Monday, February 20, 2012; 7 pm HOT TEXTS READING SERIES presents: Rachel Levitsky, Christian Hawkey, Erín Moure Location: The Way Station: 683 Washington Ave; Brooklyn, NY 11238 |
Rachel Levitsky is the author of Neighbor (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Under the Sun (Futurepoem Books, 2002), and DEARLY, (A+Bend Press, 1999). Her book The Story of My Accident Is Ours is forthcoming from Futurepoem Books in 2012. Levitsky is Associate Adjunct Professor at the Pratt Institute and a part-time professor at the Naropa University. |
Christian Hawkey's latest book is Ventrakl (2010, Ugly Duckling Presse). In 2006 he received a Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award. In 2008 he was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow. He translates contemporary German poetry, and with the German poet Uljana Wolf he translates the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger. He lives in Brooklyn and Berlin. |
Erín Moure is a Canadian poet, essayist and translator of poetry from Galician (Chus Pato, Rosalía de Castro), French (Nicole Brossard), Spanish (Andrés Ajens), Portuguese (Fernando Pessoa). She has published 16 books of poetry and a book of essays in English, and poems, reviews and essays in many countries. Her recent O Resplandor (2010) is a curious cousin to Christian Hawkey’s Ventrakl. A new work, The Unmemntioable, an investigation into subjectivity and experience in Ukraine and Alberta, will appear in February 2012. She lives in Montreal. |
February 29, 2012 - March 3, 2012 Join Belladonna* at AWP in Chicago. We will be a part of the Table X group in the conference bookfair.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012; 7 pm Join Belladonna*, Litmus Press, and Futurepoem Books as part of the Brooklyn Public Library's Poetry Month. Location: Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture, Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza; Brooklyn, NY 11238 |
Tuesday, December 13, 2011; 6 pm Benefit Performance & Live Auction
The Belladonna* Benefit will showcase a performance by Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye, live auction by renowned auctioneer Erin Ward of Star Benefit Auctions with special assistant Amy King, and a dance performance by the A.O. Movement Collective. The Auction and the Benefit will support Belladonna*s 2012 season of publications and events, which share a theme of caring for the material realities of poets, viewing a publishing project holistically. We're referring to 2012 as The Year of Material Lives, and we plan to host combination readings/dinners with ample time set aside to discuss the economic and social concerns of writers, artists, publishers, and other creators. Moreover, in addition to continuing our commemorative chaplet series, we hope to publish five full-length books of hybrid and experimental work in the coming year including new work by Julie Patton, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and Tonya Foster. At the auction, we are hoping to earn the funds to complete our budget for 2012. This year we’ve been fortunate to be the recipient of funds from both NYSCA and The O Books Fund, but we still have work to do to make our goals a reality! Part of our benefit proceeds will also support honoraria for our wonderful interns. The Belladonna* Collaborative would like to thank the
following for their generous support & enthusiasm: Location: Hi Art! 227 West 29th Street, 4th Floor (between 7th & 8th) New York, NY 10001 |
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011; 7:30 pm Two readings: Uljana Wolf and Erica Kaufman Location: Dixon Place: 161A Chrystie Street New York, NY 10002 |
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The German poet and translator Uljana Wolf published two books of poetry, kochanie ich habe brot gekauft and falsche freunde (both kookbooks, Berlin), as well as “BOX OFFICE” (an essay on the prose poem). false friends, an English selection translated by Susan Bernofsky, appeared from Ugly Duckling Presse 2011. Her poems appeared in journals and anthologies such as New European Poetry (Graywolf, 2008), Dichten No. 10: 16 New German Poets (Burning Deck, 2008), jubilat, Chicago Review, Harper’s Magazine. She translates numerous poets into German, among them Matthea Harvey, Christian Hawkey, Erín Moure, and Cole Swensen, and was the co-editor of the Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2009. |
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Erica Kaufman is the author of censory impulse (Factory School 2009) as well as several chapbooks, most recently selections from INSTANT CLASSIC (Least Weasel 2011). More poems from this recent project, INSTANT CLASSIC, can be found online in Little Red Leaves and Elective Affinities. Recent prose can be found in The Poetry Project Newsletter and Rain Taxi. Kaufman is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate Center in Composition & Rhetoric, and teaches at Baruch College and Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking and Institute for Language & Thinking. |
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  This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011; 7:30 pm Our Material Lives: Feminism and Poetry at Various Ages Our 2011-2012 season will call to attention the material life of the artist, as person, who, in addition to being creator/conspirator to a body of work, possesses a physical body, and real financial, medical and social needs. To inaugurate this season, we'll begin with an unique event focusing on feminism and writing in the many stages of our poetic lives. Location: Dixon Place: 161A Chrystie Street New York, NY 10002 |
