TRIPWIRE PAMPHLET SERIES

Neither a poetry chapbook or a typical poetry zine, this new series explores a range of (extra-)poetic materials, from short monographs/longer critical essays to collaborations around a theme/issue/site, from archival work to collaborative art-activist projects. Contributors are paid & print pamphlets will be cheap with free PDFs available upon publication. Forthcoming publications include work by Beatrice Martini and more—

Individual orders and subscriptions are available for present & future pamphlets. Several pamphlets available via Asterism Books as well.

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*after placing an order, please email us at tripwirejournal@gmail.com with your order number and which issues you would like! (Available in US only)

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#18 a methodology for placing poems in public space / una metodología para disponer poemas en el espacio público
by Contaminación cruzada

Contaminación cruzada is a poetic and artistic project that has installed poems and interventions in public spaces in Bogotá, Colombia, and New York. This dos-á-dos pamphlet documents their methodology for site-specific poetry and public space interventions. The poem-in-place is a way of writing in which language is offered to a charged site, open to being affected by the textures, formats, and political forces of the site where it is located. The poems in place occupy a spot, they hear it, they speak to it, they transform it. This bilingual publication offers ways to identify how a text can be in dialogue with public spaces, as well as an invitation for writers, artists, and activists to adopt the methodology themselves. FREE PDF

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#17 if
by Ghazal Mosadeq

A canary flies in Golestan Palace of the Qajars in Tehran as if unfolds through fragmented, interwoven narratives that consider the possibility of a bird narrating what it sees: three famines forced upon Iran; the forced unveiling of women; the partitioning of the country between dominant powers; and the nationalization of oil, leading to the coup against Mohammad Mosaddegh all appear as fragments left unresolved rather than explained, as if the bird were saying: you will not understand me, let’s keep it that way. This pamphlet is a section of a longer book that moves across a specific historical juncture in Iran, from the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1906–1911) to 1953, when a CIA–MI6 coup d’état ended years of gradual effort toward democracy and independence in Iran. FREE PDF

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#16 The Difficulties
by Haytham el-Wardany

If there is a centre around which the language of this pamphlet circulates, then it is Palestine. As this centre, Palestine enables a transformative power that persistently and steadfastly turns repression and silencing into solidarity. Essay-fiction, prose poetry, radical philosophy, speculative nonfiction — this uncategorizable collection of texts brings militant inquiry to each utterance, each narrative turn, in acts of transnational and transhistorical becoming. FREE PDF

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#15 Memories from Lecumberri Prison
by José Revueltas trans. Amy T. Pass

Excerpts from the prison diaries of José Revueltas, the Mexican author and dissident, imprisoned in the notorious Black Palace of Lecumberri prison after the revolts of 1968 in Mexico City. With photographs and an introduction by Matt Gleeson. FREE PDF

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#14 The Wasted Land
by Cait O’Kane

This documentary poem by Cait O’Kane is modeled after T.S. Eliot’s epic poem The Wasteland. It serves as a textual map of graffiti, narcotics, blight, & gentrification in the “changing neighborhood” of Kensington, Philadelphia. Once a working-class enclave, this section of Philly has been portrayed internationally as the epicenter of the so-called “opioid epidemic” enveloping the U$A. Punctuated by O’Kane’s photography, THE WASTED LAND moves through Kensington’s streets, avenues, & alleys, exploring intersections of capital, dispossession, development, & despair as the true epidemic plaguing its people. $3 US FREE PDF

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#13 Sometimes I Wonder if Fred Was Happy Here
by Adelaide Ivánova trans. Chris Daniels

A selection of 11 poems from Adelaide Ivánova’s chifre, which has been translated by Chris Daniels. Of chifre, Adelaide wrote: We are in the world in 2021, and a long-announced humanitarian crisis is wide open. In this scenario, in the midst of anguish and wreckage, how is it possible to think and make poetry? I do not have an answer to this question, but in chifre I tried to point toward ways to deal with the situation. […] chifre is a place of possibilities and, above all, an invitation to take a stand. $3 US FREE PDF

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#12 Five Stars: Selected Amazon Reviews, Volume 4 by Kevin Killian

Selected by Ted Rees & David Buuck, with introductory words from Kevin edited by Dodie Bellamy. Curated from the over 2500 reviews that William Hall has lovingly archived, this latest edition showcases Kevin’s incomparable mix of wit and sincerity, pleasure and playfulness, his deep love of popular culture, and his unique critical voice. 70pp, cover image by Anne McGuire. $5 US(shipping included). Free PDF.

