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.
The PDF of Kevin's chaplet Wow Wow Wow Wow is available to download.
2021-01-07: Cecily Chen reviews : once teeth bones coral : for Entropy Mag
"Every word in : once teeth bones coral :, Kimberly Alidio’s new book of poetry from Belladonna*, is saturated with this extralexicographical intensity, calling attention to language’s sonic and somatic resonance when it becomes estranged...."
"Every word in : once teeth bones coral :, Kimberly Alidio’s new book of poetry from Belladonna*, is saturated with this extralexicographical intensity, calling attention to language’s sonic and somatic resonance when it becomes estranged...."
2020-12-28: Rebecca Stoddard reviews : once teeth bones coral : for Rainbow Round Table
"The pages are surprising, sexy, deadpan, sometimes banal or blunt, and often sensual evocations, always deconstructed and moving despite their fixed spots...."
"The pages are surprising, sexy, deadpan, sometimes banal or blunt, and often sensual evocations, always deconstructed and moving despite their fixed spots...."
2020-08-07: Rob McLennan reviews Kimberly Alidio's : once teeth bones coral : for his blog
"Alidio’s lyric cycle works as both sequence and accumulation of single points, stretched across the grid of the square page, directing connections of how words can’t help but mean, and how those meanings interact..."
"Alidio’s lyric cycle works as both sequence and accumulation of single points, stretched across the grid of the square page, directing connections of how words can’t help but mean, and how those meanings interact..."
2019-06-04: O Magazine highlights Meet Me There by Samuel Ace
"50 Unapologetically Queer Authors Share the Best LGBTQ Books of All Time"
"50 Unapologetically Queer Authors Share the Best LGBTQ Books of All Time"
2019-05-09: The New York Times features poetry by Celina Su
"In Celina Su’s provocatively spare poem, that fearful uncertainty lingers in the white spaces her readers must hopscotch through snatching thoughts from the air...."
"In Celina Su’s provocatively spare poem, that fearful uncertainty lingers in the white spaces her readers must hopscotch through snatching thoughts from the air...."
2019-03-11: CLMP highlights Belladonna for Women’s History Month
"Belladonna* takes a collaborative approach to publishing, often involving authors in the process of creating their books...."
"Belladonna* takes a collaborative approach to publishing, often involving authors in the process of creating their books...."
2018-10-19: Entropy reviews Celina Su's "Landia"
"In her debut collection of poetry, Celina Su meditates on the everydayness of large-scale political and economic processes—be it gentrification, state violence, or migration—not as singular events, but as diffused, on-going happenings..."
"In her debut collection of poetry, Celina Su meditates on the everydayness of large-scale political and economic processes—be it gentrification, state violence, or migration—not as singular events, but as diffused, on-going happenings..."
2018-10-15: Publishers Weekly reviews Lyn Hejinian's Positions of the Sun
"The latest cross-genre offering from Hejinian operates as a repetitive and self-aware daily index of the mundane amid the mid-2000s financial crisis, 'whereby capital extended its efforts at privatization.'...."
"The latest cross-genre offering from Hejinian operates as a repetitive and self-aware daily index of the mundane amid the mid-2000s financial crisis, 'whereby capital extended its efforts at privatization.'...."
2018-08-16: Lambda Literary reviews Sweet Dreams by Pamela Sneed
"In the slim 48-page book, a reader has the chance to go from being able to pick Sneed out of a crowd to getting a sense of who she is and how, as a powerful, Black lesbian artist, writer, and mentor, she came to be...."
"In the slim 48-page book, a reader has the chance to go from being able to pick Sneed out of a crowd to getting a sense of who she is and how, as a powerful, Black lesbian artist, writer, and mentor, she came to be...."
2018-08-01: Singapore Unbound reviews Landia by Celina Su
"Celina Su’s Landia could be the future of English poetry. It is concerned about placelessness/placemaking, language’s limits/unlimitedness, and the complex and contradictory relations between both...."
"Celina Su’s Landia could be the future of English poetry. It is concerned about placelessness/placemaking, language’s limits/unlimitedness, and the complex and contradictory relations between both...."
2018-06-06: Hyperallergic features poetry by Lyn Hejinian from Positions of the Sun
"Hyperallergic poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected an excerpt from Lyn Hejinian’s forthcoming Positions of the Sun for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers...."
"Hyperallergic poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected an excerpt from Lyn Hejinian’s forthcoming Positions of the Sun for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers...."
2018-06-05: Tripwire reviews Subsisters by Uljana Wolf and translated by Sophie Seita for TRIPWIRE 14: THE RED ISSUE
"Subsisters ... reveals a new understanding of the ontology of language through moving, playful expression. Rather than fixing language, Wolf and Seita allow the reader to see the text for the multiple readings it can offer...."
"Subsisters ... reveals a new understanding of the ontology of language through moving, playful expression. Rather than fixing language, Wolf and Seita allow the reader to see the text for the multiple readings it can offer...."
2018-04-27: Vi Khi Nao from Literary Hub talks with Celina Su about Landia
"Celina Su’s Landia, recently out of Belladonna*, is citified, metropolitan, downtown, or rural if you like...."
"Celina Su’s Landia, recently out of Belladonna*, is citified, metropolitan, downtown, or rural if you like...."
2018-04-26: SPD recommends Landia by Celina Su
2018-04-25: The Times Literary Supplement reviews Subsisters by Uljana Wolf and translated by Sophie Seita
2018-03-26: LitHub recommends Subsisters by Uljana Wolf and translated by Sophie Seita
"Uljana Wolf is a master of interplay across languages, and she has met her match in Sophie Seita. A dizzying display of bilingual wit to prove that 'two heads are better than ohne.'"
"Uljana Wolf is a master of interplay across languages, and she has met her match in Sophie Seita. A dizzying display of bilingual wit to prove that 'two heads are better than ohne.'"
2018-02-16: The Poetry Foundation features The Demon by Jennifer Firestone
"This is a demon that can take a grown brain and squash it to sponge...."