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 Poet and translator Ana Bozicević came from Croatia to America and wrote Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009), a Lambda Literary Award finalist. She works and studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she prepared Diane di Prima's "The Mysteries of Vision: Some Notes on H.D." for publication in Lost&Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Currently she's completing her second book of poems. |
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 Caroline Crumpacker has published the chapbooks Recherche Theories (Etherdome Press, 2010) and The Institution in Her Twilight (Dusie Kollectiv, 2011). Her poetry, translations and reviews appear in magazines and anthologies including The Talisman Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Talisman, 2007) and American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan University Press, 2007). She is a member of Belladonna* Collaborative and a contributing editor for Circumference, and was a founding editor of both Fence and the French/American online magazine Double Change. She lives in "mid-upstate New York" with her lovely daughter Coco and her partner the puppeteer Roberto Rossi. A bit further upstate, she runs The Millay Colony for the Arts. |
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 Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1934, a second generation American of Italian descent. She lived and wrote in Manhattan for many years, where she became known as an important writer of the Beat movement. During that time she co-founded the New York Poets Theatre, and founded the Poets Press, which published the work of many new writers of the period. With Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), she edited the literary newsletter The Floating Bear (1961-1969). She is the author of 43 books of poetry and prose, including Pieces of a Song (City Lights, 1990). Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and she's received many grants and awards for her poetry. Diane lives and writes in San Francisco, where she teaches private classes and workshops and does individual consultations on writing and creativity. Di Prima was named Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2009, and she turned 77 in August. Melanie La Rosa has worked in the production of documentaries since 1996. Aside from directing, her numerous roles have included that of producer, director of photography, 2nd unit camera, associate producer, and assistant editor. Her education includes an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She teaches documentary filmmaking at Hunter College. Melanie is currently at work on THE POETRY DEAL, a film about the life and work of poet Diane di Prima. |
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Hannah Zeavin is a poet and feminist from Brooklyn. She now attends Yale University, where she helped instigate a recent Title IX complaint. Her poetry and articles have appeared in a few magazines and journals. Zeavin has spoken out on issues of gender and sexuality on CNN, The New York Times, and Good Morning America. She is the poetry editor at Cousin Corinne’s Reminder and the editor-in-chief of Broadrecognition.com. Her first book, Circa, was published by Hanging Loose Press.
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In Aporia: The Annual Akilah Oliver Memorial Reading The annual Akilah Oliver Memorial Reading honors the memory of Lang professor Akilah Oliver, a radical poet, feminist, and activist. As the first of an annual reading series, this reading will feature the work of Oliver's contemporaries Julian Brolaski, Rachel Levitsky and Lauren Nicole Nixon, along with Oliver's former students Erik Freer, Karl Leone and Kaley Foley. Location: The New School: Lang Cafe, 65 West 11th Street; New York, NY |
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Rachel Levitsky is the author of Under the Sun (Futurepoem 2003), NEIGHBOR (UDP 2009) and the forthcoming novel,The Story of My Accident is Ours (Futurepoem 2011 or 2012). She is also the author of seven or eight chapbooks, most recently a prose work, Renoemos (Delete Press 2010). Levitsky teaches Writing and Literature at Pratt Institute, Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Poets House and Bard Prison Initiative. She is a member of Belladonna* Collaborative—a hub of feminist avant-garde literary action. Four of her mini-essays on Confinement can be found online. With Christian Hawkey and a bunch of their students, she recently opened The Office of Recuperative Poetics, a mobile installation of cultural recollection and reanimation. |
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Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011) and several chapbooks. Advice for Lovers is forthcoming from City Lights in spring 2012. Julian lives in Brooklyn where xe is an editor at Litmus Press and plays country music with Juan & the Pines. New work is on the blog hermofwarsaw. |
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Lauren Nicole Nixon is a Brooklyn-based artist representative and poet. Nixon holds an M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU and a B.A. in Dance and Culture/Media Studies from The New School. Recent and forthcoming work is published in Bone Bouquet, The Tulane Review, apt, 491, Jelly Bucket, No, Dear and In Posse. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee. |
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Erik Freer is an undergraduate student at The New School in the dual degree program pursuing a BFA from Parsons the New School for Design in Communication Design and a BA from Eugene Lang College the New School for the Liberal Arts in Writing. At Parsons his focus is on Information, Print, and Typography and at Lang his focus is on Poetry and Play writing, with a minor in Japanese. Erik possesses a deep interest in ideas of mapping (or un-mapping) and the visual representation of information. Erik dedicates his spare time to any and everything cultural and creative he can produce and experience. |
