Three Fold https://threefoldpress.org Three Fold Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:20:01 +0000 https://threefoldpress.org en index https://threefoldpress.org/index Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:45:48 +0000 Three Fold https://threefoldpress.org/index three fold—spring 2026 <img width="2251" height="1336" width_o="2251" height_o="1336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a35b9cccddc99aaf4c106e6e8a517234687fa67abc15bf06d02e4cdd2d8ab75c/Screenshot-2026-03-25-at-1.32.42PM-1.jpeg" data-mid="246495394" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a35b9cccddc99aaf4c106e6e8a517234687fa67abc15bf06d02e4cdd2d8ab75c/Screenshot-2026-03-25-at-1.32.42PM-1.jpeg" />Courtesy Arthur Shenian. All Rights Reserved Մենք եւ Սենեակը The Room and Us By Arthur Shenian, translated by Tamar Marie Boyadjian Before she leaves, I feel the urge to say a few heartfelt words to her: You are my life. You are my beginning and end. From now on, you are the only woman for me. Your children are my children. Will you marry me? Read a new work of short fiction by writer Arthur Shenian, who is based in Naccache, Lebanon. Published March 11, 2026. three fold mailing—fall 2025To celebrate five years of Three Fold Press, in winter 2025 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 global participants 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 U.S. headquarters. This exhibition of original works for sale was installed at Trinosophes in Detroit (November 22–30, 2025) and Salt &amp; Cedar in Paris (December 5–14, 2025). ︎ Shop the pdf portfolio of works for sale ︎ Browse by artist’s name Donations support a forthcoming print edition and amplify our capacity to provide honorariums for Three Fold poets, authors, artists and activists in issues to come. <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47befd9484ba82f61cd245a72124b0f4629fc37d1c4a3fcdfc8fc3cb09b50e6d/2-up-French-1-2.png" data-mid="241090442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47befd9484ba82f61cd245a72124b0f4629fc37d1c4a3fcdfc8fc3cb09b50e6d/2-up-French-1-2.png" /> issue no. nineteen—fall 2025Our Inside-Out Sun by Stephen GoodfellowThe Xerox Myth: Copy Machine Creation in Destroy All Monsters by Cary Loren A Case Study of Northwestern High School: An ongoing series on civil rights in Detroit in the 1940s by Michael Jackman Three Fold Commissions Tony Hope, Gordon NewtonImaginary Dinner Party, Part Eighteen by Lynn CrawfordPoetry by Juliana Spahr, Jeffrey Joe Nelson, Zan de Parry, Fiona Templeton, Ammiel Alcalay &amp; Kholoud Hammad <img width="1920" height="1299" width_o="1920" height_o="1299" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ec77d2883a13a5870624f35696801b7d8387ca26c1884a17f25bbe3dfa5fe03/DAM_mike.png" data-mid="239373321" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ec77d2883a13a5870624f35696801b7d8387ca26c1884a17f25bbe3dfa5fe03/DAM_mike.png" /> Untitled self-portrait, Mike Kelley, Xerox, 1975. Courtesy Cary Loren and Destroy All Monsters <img width="3420" height="2054" width_o="3420" height_o="2054" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a319e8dd62895d86da3dcea779bc0e4455aedb20ccf766593d635b4cc5a23277/Key-to-the-Cities_film-still-Kevin-Jerome-Everson_courtesy-the-artist--trilobite-arts-DAC--Picture-Palace-Pictures4-2.png" data-mid="239347419" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a319e8dd62895d86da3dcea779bc0e4455aedb20ccf766593d635b4cc5a23277/Key-to-the-Cities_film-still-Kevin-Jerome-Everson_courtesy-the-artist--trilobite-arts-DAC--Picture-Palace-Pictures4-2.png" /> Key to the Cities, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2 min, 16mm &gt; digital, 2008. Film still © Kevin Jerome Everson courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC and Picture Palace Pictures <img width="2700" height="1765" width_o="2700" height_o="1765" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d603d1b3d252f79a42c77394d7805f96ccfd549cfb75301f4ffaf7fbb6f37193/Century_film-still-Kevin-Jerome-Everson_courtesy-the-artist--trilobite-arts-DAC--Picture-Palace-Pictures.jpg" data-mid="239347547" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d603d1b3d252f79a42c77394d7805f96ccfd549cfb75301f4ffaf7fbb6f37193/Century_film-still-Kevin-Jerome-Everson_courtesy-the-artist--trilobite-arts-DAC--Picture-Palace-Pictures.jpg" />Century, Kevin Jerome Everson, 6.5 min, 16mm &gt; digital, 2012. Film still © Kevin Jerome Everson courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC and Picture Palace Pictures special section—fall 2025 Media City Film Festival (MCFF) and Trinosophes Projects present two free Detroit screenings curated by MCFF Artistic Director, Oona Mosna, showcasing films by Kevin Jerome Everson that span nearly twenty years of the artist’s prolific output (2007–2024). Ranging from early enigmatic fragments of 50-year-old found footage through to studied compositions of celestial bodies, this survey captures elements from both MCFF’s long history of exhibiting Everson’s work and the artist’s polyvalent approach to moving images, rooted in the experience and representational construction of the Midwest Black working class. [Read more ...] <img width="2880" height="2057" width_o="2880" height_o="2057" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a9d0a9cb8687e5ad084962e8c4da05fb14d3246be5ea28365adb341f0965c35/Three-Quarters_Kevin-Jerome-Everson_courtesy-the-artist--trilobite-arts-DAC--Picture-Palace-Pictures_still-01.jpg" data-mid="238458681" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a9d0a9cb8687e5ad084962e8c4da05fb14d3246be5ea28365adb341f0965c35/Three-Quarters_Kevin-Jerome-Everson_courtesy-the-artist--trilobite-arts-DAC--Picture-Palace-Pictures_still-01.jpg" />Three Quarters, Kevin Jerome Everson, 4 min, 16mm &gt; digital, 2015. Film still © Kevin Jerome Everson courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC and Picture Palace Pictures <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e88c0a141915c8e997eb6dddda04a88e82892d3a1e4ffa49d068859d737d371/DC6AEF41-A1AD-4EC3-92FF-4D4AFEFDEA82-1.jpg" data-mid="237307032" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e88c0a141915c8e997eb6dddda04a88e82892d3a1e4ffa49d068859d737d371/DC6AEF41-A1AD-4EC3-92FF-4D4AFEFDEA82-1.jpg" /> Alma’s Rainbow, Ayoka Chenzira, USA, 89 min, 1994 issue no. eighteen—spring 2025100 Limericks on Early Music, Occasionally Annotated by William Peck Spring by Esther Kondo HellerThree Fold Commissions Elizabeth Murray• in time • • • • real time • by Marjolein Guldentops Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Seventeen by Lynn Crawford Poetry by Marjorie Welish, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Melba Joyce Boyd, Susan Wheeler, Anselm Berrigan related eventsWednesday, May 14, 7 p.m.Poetry reading by Norman Fischer, Chris Tysh, Nazifa Islam Trinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, DetroitFree admission issue no. seventeen—winter 2025 Men of the Cloth, Men of Capital by Michael Jackman:&nbsp;An ongoing series on civil rights in Detroit in the 1940s Answer Me by Nora Baroudjian | translated by Tamar Marie Boyadjian Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Sixteen by Lynn Crawford Poetry by Jeanne Heuving, Jennifer Firestone, Timothy Yu, Carly Sachs, Dong Li, julie ezelle pattonspecial section—media city film festival &amp; three fold In partnership with the 27th virtual edition of Media City Film Festival [MCFF], a trailblazing international festival for film and digital art, Three Fold profiles eight artists whose moving image work is celebrated in the MCFF Spotlight Series: Richard Serra, Ja’Tovia Gary, Narcisa Hirsch, Jocelyne Saab, Mona Hatoum, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Nour Ouayda, and Christopher Harris [Read more ...] <img width="2192" height="1232" width_o="2192" height_o="1232" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/449823b4e368cc09a7115bcb329f62cc159d4285cdc05ccb6b423a6b437f0912/2.-SMALL-IMAGE-Ja-Tovia-Gary---Giverny.-Document-3.jpg" data-mid="237307025" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/449823b4e368cc09a7115bcb329f62cc159d4285cdc05ccb6b423a6b437f0912/2.-SMALL-IMAGE-Ja-Tovia-Gary---Giverny.