Three First Books In English!

Snare Books, Omnidawn, Ugly Duckling Presse

Sarah Dowling (Security Posture)
Michelle Taransky (Barn Burned, Then)
Marina Temkina (What Do You Want?)

Dixon Place
161 Christie Street; New York City
$6.00

Sarah Dowling's work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Action, Yes!, The Capilano Review, Cue, EOAGH, GLQ, How2, the ixnay reader 4, Jacket, and West Coast Line. Her first book, Security Posture, is the winner of the 2009 Robert Kroetsch Award for innovative poetry. Sarah is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she co-curates the Emergency Reading Series.

 

 

 

Michelle Taransky lives in Philadelphia, where she works at Kelly Writers House and teaches poetry at Temple University. Taransky's first book, Barn Burned, Then, was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize.

 

 

 

Marina Temkina was born in Leningrad in 1948 and emigrated to New York City in1978. She has published four books of poetry in Russian: Chasti chast’ (A Part of A Part), V obratnom napravlenii (InReverse), Kalancha (Watchtower), and Canto Immigranto. In collaboration with Michel Gerard, she has published two artist's books in France: Observatoire Geomnesique and MoMA Duomo: Twelve Objects from Melencholia and the Broken Obelisk. Marina is also the artist/author behind several multimedia poetry installations. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Charles H. Revson Fellowship on the Future of New York at Columbia University. Her work has been included in several international anthologies and poetry magazines. She writes on gender, Russian-Jewish identity and immigration with a sense of history lived through and expressed as an intimate experience.

The Tenth Muse with John Ashbery

Kostas Anagnopoulos, author of Moving Blanket
Kevin Varrone, author of g-point almanac: passyunk lost
Karen Weiser, author of To Light Out

Dixon Place
161 Christie Street; New York City
$6.00

KOSTAS ANAGNOPOULOS is the founding editor of Insurance Editions, and his chapbooks include Daydream, Irritant, Various Sex Acts, and Some of My Reasons. Kostas was born and raised in Chicago, and he now lives in Queens, New York. Moving Blanket (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) is his first full-length collection.

 

 

 

 

 

KEVIN VARRONE is the author of g-point almanac: id est (9/22 – 12/21), g-point Almanac (7/21 – 9/21) (Ixnay Press). His poems have also appeared in print journals and online, including 6X6, Big Bridge, Cross Connect, the ixnay reader: volume 2, American Poetry Review: The Philly Edition, and Duration Press’s ebook series. With poet Pattie McCarthy, he edited and co-founded Beautiful Swimmer Press. He currently lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches literature and writing at Temple University.

 

 

 

KAREN WEISER is the author of Pitching Woo (Cy Press, Fall 2006); Heads Up Fever Pile (Belladonna, 2005); Placefullness (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004); Eight Positive Trees (Pressed Wafer, 2002); and co-authored (with Nadine Maestas) Beneath The Bright Discus (Potes and Poets Press, 2000). To Light Out (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) is her first full-length collection.

Thursday - Saturday, April 8-10, 2010
Join Belladonna* at AWP in Denver, CO
Locations: Hyatt Regency Denver & Colorado Convention Center

Belladonna* will be at the conference bookfair at TABLE X, A Publishing Commune.
Belladonna* members will also be a part of many panels, readings, book signings, and other events.

AWP events feauting Belladonna* members and authors:

CLMP Panel — Face Out:
Maximizing the Visibility of Emerging Writers
Thursday, April 8; 9:00 am - 10:15 am
Room: 106 - Colorado Convention Center
Panelists: Rachel Levitsky, E. Tracy Grinnell, Matvei Yankelevich, Rebecca Wolff
Description: A discussion about how small presses present and market experimental work by emerging writers—work too often misunderstood as possessing the least market potential.

