Belladonna*

Belladonna* is a reading series and small 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... (

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Belladonna*@ presents PRESENT IN BOTH at St. Mark’s Bookshop!

On Sept 7 (Labor Day, U.S.) Celebrate the LABOR of translation (all kinds: literary, emotional, et cetera!) with us with Zhang Er, Yu Wang, and Wo Chan!

9/7/15 7pmEST

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The 2015 reissue of Erica Hunt’s gorgeous chapbook Time Slips Right Before Your Eyes is here! From Belladonna*.

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Celebrate Bone Bouquet #6.1 on July 17 at Berl’s in Brooklyn!

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PW Poetry Reviews June 2015

April and October tend to be the big months for new poetry releases, but this batch of June and July titles is exceptionally strong. Why is this? I have no idea, but I’m also not going to think about it for too long. I’ll be busy reading.

Black Cat Bone. John Burnside (Graywolf)

Chord. Rick Barot (Sarabande)

Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems. Carlos Drummond de Andrade, trans. by Richard Zenith (FSG)

Tender Data. Monica McLure (Birds, LLC)

Turning into Dwelling. Christopher Gilbert (Graywolf)

All Is Not Yet Lost. Betsy Fagin (Belladonna*)

Count the Waves. Sandra Beasley (Norton)

In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy. Daniel Borzutzky (Nightboat)

My Feelings. Nick Flynn (Graywolf)

Scattered at Sea. Amy Gerstler (Penguin)

The Wise and Foolish Builders. Alexandra Teague (Persea)

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Betsy Fagin reviewed at PW for June!

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PW Poetry Reviews June 2015

April and October tend to be the big months for new poetry releases, but this batch of June and July titles is exceptionally strong. Why is this? I have no idea, but I’m also not going to think about it for too long. I’ll be busy reading.

Black Cat Bone. John Burnside (Graywolf)

Chord. Rick Barot (Sarabande)

Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems. Carlos Drummond de Andrade, trans. by Richard Zenith (FSG)

Tender Data. Monica McLure (Birds, LLC)

Turning into Dwelling. Christopher Gilbert (Graywolf)

All Is Not Yet Lost. Betsy Fagin (Belladonna*)

Count the Waves. Sandra Beasley (Norton)

In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy. Daniel Borzutzky (Nightboat)

My Feelings. Nick Flynn (Graywolf)

Scattered at Sea. Amy Gerstler (Penguin)

The Wise and Foolish Builders. Alexandra Teague (Persea)

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Join us uptown as Belladonna heads to La Casa Azul Bookstore with a new book and two new chaplets from three featured readers-- JP Howard, Christina Olivares, and Tonya Foster!

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Buy Weird Fucks!

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A bit of this originally published as a Belladonna* chaplet in maybe 2000? Cheers!

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Betsy Fagin reading 5/30!

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5/14 4:30pm at Eugene Lang College

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preview of bone bouquet issue 6.1 cover! (it says 6.2, which is a lil error we are fixing) could not wait to share this!!

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from the Celebration of Blackness series, Carl Pope, 2006

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LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Water Score #1, 2011 (wlkr)

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La Digga!

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mark your calendar. Christina Olivares, JP Howard, Tonya M. Foster at La Casa Azul Bookstore June 4. Supported by the NYC DCA.

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Today Coconut Books announced that they will be publishing my first full-length poetry collection Swan Feast in Spring/Summer 2015.When I told my good pal and righteous artist friend Roxy Drew the news, she illustrated this fantastic titular image within hours. 

Along with my book, Coconut will also be publishing Danielle Pafunda’s The Dead Girls Speak in Unison, Krystal Languell's Gray Market, and and and Bernadette Mayer’s chapbook Uncle Andrew’s Pile of Pads. 

Thank goodness. This is such swell news.

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Junot Diaz, Ken Chen, Dawn Davis and Johnny Temple are just a few of the voices in the second installment of Lynn Neary’s series on diversity in publishing. (Here’s the first, and here’s the Pew study mentioned above.)

You can join the conversation on Twitter and Facebook using the hashtag #whoisgettingpublished, or send us a story of your own experience here.

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With a special shout-out to our friend Ken Chen, doing his good work!!