-Document-3.jpg" /> The Giverny Document, Ja’Tovia Gary, USA, S16mm &gt; digital, 41 min, 2019 issue no. sixteen—fall 2024Three Fold Commissions Casey Sayer Brooks from կաթիլ մը կին՝ անանուն անքերթուած a drop of woman: unnamed unwritten by Tamar Marie Boyadjian Who Knows What the Future Holds | I’ll Forget You by Pat Lewis &amp; Samantha Linn Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Fifteen by Lynn Crawford Poetry by Daniel Borzutzky, Wanda Phipps, Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Ed Friedman, Jennifer Moxley issue no. fifteen—summer 2024The Strain Relief Cord by F.F.Three Fold Commissions Paul Schwarz Inheritance, Chapter Three by Nabil Harb Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Fourteen by Lynn CrawfordSt. Augustine Confessing by Vincent Perrone Poetry by Eléna Rivera, Vanessa Place, Benjamin Paloff, E. Tracy Grinnell, Philip Metres issue no. fourteen—spring 2024 Will You Miss Me? A Dossier on The Hinterlands by Jonathan FlatleyInheritance, Chapter Two by Nabil Harb Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Thirteen by Lynn CrawfordPoetry by Susan Landers, Ann Lauterbach, Ron Silliman, BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP, Martha Ronk<img width="1800" height="1201" width_o="1800" height_o="1201" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17257b0b54cc5a999ef778fe4756a7c8154bc615876696738a231b1d75da5355/Harb20.jpg" data-mid="237307020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17257b0b54cc5a999ef778fe4756a7c8154bc615876696738a231b1d75da5355/Harb20.jpg" /> Deal, Nabil Harb, 2018. Photo courtesy the artist. All Rights Reserved <img width="1800" height="1201" width_o="1800" height_o="1201" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e054b9b4d7f45f9d321f5fa276fbc0cd9c0634484a1cacc13cc574cb0b6ecd23/Harb14.jpg" data-mid="237307013" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e054b9b4d7f45f9d321f5fa276fbc0cd9c0634484a1cacc13cc574cb0b6ecd23/Harb14.jpg" />Taba, Nabil Harb, 2018. Photo courtesy the artist. All Rights Reserved issue no. thirteen—winter 2024 Inheritance,&nbsp;Chapter One by Nabil Harb&nbsp;To Bulldoze a Cemetery by Ayanna Dozier Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Twelve by Lynn CrawfordPoetry by Nazifa Islam, Michael Leong, Marie Buck &amp; Matthew Walker, Laynie Browne, Mark Nowak special section—december 29, 2023 In the wake of Artforum editor-in-chief David Velasco’s firing in October over an open letter signed by artists and scholars supporting Palestinian liberation, thirty-two writers retracted their pieces from the December 2023 issue, among them Adriano Pedrosa, Amy Taubin, Brontez Purnell, Catherine Lacey, Çağla İlk, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Claire Bishop, David O’Neill, Erin Christovale, Erika Balsom, Gordon Hall, Gray Wielebinski, Hal Foster, Huey Copeland, Jace Clayton, James Quandt, Jason Moran, Jennifer Krasinski, Jensen Leonard, John Kelsey, John Waters, Meg Onli, Michael Fried, Nicole Eisenman, Rachel Kushner, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Sasha Geffen, Tiana Reid, Tiffany Sia, Tim Griffin, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and Weyes Blood. Three Fold extended an invitation to several of those who pulled their writing, and to punctuate 2023, we are publishing withdrawn Artforum contributions from Claire Bishop, Erika Balsom, and Weyes Blood. As genocide continues to unfold in Gaza and epistemicide and McCarthyism proliferate globally, Three Fold Press firmly stands in solidarity with all writers and artists who oppose the atrocities and war in Gaza –Jonathan Rajewski, Editor, Visual Art top ten, 2023 By Claire Bishop“This is the Top Ten I pulled from the December issue of Artforum, because of David getting fired.” [Read more ...] By Erika Balsom“This list was submitted in early October and would certainly be somewhat different if written now. But in the spirit of gesturing to a December issue of Artforum that never was, I have left it unchanged. [Read more ...] By Weyes Blood“OK so Glastonbury is unbearably classic. The UK has managed to do a Woodstock-esque festival every year since 1971 (America sure as hell has not). When I awoke from my slumber, I stumbled out of my bus into a field and immediately heard echoes of the most ethereal Welsh music.” [Read more ...] issue no. twelve—fall 2023The Eternal Return:&nbsp;Blacula and the Thematic Aesthetics of William Crain&nbsp;by André SeewoodGaldr by Paul Elliman Diego &amp; Me by James D. Fuson Letter to My Daughter by Ethel Kabwato Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Eleven by Lynn Crawford Poetry by CAConrad, Kweku Abimbola, Eileen Myles, Rob Halpern, Nicole Brossard issue no. eleven—summer 2023 Flesh and Marble by Jonathan RajewskiLooking Past the Exploitative Lens, Fighting Against Erasure by Michael JackmanAn ongoing series on civil rights in Detroit in the 1940s SIM ER by John BennettWalking and Talking Performance by Ben Bennett Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Ten by Lynn CrawfordPoetry by Rae Armantrout, Maged Zaher, Sarah Riggs, kim d. hunter, Michael Lally issue no. ten—spring 2023 Make Room for Dada: A Dossier on the Ridgeway Collective by Cary Loren Three Fold Commissions Julia Callis, Carole Harris, Anne Carson Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Nine by Lynn Crawford Poetry by Lee Ann Brown, Michael Palmer, John Godfrey, Alise Alousi, Bob Holman Sorting the Piles by Lolita Hernandez issue no. nine—winter 2023 Life After Prison: The First Three Months by James D. FusonSweet Extinction by Francis McKeeImaginary Dinner Party, Part Eight by Lynn CrawfordPoetry by Jena Osman, Charles Bernstein, Robert Laidler, Brenda Coultas and Norma Cole related eventsFilm screenings by Raven Chacon &amp; Cristóbal Martinez, Sky Hopinka, New Red Order and Miguel Hilari | ThousandSuns Cinema through January 30, 2023 <img width="1471" height="2100" width_o="1471" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd1eb08eb1a0b95b0f56664683033a3b80a9596cfbf402c2f10ee4bc4297b24e/2_shoe.png" data-mid="237306986" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd1eb08eb1a0b95b0f56664683033a3b80a9596cfbf402c2f10ee4bc4297b24e/2_shoe.png" />issue no. eight—fall 2022In Dedication: Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts Dissidence: A Dossier by Cities of Asylum featuring Dmitry Bykov, Pedro X. Molina, Pwaangulongii Dauod End of a Life Sentence: 28 Years, 8 Months, 3 Days, and a Wake-Up by James D. FusonThree Fold Commissions: Amna Asghar, Jocko Weyland, Robert Sestok This is What Genre Can Do for You by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Out Front and Down Low, Part Two of an Interview with AACM Drummer and Composer Ajaramu by Ted Panken, 1977Just Browsing by Jeff KarolskiImaginary Dinner Party, Part Seven by Lynn Crawford Poetry by Rosmarie Waldrop, Uche Nduka, Edwin Torres, Bruce Andrews,&nbsp;Johanna Drucker shoe, Dana DeGiulio. Courtesy the artist <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d003dd6629e53f9ec354112793e00825a975a857687daa8b981200b647b57db/7.-sample-content-CONSPIRACY-MHE-SM-1.png" data-mid="237306979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d003dd6629e53f9ec354112793e00825a975a857687daa8b981200b647b57db/7.-sample-content-CONSPIRACY-MHE-SM-1.png" /><img width="1804" height="1014" width_o="1804" height_o="1014" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0bd3ebc8017a7d4ed5644f1a4acb8cf3e09a6e2c17f50cb670af8c40d815cbf/conspiracystill1-1.jpg" data-mid="237306988" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0bd3ebc8017a7d4ed5644f1a4acb8cf3e09a6e2c17f50cb670af8c40d815cbf/conspiracystill1-1.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7b88632301e01f49e11be8ab828ca022e113f1eb665c18bc7faae36d462bef9/1.-sample-content-CONSPIRACY-MHE-SM.png" data-mid="237306991" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7b88632301e01f49e11be8ab828ca022e113f1eb665c18bc7faae36d462bef9/1.