History
Belladonna* was started as a reading and salon series at Bluestockings (bookstore) on New York City’s Lower East Side, in August 1999. The first publications were by kari edwards, for the May 4, 2000 reading at Bluestockings (bookstore). Following the edwards postcards, in collaboration with Boog Literature, Belladonna* began to publish commemorative ‘chaplets’ of its readers' work.
In 2008 the style of production shifted from small-run, single-authored books to multi-authored volumes. In celebration of Belladonna*’s ten-year anniversary in the press published an Elders Series highlighting continuity and transformation of the ideas, poetics, and concerns of its poets' circle.
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