For our first reading of the year, Belladonna* features Miriam Atkin, charles theonia, and Wendy Xu. Presented in collaboration with Montez Press Radio, the in-person reading will be on Monday, January 30 at 7 PM.

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Miriam Atkin is a writer based in the Catskill Mountains. Her creative practice has been largely concerned with the possibilities of poetry as a medium in conversation with avant-garde film, music, and dance. She is cofounder of Pinsapo, an international publishing collective, and teaches writing around the Hudson Valley region, at Bard College and the Otisville Correctional Facility.

charles theonia is a poet, enthusiast, and transsexual without direction. They are the author of artist book Saw Palmettos, chapbook Which One Is the Bridge, and other writings on gay zits, sexology, and disco.

Wendy Xu is most recently the author of The Past (Wesleyan, 2021), and Phrasis, named one of the Ten Best Poetry Books of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Granta, Poetry, Conjunctions, Tin House, New York Review of Books, and widely elsewhere. She is assistant professor of writing at The New School in New York City.