-sample-content-CONSPIRACY-MHE-SM.png" /> issue no. seven—summer 2022Fire BlossomsA Dossier by Yasmina Price Three Fold Commissions: Arel Lisette, Alina Perez Out Front and Down Low, Part One of an Interview with AACM Drummer and Composer Ajaramu by Ted Panken, 1977Corn Man and Lemon Bar, DetroitPhotography by Garrett MacLean4 Seasons by Matt Conzett and Maia Shikwana Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Six by Lynn Crawford Poetry by Rodrigo Toscano, Anne Waldman, Elizabeth Willis, Isaac Pickell, Anne Tardos, Clark Coolidge Conspiracy, Simone Leigh and Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, 16mm film stills, 2022. Courtesy the artists and Matthew Marks Gallery <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45d687221666f476d18ff3519135585c4f67ec819a591c8887deb4ea7f3f7b43/Photo_For_Menjos_Ad.jpg" data-mid="237306963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45d687221666f476d18ff3519135585c4f67ec819a591c8887deb4ea7f3f7b43/Photo_For_Menjos_Ad.jpg" />issue no. six—spring 2022In Dedication:&nbsp;Rico Africa, Old Miami, DetroitWhen Life Was a Gay Bar A dossier by artist and writer Michael Conboy (Los Angeles) on the 1970s-80s Detroit scene of his youth, featuring paintings and illustrations, memoirs, drag photos, club fliers, and a short story Three Fold Commissions: Nancy Mitchnick, Patrick Hill Telephones by Paul Elliman Excerpts from a pre-history of that moment when the human voice is first cut from its source in the body Guess Where I Am by Paul Elliman The Last to Figure It Out by Michael Jackman Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Five Forms of Engagement by Lynn Crawford Poetry by Aaron Shurin, Stacy Szymaszek, Nathaniel Mackey, Norman Fischer, Jennifer ScappettoneFiction by Evelyn Hampton, Rick LondonPhoto for Menjo’s advertisement, Michael Conboy, c. 1980s&nbsp; <img width="2560" height="1946" width_o="2560" height_o="1946" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6b247abaf3f45579f0fdc1550f30e204c55c403b3dae0c3d5d60ddfe5fa351e/XIMENA-CUEVAS_Corazon-Sangrante_Still_11.jpg" data-mid="237306957" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6b247abaf3f45579f0fdc1550f30e204c55c403b3dae0c3d5d60ddfe5fa351e/XIMENA-CUEVAS_Corazon-Sangrante_Still_11.jpg" /> issue no. five—winter 2022Our winter 2022 issue was presented in partnership with Media City Film Festival, a trailblazing festival for film and digital art based in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. Since 1994, the festival has engaged such artists as Yoko Ono, Michael Snow, Alvin Lucier, and hundreds others. The 25th Anniversary virtual edition ran February 8 through March 1, 2022, featuring 70+ films from 30+ countries, in full open access globally. In conjunction, Three Fold profiled eight artists whose moving image work was celebrated in a Spotlight Series. [Read more ] Artist In Residence In Exile, Megan O’Connell, 2021 Doom and Glory in the Cass CorridorPart two of a dossier on Detroit visual artist Cay Bahnmiller—dream diaries, Gilbert and Lila Silverman, Der Imker (the beekeeper), mail art, communiqués, a secret spy network, Structo-vision, photography, books, and a kaddish for Cay by Cary Loren Three Fold Commissions: Ruqayyah Alzona Al-Baari, Jim Chatelain, Chris Riddell Bringing Detroit by Ian John Solomon, Jay Orellana and Crystal MionerRuminations on Beauty by Rochelle Marrett My First Stroll Through Eternity by Stephen Paul TrimboliImaginary Dinner Party, Part Four: Possession by Lynn CrawfordPoetry by Alice Notley, Peter Gizzi, Quincy Troupe, Rachelle Rahmé, Maureen OwenFiction by Garrett Caples, Jose Padua, Robert Lopez Corazón Sangrante, Ximena Cuevas, México, digital, 4 min, 1993 <img width="1480" height="1079" width_o="1480" height_o="1079" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d125218954fcc8be5791b722f1aa0a2db4d329c93273594d265f3a8ab4f0498b/I-MISS-SONJA-HENIE-KARPO-GODINA1.jpg" data-mid="237306954" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d125218954fcc8be5791b722f1aa0a2db4d329c93273594d265f3a8ab4f0498b/I-MISS-SONJA-HENIE-KARPO-GODINA1.jpg" /> issue no. four—fall 2021Doom and Glory in the Cass Corridor, Part One: A Dossier on Cay Bahnmiller by Cary Loren Three Fold Commissions: Hangama Amiri, Israel Aten, David Craig Before, During and After by MGUN Ghetto Tech: The Soundtrack to Black Ruin by Taylor Aldridge Patching the Past: Reimaging the Buchla by Mark Milanovich Imaginary Dinner Party: Part Three, Think Like a Detective by Lynn Crawford Spoken word by Akinyemi Sa Ra Poetry by Elaine Equi, Harryette Mullen, A.L. Nielsen, Cole Swensen, Dennis Teichman Fiction by Sarah Schulman, Alan Franklin I Miss Sonja Henie, Karpo Godina, 1971, 35mm frame enlargement courtesy the artist © Karpo Godina the Slovenian Cinematheque and Media City Film Festival. Restoration by the Austrian Film Museum issue no. three—summer 2021 Three Fold Commissions: Katherine Yaochen Du, M. Saffell Gardner, Africanus Okokon Disfluencies: A Dossier by Sky Hopinka Plantocracy and Communism by Stefano Harney &amp; Fred Moten Super Natural by Imani Mixon Catalog of Birds for Banjos: Joel Peterson in Conversation with Eugene Chadbourne Imaginary Dinner Party, Part Two: Heal the People? by Lynn Crawford Poetry by Ron Padgett, Rachel Levitsky, Kit Robinson, Michelle Naka Pierce, Will AlexanderFiction by Wang Ping, Barbara Henning, Robert Glück <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/241c1c344d1ac6a7fd4822a1e9869d09f61bc4b8407d3d166875eb3c94dc1a70/image_6483441-2.jpg" data-mid="237306976" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/241c1c344d1ac6a7fd4822a1e9869d09f61bc4b8407d3d166875eb3c94dc1a70/image_6483441-2.jpg" />Photo of Michael Luchs’ studio by Kathryn Brackett Luchs, June 15, 2021 issue no. two—spring 2021 On the cover: a minor piece of damage (2020),&nbsp;Sid Iandovka&nbsp; As Yet Untitled: A Dossier on Sid Iandovka &amp; Anya Tsyrlina by Herb Shellenberger Ekphrasis by Rachel Harkai Amina Teaches by Luke Stewart Alter Destiny: A Survivor’s Guide by Thomas Stanley A Myriad of Self-Portraits by Sala Damali White What Remains: Reflections on a Decade of Poetry Lessons in Detroit 2008-2018 by Norene Cashen Imaginary Dinner Party: Part One, Under Stories by Lynn Crawford Poetry by Christine Hume &amp; Laura Larson, Ted Pearson, Bill Harris, Eleni Sikelianos, Brandon Brown Fiction by Lolita Hernandez, Paul Jaussen, Cal Freeman <img width="1807" height="1366" width_o="1807" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cb6461bd1c8b34708d6b58bd33fa6374e687e6e54ef8800c7ab1390d703dd5f/damage_9.jpg" data-mid="237306960" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2cb6461bd1c8b34708d6b58bd33fa6374e687e6e54ef8800c7ab1390d703dd5f/damage_9.jpg" />a minor piece of damage, Sid Iandovka <img width="6261" height="4237" width_o="6261" height_o="4237" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aca789cd019250a3e1ad061b522efde5898e64a0b5c1e4a10117483e1517f0e4/Maureen-Taylor_Hannah-Jones.jpeg" data-mid="237306951" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aca789cd019250a3e1ad061b522efde5898e64a0b5c1e4a10117483e1517f0e4/Maureen-Taylor_Hannah-Jones.jpeg" />Maureen Taylor, Hannah Jones, 2020 issue no. one—fall 2020 On the cover: Say Translation is Art (excerpt), Sawako NakayasuIn Dedication: Meditation Device by Hannah Jones &amp; Rebecca Mazzei What’s Been Done and What’s Been Won by Bob Ostertag with Maureen Taylor Integral Whirls: A Dossier on Ephraim Asili by Greg de Cuir Jr Making a Making: Jonathan Rajewski in Conversation with Bill Dilworth Black Lives Matter? by Fred Williams What is in a Name by Imani Mixon Art, Ritual &amp; Theory in Mandenka Historiography by Nubia Kai Wild Gardening &amp; Improvisation by Thollem Heal Ourselves by Peter Sparling &amp; Thollem Hear That Snap: Joel Peterson in Conversation with Hakim Jami The Orgasmic Space Poetry of Henry R. Lewis by Cary Loren Malayeen by Leyya Tawil Poetry by Laura Moriarty, John Sinclair, Khaled Mattawa, Sawako Nakayasu, Tyrone Williams Fiction by Owólabi, Lynn Crawford poetry https://threefoldpress.org/poetry-1 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:20:01 +0000 Three Fold https://threefoldpress.org/poetry-1 Poetry ArchiveChris Tysh, editor AKweku Abimbola Will Alexander Alise Alousi Ammiel Alcalay &amp; Kholoud HammadBruce Andrews Rae Armantrout BCharles Bernstein Anselm Berrigan BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP Daniel Borzutzky Melba Joyce Boyd Nicole Brossard Brandon Brown Lee Ann Brown Laynie Browne Marie Buck &amp; Matthew Walker C CAConradNorma Cole Clark CoolidgeBrenda Coultas D Zan de Parry Sean