"This is a demon that can take a grown brain and squash it to sponge...."
2018-02-07: The Brooklyn Rail features poetry by Celina Su
2018-02-05: Eleni Sikelianos's "Change the World" blog for the Poetry Foundation talks about the importance of poetry, the imagination, and Akilah Oliver’s notion of the “visible unseen”.
"Poetry is its own not following. As it breaks and plays on the militarized forms of grammar and rhythm, it shows us other paths of existence. It shows us how not to go along...."
"Poetry is its own not following. As it breaks and plays on the militarized forms of grammar and rhythm, it shows us other paths of existence. It shows us how not to go along...."
2018-01-18: Henk Rossouw for the Boston Review features Subsisters by Uljana Wolf and translated by Sophie Seita
"The reader may participate in the porousness of linguistic borders...."
"The reader may participate in the porousness of linguistic borders...."
2018-01-01: Publishers Weekly reviews Subsisters by Uljana Wolf and translated by Sophie Seita
By tuning the mind to the ways in which language frames experience—and can even dance from one tongue to the next—Wolf shows how meaning and sense become an examination of “the lengevitch of a conjoined twin.”
By tuning the mind to the ways in which language frames experience—and can even dance from one tongue to the next—Wolf shows how meaning and sense become an examination of “the lengevitch of a conjoined twin.”
2017-12-30: LitHub lists Jennifer Firestone's Gates & Fields as one of their favorite poetry books of 2017
2017-12-13: The Brooklyn Rail names Jennifer Firestone's Gates & Fields as one of the best books of 2017
2017-10-27: BOMB Magazine interviews Sophie Seita on Translating Uljana Wolf
"Their collaboration is electric. Wolf and Seita conjure up a realm where linguistic mix-ups and deliberate slips and ambiguities are new sources of revelation...."
"Their collaboration is electric. Wolf and Seita conjure up a realm where linguistic mix-ups and deliberate slips and ambiguities are new sources of revelation...."
2017-10-19: The London Review of Books features the poem ‘Bougainvillea’ by Uljana Wolf, translated by Sophie Seita
2017-10-16: Jill Magi for the Poetry Foundation reviews "LE SOUCI FORMEL/the formal concern" by Eléna Rivera, Belladonna* Chaplet #211
"As I read Eléna’s chapbook, I hear her voice. It is deep, careful, well-paced—it is as if Eléna places sounds on the page, in the room."
"As I read Eléna’s chapbook, I hear her voice. It is deep, careful, well-paced—it is as if Eléna places sounds on the page, in the room."
2017-10-13: Celina Su's "22" from Landia is featured on Zocalo Public Square
"His ardor turned into an antelope-shaped ice sculpture, its taste and shape memorialized at film festivals all over Spain. Hers fossilized into ambivalent scorn, trapped under a notebook in Arkansas..."
"His ardor turned into an antelope-shaped ice sculpture, its taste and shape memorialized at film festivals all over Spain. Hers fossilized into ambivalent scorn, trapped under a notebook in Arkansas..."
2017-10-05: Sean D. Henry-Smith for the Poetry Project Newlsetter reviews Tonya Foster's A Swarm of Bees in High Court
"A hive song that is this collection hums resoundingly."
"A hive song that is this collection hums resoundingly."
2017-10-05: Celina Su's "from Notes on the Shape of Absence" is featured on the on Academy of American of Poets' Poem-a-Day
"We trace the dust lines left behind from the appliances..."
"We trace the dust lines left behind from the appliances..."
2017-10-01: The Gulf Coast features excerpts from Babeltrack (notes on a lengevitch) by Uljana Wolf translated by Sophie Seita
"being on an island, having a child, writing, and having a child as the reverse of insularity, namely: becoming archipelago, the edges swell up, are made permeable, build new mainlands for nourishment..."
"being on an island, having a child, writing, and having a child as the reverse of insularity, namely: becoming archipelago, the edges swell up, are made permeable, build new mainlands for nourishment..."
2017-09-26: Celina Su's "jfk airport" from Landia is featured on the Asian American Writer's Workshop website Bona Fide
"As if I could get un-situated / this airport a bubble hovering / in a void between celestial bodies / in but not of / the country I stand in..."
"As if I could get un-situated / this airport a bubble hovering / in a void between celestial bodies / in but not of / the country I stand in..."
2017-09-24: Christine Salvatore for Mom Egg Review reviews Caroline Crumpacker's Astrobolism
"These poems walk a fine line between condemning and praising our society, but never without hope, never without the intention to raise us up...."
"These poems walk a fine line between condemning and praising our society, but never without hope, never without the intention to raise us up...."
2017-08-23: Nicholas Birns for The Tropes of Tenth Street reviews Jennifer Firestone's Gate & Fields
"Firestone’s work inhabits this expansive and elusive middle realm between lyric and narrative..."
"Firestone’s work inhabits this expansive and elusive middle realm between lyric and narrative..."
2017-08-01: Gates & Fields by Jennifer Firestone is an SPD Poetry Best-seller for July 2017!
After only two weeks, Gates & Fields debuts at #16 on the SPD Best-seller list
After only two weeks, Gates & Fields debuts at #16 on the SPD Best-seller list
2017-07-20: Lit Hub interviews Jennifer Firestone
"From the beginning (more than perhaps in my other books) Gates & Fields was to me a question about language, about which words might appear in the face of grief and death...."
"From the beginning (more than perhaps in my other books) Gates & Fields was to me a question about language, about which words might appear in the face of grief and death...."
2017-07-08: Betsy Fagin won a NYFA fellowship in poetry!
To celebrate, we’re putting her book on sale. For the month of July, purchase All is not yet lost for just $10!
To celebrate, we’re putting her book on sale. For the month of July, purchase All is not yet lost for just $10!
2017-06-21: Ely Shipley for Tarpaulin Sky reviews Jennifer Firestone's Gate & Fields
"I am lulled into this book’s beauty through the sounds and the sparse images that drive it..."
"I am lulled into this book’s beauty through the sounds and the sparse images that drive it..."
