EventsThe New Social Environment#1281
Publishing-in-Transit: CUTT PRESS
Featuring Erin Honeycutt, Katharina Ludwig, a.Monti, and Cole Swensen
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Writers Erin Honeycutt, Katharina Ludwig, a.Monti join Rail contributor Cole Swensen for a conversation.
In this Talk
Erin Honeycutt

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.)
Katharina Ludwig

Katharina Ludwig (she/her, they/them) is a writer, poet, theorist, artist, and editor based in Berlin and London. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London. Katharina’s research is concerned with narrative holes in women’s writing and the temporalities of the 'wounded text'. She tries to activate textual holes as a subversive feminist practice of resistance with insurrectional potential that treats the textual wound as a political and writerly strategy in opposition to authoritarian systems. Katharina’s first single authored book 'The Hole: An Insurrectionary Poetics’ is forthcoming as a parallel publication of one book and three opuscules with MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE and Cutt Press. Katharina has a poetry chapbook forthcoming with Baulk Press and is co-editor of VORTEXT magazine.
a.Monti

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 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.
Cole Swensen

Cole Swensen is the author of twenty volumes of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023), which was long-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays, Art in Time, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over twenty volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and won the 2024 ALTA National Translation Award and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Translation Award.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