Belladonna Books began as a project of Belladonna*/Belladonna Series (See Belladonna Series

Belladonna Series

Belladonna* is an American non-profit poetry collaborative based in Brooklyn, NY. It was founded in 1999 by Rachel Levitsky at Bluestockings in New York, NY as a poetry series featuring avant-garde feminist writing, with an emphasis on hybrid and language-focused writing. The reading series...

) in 2000. David Kirschenbaum, a frequent attendee to the early Belladonna Reading Series, and the publisher of Boog Literature, offered to co-publish commemorative literature for each monthly event. The first publications were by kari edwards, for the May 4, 2000 reading at Bluestockings (bookstore)

Bluestockings (bookstore)

Bluestockings is an infoshop in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Collectively run by volunteers and a worker-owner collective, Bluestockings is Manhattan's only women's bookstore...

. Following the edwards postcards, Belladonna Books began publishing photocopied 'chaplets' for each reading, in short runs of 50 - 126 stressing the energy of the moment in time when they are produced. Therefore, most titles quickly go out of print.

Numbered 'Chaplet' Volumes

published in 2000:

1. Mary Burger, Eating Belief

2. Camille Roy

Camille Roy

Camille Roy was a Canadian politician and a three-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.-Background:He was born on July 13, 1911 in Nicolet, Centre-du-Québec. He became a farmer.-Political career:...

, Dream Girls

3. Cecilia Vicuña, Bloodskirt, trans. Rosa Alcalá

4. Eleni Sikelianos, from The Book of Jon

5. Fanny Howe

Fanny Howe

Fanny Howe is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She has written many novels in prose collection. Howe was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S...

, parts from Indivisible

6. Laura Mullen, Translation Series

7. Beth Murray, 12 Horrors

8. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is a contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language School, the poetry of the New York School, phenomenology, and visual art...

, Audience

9. Laura Wright, Everything Automatic

2001:

10. Lisa Jarnot

Lisa Jarnot

Lisa Jarnot is an American poet and translator. She has published several volumes of poetry. She is an anti-war activist, works as a horticulturalist and lives in Sunnyside, Queens.-Bibliography :*The Fall of Orpheus, Shuffaloff Press, 1993....

, Nine Songs

11. Kathleen Fraser

Kathleen Fraser

-Early years:Fraser was born in 1937 and grew up in Oklahoma, Colorado, and California.-Her works:Kathleen Fraser's published works include What I Want , Magritte Series , New Shoes , Each Next, narratives , Something in the foreground, a lake , Notes Preceding Trust , When New Time Folds Up ,...

, Soft Pages

12. Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Rachel Blau DuPlessis an American poet and essayist, is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry.-Life and work:...

, Draft 43: Gap

13. Nicole Brossard

Nicole Brossard

Nicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...

, Le Cou de Lee Miller/The Neck of Lee Miller

14. Lee Ann Brown, The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time/Reverse Mermaid

15. Adeena Karasick, The Arugula Fugues VII-VIII

16. Aja Couchois Duncan, Commingled : Sight

17. Lila Zemborain, PAMPA

18. Cheryl Pallant, Spontaneities

19. Lynne Tillman

Lynne Tillman

Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. She is currently Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany and is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays, and two other nonfiction...

, chapters from Weird Fucks and “Dead Talk”

20. Abigail Child

Abigail Child

Abigail Child is a poet, director, producer, and writer of a number of films.Originally, Child worked in San Francisco but moved to New York later in her career.-Academics:...

, Artificial Memory vol 1 & vol 2

2002:

21. Deborah Richards, Put A Feather In It

22. Norma Cole

Norma Cole

Norma Cole is a contemporary American poet, visual artist, and frequent translator from the French. A member of the circle of poets around Robert Duncan in the '80s, and a fellow traveler of San Francisco's language poets, Cole is also allied with contemporary French poets.-Life and work:A...

, BURNS

23. Jocelyn Saidenberg, Dusty

24. Gail Scott, Bottoms Up

25. Carla Harryman

Carla Harryman

Carla Harryman is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets. She teaches Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University and serves on the MFA faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College...

, DIMBLUE and Why Yell

26. Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman is an American poet.Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist....

, [THINGS] SEEN/UNSEEN

27. kari edwards

Kari edwards

kari edwards was a poet, artist and gender activist. He won the New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature .He authored have been blue for charity ; obedience ; iduna kari edwards (1954-2006) was a poet, artist and gender activist. He won the New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature...

, a diary of lies

28. Bhanu Kapil Rider, from The Wolf Girls of Midnapure

29. Rosmarie Waldrop

Rosmarie Waldrop

Rosmarie Waldrop is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s...