2017-06-09: Chicago Review of Books reviews Jennifer Firestone's Gate & Fields
"‘Gates & Fields’ Is a Moving Elegy to Everyone You’ve Lost....Firestone’s openness is astonishing...."
"‘Gates & Fields’ Is a Moving Elegy to Everyone You’ve Lost....Firestone’s openness is astonishing...."
2017-06-05: Publisher's Weekly reviews Jennifer Firestone's Gate & Fields
"Firestone renders a series of deeply perceptive and formally sharp lyric sequences into an extended elegy...."
"Firestone renders a series of deeply perceptive and formally sharp lyric sequences into an extended elegy...."
2017-05-30: Rob McLennan reviews Jennifer Firestone's Gate & Fields
"There is a sparseness to Firestone’s short sketched fragments, one that packs in an enormous, and enormously restrained, emotional content while utilizing sound, rhythm and repetitions, echoes and precision...."
"There is a sparseness to Firestone’s short sketched fragments, one that packs in an enormous, and enormously restrained, emotional content while utilizing sound, rhythm and repetitions, echoes and precision...."
2017-05-28: Karen Weiser for Hyperalergic reviews Jennifer Firestone's Gates & Fields
"At its center, the book offers the refusal to accept an already-formulated understanding of loss that lies at the heart of the experience of grief...."
"At its center, the book offers the refusal to accept an already-formulated understanding of loss that lies at the heart of the experience of grief...."
2017-05-17: Jill Magi reviews Jennifer Firestone's Gates & Fields
"Jennifer Firestone’s lyricism coming out of this time is sparse. It is musical, made of repeating sounds, rhymes. There is space around the utterances and, reading, I relished this grace...."
"Jennifer Firestone’s lyricism coming out of this time is sparse. It is musical, made of repeating sounds, rhymes. There is space around the utterances and, reading, I relished this grace...."
2017-04-27: Monica de La Torre for the Poetry Foundation reviews Subsisters by Uljana Wolf
"Given their multilingualism and non-tautological procedural approaches, the poems in Wolf’s Subsisters are hydra-headed, definitively open-ended. Rad...."
"Given their multilingualism and non-tautological procedural approaches, the poems in Wolf’s Subsisters are hydra-headed, definitively open-ended. Rad...."
2017-04-25: CA Conrad for the Poetry Foundation recommends Jennifer Firestone's Gates & Fields
"These are 18 titles from the last year that have made me very happy to be alive RIGHT NOW when poetry has never been more exciting!..."
"These are 18 titles from the last year that have made me very happy to be alive RIGHT NOW when poetry has never been more exciting!..."
2017-04-12: Patricia Spears Jones mentions Rachel Levitsky and Ana Paula's conversation on Akilah Oliver for the Brooklyn Rail
"I think flesh memory is about inviting the weight to hover around the body, instead of settling into the body. It’s very much about bringing something into the language...."
"I think flesh memory is about inviting the weight to hover around the body, instead of settling into the body. It’s very much about bringing something into the language...."
2017-04-07: The Poetry Project excerpts Subsisters by Uljana Wolf, translated by Sophie Seita
"in the cloakroam every woman received a twin language with identical clothes, a dabbling double. but the mirrors showed only one of us..."
"in the cloakroam every woman received a twin language with identical clothes, a dabbling double. but the mirrors showed only one of us..."
2017-04-05: Julia Johanne Tolo for the Poetry Project Newsletter reviews Jennifer Firestone's Gates & Fields
"Firestone’s brilliant ability to move between different modes of narration is what I admire most about this carefully constructed collection...."
"Firestone’s brilliant ability to move between different modes of narration is what I admire most about this carefully constructed collection...."
2017-04-01: Erica Hunt for the Brooklyn Rail reviews A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya M. Foster
"In Swarm we read a chronicle, a cull, a calling into view and sound, the cycle of fragment and cohesion, part and whole, scatter and gather, charting the skirmishes between night music and Tonya’s nimble mind..."
"In Swarm we read a chronicle, a cull, a calling into view and sound, the cycle of fragment and cohesion, part and whole, scatter and gather, charting the skirmishes between night music and Tonya’s nimble mind..."
2017-03-07: Heidi Hart for Music and Literature profiles Uljana Wolf
"I lean in to listen. When Wolf tells me, 'multilingual writing is also failure, falseness, falling …' I hear this as good news...."
"I lean in to listen. When Wolf tells me, 'multilingual writing is also failure, falseness, falling …' I hear this as good news...."
2017-03-01: The White Review features two poems from Subsisters by Uljana Wolf, translated by Sophie Seita
2017-03-01: Rachel Levitsky and Ana Paula in conversation on Akilah Oliver for the Brooklyn Rail
"I am always occupying both the space of being enemy-bodied and being my own body and my own experience at the same time. This resonates with what Akilah was doing in her work...."
"I am always occupying both the space of being enemy-bodied and being my own body and my own experience at the same time. This resonates with what Akilah was doing in her work...."
2017-02-11: Rachel Zucker interviews Kristen Prevallet for the Commonplace Podcast
"Rachel Zucker speaks with Kristin Prevallet about teaching grammar in prisons, trancepoetics, hypnotherapy, radical femininity, retrograde meaning, and what it means to be a tender of the garden of language..."
"Rachel Zucker speaks with Kristin Prevallet about teaching grammar in prisons, trancepoetics, hypnotherapy, radical femininity, retrograde meaning, and what it means to be a tender of the garden of language..."
2016-12-29: Jennifer Firestone's book Gates & Fields is now available for pre-order!
"Wondrously strange, eerily healing, like an overheard incantation..." —Cole Swensen
"Wondrously strange, eerily healing, like an overheard incantation..." —Cole Swensen
2016-12-10: Eileen Tabios for Galatea Resurrects reviews MAKING SPACE: A NOTEBOOK by Sandra Lim (Belladonna Chaplet #191)
"MAKING SPACE is the kind of notebook that I wish I could muster, but so far haven’t within the confines of my overloaded life—my lifestyle’s “brute realism,” as Lim puts it..."
