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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Save the date! punctum author J †Johnson hits the stage on November 6th in Detroit! They will be reading from their new book Janky Materiality: Artifice & Interface!

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From Gavin Douglas’s 16th-century translation of the Aeneid & Bernadette Mayer’s "Memory" to John Wieners’s “A Poem for Painters” & Maya Deren’s experimental filmmaking & MORE in Peter Valente's SELECTED ESSAYS, 2019-2023. DOWNLOAD #OpenAccess book here: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5... #essays

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Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really really enjoyed this video essay (based on a forthcoming book from @punctumbooks.bsky.social) – a lot to think about! Video essay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgzh... Book: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...

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Parasocialism

YouTube video by Emperor No Clothes

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

LABYRINTHS continues Munro's gnomic-styled writings, described as "intellectual origami," "rooted in sweetness," with "lines of inquiry that auto-deconstruct, bridges crumbling as the author crosses them." DOWNLOAD the #OpenAccess book here: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5... #philosophy #poetics

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A revised version of that essay will be available in my next book, ASTERISKS, coming sometime next year from @punctumbooks.bsky.social: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...

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Asterisks — punctum books

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A reimagining of Virgil's ECLOGUES in an African landscape that evokes the troubled history of land dispossession in South Africa. PUBLISHED #OpenAccess: Richard Whitaker's AFRICAN PASTORAL: Versions of Virgil's Eclogues DOWNLOAD: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5... #poetry #Africa #eclogues #Virgil

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You can also order it from Asterism Books, our independent distributor.

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Part of the job requirement here at punctum books is to have killer taste in music 🤘

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Sonic Field @sonicfield.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Mariske Broeckmeyer’s forthcoming Unvoicing Migraine @punctumbooks.bsky.social examines how migraine can disrupt speech and vocal technique, turning the altered voice into material for what she calls “migraine opera.” sonicfield.org/unvoicing-mi...

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Unleash your inner migraine opera, where debilitating pain leads to vocal disintegration and a muting of the body. What might vocal failure reveal about the nature of the voice? What lies beyond migraine? Download: UNVOICING MIGRAINE: A STUDY OF THE FAILING VOICE punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What do Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Beethoven, Anton Bruckner, Alban Berg, Prince, Kurt Cobain & Tom Petty have in common? They're the main attractions in Arved Ashby's new book, MY 1980s GAYBOY PLAYLIST: erotic experience meets musical passion. Download FREE ebook here: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

awaiting dinner with my pal, b stephen harding, with new poetry titles by Aaron Rabinowitz, Alta Ifland, Benjamin Friedlander & Leigh Kotsilidis, // @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @gaspereaupress.bsky.social @punctumbooks.bsky.social ;

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Join punctum authors Arved Ashby and Jonathan Alexander tomorrow at Page Against the Machine! www.patmbooks.com

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

NEW #OpenAccess book drop: Jorge Luis Borges: At Play with Mental Models of the World, by Luis O. Arata Download FREE ebook edition here: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5... #EmbodiedCognition #mind #play #creativity #LiteraryStudies #ExtendedMind

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Eric J. Millar @outleteric.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New review up! The Poet as Experiencer, from @punctumbooks.bsky.social wethehallowed.org/the-poet-as-...

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The Poet as Experiencer

Eric J. Millar reviews The Poet as Experiencer: Wallace Stevens and Nonhuman Intelligence by Adam Staley Grove

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Have you ever wished you had a manual for exorcism? Luckily for everyone, we have just released the first-ever English translation of the 17th-century MALLEUS DAEMONUM ("The Hammer of Demons"). Spells included. FREE to download #OpenAccess edition: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5... You're welcome.

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New #OpenAccess book drop! AUTOTHEORY AND ITS OTHERS, a metacritical conversation that showcases this emergent genre’s diversity while also charting its multivalent future directions. FREE to download here: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5... #autotheory #memoir #meta

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Later Years of the CPUSA Reconsidered: a review of vol. 1 of RED LIVES: Our Years in the US Communist Party (1950-2000): mronline.org/2026/07/30/t... "Citing their own experiences, they show that the CP remained a significant influence on the country’s political development into the 1990s."

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The Later Years of the CPUSA Reconsidered - MR Online

The McCarthy Era and the controversies of the 1960s and 1970s might not seem terribly relevant to a new generation of activists. But the old questions remain, and the left still needs to confront them...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Very happy to have a piece in Autotheory and its Others, out now from @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

GRATEFUL to the Zurich University of the Arts Library for supporting us via the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social ! This is #library funding for #OpenAccess #Books in action. Every book we publish is a gift from libraries! 🥳 tinyurl.com/2j58z4hp

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Punctum Books Library Program Welcomes the Zurich University of the Arts

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 29/07/2026

"California is a death cult..." this was just recommended to me and i was pleasantly to surprised to see it's offered by @punctumbooks.bsky.social !! punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...

