Belladonna Series
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Belladonna* is an American non-profit poetry collaborative based in Brooklyn, NY. It was founded in 1999 by Rachel Levitsky at Bluestockings (bookstore)
in New York, NY as a poetry series featuring avant-garde feminist writing, with an emphasis on hybrid and language-focused writing. The reading series quickly expanded to a multi-faceted matrix of readings, publications and informal salons.
on New York City’s Lower East Side, in August 1999. The first publications were by kari edwards
, for the May 4, 2000 reading at Bluestockings (bookstore)
. Following the edwards postcards, in collaboration with Boog Literature, Belladonna* began to publish commemorative ‘chaplets’ of its readers' work.
In 2008 the style of production shifted from small-run, single-authored books to multi-authored volumes. In celebration of Belladonna*’s ten year anniversary in the press published an Elders Series highlighting continuity and transformation of the ideas, poetics, and concerns of its poets' circle.
Martine Bellen
, Cara Benson, Caroline Crumpacker, HR Hegnauer, Barbara Henning
, Krystal Languell, Rachel Levitsky (founder), Kristin Prevallet
, Emily Skillings, Kate Zambreno, Akilah Oliver (1961-2011)
and Bowery Poetry Club
, local literary bookstores like Unnameable Books
and Book Thug Nation, both in BrooklynCUNY Graduate Center, Small Press book fairs large and small, and co-publication projects with other small presses in New York City, such as Litmus, Dusie
, Futurepoem Books
and Ugly Duckling Presse
. Belladonna* has been featured in many publications including Rain Taxi
, American Review of Books, Poets & Writers
, amongst others.
All of Belladonna’s readings are recorded and available for listening on Pennsound, an online project committed to preserving audio archives.
Colette Alexander, Nancy Magarill, and Kristin Prevallet
(2011)
Sunday, Theory: A translation of La Theorie, un Dimanche
Louky Bersianik, Nicole Brossard
, Louise Cotnoir, Louise Dupré, Gail Scott, and France Théoret (2011)
Looking Up Harryette Mullen
Barbara Henning
(2011)
The Wide Road
Lyn Hejinian
and Carla Harryman
(2011)
Bharat Jiva
kari edwards
(2009)
No Gender:' Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards "
Edited by Julian T.Brolaski, erica kaufman, and E.Tracy Grinnel (2009)
The Elders Series:
For the 10 year anniversy of the press, Belladonna* published a limited edition, series of eight perfect-bound books. Each book is an anthology and a conversation between a guest curator and the elder(s) she hosts.
1. E. Tracy Ginnell hosts Leslie Scalapino
(2008)
2. Erica Kaufman & Rachel Levitsky host Bob Gluck & Sarah Schulman
(2008)
3. Tisa Bryant hosts Chris Kraus
(2009)
4. Tribute to Emma Bee Bernstein with Susan Bee (2009)
5. Jen Scappettone hosts Lyn Hejinian
& Etel Adnan (2009)
6. Kate Eichorn hosts M.Nourbese Philp & Gail Scott (2009)
7. Cara Benson hosts Jayne Cortez
& Anne Waldman
(2009)
8. Jane Sprague hosts Diane Ward
& Tina Darragh
(2009)
Area
Marcella Durand (2008)
Alyson Singes
Caroline Bergvall
(2008)
Muave Sea Orchids
Lila Zemborain (2007)
Open Box
Carla Harryman
(2007)
Four From Japan: Contemporary Poetry & Essays by Women
Kiriu Minashita, Kyong-Mi Park, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and Takako Arai. (2006)
Time Slips Right Before Your Eyes
Erica Hunt (2006)
The Putterer’s Notebook
Akilah Oliver (2006)
135. Amina Cain (forthcoming)
134. Danielle Dutton
(forthcoming)
