tandjaoui (trans. by Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa-Villa Ignacio) by Aja Couchois Duncan... by Isabelle Garron (trans. By Eléna Rivera) And finally, by Etel Adnan In addition to these titles we published our first digital-critical edition of: by Joan Retallack As well as a new teaching guide on Aja Couchois Duncan’s Poetry. These last two resources are freely accessible and re-orient some of our work as an independent publisher around the classroom as a site for keeping experimental poetry alive and thriving. We are proud to have continued publishing throughout these tumultuous months, enabling work that is challenging, transformative and non conformist, prioritizing the depth of reader engagement over the expectations of an economic bottom line. Experimental publishing is has always been precarious and this year we are especially grateful for the community of poets, editors, translators, readers, teachers and supporters, who have sustained us and the labor of our poets and book workers. It is because of you that we can continue doing what we do best: open the boxes to anti-capitalist, feminist, hybrid poetry experiments. Thank you all and see you on the other side! #independent #publishing #lookback #yearreview #2021 #poetrycommunity

Something to keep in your back pocket for Spring course prep: a guide to teaching Aja Couchois Duncan's poetry. https://bit.ly/3GO5DKp #pedagogy #experimentalwriting #poetics #teachingresources #educationalresources #poetrycommunity #ajacouchoisduncan

Bittersweet arrival of the second edition of Journey to Mount Tamalpais. Opening the first box we were nearly bowled over by its beauty.* Thank you to HR Hegnauer for the design, thank you to Omar Berrada for this love letter of an Afterword on the book as a love letter to a mountain, thank you to Simone Fattal for trusting us with this work first published by The Post-Apollo Press, and thank you to Etel for everything. *almost just wrote: "by the beauty of its beauty"!! Ava...ilable via SPD starting tomorrow. Also available via Litmus Press with a 2022 Sustaining or Friend membership, or in our Poetry & Art book bundle: https://litmuspress.org/support-us/membership/ https://litmuspress.org/product/poetry-art/ https://litmuspress.org/product/journey-to-mount-tamalpais/

Calling all friends of poetry and independent publishing. Our deal with the @poetry_project is still valid until the end of this year! Get a membership with Litmus Press by December 31st to receive this and many more perks (more details in our most recent newsletter, link through bio!) Our members help us continue to do what we’ve been doing for the last 20+ years: publishing vital works by early-career poets whose experimentalism places them at odds with the mainstream... literary market, and keeping the discourse alive around historic texts by key feminist writers who face the risk of cultural erasure. Purchasing a Litmus membership at any level helps sustain and increase our efforts to produce, promote, and distribute forthcoming publications and free literary resources. #independent #publishing #poetry #experimental #alternative #feminist #poetrycommunity #readers

Our End-of-the-Year Newsletter is up an out! Catch up with Litmus Press and read more about: > Etel Adnan's legacy > New resources for readers and teachers... > 2021 Highlights > Memberships with Litmus Press https://bit.ly/3xRbtay #litmuspress #endofyear #poetry #membership #support #alternative #independent #publishing #poetrycommunity