https://rachellevitsky.com Rachel-Levitsky Wed, 22 Apr 2020 02:31:33 +0000 https://rachellevitsky.com en https://rachellevitsky.com/rachel-levitsky Sun, 01 Mar 2020 22:53:34 +0000 Rachel-Levitsky https://rachellevitsky.com/rachel-levitsky Rachel Levitsky ︎ Twitter ︎ Instagram about (1) new (2) books (3) performance (4)&nbsp; belladonna* (5) cv (6) contact (7) https://rachellevitsky.com/about-1 Sun, 01 Mar 2020 22:53:31 +0000 Rachel-Levitsky https://rachellevitsky.com/about-1 about (1) ~ Rachel Levitsky <img width="1535" height="2183" width_o="1535" height_o="2183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be421de844f8230f8ecb19154ae8c5157c513b6120c5cd85758fdaebc6c28ede/rachel-levitsky-library.JPG" data-mid="83037793" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be421de844f8230f8ecb19154ae8c5157c513b6120c5cd85758fdaebc6c28ede/rachel-levitsky-library.JPG" /> RACHEL LEVITSKY came out as a Lesbian in 1984 and as a poet in 1994. She is the author Under the Sun (Futurepoem, 2003), NEIGHBOR (UDP, 2009) the poetic novella, The Story of My Accident is Ours (Futurepoem, 2013) and numerous chapbooks, recently, Hopefully, The Island, part of an ongoing collaboration with the artist Susan Bee. Levitsky builds and participates in a variety of publishing, collaboration and pedagogical/performative activities, such “Geometries of Recognition” a movement poetry workshop turned super8 film by the poet/filmmaker Stephanie Gray. In 1999 she founded Belladonna* which is now Belladonna* Collaborative. In 2017, she was a resident of LMCC’s Process Space on Governor’s Island where she worked on a project called “Mother of Separation, a study of language usage and migrant experience in NYC. She is Professor of Writing at Pratt Institute, Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, and occasionally at lay poetry institutions like Poets House and The Poetry Project in NYC. &nbsp; Her most recent book is the bi-lingual Against Travel/Anti-Voyage with Pascal Poyet, published by Pamenar Press, 2020. Links Rachel Levitsky’s CV&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://rachellevitsky.com/new-2 Sun, 01 Mar 2020 22:53:31 +0000 Rachel-Levitsky https://rachellevitsky.com/new-2 new (2) Against Travel / Anti-Voyage <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c3697d65d8d9a6eb6d6717578df349765a0a0cbc3b844058d6e9e4d0cb2c1bd/Against-Travel-Cover-1500px.jpg" data-mid="83038908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c3697d65d8d9a6eb6d6717578df349765a0a0cbc3b844058d6e9e4d0cb2c1bd/Against-Travel-Cover-1500px.jpg" />Against Travel/Anti-Voyage,&nbsp;2020 Pamenar Press, 36 pgs. 5.75x7.5” (14.8x19cm), perfect bound. <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f81e82db65be1b3e0e811138a661a2ee1d62756ada7bf6150bbada551cac50b/Against-Travel-inside-1500px.jpg" data-mid="83038909" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f81e82db65be1b3e0e811138a661a2ee1d62756ada7bf6150bbada551cac50b/Against-Travel-inside-1500px.jpg" /> AVAILABLE NOW from Pamenar Press, Against Travel / Anti-Voyage,&nbsp; with translations by Pascal Poyet—released by the multilingual multilocational Pamenar Press, a project of Ghazal Mosedeq. A Release reading is coming up! September 28! 2 pm eastern time, registration here. Covid cut short the April 2020 book release party of Against Travel/Anti-Voyages Available in it’s perfect-bound edition from Pamenar Press ︎︎︎ Or in a special hand-sewn edition by Taraneh Mosedeq ︎︎︎ <img width="1024" height="890" width_o="1024" height_o="890" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fe75997b2a7ea6b44c9e125fd4d0670effe4d7c4f477872cd9d85fb1d936f11/a79ba3a4-fafa-4d76-b36a-f23d83280893.JPG" data-mid="83039941" border="0" data-scale="39" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fe75997b2a7ea6b44c9e125fd4d0670effe4d7c4f477872cd9d85fb1d936f11/a79ba3a4-fafa-4d76-b36a-f23d83280893.JPG" />&nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4271e801bdcfbcf46245441b06adbd0ef1e805566eb0a95b6647c4156f2b333e/9f53c6ce-fd21-4259-a99a-49bbb8b86522.JPG" data-mid="83040005" border="0" data-scale="25" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/4271e801bdcfbcf46245441b06adbd0ef1e805566eb0a95b6647c4156f2b333e/9f53c6ce-fd21-4259-a99a-49bbb8b86522.JPG" /> &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53ad9899d3f4aaf427976f3dc1511af66102bf59397e7a18b9e998ceaea47830/cbf0d42c-be0e-4f0f-bccc-a1eb072dafde-1.JPG" data-mid="83040007" border="0" data-scale="25" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/53ad9899d3f4aaf427976f3dc1511af66102bf59397e7a18b9e998ceaea47830/cbf0d42c-be0e-4f0f-bccc-a1eb072dafde-1.JPG" /> Links Against Travel / Anti-Voyage Release Reading ︎︎︎ Some poems from Against Travel / Anti-Voyage can be found in the recent journal (fab) from Black Sun...Vestiges 05 Lacunae-4 new poems ︎︎︎ With more poems in Fence Journal 35 ︎︎︎ &nbsp;Matters of Feminist Practice <img width="824" height="1192" width_o="824" height_o="1192" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/283e873b0a16372a97621980fbb872b4d1e0dad9b70438693627feffbf33a128/matters-of-feminist-practice-book.jpg" data-mid="69417220" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/824/i/283e873b0a16372a97621980fbb872b4d1e0dad9b70438693627feffbf33a128/matters-of-feminist-practice-book.jpg" /> Matters of Feminist Practice, Poupeh Missaghi and Karla Kelsey (eds.), 2020 Belladonna* Collaborative A LONG ESSAY on the history of&nbsp; Belladonna* and its roots in my 1980s radical lesbian feminism. Here’s the first paragraph: “In my mid-30s when I