133. Renee Gladman (forthcoming)
132. Carmen Giménez Smith
: Can We Talk Here
131. Cecilia Vicuña: beforehand
130. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
: Selvage: for country
129. Lauren Nicole Nixon, Alexandra Beller, Sally Silvers and Rosamond S. King: Body of Words
128. Eileen Myles
: Dear Lia,
127. Bhanu Kapil: (a poem-essay, or precursor: NOTES: for a novel: Ban en Banlieues)
126. Vanessa Place: Untitled #5
125. The Elders Series #8
124. The Elders Series #7
123. The Elders Series #6
121. The Elders Series #4
120. The Elders Series #3
119. The Elders Series #2
118. The Elders Series #1
117. Kevin Killian: Wow Wow Wow Wow 1
116. Dodie Bellamy
: Mother Montage
115. Kathy Lou Schultz
: Biting Midge (Works in Prose)
114. Jean Day
: Daydream (The Eponym)
113. Barbara Cole: from ear say
112. Elizabeth Robinson: Rumor
111. Fiona Templeton: Medea in Aia: Part I of the Medead
110. R. Erica Doyle: from Proxy
109. Stacey Levine: Susan Moneymaker, Large and Small
108. Maggie O’Sullivan: Windows Opening
107. Harriet Zinnes: IT IS AS IF
106. Jen Benka and Carol Mirakove: 1,138
105. Jocelyn Saidenberg: Dispossessed
104. Evie Shockley: 31 words * prose poems
103. Rebecca Brown: Always & Like This
102. Anna Moschovakis: The Tragedy of Waste
101. Patricia Spears Jones: repuestas!
100. Maureen Owen: from Working Papers
99. Laura Moriarty: Ultravioleta Documents
98. Deborah Meadows: The Draped Universe
97. a. rawlings: W I D E R
96. Margaret Christakos: My Girlish Feast
95. Kate Colby: from A Banner Year
94. Elizabeth Willis: All The Paintings of Giorgione
93. Laynie Browne: Desires of Letters
92. Rae Armantrout: Fetch
91. Marjorie Welish: Art and Language Writes an Epitaph
90. Sharon Mesmer: Vertigo Seeks Affinities
89. Dawn Lundy Martin: The Undress
88. Melissa Buzzeo: Near: a luminescence
87. Laura Elrick: Permeable Structures: A Performance Essay in Stereo (excerpts)
86. Myung Mi Kim: from Penury
85. Ann Lauterbach: from Nothing to Say
84. Kim Rosenfield: 10 Perfumes
83. Kathe Izzo: Public & Private Love
82. Rachel Zolf: from Human Resources
81. Nathalie Stephens: You But for the Body Fell Against
80. Stacy Szymaszek: hyper glossia.
79. Mairead Byrne: Kalends.
78. Fernada Laguna, Gabriela Bajerman, and Cecilia Pavón; translations by Urayoán Noel: Belleza y Felicidad
77. Karen Weiser: Heads Up Fever Pile
76. Martine Bellen: NYC Stories / Lessons of the Microscopist
75. Lisa Robertson: First Spontaneous Horizontal Restaurant
74. Erin Moure: Befallen I
73. Monica de la Torre: Doubles: An Excerpt
72. hassen: Salem
71. Mercedes Roffe: Theory of Colors
70. Lyn Hejinian
: Lola
69. Corina Copp: Play Air
68. Susan Howe: 118 Westerly Terrace
67. Eileen Tabios: The Estrus Gaze(s)
66. Nicole Brossard
: Matter Harmonious Still Maneuvering
65. Renee Gladman: Untitled, Woman On Ground
64. Joan Retallack: THE REINVENTION OF TRUTH
63. Latasha N. Nevada Diggs: Manuel is destroying my bathroom…
62. Rachel Daley: You and Me Story 61. Jaimy Gordon: A Month of Love
60. Belladonna* Bilingue: Women’s Work in Translation (v. 2
59. Belladonna* Bilingue: Women’s Work in Translation (v. 1)
58. Lourdes Vasquez: May the transvestites of my island who tap their heels
57. Maria Negroni: Art and Fugue
56. Caroline Bergvall: GONG
55. Catherine Daly: Surplice
54. Nada Gordon: SOng of My OWnself
53. Joanna Fuhrman: Belladonna* Moraine
52. Susan Briante: Neotropics: A Romancein Field Notes
51. Jen Benka: A Revisioning of the Preamble
50. Leslie Scalapino
: ‘Can’t is ‘Night’
