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With the options below, you’ll type in the dollar amount of your choice within the range set for that level. For international shipping, please add $20 for postage.

Chaplet Lover – $100 – $150/year, or $70/year student rate

Chaplet subscribers: you receive all limited-edition chaplets from our reading series shipped twice a year, plus first dibs on auction items, priority seating at Belladonna* readings, random gifts, and our love.

Super Hera – $160 – $500/year

Super Heras: you sustain and foster the work of the collaborative. As a Super Hera, you receive all books and chapbooks in the mail (sent twice a year), 2 back-catalogue books plus 4 back-catalogue chaplets of your choosing, a 10% discount always on all orders, first dibs on auction items, priority seating at Belladonna* readings, random gifts, our love and our public devotion (meaning we’ll ask if we can name you as a supporter on our website, etc.).

Bella Lover/Bella Isis – $501/year – sky’s the limit

Bella Lovers: like Isis, you give us the breath of life. You get everything combined above, plus signed limited edition chaplets and books, our love and eternal devotion.

2019-06-20: Kevin Killian (1952-2019) chaplet PDF available to read

The PDF of Kevin’s chaplet Wow Wow Wow Wow is available to download.

2021-06-01: Lauren Burgess for NDR reviews Simone Kearney's Days

“Her book, DAYS, is what happens when a painter gets a hold of a prose poem and lets it run. DAYS travels leashless, and Kearney serves as a tour guide of thought, who for these purposes has created a speaker so gently meditative…”

2021-05-15: The Brooklyn Rail features an excerpt from Simone Kearney's Days

2021-05-01: Ryo Yamaguchi for the Poetry Foundation reviews Simone Kearney's Days

“The book’s form harnesses an exquisite tension between discrete composition and unfettered maximalism, with each page comprised of just seven fully justified lines, which give the impression of daily entries, though these pages are in fact segmented…”

2021-04-27: On the Seawall features an excerpt from Simone Kearney's Days

Belladonna* School for Feminist Practice & Poetics

Écriture Trans-Fémininewith Zoe Tuck Thursdays: 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 12/2, 12/9, 12/166-8PM EST on Zoom Register here. Écriture Trans-Féminine is a 6-week class devoted to reading, writing, and thinking through the trans feminine. The name originally derives from Hélène Cixous’s concept of écriture feminine—women’s writing—from her classic essay, ‘The Laugh of the Medusa.’ In “Écriture trans-féminine?” Juliet Jacques revisits and extends Cixous’s concept as a way to talk about the cultural and material circumstances that have shaped (and at times constrained) trans writing. In this class we will read a selection work by self-identified trans women writers with particular attention to their formal tendencies. What kind of modes of trans feminine…

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Belladonna* Lesbian All Stars Celebrates Minnie Bruce Pratt

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Marathon reading of the she said dialogues: flesh memory by Akilah Oliver, April 18, 2021

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Marathon reading of the she said dialogues: flesh memory by Akilah Oliver, April 18, 2021

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Days by Simone Kearney

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A Brief History of Burning by Cait O’Kane

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: once teeth bones coral : by Kimberly Alidio

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Matters of Feminist Practice: Volume 1

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Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. by Samuel Ace / Linda Smukler

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day pulls down the sky / a filament in gold leaf by Okwui Okpokwasili and Asiya Wadud

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With the subscription options below, you'll type in the dollar amount of your choice within the range set for that level. For international shipping, please add $20 for postage.

Chaplet Lover – $100 - $150/year, or $70/year student rate
Chaplet subscribers: you receive all limited-edition chaplets from our reading series shipped twice a year, plus first dibs on auction items, priority seating at Belladonna* readings, random gifts, and our love.

Super Hera – $160 - $500/year
Super Heras: you sustain and foster the work of the collaborative. As a Super Hera, you receive all books and chapbooks in the mail (sent twice a year), 2 back-catalogue books plus 4 back-catalogue chaplets of your choosing, a 10% discount always on all orders, first dibs on auction items, priority seating at Belladonna* readings, random gifts, our love and our public devotion (meaning we’ll ask if we can name you as a supporter on our website, etc.).

Bella Lover/Bella Isis - $501/year – sky’s the limit
Bella Lovers: like Isis, you give us the breath of life. You get everything combined above, plus signed limited edition chaplets and books, our love and eternal devotion.

*Special offers and discounts are also available to professors teaching our books & chapbooks, and to book groups reading them. We have been developing Belladonna* courses (one currently being taught in its third iteration at the New School) and are able to share curriculum for those who are interested in teaching our books. Please email the studio at belladonnaseries@gmail.com with the subject line “Book Group Inquiry” or “Course Adoption Inquiry.”