"MAKING SPACE is the kind of notebook that I wish I could muster, but so far haven’t within the confines of my overloaded life—my lifestyle’s “brute realism,” as Lim puts it..."
2016-10-03: Elise Ficarra, Associate Director at The Poetry Center, features archival work from Akilah Oliver for SF MOMA's The View From Here
"Oliver reminds me that we are in time, of time, and that we need time, 'just a little time, to get love right.'"
"Oliver reminds me that we are in time, of time, and that we need time, 'just a little time, to get love right.'"
2016-09-15: Lambra Literary publishes Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, and features Akilah Oliver
2016-09-14: PoemTalk episode #104: A discussion of Akilah Oliver’s “is you is or is you ain’t”
Discussion hosted by Al Filreis with Yolanda Wisher, Patricia Spears Jones, and Charles Bernstein
Discussion hosted by Al Filreis with Yolanda Wisher, Patricia Spears Jones, and Charles Bernstein
2016-07-11: Publisher's Weekly reviews Cancer Angel by Beth Murray
The poems possess a welcoming, conversational tone that allows them to flow as one nearly continuous voice. Murray's thoughtful and aware reflections echo points Audre Lorde made in The Cancer Journals and further the conversation about terminal illness.
The poems possess a welcoming, conversational tone that allows them to flow as one nearly continuous voice. Murray's thoughtful and aware reflections echo points Audre Lorde made in The Cancer Journals and further the conversation about terminal illness.
2016-07-11: Eileen Tabios for Galatea Resurrects reviews Belladonna Chaplet #190 by Natalie Diaz
"It’s amazing—and impressive—the ravishment effected by this chap-length poem: Natalia Diaz’s The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones—: These Hands If Not Gods..."
"It’s amazing—and impressive—the ravishment effected by this chap-length poem: Natalia Diaz’s The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones—: These Hands If Not Gods..."
2016-07-07: Caroline Liu at HelloFlo features Belladonna* and its importance in contemporary independent publishing
"Belladonna* Collaborative Is Redefining a Male-Dominated Literary Environment"
"Belladonna* Collaborative Is Redefining a Male-Dominated Literary Environment"
2016-07-06: Anna Moschovakis for the Boston Review reviews A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya M. Foster
"This ambitious collection exposes and resists, in “small” gestures centered on a landscape-oriented page, the ways empire compulsively overwrites individual and collective experiences of time and place..."
"This ambitious collection exposes and resists, in “small” gestures centered on a landscape-oriented page, the ways empire compulsively overwrites individual and collective experiences of time and place..."
2016-04-25: Tonya Foster is a guest blogger for Harriet at the Poetry Foundation
"Torching Authenticities"
"Torching Authenticities"
2016-04-16: Lambda Literary reviews Beth Murray's Cancer Angel
"Murray’s is poetry that makes the body holy, that illuminates the dark... Murray’s poems moon-walk between consciousness and flesh..."
"Murray’s is poetry that makes the body holy, that illuminates the dark... Murray’s poems moon-walk between consciousness and flesh..."
2016-03-23: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs wins the Whiting Award for Poetry, 2016
"In her exuberant and expansive collection TwERK, we are never far from the lustrous melting point of language..."
"In her exuberant and expansive collection TwERK, we are never far from the lustrous melting point of language..."
2016-03-11: Chris Martin for Rain Taxi reviews Erica Hunt's Time Slips Right Before Your Eyes
"To say this is both a prophetic and timely chapbook is testable fact, since it was published first in 2006 and then again this past year..."
"To say this is both a prophetic and timely chapbook is testable fact, since it was published first in 2006 and then again this past year..."
2016-02-20: Rob McLennan reviews Tonya Foster's A Swarm of Bees in High Court
"Her lyrics are dynamic, electric and performative, composed as chants, mantras, sing-song description and sly monologue. Constructed as a book-length poem tied very much to the intricacies of place..."
"Her lyrics are dynamic, electric and performative, composed as chants, mantras, sing-song description and sly monologue. Constructed as a book-length poem tied very much to the intricacies of place..."
2016-02-18: Vela Magazine reviews Tonya Foster's A Swarm of Bees in High Court
"There’s so much going on in Foster’s work, and always, her articulation of complexities are equaled by lyrical and formal skills ... and a kind of myth-making, a recognition that the lives of ordinary and people deserve the heightened language..."
"There’s so much going on in Foster’s work, and always, her articulation of complexities are equaled by lyrical and formal skills ... and a kind of myth-making, a recognition that the lives of ordinary and people deserve the heightened language..."
2015-12-26: The Boston Globe reviews Tonya Foster's A Swarm of Bees in High Court
"Foster achieves a strikingly high fidelity not by zooming in past the personal, but by going panoramic — considering the “multiple as subject” and allowing Harlem’s clamor of voices to speak for itself..."
"Foster achieves a strikingly high fidelity not by zooming in past the personal, but by going panoramic — considering the “multiple as subject” and allowing Harlem’s clamor of voices to speak for itself..."
2015-12-21: The New York Times mentions Tonya Foster's A Swarm of Bees in High Court in its Sunday Book Review
2015-12-08: LitHub names Tonya Foster's A Swarm of Bees in High Court as a Must-Read Poety Debut from 2015
2015-12-07: Entropy Mag names Tonya Foster's A Swarm of Bees in High Court as one of the best books of 2015
2015-11-09: A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya M. Foster is #4 on the SPD poetry bestseller list for October!
2015-11-02: Ploughshares reviews Four From Japan
"One of the best anthologies I’ve encountered because the book shows a practice of de-centralization instead of map-making and canon-formation..."
"One of the best anthologies I’ve encountered because the book shows a practice of de-centralization instead of map-making and canon-formation..."
2015-09-09: Tonya Foster in Conversation with John Keene of BOMB magazine featured on Lithub
Haikus of Grief, Silence in Harlem
Haikus of Grief, Silence in Harlem
2015-09-05: Constant Critic reviews A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya M. Foster
"A long nocturne, Tonya Foster’s long-awaited debut collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court roves in and out of the dream of Harlem. This rich cityscape, pregnant with so much history and tension, floats through the consciousness of the poetic speaker...