49. Veronica Corpuz: Unititled
48. Michelle Naka Pierce
: 48 Minutes Left
47. Anne Tardos: A Noisy Nightingale Understands a Tiger’s Camouflage Totally
46. Minnie Bruce Pratt: The Money Machine: Selected Poems
45. Joan Larkin: Boston Piano
44. Julie Patton: “Car Tune” & Not So Bella Donna
43. Summi Kaipa: from Was.Or Am.
42. Maggie Nelson: Something Bright, Then Holes
41. Elaine Equi: Castle, Diamond, Swan
40. Lydia Davis: Cape Cod Diary
39. Suzanne Wise: from The Blur Model
38. Eileen Myles
: We, the Poets
37. Caitlin Mcdonnell: Dreaming the Tree
36. Alice Notley: IPHIGENIA
35. Lauren Gudath: Animal & Robot
34. Tonya Foster: A Swarm of Bees in High Court
33. Zhang Er: Cross River. Pick Lotus
32. Jennifer Moxley: The Occasion
31. Chris Tysh: Mother, I (fragment of a film script)
30. Tina Darragh
: from rule of dumbs
29. Rosmarie Waldrop: Trace Histories
28. Bhanu Kapil: from The Wolf Girls of Midnapure
27. kari edwards
: a diary of lies
26. Anne Waldman
: [THINGS] SEEN/UNSEEN
25. Carla Harryman
: DIMBLUE and Why Yell
24. Gail Scott: Bottoms Up
23. Jocelyn Saidenberg: Dusty
22. Norma Cole: BURNS
21. Deborah Richards: Put A Feather In It
20. Abigail Child: Artificial Memory vol 1 & vol 2
19. Lynne Tillman: from Weird Fucks & “Dead Talk”
18. Cheryl Pallant: Spontaneities
17. Lila Zemborain: PAMPA
16. Aja Couchois Duncan: Commingled : Sight
15. Adeena Karasick: The Arugula Fugues VII-VIII
14. Lee Ann Brown: The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time / Reverse Mermaid
13. Nicole Brossard
: The Neck of Lee Miller
12. Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 43: Gap:
11. Kathleen Fraser Soft Pages
10. Lisa Jarnot: Nine Songs
9. Laura Wright: Everything Automatic
8. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge: Audience
7. Beth Murray: 12 Horrors
6. Laura Mullen: Translation Series
5. Fanny Howe: from Indivisible
4. Eleni Sikelianos: from The Book of Jon
3. Cecilia Vicuña, trans. Rosa Alcalá: Bloodskirt
2. Camille Roy: Dream Girls
1. Mary Burger: Eating Belief
Belladonna* Pennsound Page:
Interview With Rachel Levitsky
Review of Deborah Meadows Belladonna Chaplet:
Four From Japan Events on Pennsound:
Report on Four From Japan by American Literary Translators:
Review by Noah Eli Gordon:
Essay in "Numbers Trouble" Forum:
Forum on Small Presses at HOW2:
Bluestockings (bookstore)
Bluestockings is an infoshop in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Collectively run by volunteers and a worker-owner collective, Bluestockings is Manhattan's only women's bookstore...
in New York, NY as a poetry series featuring avant-garde feminist writing, with an emphasis on hybrid and language-focused writing. The reading series quickly expanded to a multi-faceted matrix of readings, publications and informal salons.
History
Belladonna* was started as a reading and salon series at Bluestockings (bookstore)Bluestockings (bookstore)
Bluestockings is an infoshop in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Collectively run by volunteers and a worker-owner collective, Bluestockings is Manhattan's only women's bookstore...
on New York City’s Lower East Side, in August 1999. The first publications were by kari edwards
Kari edwards
kari edwards was a poet, artist and gender activist. He won the New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature .He authored have been blue for charity ; obedience ; iduna kari edwards (1954-2006) was a poet, artist and gender activist. He won the New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature...