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#11 RIMBAUD: a fragment
by Peter Weiss trans. Hunter Bolin

First English text by Weiss’ exploring revolutionary art and praxis. Free PDF.

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#10 A town, three cities, a fig, a riot, two blue hyacinths, three beginnings, five letters, a “death”, two solitudes, façades, four loose dogs, a doppelgänger, a likeness, three airport floors, thirty-six weeks… by Lotte L.S., four essays track politics/poetics through Marseille, Athens, Kyiv, & Great Yarmouth FREE PDF

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#9 all the boxes are empty
by Sara Uribe, trans. JD Pluecker

This bilingual manifesto insists on writing in, from, and with the body Free PDF.

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#8 The Processes, a Factographical Proem
by Peter Bouscheljong, trans. David Vichnar, Louis Armand & Tim König.

A dialectical poetics of radical history that asks what kind of resistance and poetry is possible under conditions of capitalist repression, if we do not simply want to return to everyday life? Synthesizing documentary poetics (the lives of George Jackson, Luxemburg, Verlaine, Pasolini, Anna Mendelssohn, Dalton, Vallejo, and others)with the capitalist alchemy of surveillance and repression, the long “proem” tracks the processes with which those in power react to the social struggles of political movements and the works of revolutionary poets. Free PDF

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#7 The Tricking Hour
by Irene Silt

Gathering columns written over the last two years by New Orleans-based sex worker Irene Silt for a local alt monthly, The Tricking Hour explores work, sex, criminalization, resistance, joy, solidarity and queer love in the alternative political economies of sex work. A fervently anti-capitalist missive through the intersectional lens of anti-work feminist praxis, where struggles for autonomy and survival are deeply embedded in gendered bodies clandestinely organizing new modes of political identity and rebellion. As Silt asks, “How do we use our bodies, each other, animals, objects in the world, without making claims of possession over them? How do we take our refusal so seriously that we do not return to business as usual—ever?” FREE PDF. ASSEMBLY-READY PDF.

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#6 Making Ruins
by Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber.

Published in conjunction with their exhibition at Republic Gallery, and their ongoing investigative work into architecture, public space, and collective memory, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber explore the legacy of architectural designs and debates in Skopje, Macedonia, where attempts to erase traces of the city’s sociaist history has resulted in uncanny conjunctures of nationalist ideologies, urban history, and attempts to stage such ruptures in the built environment. Making Ruins points to the corpses of architecture hidden away under foamy camouflage. FREE PDF

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#5 cardboard minutes // libro de cajas
by the Cartonera Collective

A bilingual history & manifesto of the Cartonera Collective and Cardboard House Press, which produces handmade bilingual books of Latin American poetry, using recycled materials in the tradition of Cartonera publishing. FREE PDF

Want to make your own copy? Download this PRINT-READY VERSION of the pamphlet & get some cardboard. Click here for instructions and click here to download the cover art. Also, you can check out this video to watch Andreia from Dulcinéia Catadora, São Paulo making a book using a very similar technique.

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#4 The Flame Through the Bridge: Notes and Transcripts from Improvised Interpreted Poem Performances, 2014-2019
by Antena Aire (Jen Hofer & John Pluecker)

This booklet collects numerous experiments in translation and performance from the language-justice group Antena Aire, with poems, prompts, performance notes, and photos! FREE PDF $3 US/$5 International (shipping included).

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#2, objetos indispuestos, inauguraciones suspendidas, o nales inevitables para un casi-balle (indisposed objects, suspended inaugurations, or inevitable endings for an almost dance) chronicles nibia pastrana santiago‘s performance interventions at and around the Whitney Museum of American Art, in collaboration with Eduardo F. Rosario and Daniela Fabrizi, with performance photos and scores as well as texts by Ren Ellis Neyra, Tung-Hui Hu, and guest curator Greta Hartenstein. 2019. FREE PDF $3 US (shipping included).

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#1 Post Dede Kyembot showcases the performance poetry of Fel Santos, organized by Paolo Javier & David Mason/Listening Center for the 2018 Queens Museum International Biennale. Essay, scores, photos, performance poems, and more! 2019. FREE PDF, $3 US (shipping included). 

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