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Come and join us for a January evening of poetry to launch Dear Enheduanna, (2025, Ugly Duckling Presse) by Erin Honeycutt with readings from a.Monti & Tess Brown-Lavoie.
Part prayer, part performance, part poetic treatise, Dear Enheduanna writes out to the high priestess and first known author then swallows whole the epistolary form. Pulp decay as publishing tactic. These are conjuring poems; poems coming after collaboration — entanglement as conceit, as kink, as communion pleasure tactic. Smuggle in a sexy mirror, smuggle in a double-headed dildo, smuggle in a sentence then feel it read back: the author is reader is author is reader.
“Dear Enheduanna is erotic romp through language and lesbian history. Erin Honeycutt elegantly weaves together what it means to have a sexual body, a body encased in history. What are the limits of expressing desire? Can the orgasm become language? Complex and fun, these poems spill over and out of the mouth.” —LA Warman
To reserve a copy of Dear Enheduanna, (Ugly Duckling Presse, November 2025, paperback, $14) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Dear Enheduanna, for January 18 event” in the subject line.
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This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
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Erin Honeycutt is a writer based in Berlin. They co-edit WOMANWOOD, an open-call smut gazette, and VORTEXT, a mail-order poetry magazine. In 2020, Erin began the publishing project, CUTT PRESS, for pamphlets, poetry, and reprints with the archives of Hopscotch Reading Room. Erin is the author of Dear Enheduanna (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Night School (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE.)
a.Monti is a cross-disciplinary poet, translator and educator. They have facilitated seminars and workshops on experimental sound, contemporary poetry, archival research and writing for performance. Monti is an Associate Editor at Litmus Press and co-edits WOMANWOOD, an open-call smut gazette (Cutt Press). They have written for The Offing, McSweeney’s, The Berliner and Montez Press Radio. Monti is based between Berlin and New York City but was born in an elevator in Rome going up to the third floor.
Tess Brown-Lavoie is author of Lite Year, winner of the Fence Modern Poet Series Prize. Brown-Lavoie co-founded Sidewalk Ends Farm in 2011, and was recently the Anne Waldman Fellow at Naropa University. Brown-Lavoie teaches writing to architecture students at Pratt.