, for the May 4, 2000 reading at Bluestockings (bookstore)
Bluestockings (bookstore)
Bluestockings is an infoshop in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Collectively run by volunteers and a worker-owner collective, Bluestockings is Manhattan's only women's bookstore...
. Following the edwards postcards, in collaboration with Boog Literature, Belladonna* began to publish commemorative ‘chaplets’ of its readers' work.
In 2008 the style of production shifted from small-run, single-authored books to multi-authored volumes. In celebration of Belladonna*’s ten year anniversary in the press published an Elders Series highlighting continuity and transformation of the ideas, poetics, and concerns of its poets' circle.
Collaborative
In 2010, Belladonna* formed a cooperative board with each member taking specific responsibilities so that the ongoing readings and publications can proceed. Presently the members are:Martine Bellen
Martine Bellen
-Life:She has taught at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, New York University, Rutgers University, and Hofstra University.She was writer in residence at University of Central Oklahoma....
, Cara Benson, Caroline Crumpacker, HR Hegnauer, Barbara Henning
Barbara Henning
Barbara Henning is an American poet and fiction writer. She is the author of eight books of poetry, three novels, a series of photo-poem pamphlets and most recently a collection of interviews, . Her work has been published in numerous journals...
, Krystal Languell, Rachel Levitsky (founder), Kristin Prevallet
Kristin Prevallet
Kristin Prevallet is an American poet and essayist who currently lives and works in New York City. Prevallet studied with Robert Creeley at SUNY Buffalo and has described herself as working in the tradition of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson and the ongoing stream of American high modernists...
, Emily Skillings, Kate Zambreno, Akilah Oliver (1961-2011)
Readings
Belladonna* collaborates with performance venues, academic institutions, art and literary organizations, holding readings at Dixon PlaceDixon Place
Dixon Place is an Obie Award winning, Off-Off Broadway New York City theater devoted exclusively to presenting original pieces of theater, dance, performance art and literature that are works in progress.-History:...
and Bowery Poetry Club
Bowery Poetry Club
The Bowery Poetry Club is a New York City poetry performance space founded by Bob Holman in 2002. Located at 308 Bowery, between Bleecker and Houston Streets in Manhattan's East Village, the BPC provides a home base for established and upcoming artists...
, local literary bookstores like Unnameable Books
Unnameable Books
Unnameable Books is an independent bookstore located on Vanderbilt Ave, between Prospect and St. Marks, in Brooklyn, New York. It has been profiled as an example of a small New York bookstore that survives as chains, internet sales and rising real estate prices drive more established New York...
and Book Thug Nation, both in BrooklynCUNY Graduate Center, Small Press book fairs large and small, and co-publication projects with other small presses in New York City, such as Litmus, Dusie
Dusie
Dusie began in 2005 by publishing an experimental poetics journal online. In 2006, Dusie began publishing full length works in paperback format. Dusie's backlist of full-length collections of poetry includes books by Joe Amato, Anne Blonstein, Kirsty Bowen, Nicole Mauro, Logan Ryan Smith, and...
, Futurepoem Books
Futurepoem Books
Futurepoem Books is an American small not-for-profit press based in New York City. Futurepoem was founded by Dan Machlin in 2002 and focuses on publishing innovative poetry, prose and hybrid literature. The press has a rotating editorial board. Each year three new editors select books sent in...
and Ugly Duckling Presse
Ugly Duckling Presse
Ugly Duckling Presse is an American nonprofit art and publishing collective based in Brooklyn, New York City that publishes small to mid-size runs of poetry, translations, lost works, and artist's books. It was founded in 1993 by Matvei Yankelevich as a college zine before expanding to publishing...
. Belladonna* has been featured in many publications including Rain Taxi
Rain Taxi
Rain Taxi is a Minneapolis-based book review and literary organization. In addition to publishing its quarterly print edition, Rain Taxi maintains an online edition with distinct content, sponsors the Twin Cities Book Festival, hosts readings, and publishes chapbooks through its Brainstorm Series...