started the Belladonna* Reading Series at Bluestockings Feminist Bookstore, I was an emerging poet, but a radical feminist since my early 20s. The feminism that I am calling radical was one that was taught at SUNY Albany in 1983-1984, by a student run collective that designed a course called “Introduction to Feminism.” It also ended up being my introduction to Lesbianism. In the current atmosphere of suspicion of radical feminism and feminists of the second wave, a wave that features a hefty dominance of middle-class white women who benefit and benefitted disproportionately from the activism and thinking of Black and Brown feminists and womanists, I want to say a few words about why and how I continue to claim my lineage as radical feminist. I want to say why I still think the designation of those two words continues to be useful and usable, and how those ideas are evidenced in the longevity and the ongoing intersectionality and anti-hierarchy of the Belladonna* project.” Available at mfpjournal.com ︎︎︎ Or download a PDF of the Rachel’s essay on Belladonna* ︎︎︎ LinksDownload a PDF of the essay on Belladonna* ︎︎︎ Matters of Feminist Practice Contributing Authors ︎︎︎ https://rachellevitsky.com/books-3 Mon, 06 Jan 2020 01:34:49 +0000 Rachel-Levitsky https://rachellevitsky.com/books-3 books (3) New Edition of NEIGHBOR <img width="1000" height="1335" width_o="1000" height_o="1335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa3fa810f0ebf33d85b55dca8b88b7232c846b0493446f95d86e4e99d7a29d1e/neighbor-levitsky-new-ugly-duckling.jpg" data-mid="79209528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa3fa810f0ebf33d85b55dca8b88b7232c846b0493446f95d86e4e99d7a29d1e/neighbor-levitsky-new-ugly-duckling.jpg" />Neighbor, Rachel Levitsky, Perfect-bound. 112 pp, 6 x 8 in., 2020, Ugly Duckling Press.Rachel Levitsky, Perfect-bound. 112 pp, 6 x 8 in., 2020, Ugly Duckling Press. NEIGHBOR’S MUTABLE, shifty narrator alternately reifies and attempts to refuse the constricting, separating, culture-load bearing wall between lovers and neighbors. As antagonisms and intimacies converge, Levitsky troubles the divisions within urban space, and between spatial and ethical frames: “I live on a street where / people turn (on) each other / into a theory.” This second edition, printed a decade after Neighbor‘s original publication, features an expanded version of the play, “Perfect California: A Family Affair.” About Neighbor “In and outside the window of Rachel Levitsky’s apartment lie sadness, amusement and conflicted regard for the weirdo constructs of faith and scum politics. Her poet energy is a sweet intellect with lazy compulsive lines dropping onto a free and wishful page, ok with semi-resolve amidst the minor clatter of daily lust.”&nbsp; — Thurston Moore Nearly touching are the ethical realm of our obligation to others and the aesthetic world of our freedom from such obligations. Levitsky’s Neighbor confronts this imaginary dividing line—in the process, creating a poetry that both provokes community and critiques our social habituations. This is my neighborhood.”&nbsp; — &nbsp;Charles Bernstein Neighbor is a sweet saga of disconnection. A collectivity of loss. Rachel should be working for the city of New York. ‘I’ve decided to use my obsession/with my neighbor as the context/for a discussion of the State.’ That in itself is incredible.”&nbsp; — &nbsp;Eileen Myles Each poem has Rachel Levitsky’s voice in it, but the voice is commanding, demanding you in a sexy, provocative way, urging you to travel with her into a plane that is sonic and wry and physical and unknown. And, you let her. Guide you into language.” &nbsp;— &nbsp;Vi Khi Nao Meditating on and inhabiting a wide variety of disciplines and ideas—from architecture to religion, the state to the domicile—Levitsky draws many unexpected connections, sometimes to dizzying effect” &nbsp;— &nbsp; Publishers Weekly &nbsp; Available from SPD Books: Neighbor ︎︎︎ Links New Edition of NEIGHBOR from Ugly Duckling Press ︎︎︎ Stacy Szymaszek reviews NEIGHBOR in the Poetry Project Newsletter ︎︎︎ Rachel Levitsky reads from Neighbor on Montez Press Radio + Rile ︎︎︎Neighbor on Montez Press Radio + Rile ︎︎︎ Davy Knittle on Rachel Levitsky’s Neighbor: scale / urban systems / representation ︎︎︎ Neighbor: scale / urban systems / representation ︎︎︎ Won’t You Be My Neighbour, by Susie DeFord ︎︎︎ Neighbo(u)r Addendum, by Thom Donovan ︎︎︎ It’s Not a Poem Unless It Fails: An Interview with Rachel Levitsky&nbsp;at Entropy ︎︎︎ <img width="1784" height="2368" width_o="1784" height_o="2368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/590137ee2c3e1cc09f206e9813c436b650c0d2b239856b94f4ba873b466316ea/neighbor-levitsky-new-ugly-duckling-old.jpg" data-mid="79211515" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/590137ee2c3e1cc09f206e9813c436b650c0d2b239856b94f4ba873b466316ea/neighbor-levitsky-new-ugly-duckling-old.jpg" /> Neighbor (cover First Edition), published 2009, Ugly Duckling Press. The Story of My Accident is Ours <img width="1000" height="1342" width_o="1000" height_o="1342" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0ab0c9ff2507db5a8356db059d441776c1f60cf3300a84d05ad7d3d1fc6360a/History-of-my-accident-is-ours-levitsky.jpg" data-mid="79211565" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0ab0c9ff2507db5a8356db059d441776c1f60cf3300a84d05ad7d3d1fc6360a/History-of-my-accident-is-ours-levitsky.jpg" />The Story of My Accident is Ours, Rachel Levitsky,&nbsp;112 pages, 6 × 8 inches, 2013, Futurepoem. “Emotional life and cognitive knowledge