"A long nocturne, Tonya Foster’s long-awaited debut collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court roves in and out of the dream of Harlem. This rich cityscape, pregnant with so much history and tension, floats through the consciousness of the poetic speaker...
2015-08-21: Publisher's Weekly reviews A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya Foster
"A definite must for any lover of poetry."
"A definite must for any lover of poetry."
2015-07-22: Venus Thrash for Vela Mag includes r. erica doyle's proxy in her mini reviews
"Proxy negotiates the complex emotions around sex and love and offers sex as salvation with an assured poetic hand..."
"Proxy negotiates the complex emotions around sex and love and offers sex as salvation with an assured poetic hand..."
2015-07-15: Dakota Garilli for Coal Hill reviews R. Erica Doyle's Proxy
"Through wordplay and an intense poetic gaze, Doyle delves into the extremities of human behavior to render a world that is at once intoxicating and off-putting..."
"Through wordplay and an intense poetic gaze, Doyle delves into the extremities of human behavior to render a world that is at once intoxicating and off-putting..."
2015-06-21: Publishers Weekly reviews All is Not Yet Lost by Betsy Fagin
"Fagin cuts language into stuttering lines as she reenvisions human connection in her second full-length collection..."
"Fagin cuts language into stuttering lines as she reenvisions human connection in her second full-length collection..."
2015-06-18: Patricia Spears Jones reviews Tonya M. Foster’s A Swarm of Bees in High Court for A Gathering of the Tribes
"Foster’s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities, discords, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction..."
"Foster’s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities, discords, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction..."
2015-06-15: Leah Souffrant for Jacket2 reviews Tonya Foster's A Swarm of Bees in High Court
"The pleasure of beauty in the turn of language in Foster’s poem is the allure of beauty..."
"The pleasure of beauty in the turn of language in Foster’s poem is the allure of beauty..."
2015-05-26: Subsisters by Uljana Wolf, translated by Sophie Seita wins the 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund
"Sophie Seita’s rendition remixes Wolf’s German-English mélange to create a translation that is at once new and yet also brilliantly reflects the original...."
"Sophie Seita’s rendition remixes Wolf’s German-English mélange to create a translation that is at once new and yet also brilliantly reflects the original...."
2015-04-01: Diana Rickard for The Operating System remembers Akilah Oliver
"This weekend I am awash in the arresting words of Akilah Oliver, a poet whose body of work searches meanings through language. She does this actively..."
"This weekend I am awash in the arresting words of Akilah Oliver, a poet whose body of work searches meanings through language. She does this actively..."
2014-12-04: Peter Vanderberg for the Volta reviews the Belladonna Chaplet Series and Anne Waldman's chaplet #26
"This chapbook is free. The experience of reading it is bewildering, powerful, uncomfortable and invigorating. Through her poetry Anne Waldman offers a spiritual exercise...."
"This chapbook is free. The experience of reading it is bewildering, powerful, uncomfortable and invigorating. Through her poetry Anne Waldman offers a spiritual exercise...."
2014-12-03: Belladonna authors LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Eleni Sikelianos win NEA Creative Writing Fellowships!
"These Creative Writing Fellowships in Poetry enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Grants are for $25,000."
"These Creative Writing Fellowships in Poetry enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Grants are for $25,000."
2014-12-01: Natalie Eilbert for H_NGM_N 16 reviews Twerk
"Not since Kamau Brathwaite’s Middle Passages have I felt as possessed by history, geography, language, and their endlessly entangled footnotes as I did reading and rereading and rereading Twerk by LaTasha Nevada Diggs...."
"Not since Kamau Brathwaite’s Middle Passages have I felt as possessed by history, geography, language, and their endlessly entangled footnotes as I did reading and rereading and rereading Twerk by LaTasha Nevada Diggs...."
2014-12-01: John Steene for H_NGM_N 16 reviews Proxy
"Proxy questions the extent to which the experience of love is distorted by the discourses that make it accessible to speech...."
"Proxy questions the extent to which the experience of love is distorted by the discourses that make it accessible to speech...."
2014-11-26: Heather Brown for the Volta reviews the Belladonna Chaplet Series and Eleni Sikelianos's chaplet #5
"Sikelianos creats another visual time stamp that retraces the lines of her father’s life and presence and records the impression he has left on her...."
"Sikelianos creats another visual time stamp that retraces the lines of her father’s life and presence and records the impression he has left on her...."
2014-11-21: Connor Fisher for the Volta reviews the Belladonna Chaplet Series and Susan Briante's chaplet #52
"The chaplet is dense in its form, the intensity of its language, and the registers and types of language which Briante has combined...."
"The chaplet is dense in its form, the intensity of its language, and the registers and types of language which Briante has combined...."
2014-11-20: Tim Etzkorn for the Volta reviews the Belladonna Chaplet Series and Bhanu Kapil's chaplet #28
"Kapil’s text establishes a sense that our inhumane treatment of others reveals us to be more animal than human, not the other way around..."
"Kapil’s text establishes a sense that our inhumane treatment of others reveals us to be more animal than human, not the other way around..."
2014-11-18: Erin Watson for the Volta reviews the Belladonna Chaplet Series and Maggie Nelson's chaplet #42
"Reading the poems in this chapbook, I often had the feeling of having your pupils dilated at the optician’s, looking through lenses at the eye chart as it clicks into focus..."
"Reading the poems in this chapbook, I often had the feeling of having your pupils dilated at the optician’s, looking through lenses at the eye chart as it clicks into focus..."
2014-09-01: American Microreviews' Wesley Rothman reviews Twerk by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
"TwERK shatters and blasts expectations of poetry, language, imagination, and social/societal existence: her poetic forms stretch readers into unheard-of or at least blatantly foreign territory..."