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Kailey Foley is a poetry major in her third year at Lang. She resides and works in Bushwick, Brooklyn, which is often detrimental to her health if not instrumental to her writing. Her favorite poetry includes that of Charles Bukowski and the female Language poets. She spends most of her time composing 90's power-hour playlists and thinking about syntax. Kailey has had pieces published in Voice and Moth Mouth literary magazines and online at Spillway publications. Cool, whatever. |
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Karl Leone is a junior at Eugene Lang College of The New School and is honored to be taking part in this fall’s reading honoring his dear friend, mentor, and teacher Akilah Oliver. As an actor, Karl’s New York stage credits include “Marat/ Sade,” “Pride and Prejudice,” “Laramie Project,” and “Undermilkwood. 4 Recent film credits include “Keep the Lights On” dir. Ira Sachs and “Going Out” dir. Leah Samuel. Most recently, Karl has been concentrating on the genre of poetic drama and is developing a play called “Our Aporia” influenced on the writings of Oliver’s “A Toastin the House of Friends.” |
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 Saturday - Sunday, August 6 - 7, 2011 Please join Belladonna* at the Boog City Book Festival! With a special reading from Belladonna* author Evie Shockley @ 12pm on August 6th! Stop by our table to hear her read her own work and an excerpt from Akilah Oliver's recently reissued Putterer's Notebook. Location: Unnameable Books: 600 Vanderbilt Avenue; Brooklyn, NY 11238 |
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011; 8 pm Curated by local poet activists Krystal Languell and Emily Skillings—HOT TEXTS is a reading series in Brooklyn, New York that celebrates innovative writing rooted in the body, desire, sexual politics and the erotic sphere. HOT TEXTS is an extension of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist, avant-garde event series, collective and publishing venture. Readers:
R. Erica Doyle’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Best American Poetry, Our Caribbean, Ploughshares, Best Black Women's Erotica, and Bloom, among others. She was an Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund finalist, a New York Foundation for the Arts and Cave Canem Fellow, and she lives and teaches in New York City. Argentinean poet Lila Zemborain has been living in New York since 1985. She is the author of the poetry collections, Abrete sésamo debajo del agua (1993), Usted (1998), Guardianes del secreto (2002) / Guardians of the Secret (Las Cruces: Noemi Press, 2009), Malvas orquídeas del mar (2004) /Mauve-Sea Orchids (New York: Belladonna Books, 2007), Rasgado (2006) and in collaboration with artist Martin Reyna La couleur de l’eau / El color del agua (Paris: Virginie Boissiere, 2008). She has authored the book-length essay Gabriela Mistral. Una mujer sin rostro. From 2000 to 2006, she was the director and editor of the Rebel Road Series, and since 2003 she curates the KJCC Poetry Series at New York University, where she directs the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish. In 2007 she was selected as a Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry, and in Spring 2010 she was awarded a one month residency at the Millay Colony. Paul Foster Johnson’s first collection of poetry, Refrains/Unworkings, was published by Apostrophe Books, and his second, Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms, was published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. With E. Tracy Grinnell, he is the author of the g-o-n-g press chapbook Quadriga. His poems have appeared in The Awl, Cannot Exist, GAM, EOAGH, Fence, and Octopus. From 2003 to 2006, he curated the Experiments and Disorders reading series at Dixon Place. He is an editor at Litmus Press and lives in New York. Susana Gardner’s first full-length collection of poems, [lapsed insel weary], was published by The Tangent Press in 2008. Her second collection, HERSO An Heirship in Waves is just out from Black Radish Books, 2011. She has also published several chapbooks, the most recent of which is Idylls& Rushes (Dusie Kollektiv, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in many online and print publications including Jacket Magazine, How2, Puerto Del Sol, and Cambridge Literary Review among others. Her work has also been featured in several anthologies, including “131.839 slog meth bilum” (131.839 keystrokes with spaces), NTAMO, Finland and NOT FOR MOTHERS ONLY, a collection of poetry by women from Fence Books, USA. She lives in Zürich, Switzerland, where she also edits and curates the online poetics journal and experimental kollektiv press, Dusie. Location: The Way Station: 683 Washington Ave; Brooklyn, NY 11238 |
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| Friday, June 24, 2011: 7:30 pm A multi-press book party, featuring recipients of the Jerome Foundation Face Out grant, administered by CLMP. Join us for a dynamic event! Rachel Levitsky (Futurepoem) will read with Jeffrey Jullich (Litmus Press), Paul Foster Johnson (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), Karen Weiser (Ugly Duckling Presse), and Elizabeth Streb (The Feminist Press). Location: Greenlight Bookstore: 686 Fulton St.; Brooklyn, NY 11217 |