are not mutually exclusive nor even entirely separate spheres of experience. And neither unfolds except under sway of multiple contradictions, such that grief and determination can coincide, and uncertainty and understanding be simultaneous. In her magnificent The Story of My Accident is Ours Rachel Levitsky undertakes a meditation on the status of knowledge under conditions over which we have almost no control but which exert intense emotional, as well as practical, pressure on our lives. The narrator of this saga is a preternaturally astute observer of the recurrent, but never habitual, ways of a world in which she strangely participates. Indeed, it is a world in which strange participation is the only viable means of survival. It is, then, a revolutionary’s tale, and, like all such tales, one without end. May it rise forever.” &nbsp;— &nbsp;Lynn Hejinian “Rachel Levitsky’s prose poems employ the elegant language of philosophical inquiry to probe a territory not unlike the domain of poetry. The Story of My Accident is Ours is a thrilling voyage of discovery into “the vast and nearly completely unmanageable spaces between us.” — John Ashbery “Rachel Levitsky’s The Story of My Accident Is Ours is an impossible comedy, a radical tragedy, a warning: beware “the glimmering smiles on television.” Sometimes I wondered if I was on another planet, an alternate universe with its “privasphere” and its unsettling “The Large” (which is, of course, “always growing ever larger”). But this is absolutely our world: here's our “spectacle of consumption,” here's "the mall, and then the mall.” Levitsky's project and her prose exert a palpable urgency. She has something important to show us.” &nbsp;— &nbsp;Danielle Dutton “How tremulous and effervescent I felt while reading this book—and how it impacted! By writing around and around the social, political, and emotional issues that have upmost bearing in our lives, Rachel Levitsky gets to the marrow of the matter in every single sentence. It's a transforming experience. It's just downright trans, in every sense of the word. This is it, everyone: a real modern marvel.” &nbsp;— Lonely Christopher Published by Futurepoem, The Story of My Accident Is Ours is&nbsp; temporarily out of print. A downloadable PDF is available here&nbsp; The Story of My Accident is Ours ︎︎︎until late Fall when three dimensional books will be back on shelves, or it will be availble for order at Small Press Distribution. Links A conversation with Andrew Zawacki and Rachel Levitsky, Hyperallergic ︎︎︎ Review of The Story of My Accident is Ours, The Constant Critic ︎︎︎ Excerpt from The Story of My Accident is Ours, Lemon Hound ︎︎︎ Section of The Story of My Accident is Ours, Conjunctions ︎︎︎ Lucy Ives in Conversation with Rachel Levitsky, Triple Canopy ︎︎︎ The Next Big Thing: Rachel Levitsky, Futurepost ︎︎︎ Responses at Futurepost to The Story of My Accident Is Ours by: Renee Gladman ︎︎︎Lisa Roberston ︎︎︎Chris Nealon ︎︎︎Andrew Durbin ︎︎︎HR Hegnauer ︎︎︎ Under the Sun <img width="900" height="1200" width_o="900" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc7997012d30c425acc323aecd5829688250c7439d6556c86c68afe0b5db4551/under-the-sun-rachel-levitsky.jpg" data-mid="79211582" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/dc7997012d30c425acc323aecd5829688250c7439d6556c86c68afe0b5db4551/under-the-sun-rachel-levitsky.jpg" /> Under the Sun, Rachel Levitsky,&nbsp;96 pages, 6 × 8 inches, 2002, Futurepoem. “Rachel Levitsky's savvy, slippery Under the Sun defies metaphor as a path to transparent meaning...an expansive, evolving book which dips in and out of logic, beauty, politics and selves.” — Arielle Greenberg, Rain Taxi Review of Books “Mixing language and observations that are equal parts challenging, erotic, enigmatic, and playful, Under the Sun is a remarkable tumble through an emotional funhouse where scares, passions and mirth divert us from the ennui and disappointments of everyday life.” — Phil Hall, Gay City News “Gender is a pathway to a transformation of type into type. Poetry because it is a complex occasion of forces realizes the emerging forms of the imagination—the social imagination of our private transformations.” — Dale Smith, Jacket Magazine “Rachel Levitsky brilliantly designs mysterious flying objects of language and of desire, as she succeeds in giving each word an intriguing span of life. Her poems are theater, teaser, solution, entretien de tension which keep meaning and its boundaries open for intimate manuvres of reading.” — Nicole Brossard “Under the Sun operates on the small stages of intimate conflict and longing, but casts light outside the ring: we see the shadows of the crowd, we smell the dirty water that slaps against the piers. It's a formulation and un-doing of the personal. Intimacy excavated yields characters, ironic and adrift, who quiver in the jackets of their names. We know them by contact, or contract, an occupation of looks and resistance. The poem enacts the force of situated desire. Under the Sun is brilliant wit wrenching poetics: a word stream taking its shirt off.” — Camille Roy “I am struck by the intellectual verve of this poem, its complex sense of the architecture of the poem as it responds to diverse literary traditions. This long poem creates rooms of and room for playfulness, humour, political anger, and aesthetic pleasures. It isn't static; it moves; it reads itself and interrogates.” — Carla Harryman Published by Futurepoem, Under the Sun is currently out of print. A downloadable PDF is available here: Under the Sun ︎︎︎ Links Dale Smith reviews Under the Sun, by Rachel Levitsky,Jacket ︎︎︎ Against Travel / Anti-Voyage <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f26333e65b08b1afb4004b0ccfc40c3084471c3dd01ec9098e11f3a8c0b5ff7/Against-Travel-Cover-1500px.jpg" data-mid="83041070" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f26333e65b08b1afb4004b0ccfc40c3084471c3dd01ec9098e11f3a8c0b5ff7/Against-Travel-Cover-1500px.jpg" />Against Travel/Anti-Voyage, 2020 Pamenar Press, 36 pgs. 5.75x7.5” (14.8x19cm), perfect bound.