Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Three New Belladonna* Readings, 2018

It's been a while since we've announced new additions to our Belladonna* Reading Series homepage. To remedy that, here are three new readings from the fall of 2018 that were added to our site in the recent past.

The earliest of these readings took place on October 14th, featuring Anaïs Duplan and Yumi Shiroma reading at BGSQD for the Queer Zine Fair. James Loop and Rachael Guynn Wilson provided reader introductions for this forty-minute event.

Next, from November 5th, we have a Belladonna* Roll Call Reading Series event at Williamsburg's McNally Jackson bookstore. This reading showcased poets Marta López-Luaces and Montana Ray, who were presented by Mercedes Roffé and Mónica de la Torre, respectively. 

Finally, from December 7th, there's another Belladonna* Roll Call Reading Series reading, this time at Printed Matter, with Elaine Equi presenting Laura Buccieri and Tina Darragh presenting K. Lorraine Graham.

Now approaching its twentieth year, Belladonna* continues to be as vital a force as ever in our contemporary poetry scene. On our Belladonna* reading series homepage, you'll find an astounding array of audio and video documentation of the organization's ambitious work promoting "the work of women writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, delicious to talk about, unpredictable, and dangerous with language," going back to its very origins. Click here to start browsing, or click any of the individual dates above to visit that specific reading.