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I Want to Make You SafeMichelle Gillett for The Rumpus reviews Amy King's I Want to Make You Safe.
January 14, 2012




I Want to Make You Safe
January 3, 2012




I Want to Make You Safe Poets & Writers features a video of Amy King reading "Lidija Dimkovska Has Made a Bomb of My Eyes," from I Want to Make You Safe.
January 3, 2012




I Want to Make You Safe Amy King's I Want to Make You Safe is #17 on Coldfront's list of Top 30 Poetry Books of 2011, with a short review by John Deming
January 1, 2012




Portrait of Colon Dash Parenthesis Logan Fry for Galatea Resurrects reviews Portrait of Color Dash Parenthesis by Jeffrey Jullich.
December 22, 2011




How Phenomena Appear to UnfoldPatrick James Dunagan for Galatea Resurrects reviews How Phenomena Appear to Unfold by Leslie Scalapino.
December 22, 2011




I Want to Make You SafeMichael Brodeur at the Boston Globe names Amy King's I Want to Make You Safe among the best poetry books of 2011
December 18, 2011




I Want to Make You SafeSally Rosen Kindred on ConnotationPress.com reviews Amy King's I Want to Make You Safe
December 2011




O BonPEN.org’s holiday round-up of small press releases mentions Brandon Shimoda’s O Bon
December 15, 2011




O BonJoshua Marie Wilkinson at The University of Arizona Poetry Center gives advance praise for Brandon Shimoda’s O Bon
November 2011




I Want to Make You Safe O BonSmall Press Distribution names I Want to Make You Safe by Amy King and O Bon by Brandon Shimoda as poetry best-sellers.
November - December 2011




I Want to Make You SafeThe French Exit gives early praise to I Want to Make You Safe by Amy King.
November 22, 2011




Bharat jivaCara Benson for Jacket2 reviews Bharat jiva by kari edwards.
"Bharat jiva a penultimate comment on the banality and glimmering potential holdout of humanity. Philosophy of philosophy, planetary biological religious cosmic consideration afloat on the tension of gerunds manifesting without always an I, yet I speaks (“did I not say”). There is agency in the dynamic vibrational circumstances through an accumulation of modifying phrases that eventually land on a sentence’s subject, but not always and not definitively, and the subject transmogrifies through sediment layering accumulation."
Click here to read the full review.
November 7, 2011




How Phenomena Appear to UnfoldNew Pages reviews How Phenomena Appear to Unfold.
"Longtime readers of Leslie Scalapino’s poetry and writings will appreciate this expansion of How Phenomena Appear to Unfold, a collection of some of Scalapino’s poetry as well as extensive coverage of her essays and critical writing."
Click here to read the full review.
September 1, 2011




How Phenomena Appear to Unfold Rob Mclennan reviews How Phenomena Appear to Unfold.
"The expansive nature of the project, which could have broadened further over years, is only one of many regrets such a volume can't help but contain, as well as an awe in the kind of work she'd been able to accomplish, adding further to the conversation of a number of writers and their works. When any writer dies, there is always the question of what we didn't know about, what works might not have yet appeared in print, a natural impulse against the fear of never seeing new work by that writer ever again. Throughout these essays, explorations, poems and prose-works, Scalapino unfolds, appears to unfold, and perhaps unfolds, one layer at a slowly time."
Click here to read the full review.
August 30, 2011




How Phenomena Appear to UnfoldThe Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art has aquired Petah Coyne’s “Untitled # 1336 (Scalapino Nu Shu)” (2009-2010) as the centerpiece of “The Big Reveal,” an exhibit of more than two dozen new acquisitions. It opens September 23, 2011.
Click here to read more.




