Belladonna...

the lovely Brooklynite poet Rachel Levitsky just sent me a gaggle of Christmas goodies from her Belladonna series..."belladonna* is a reading series that promotes the work of women writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, multi-form, multi-cultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, delicious to talk about, unpredictable, dangerous with language."

here's a list of the Belladonna chapbooks that were smiling back at me this morning in my mailbox...

#70 Lola by Lyn Hejinian
#71 Theory of Colors by Mercedes Roffe translated by Margaret Carson
#74 Befallen I by Erin Moure
#76 Lessons of the Microscopist by Martine Bellen
#77 Heads Up Fever Pile by Karen Weiser
#78 Belleza y Felicidad work by Fernanda Laguna, Gabriela Bergerman, Cecilia Pavon translations by Urayoan Noel
#80 hyper glossia by Stacy Szymaszek
#81 You But For The Body Fell Against by Nathalie Stephens
#82 from Human Resources by Rachel Zolf
and finally, The Anatomy of Oil by Marcella Durand...a beautiful 8 1/2 x 8 1/4 limited edition letterpressed, handstiched chapbook designed by Bill Mazza with cover art by Tim Sullivan AND signed by the poet...

Belladonna rocks...thanks so much Rachel...by the way, if you don't already know, their back catalog is pretty amazing...go check them out...they're linked to this blog...

xo