Lapsus Calami since 2003
Calamari Arↄhive is an autonomous island of misfit lit, art + music, beholden to no one. Since 2003, Calamari has pushed the envelope of what language can do, publishing over 100 book + album objects (including Sleepingfish magazine + the incorporated 3rd bed + Starcherone imprints). Some of these have been 1st books by emerging writers such as Brandon Hobson, Miranda Mellis, Blake Butler + Chiara Barzini, while others have been resurrected reprints of out-of-print cult classics by authors such as David Ohle, Garielle Lutz + Kenji Siratori. Calamari Archive shrugs off genre, authorship, marketability + other conventions of traditional publishing, suffice to say we revere language + the book/album format as a canvas on which to make art.
In 2014 the entity formerly known as Calamari Press lopped off the pushy-sounding press from its name to become Calamari Archive, ink. The word archive more accurately reflects our organizational ambitions, incorporated (+ ink.operated) as such, as an independent collective, a curated collection. This name change represents a philosophical schism in response to a shifting landscape that aggressively markets books + albums as consumer commodities, diminishing their integrity as art objects. Ↄalamari Arↄhive eschews copyrighted works + encourages posthumanistic + anon/pseudonymous works, with an emphasis more on the art itself than on the humans making it. This post provides a nuts + bolts account of how we operate.
Proposals for full-length books or albums are always being considered. If you're not familiar with Calamari Arↄhive then please check out the catalog, there's lots of stuff freely available online. Authors + artists from diverse + marginalized backgrounds are encouraged to send work, white american dudes w/MFAs have had plenty of opportunities. Email to: submission.
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