How Phenomena Appear to UnfoldHow Phenomena Appear to Unfold is named a Small Press Distribution Non-Fiction Best-Seller.
April - June 2011




How Phenomena Appear to UnfoldThe Poetry Foundation's Harryette blog reviews Aufgabe 10:
"Litmus Press has just put out the tenth issue of its excellent journal Aufgabe, featuring contemporary French poetry and poetics in translation, guest edited by Cole Swensen. That’s in addition to plentiful reviews, essays, notes and poetry of other sorts. That TOC is chock full!"
Click here to read the full review.
August 2, 2011




How Phenomena Appear to UnfoldRob McLennan reviews Aufgabe 10.
August 1, 2011




How Phenomena Appear to UnfoldCharles Bernstein reviews How Phenomena Appear to Unfold by Leslie Scalapino for Jacket2:
"As always, Scalapino pushes beyond any easy sense of essay. What unfolds here is the startling unexpectedness of thought, articulated in visual and verbal forms that confound genre categories. In this book, Scalapino creates fields for thinking-as-perception, in which the poem emerges from the essay as counterpoint and newly forming foundation. The complex of disparate parts creates working models for a social formalism."
Click here to read the full review.

July 3, 2011




Jeffrey JullichJulia Jackson reviews the CLMP Face Out event for Electric Dish blog.
"What I gleaned from the evening: CLMP is doing a wonderful thing by giving talented, visionary writers from independent presses the exposure they deserve. The work that was showcased last evening was not mainstream by any means, but it was intelligent, thought-provoking, and diverse."
June 27, 2011



Akilah Oliver A reflection on Akilah Oliver's June 15, 2011 memorial at the Poetry Project.
June 16, 2011



Leslie ScalapinoThe Poetry Foundation's Harriet Blog on Leslie Scalapino's forthcoming poem-plays:
Worlds collide: Songwriter, composer, and professor Sarah Dougher is in the lineup at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival this fall, and she’ll be presenting Fin de Siècle, her musical interpretation of a set of three experimental poem-plays by renowned poet Leslie Scalapino (whose plays are collected in the 2008 volume, It’s go in horizontal).
Please click here for more on this event on September 14, 2011.
June 15, 2011



Kate ColbyKate Colby reads her work at the Litmus Spring Book Party.
Click here to watch an excerpt from Kate's reading.
June 10, 2011



BeauportAngela Veronica Wong for New Pages reviews Kate Colby's Beauport.
"These are poems of quiet beauty, wielding power through lovely simplicity. They wander through ideas and memories, they explore what is lost and what is learned in the process of becoming a person..." Read more...
April 2011



Beauport Steven Karl for H_NGM_N reviews Kate Colby's Beauport.
"A book that is both lyrical and conversational. A book that always feels in the present. There’s beautiful music througout... Ultimately, Beauport will set you adrift with beautiful imagery and haunting questions that will linger long after the book is finished..." Read more...
Issue 12, April 2011



ScalapinoScalapino During the Month of April:
Take advantage of our pre-release deal by ordering both of Leslie Scalapino's How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (in advance of its publication in May) and The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom (The Post-Apollo Press, 2010) for only $30. Through this deal, you’ll be buying Dihedrons and getting Phenomena for $1. Such a deal!




Roberto Harrison Watch Roberto Harrison read at Woodland Pattern Book Center as part of the Indigenous Writers Reading Series by Native Punx.
March 2011




Time of SkyTime of Sky & Castles in the Air is a finalist for the The Best Translated Book Award!
The winner will be announced on Friday, April 29, 2011 at 9 pm at the Bowery Poetry Club as part of the PEN World Voices Festival, with a celebration to follow.
March 2011




Beauport Portrait of Colon Dash ParenthesisBoth Beauport and Portrait of Colon Dash Parenthesis are finalists for the poetry Book of the Year Award!
ForeWard Review writes, "Representing more than 350 publishers, the finalists were selected from 1400 entries in 56 categories. These books are examples of independent publishing at its finest."
March 2011



Akilah OliverLitmus Press mourns the passing of Akilah Oliver.
February 2011



BeauportPublishers Weekly reviews Beauport.
February 2011



BeauportBeauport is named a Small Press Distribution Poetry Best-Seller
January, February, March 2011



Time of Sky Asymptote reviews Time of Sky & Castles in the Air.
January 2011




Jeffrey JullichJeffrey Jullich's offical website is now live at jeffreyjullich.com
December 10, 2010




ScalapinoLeslie Scalapino's offical website is now live at lesliescalapino.com

This site is a dedicated resource for information, news, writing & scholarship relating to Leslie Scalapino's life & work.
December 1, 2010




