Small Press Points
new teaching press based at High Point University in North Carolina, () draws its name and its vision from the title of a poem by Paul Celan. In the poem in October, and Ryoko Sekiguchi’s lyric essay The translated by Lindsay Turner, will follow. While getting Threadsuns off the ground amid the pandemic has been challenging, it has also underscored the press’s ambitions to engender connection and inspire a new generation of editors. “ while not written during the pandemic, really speaks to the dynamics of power and powerlessness that one feels right now. The press itself is like that for me,” says Flatt. “I’m something, which is great, but also, you have to question what it actually h in the world. How can you make it more effective, more significant? And for me, that’s where the teaching comes in. If I can pass on this practice to others, teach them how to create community through publishing, then the project has some meaningful agency.” Threadsuns is open for submissions via e-mail year-round.