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 Saturday - Sunday, June 18, 2011 at 12:00 pm – June 19 at 6:00 pm Please join Belladonna* at the Brooklyn Print + Zine Fair! In conjunction with Northside Open Studios, this will be a street-level print and zine fair featuring of a handful of independent publishers and individual artists including: Belladonna*, Booklyn Aritst Alliance, Brainwaves Print + Zine Department, Casey Farnum, FLY, Ian McGillivray, Jess Poplawski, Jason Kachadourian, Lauren Denitzio, Mike Taylor, Pen15, Press Ugly Duckling Presse, Wild Isle, & more! The exhibition MASTER OF REALITY, will be open upstairs in our gallery space on the fourth floor from 12 - 6pm, along with AC and refreshments. Location: Booklyn Artist Alliance: 37 Greenpoint Avenue; Brooklyn, NY 11222 |
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 Wednesday, June 15, 2011; 8:00 pm Please join us as we create a space for people to read and perform Akilah Oliver’s work and work inspired by her. The reading will be in the Parish Hall, a room where she read her work, carefully listened to the work of other poets and taught workshops. The event is an opportunity for us to express our deep gratitude and pay homage to her gifts and her greatness. With Rachel Levitsky, Eileen Myles, Patricia Spears Jones, Julie Patton, Tonya Foster, E. Tracy Grinnell, Tracie Morris, Charles Bernstein, Steven Taylor, Tyler Burba, Julian T. Brolaski, Rachel Zolf, Joyce LeeAnn Joseph, Laura Meyers, Stacy Szymaszek, Marcia Oliver and a special tribute from a group of some of her former students: Stephen Motika, Lydia Cortes, Jamila Wimberly & Mia Bruner. Presented with the Poetry Project. Location: Poetry Project: 131 East 10th Street; New York, NY 10003 |
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011; 6 pm Eugene Ostashevsky & Elisa Biagini Poet Elisa Biagini visiting from Florence reads her work in Italian and poet Eugene Ostashevsky reads his translations in English
Location: The Bowery Poetry Club: 308 Bowery (Between Houston and Bleecker), New York, NY; F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker |
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011; 7:30 pm PROSE EVENT This is the second Belladonna* Collaborative PROSE EVENT. Each is a reading and conversation with prose writers who write at the intersection of fiction and the essay, producing texts that are urgent and often unclassifiable. We will be especially interested in exploring the idea of the walker as essayist, flaneuring through city and suburban space, skirting around the crosswalks or margins of genre.
Curated by Kate Zambreno. Kate Zambreno is the author of O Fallen Angel, which won Chiasmus Press’ “Undoing the Novel—First Book Contest.” Another novel, Green Girl, will be published by Emergency Press in Fall 2011. A nonfiction book revolving around the women of modernism, Heroines, will be published by Semiotext(e)’s Active Agents series in Fall 2012. She writes the blog Frances Farmer is My Sister. She is also an editor at Nightboat Books. Location: Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie Street; New York, NY |
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Harryette Mullen reading with Camille Rankine and Niki Herd Location: Cave Canem; 20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A; Brooklyn, NY |
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Harryette Mullen and Barbara Henning in conversation about LOOKING UP HARRYETTE MULLEN: INTERVIEWS ON SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY AND OTHER WORKS and Mullen's Genealogy Project Location: Poets House; 10 River Terrace; New York, NY 10282 This event is supported, in part, with funding from: |
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A Reading by Harryette Mullen Location: Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus |
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011; 7:30 pm Flux Poetics: Writing in Cultural Duality Belladonna* Collaborative is pleased to present three remarkable poet artists who write and live in dual or multiple cultures and languages. Performances will be followed by conversation moderated by Lila Zemborain.
Curated by Krystal Languell and Rachel Levitsky. Location: Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie Street; New York, NY |
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A Toast in Your House: a memorial reading to celebrate the life & work of Akilah Oliver Featuring: Hosted by Rebecca George & Luis Humberto Valadez Location: Outer Space Studio; 1474 N. Milwaukee Ave; Chicago, IL Co-presented by the Midwest Naropa Writers & Red Rover Series AKILAH OLIVER was a poet, a dedicated teacher, and an inspiration to the lives she touched. Her books include An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet (Farfalla, McMillan & Parrish, 2004), The Putterer’s Notebook (Belladonna, 2006), a(A)ugust (Yo-Yo Labs, 2007), and A Toast In The House of Friends (Coffee House, 2009). She taught poetry in New York at The New School, Pratt Institute and The Poetry Project. She also taught at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. We will remember her warmly, in a house of friends, with our words. Please click here or on the image above to view the full flier. |
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Belladonna* and Kundiman Celebrate Theresa Hak Kyung Cha On the weekend of what would have been Cha's 60th birthday (a full life cycle event in the Chinese/Korean lunar calendar), Belladonna* and Kundiman gather nine poets to perform a staged reading from Dictee. Cha's best known written work, Dictee focuses on the life of several women framed with the art of the Greek muses, yet in the cosmos of Shamanism and Daoism. Their struggle to speak and overcome suffering is enacted through a... mixture of media which destabilizes the notion of a progressive and seamless history. Location: Bowery Poetry Club: 308 Bowery (Between Houston and Bleecker); New York, NY |