 

 

Latin American Poets in the USA
Thursday, April 8; 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Room: 201 - Colorado Convention Center
Panelists: Lila Zemborain, Mariela Dreyfus, Eduardo Chirinos, Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez, Carmen Valle, Eduardo Espina
Description: This bilingual poetry reading (Spanish and English) aims to present six outstanding Latin American poets in mid-career. It is a very representative selection, with authors coming from strong poetic traditions all over the continent, namely Argentina, Cuba, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Uruguay. All these authors are long-time residents in the U.S a nd their poetry collections have been either partially—or fully—translated into English.

 

 

And the Beat Goes On...
Thursday, April 8; 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Room: Agate Room, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Participants: Elizabeth Robinson, Reed Bye, Anselm Hollo, Maureen Owen
Description: Since its inception, Naropa University's Writing & Poetics program has been a living model of "outrider" traditions. This roundtable includes poets who have lived through and shaped poetic movements central to the 20th & 21st centuries: from Beat and Black Mountain experiments through New York School and Language poetries, this roundtable offers conversation with Naropa poets who have been at the center of American poetic history.

 

Orbiting Salt:
A Quarterly West / Western Humanities Review / Barrelhouse / Versal Reading
Thursday, April 8; 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Room: 111 - Colorado Convention Center
Participants: Sawako Nakayasu, Dawn Lonsinger, Cris Mazza, Alan Michael Parker, Blake Butler
Description: This reading features writers recently published in Quarterly West, Western Humanities Review, Barrelhouse, and Versal. Spanning the traditional and the experimental, the regional and the global, it celebrates the diverse and powerful work of four journals with editors currently studying creative writing at the University of Utah.

 

Reading by Anne Waldman & Gary Snyder
Friday, April 9; 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom, Colorado Convention Center
Panelists: Anne Waldman, Gary Snyder
Description: Ecopoetic scholars and political activists Anne Waldman and Gary Snyder gather for a reading.

 

 

Siren Songs From Across the Seas: Women Poets in Translation
Saturday, April 10, 9:00 am - 10:15 am
Room: 107 - Colorado Convention Center
Participants: Sawako Nakayasu, Henry Israeli, Forrest Gander, Susanna Nied, Kristin Dykstra
Description: Extraordinary women poets from around the world have recently been given voice by a number of American poets and translators. This panel will feature readings of the work of Luljeta Lleshanau (Albania), Coral Bracho (Mexico), Inger Christensen (Denmark), Ayane Kawata (Japan), and Reina María Rodríguez (Cuba), followed by a discussion about capturing the poets' distinct voices in American-English.

 

 

CHAX Press Reading
Saturday, April 10, 1:30 am - 2:45 am
Room: 201 - Colorado Convention Center
Participants: Leslie Scalapino, Jane Sprague, Charles Alexander, Hank Lazer, Kyle Schlesinger, Elizabeth Treadwell
Description: Poetry Reading by Chax Press (Tucson, Arizona) published poets, in celebration of twenty-five years of Chax Press.

 

 

 

Can Poetry Save the Earth?
Saturday, April 10, 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Room: 201 - Colorado Convention Center
Participants: Brenda Iijima, Leonard Schwartz, Sandra Alcosser, John Felstiner, Jonathan Skinner
Description: This panel will investigate the relationship between poetry and ecology, ranging from historical imperatives to contemporary ecopoetics. These panelists—representing activist poets working in zoos and parks, scholars illuminating the vital role of Western nature poetry, and writers redefining our relationship to language and ecology—are at the leading edge of the conversation where poetic language meets environmental education and global sustainability.

 

The Future of Feminist Publishing
Saturday, April 10, 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Room: 303 - Colorado Convention Center
Panelists: Rachel Levitsky, Amy Scholder, Brooke Warner, Kate Khatib, Jocelyn Burrell
Description: This panel brings together five feminist publishing professionals to discuss these issues: how is the scope of feminist publishing changing with the times? What is a feminist book? Do readers respond differently to self-defined feminist books? Why should authors seek out feminist presses to publish their work?