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Join us for the launch of the second issue of Tongue Ring, a bilingual (FR/EN) journal of experimental writing. In celebration of this Bruxelles launch, we will be joined by invited guests ana·mona servo, neneh noï, soto labor plus TR2 contributors Tilda Ringworm and the ghost of Geneviève Pastre.

We are excited to welcome you for the launch of Bastards (Pilot Press, 2026) by Nate Lippens. The novel concludes the author's 'Wisconsin Trilogy' - a series including Ripcord and My Dead Book. The trilogy explores working-class gay life, paying attention to the impacts of AIDS, questions of aging and survival, alongside themes of love and loss. Nate will join us for a reading, after which he will be in conversation with poet Obe Alkema. Pilot Press publisher Richard Porter will host the introduction.

Join us for a presentation of A Cosmology of Bliss, the latest issue of OEI. The issue concerns Bliss (aka Blissymbols or Semantography) — an unspoken language made of countless little geometric symbols, many resembling the things they point to, others remaining more mysterious. The publication explores Bliss through archival material, biographical and speculative texts, and commissions by some thirty artists and poets who put the symbols to new and unruly use. A Cosmology of Bliss will be introduced by its editor, Rowan McNaught.