<img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6b7c7ea58599a9c3350e009900d2a913932af37239ab7a89bf9e56a8b053891/Against-Travel-inside-1500px.jpg" data-mid="83041071" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6b7c7ea58599a9c3350e009900d2a913932af37239ab7a89bf9e56a8b053891/Against-Travel-inside-1500px.jpg" /> AVAILABLE NOW from Pamenar Press, Against Travel / Anti-Voyage,&nbsp; with translations by Pascal Poyet—released by the multilingual multilocational Pamenar Press, a project of Ghazal Mosedeq. On September 28! 2 pm eastern time, there is a release reading for Against Travel/Anti-Voyage is happening, please register here. Covid cut short the scheduled April 2020 book release party so please join us on September 28. Available in it’s perfect-bound edition from Pamenar Press ︎︎︎ Or in a special hand-sewn edition by Taraneh Mosedeq ︎︎︎ <img width="1024" height="890" width_o="1024" height_o="890" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fe75997b2a7ea6b44c9e125fd4d0670effe4d7c4f477872cd9d85fb1d936f11/a79ba3a4-fafa-4d76-b36a-f23d83280893.JPG" data-mid="83041086" border="0" data-scale="39" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fe75997b2a7ea6b44c9e125fd4d0670effe4d7c4f477872cd9d85fb1d936f11/a79ba3a4-fafa-4d76-b36a-f23d83280893.JPG" />&nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4271e801bdcfbcf46245441b06adbd0ef1e805566eb0a95b6647c4156f2b333e/9f53c6ce-fd21-4259-a99a-49bbb8b86522.JPG" data-mid="83041084" border="0" data-scale="25" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/4271e801bdcfbcf46245441b06adbd0ef1e805566eb0a95b6647c4156f2b333e/9f53c6ce-fd21-4259-a99a-49bbb8b86522.JPG" /> &nbsp; <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53ad9899d3f4aaf427976f3dc1511af66102bf59397e7a18b9e998ceaea47830/cbf0d42c-be0e-4f0f-bccc-a1eb072dafde-1.JPG" data-mid="83041085" border="0" data-scale="25" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/53ad9899d3f4aaf427976f3dc1511af66102bf59397e7a18b9e998ceaea47830/cbf0d42c-be0e-4f0f-bccc-a1eb072dafde-1.JPG" /> Links Against Travel / Anti-Voyage Release Reading ︎︎︎ Some poems from Against Travel / Anti-Voyage can be found in the recent journal (fab) from Black Sun...Vestiges 05 Lacunae-4 new poems ︎︎︎ With more poems in Fence Journal 35 ︎︎︎ Hopefully, The Island <img width="971" height="1500" width_o="971" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51ec04acc20a551bc6bd80796c8f3f3e4b306772e3485fbca6b8e1547e4778d1/194-Belladonna-Levitsky-Bee.jpg" data-mid="85610024" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/971/i/51ec04acc20a551bc6bd80796c8f3f3e4b306772e3485fbca6b8e1547e4778d1/194-Belladonna-Levitsky-Bee.jpg" />Hopefully, The Island, Rachel Levitsky in collaboration with the artist Susan Bee, 16pgs. 5.5 × 8.5 inches, 2016, Belladonna*. This Belladonna* chaplet is part of an ongoing collaboration with the artist Susan Bee.Downlaod a PDF of “Hopefully, The Island” here. Links Susan Bee in the Brooklyn Rail on finding inspriation in poetry&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://rachellevitsky.com/performances-4 Mon, 06 Jan 2020 01:34:50 +0000 Rachel-Levitsky https://rachellevitsky.com/performances-4 Performance (4) <img width="481" height="526" width_o="481" height_o="526" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd8267479c1818337a538da3d10b5f7d6380355f81c0a0ce0499157b3613d717/Screen-Shot-2020-01-16-at-6.40.31-PM.png" data-mid="68255602" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/481/i/fd8267479c1818337a538da3d10b5f7d6380355f81c0a0ce0499157b3613d717/Screen-Shot-2020-01-16-at-6.40.31-PM.png" /> Levitsky performing “Loose Notes on Fun” at Apex Art’s Double Exposure Series ︎︎︎ 2020 Performing on Carla Harryman’s YouTube channel to celebrate the summer 2020 release of A Voice To Perform (SplitLevel) ︎︎︎ From the series Against Travel poem and recording (SplitLevel) ︎︎︎ 2019 Loose Notes on Fun at Apex Art ︎︎︎ 2018 Double Change, Michael Woolworth Studio, Paris France ︎︎︎ Collaboration for the Duration at &amp;Now ︎︎︎ 2015 Andy Warhol in Maxe Crandall’s Together Men Make Paradigms ︎︎︎ 2007 "The Holloway Series in Poetry - Rachel Levitsky" hosted by Lyn Jejinian ︎︎︎ 2000-2017rachel levitsky at the pennsound center for programs in contemporary writing ︎︎︎ https://rachellevitsky.com/belladonna-5 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 02:31:33 +0000 Rachel-Levitsky https://rachellevitsky.com/belladonna-5 belladonna* (9) Founder, CollaboratorBelladonna* is a feminist avant-garde collective, founded in 1999 by Rachel Levitsky. Belladonna* started as a reading and salon series at Bluestocking’s Women’s Bookstore on New York City’s Lower East Side. In June 2000, in collaboration with Boog Literature, Belladonna* began to publish commemorative “chaplets” (defined as short chapbooks of immediate writing or work-in-progress) of the readers’ work. This series continues today and has reached well beyond #200.Belladonna* promotes the work of women and feminist writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, unpredictable, and