, American Review of Books, Poets & Writers
Poets & Writers
Poets & Writers, Inc. is one of the largest nonprofit literary organization in the United States serving poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers...
, amongst others.
All of Belladonna’s readings are recorded and available for listening on Pennsound, an online project committed to preserving audio archives.
Publishing Philosophy
Instead of holding contests or having regular submission periods, Belladonna* promotes feminist literary community among those with a shared (and ever-evolving) poetics. For the most part Belldonna* develops its reading series and publication list through affiliation and invitation. In this manner the collective expands as new poets join its conversations, often volunteering to help with projects. Anyone who feels aligned with what Belladonna* is doing can participate, volunteer and contribute. Writers who are published by Belladonna often participate in the process of publishing their work and the work of others, and then become involved in the collective.Books:
Seasons: Quartets (Recomposed) Words move/music moves: only in time.Colette Alexander, Nancy Magarill, and Kristin Prevallet
Kristin Prevallet
Kristin Prevallet is an American poet and essayist who currently lives and works in New York City. Prevallet studied with Robert Creeley at SUNY Buffalo and has described herself as working in the tradition of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson and the ongoing stream of American high modernists...
(2011)
Sunday, Theory: A translation of La Theorie, un Dimanche
Louky Bersianik, Nicole Brossard
Nicole Brossard
Nicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...
, Louise Cotnoir, Louise Dupré, Gail Scott, and France Théoret (2011)
Looking Up Harryette Mullen
Barbara Henning
Barbara Henning
Barbara Henning is an American poet and fiction writer. She is the author of eight books of poetry, three novels, a series of photo-poem pamphlets and most recently a collection of interviews, . Her work has been published in numerous journals...
(2011)
The Wide Road
Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work My Life , as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry .-Life:Hejinian was born in the San...
and Carla Harryman
Carla Harryman
Carla Harryman is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets. She teaches Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University and serves on the MFA faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College...
(2011)
Bharat Jiva
kari edwards
Kari edwards
kari edwards was a poet, artist and gender activist. He won the New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature .He authored have been blue for charity ; obedience ; iduna kari edwards (1954-2006) was a poet, artist and gender activist. He won the New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature...
(2009)
No Gender:' Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards "
Edited by Julian T.Brolaski, erica kaufman, and E.Tracy Grinnel (2009)
The Elders Series:
For the 10 year anniversy of the press, Belladonna* published a limited edition, series of eight perfect-bound books. Each book is an anthology and a conversation between a guest curator and the elder(s) she hosts.
1. E. Tracy Ginnell hosts Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of...
(2008)
2. Erica Kaufman & Rachel Levitsky host Bob Gluck & Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman
Sarah Miriam Schulman is an American novelist, historian and playwright. An early chronicler of the AIDS crisis, she wrote on AIDS and social issues, publishing in The Village Voice in the early 1980s, and writing the first piece on AIDS and the homeless, which appeared in The Nation...
(2008)
3. Tisa Bryant hosts Chris Kraus
Chris Kraus
Chris Kraus is a writer, filmmaker, and professor of film at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Her books include I Love Dick, Aliens & Anorexia, and Torpor. Video Green, Kraus' first non-fiction book examines the explosion of late 1990s art by high-profile graduate programs that...
(2009)
4. Tribute to Emma Bee Bernstein with Susan Bee (2009)
5. Jen Scappettone hosts Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work My Life , as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry .-Life:Hejinian was born in the San...
& Etel Adnan (2009)
6. Kate Eichorn hosts M.Nourbese Philp & Gail Scott (2009)
7. Cara Benson hosts Jayne Cortez
Jayne Cortez
Jayne Cortez is an American poet, and performance artist.-Biography:She grew up in California. She is the author of ten books of poems and performer of her poetry with music on nine recordings. Her voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyricism, and visceral...
& Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman is an American poet.Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist....
(2009)
8. Jane Sprague hosts Diane Ward
Diane Ward
Diane Ward is a U.S. poet initially associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s and has actively published into the 21st century, maintaining a presence in various artistic communities for many decades...
