punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion

Our Director is just returned from the #MLA26 meeting in Toronto where she wore this coat designed by a young Greenlander designer (label: Isaksen).

Never mind whether His Orange 🍊 Highness wants Greenland. Greenland should be returned to Greenlanders. We are all Greenlanders now.

Elmo had to be IV-ed at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto after giving out too many hugs during #MLA26. Please give Elmo space at this time so he can keep hugging. We need his hugs right now. #catastrophe

And a wonderful time was had by all at #MLA26 in Toronto! Next year: MLA Los Angeles! Next stop: #AWP26 in Baltimore in March!

Never forget to FIGHT THE VANILLA ACADEMIC-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX.

#FuckICE

We promise we will!

Elmo is reading a punctum book at #MLA26 in Toronto. Why aren’t YOU?!?

Come visit us at Booth 402 in the Exhibits Hall for an Elmo HUG, to browse books, talk book ideas, get some swag, and never forget:

FIGHT THE ACADEMIC-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

#OpenAccess #SOLIDARITY

HUGS. Your book sold out on Day 1 of MLA, btw!

Stay safe.

Come visit our booth at #MLA26 in #Toronto! Books with genres so weird they can’t be described, Book Faggot totes, bookmarks, stickers, pins & we also have an emotional support Elmo for anyone who needs an #Elmo hug.

#OpenAccess

punctum director Eileen Joy has her #MLA26 cufflinks on & is headed to the books exhibition for opening day. Good morning #Toronto!

Amerikkka is now fully authoritarian. Frogs in boiling water, get yer asses out of the pot. Especially the albino frogs. Stand up and deliver. & thank you W. Kamau Bell.

Poet, novelist, translator & scholar, Ammiel Alcalay’s intrepid work has always moved across geographic, chronological, political & linguistic borders.

"FOLLOW THE PERSON": Archival Encounters now published #OpenAccess & FREE to download:

tinyurl.com/ykeh7ebz

#poetry #activism #language #history

Get ready, Toronto. punctum is on the ground for #MLA26 & we’re setting up our books exhibit! We’re bringing limited edition Book Faggot tote bags, bookmarks, stickers, pins & of course BOOKS!

Keep it weird at MLA, keep it punctum, and never stop fighting the vanilla academic-industrial complex!

WORD. #AbolishICE

Indeed and well deserved.

Thank you. Just, thank you.

2/ Every person in our country at any time, with or without “papers,” is a fellow human being deserving the utmost of our care, kindness, and respect. But whiteness is also a scourge in our country. We must work harder to eliminate whiteness as a criteria for anything good. We must betray whiteness.

1/ We are not a country that respects the dignity of human beings, at home or abroad. There are no “illegals,” only citizens of Kristevas’s shaggy cosmopolis. Everyone should be at home when they leave home. This isn’t just about #Minneapolis.

FUCK @DHSgov & FUCK @ICEgov.

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Are you going to be at the #MLA26 convention in #Toronto this week? punctum books will have a booth & we would love to see you. Come by to browse & buy books, chat with our creative director about book ideas & grab some swag: Book Faggot tote bags, bookmarks, pins, stickers & more! #OpenAccess

Poet, novelist, translator & scholar, Ammiel Alcalay’s intrepid work has always moved across geographic, chronological, political & linguistic borders.

"FOLLOW THE PERSON": Archival Encounters now published #OpenAccess & FREE to download:

tinyurl.com/ykeh7ebz

#poetry #activism #language #history

Are you going to be at the #MLA26 convention in #Toronto this week? punctum books will have a booth & we would love to see you. Come by to browse & buy books, chat with our creative director about book ideas & grab some swag: Book Faggot tote bags, bookmarks, pins, stickers & more! #OpenAccess

This should be the playlist for Amerikkka 2026.

As we skip together into the fresh hell of 2026, why not become a punctum subscriber and help us to publish & globally distribute open books that would not find a welcoming port elsewhere. Cause weird. Hashtag Keep It Weird.

punctumbooks.com/support/

#GIVE #books #OpenAccess #DONATE

With ONE day to go before we all lunge into the fresh hell of 2026, why not become a punctum subscriber and help us to publish & globally distribute open books that would not find a welcoming port elsewhere. Hashtag "keep it weird."

punctumbooks.com/support/

#GIVE #books #OpenAccess #DONATE

a man with a bandage on his arm is sitting in a chair and says fine ALT: a man with a bandage on his arm is sitting in a chair and says fine

James Caan stuffing matches, knives, lighter fluid, and paper clips into his sweatpants in #Misery is all of us in America right now.

I recur a donation to a press/arts org for a year each year. I'm leaning into @punctumbooks.bsky.social for 2026 bc they are open source, para-academic, v transparent processes + had a weird visual essay published by them in a collection called Bodies That Remain years back and gave me #confidence

Wow. Thank you so much. 🩷

Congratulations @princetonupress.bsky.social for being part of the problem.

As @punctumbooks.bsky.social note, "“academy-owned” [publishing] makes claims on the exclusivity of knowledge production w/in established academic institutions[...]implying a strict adherence to the same precepts of property & patriarchy that underpin the “neoliberal” regime" doi.org/10.21428/ae6...

a man in a suit and sunglasses is sitting in front of a bookshelf and says the library is open . ALT: a man in a suit and sunglasses is sitting in front of a bookshelf and says the library is open .

Please Sir, is there anything left over for punctum books?

This holiday season, why not give #OpenAccess books to the world by becoming a punctum subscriber? For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help to build a global library of books so weird no genre can contain them!

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