Thomas DoughertyJohanna Drucker E Elaine Equi F Jennifer Firestone Norman Fischer Ed FriedmanG Peter Gizzi John GodfreyE. Tracy Grinnell H Rob Halpern Bill Harris Jeanne Heuving Bob HolmanChristine Hume &amp; Laura Larson kim d hunter I Nazifa IslamLRobert Laidler Michael Lally Susan Landers Ann Lauterbach Michael Leong Rachel Levitsky Dong LiM Nathaniel Mackey Khaled MattawaPhilip Metres Laura Moriarty Jennifer Moxley Harryette MullenEileen MylesN Sawako NakayasuUche Nduka Jeffrey Joe NelsonA.L. Nielsen Alice Notley Mark NowakO Jena Osman Maureen OwenP Ron PadgettBenjamin Paloff Michael Palmer julie ezelle patton Ted Pearson Wanda Phipps Isaac PickellMichelle Naka PierceVanessa Place REléna Rivera SCarly Sachs Jennifer Scappettone Aaron Shurin Eleni Sikelianos Ron Silliman John Sinclair Juliana Spahr Cole Swensen Stacy SzymaszekT Anne Tardos Dennis Teichman Fiona Templeton Robin Tremblay-McGaw Edwin Torres Rodrigo Toscano Quincy TroupeW Anne Waldman Tyrone Williams Elizabeth Willis Rosmarie Waldrop Marjorie Welish Susan Wheeler Y Timothy Yu Z Maged Zaher submissions https://threefoldpress.org/submissions Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:29:03 +0000 Three Fold https://threefoldpress.org/submissions Submissions Policy Three Fold is excited to open up our editorial and artistic contributions to emerging and established writers, authors, and artists of all disciplines (except for our poetry section, which is by invitation-only). The guidelines for submission to our quarterly journal are as follows: Because we are organized by a small staff, we are unable to respond to inquiries and submissions unless we are interested. One of our editors will reach out within four weeks if we would like to pursue publishing your work or have any questions regarding the submission. We are happy to review finished works as well as works in-progress, at any point throughout the year. Proposals for projects that have not yet been started are considered on a case-by-case basis.&nbsp; There are no boundaries around subject matter or content. Our journal showcases a multiplicity of voices. No work is too experimental or daring. Electronic submissions should be sent to threefolddetroit@gmail.com. Please include the word “submission” in your subject line. In the body of your email, include your name, email address, and a link to your website if you like. A brief summary of what is being sent is helpful. Writers should submit work as an email attachment, formatted as a Microsoft Word document or pdf file. Artistic submissions may be sent as jpeg, png, MP3, or MP4. Do not send anything to us via Google drive or hyperlink. Large files should be reduced and will be requested at a higher resolution if/when necessary. If your piece is accepted, all editorial work, including copyediting and proofreading, will require facility with the “track changes” function. Always, our changes are suggestions that we believe are in service of the piece and may be declined by the author. Please be advised that Three Fold reserves the right at any point and for any reason to change our minds about publishing a work. Reasons may vary but could include, for instance, missed deadlines or disagreements about the editorial direction of a work. Unfortunately, we are unable in those instances to provide a kill fee. We no longer accept texts or artworks previously published online in English. The length of written works is open-ended. Generally speaking,&nbsp; we’ve found that text with a count between 1,000 and 3,500 words is digestible in one sitting for a reader; anything longer than that may be read in part and returned to later. It can be useful then to include subheads or sections. Renumeration Our payment schedule varies for many reasons. Most importantly, we are a newly-formed non-profit publication that is free and for the community. Athough we are growing, our budget is currently very low. Three Fold editors, like editors of many extraordinary legacy journals, work on a volunteer basis. To be candid, some authors and artists have declined payment with that in mind. Secondly, we have found that expectations with regard to compensation differ vastly depending upon the field in which a contributor works. In general, here is our approach: Three Fold provides an honorarium of $100-$150 for previously existing unpublished essays and artworks. We offer more substantial fees for newly commissioned projects and heftier texts, including Three Fold dossiers, which are contributions that feature several sections, often with multiple forms of content. This submission policy is in-progress and may evolve over time as we learn what works, so please check back for updates. contributors https://threefoldpress.org/contributors Fri, 18 Jun 2021 23:56:45 +0000 Three Fold https://threefoldpress.org/contributors Contributors A Kweku Abimbola Alise Alousi AjaramuAmmiel Alcalay Taylor Aldridge Will Alexander Ruqayyah Alzona Al-BaariHangama Amiri Bruce Andrews Rae Armantrout Amna Asghar Ephraim AsiliIsrael Aten B Cay Bahnmiller Erika BalsomNora Baroudjian Ben Bennett John Bennett Charles Bernstein Anselm Berrigan Claire BishopTamar Marie Boyadjian Melba Joyce BoydCasey Sayer Brooks Nicole Brossard Brandon Brown Lee Ann Brown Laynie Browne Daniel Borzutzky Marie Buck &amp; Matthew Walker Dmitry Bykov C Julia Callis Garrett Caples Anne Carson Norene CashenEugene Chadbourne Jim Chatelain Norma Cole Michael Conboy CAConrad Clark Coolidge Brenda Coultas David Craig Lynn Crawford D Greg de Cuir Jr. Pwaangulongii Dauod Zan De Parry Bill Dilworth Sean Thomas Dougherty Ayanna Dozier Johanna Drucker Katherine Yaochen DuE Paul EllimanElaine Equi F F.F.Jennifer FirestoneNorman Fischer Jonathan FlatleyAlan FranklinCal Freeman Ed Friedman James D. FusonG M. Saffell Gardner Peter Gizzi Robert Glück John GodfreyStephen Goodfellow E. Tracy GrinnellMarjolein GuldentopsH Rob Halpern Kholoud Hammad Evelyn Hampton Nabil Harb Rachel Harkai Stefano Harney Bill HarrisCarole HarrisEsther Kondo Heller Barbara Henning Lolita Hernandez Jeanne Heuving Patrick Hill The Hinterlands Bob Holman Tony Hope Sky Hopinka Christine Hume &amp; Laura Larson kim d. hunter I Sid Iandovka &amp; Anya Tsyrlina Nazifa Islam JMichael Jackman Hakim Jami Paul Jaussen Hannah Jones K Nubia KaiJeff Karolski Ethel KabwatoL Robert Laidler Michael Lally Laura Larson Michael Leong Rachel Levitsky Dong Li Pat Lewis &amp; Samantha Linn Arel Lisette Rick London Robert Lopez Cary Loren Michael LuchsM Garrett MacLeanNathaniel Mackey Rochelle MarrettKhaled Mattawa Francis McKeePhilip MetresMGUN Mark MilanovichNancy Mitchnick Crystal Mioner Imani Mixon Pedro X. MolinaLaura Moriarty Fred Moten Jennifer MoxleyHarryette MullenElizabeth Murray Amina Claudine Myers Eileen MylesN Sawako NakayasuUche Nduka Jeffrey Joe Nelson Gordon NewtonA.L. Nielsen Alice NotleyMark Nowak O Megan O’Connell Africanus Okokon Jay Orellana Bob Ostertag Jena Osman Maureen Owen Owólabi P Ron Padgett Jose PaduaBenjamin Paloff Michael PalmerWilliam Peck Ted Panken julie ezelle patton Ted Pearson Alina Perez Vincent Perrone Joel Peterson Wanda Phipps Isaac PickellMichelle Naka Pierce Wang PingVanessa PlaceJoe Posch Yasmina Price R Rachelle Rahmé Jonathan Rajewski Chris Riddell Sarah RiggsEléna RiveraKit Robinson Martha Ronk S Carly Sachs Akinyemi Sa Ra Jennifer Scappettone Sarah Schulman Paul Schwarz Andre Seewood Robert Sestok Herb Shellenberger Arthur Shenian Aaron Shurin Eleni SikelianosJohn Sinclair Ian John SolomonJuliana Spahr Peter Sparling Thomas Stanley Luke StewartCole Swensen Stacy Szymaszek T Anne Tardos Leyya Tawil Maureen Taylor Dennis TeichmanFiona Templeton ThollemEdwin Torres Rodrigo Toscano Robin Tremblay-McGawStephen Trimboli Quincy Troupe V Clare Cresap Villa Anne Walman Rosmarie Waldrop W Weyes Blood Marjorie Welish Jocko Weyland Susan Wheeler Sala Damali White Fred Williams Tyrone Williams Elizabeth WillisY Timothy YuZ Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Maged Zaher Thomas Zummer events https://threefoldpress.org/events Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:29:22 +0000 Three Fold https://threefoldpress.org/events upcoming events Saturday, August 8, 3–6 p.m. Monumental Connection: Three Fold Poetry reading by Eléna Rivera and Chris Tysh