& Tina Darragh
Tina Darragh
Tina Darragh is an American poet who was one of the original members of the Language group of poets.Darragh was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in the south suburb of McDonald, Pennsylvania. She began writing in 1968 and studied poetry in Washington, DC at Trinity University from 1970 to 1972...
(2009)
Area
Marcella Durand (2008)
Alyson Singes
Caroline Bergvall
Caroline Bergvall
Caroline Bergvall is a poet of French-Norwegian nationalities who has lived in England since 1989.Bergvall has developed audio texts and collaborative performances with sound artists in Europe and North America; her critical work is largely concerned with emerging forms of writing, plurilingual...
(2008)
Muave Sea Orchids
Lila Zemborain (2007)
Open Box
Carla Harryman
Carla Harryman
Carla Harryman is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets. She teaches Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University and serves on the MFA faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College...
(2007)
Four From Japan: Contemporary Poetry & Essays by Women
Kiriu Minashita, Kyong-Mi Park, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and Takako Arai. (2006)
Time Slips Right Before Your Eyes
Erica Hunt (2006)
The Putterer’s Notebook
Akilah Oliver (2006)
Chaplets:
136. Elisa Biagini; translations by Eugene Ostashevsky: La sorpresa nell’uovo (The Surprise in the Egg). (forthcoming)135. Amina Cain (forthcoming)
134. Danielle Dutton
Danielle Dutton
Danielle Dutton is an American writer.- Life :Dutton grew up in central California. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in History and then lived for a year in England before moving to Los Angeles where she worked in music management. She later studied writing at...
(forthcoming)
133. Renee Gladman (forthcoming)
132. Carmen Giménez Smith
Carmen Giménez Smith
Carmen Giménez Smith is an American poet, writer and editor.Giménez Smith earned a B.A. from San Jose State University and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She is currently an assistant professor in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at New...
: Can We Talk Here
131. Cecilia Vicuña: beforehand
130. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is the first Tibetan female poet to be published in English. She was raised in India and Nepal. Tsering received her MA from University of Massachusetts Amherst and her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University...
: Selvage: for country
129. Lauren Nicole Nixon, Alexandra Beller, Sally Silvers and Rosamond S. King: Body of Words
128. Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles is an American poet who has also worked in fiction, non-fiction, and theater.She won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.-Early life and career:...
: Dear Lia,
127. Bhanu Kapil: (a poem-essay, or precursor: NOTES: for a novel: Ban en Banlieues)
126. Vanessa Place: Untitled #5
125. The Elders Series #8
124. The Elders Series #7
123. The Elders Series #6
121. The Elders Series #4
120. The Elders Series #3
119. The Elders Series #2
118. The Elders Series #1
117. Kevin Killian: Wow Wow Wow Wow 1
116. Dodie Bellamy
Dodie Bellamy
Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor. Her work is frequently associated with that of Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, and Eileen Myles...
: Mother Montage
115. Kathy Lou Schultz
Kathy Lou Schultz
Kathy Lou Schultz is an award winning author and poet from Burke, South Dakota. She was born on November 30, 1966 to Lewis and Jeanne Schultz. Lewis and Jeanne soon after moved the family to Kearney, NE.-Education:...
: Biting Midge (Works in Prose)
114. Jean Day
Jean Day
-Life and work:Born in Syracuse, New York, and raised in Middletown, Rhode Island, Day graduated from Antioch College in 1977. Since then she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked in literary publishing, currently as associate editor of...