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Belladonna* Recommended Festival Events: (for a full schedule, click here) Thursday - Friday, March 3 - 4, 2011, Noon - 7 pm Thursday, March 3, 2011, 1 pm Friday, March 4, 2011, 1 pm Friday, March 4, 2011, 5:30 pm Location: CUNY Graduate Center;
365 Fifth Ave (at 34th St), New York, NY |
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Please join us in celebrating the life of Akilah Oliver |
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BODY OF WORDS: the critical and kinesthetic intersection of text and physical performance The Belladonna* Collaborative presents an evening of discussion and performance by movement artists who use text as a regular part of their research and practice. A hybrid event for the dance and poetry communities—performances by Lauren Nicole Nixon, Alexandra Beller, Sally Silvers and Rosamond S. King. Curated by Emily Skillings. Discussion moderated by Saifan Shmerer Location: Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie Street;
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Belladonna * is part of Table X at the conference bookfair. TABLE X is ROW I1 - I11 and I28 - I36 AWP BELLADONNA EVENTS: Friday, February 4, 2011; 4 - 6 pm Friday, February 4, 2011; 6:30 pm Belladonna* authors will be involved in many other panels, readings, book signings, and events! |
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READING AND BOOK RELEASE PARTY The Wide Road: Lyn Hejinian and Carla Harryman Belladonna Series is beside itself tickled to release The Wide Road, the long awaited masterpiece collaboration of two of our heroes Lyn Hejinian and Carla Harryman. Self-described as a “picaresque buddy being,” The Wide Road is a reveling revelatory investigation of the female body, female friendship, writing, community, activism, travel and the nature and possibility of human thinking. Please join us in celebration of this wonderful book and partnership. Lyn Hejinian was born in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1941. Poet, essayist, and translator, she is also the author or co-author of several books of poetry, including Saga/Circus (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008), The Fatalist (2003), My Life in the Nineties (Shark, 2003), and A Border Comedy (2001). She lives in Berkeley, California. Carla Harryman is the author of twelve books of poetry, prose plays, and essays, most recently the Essay Press publication Adorno’s Noise, two experimental novels, Gardener of Stars (2001) and The Words: after Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre (1999). Harryman teaches in the Department of English at Eastern Michigan University and is on the faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts Graduate Program at Bard College. Location: Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie Street;
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Leslie Scalapino Memorial readings with poets, artists & friends Location: University of California, Berkeley; Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall |
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Readings in Contemporary Poetry featuring Eileen Myles and Stacy Szymaszek Location: Dia Chelsea: 535 West 22nd Street; New York, NY Admission: $6: general admission; $3: Dia members, students, and seniors |
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Please join us for a special performance of poet Leslie Scalapino’s play: Flow – Winged Crocodile. Flow – Winged Crocodile by poet Leslie Scalapino travels between the left and right sides of the brain, with appearances by a reincarnated Patty Hearst in the 1974 SLA bank heist and a green-winged creature that is part Crocodile, part Michelin Man, and part charging Rhino. Performed by The Relationship, a performance group directed by Fiona Templeton that specializes in innovative language and use of site. Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010) was the author of thirty books of poetry, poem-plays, essays, and fiction. Location: Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie Street;
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010; 7:30 pm Belladonna* FALL FUNDRAISER for a Year in The Commons Please join Belladonna* for a benefit performance and reading.
Part of the ticket proceeds will go to Belladonna*s generous host and long-time supporter, Dixon Place! 6:30 pm: Pre-performance Champagne Salon with Artists
7:30 pm: Performances & Readings
9:00 to 10:00 pm: Two-for-One Drinks & Pizza in the Dixon Place Lounge 6:00 to 10:00 pm: Silent Auction featuring mystical, cultural, political and hysterical objects. Location: Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie Street; New York, NY |
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 Wednesday, September 15, 2010; 8:00 pmGulf Coast Poets Benefit Reading featuring Tonya Foster, Darrell Bourque, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Mona Lisa Saloy. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing. Presented by the Writers at Rutgers Reading Series. Location: Rutgers University 126 College Ave; New Brunswick, NJ Admission: FREE |
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Featuring Julie Ezelle Patton Julie Ezelle Patton will be reading, followed by a reading/panel with local food activists, including James Subudhi, Environmental Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Inc. (WE ACT) and others to be announced. There will be time for the audience to ask questions and get involved in the discussion. Please plan to hang out in the bar following the formal presentation.