"TwERK shatters and blasts expectations of poetry, language, imagination, and social/societal existence: her poetic forms stretch readers into unheard-of or at least blatantly foreign territory..."
2014-08-12: Lemon Hound calls for responses to Theory, A Sunday
Submit 300-800 words in any genre by Sept 1 telling them how this collaborative feminist text has impacted you.
Submit 300-800 words in any genre by Sept 1 telling them how this collaborative feminist text has impacted you.
2014-07-30: Poets.org features "pidgin toe" by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs for their Poem-a-Day
"on di saké menu no descriptive like quiet & smooth...."
"on di saké menu no descriptive like quiet & smooth...."
2014-07-15: Magdalena Zurawski for Jacket2 reviews Theory, A Sunday: "Montreal's was a desiring feminism"
"As I continued my read of the essays and literary work in Theory, A Sunday, it became clear that the kind of political struggle and intellectual labor in these texts made possible the relatively utopic feminist intellectual world in which I emerged..."
"As I continued my read of the essays and literary work in Theory, A Sunday, it became clear that the kind of political struggle and intellectual labor in these texts made possible the relatively utopic feminist intellectual world in which I emerged..."
2014-07-10: Boston Review reviews Twerk
"Through that bewilderment we realize how much of our world we have left illegible. Now, alongside Diggs, we meet the dazzling prospect of reading it...."
"Through that bewilderment we realize how much of our world we have left illegible. Now, alongside Diggs, we meet the dazzling prospect of reading it...."
2014-06-18: Twerk reviewed on The Volta Blog by Anna Wilson
2014-06-11: Lucia LoTempio for Gandy Dancer picks Twerk at her Summer Reading Pic
"There is no other way to think of TwERK, but as a masterpiece of language..."
"There is no other way to think of TwERK, but as a masterpiece of language..."
2014-05-28: Dodie Bellamy for HTML Giant recommends Sunday, A Theory for her Summer Reads
"Each woman contributes both a theoretical text and a short piece of fiction, and it’s fascinating to observe the play between these two modes of expression..."
"Each woman contributes both a theoretical text and a short piece of fiction, and it’s fascinating to observe the play between these two modes of expression..."
2014-05-01: Shinelle L. Espaillat for Cleaver Magazine reviews Twerk
"In her first full-length collection, TwERK, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs creates seemingly infinite layers of meaning that meld to produce critical social statements on both a global and region-specific scale."
"In her first full-length collection, TwERK, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs creates seemingly infinite layers of meaning that meld to produce critical social statements on both a global and region-specific scale."
2014-04-30: Shinelle L. Espaillat for Cleaver Magazine reviews Twerk
"LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs creates seemingly infinite layers of meaning that meld to produce critical social statements on both a global and region-specific scale...."
"LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs creates seemingly infinite layers of meaning that meld to produce critical social statements on both a global and region-specific scale...."
2014-04-20: Book Culture features Belladonna* in their Small Press Spotlight
"There is an urgency to the writing that comes out of Belladonna* that they create an impertive for the reader... These authors are creating change through their writing, by engaging with their language you are participating."
"There is an urgency to the writing that comes out of Belladonna* that they create an impertive for the reader... These authors are creating change through their writing, by engaging with their language you are participating."
2014-01-10: Publisher's Weekly features LaTasha Diggs
2014-01-09: Aimee Nicole for New Pages reviews Twerk
2013-12-29: Hyperallergic picks Twerk as a Top Book of 2013
2013-12-20: Rookie Mag recommends Twerk as a Top Book of 2013
"Belladonna* is a sick-ass collaboratively run feminist reading series and independent publisher of chapbooks and full-length titles... Um, FUCK YEAH. Twerk"
"Belladonna* is a sick-ass collaboratively run feminist reading series and independent publisher of chapbooks and full-length titles... Um, FUCK YEAH. Twerk"
2013-12-13: Flavor Wire picks Twerk as a Top Book of 2013
2013-12-02: Huffington Post recommends Twerk by LaTasha Diggs
"Why you should buy poetry this holiday season..."
"Why you should buy poetry this holiday season..."
2013-12-01: John Keene for The Volta picks Proxy as a Top Book of 2013
"Smart, sexy prose poems that chart an evocative affective queer journey in our post-9-11 moment."
"Smart, sexy prose poems that chart an evocative affective queer journey in our post-9-11 moment."
2013-11-09: Sara Habein for The Rumpus reviews Proxy
http://therumpus.net/2013/11/proxy-by-r-erica-doyle/
http://therumpus.net/2013/11/proxy-by-r-erica-doyle/
2013-11-01: Take Down the Clouds interviews LaTasha Diggs
2013-10-13: First Person Plural interviews LaTasha Diggs
2013-07-10: The Laundromat Project interviews LaTasha Diggs
2013-07-10: California College of the Arts recognizes Twerk
"Twerk unveils an identity shaped by popular media and history, code switching, and cultural inclusivity. The poems, songs, and myths in this long-awaited first book are as rooted in lyric as in innovation, in black music as in macaronic satire."
"Twerk unveils an identity shaped by popular media and history, code switching, and cultural inclusivity. The poems, songs, and myths in this long-awaited first book are as rooted in lyric as in innovation, in black music as in macaronic satire."
2013-05-02: Laura Carter review for H_NGM_N
"The strength of Kristin Prevallet’s Everywhere Here and in Brooklyn is in its ability to make waking seem one of the most sought-after, and always ever sought after, experiences."
"The strength of Kristin Prevallet’s Everywhere Here and in Brooklyn is in its ability to make waking seem one of the most sought-after, and always ever sought after, experiences."
2013-05-01: Barzakh micro review of Twerk, Issue 5.
"Through reference to Kelis, found material, homage to an array of poets, artists and tongues Diggs pulls you into a body of work that is as meticulous and superbly intricate as the lace on the book’s cover."
"Through reference to Kelis, found material, homage to an array of poets, artists and tongues Diggs pulls you into a body of work that is as meticulous and superbly intricate as the lace on the book’s cover."