: Daydream (The Eponym)
113. Barbara Cole: from ear say
112. Elizabeth Robinson: Rumor
111. Fiona Templeton: Medea in Aia: Part I of the Medead
110. R. Erica Doyle: from Proxy
109. Stacey Levine: Susan Moneymaker, Large and Small
108. Maggie O’Sullivan: Windows Opening
107. Harriet Zinnes: IT IS AS IF
106. Jen Benka and Carol Mirakove: 1,138
105. Jocelyn Saidenberg: Dispossessed
104. Evie Shockley: 31 words * prose poems
103. Rebecca Brown: Always & Like This
102. Anna Moschovakis: The Tragedy of Waste
101. Patricia Spears Jones: repuestas!
100. Maureen Owen: from Working Papers
99. Laura Moriarty: Ultravioleta Documents
98. Deborah Meadows: The Draped Universe
97. a. rawlings: W I D E R
96. Margaret Christakos: My Girlish Feast
95. Kate Colby: from A Banner Year
94. Elizabeth Willis: All The Paintings of Giorgione
93. Laynie Browne: Desires of Letters
92. Rae Armantrout: Fetch
91. Marjorie Welish: Art and Language Writes an Epitaph
90. Sharon Mesmer: Vertigo Seeks Affinities
89. Dawn Lundy Martin: The Undress
88. Melissa Buzzeo: Near: a luminescence
87. Laura Elrick: Permeable Structures: A Performance Essay in Stereo (excerpts)
86. Myung Mi Kim: from Penury
85. Ann Lauterbach: from Nothing to Say
84. Kim Rosenfield: 10 Perfumes
83. Kathe Izzo: Public & Private Love
82. Rachel Zolf: from Human Resources
81. Nathalie Stephens: You But for the Body Fell Against
80. Stacy Szymaszek: hyper glossia.
79. Mairead Byrne: Kalends.
78. Fernada Laguna, Gabriela Bajerman, and Cecilia Pavón; translations by Urayoán Noel: Belleza y Felicidad
77. Karen Weiser: Heads Up Fever Pile
76. Martine Bellen: NYC Stories / Lessons of the Microscopist
75. Lisa Robertson: First Spontaneous Horizontal Restaurant
74. Erin Moure: Befallen I
73. Monica de la Torre: Doubles: An Excerpt
72. hassen: Salem
71. Mercedes Roffe: Theory of Colors
70. Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work My Life , as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry .-Life:Hejinian was born in the San...
: Lola
69. Corina Copp: Play Air
68. Susan Howe: 118 Westerly Terrace
67. Eileen Tabios: The Estrus Gaze(s)
66. Nicole Brossard
Nicole Brossard
Nicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...
: Matter Harmonious Still Maneuvering
65. Renee Gladman: Untitled, Woman On Ground
64. Joan Retallack: THE REINVENTION OF TRUTH
63. Latasha N. Nevada Diggs: Manuel is destroying my bathroom…
62. Rachel Daley: You and Me Story 61. Jaimy Gordon: A Month of Love
60. Belladonna* Bilingue: Women’s Work in Translation (v. 2
59. Belladonna* Bilingue: Women’s Work in Translation (v. 1)
58. Lourdes Vasquez: May the transvestites of my island who tap their heels
57. Maria Negroni: Art and Fugue
56. Caroline Bergvall: GONG
55. Catherine Daly: Surplice
54. Nada Gordon: SOng of My OWnself
53. Joanna Fuhrman: Belladonna* Moraine
52. Susan Briante: Neotropics: A Romancein Field Notes
51. Jen Benka: A Revisioning of the Preamble
50. Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of...
: ‘Can’t is ‘Night’
49. Veronica Corpuz: Unititled
48. Michelle Naka Pierce
Michelle Naka Pierce
Michelle Naka Pierce is a half Japanese/half American poet. She teaches experimental poetry and writing pedagogy at Naropa University and is the director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman in 1974...
: 48 Minutes Left
47. Anne Tardos: A Noisy Nightingale Understands a Tiger’s Camouflage Totally
46. Minnie Bruce Pratt: The Money Machine: Selected Poems
45. Joan Larkin: Boston Piano
44. Julie Patton: “Car Tune” & Not So Bella Donna
43. Summi Kaipa: from Was.Or Am.
42. Maggie Nelson: Something Bright, Then Holes
41. Elaine Equi: Castle, Diamond, Swan
40. Lydia Davis: Cape Cod Diary
39. Suzanne Wise: from The Blur Model
38. Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles is an American poet who has also worked in fiction, non-fiction, and theater.She won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.-Early life and career:...