in conjunction with the exhibition “Monumental Color: Cecily Brown, Sam Gilliam, and Joan Mitchell” [June 20 – September 6, 2026]Larson Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum 39221 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills previous events November 21Opening Reception for Three Fold Mailing An Exhibition and Fundraiser through November 30 Trinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit December 5, 5–8 p.m.Opening Reception for Three Fold MailingAn Exhibition and Fundraiser through December 13 Salt &amp; Cedar Letterpress, 32 rue Saint-Paul, Paris Free admission November 18, 6 p.m. Media City Film Festival and Trinosophes Projects present“Three Quarters: The Cinema of Kevin Jerome Everson” Detroit Public Library Main Branch,&nbsp;5201 Woodward Ave., Detroit | Free admission November 15, 6 p.m. Media City Film Festival and Trinosophes Projects present“Keys to the City: An Evening with Kevin Jerome Everson” Newlab at Michigan Central, 2050 15th Street, Detroit Free admission Sunday, November 16, 7:30 p.m.Poetry ReleasePresented by Keith LLCTrinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, DetroitFree admission Elise Houcek is the author, most recently, of From the Pocket of Agent Dickinson, a lysergic neo-noir poet’s novel cowritten with Zack Darsee&nbsp;out now from Inside the Castle. Her writing has recently appeared in&nbsp;FENCE, Diva Corp, Vestiges,&nbsp;and new_sinews. She teaches writing to kids and runs Ludi Juvenales, a poetry, art and games series publishing the immature work of adult writers.Zack Darsee was born about noon on a Tuesday. He is the author of the chapbook BELL LOGIC (Spiral Editions), and pamphlets Efflorescence in Stucco (Earthbound Press) and Anzündkind (Creative Writing Department). Their collaborative book with Elise Houcek, From the Pocket of Agent Dickinson, a lysergic neo-noir poet's novel, is out now from Inside the Castle. Together with Nadia Marcus, he is the co-founder of TABLOID Press. They teach poetry workshops in various arrangements of community in Berlin, Germany. This work continues.Isaac Pickell is a Black and Jewish poet, PhD candidate, and adjunct instructor. A Cave Canem fellow, he is the author of "It's not over once you figure it out" (Black Ocean, 2023), "The Smallest Mistake We Call Human" (Black Lawrence Press, 2026) and chapbooks from Black Lawrence Press and Dead Mall Press. You can find Isaac's most recent work in The Offing, Poetry Northwest, Cincinnati Review, and Copper Nickel.Jamie Thomson is a poet from Northampton, MA. Currently in Chicago, IL. Chapbooks include Paper Myth (The Year, 2025), Are you my friend? (Copenhagen, 2023), and Possibilityism (Factory Hollow Press, 2021).Christopher Ayala is a writer from Massachusetts.Saturday–Sunday, October 11th – 12th 10 a.m.– 6 p.m. &amp; 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. Detroit Art Book Fair Trinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, DetroitFree admission Wednesday, October 22 at&nbsp; 7:30 p.m.Poetry reading by Aaron Fagan, Rachelle Rahmé, Zan de Parry, Chelsea HogueTrinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, DetroitFree admission Wednesday, May 14 at 7 p.m.Poetry Reading by Norman Fischer, Chris Tysh and Nazifa Islam Free admissionTrinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit Norman Fischer is a prolific poet, essayist, and Zen Buddhist priest. His latest titles are Men in Suits (2023), There Was a Clattering As (2021), and &nbsp;Through a Window (2024). Chax Press brought out his Selected Poems 1980-2013 in 2022. And the essay collection, Experience: Thinking. Writing, Language, and Religion, appeared in the University of Alabama’s Poetics Series in 2015. He lives on the northern California coast with his wife Kathie, also a Zen Buddhist priest, and is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation.Poet and playwright Chris Tysh is the author of twelve books, the latest of which is 26 Tears, co-authored by George Tysh and published by BlazeVOX in 2022. She holds fellowships from The National Endowment of the Arts and the Kresge Foundation. She teaches at Wayne State University. Based in Novi, Michigan, poet Nazifa Islam is the author of Forlorn Light: Virginia Woolf Found Poems (Shearsman Books, 2021) and Searching for a Pulse (Whitepoint Press, 2013). Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Smartish Pace, The Believer, The Southern Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal among other publications and has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Poetry anthology series. She earned her MFA at Oregon State University.&nbsp; Thursday, February 13 at 7:30 p.m. Murderous Again: The Dynamic Spoken Word of Lydia Lunchwith Tim Dahl and Matt NelsonTrinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit$18 in advance | $20 at entry New York icon Lydia Lunch burst on to the scene as the teenage guitarist/singer of early No Wave band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, which she founded with James Chance at the end of the 1970s. After receiving high visibility from Teenage Jesus’ inclusion on the Brian Eno produced compilation, No New York, Lunch became a solo artist in 1980. She founded her own label and publishing company in the ’80s, which she continues to use to this day to release her spoken word and musical work. Lunch has collaborated with Sonic Youth, Nels Cline, Weasel Walter, Exene Cervenka, Nick Zedd, Richard Kern and many others in the fields of music, literature, film and photography.For this performance, Lunch’s spoken word works will feature abstract instrumental accompaniment by Matt Nelson and Tim Dahl. Some of our audience will know Nelson from his work in the excellent, extended-technique sax quartet, Battle Trance, and his outstanding, electronically processed solo saxophone record, Lower Bottom. Bassist/keyboardist/vocalist Tim Dahl was a member of the noise rock group, Child Abuse, and has worked with Yusef Lateef, Archie Shepp, Von Freeman, Mary Halvorson, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Evans, Marc Ribot, Ava Mendoza and many other musicians across the spectrum of creative music. Saturday, February 15 at 6 p.m. Poetry &amp; Sound [live score]Carlos Lara, Kai Ihns, Zan De Parry, Emily Rollin collaboration with Ceremonial Abyss$10–$20 suggested donationTrinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 4 p.m.The Night Lives of BatsA lecture by Vanessa Rojas, Ph.D.Associate Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science and ForestryFree and open to the publicTrinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, DetroitJoin us to learn more about how bats benefit our ecosystems. See and hear their recorded echolocation sounds and learn to look for unique characteristics to identify bats by sight and sound. Vanessa Rojas has been studying bats for over 15 years, beginning with her graduate research at University of Michigan–Flint. She then continued her work as a bat educator and researcher, splitting her time between Detroit and the Smoky Mountains National Park. Her work studying bat habitats continued with a PhD in Wildlife Ecology. She is now an Associate Professor at a State University of New York campus based in the Adirondack Park. A Literary Celebration of Tyrone Williams’ Life and Work Sunday, June 23, 2024 at 5-8 p.m. Free and open to the public Trinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit Our dear friend and Three Fold editorial advisor, Detroit-born poet Tyrone Williams, passed away on March 11, 2024, one month after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. You are invited to attend a literary celebration of his life and work, organized by fellow Detroit poets. Those presenting: Tyrone’s Sisters (Jacqueline Brooks, Wanda Gee, Andrea Martin), Alise Alousi, Rudy Baron, Melba Boyd, Pat Clifford, Lynn Crawford &amp; John Haddad, Tod Duncan, Carla Harryman, Kim Hunter, Barbara Henning, Geoffrey Jacques, M.L. Liebler, Jonah Mixon-Webster, Kofi Natambu (via audio), Julie Patton, Lee Sandweiss, Suzanne Scarfone,&nbsp; Dennis Teichman, Chris Tysh and Rayfield Waller.The Hinterlands in Conversation with Jonathan Flatley Sunday, April 7, 2024 at 7 p.m.