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Upcoming Events



Friday, July 30 – Sunday August 1, 2010
Boston Poet Tea Party
Reading features many Belladonna* authors including Eileen Myles, Kate Colby,
Brenda Iijima, Fanny Howe,
Anna Moschovakis, and more.
Locations: Friday: Pierre Menard Gallery:
10 Arrow St., Harvard Square, Cambridge
Saturday & Sunday: OUTPOST 186:
186 1/2 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge
Admission: FREE



Thursday, August 12, 2010; 8:00 pm
Belladonna* & Dusie present
The Summer Reading
Please join us in celebrating these authors and their new books:
Cara Benson
Mairéad Byrne
Caroline Crumpacker
Susana Gardner
Eileen Myles
Kate Zambreno
Location: Book Thug Nation:
100 N. 3rd St;
Between Berry St & Wythe Ave;
Williamsbug, Brooklyn
Admission: FREE



Friday, December 3, 2010
Leslie Scalapino Memorial readings

with poets, artists & friends
Location: University of California, Berkeley
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall




For more information on all our events,
please click here.

New from Belladonna*



NO GENDER

 

Bharat jiva



Bharat jiva
and NO GENDER are both Venn Diagram Productions, which is the collaborative intersection between Belladonna Books and Litmus Press. This imprint actualizes our mutual commitment to publishing innovative, cross-genre, multicultural, feminist, and queer work by writers and artists working beyond and between borders.

 

 

Forthcoming Books



The Wide Road

Lyn Hejinian & Carla Harryman
2010

News



The Elders Series: Volume 1, E. Tracy Grinnell & Leslie Scalapino is now sold out. Volumes 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 are still available.
July 8, 2010


The Epoch Times
highlights Belladonna* as part of the18th Annual Poets House Showcase.
July 1, 2010


LESLIE SCALAPINO; 1944 – 2010

“Scalapino makes everything take place in real time, in the light and air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once.” —Philip Whalen
Leslie Scalapino passed away on
May 28, 2010 in Berkeley, California.
For more, please click here.


Catherine Daly reviews Bharat jiva
for New Pages.
May 1, 2010


What is more natural:
thinking space and poetry

Marcella Durand and Sina Queyras on
Eco-Poetics and Eco-Criticism on Harriet, the blog from the Poetry Foundation
April 14, 2010


Belladonna is the theme of a Dutch Language Belgian Literary Magazine,
DWB
.
April 11, 2010


kari edwards' Bharat jiva is a finalist for a
Lambda Literary Award
.
March 16, 2010


Sawako Nakayasu is interviewed by
David F. Hoenigman on Word Riot.
March 15, 2010


ON: CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE NO. 2
features Rosa Alcalá, Cara Benson,
Mónica de la Torre,
Erica Hunt,
Jennifer Scappettone, and
more Belladonnas.
February 2010

About Belladonna*


Belladonna* was founded as a reading and salon series by Rachel Levitsky at Bluestocking's Women's Bookstore on New York City's Lower East Side in 1999. In 2000, in collaboration with Boog Literature, Belladonna* began to publish commemorative 'chaplets' of the readers' work. Erica Kaufman joined Levitsky as co-curator/editor in 2002. Then in 2005, the series moved its events to the downtown performance venue, Dixon Place.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of our mission to promote the work of women writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, delicious to talk about, unpredictable, and dangerous with language.

Belladonna* has featured over 150 writers of wildly diverse age and origin, writers who work in conversation and collaboration in and between multiple forms, languages, and critical fields. As performance and as printed text, the work collects, gathers over time and space, and forms a conversation about the feminist avant-garde, what it is and how it comes to be.

* a reading series and independent press that promotes the work of women writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, delicious to talk about, unpredictable, and dangerous with language.

* deadly nightshade, a cardiac and respiratory stimulant, having purplish-red flowers and black berries

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