2024-11-15T11:22:27-08:00 2023-12-31 464721814 Zelin & Associates CPA LLC 555 8th Ave Ste 2203 New York NY 10018 990 2023-01-01 201637770 Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press ETHE 7182885530 925 Bergen Street 405 Brooklyn NY 11238 E TRACY GRINNELL Executive Director 2024-11-15 true true STEVEN ZELIN CPA P00737180 6466784496 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z E TRACY GRINNELL 925 Bergen Street 405 Brooklyn NY 11238 232889 false X www.litmuspress.org X NY LITMUS PRESS IS A PROGRAM OF ETHER SEA PROJECTS, INC., A 501(C)(3) NON-PROFIT LITERATURE AND ARTS ORGANIZATION. WE ARE DEDICATED TO PUBLISHING INNOVATIVE, CROSS-GENRE, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK BY POETS, WRITERS, TRANSLATORS, AND ARTISTS. 9 9 3 0 88408 191181 35275 36205 2765 4251 102 0 126550 231637 0 0 47974 77979 0 12859 106425 174576 154399 252555 -27849 -20918 26697 8104 5108 26697 2996 LITMUS PRESS IS A PROGRAM OF ETHER SEA PROJECTS, INC., A 501(C)(3) NON-PROFIT LITERATURE AND ARTS ORGANIZATION. 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Read #9 (digital), edited by Sarah Riggs and Alisha Mascarenhas (10 downloads)From A to Z (digital), Etel Adnan (unique visitors: 135) 44036 7241 Public Events -- Events curated by our editors and staff, free & open to the public 07/11: Memnoir virtual launch w/ Joan Retallack, Omar Berrada, Erica Kaufman (11 attendees/views)08/15: Hearing virtual launch with Lyn Hejinian, Eileen Myles, Renee Gladman, Myung Mi Kim, and others (405 attendees/views)09/06: Clamor reading w/ Hocine Tandjaoui, Olivia C. Harrison, Teresa Villa-Ignacio (31 attendees/views)11/28: Off-World Fairy Tales virtual conversation with authors Susan Bee & Johanna Drucker (65 attendees/views) 22018 Accessibility -- Educational Access to out-of-print titles & new teaching resources.We launched our second digital-critical edition in our open poetics series, a collaborative project with CUNY'S digital humanities program -- From A to Z by Etel Adnan. 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