&nbsp; In conjunction with Will You Miss Me? A Dossier on The Hinterlands by Jonathan Flatley Trinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit Ceremonial Abyss [live score] Accompanied by Robert Laidler, Emily Roll, Tamar M. Boyadjian, Zan De Parry and John M. Ganiard Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 7 p.m. Trinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit Trinosophes First Fundraiser for Two Rooms Records and Three Fold Press Poetry readings by Isaac Pickell, kim d. hunter, Robert Laidler Friday, September 29 at 6 p.m. Trinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, DetroitIsaac Pickell is a poet and PhD student in Detroit, where he teaches and studies the borderlands of Black literature. He is the author of the chapbook everything saved will be last (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) and It’s not over once you figure it out, a full-length collection forthcoming from Black Ocean in 2023. His most recent work can be found in Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, and Passages North. Robert Laidler, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Wayne State Department of English, is the author of a poetic libretto, The Fallen Petals of Nameless Flowers, which premiered at Chamber Music Detroit in 2022. He earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan. Based in Detroit, where he works for social justice groups in Michigan, kim d. hunter is a poet and prose writer. He is the author of a collection of short stories, The Official Report on Human Activity (Wayne State University, 2018), and two books of poetry: edge of the time zone (White Print Inc., 2009) and borne on slow knives (Past Tents, 2001). He co-directed the Woodward Line Poetry Series for thirteen years and holds a 2012 Kresge Literary Arts Fellowship. Because this event is a fundraiser generating support for our free, online arts and literary journal, we appreciate contributions of $15 at the door, which buys you a ticket to stay beyond the reading and enjoy an evening also featuring music, refreshments and a raffle. MOONSHINE: The Celestial Films of Kevin Jerome EversonJune 15 – October 1, 2023 Art Windsor-Essex, Second Floor Gallery Media City Film Festival in partnership with Art Windsor-Essex presents the first solo exhibition of Kevin Jerome Everson’s work in Canada, curated by Greg de Cuir Jr. and Oona Mosna. “This exhibition offers visitors a rare chance to experience the artist’s cinematic renderings documenting the shape, surface, and spatio-temporal movements of stellar objects, tracing their revolutionary and cosmic cycles, and capturing brief and brilliant encounters between lunar and solar bodies.” Dissidence: Exiled Writers on Resistance and RiskReading and discussion with Pwaangulongii Dauod,&nbsp;Dmitry Bykov,&nbsp;Pedro X. Molina,&nbsp;Anouar Rahmani Friday, September 16, 2023 at 7 p.m. Trinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, DetroitCity of Asylum Detroit kicks off the first ever Cities of Asylum Solidarity Tour, an annual panel of writers, artists, musicians, and journalists who have been attacked, imprisoned, and censored because of their work. This year’s theme is “Dissidence: Exiled Writers on Resistance and Risk.”Cities of Asylum, a safe haven network to protect writers’ freedom of expression and physical safety, was inspired by Salman Rushdie, who suffered an attempted assassination last month. City of Asylum Detroit is the newest of four branches in the US to adapt this mission to their local context. Since opening their doors in 2020, they’ve brought feminist Burmese poet Pencilio, queer Nigerian novelist Pwaangulongii Dauod, Haitian photojournalist Dieu-Nalio Chery and Haitian videographer Mathide Chery Debel to safety.Dissidence panelists will include essayist Pwaangulongii Dauod, who received death threats for writing about queer culture in Nigeria; poet Dmitry Bykov, who nearly died in a poisoning, then was banned from teaching or appearing on Russian TV; political cartoonist Pedro X. Molina, who watched Nicaraguan state forces jail his colleagues and occupy his newspaper's offices; and novelist Anouar Rahmani, who was threatened with imprisonment for writing about human rights in Algeria.All four were forced to flee their homelands, and all four found safe haven in a City of Asylum in the United States.Timed for Banned Books Week, the event is part of a three-city tour among City of Asylum programs starting in Detroit then traveling to Pittsburgh and Ithaca. It is also part of the new Writers at Risk series at Wayne State University, featuring writer and journalist Danny Fenster, who spent six months in prison in Myanmar.The attack on Rushdie is a brutal reminder of the importance of the mission of City of Asylum Detroit and the values we will continue to defend. Come hear the stories of dissident writers who have found safety thanks to his work, and learn about their commitment to free creative expression at this evening of readings and lively conversation.“Dissidence: Exiled Writers on Resistance and Risk” is supported by a grant from Cornell University’s Migrations Global Grand Challenge and the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative. Lives of the Saints by Alan FranklinBook launch with a reading by Alan Franklin Friday, April 8, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. Trinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit A pointedly jaundiced look at the meaning of sainthood in the modern world, Franklin’s book is, among other things, the outcome of many years spent wondering how we humans went so wildly astray in our treatment of each other and of our shared planetary home. In that vein, Franklin’s multiple narrators embody, confront or critique a panoply of contemporary saints and their symptoms, from Christopher Columbus to Adolph Hitler, from family psychodynamics to globe-encircling hierarchies of power and domination. And all with a smile on their lips and a song in their hearts. For most of his years as a fixture in Detroit’s Cass Corridor arts, music, and politics scene, guitarist Alan Franklin has been best known as a songwriter/singer with that city’s anarcho ska-punk band, the Layabouts. During that same time, his prose writings have appeared in riverrun magazine, the Fifth Estate, the Daily Barbarian, Subversions (Montreal), Dispatch Detroit, Three Fold and Autonomedia.&nbsp; Ferne, A Detroit Story by&nbsp;Barbara Henning&nbsp;Book launch with readings by Barbara Henning and Lynn Crawford and introductions by Chris Tysh, Three Fold Poetry EditorSunday, March 6, 2023 at 3 p.m. EST on Zoom Three Fold is delighted to present a virtual book launch for Ferne, A Detroit Story, a hybrid biography of the life of author Barbara Henning's mother, as well as a history of Detroit, the city in which she lived.&nbsp; About the book, Henning writes: “Ferne was extraordinary in a very ordinary way, one of the many remembered only by family and friends; she was vibrant, funny and tender.&nbsp; Each of us has a particular story, a particular engagement with our dreams and desires as we encounter the limits of our mortality.&nbsp; As a young working-class woman, Ferne juggled with her possibilities, living through the first wave of feminism, Prohibition, the Great Depression and World War II; she died at 37 with four children, leaving an absence that demanded this retelling.&nbsp; The book is a collage of novelized story, with photographs and newspaper clipping from The Detroit Times, as well as from other histories and papers.” A native Detroiter who lives in New York, Barbara Henning is the author of four novels and eight collections of poetry, most recently, Digigram (United Artists Books 2020) and a novel, Just Like That (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016). She has edited The Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins (BlazeVox, 2012) and Looking Up Harryette Mullen (Belladonna, 2011). This afternoon literary event opens with a reading by fiction writer Lynn Crawford of a novel in-progress as well as an excerpt from Crawford’s Three Fold literary series, Imaginary Dinner Party.