dispersed holdings

dispersed holdings is an artist-run platform for experimental publishing, reading, and listening practices founded in 2015 by Sal Randolph and David Richardson.

dispersed holdings had its origins as an artist-run listening space sited in the former Bowery apartment of the artist Eva Hesse where we held small-scale gatherings, explored slowed durations, and engaged in collective listening/reading/writing/publishing. We continue as a publication project, focusing on books and pamphlets which expand on notions of reading in its broadest sense, especially reading as a kind of performance.

Our newest publication is PUSSY STUDIES, a book of linked poems by Zoe Tuck which explore a queer erotics of reading. We also have new titles in our "Texts Are Letters" pamphlet series: EUROTRYST by Monica Weltyk (a queer travelogue which, as it happens, features a MISS READ 2025 shout-out;)) and LETTER TO OUR BELOVED DAUGHTER by Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas (about love and futurity in a time of climate change and fascism).

Other recent publications include GYMS by Kyle Booten (computational poetics), ON YOUR FEET: A NOVEL IN TRANSLATIONS by Jacqueline Feldman (translation theory/fiction), *A NEW ENGLISH GRAMMAR by Jeff Dolven (poetry/grammar), and THE USES OF ART by Sal Randolph (art criticism/memoir).