2013-04-29: Evie Shockley for The Poetry Foundation's Harryette Blog reviews Twerk
"Because this book is a survival guide to the future—I mean, the present."
"Because this book is a survival guide to the future—I mean, the present."
2013-04-29: Evie Shockley for The Poetry Foundation's Harryette Blog recomends Proxy
"Because this sexy book made me fall in love with the prose poem all over again."
"Because this sexy book made me fall in love with the prose poem all over again."
2013-04-23: Joyelle McSweeney for Montevidayo
"I am slain, felled, sweetened up and served by Latasha N. Nevada Diggs’ TwERK. It’s like an almanac-zodiac-aphrodesiac-cum-emetic: it’s going to make the language come out of you, and the knowledge, too."
"I am slain, felled, sweetened up and served by Latasha N. Nevada Diggs’ TwERK. It’s like an almanac-zodiac-aphrodesiac-cum-emetic: it’s going to make the language come out of you, and the knowledge, too."
2013-04-12: Annalisa Pesek for Library Journal reviews Proxy
"Doyle's prose poems blend the rawness of a natural storyteller with refined craftsmanship, and the result is little shocks to mind and body.... Refuse the dull — and anticipate readers wanting more of Doyle's conversations..."
"Doyle's prose poems blend the rawness of a natural storyteller with refined craftsmanship, and the result is little shocks to mind and body.... Refuse the dull — and anticipate readers wanting more of Doyle's conversations..."
2013-03-30: The New School announces The Akilah Oliver Award for Outstanding Experimental Poetry
This award recognizes a student poet at Eugene Lang College whose poetry has some of the features of Akilah’s writing and teaching.
This award recognizes a student poet at Eugene Lang College whose poetry has some of the features of Akilah’s writing and teaching.
2013-03-18: Jessica Mason McFadden for Lambda Literary reviews Proxy
"Proxy is as much a work of intellectual ambition and political strategy, expanding and exploring woundedness, as it is aesthetically erotic. If you want to feel deeply, to be pulled into Doyle’s prose, prepare to do so..."
"Proxy is as much a work of intellectual ambition and political strategy, expanding and exploring woundedness, as it is aesthetically erotic. If you want to feel deeply, to be pulled into Doyle’s prose, prepare to do so..."
2013-03-07: Alexis Pauline Gumbs for The Feminist Wire reviews Proxy
"You will read this book and you will be astounded at how gorgeous it is to be alive and dying, to be a hot mess falling apart in intimate and public places, to be experiencing a rate of change that changes, a tendency in life towards death..."
"You will read this book and you will be astounded at how gorgeous it is to be alive and dying, to be a hot mess falling apart in intimate and public places, to be experiencing a rate of change that changes, a tendency in life towards death..."
2013-03-01: Amy King interviews Erica Doyle about Proxy in Boog City 79
"Hardly anyone was writing about sex the way I knew we were doing it, and feeling it, and sometimes fucking each other up and over. Sex and the body are what make us dangerous..."
"Hardly anyone was writing about sex the way I knew we were doing it, and feeling it, and sometimes fucking each other up and over. Sex and the body are what make us dangerous..."
2012-11-08: The Offending Adam reviews Twerk
"In Diggs’ work, there never is a complete ending, only a door to another ending... Oftentimes I found myself caught in another world, a world authored by a poet unafraid to mix languages for the sake of something new and indeterminate."
"In Diggs’ work, there never is a complete ending, only a door to another ending... Oftentimes I found myself caught in another world, a world authored by a poet unafraid to mix languages for the sake of something new and indeterminate."
2012-09-28: Conference of the Birds archive
2012-08-01: X Poetics reviews Open Box
2012-07-21: CatSynth reviews Open Box
2012-07-15: Memory Select Avant-jazz radio reviews Open Box
2012-05-04: Barbara Henning Interviews Harry Mathews regarding Oulipo and Looking Up Harryette Mullen.
2011-11-07: Cara Benson for Jacket2 reviews Bharat jiva
"Bharat jiva a penultimate comment on the banality and glimmering potential holdout of humanity. Philosophy of philosophy, planetary biological religious cosmic consideration afloat on the tension of gerunds manifesting without always an I, yet I... "
"Bharat jiva a penultimate comment on the banality and glimmering potential holdout of humanity. Philosophy of philosophy, planetary biological religious cosmic consideration afloat on the tension of gerunds manifesting without always an I, yet I... "
2011-11-01: The Wide Road is a Best-Seller at Small Press Distribution for March, April, and October 2011
2011-10-20: Cathy Wagner for Third Factory on The Wide Road
"An enviably intellectually-fecund friendship set itself the important work of trying to think and write sex, collaboratively, as women. I wish I’d had this book years ago... "
"An enviably intellectually-fecund friendship set itself the important work of trying to think and write sex, collaboratively, as women. I wish I’d had this book years ago... "
2011-09-12: Sara Rauch for Lambda Literary reviews The Wide Road
"Sinuous, seductive, rife with sexy, feminine energy, The Wide Road is hard to categorize. It blurs the line between poetry and prose, gender and sexuality, body and story, universality and individuality...."
"Sinuous, seductive, rife with sexy, feminine energy, The Wide Road is hard to categorize. It blurs the line between poetry and prose, gender and sexuality, body and story, universality and individuality...."
2011-09-08: Len Gutkin for Make Magazine reviews The Wide Road
"Harryman and Hejinian’s strange, charming, picaresque “novel,” consists of epistolary correspondence between the book’s authors. These letters comment on the work we are reading, even as they evoke an enviably intelligent creative partnership..."
"Harryman and Hejinian’s strange, charming, picaresque “novel,” consists of epistolary correspondence between the book’s authors. These letters comment on the work we are reading, even as they evoke an enviably intelligent creative partnership..."
2011-08-20: Good Reads reviews The Wide Road
"A supremely riotous & zaftig take on the female picaresque. Language poets Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian join forces in a collaboration of poems & correspondence..."
"A supremely riotous & zaftig take on the female picaresque. Language poets Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian join forces in a collaboration of poems & correspondence..."