BeauportKelsey Street reviews Kate Colby's Beauport.
"Colby has a gift for making the ugly beautiful; the menacing exciting, glorious. Nothing is seen from one perspective but rather through multiple lenses, for both its darkness and elegance, shame and intrigue."
—Val Witte for Kelsey Street
November 30, 2010



Portrait of Colon Dash ParenthesisSycamore Review reviews Jeffrey Jullich's Portrait of Colon Dash Parenthesis.
"There is much more to be said of this astonishing book than I can put into this short review. If you want to read poetry that will fully engage you with wit, insight, and precise, inventive language, I highly recommend you get a copy of this book. It will not disappoint you."
— Eric Goddard-Scovel for the Sycamore Review
November 24, 2010



Szymaszek Vincent Katz introduces Stacy Syzmaszek for her reading at DIA: Chelsea
Read the complete introduction here.

November 18, 2010



Time of Sky New Pages reviews Time of Sky & Castles in the Air.
November 1, 2010




Mark TardiChopin with Cherries interviews Mark Tardi.
October 19, 2010



SzymaszekElective Affinities features Stacy Szymaszek.
August 30, 2010



JullichJeffrey Jullich discusses and reads poems from his new book,
Portrait of Colon Dash Parenthesis
.
August 24, 2010



Szymaszek Colby Iijima The Poetry Foundation has posted several new poems by Litmus Press authors including Stacy Szymaszek, Kate Colby, Brenda Iijima, and Jeffrey Jullich.
June 23, 2010



Leslie ScalapinoLESLIE SCALAPINO; 1944 – 2010
“Scalapino makes everything take place in real time, in the light and air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once.”
—Philip Whalen
May 28, 2010
For more, including events to remember and celebrate Leslie's life, please click here.



Aufgabe 9Two contributors from Aufgabe 9, Justyna Bargielska and Przemysław Owczarek, have been nominated for a major award in the poetry category in Poland. Please click here for more information.
May 20, 2010



Time of SkyTime of Sky & Castles in the Air is named a Small Press Distribution Poetry Best-Seller
April 2010



Bharat jivaCatherine Daly reviews Bharat jiva for New Pages.
"The book represents a leap in style, control and application of language, and scope of address and content over hir earlier works, disobedience, iduna, and a day in the life of p. For example, whereas obedience continually lists and refines those lists, working from inclusion and exhaustion, Bharat jiva has a huge scope, a generous posing of questions against lists..." Read the entire review here.
May 1, 2010



Time of SkyEileen Tabois reviews Time of Sky & Castles in the Air for Galatea Resurrection.
April 30, 2010.



Bharat jivaNo GenderTom Beckett and Eileen Tabois each seperately review Bharat jiva and NO GENDER for Galatea Resurrection.
April 30, 2010.



Portrait of Colon Dash ParenthesisJeffrey Jullich's Portrait of Colon Dash Parenthesis is recommended by
Small Press Distribution.
April 14, 2010



Bharat jivakari edwards' Bharat jiva is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.
Winners will be announced May 27, 2010.
March 16, 2010



NakayasuSawako Nakayasu is interviewed by David F. Hoenigman on Word Riot.
March 15, 2010



Bharat jivaNo GenderRobin Tremblay-McGaw blogged about Bharat jiva and NO GENDER
on X Poetics
February 27, 2010



YankelevichPennSound features Matvei Yankelevich
February 15, 2010



ScappettoneSzymaszekON: CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE NO. 2 features
Jennifer Scappettone and Stacy Szymaszek.
February 2010



Aufgabe8Sima Rabinowitz reviewed Aufgabe #8 for NewPages.
January 18, 2010



From Dame QuicklyAlan Ramon Clinton reviewed Jennifer Scappettone's From Dame Quickly for
BOOG City
60.
December 2009



Bharat jiva
CAConrad reflects on kari edward's Bharat jiva on PhillySound.
Mortified before kari's Bharat jiva.
November 27, 2009



Waldrop
Keith Waldrop wins the National Book Award.
Read the report on The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal,
Nomadics Blog
, Examiner, and more.
November 19, 2009



Aufgabe8Watch a video from the Aufgabe 8 release with Paolo Javier, Trace Peterson, and Matt Reeck.
November 10, 2009



Bharat jivaNo GenderTim Peterson reports on the book launch for kari edwards' Bharat jiva and NO GENDER on Mappemunde Blog.
October 14, 2009