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The Case of California — punctum books

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Dissident sexualities and the rewiring of queer intimacies during a pandemic in 1980s Brazil: read the first English translation of Nestor Ponce's THE SPECTERS OF AIDS, released this week #OpenAccess! FREE to download here: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5... #LGBTQ #QueerHistory #Brazil

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"Weiskott takes us on an adventure using imaginatif. He reveals his “Inner Dream” through his word choice and through his own mortality." – Poetry Review: J. Michael Wahlgren Reads Eric Weiskott’s Collection Cycle of Dreams Read it here: heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/07/27/c...

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Poetry Review: J. Michael Wahlgren Reads Eric Weiskott’s Collection Cycle of Dreams

In Cycle of Dreams, Eric Weiskott presents this notion of an individual on a quest. It’s a common notion in literature to be on a quest, whether that quest be spiritual or a journey from one physic…

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Damn Jones @damnjones.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Shoutout to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social, @punctumbooks.bsky.social, @thirtywestph.com & The Operating System for providing free book PDF's for readers! Please take advantage of these incredible and generous resources - and please buy a book and/or donate to the author/press if you can.

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

What should I do? What's the right thing? In INNER CONFLICTS, Sana Sheikh brings her reader right to the center of what it is to live a feeling-filled inner, relational, and socio-political life, that is, a life with ambivalence. New #OpenAccess book drop; FREE to download: tinyurl.com/5e7kkk46

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Inner Conflicts — punctum books

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Reflecting on the life of Frank Rosenblatt, queer pioneer in early AI, in light of punctum book -- part poetry, part cultural biography -- on Rosenblatt's legacy, PERCEPTRON, by James Dobson and Rena Mosteirin: www.ronslate.com/frank-rosenb... DOWNLOAD book here: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...

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“Frank Rosenblatt in Passing: The Rebirth of the Mimetic Impulse” – On the Seawall

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

How might the inarticulate (or inarticulable) communicate in the sounds of poetry? And how might poetry teach us to attend to what is beyond language or even beyond figuration? NEW #OpenAccess book drop! Jocelyn Saidenberg's ECHO OTHERWISE. FREE download here: tinyurl.com/2zv8smuj #poetry #verse

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Echo Otherwise: A Poetics of Sound and Loss in Ancient and Contemporary Poetry — punctum books

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

WE'RE 15! punctum books, a SCHOLAR-led & QUEER-led press, was founded on April 1, 2011 and we’ve been fighting for the weird & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since. 500+ books and counting! Help us celebrate by becoming a subscriber! punctumbooks.com/support/ #GIVE #DONATE #BOOKS

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

GRATEFUL to the Newcastle University Library for supporting us via the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social ! This is #library funding for #OpenAccess #Books in action. Every book we publish is a gift from libraries! 🥳 tinyurl.com/3xpubkez

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Punctum Books Library Program Welcomes the Newcastle University Library

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026

I recorded this ages ago for my peers and colleagues at @punctumbooks.bsky.social. There's several 5" lathes for the staff. I need to figure out getting to them, but in the meantime, I thought I'd share it digitally, given the whole context. hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/album/bump-o...

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bump onto suck, by kevin sanders

1 track album

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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Cody Mejeur @cmejeur.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

So excited to read this! If you’ve been waiting to snag your free or physical copy of what we’re lovingly calling HOGS, now’s a great time!

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

GRATEFUL to the University of Stavanger Library for supporting us via the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social ! This is #library funding for #OpenAccess #Books in action. It takes a community & every book we publish is a gift from libraries! 🥳 tinyurl.com/39y9wh8e

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Punctum Books Library Program Welcomes the University of Stavanger Library

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

In today's 'Things You May Not Have Realised', the OBC and its publisher members are so committed to bibliodiversity, we even have a text in Klingon in our catalogue! May we present @punctumbooks.bsky.social's 'paq'batlh: The Klingon Epic'!

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paq'batlh: The Klingon Epic

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Maria Galli Stampino's review essay "History, Autobiography, Mythography: Luisa Passerini's Writings" in Italian Americana XLIII, No. 2, discusses "In Defense of Don Giovanni. A Feminist Mythobiography" by Luisa Passerini (@punctumbooks.bsky.social). scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/artic...

Cover of Italian Americana: Cultural and Historical Review, Volume XLIII, Issue 2, Summer 2025
Title text on a white rectangle overlaid onto two black and white photographs: one of a brick building and one of a group of people. Below the title, a green bar with issue information and to the left, a red border.

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Sonic Field @sonicfield.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Jocelyn Saidenberg’s Echo Otherwise, published by @punctumbooks.bsky.social, listens to sound and loss across ancient and contemporary poetry. Open access, free PDF: 🐚 sonicfield.org/echo-otherwi...

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