2011-06-01: Bomb Magazine's Patricia Spears Jones reviews Looking Up Harryette Mullen (Issue 116)
"This extensive commentary by critic and poet lifts the interview with writers out of the formulaic into an entertaining (both women have wicked senses of humor) and profound interrogation."
"This extensive commentary by critic and poet lifts the interview with writers out of the formulaic into an entertaining (both women have wicked senses of humor) and profound interrogation."
2011-04-01: Corina Copp for the Poetry Project interviews Carla Harryman & Lynn Hejinian about The Wide Road
2011-03-22: Ron Siliman recommends The Wide Road
2011-03-21: Karla Kelsey for The Constant Critic reviews The Wide Road
"Here subjectivity (echoing Kristeva) is the effect of linguistic process, rather than something that comes into being before or apart from language. The collaborative nature provides a completely different conception of the self in the world..."
"Here subjectivity (echoing Kristeva) is the effect of linguistic process, rather than something that comes into being before or apart from language. The collaborative nature provides a completely different conception of the self in the world..."
2011-03-08: Robin Elizabeth Sampson for We Who Are About To Die reviews The Wide Road
"When I read, I savor, letting the words be not a grocery store check-out-rack candy bar, but a handmade truffle, sweet and bitter and luscious. A sensual and erotic experience. That’s The Wide Road..."
"When I read, I savor, letting the words be not a grocery store check-out-rack candy bar, but a handmade truffle, sweet and bitter and luscious. A sensual and erotic experience. That’s The Wide Road..."
2011-02-27: Tarpaulin Sky reviews The Wide Road
"Newsflash: TSky gives thumbs up to the work of Harryman and Hejinian. Kudos to Blum, Hegnauer, and Belladonna for a thoughtful and pleasing design befitting the work of Harryman and Hejinian. Brill, brill, and brill..."
"Newsflash: TSky gives thumbs up to the work of Harryman and Hejinian. Kudos to Blum, Hegnauer, and Belladonna for a thoughtful and pleasing design befitting the work of Harryman and Hejinian. Brill, brill, and brill..."
2010-07-01: Laura Smith's essay From Rupture to Remembering: Flesh Memory and the Embodied Experimentalism of Akilah Oliver
This essay first appeared in MELUS: Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, issue 25.2 (Summer 2010), pages 103-120, and appears by permission of the journal. Copyright MELUS.
This essay first appeared in MELUS: Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, issue 25.2 (Summer 2010), pages 103-120, and appears by permission of the journal. Copyright MELUS.
2010-05-01: Catherine Daly for New Pages reviews Bharat jiva
2009-11-27: CAConrad for PhillySound reviews Bharat jiva
2009-11-01: Bonnie Jean Michalski for The University of Arizona Poetry Center reviews Mauve Sea-Orchids
"Reading this book feels like watching a nature documentary that takes place inside an organic body and slowed down just a second or two so that the movements of its simulated natural world become trance-like..."
"Reading this book feels like watching a nature documentary that takes place inside an organic body and slowed down just a second or two so that the movements of its simulated natural world become trance-like..."
2009-11-01: Bharat jiva is a Poetry Best-Seller for Small Press Distribution for September and October 2009
2009-03-23: Ron Silliman reviews The Elders Series #4
2009-03-02: Vincent Katz for Vanitas Magazine reviews of The Elders Series #4
"This is a remarkable book by and about a remarkable young woman, who left us way too soon..."
"This is a remarkable book by and about a remarkable young woman, who left us way too soon..."
2009-02-02: Marie Larson for Jacket Magazine #37 reviews Mauve Sea-Orchids
"We are presented with a field of blurred bodies, pearlescent with longing and without barrier. There is no immutable inside or outside here except in the most exorbitant sense—everything is inside, and everything is outside... "
"We are presented with a field of blurred bodies, pearlescent with longing and without barrier. There is no immutable inside or outside here except in the most exorbitant sense—everything is inside, and everything is outside... "
2008-11-11: The Poetry Foundation has published an excerpt from The Elders Series #1 by E. Tracy Grinnell
2008-03-31: Eileen Tabios for galatea resurrects #9 reviews Mauve Sea-Orchids
"Mauve Sea-Orchids is one of the most gorgeous, stunning and impressive feats of a poetry collection I’ve read in a long while..."
"Mauve Sea-Orchids is one of the most gorgeous, stunning and impressive feats of a poetry collection I’ve read in a long while..."
2008-02-27: Eileen Tabios for The Blind Chatelaine's Keys reviews Mauve Sea-Orchids
"You can open at random and every single page contains sinuous, luminous passages, which also often contain deeper meanings. . . Moi poetics: no need to deny the serpents the luminous flowers, for those blooms' fragrances are ferocious...!"
"You can open at random and every single page contains sinuous, luminous passages, which also often contain deeper meanings. . . Moi poetics: no need to deny the serpents the luminous flowers, for those blooms' fragrances are ferocious...!"
2007-10-01: The Poetry Project Newsletter on Four From Japan
2007-03-01: Midwest Book Review Small Press Bookwatch on Four From Japan
"Four From Japan showcases a diverse and reflective body of Japanese verse and other writings that is strongly recommended reading, a seminal addition to academic library poetry collections, and a welcome contribution to Japanese Cultural Studies..."
"Four From Japan showcases a diverse and reflective body of Japanese verse and other writings that is strongly recommended reading, a seminal addition to academic library poetry collections, and a welcome contribution to Japanese Cultural Studies..."
2006-11-15: Listen: Audio recordings from the Festival of Contemporary Japanese Women Poets on PENNsound
2000-07-01: Harryette Mullen
"The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be": Stretching the Dialogue of African-American Poetry
"The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be": Stretching the Dialogue of African-American Poetry
2000-02-01: How2
Discussion of Akilah Oliver's she said dialogues: flesh memory. Rachel Levitsky and Tisa Bryant.
Discussion of Akilah Oliver's she said dialogues: flesh memory. Rachel Levitsky and Tisa Bryant.