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Belladonna* is a collaboratively organized feminist reading series and chaplet | chapbook | full-length book press.

Please send all inquiries to our email at belladonnaseries@gmail.com
http://belladonnaseries.org/auction

05/21/2026

Next in our Spring reading series: Mel Elberg and Rebecca Teich will read will read from their new chaplets at the PIT on Sunday, May 31st.

As always, chaplets of raw, in progress work from the reading series, curated by Emily Martin and Sahar Khraibani, will be available at the reading!

04/30/2026

Poets Tess Brown-Lavoie and Carolyn Ferrucci will read at Molasses Books on May 15th to continue our Spring Reading Series, curated by Emily Martin and Sahar Khraibani.

New chaplets of the authors’ raw, in-process work will be available at the reading.

Subscribe to our 2026 chaplet series at the link in our bio!

04/11/2026

Subscribe monthly to receive Belladonna* Chaplets as they are released throughout the year and support dangerous and delicious poetry!

Select whichever sliding scale option that works for you: from printing costs ($10/month), reading series operations ($15/month), or sustaining Belladonna* support ($20/month).

Subscribers will receive free gifts from Bella along with the around 20 chaplets we anticipate printing this year.

If you sign up before the end of May, we will send you all the chaplets you missed so far in 2026!

www.belladonnaseries.org/chaplets

xoxo

04/07/2026

Join us at the Poetry Project on Monday, April 27th to celebrate three new books: Mia You’s Festival, Lila Zemborain’s Matrix Lux, translated by Lorenzo Bueno, and an expanded second edition of Carla Harryman’s Open Box (Belladonna*’s first full-length publication, originally from 2007). All three books will be available at the event, as well as the second printing of Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian’s feminist classic The Wide Road. The authors will be joining us from Utrecht, Buenos Aires, and Ypsilanti.

We hope you can join us at 7:30 for a reception before the event.

Advance tickets are available on the Poetry Project website!

04/06/2026

Poets Sahar Khraibani and Monti A. Maria will read at Sunview Acropolis on April 21st to kick off Belladonna*’s spring reading series, curated by Sahar and Emily Martin.

New chaplets of raw, in-process work will be available at the reading. See you there!

Flyer design by Scout Lee

04/02/2026

Introducing our Spring 2026 Reading Series curated by Sahar Khraibani and Emily Martin!

Following our 27 year tradition, Belladonna* Collaborative brings you the feminist avant-garde with delicious and dangerous readings and chaplets from Sahar, Monti A. Maria, Tess Brown-Lavoie, Carolyn Ferrucci, Mel Elberg, Becca Teich, Jenn Soong, and Bahaar Ahsan at free venues around New York City. Flyers for the series are designed by Scout Lee.

Join us for our first reading at Sunview Acropolis on April 21st at 7pm featuring Sahar Khraibani and Monti A. Maria

More soon,
Belladonnas

03/17/2026

Join us on Monday, March 30th at 12:15 pm for the Annual Belladonna* with Queens College Reading featuring poets James Loop and Sahar Romani, followed by a q&a facilitated by our lovely interns Jennifer Wang and Nora Mayers. Co-Sponsored by Writers at Queens, this event is free and open to the public. Chaplets of new, in-process work from our featured poets will be available to commemorate the event.

01/12/2026

Belladonna* Collaborative is waking up from winter hibernation to invite you to our first event of 2026, Cura Parentis: poets on caring for their parents.

Join us on February 5th at Sunview Acropolis for readings and an accompanying chaplet from Lorenzo Bueno, Tess Brown-Lavoie, Carolyn Ferrucci, Early Shinada, Laura Brown-Lavoie, and Levy Erwin.

Inspired by Belladonna*’s latest title Matrix Lux, a meditation on illness and spirituality, written by Lila Zemborain and translated by her son and then-caretaker Lorenzo Bueno, we will celebrate and honor the poets who care, the poetics of care, and poetics as care. Both the book and the chaplet will be available at the reading.

Thursday, 2/5
7pm, readings at 8
Sunview Acropolis
257 Nassau Ave, Greenpoint

flyer by Scout Zabel

12/31/2025

Thanks for another weird & brilliant year with Belladonna*

An exciting 2026 is brewing at the studio, in the meantime we are wishing our readers & authors, our collaborative members, and our friends a happy new year. See you all soon and often 😉

12/05/2025

Join Belladonna* Collaborative, Futurepoem, Litmus Press, Winter Editions, and World Poetry Books to celebrate our new small press collective, POETRY CORP!

This will be a holiday party and a rent fundraiser for our shared Crown Heights studio space with books for sale, food & drink, music, and poetry.

Readings from Claire DeVoogd, Lila Zemborain, a.Monti, Aiden Farrell, Christopher Rey Pérez starting at 4pm.

Tarot readings by James Loop and playlist by Rachael Wilson.

December 12th
3-7:30pm (readings at 4)
@ Poetry Corp HQ
925 Bergen St. #405
$15 at the door

*accesibility note: the studio is on a 4th floor walk-up, with freight elevator access only available until 5:30pm

✨also check out our feature in Publishers Weekly, written by Daniel Yadin, link in bio✨

Address

925 Bergen Street, Ste 405
Brooklyn, NY
11238

Opening Hours

12pm - 5pm

Website

http://belladonnaseries.org/

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