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three fold mailing—fall 2025




An international mail art project and fundraiser celebrating five years of Three Fold Press with works for sale by more than 70 artists and poets fron across the country and overseas.

Friday, November 21 at 6 p.m.
Exhibition and sale goes live online on this page

6–9 p.m., Friday, November 21
November 22–30, 2025
Trinosophes
1464 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit
5–8 p.m., Friday & Saturday
December 5–6, 2025
Salt & Cedar
32 Rue Saint-Paul, Paris


“One publishes to find comrades”
–André Breton

This past summer, we invited nearly 200 of our published artists and poets to contribute to “Three Fold Mailing,”  an international mail art project inspired by the influential activities of Ray Johnson’s Correspondence School and Ken and Ann Mikolowski's Alternative Press (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1969–1999).

Three Fold asked its participants, including those who had previously conspired with the Alternative Press, as well as founder Ken Mikolowski himself, to create an uninstructed artwork on the front of a letterpress postcard, in the modality of their choosing (drawing, painting, collage, poem, proclamation, witticism, etc) and mail it to our Gratiot headquarters.

Donations raised from the exhibition will support a forthcoming print edition and amplify our capacity to provide honorariums for Three Fold poets, authors, artists and activists in issues to come.

Works by:
Will Alexander, Hangama Amiri, Nora Baroudjian, Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, WC Bevan, Nicole Brossard, Brandon Brown, Laynie Browne, Julia Callis, Norene Cashen, Jim Chatelain, Norma Cole, Michael Conboy, CA Conrad, Brenda Coultas, Lynn Crawford, David Craig, Zan de Parry, Johanna Drucker, Elaine Equi, Jennifer Firestone, Jonathan Flatley, Cal Freeman, Saffell Gardner, Marjolein Guldentops, Rachel Harkai, Barbara Henning, Lolita Hernandez, Bob Holman and Sono Kuwayama, Tony Hope, Juna Hume Clark  and Christine Hume, kim d. hunter, Nazifa Islam, Laura Larson, Michael Leong, Dong Li, Samantha Linn, Arel Lisette, Cary Loren, Garrett MacLean, Ericka McConnell and Kit Robinson, Philip Metres, Ken Mikolowski, Oona Mosna, Eileen Myles, Michelle Naka Pierce, A.L. Nielsen and Anna Everett, Megan O’Connell, Africanus Okokon, Jose Padua, Ted Pearson, Rachelle Rahmé, Jonathan Rajewski, Chris Riddell, Sarah Riggs, Eléna Rivera, Martha Ronk, Carly Sachs, Robert Sestok, Eleni Sikelianos, Cole Swensen, Stacy Szymaszek, Leyya Tawil, Dennis Teichman, Edwin Torres, Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Chris Tysh, Anne Waldman, Jocko Weyland, Maged Zaher



Founded in 2020, Three Fold is an independent quarterly based in Detroit that presents exploratory points of view on arts, culture, and society in addition to original works in various media, including visual art, literature, film and the performing arts. We solicit and commission contributions from artists, writers, and activists around the world. Trinosophes Projects [doing business as Three Fold Press]  is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with headquarters located in the historic Eastern Market district in downtown Detroit. Click here to check out Three Fold’s events page and view a schedule of the publication’s on-site activities.

Three Fold recognizes, supports, and advocates for the sovereignty of Michigan’s twelve federally-recognized Indian nations, for historic Indigenous communities in Michigan, for Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those who were forcibly removed from their Homelands. We operate on occupied territories called Waawiiyaataanong, named by the Anishinaabeg and including the Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe (Chippewa), Odawa (Ottawa), and Bodewatomi (Potawatomi) peoples. We hold to commit to Indigenous communities in Waawiiyaataanong, their elders, both past and present, and future generations.