, Trace Histories

30. Tina Darragh

Tina Darragh

Tina Darragh is an American poet who was one of the original members of the Language group of poets.Darragh was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in the south suburb of McDonald, Pennsylvania. She began writing in 1968 and studied poetry in Washington, DC at Trinity University from 1970 to 1972...

, fron rule of dumbs

31. Chris Tysh, Mother, I (fragment of a film script)

32. Jennifer Moxley

Jennifer Moxley

Jennifer Moxley is an American poet, editor, and translator who was born in San Diego, California. She currently teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Maine and resides in Maine with her partner, Steve Evans.- Poetry :...

, The Occasion

33. Zhang Er, Cross River . Pick Lotus

34. Tonya Foster, A Swarm of Bees in High Court

35. Lauren Gudath, Animal & Robot

36. Alice Notley

Alice Notley

Alice Notley is an American poet. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. She married poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she was active in...

, IPHIGENIA

2003:

37. Caitlin Mcdonnell, Dreaming the Tree

38. Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles is an American poet who has also worked in fiction, non-fiction, and theater.She won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.-Early life and career:...

, We, the Poets

39. Suzanne Wise, from The Blur Model

40. Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis is a contemporary American writer noted for her short stories. Davis is also a French translator, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Proust's Swann’s Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary....

, Cape Cod Diary

41. Elaine Equi

Elaine Equi

Elaine Equi is an American poet.Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois and grew up in the Chicago area. Since 1988 she has lived in New York with her husband, poet Jerome Sala. She currently teaches creative writing in the Master of Fine Arts programs at City College of New York and The New School...

, Castle, Diamond, Swan

42. Maggie Nelson, Something Bright, Then Holes

43. Summi Kaipa, “One: I Beg You, Be Still” from Was.Or Am.

44. Julie Patton, “Car Tune” & Not So Bella Donna

45. Joan Larkin

Joan Larkin

Joan Larkin is an American poet and playwright. She was active in the small press lesbian feminist publishing explosion in the 1970s, co-founding the independent publishing company Out & Out Books. She is now in her fourth decade of teaching writing...

, Boston Piano

46. Minnie Bruce Pratt

Minnie Bruce Pratt

Minnie Bruce Pratt is an U.S. educator, activist, and award-winning poet, essayist, and theorist. Pratt was born in Selma, Alabama, grew up in Centreville,...

, The Money Machine:Selected Poems

47. Anne Tardos

Anne Tardos

Anne Tardos is a poet, visual artist, and composer born in Cannes, France. She lived as a small child in German-occupied Paris, then after the war moved with her parents to Budapest, where she learned Hungarian. The Hungarian revolution resulted in her having then to move to Vienna, where she...

, A Noisy Nightingale Understands a Tiger’s Camouflage Totally

48. Michelle Naka Pierce

Michelle Naka Pierce

Michelle Naka Pierce is a half Japanese/half American poet. She teaches experimental poetry and writing pedagogy at Naropa University and is the director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman in 1974...

, 48 Minutes Left

49. Veronica Corpuz, Unititled

50. Leslie Scalapino

Leslie Scalapino

Leslie Scalapino was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of...

, ‘Can’t is ‘Night’

51. Jen Benka, A Revisioning of the Preamble

52. Susan Briante, Neotropics: A Romance in Field Notes

2004:

53. Joanna Fuhrman, Belladonna* Moraine

54. Nada Gordon, SOng of My OWnself

55. Catherine Daly, Surplice

56. Caroline Bergvall

Caroline Bergvall

Caroline Bergvall is a poet of French-Norwegian nationalities who has lived in England since 1989.Bergvall has developed audio texts and collaborative performances with sound artists in Europe and North America; her critical work is largely concerned with emerging forms of writing, plurilingual...

, GONG

57. Maria Negroni, Art and Fugue

58. LourdesVasquez, May the transvestites of my island who tap their heels

59. Belladonna* Bilingue: Women’s Work in Translation(v.1)

60. Belladonna* Bilingue: Women’s Work in Translation(v. 2)

61. Jaimy Gordon

Jaimy Gordon

Jaimy Gordon is an American writer. She was born in Baltimore, graduated from Antioch College in 1966, received an M.A. in English from Brown University in 1972, and earned Doctor of Arts in Creative Writing in l975, also from Brown. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she teaches in the MFA...

, A Month of Love

62. Rachel Daley, You and Me Story

63. Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Manuel is destroying my bathroom…

64. Joan Retallack

Joan Retallack

Joan Retallack is an American poet, critic, biographer, and multi-disciplinary scholar.-Life and work:Joan Retallack received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana and her M.A. from Georgetown University...