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The Summer Reading Cara Benson: (made), Book Thug Location: Book Thug Nation: 100 N. 3rd St; Between Berry St & Wythe Ave; Williamsbug, Brooklyn |
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Reading features many Belladonna* authors including Eileen Myles, Kate Colby, Brenda Iijima, Fanny Howe, Anna Moschovakis, and more. |
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Reading with Julie Patton, Anne Waldman, Patricia Smith, Douglas Dunn, Location: Naropa University, Performing Arts Center Admission: FREE |
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Panel: Small Press & Blogs Location: Naropa University, Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80302 Admission: FREE |
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Reading with Rachel Levitsky, Michelle Naka Pierce, Joanna Howard, Danielle Dutton, and Brian Evenson. Location: Naropa University, Performing Arts Center Admission: FREE |
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Reading with Akilah Oliver, Erik Anderson, Brian Kitely, and Jack Hirschman Location: Naropa University, Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80302 Admission: FREE |
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Reading with Jen Hofer, Dolores Dorantes, Sherwin Bitsui, Murat Nemet-Nejat, and Anselm Hollo Location: Naropa University, Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80302 Admission: FREE |
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An event created as an action against the fact that there are no bookstores in the neighborhood, the Fair is entirely dedicated to small presses and publications. It will have have street food, music, tables, programming that showcases participants and noted local writers. Meet poets, writers, graphic–novelists and publishers in an afternoon entirely dedicated to the small press. Buy books with special discount. Enjoy good street–food and music through the afternoon. Admission: FREE |
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 Sunday, June 27, 2010; 2:00 pmEOAGH Reading Series, featuring: Brenda Iijima, E. Tracy Grinnell, and Shelly Taylor Location: Unnameable Books 600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY |
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 Monday, June 21, 2010; 8:00 pmLeslie Scalapino Memorial Readings with local poets, artists & friends Reception to follow. Location: Poetry Project: 131 E. 10th Street; New York, NY 10003 |
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Flow—Winged Crocodile by poet Leslie Scalapino travels between the left and right sides of the brain, with appearances by a reincarnated Patty Hearst in the 1974 SLA bank heist and a green-winged creature that is part Crocodile, part Michelin man and part charging Rhino. Performed by The Relationship, a performance group directed by Fiona Templeton that specializes in innovative language and use of site. Cosponsored by Belladonna* and the Poetry Project. Location: Poets House: 10 River Terrace; New York, NY 10282 |
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"Rethinking Poetics." is the sense that the practices of poetics are in danger of becoming pro forma and that a focused, skeptical examination of basic assumptions will be most useful. Terms continue to be used routinely in circumstances that increasingly call for nuanced or even fundamental change. What does "materiality of the signifier" mean in the era of data mining or platform instability? What does "news" mean? How useful are current periodizations? Such questions can be multiplied. Given that new questions need to be raised and old certainties troubled, the goal is to have a conference dedicated to articulating what most needs to be rethought, what familiar formulations seem increasingly inadequate, what new directions seem best to pursue. There will be a series of plenary-panels, two in the morning and two in the afternoon, with four or five speakers each taking 10-12 minutes for themselves, leaving half the session for more general discussion. There will be a panel chair to moderate discussion, but there will be no introductions. Participants include Rachel Zolf, Rodrigo Toscano, Jennifer Scappettone, Brent Hayes Edwards, Lytle Shaw, Juliana Spahr, Kenny Goldsmith, Erica Hunt, Alan Golding, Monica de la Torre, Andrew Schelling, Bruce Andrews, Michael Taussig, Joan Retallack, Rachel DuPlessis, K. Silem Mohammad, Jena Osman, Craig Dworkin, Elizabeth Willis, Barrett Watten, Rob Fitterman, Jonathan Skinner, Marjorie Perloff, Sherwin Bitsui, Mark Nowak, Judith Goldman, C. S. Giscombe, Steve Evans, Stephanie Young, Lisa Robertson, Paul Stephens, Rob Halpern, Jeff Derksen, Ben Friedlander, Joshua Clover, Michael Taussig, Astrid Lorange, James Livingston, Jeff Nealon, Richard Doyle, Tan Lin, Tonya Foster, Matthew Hofer, John Melillo, Susan Howe, and Charles Bernstein. Conference costs for the 3-day conference: Location: Columbia University, New York, NY For more information, including conference registration, please visit the Rethinking Poetics Blog. |
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Four emerging poets investigate how poetry might marshal diverse languages, ethnicities and identities to engage with a global ecosystem under duress. Part of Ecopoetic Futures at Poets House, a series of events that examine poetry and the environment. Programs in this series are funded, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Council for the Humanities. Location: Poets House: 10 River Terrace; New York, NY |
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May 13, 2010; 6:00 - 8:00 pm Belladonna*, Litmus, Ugly Duckling, Futurepoem, Litmus, The Figures, Roof, Emergency, Bootstrap, Spuyten Duyvil, Talisman, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Corollary, United Artists invite you to celebrate the following books and authors (and more): Bharat jiva by kari edwards Location: ZieherSmith Gallery: |
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Annual Chapbook Festival Location: CUNY Graduate Center: 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY; Workshops:
C Level Breakout Rooms MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 10 – 11:30 am 10 – 11:30 am 11:30 am – 1 pm 11:30 am – 1 pm 7 – 8 pm