Bharat jivaBharat jiva is named a Small Press Distribution Poetry Best-Seller
September / October 2009



HyperglossiaAnne Boyer reviewed Stacy Szymaszek's Hyperglossia on Books of Poetry
October 9, 2009




HyperglossiaKelly Ginger reviewed Stacy Szymaszek's Hyperglossia on Vol. 1 Brooklyn
September 12, 2009




Notebooks Dennis Cooper's The Weaklings reviews Danielle Collobert's Notebooks, 1956-1978.
September 3, 2009



HyperglossiaSusie DeFord interviews Stacy Szymaszek on Hyperglossia on Bomblog
August 3, 2009




Scappettone PennSound features Jennifer Scappettone



Szymaszek PennSound features Stacy Szymaszek



HyperglossiaListen to Stacy Szymaszek read from Hyperglossia at the Bowery Poetry Club.
May 30, 2009




HyperglossiaHyperglossia is named a Small Press Distribution Poetry Best-Seller.
May / June 2009



From Dame QuicklyFrom Dame Quickly is named a Small Press Distribution Poetry Best-Seller.
May / June 2009



Aufgabe 7J's Theater blog reviews Aufgabe 7.
April 21, 2009



AnimateJohn Bloomberg-Rissman reviews Animate, Inanimate Aims by Brenda Iijima for Galatea Resurrection.
December 17, 2008



AnimateThomas Fink reviews Brenda Iijima's Animate, Inanimate Aims for Jacket Magazine.
Autumn 2008



Emptied of All ShipsJulian T. Brolaski reviews Stacy Szymaszek's Emptied of All Ships in EOACH #4.
2008



FruitlandsKate Greenstreet from Bookslut interviews Kate Colby.
March 2008



FruitlandsKate Colby's Fruitlands wins the Poetry Society of America's
Norma Farber First Book Award
.

2007



AnimateSusan Bethany reviews Brenda Iijima's Animate, Inanimate Aims for Midwest Book Review.
November 2007



Four From JapanMatthew Henriksen reviews Four From Japan for The Poetry Project Newsletter.
October / November 2007



Four From JapanLaura Sims reviews Four From Japan for Rain Taxi.
Autumn 2007, Vol. 12 No. 3 (#47)



AnimateLeonard Schwartz interviews Brenda Iijima on Cross-Cultural Poetics, Show #146.
September 30, 2007



AnimateEvery Other Day reviews Brenda Iijima's Animate, Inanimate Aims.
September 1, 2007



Counter DaemonsKate Greenstreet from Every Other Day interviews Roberto Harrison on Counter Daemons.
August 29, 2007



FruitlandsKate Greenstreet from Every Other Day interviews Kate Colby on Fruitlands.
April 27, 2007



HyperglossiaListen to Stacy Szymaszek read from Hyperglossia at the
"Queering Language" Reading Launch

March 24, 2007



FruitlandsSommer Browning reviews Kate Colby's Fruitlands in CutBank.
March12, 2007



Four From JapanMidwest Book Review: Small Press Bookwatch reviews Four From Japan.
March 2007



Emptied of All ShipsDenise Nico Leto reviews Stacy Szymaszek's Emptied of All Ships in Xantippe 4/5.
2006 / 2007



Inner ChinaNatalie Stephens reviews Eva Sjödin's Inner China in Le Quartanier #6.
Autumn 2006



Emptied of All ShipsKate Greenstreet interviews Stacy Szymaszek for Every Other Day.
May 4, 2006



Emptied of All ShipsLaura Sims reviews Stacy Szymaszek's Emptied of All Ships in Jacket 28.
October 2005



Another Kind of Tenderness Lucas Klein reviews Xue Di's Another Kind of Tenderness for Rain Taxi.
Spring 2005, Vol. 10 No. 1



Another Kind of Tenderness Tom D'Evelyn reviews Xue Di's Another Kind of Tenderness for the Providence Journal.
February 13, 2005



Notebooks Esther Press reviews Danielle Collobert's Notebooks, 1956-1978.
August 3, 2004



NotebooksRain Taxi reviews Danielle Collobert's Notebooks, 1956-1978.
Summer 2004, , Vol. 9 No. 2

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