[Launch] Dear Enheduanna with Erin Honeycutt, neneh noï and Chloe Chignell

Join us for the launch of Dear Enheduanna by poet Erin Honeycutt, published by Ugly Duckling press 2025. Part prayer, part performance, part poetic treatise, Dear Enheduanna "is an erotic romp through language and lesbian history." (LA Warman) On the occasion of the launch we are joined by Erin Honeycutt, neneh noï and Chloe Chignell. After the reading they will talk about the inversions and perversions of moving between reader-author, writer-publisher, translation-invocation and anarchist publishing practices. 

Schedule

19h00 Readings by Erin Honeycutt, neneh noï and Chloe Chignell 
20h00-20h30 Conversation between the authors

About

"Sex is beautiful words,
because i can tell you
and you can tell me,
and i can ask you,
and you can ask me,
and you can say no, and say yes,
and I can wear a dress."

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 an 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

Erin Honeycutt is a writer based in Berlin. They co-edit WOMANWOOD, a gazette for erotic writing, and VORTEXT, a mail-order poetry magazine. In 2020, Erin began the publishing project, CUTT PRESS, for pamphlets, chapbooks, and reprints with archives of Hopscotch Reading Room. Erin is the author of Night School (forthcoming from MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE .) https://erinhoneycutt.persona.co/

neneh noï is a poet, currently based in Belgium. Their practice revolves around language, facilitating spaces where writing/text and performance activate each other, translation, transcription, pedagogy, archiving, organising, iterating and ritual.  Recurrent subjects are the abject, desire/disgust, discomfort, anonymity, ridicule & the Fool. Currently and generally they are writing, archiving their gran’s and their own poetry (CUTT press, autumn 2025), co-organising Anonymous Poets sessions with Kate Paul and Roya Shadmand. They facilitate screaming sessions called rage is not a luxury. They just showed their performance Confessions and the Fool at KADOC in Leuven, Belgium. You can find some of their poetry on @nenehnoi 

Chloe Chignell is an artist based in Brussels working across text, choreography and publishing. She invests in writing as a body building practice, examining the ways in which language makes us up. Chloe runs rile* a bookshop and project space with Sven Dehens.