, T H E R E I N V E N T I O N O F T R U T H

65. Renee Gladman, Untitled, Woman On Ground

66. Nicole Brossard

Nicole Brossard

Nicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...

, Matter Harmonious Still Maneuvering

2005:

67. Eileen Tabios, The Estrus Gaze(s)

68. Susan Howe

Susan Howe

Susan Howe is a American poet, scholar, essayist and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre...

, 118 Westerly Terrace

69. Corina Copp, Play Air

70. Lyn Hejinian

Lyn Hejinian

Lyn Hejinian is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work My Life , as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry .-Life:Hejinian was born in the San...

, Lola

71. Mercedes Roffe, Theory of Colors

72. hassen, Salem

73. Monica de la Torre, Doubles: An Excerpt

74. Erin Moure

Erin Mouré

Erin Mouré is a Canadian poet and translator of poetry from languages which include, French, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish to English. Her mother Mary Irene was born 1924 in Galicia, Poland and moved to Canada in 1929. Erin’s father is William Moure born in Ottawa Canada in 1925...

, Befallen I

75. Lisa Robertson (poet)

Lisa Robertson (poet)

Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet who is best known for a collection a poem entitled The Weather, which was inspired by the shipping forecasts announced on BBC radio. She currently lives in France.-Life:...

, First Spontaneous Horizontal Restaurant

76. Martine Bellen

Martine Bellen

-Life:She has taught at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, New York University, Rutgers University, and Hofstra University.She was writer in residence at University of Central Oklahoma....

, NYC Stories/ Lessons of the Microscopist

77. Karen Weiser, Heads Up Fever Pile

78. Belleza y Felicidad

79. Mairead Byrne

Mairéad Byrne

Mairéad Byrne is an Irish poet who emigrated to the United States in 1994. Author of four poetry collections, and other works, she is an associate professor of poetry and poetics at Rhode Island School of Design....

, Kalends

80. Stacy Szymaszek

Stacy Szymaszek

Stacy Szymaszek is a poet and the author of the books Emptied of All Ships and Hyperglossia , as well as numerous chapbooks of poetry, including Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane , Stacy S.: Autoportraits , from Hyperglossia , and Mutual...

, hyper glossia

81. Nathalie Stephens, You But for the Body Fell Against

82. Rachel Zolf, from Human Resources

2006:

83. Kathe Izzo, Public & Private Love

84. Kim Rosenfield, 10 Perfumes

85. Ann Lauterbach

Ann Lauterbach

Ann Lauterbach is an American poet, essayist, and professor. Her most recent poetry collection is Or to Begin Again , a 2009 National Book Award finalist. Her other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur...

, from Nothing to Say

86. Myung Mi Kim, from Penury

87. Laura Elrick, Permeable Structures: A Performance Essay in Stereo (excerpts)

88. Melissa Buzzeo, Near: a luminescence

89. Dawn Lundy Martin, The Undress

90. Sharon Mesmer, Vertigo Seeks Affinities

91. Marjorie Welish

Marjorie Welish

Marjorie Welish is an American poet, artist, and art critic.Welish is a graduate of Columbia University and received her M.F.A. degree from Vermont College and Norwich University...

, Art and Language Writes an Epitaph

92. Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies...

, Fetch

2007:

93. Laynie Browne

Laynie Browne

-Life:She taught at University of Washington, Mills College, and teaches at the University of Arizona.She was a member of the Subtext collective, Seattle, and The Ear Inn in New York City.Her work appeared in Conjunctions, Fence, Monkey Puzzle....

, Desires of Letters

94. Elizabeth Willis

Elizabeth Willis

Elizabeth Willis is an American poet, literary critic and professor of literature and creative writing at Wesleyan University. Her most notable work includes four major books of poetry and a scholarly collection of essays on Lorine Niedecker which she edited...

, All The Paintings of Giorgione

95. Kate Colby

Kate Colby

Kate Colby is an American poet. She grew up in Massachusetts. She graduated from Wesleyan University, and with an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 1997, she moved to San Francisco. She worked for several years at Institute for Unpopular Culture as a volunteer...

, from A Banner Year

96. Margaret Christakos, My Girlish Feast

97. a. rawlings, W I D E R

98. Deborah Meadows, The Draped Universe

99. Laura Moriarty

Laura Moriarty

-Life and work:Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, grew up on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and has lived in Northern California since 1966. She attended Sacramento State University and the University of California at Berkeley in the 70s...

