e/Belladonna Series

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has gloss	eng: The Belladonna Series was founded by the poet Rachel Levitsky in 1999 at NYC’s Bluestockings Women’s Bookstore (now Bluestockings (bookstore)) as a poetry series featuring avant-garde feminist writing, with an emphasis on hybrid and language-focused writing. Belladonna* quickly expanded to a multi-faceted matrix of readings, publications and informal salons. The poet Erica Kaufman joined Levitsky as co-curator/editor in 2002. In 2005 the series moved its events to the downtown performance venue Dixon Place. Now in its ninth year, Belladonna* has published over 120 women (and a few men) through its various publication series, which include a small run of commemorative chaplets at each event, several book art style chapbooks, and two perfect-bound books per year, including one that is bilingual. The series, though focusing on women of the avant-garde, is diverse and has published translations in French, Chinese, Spanish and Japanese.
lexicalization	eng: Belladonna Series
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