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On the occasion of the release of two new books, Ten Walks/Two Talks and Made-up Interviews with Imaginary Artists, Ugly Duckling Presse presents “Talk Show” — an evening of interviews, poetry, and unscripted surprises in the format of a late-night talk show. Hosted by Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch (Ten Walks/Two Talks). With poets Dodie Bellamy, Rachel Levitsky, Matthew Rohrer, and Marina Temkina. Plus interview-aritst Alex Stein (Made-up Interviews with Imaginary Artists) interviewing Cecilia Vicuña. Location: The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York |
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| Thursday, April 29, 2010; 7:00 pm Brooklyn Independents: Ugly Duckling Poets Readings from Ugly Duckling Presse poets Rachel Levitsky, Rick Snyder, and Karen Weiser. Location: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch Admission: FREE |
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Location: Dixon Place: 161 Christie Street; New York City |
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Belladonna* will be at the conference bookfair at TABLE X, A Publishing Commune. AWP events feauting Belladonna* members and authors: CLMP Panel — Face Out:
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010; 7:30 pm Kostas Anagnopoulos, author of Moving Blanket Location: Dixon Place: 161 Christie Street; New York City |
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Monday, February 22, 2010 |
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
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 Monday, October 12, 2009Book launch Bharat jiva by kari edwards and NO GENDER, Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards |
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Thursday - Friday, September 24-25, 2009 |
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| Tuesday, June 9, 2009 The Belladonna Elders Series #8: Jane Sprague, Diane Ward, and Tina Darragh |
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| Tuesday, April 28, 2009 The Belladonna Elders Series #7: Cara Benson, Jayne Cortez and Anne Waldman |
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| Tuesday, April 14, 2009 The Belladonna Elders Series #6: Kate Eichhorn, M. NourbeSe Philip and Gail Scott |
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| Tuesday, March 3, 2009 The Belladonna Elders Series #5: Jen Scappettone and Etel Adnan |
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| Sunday, March 1, 2009 The Belladonna Elders Series #4: Tribute to Emma Bee Bernstein at A.I.R. Gallery |
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Saturday, January 17, 2009 |
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| Tuesday, January 13, 2009 The Belladonna Elders Series #3: Chris Kraus and Tisa Bryant |
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| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 The Belladonna Elders Series #2: Bob Gluck and Sara Schulman (hosted by Erica Kaufman and Rachel Levitsky) |
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May 6, 2008: Marcella Durand, Carla Harryman, & Lila Zemborain; Dixon Place, NYC |
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April 8, 2008: Dodie Bellamy & Kevin Killian; Dixon Place, NYC |
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March 11, 2008: Jean Day & Kathy Lou Schultz; Dixon Place, NYC |
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February 12, 2008: Barbara Cole & Elizabeth Robinson; Dixon Place, NYC |
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December 11, 2007: “The Medead” by Fiona Templeton (performed by Fiona Templeton & The Relationship); Dixon Place, NYC |
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November 6, 2007: R. Erica Doyle & Tracie Morris; Dixon Place, NYC |
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October 9, 2007: Stacey Levine & Maggie O’Sullivan; Dixon Place, NYC |
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September 11, 2007: Carol Mirakove & Jen Benka; Dixon Place, NYC |
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May 8, 2007: Evie Shockley & Jocelyn Saidenber; Dixon Place, NYC |
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April 10, 2007: Rebecca Brown & Anna Moschovakis; Dixon Place, NYC |
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March 13, 2007: Maureen Owen & Patricia Spears Jones; Dixon Place, NYC |
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February 13, 2007: Deborah Meadows & Tim Peterson; Dixon Place, NYC |
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December 12, 2006: Erica Hunt & Akilah Oliver; Dixon Place, NYC |
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November 15-17, 2006: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Women Poets; Poets House, Bowery Poetry Club |
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October 10, 2006: A. Rawlings & Margaret Christakos; Dixon Place, NYC |
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September 12, 2006: Elizabeth Willis & Kate Colby; Dixon Place, NYC |
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July 25, 2006: E. Tracy Grinnell, Paul Foster Johnson, Sina Queyras; Dixon Place, NYC |
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May 9, 2006: Rae Armantrout, Laynie Browne, & Marjorie Welish; Dixon Place, NYC |
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| April 11, 2006: Sharon Mesmer & Dawn Lundy Martin; Dixon Place, NYC |
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March 14, 2006: Myung Mi Kim, Melissa Buzzeo, & Laura Elrick; Dixon Place, NYC |
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February 14, 2006: Ann Lauterbach & Kim Rosenfield; Dixon Place, NYC |
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December 13, 2005: The True Love Project: Kathe Izzo & Friends; Dixon Place, NYC |
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November 8, 2005: Canadian Poetry Event: Nathalie Stephens & Rachel Zolf; Dixon Place, NYC |
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October 11, 2005: Mairead Byrne & Stacy Szymaszek; Dixon Place, NYC |
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September 13, 2005: Belleza y Felicidad (with Fernanda Laguna); Dixon Place, NYC |
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May 26, 2005: Karen Weiser, Martine Bellen, Zinc Bar, New York City |
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April 22, 2005: Canadian Poetry event: Erin Moure, Lisa Roberston, Zinc Bar, New York City |
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March 24, 2005: hassen, Monica de la Torre, Mercedes Roffe, Zinc Bar, New York City |
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February 24, 2005: Lyn Hejinian (talk with Anne Waldman), Zinc Bar, New York City |
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January 20, 2005: Susan Howe, Eileen Tabios, Corina Copp; CUNY Grad Center, NYC |