: We, the Poets
37. Caitlin Mcdonnell: Dreaming the Tree
36. Alice Notley: IPHIGENIA
35. Lauren Gudath: Animal & Robot
34. Tonya Foster: A Swarm of Bees in High Court
33. Zhang Er: Cross River. Pick Lotus
32. Jennifer Moxley: The Occasion
31. Chris Tysh: Mother, I (fragment of a film script)
30. Tina Darragh
Tina Darragh
Tina Darragh is an American poet who was one of the original members of the Language group of poets.Darragh was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in the south suburb of McDonald, Pennsylvania. She began writing in 1968 and studied poetry in Washington, DC at Trinity University from 1970 to 1972...
: from rule of dumbs
29. Rosmarie Waldrop: Trace Histories
28. Bhanu Kapil: from The Wolf Girls of Midnapure
27. kari edwards
Kari edwards
kari edwards was a poet, artist and gender activist. He won the New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature .He authored have been blue for charity ; obedience ; iduna kari edwards (1954-2006) was a poet, artist and gender activist. He won the New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature...
: a diary of lies
26. Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman is an American poet.Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist....
: [THINGS] SEEN/UNSEEN
25. Carla Harryman
Carla Harryman
Carla Harryman is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets. She teaches Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University and serves on the MFA faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College...
: DIMBLUE and Why Yell
24. Gail Scott: Bottoms Up
23. Jocelyn Saidenberg: Dusty
22. Norma Cole: BURNS
21. Deborah Richards: Put A Feather In It
20. Abigail Child: Artificial Memory vol 1 & vol 2
19. Lynne Tillman: from Weird Fucks & “Dead Talk”
18. Cheryl Pallant: Spontaneities
17. Lila Zemborain: PAMPA
16. Aja Couchois Duncan: Commingled : Sight
15. Adeena Karasick: The Arugula Fugues VII-VIII
14. Lee Ann Brown: The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time / Reverse Mermaid
13. Nicole Brossard
Nicole Brossard
Nicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...
: The Neck of Lee Miller
12. Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 43: Gap:
11. Kathleen Fraser Soft Pages
10. Lisa Jarnot: Nine Songs
9. Laura Wright: Everything Automatic
8. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge: Audience
7. Beth Murray: 12 Horrors
6. Laura Mullen: Translation Series
5. Fanny Howe: from Indivisible
4. Eleni Sikelianos: from The Book of Jon
3. Cecilia Vicuña, trans. Rosa Alcalá: Bloodskirt
2. Camille Roy: Dream Girls
1. Mary Burger: Eating Belief
Articles
- Belladonna*: The Deadly Night Shades of Experimental Women’s Poetry” by Corinne Robins (American Book Review, Spring 2005)
- “Bull Tongue” by Byron Coley and Thurston MooreThurston MooreThurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
(Arthur, January 2005) - “Made in the Nightshade” (Poetry Project Newsletter, October/November 2005)
- “Celebrating Renegade Presses in America” (Poetry Project Newsletter, October/November 2004)
- “Exotic flower, decayed golds, and the fall of paganism: The 2003 Poets House Poetry Showcase” by Rodney Phillips (Fence Magazine, Fall/ Winter 2003-04)
External links
Official Belladonna* Website:- http://www.belladonnaseries.org
Belladonna* Pennsound Page:
- http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Belladonna.php
Interview With Rachel Levitsky
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/poetry-as-event-belladonna/
Review of Deborah Meadows Belladonna Chaplet:
- http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n34/book_reviews/draped_universe_by_deborah_meadows
Four From Japan Events on Pennsound:
- http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Factorial-NYC.html
Report on Four From Japan by American Literary Translators:
- http://literarytranslators.blogspot.com/2006/11/four-from-japan-contemporary-poetry.html
Review by Noah Eli Gordon:
- http://jacketmagazine.com/34/gordon-belladonna.html
Essay in "Numbers Trouble" Forum:
- http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2008/02/dim-sum-rachel-levitsky.html
Forum on Small Presses at HOW2:
- http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_archive/v2_4_2006/current/forum/levitsky.html