, Ultravioleta Documents

100. Maureen Owen, From Working Papers

101. Patricia Spears Jones, repuestas!

102. Anna Moschovakis, The Tragedy of Waste

103. Rebecca Brown

Rebecca Brown

Rebecca Brown may refer to:* Rebecca Brown , aka Ruth Bailey, Christian author* Rebecca Brown , former Australian breaststroke swimmer* Rebecca Brown , fictional character from the Australian drama, Sea Patrol...

, Always & Like This

104. Evie Shockley, 31 words * prose poems

105. Jocelyn Saidenberg, Dispossessed

106. Jen Benka and Carol Mirakove, 1,138

107. Harriet Zinnes, IT IS AS IF

108. Maggie O’Sullivan, Windows Opening

109. Stacey Levine

Stacey Levine

Stacey Levine is an American novelist, short story author, and journalist. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she attended The University of Missouri's journalism school and the University of Washington...

, Susan Moneymaker, Large and Small

110. R. Erica Doyle, from Proxy

111. Fiona Templeton

Fiona Templeton

Fiona Templeton is an experimental director, playwright, poet and performer. Born in Scotland in 1951, she co-founded London's Theatre of Mistakes in the 70s and lived for many years in the East Village of Manhattan. Her performance work includes the pioneering urban theatrical journey, You-The...

, Medea in Aia: Part I of the Medead

2008:

112. Elizabeth Robinson

Elizabeth Robinson

Elizabeth Robinson is an American poet and professor, author of eleven collections of poetry, most recently The Orphan and Its Relations . Her work has appeared in the Colorado Review, the Denver Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg Review, and New American Quarterly...

, Rumor

113. Barbara Cole, from: ear say

114. Jean Day

Jean Day

-Life and work:Born in Syracuse, New York, and raised in Middletown, Rhode Island, Day graduated from Antioch College in 1977. Since then she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked in literary publishing, currently as associate editor of...

, Daydream (The Eponym)

115. Kathy Lou Schultz, Biting Midge (Works in Prose)

116. Dodie Bellamy

Dodie Bellamy

Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor. Her work is frequently associated with that of Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, and Eileen Myles...

, Mother Montage

117. Kevin Killian

Kevin Killian

Kevin Killian is an American poet, author, and playwright of primarily LGBT literature. He is also a highly regarded editor. My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, which he co-edited with Peter Gizzi, won the American Book Award for poetry in 2009...

, Wow Wow Wow Wow

118. Leslie Scalapino & E. Tracy Grinnell, The Belladonna Elders Series #1

119. Robert Gluck & Sarah Schulman, The Belladonna Elders Series #2

2009:

120. Chris Kraus & Tisa Bryant, The Belladonna Elders Series #3

121. Emma Bee Bernstein, Susan Bee, & Marjorie Perloff, The Belladonna Elders Series #4

122. Etel Adnan, Lyn Hejinian, & Jennifer Scappettone, The Belladonna Elders Series #5

Letterpress Series

Rosa Alcalá, Some Maritime Disasters This Century

Marcella Durand, Anatomy of Oil

Akilah Oliver, The Putterer’s Notebook

Erica Hunt, Time Slips Right Before Your Eyes

Caroline Bergvall, Alyson Singes

Perfect-Bound Books

Four from Japan: Contemporary Poetry & Essays by Women, ed. Sawako Nakayasu
(published in collaboration with Litmus Press)

Carla Harryman

Carla Harryman

Carla Harryman is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets. She teaches Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University and serves on the MFA faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College...

, Open Box

Lila Zemborain, Mauve Sea-Orchids

Marcella Durand, Area

Leslie Scalapino & E. Tracy Grinnell, The Belladonna Elders Series #1

Robert Gluck & Sarah Schulman, The Belladonna Elders Series #2

Chris Kraus & Tisa Bryant, The Belladonna Elders Series #3

Emma Bee Bernstein, Susan Bee, & Marjorie Perloff, The Belladonna Elders Series #4

Etel Adnan, Lyn Hejinian, & Jennifer Scappettone, The Belladonna Elders Series #5

M. NourbeSe Philip, Gail Scott, & Kate Eichorn, The Belladonna Elders Series #6

Cara Benson, Jayne Cortez, & Anne Waldman, The Belladonna Elders Series #7

Jane Sprague, Diane Ward

Diane Ward

Diane Ward is a U.S. poet initially associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s and has actively published into the 21st century, maintaining a presence in various artistic communities for many decades...

, & Tina Darragh, The Belladonna Elders Series #8 (Forthcoming)