punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion

SO LONG #Baltimore and THANK YOU for a great #AWP26!

VIVE les small, independent presses & literary magazines!

punctum authors AW Strouse and J+ Johnson signing their books at #AWP26 in #Baltimore: stay tuned for their forthcoming books THE GENTRIFIED CITY OF GOD: Queer & Medieval New York from 9/11 to COVID-19 & JANKY MATERIALITY, respectively.

VIVE les small, independent presses!

The post-it game is going strong at the punctum books booth at #AWP26 in #Baltimore!

VIVE les small, independent presses! (& #OpenAccess to boot)

punctum authors gather for a public reading at Light Street Library in #Baltimore during #AWP26.

Vive les small, independent (queer) presses! 🩷🔥🌈

Indeedy!

Livy Snyder, our Associate Director for Community Relations, is enjoying visiting all of the amazing publishers at #AWP26 in #Baltimore!

VIVE les small, independent presses!

Definitely! We need more small nonfiction books, nonfic chapbooks, etc. I've got piles of @uminnpress.bsky.social's Forerunners series because they're short, provocative, & inexpensive. And @punctumbooks.bsky.social's Dead Letter Office imprint rocks. More of this, please!

We also 🩷 kitten bros.

punctum author Lauren Samblenet @laurensamblanet.bsky.social signing copies of her FIERCELY RAD book LIKE A DOG at the punctum booth at #AWP26 in #Baltimore!

VIVE les small, independent presses!

A Forgotten Pioneer of AI, Recovered Through Poetry and Biography | Faculty of Arts and Sciences In their new book, James Dobson and Rena Mosteirin explore the elusive life of Frank Rosenblatt, whose groundbreaking invention laid the foundation for modern AI.

In “Perceptron” from @punctumbooks.bsky.social, @jeddobson.bsky.social and @renamosteirin.bsky.social explore the elusive life of Frank Rosenblatt, whose groundbreaking invention laid the foundation for modern AI.

punctum authors signing their books at #AWP26 in #Baltimore! With our co-director Vincent WJ van Gerven Oei:

(from left to right): AW Strouse, Vincent, Lauren Samblenet, Val Witte, and Sarah Rosenthal!

Vive les small, independent presses!

punctum books and @asterismbooks.bsky.social are in the house at #AWP26 in #Baltimore! Come by our booth if you’re there and browse books & pick up some Book F%#*ot & Book Dyke totes, plus stickers, pins, t-shirts, and bookmarks.

Vive les small, independent presses!

A Forgotten Pioneer of AI, Recovered Through Poetry and Biography | Faculty of Arts and Sciences In their new book, James Dobson and Rena Mosteirin explore the elusive life of Frank Rosenblatt, whose groundbreaking invention laid the foundation for modern AI.

We did a fun interview about our recent @punctumbooks.bsky.social book Perceptron, our research and writing process, and our fascination with and love for Frank Rosenblatt. Check it out! @renamosteirin.bsky.social fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/03...

GET YR PUNCTUM TOTE BAGS at our booth at #AWP26 in Baltimore.

#OpenAccess books RULZ. Queer Words Are Power.

If you're going to be at #AWP26 in Baltimore, we're exhibiting, so drop by our booth in the Exhibits Hall, and grab some Book F*#got & Book Dyke tote bags, plus stickers, pins, bookmarks and more!

QUEER WORDS ARE POWER! Avant-garde #OpenAccess publishing RULZ! HUZZAH for small, independent presses.

Huzzah!

YES, we have officially, and finally, left X/Twitter.

NO DUH!

Finally: Seek out stuff like the @punctumbooks.bsky.social vision statement. Academic writers need to get radicalized in their praxis, not just their theory.

punctumbooks.com/about/vision...

punctum books is BACK after a holiday hiatus & we have a new #OpenAccess book drop for you:

Lisa Samuels's IMAGINING WHAT WE DON'T KNOW, bringing together perception, ecology, community & quantum life, & featuring the art of Algeria, Australasia, the Caribbean & Oceania.

tinyurl.com/5cutbsyr

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!