&nbsp;Crawford's other books include Solow (House of Outside Press/Hard Press Editions, 1995), Blow (Hard Press Editions, 1998), Fortification Resort (Black Square Editions, 2005) a series of art-related sestinas, Simply Separate People (Black Square Editions/Hammer Books, 2002), Simply Separate People, Two (Black Square Editions and the Brooklyn Rail, 2011) and Shankus &amp; Kitto: A Saga (DittoDitto, 2016). staff https://threefoldpress.org/staff Fri, 23 Oct 2020 22:34:00 +0000 Three Fold https://threefoldpress.org/staff EditorsOona Mosna, FilmArtist, author, and curator Oona Mosna has organized more than one thousand screenings, retrospectives and performances for venues internationally. She has also produced dozens of films, which have screened at Tate Modern, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Musem of Modern Art (MoMA), New York Film Festival, and Berlinale. She is artistic director of Media City Film Festival in Windsor-Detroit. Jonathan Rajewski, Visual Art Artist and writer Jonathan Rajewski lives in Detroit, Michigan. He is a co-founder of the Hamtramck Free School. His work and writing has appeared in The Yale Review, Mousse Magazine,&nbsp;The Exhibitionist (MIT Press), and&nbsp;Essay’d&nbsp;(Wayne State Press). Rebecca Mazzei, Editor &amp; FounderAs co-owner of the independent arts space Trinosophes, located in Detroit’s historic Eastern Market, Rebecca Mazzei is a curator and publisher whose other projects include Two Rooms Records and Trinosophes Editions. With her partner, musician Joel Peterson, Trinosophes presents multidisciplinary programming by local, national, and international artists. Previously, Mazzei served as deputy director + special projects at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, assistant dean at College for Creative Studies, and arts and culture editor at Detroit’s&nbsp;Metro Times alternative newsweekly. Michael Jackman, Copy EditorMichael Jackman spent fifteen years at Detroit’s Metro Times, where he started as copy editor and worked his way up to senior editor. Since being laid off in 2018, he has been finishing up a nonfiction book about Detroit in the 1940s. editorialadvisoryboard https://threefoldpress.org/editorialadvisoryboard Wed, 18 Nov 2020 22:35:11 +0000 Three Fold https://threefoldpress.org/editorialadvisoryboard Editorial Advisory Board Dream HamptonDream Hampton is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and writer from Detroit. Her work includes the 2019 Lifetime documentary series Surviving R. Kelly, which she executive produced, and the 2012 An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, which she co-executive produced. She co-wrote Jay-Z’s 2010 memoir, Decoded. In 2019, she was named one of TIME magazine’s Most Influential People.&nbsp; Hampton’s work provides a platform for issues related to racial and gender justice. Cornelius Harris Detroit activist and impresario Cornelius Harris is the founder of Alter Ego Management and the label manager of Underground Resistance (UR), the legendary techno collective from Detroit. He has produced events in the city, across the country, and overseas, spotlighting artists from Detroit. With his support, the artists of UR have since 1990 promoted a fiercely independent, anti-corporate ethos that has transformed the music industry. W. Kim HeronWith three decades of experience in journalism and broadcasting, W. Kim Heron’s career has earned him a place in the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. In addition to working as a reporter for the Detroit Free Press and as editor-in-chief at Detroit’s alternative weekly newspaper, Metro Times, he was the longtime host of a beloved jazz and international music program on WDET-FM Detroit Public Radio. Heron is the senior communications officer at The Kresge Foundation, where he provides strategic communications support to the foundation's Detroit Program. Chris TyshPoet and playwright Chris Tysh is the author of twelve books, the latest of which is 26 Tears, published in 2022. She holds fellowships from The National Endowment of the Arts and the Kresge Foundation. She teaches at Wayne State University. Tysh served as Three Fold’s founding poetry editor from 2020–2025, publishing more than 80 voices in contemporary poetry.George TyshFor more than 50 years, poet George Tysh has combined innovative writing with community engagement on grass-roots and institutional levels. His work also reflects a keen interest in music, visual culture, and world literature. Tysh’s numerous volumes of poetry, including The Slip (2015), The Imperfect (2010), and Dream Sites: A Visual Essay (1998), have been praised for combining “rigor, artifice, and intuition,” in the words of Brooklyn Rail reviewer Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. Tysh has also collaborated with the conceptual artists Sarkis and Christian Boltanski. He co-edited the project In Camera with his wife, Chris, and Blue Pig with David Ball, and has served as arts editor for Detroit’s Metro Times newspaper. His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1980 to 1991 he directed LINES: New Writing at the Detroit Institute of Arts.Tyrone Williams [2020–2024] Former Detroiter Tyrone Williams taught literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was the author of several chapbooks and six books of poetry: c.c. (2002), On Spec (2008), The Hero Project of the Century (2009), Adventures of Pi (2011), Howell (2011), and As Iz (2018). A limited-edition art project, Trump l’oeil, was published by Hostile Books in 2017. He and Jeanne Heuving edited the anthology, Inciting Poetics (2019). Trinosophes Projects Board of DirectorsPresident and Treasurer Meredith Loomis Quinlan is a national activist and organizer currently serving as the Economic Justice Campaign Manager for Community Change, a DC-based office of public policy “working to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.” SecretaryMentored by trumpeter and Tribe Records co-founder Marcus Belgrave, Marcus Elliot is a saxophonist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Detroit. First Mate Bradley Hales is the internationally-recognized proprietor of Peoples Records and founder of the Michigan Audio Heritage Society (MAHS) Museum, archiving and preserving audio culture and the legacy of the region. mediacity https://threefoldpress.org/mediacity Wed, 29 Dec 2021 18:44:22 +0000 Three Fold https://threefoldpress.org/mediacity <img width="1181" height="760" width_o="1181" height_o="760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/311ef155a5ae5cfaba42c77bcc35e0b2a2f8d87cba5982dd6f5c9a9788300dc4/NIGHT-CRIES-TRACEY-MOFFATT-5.png" data-mid="129347212" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/311ef155a5ae5cfaba42c77bcc35e0b2a2f8d87cba5982dd6f5c9a9788300dc4/NIGHT-CRIES-TRACEY-MOFFATT-5.png" /> Media City Film Festival 25th Anniversary Spotlight SeriesJanuary 2022 Three Fold presents a preview of moving image artwork by Tracey Moffatt, Ulysses Jenkins, L. Franklin Gilliam, Tony Cokes, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Cecilia Vicuña, Ximena Cuevas, and Tânia Dinis, selected for Spotlight Series, part of Media City Film Festival’s 25th Anniversary virtual edition streaming online February 8 through March 1, 2022.&nbsp;Three Fold will make links to all films available beginning February 8. The Spotlight Series provides access to moving image artwork that deserves further critical attention and a wider global audience. It builds on Media City Film Festival’s Retrospective Section, which has presented hundreds of artists over the years, such as Yoko Ono, Michael Snow, Alvin Lucier, and others. This year’s spotlights are curated by Greg de Cuir Jr and Almudena Escobar Lòpez.