SAVE THE DATE:

SUNDAY, JULY 21st

for the final reading in the GIST series, hosted by Ayaz Muratoglu & Emily Bark Brown, featuring:

Valerie Hsiung & Gia Gonzalez

4pm in Prospect Park's Vale of Cashmere

The fifth reading of the 2024 Belladonna* reading series is Saturday, June 1st! GIST is a series of readings in public spaces co-curated by Emily Bark Brown and Ayaz Muratoglu. This reading will feature Asiya Wadud, Rebekah Smith, and Sevinç Çalhanoğlu.

When: Saturday, June 1st at 2pm
Where: Vale of Cashmere, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY. Since this reading takes place in the park, we regret that we are unable to broadcast it live on zoom.

Flier design: Claire Zhang

The fourth reading of the 2024 Belladonna* reading series is Saturday, May 18th! GIST is a series of readings in public spaces co-curated by Emily Bark Brown and Ayaz Muratoglu. This reading will feature Samia Rahimtoola and Holly Melgard.

When: Saturday, May 18th at 2pm
Where: Vale of Cashmere, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY. Since this reading takes place in the park, we regret that we are unable to broadcast it live on zoom.

The 23rd Annual NYC Independent Publishers Book Party is happening Thursday, May 9th! Belladonna* will be tabling, along with many of our favorite presses!

When: Thursday, May 9th, 6-8pm
Where: Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York, NY

Please join us on Friday, October 27th from 12-4pm for a special Halloween Belladonna Collaborative Open Studio

Come dressed as your favorite poet. We’ll have books, shirts (including our popular Lesbian Allstars shirt), candy, and chaplets.

925 Bergen St, #405 Brooklyn, NY 11238

Please join Belladonna* at Brooklyn Museum for the launch of new works by Mirene Arsanios, Erica Hunt, and Celina Su!

Please RSVP via Brooklyn Museum here.

Mirene Arsanios is the author of the short story collection, The City Outside the Sentence (Ashkal Alwan, 2015), Notes on Mother Tongues (UDP, 2019), and more recently, The Autobiography of a Language (Futurepoem, 2022). She has contributed essays and short stories to e-flux journal, Vida, The Brooklyn Rail, LitHub, and Guernica, among others. Arsanios co-founded the collective 98weeks Research Project in Beirut and is the founding editor of Makhzin, a bilingual English/Arabic magazine for innovative writing. Arsanios currently lives in New York where she was a 2016 LMCC Workspace fellow, and an ART OMI resident in fall 2017. With Rachel Valinsky, she coordinated the Friday nights reading series at the Poetry Project from 2017-19. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Erica Hunt is a poet, an essayist, a scholar, and an organizer. She earned her BA from San Francisco State University and her MFA from Bennington College. She is the author of the collaborative text Arcade (1996), which she worked on with artist Alison Saar. Her other collections of poetry include Local History (1993; expanded and republished 2003), Piece Logic (2002), and the chapbook Time Slips Right Before Your Eyes (2006). Associated with Language poetry, Hunt draws on critical race theory, history, jazz, and experiences of the everyday in her work.

Celina Su was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and lives in Brooklyn, part of unceded Lenapehoking. Her first book of poetry, Landia, was published by Belladonna* in 2018. Her writing includes two poetry chapbooks, three books on the politics of social policy and civil society, and pieces in the New York Times Magazine, n+1, Harper’s, and elsewhere. Her current book project centering radical democracy, Budget Justice: Racial Solidarities & Politics From Below, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Su is the Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies and a Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York. She can be found online at celinasu.net, with her latest pieces and preoccupations at https://linktr.ee/celinasu.

This reading is supported by grants from New York State Council on the Arts and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.