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Montez Press Holiday Sale
Montez Press is having a Holiday Sale, 50% off selected items. All US orders must be placed before Friday 6th December to arrive for the Holiday Season and all UK/EU orders must be placed by the 18th [removed];
→ Take part in our sale here
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Prepositions by Timmy Simonds & Aaron Lehman: Book Launch
Montez Press is pleased to invite you to the launch of Prepositions, an artist book by Timmy Simonds and Aaron Lehman, on Saturday 7th December from 6:30pm at The Performing Garage, NYC. The night will feature readings from artists and writers Timmy Simonds, Aaron Lehman, Ona Lindquist, Bethany Ides, Thom Donovan, Malcolm Peacock, and Assembly, and will also be broadcast live on MPR.
Prepositions enacts a distinction between what language says and what it does. A catalogue of exercises, interviews, essays and creative explorations, this workbook-compendium invites the reader to investigate how we practise empathy, understanding, and contact, by learning and teaching all at once. Building on the archive of Montez Press Radio show Tongue and Cheek, and featuring work from Assembly, CAConrad, Thom Donovan, Joseph Grigely, Bethany Ides, Thomas Laprade, Shaun Leonardo, Ona Lindquist, Ben Morgan-Cleveland, and Malcolm Peacock, Prepositions asks us what active and embodied participation really means, not just in teaching, but across a whole life.
→ Book your free tickets to the launch on Saturday December 7th
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December Interjection: Four Poems – Cheryl Clarke
Poet, critic, and activist Cheryl Clarke was born in Washington, DC. She earned her BA from Howard University and her MA and PhD from Rutgers University. Clarke recently published Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems (2024) and is the author of five collections of poetry: Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women (1983), Living as a Lesbian (1986), Humid Pitch (1989), Experimental Love (1993), and By My Precise Haircut (2016), which won a Hilary Tham Capital Competition. She wrote the critical study “After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (2005), and a volume collecting her poetry and prose was published as The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980–2005 (2006).
Clarke served as editor for Conditions, an influential journal of lesbian feminist literature. Many of Clarke’s most influential essays, including “Lesbianism: an Act of Resistance” and “The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community,” first appeared in landmark publications such as This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981) and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983).
All of Clarke’s writings advocate for queer communities of color, paying attention to the social implications of language and labels and the possibilities of art and activism to stage resistance to dominant culture.
Clarke was an influential administrator and teacher at Rutgers for more than 40 years. She founded the Office of Diverse Community Affairs and Lesbian-Gay Concerns, which became the Office of Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, and retired as the Livingstone Dean of Students in 2013. For her service to LGBTQ communities, Clarke received a David Kessler Award. She currently lives in Hobart, New York, where she owns and operates Blenheim Hill Books with her partner, Barbara J. Balliet.
→ Read Cheryl’s writing here
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Pre-orders available for the next issue of Pfeil Magazine #18 – Body
From its anatomy and autonomy to its death and diet, this issue focuses on the motif Body and all its meanings, direct and indirect, for instance as in relation to human and non-human bearers of bodies, its inhabitants like bacteria and organs, its social, medical and juridical conditions, its intoxications, chemical processes, traumas, transitions, well-being, replacements, weaknesses, and its opposites.
Featuring contributions by Adam Dickinson, Andrea .va Győri, [removed] Steiner, Alexandra Ivanciu, Barak Zemer, Bernhard Willhelm, Clara Lena Langenbach, [removed] Bedos, Constance DeJong, Daisy Hildyard, Fanny
Howe, Hanne Loreck, Hasti, Holly Hunter, Ingrid [removed], Jannis Marwitz, Jess Arndt, Johannes Kuczera, Jolanta Nowaczyk, Henriette Maier, Mag Gabbert, Maja Smrekar, Manuel Vason, [removed] Germain, Rebekka Endler, and Sonja Yakovleva.
Edited by Anja Dietmann and Nina [removed];
→ Preorder Pfeil #18 – Body here
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London! Join MPR After Hours for our last party of the year at Ormside Projects on 19th December from [removed];
Featuring performances from Vivienne Griffin & Zach Toppin, angelicaa, Chanel Vegas, Jeanie and The White Boys with DJ Sets from Tom Rasmussen and closing out the night with [removed];
Free tickets are available, however, please consider purchasing a pay what you can ticket to support MPR and the artists we work [removed];
→ Get your tickets to MPR After Hours
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