&nbsp; In its entirety, Media City Film Festival will be streaming more than seventy films and digital artworks during the course of its month-long celebration, including work by Sergei Parajanov, Carolee Schneemann, Luther Price, Karpo Godina, Sky Hopinka, and many more. Here are eight highlights from the Spotlight Series, which will be available to stream for free online. <img width="9000" height="10005" width_o="9000" height_o="10005" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8df59bc9bbe830693831af8b3410eb3bb8af6d6e9c37af2c4e3f886fd1b3e8a2/9E425685-AB6D-4DC2-A773-3276F7F22EAD_1_201_a.jpeg" data-mid="129035749" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8df59bc9bbe830693831af8b3410eb3bb8af6d6e9c37af2c4e3f886fd1b3e8a2/9E425685-AB6D-4DC2-A773-3276F7F22EAD_1_201_a.jpeg" /> traceymoffatt https://threefoldpress.org/traceymoffatt Thu, 30 Dec 2021 13:02:42 +0000 Three Fold https://threefoldpress.org/traceymoffatt Tracey Moffatt Tracey Moffatt (b. 1960, Brisbane, Australia) is an artist and filmmaker of Aboriginal Australian heritage. She is recognized for revolutionizing global photographic practice at the end of the twentieth century and is one the most innovative contemporary artists working today. Her stylistically diverse body of films and photographic works explore childhood memories and broader issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, and identity. Moffatt’s work has been the subject of more than one hundred solo exhibitions and has been widely shown at museums and galleries internationally, including The Museum of Modern Art, Cannes Film Festival, Stedelijk Museum, Dia Art Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. She is the subject of numerous publications, including The Moving Images of Tracey Moffatt (Charta, 2007), a major monograph dedicated to her film and photographic practice.&nbsp;She lives and works between Sydney, Australia and New York. <img width="1181" height="753" width_o="1181" height_o="753" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68fcfb6a48eade3038563561627c115d99ac5f6be350ba6d0095ea9fedd44ad3/0-NIGHT-CRIES-TRACEY-MOFFATT.png" data-mid="128576327" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68fcfb6a48eade3038563561627c115d99ac5f6be350ba6d0095ea9fedd44ad3/0-NIGHT-CRIES-TRACEY-MOFFATT.png" /> <img width="1181" height="762" width_o="1181" height_o="762" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e36aebce090f7ad10b59ba6b43f25b1f6f6f4d9fff8ab67a091d4f9870ef285/2.-NIGHT-CRIES-TRACEY-MOFFATT.png" data-mid="128576397" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e36aebce090f7ad10b59ba6b43f25b1f6f6f4d9fff8ab67a091d4f9870ef285/2.-NIGHT-CRIES-TRACEY-MOFFATT.png" /> Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy, Tracey Moffatt, Australia, 35mm︎digital, 19 min, 1990 A dazzling grand opera of silence and maternity, as opulent as Robert Wilson, as soulfully anguished as Fassbinder. –Manohla Dargis &nbsp; On an isolated, surreal Australian homestead, a middle-aged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying white mother. The adopted daughter’s attentive gestures mask an almost palpable hostility. Their story alludes to the assimilation policy that forced Aboriginal children to be raised in white families. The stark, sensual drama unfolds without dialogue against vivid painted sets as the smooth crooning of an Aboriginal Christian singer provides ironic counterpoint. Moffatt’s first 35mm film displays rare visual assurance and emotional power. –Women Make Movies <img width="1181" height="890" width_o="1181" height_o="890" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32b9ad914f3336f8828a4d9dc145b38661ec7a462bc9c8694b8aa0af6f43d6c6/0.2-NICE-COLORED-GIRLS-TRACEY-MOFFATT.png" data-mid="128576486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32b9ad914f3336f8828a4d9dc145b38661ec7a462bc9c8694b8aa0af6f43d6c6/0.2-NICE-COLORED-GIRLS-TRACEY-MOFFATT.png" /> Nice Colored Girls, Tracey Moffatt, Australia, 16mm︎digital, 16 min, 1987 With humor, elegance, and finesse, Tracey Moffatt brilliantly deconstructs the classic good girl/bad girl dichotomy in a game of seduction, symbolic violence, and illusions. –Berenice Reynaud This stylistically daring film by Tracey Moffatt audaciously explores the history of exploitation between white men and Aboriginal women, juxtaposing the ‘first encounter’ between colonizers and native women with the attempts of modern urban Aboriginal women to reverse their fortunes. –Women Make Movies Through allegory, experimental techniques, and a witty use of voice-over, artist Tracey Moffat subverts the colonial gaze in this short about three young Australian Aboriginal women out on the town with a “captain.” –The Museum of Modern Art Co-presented with Women Make Movies and Three Fold. Image credits: all artworks, stills, and portraits courtesy of the artist © Tracey Moffatt and Women Make Movies. View next: Ulysses Jenkins, as part of Media City Film Festival: Spotlight Series ulyssesjenkins https://threefoldpress.org/ulyssesjenkins Thu, 30 Dec 2021 13:05:00 +0000 Three Fold https://threefoldpress.org/ulyssesjenkins Ulysses Jenkins Ulysses Jenkins (b. 1946, Los Angeles, CA) is a pioneering video and multimedia artist who has had a profound influence on contemporary art for more than fifty years. Using archival footage, photographs, image processing, and elegiac soundtracks, his practice pulls together various strands of thought to interrogate questions of race and gender as they relate to ritual, history, and the power of the state. Between 1970 and 1972, Jenkins worked for the Los Angeles County Probation Department as a counselor for psychiatric non-delinquent youth. He also collaborated with gang-intervention programs in San Francisco to teach video art to young people. At Otis Art Institute, Jenkins studied under Gene Youngblood, Charles White, Chris Burden, and Betye Saar at Otis Art Institute, receiving his master of fine arts degree in intermedia-video and performance art in 1979. He has collaborated with Kerry James Marshall, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and Senga Nengudi. His videos have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Getty Center, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Armory Center for the Arts. The first major retrospective of his work, “Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation (2021-2022),” was exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania in fall 2021, and&nbsp;opens at the Hammer Museum on February 6, 2022. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California. <img width="2667" height="2000" width_o="2667" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03af1695207cc86a1e5e1f1c1413a4118680102630b8a498791ce3af0891a17b/jenkins_mass_1-300dpi.jpg" data-mid="128577701" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03af1695207cc86a1e5e1f1c1413a4118680102630b8a498791ce3af0891a17b/jenkins_mass_1-300dpi.jpg" /> Mass of Images, Ulysses Jenkins, USA, digital, 4 min, 1978 Mass of Images engages elements of performance and video art to address myriad racial stereotypes of Black Americans in the media. Using blurred black-and-white film accompanied by a low humming sound, Jenkins employed exaggerated staging to mirror the ridiculousness and prevalence of stereotypical images. Blatantly racist images, such as actors in blackface, fill the screen, accompanied by the declaration in voice-over: “You're just a mass of images you've gotten to know, from years and years of TV shows.” Jenkins’ juxtaposition of this unfortunately valid statement with racist imagery draws attention to the media’s role in perpetuating bias and also questions the future impact of media imagery on Black American identity. –Hammer Museum <img width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ecf44f2758bef1186f112fc694859ec30a36710bab6afd339871e3126091ffa/jenkins_kingdavid-01.jpeg" data-mid="128577185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/0ecf44f2758bef1186f112fc694859ec30a36710bab6afd339871e3126091ffa/jenkins_kingdavid-01.jpeg" /> King David, Ulysses Jenkins, USA, digital, 17 min, 1978 Ulysses Jenkins records David Hammons at a decisive moment in the artist’s development, just prior to his move from Los Angeles to New York. Part interview, part video performance, Hammons, in conversation with fellow artist LaMonte Westmoreland, considers Los Angeles’ Black artist community, the legacy of the Watts Rebellion, and his own artistic strategies. –Electronic Arts Intermix Co-presented with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York and Three Fold. Image credits: all artworks, stills, and portraits courtesy of the artist © Ulysses Jenkins and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. Special thanks to Karl McCool and Hannah Kay. View next: L. Franklin Gilliam, as part of Media City Film Festival: Spotlight Series