dangerous with language. Belladonna* is committed to publishing and building literary community among women-identified and LGBTQIA+ authors who write off-center, producing work that is political and critical; situational rather than plot-driven; inter-subjective, performative, or witnessing rather than personally revelatory; work that reaches across the boundaries and binaries of literary genre and artistic fields, and that questions the gender binary.The organizational principle of the group is feminist in the third-wave feminist sense, allowing for creativity to take leaps and to meander, rather than following a top-down hierarchical structure. Instead of holding contests or having regular submission periods, we promote feminist literary community among those with a shared (and ever-evolving) poetics. For the most part we develop our reading series and publication list through affiliation and invitation. We work with poets with whom we are collectively in conversation; we look for new authors who are doing what we think is resonant and interventionist. In this manner the collective expands as new writers join our conversations, often volunteering to help with our projects. Anyone who feels aligned with what we are doing can participate, volunteer and contribute to what Belladonna* is becoming. Writers who are published by Belladonna often participate in the process of publishing their work and the work of others, and then become involved in the collective. <img width="693" height="800" width_o="693" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4cacce46b66d53a0b5bdb201ad00d75e5f0a71d26b495390911c2c5c30ab18b/bell-Cait-OKane-Cover.jpg" data-mid="79222572" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/693/i/b4cacce46b66d53a0b5bdb201ad00d75e5f0a71d26b495390911c2c5c30ab18b/bell-Cait-OKane-Cover.jpg" /><img width="889" height="1000" width_o="889" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b85df7dc981f71b48b432e254608d0cae41ee77b355a4870989c21020bd95f8/bell-celina-Su-Cover.jpg" data-mid="79222573" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/889/i/9b85df7dc981f71b48b432e254608d0cae41ee77b355a4870989c21020bd95f8/bell-celina-Su-Cover.jpg" /><img width="788" height="901" width_o="788" height_o="901" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5540eea739f2daba582d7fc25b6c4c19a1a9a8656ac03fa25db59a248ef1bca/bell-Kimberly-Alidio-Cover.jpg" data-mid="79222574" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/788/i/a5540eea739f2daba582d7fc25b6c4c19a1a9a8656ac03fa25db59a248ef1bca/bell-Kimberly-Alidio-Cover.jpg" /><img width="1046" height="1200" width_o="1046" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bf219857a61942d768b0cda47ced89c08581583417396346a77bf8ec43c5a33/bell-latasha-n-n-diggs-twerk-cover.jpg" data-mid="79222575" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9bf219857a61942d768b0cda47ced89c08581583417396346a77bf8ec43c5a33/bell-latasha-n-n-diggs-twerk-cover.jpg" /><img width="700" height="941" width_o="700" height_o="941" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00bb4bf407f5de4d3c5eb26d1cff225bb0489f74f63432808b21ef0a370301d5/bell-lyn-hejinian-positions-of-the-sun.jpg" data-mid="79222576" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/00bb4bf407f5de4d3c5eb26d1cff225bb0489f74f63432808b21ef0a370301d5/bell-lyn-hejinian-positions-of-the-sun.jpg" /><img width="1951" height="2251" width_o="1951" height_o="2251" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08a03f3f2b838b9fbf79b85388c6a06eb64a749ab45eda3f3f6a43974d0a155a/bell-Okpokwasili-Wadud-Cover.jpg" data-mid="79222577" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08a03f3f2b838b9fbf79b85388c6a06eb64a749ab45eda3f3f6a43974d0a155a/bell-Okpokwasili-Wadud-Cover.jpg" /><img width="438" height="582" width_o="438" height_o="582" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8859d4d9e53973a81ddc993f808c5a21fac1d361b0587c60fd0dd88fb0137060/bell-Samual-Ace-cover.jpg" data-mid="79222578" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/438/i/8859d4d9e53973a81ddc993f808c5a21fac1d361b0587c60fd0dd88fb0137060/bell-Samual-Ace-cover.jpg" /><img width="600" height="800" width_o="600" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/faf4b69d76ca6bace7a000116591ad506e68cbaef6126a88732ce7b0afa05102/bell-theory-a-sunday.jpg" data-mid="79222579" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/faf4b69d76ca6bace7a000116591ad506e68cbaef6126a88732ce7b0afa05102/bell-theory-a-sunday.jpg" /><img width="1020" height="900" width_o="1020" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/889ae7b65ca69f9f63c388819da50d4472940a52cf015cabbcc462bd72a1b0e4/bell-tonya-foster-swarm-cover.jpg" data-mid="79222580" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/889ae7b65ca69f9f63c388819da50d4472940a52cf015cabbcc462bd72a1b0e4/bell-tonya-foster-swarm-cover.jpg" /><img width="330" height="440" width_o="330" height_o="440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fad9bdd5b51a2b3332340c0d7f21b6e046ae51b5e7428244ce2c57a34415ccea/bell-uljana-wolf-cover.jpg" data-mid="79222581" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/330/i/fad9bdd5b51a2b3332340c0d7f21b6e046ae51b5e7428244ce2c57a34415ccea/bell-uljana-wolf-cover.jpg" /><img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b2663edbafe45cf93128c6da143edbcaaf4a371ea477db4b58657aaa4760674/belladonna-chaplets-fan.jpg" data-mid="79222582" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b2663edbafe45cf93128c6da143edbcaaf4a371ea477db4b58657aaa4760674/belladonna-chaplets-fan.jpg" /> Links