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November 10, 2004: Nicole Brossard, Renee Gladman; CUNY Grad Center, NYC |
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November 9, 2004: Nicole Brossard in Conversation with Mary Ann Caws (co-sponsored by Poets House and CUNY); CUNY Grad Center, NYC |
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October 25, 2004: Harryette Mullen, Lorenzo Thomas (housed & co-sponsored by the Poetry Project) |
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September 3, 2004: Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Joan Retallack; CUNY Grad Center, NYC |
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May 7, 2004: Rachel Daley, Jaimy Gordon; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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April 26, 2004: Belladonna* Bilingue: Work in Translation (NYU’s Maison Francaise) |
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March 5, 2004: Belladonna* Translation Series: Lourdes Vasquez, Maria Negroni; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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February 6, 2004: Catherine Daly, Caroline Bergvall, Nada Gordon; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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January 11, 2004: Belladonna* at Makor! Joanna Fuhrman, Marcella Durand, Julie Patton, Rachel Levitsky, Erica Kaufman |
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December 5, 2003: Jen Benka, Leslie Scalapino, Susan Briante; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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November 7, 2003: Michelle Naka Pierce, Veronica Corpuz, Anne Tardos; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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October 4, 2003: The Pretty Ugly Future Lounge—Collaborative Benefit with Ugly Duckling Presse and Futurepoem Press |
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June 17, 2003: Minnie Bruce Pratt, Joan Larkin; Zinc Bar, NYC |
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May 30, 2003: Julie Patton, Summi Kaipa; Zinc Bar, NYC |
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April 25, 2003: Maggie Nelson, Elaine Equi; Zinc Bar, NYC |
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March 28, 2003: Fiction Reading: Suzanne Wise, Lydia Davis, Brenda Coultas; Zinc Bar, NYC |
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January 31, 2003: Eileen Myles, Caitlin McDonnell; Zinc Bar, NYC |
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December 6, 2002: Alice Notely, Lauren Gudath; Zinc Bar, NYC |
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October 25, 2002: Zhang Er, Tonya Foster; Zinc Bar, NYC |
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September 27, 2002: Chris Tysh, Jennifer Moxley; Zinc Bar, NYC |
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May 31, 2002: Rosemarie Waldrop, Tina Darragh; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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April 26, 2002: Anne Waldman, Bhanu Kapil Rider, kari edwards; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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March 29, 2002: Carla Harryman, Gail Scott; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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February 22, 2002: Norma Cole, Jocelyn Saidenberg; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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January 25, 2002: Barbara Einzig, Deborah Richards; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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December 7, 2001: Lynne Tillman, Abigail Child, Cheryl Pallant (43 features, 20 books, 3 salons, about 20 open readers); |
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October 26, 2001: Lila Zemborian, Rosa Alcala, Aja Couchois Duncan; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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September 28, 2001: Adeena Karasick, Lee Ann Brown; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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June 3, 2001: Nicole Brossard; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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April 6, 2001: Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Claudia Rankine; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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March 2, 2001: Kathleen Fraser, Lisa Jarnot; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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December 1, 2000: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Laura Wright, Kristin Prevellet; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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November 3, 2000: Laura Mullen, Beth Murray; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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October 6, 2000: Fanny Howe, Eleni Sikelianos; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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September 1, 2000: Cecilia Vicuna, Tisa Bryant; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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June 30, 2000: Brenda Shaughnessy, Camille Roy, Mary Burger; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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May 4, 2000: Marilyn Hacker, Yvette Christianse, kari edwards; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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March 30, 2000: Maureen Owen, Betsy Fagin; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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February 25, 2000: Erica Hunt, Wendy Kramer; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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January 27, 2000: Kim Lyons, Prageeta Sharma; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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November 16, 1999: Pam Lu, Kristin Stuart; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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September 24, 1999: Julie Patton, Betsy Andrews; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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August 26, 1999: Akilah Oliver, Marcella Durand; Bluestockings Womens Bookstore, NYC |
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