Belladonna* and IAIA (Institute of Arab and Islamic Art) are proud to co-present an evening of literature featuring Iman Mersal and Aditi Machado. Additional support has been generously provided by Mophradat and Poets & Writers. The readings will be followed by a conversation between the two writers, moderated by Omar Berrada. New Belladonna* chaplets from each reader will be released and available for purchase at the night of the event. Aditi Machado’s reading and the following discussion will be conducted in English, while Iman Mersal’s reading will alternate between English and Arabic. Seating is limited, please rsvp@instituteaia.org by May 10, 2018. RSVP to our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2003061719947697/ Belladonna* Collaborative's programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Belladonna* Collaborative's programs and publications are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. A special thanks to Mophradat as a co-sponsor of this event.

Join us for the first reading of our Belladonna* Roll Call Reading Series with Patricia Spears-Jones presenting Serena J. Fox, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis presenting Orchid Tierney. New work & new chaplets! About the Series: For each installment of Roll Call, presented by Belladonna* Collaborative, two previously published poets from the Belladonna* chaplet archive have selected and will introduce a poet whose work expands and enriches the tradition of experimental feminist writing. Roll Call builds upon networks and communities within the feminist avant-garde while materializing the breadth of Belladonna* Collaborative’s twenty-year publishing history. RSVP to our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/232325430769271/

Anaïs Duplan and Yumi Dineen Shiroma read for the second event in the Belladonna* Roll Call Reading Series. Come hear new work and get new chaplets! Takes place during the NY Queer Zine Fair!! About the Series: For each installment of Roll Call, presented by Belladonna* Collaborative, two previously published poets from the Belladonna* chaplet archive have selected and will introduce a poet whose work expands and enriches the tradition of experimental feminist writing. Roll Call builds upon networks and communities within the feminist avant-garde while materializing the breadth of Belladonna* Collaborative’s twenty-year publishing history. RSVP to our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/528693830914282/

Belladonna* Collaborative teams up with The Operating System and Ugly Duckling Presse to host a bilingual reading with Urayoán Noel, Margaret Randall, Mónica de la Torre, María Vásquez Valdez, Lila Zemborain, and Elizabeth Zuba. From the OS: Join the Operating System for a bilingual poetry event in celebration of the release of the dual-language translation of Mexican poet / scholar / translator María Vázquez Valdez’s 'Kawsay - La llama de selva / Kawsay - The flame of the jungle' at McNally Jackson's Williamsburg Store on October 16th! Vázquez Valdez will be joined by the translator of the volume, renowned poet Margaret Randall, as well as a host of incredible bilingual poet-translators representing Belladonna*/Belladonna Books and Ugly Duckling Presse! We’re thrilled to have Urayoán Noel, Elizabeth Zuba, and LIla Zemborain joining us for this very special evening. Kawsay is Vázquez Valdez’s poetic account of her experience in Peru working with the Shipibo indigenous community, and features drawings by Chizuko Osato. RSVP to our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2247864495443673/

Join us for our Belladonna* Roll Call Reading Series with Mercedes Roffé presenting Marta Lopez Luaces, and Mónica de la Torre presenting Montana Ray. New work & new chaplets! About the Series: For each installment of Roll Call, presented by Belladonna* Collaborative, two previously published poets from the Belladonna* chaplet archive have selected and will introduce a poet whose work expands and enriches the tradition of experimental feminist writing. Roll Call builds upon networks and communities within the feminist avant-garde while materializing the breadth of Belladonna* Collaborative’s twenty-year publishing history. RSVP to our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2186698694904183/

Join us for our Belladonna* Roll Call Reading Series with Elaine Equi presenting Laura Buccieri, and Tina Darragh presenting K. Lorraine Graham. New work & new chaplets! About the Series: For each installment of Roll Call, presented by Belladonna* Collaborative, two previously published poets from the Belladonna* chaplet archive have selected and will introduce a poet whose work expands and enriches the tradition of experimental feminist writing. Roll Call builds upon networks and communities within the feminist avant-garde while materializing the breadth of Belladonna* Collaborative’s twenty-year publishing history. RSVP to our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/353398361896481/

Ru (Nina) Puro‘s collection, Each Tree Could Hold A Noose Or A House, winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize, was recently released. They are a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, social worker, and recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Deming Fund, & others. Morgan Vo is a poet and singer. Born in the Tidewater area in 1989, he studied at the Cooper Union and the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, and lives now in Brooklyn, NY.

  Poets Barbara Henning and Maureen Owen are hitting the road, and keeping a blog along the way. Keep track of their travels at http://barbarahenning.com/category/maureenowen, and join us on January 18th to send them off. Barbara Henning is the author of four novels, seven collections of poetry, four chapbooks and a series of photo-poem pamphlets. Maureen Owen, former editor and chief of Telephone Magazine and Telephone Books, currently lives in Denver, Colorado. She is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Edges of Water from Chax Press. RSVP to our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/298176650903172/

Belladonna* presents a night of readings by Alissa Quart and Celina Su. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Join us for the first Fall reading of 2019 at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop on October 30th at 7 pm. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alissa Quart is the author of four non-fiction books, Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2018), Branded (Basic Books, 2003) and Hothouse Kids (Penguin Press, 2006), and Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels (The New Press, 2013). She is the Executive Editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a journalism non-profit devoted to reporting on inequality. She has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Elle, O Magazine and many other publications. She writes the Outclassed column for The Guardian. She received the 2018 Columbia Journalism School Alumna Award and the 2017 L.A. Press Club Award for Commentary. She was a 2010 Nieman fellow at Harvard University. As a professor she was a 2015 Ottaway Professor at SUNY New Paltz and taught at a number of universities including Columbia University’s Journalism School. Her poems have been published by the London Review of Books, The Nation, and many other publications. Monetized (Miami University Press, 2015) is her first poetry book and she has a collection of poetry forthcoming from OR Books, Thoughts and Prayers. (September 2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Celina Su is the Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies and a Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York. Her publications include Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx (Cornell University Press) and essays in Harper’s, n+1, and elsewhere. She has received several distinguished fellowships, including a Berlin Prize and a Whiting Award for Excellence in Teaching. As a writer, Celina's debut full-length collection of poetry, Landia, was published by Belladonna* in 2018. Her work has appeared in n+1, Boston Review, Aufgabe, and other journals. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including residencies at or scholarships from Ucross, Millay Colony, and Bread Loaf. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Plurality Decree (MIEL Books, 2015) and Beyond Relief (with Ariana Reines, Belladonna* Series, 2013). Celina received a Ph.D. in Urban Studies from MIT. She was born in São Paulo, moved to the US in middle school, and lives with her family in Brooklyn. She is fond of sending out new year's cards, talking to strangers, and cutting up paper.