Belladonna* Website ︎︎︎ ‘Poetry as Event: Belladonna*’ by Sina Queyras ︎︎︎ PDF of ‘Radical Feminist Poetics: Belladonna* at Twenty Years’ by Rachel Levitsky, James Loop, and Rachael Guynn Wilson ︎︎︎ https://rachellevitsky.com/CV-6 Mon, 06 Jan 2020 01:34:50 +0000 Rachel-Levitsky https://rachellevitsky.com/CV-6 CV (6) / download PDF version here / awards&nbsp;/&nbsp; authored publications /&nbsp; as translator&nbsp;/&nbsp; as editor&nbsp;/&nbsp; essays&nbsp;/&nbsp; talks&nbsp;/&nbsp; exhibits&nbsp;/&nbsp; academic service&nbsp;/&nbsp; community&nbsp;/&nbsp; courses taught&nbsp;/&nbsp; select readings &amp; performances&nbsp;/&nbsp; reviews&nbsp;/&nbsp; references Academic Appointments August 2018 Appointed Full Professor with Tenure, (New) Department of Writing, Pratt Institute August 2012 Appointed as Associate Professor of Writing, Department of Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute August 2018 Appointed Full Professor with Tenure, (New) Department of Writing, Pratt Institute August 2012 Appointed as Associate Professor of Writing, Department of Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute 2007-2011 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute 2004 - ongoing Summer Faculty, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University (summer faculty) 2009-2010 Adjunct Professor, Bard Prison Initiative, Bard College 2009-2010 Adjunct Professor, First Year Writing Program/Arthur Kill Prison Program, The New School for Liberal Arts 2007-2008 Sectional Instructor, Department of Art and Design Studies, The New School 2004-2007 Visiting Instructor, English and Creative Writing, Pratt Institute Instructor, Queens College Worker Education Extension Awards, Recognitions, Residencies, Grants &amp; Fellowships 2019 Trelex Residence Poesie, Paris, France. 2017 Process Space Artist-In-Residence. Open Studios Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Arts Center on Governors Island, March-Oct. 2017. 2016 Rachel Levitsky Selected for Velvetpark Top 25 Queer Women of 2015. 2015 Belladonna* Spotlighted at Book Culture. 2015 Kickass Press Award to Belladonna Books and Founder Rachel Levitsky. VIDA Women in Literary Arts. 2012/2013 Mellon Grant , Pratt Institute, Recuperative Strategies. 2010/11 FIPSE, Pratt Institute Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. Development of Sustainability Minor. 2009/11 FACE OUT, Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, for The Story of My Accident is Ours. Two-year grant. 2008/09 Writing Fellow, CPCW, University of Pennsylvania. 2007 Mellon Grant, Pratt Institute, Department of Humanities. 2006 Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. 2006 Mellon Grant, Pratt Institute, Dept. of English. 2004 Artist Residence, MacDowell Colony. 1999 Artist Residence, Montalvo Center for the Arts. 1995 Artist Residence, Vermont Studio Center. top ︎ Publications as Author&nbsp; Poetry &amp; Prose: Books Dog Walk. (SplitLevel Texts, 2020 forthcoming). NEIGHBOR. Expanded edition. (Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020). The Story of My Accident is Ours. (New York: Futurepoem Books, 2013). NEIGHBOR. (Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009). Under the Sun. (New York: Futurepoem Books, 2003). Poetry &amp; Prose: Chapbooks Hopefully, The Island: Poem in Collaboration with the Artist Susan Bee. Belladonna* Collaborative Chaplet #194, April 2016. Dehors (ou secours et cinéma). traduit de l'american par Pascal Poyet. (Toulouse, France: contrat maint, 2014). Room Service. (New York: Belladonna Books, 2013). Renoemos. (Fort Collins: Delete Press, 2010). Dearly 3, 4, 6. (San Francisco: Duration Press, 2005). The Adventures of Yaya and Grace. (Hartford: Potes &amp; Poets, 1999). Dearly,. (Davis, CA: a+bend, 1999). Cartographies of Error. (Providence, RI: Leroy, 1999). 2(1x1)Portraits. (Boulder, CO: Baksun Books, 1998). Poetry Translated Into Foreign Languages Into Spanish: “VECINO.” Trans. Valerie Mejer. Mandorla: Neuvo Escritura de la Américas/New Writing from the Americas. No. 14 (Normal, IL: Illinois State University, 2011): 8pp. Into Dutch: “BUUR. Een Selectie.” Trans. Jan Lauwereyens, DW B (Belgium, Spring 2010): 71-80. Into Japanese: Interval. Trans. Kyong-Mi Park. (Japan: Mi-Te Press, 2008): bilingual poetry chapbook. Into Icelandic: “úr Nágranni.” In slog med bilum, edited and translated by Eirikur Orn Norddahl. (Helsinki, Finland: ntamo, 2007): 144-149. Into French: Dehors. Chapbook edition. Translation by Pascal Poyet into French. (Toulouse: Association Contrait Maint, 2014). “VOISIN (Extraits).” Trans. Stéphane Bouquet. Action poétique. (No. 194, 2008): 12-16 “Sous le Soleil (Extraits).” Double Change Reading in Translation Series. (Paris: 2002). Poetry in journals &amp; anthologies “Four Poems: Against Travel.” Black Sun Lit: Vestiges_05. Spring 2020. “Against Travel.” in Altar-ed Bodies: Poems, A Chapbook Collection Alongside the Paintings of Clarity Haynes. January 2020. “Four Poems: Against Travel.” Fence Magazine. Volume 35. Winter/Spring 2019. “Against Travel.” The Felt, Spring 2018. “Against Travel.” Ambit Magazine, Fall 2018. “Quickish Answer.” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2017. “Your Future Kills Futurism.” The Felt Alternate Realities, Fall 2017. “90 Lines for John Ashbery.” LitHub, July 2017. Reposted September 2017. “Susan’s Third Drawing (Murky Voices from Above),” Supplement Magazine, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2016. “Remnants of The Accident.” The Felt Fulling. Pratt Institute, Spring 2016. “Chapter 2: Rubie Go So or Objects.” Future Perfect: An Anthology of the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. (Publication Studio, 2014): 6pp. “1 of 3 Sentences for Alex Dimitrov.” Linewaiters Gazette. (Park Slope Food Coop, March 6, 2014). “Three Sentences for Renee Gladman.” In “June” 2014 Calendar. (Brooklyn: Argos Books, 2013). “Six Engagements: A Collaboration with Tisa Bryant and Akilah Oliver.” Bombay Gin 39.2: Akilah Oliver Edition. (Boulder: The Naropa Press, 2013): 7pp. “N Ear Flowers Re Fre/nd: A Poets Play.” Collaboration with Christian Hawkey for The Office of Recuperative Strategies. Floor Journal Online. (June 2013). “Reprieve.” LemonHound. (Montreal, QE, Spring 2013). “Basement, Basement Window.” Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children. (Lafayette, LA: Black Radish Books 2013): 160. “Second Happiness: Quake and Trace.”&nbsp;esquemag.org. 8pp. “Love Everyone.” Bone Bouquet. (Brooklyn: New York, 2012): 5pp. “Public Space and Privasphere.” I’ll Drown My Book: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing by Women. (Los Angeles: Les Figues, 2012): 4pp. “Elegy for A.” Bombay Gin 37.2 (Boulder, CO, Summer 2011): 3pp. “Selections from The Story of My Accident is Ours.” Puerto del Sol 45.2 (Winter 2011): 6pp. “Gaps and their Consequences” (from “The Story of My Accident is Ours”). Everyday Genius (July 2010): 4pp. “Bones of Confinement.” Collaboration with photographer Gus Powell. Abe’s Penny 2.3, (May 2010): 4 postcards. “Happiness.” Bombay Gin 35.1 (Summer 2009): 19-23. “Evidence or Sign.” Aufgabe 8, (Spring 2009): 23-24. “Public Space and Privasphere” and “The Large, As a Whole.” Sous Rature 1.1 (August 2008): 8pp. “Mischievous Traces.” The Portable Boog Reader 2. (New York: Boog City, no. 43, January 2008): 1pp. “from Under the Sun.” 19 Lines. Ed. Lytle Shaw. (New York: The Drawing Center, 2007): 277-279. “from NEIGHBOR.” Damn the Caesars 2 August 2007): 151-154. “Perfect California” and “from NEIGHBOR.” EOAGH: Queering Language. (February 2007): 18pp. “Los Angeles.” Bowery Women. Eds. Bob Holman and Marjorie Tesser. (New York: Bowery Books, 2006): 114-115. “The Story of My Accident is Ours.” Web Conjunctions (November 2006): 12pp. “I Have a Little Spot.” Blue Light + Turntable. (Fall 2006): 2pp. “Interval.” Mark(s) Quarterly. (Winter 2006): 8pp. “from NEIGHBOR.” Puppy Flowers. (Fall 2006): 8pp. “from NEIGHBOR.” Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics. (Fall 2005): 45-52. “How I’m Living.” BothBoth, (Fall 2005): 12pp. “Reduced Tuesday: a one-act play.” Collaboration with Camille Roy. Lipstick Eleven. (Spring 2005): 137-145. “from NEIGHBOR.” DC Poetry Anthology, (Winter 2004): 2pp. “from NEIGHBOR.” The Brooklyn Rail. (November 2003): 27. “Etchtracthion.” Snout. (Fall 2003): 10pp. “Present Tense/The Factory,” “The Wall/Against the Wall,” “Audience.” Bombay Gin. (Spring 2003): 93-97. “Indulgence.” Rebel Road 4. Ed. Lila Zemborain. (Shelter Island: Rebel Road, 2003): 14pp. “Car Alarm.” Fell Swoop, (Brooklyn Stoop Edition, Fall 2002): 2pp. “Some Cheating Otherwise Indicated.” Collaboration with Laura Wright. [One] Factorial. (Summer 2002): 36-38. “Guatemala,” Global City Review. (International Issue, Spring 2002): 37-38. “Enviously/Apparently” “Grievously.” The Hat 3. (Winter 2002): 49-51. “from Cartographies of Error.” Mungo vs Ranger. (Winter 2002): 75-81. “Femininity.” Aporia. (Winter 2002): 6. “[Possibly, Probability].” Duration Press. (Spring 2001): 8pp. “Etchtracthion.” PoeP!. Eds Anselm Berrigan and Edwin Torres. New York: Rattapallax 2001): 79-80. “Provocatively.” Lungfull!. (Spring 2001): 3pp. “Atlantis.” (the invisible city). Ed. Marcella Durand. (New Orleans/New York: Errato, 2001): 3pp. top ︎ Publications As Translator Books and Chapbooks from Chinese: Zhang Er, Verses on Bird. Trans. Rachel Levitsky, Timothy Liu, Leonard Schwartz, Eleni Sikelianos. (Brookline, MA: Zephyr Press, 2004). Zhang Er, Sight Unseen. Trans. Rachel Levitsky with Zhang Er, New York: Pleasure Boat, 2005. Zhang Er, Cross River:Pick Lotus, Trans. Rachel Levitsky with Zhang Er. (New York: Belladonna Books, 2002). Magazines and Anthologies from Chinese: Zhao Xia, in Another Kind of Nation: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry. Eds. Zhang Er and Chen Dong. (Jersey City: Talisman, 2007): 393-410. from French: Nicole Brossard. “Morphing Morphose Blues” (Bombay Gin, 1997): 34-37. top ︎ Publications As Editor Books &amp; Journals in Translation Sunday, A Theory. Bersianik, Louky, Nicole Brossard, Louise Cotnoir, Louise Dupré, Gail Scott and France Théoret. Introduction by Lisa Robertson; Afterward by Rachel Levitsky, Gail Scott; Trans. Erica Weitzman et al. (Brooklyn: Belladonna* Collaborative Germinal Texts #1, 2013). DW R. Eds. Jan Lauwereyens and Rachel Levitsky. (Belgium, Spring 2010). Zemborain, Lila. Mauve Sea Orchids. Trans. Mónica de la Torre and Rosa Alcalà. (New York: Belladonna Books, 2008). Nakayasu, Sawako, Translation and Introduction. Four from Japan: Contemporary Poetry &amp; Essays by Women. Takako Arai, Kiriu Minashita, Kyong-Mi Park and Ryoko Sekiguchi. Additional translation by Malinda Markham, Cole Swenson, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Chet Weiners. (New York: Belladonna/Litmus, 2006, 2007). As Editor: Books &amp; Book Series In English O’Kane, Cait. Brief History of Burning by Belladonna* Collaborative, 2020. Okpokwasili, Okwui and Asiya Wadud. day pulls down the sky / a filament in gold leaf. Belladonna* Collaborative, 2019. Hejinian, Lyn. Positions of The Sun. Belladonna* Collaborative Germinal Texts, 2018. Sneed, Pamela. Sweet Dreams. Belladonna* Collaborative, 2018. Crumpacker, Caroline. Astrobolism. Belladonna* Collaborative, 2016. Murray, Beth. Cancer Angel. Belladonna* Collaborative, 2015. Foster, Tonya. Swarm of Bees in High Court. Belladonna* Collaborative, 2015. Against the Private Zoo: An Anthology of 8 Rants on the State and State of the Art. Belladonna* Chaplet #161. Ace, Samuel, Rebecca Brown, Maria Damon, Latasha Diggs, Jennifer Scappettone et al.(Brooklyn: Belladonna* Collaborative, 2014). Harryman, Carla and Lyn Hejinian. The Wide Road. (New York: Belladonna Books, 2010). edwards, kari. Bharat jiva. (New York: Belladonna/Litmus, 2009). Elders Series 1-8. (New York: Belladonna Books, 2008-2009). Edited eight co-authored books by: Grinnell, Tracy and Leslie Scalapino; Robert Glück and Sarah Schulman; Tisa Bryant and Chris Kraus; Emma Bee Bernstein, Susan Bee and Marjorie Perloff; Etel Adnan, Lyn Hejinian and Jennifer Scappattone; Kate Eichhorn, M. Nourbese Philip, Gail Scott; Cara Benson, Jayne Cortez and Anne Waldman; Tina Darragh, Jane Sprague and Diane Ward. Durand, Marcella. Area. (New York: Belladonna Books, 2008). Harryman, Carla. Open Box. (New York: Belladonna Books, 2006). Multiple Authors. Belladonna Chaplet Series #1-117. (New York: Belladonna Books, 2000-2008). top ︎ Essays, Articles, Reviews “On Belladonna* Collaborative.” Matters of Feminist Practice. May 2020. “On Against Travel: A Collaboration.” Allies: A Boston Review Forum. Fall 2019. R. Levitsky, J. Loop, R. Wilson. “Radical Feminist Poetics: Belladonna* at Twenty Years.” PhiloSOPHIA: State University of New York Press, Vol 9, No 2, Spring 2019. pp.119-127 "Rachel Levitsky with Ana Paula: On the Work of Akilah Oliver.” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2017. “Review of Ted Greenwald: Age of Reasons.” Poetry Project Newsletter. No. 248, Fall 2016. “Review of Patricia Spears Jones: A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems.” Bomb Magazine. Winter 2016. Social Reading: A Commentary Series. Collaboration with Ariel Goldberg. Jacket 2 (U. of Pennsylvania:2013/2014).jacket2.org/commentary/ariel-goldberg-rachel-levitsky “The Next Big Thing: Self Interview of Rachel Levitsky.” Futurepoem BlogSelf Interview “Response to Francis Ricard’s Anarch” at Futurepoem Blog, posted Oct. 25, 2013. “Tomorrow People.” Word Processor. Gowanus: Reanimation Library, June 2014. Online. “Making Things In The Middle of The Fire This Time.” M/E/A/N/I/N/G 25th Anniversary Edition. Online Edition No. 5, 2011: 2pp. “A Tribute to Akilah Oliver.” Poetry Project Newsletter, No. 228, October/November2011: 16-18. “High Places : No Higher Place, The Practice of Feminist Avant-Garde or Aesthetics as Production, Production as Aesthetics.” American Book Review 31.4 (May/June 2010): 5pp. (Earlier version was delivered bilingually in English and Japanese in conjunction with The Tokyo Poetry Festival, delivered at Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Kyobashi, Tokyo, October 30, 2008. Original talk is published at “Higher Places: No Higher Place.” Trans. Takako Arai, Mi’Te Magazine Online (Tokyo, Fall 2008): 7pp. “On the Poetics of Confinement: Four short essays on Prison, Manners, 1970’s Film and Commons.” The Poetry Project Web Log. (“Guest Blogger,” in four weekly installments, February 2010): about 20pp, online. “Assistance.” no gender: Reflections on the Life &amp; Work of kari edwards. New York: Litmus Press, 2009. 3pp. “Counter-production.” Delirious Hem: Dim Sum. (Special issue on “Numbers Trouble” Winter 2008): 6pp online. “Belladonna* and Aesthetic Relevance in Poetic Community.” How2 2.4 (2006): 3pp online. Review of Anne Waldman’s Structure of the World as Compared to a Bubble. Poetry Project Newsletter, April/May 2005. “Contribution to Forum,” “‘Oldthinkers unbelly feel Newspeak’: Reclaiming Rhetoric and What Artists Can Do Now,” (Fence Magazine, Spring/Summer 2003): 84-86. “Praise and Confusion: Introductory Notes.” The Miseries of Poetry: Traductions From the Greek, Alexandra Papditsas and Kent Johnson, Skanky Possum, 2003. “Writer’s Forum on ‘Poetry Community.” The Poetry Project Newsletter. April/May 2002: 2-3. Review of Marcella Durand’s City of Ports. Mungo Vs Ranger, Spring 2002. Review of Akilah Oliver’s She Said Monologues. How2: “Alerts,” February 2000. “On Narrativity.” Narrativity 1:1. 2001): 3pp. “DAY WITH.” Catalogue for Daniel Anizon’s Milpitis. (Villa Montalvo Estate for the Arts: Saratoga, CA, 1999). Interviews &amp; Profiles “Belladonna Founder Rachel Levitsky on Poetry, Politics, and What Comes Next: On Queerness, Poetry, Prose, The Body and Urban Planning.” PennSound Podcast with Davy Knittle, University of Pennsylvania. April, 2017. The Braided River: Three Interviews On Naropa’s Summer Writing Program. Omar Barrada, Fred Moten, Rachel Levitsky. Essays Press Chapbook Series, 2015. “Rachel Levitsky with Krystal Languell.” The Conversant. June, 2014. “Poet of the Week.” Brooklyn Poets. Dec. 1-7, 2014. Interview by Lucy Ives: “Present Tense Forms” plus podcast. Triple Canopy. Brooklyn, NY (July 2013). Interview by Sina Queyras. The Harriet Blog. Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL (April 2011). Interview by Leonard Schwartz. Cross-Cultural Poetics. Evergreen College, Olympia, WA (October 2009). Interview by Susie Deford. Bomblog, Bomb Online. New York, NY (November 2009). Author Page at PennSound. (February 2009). Reading and Interview with Kareem Estefan. Ceptuetics, WNYU Radio. New York, NY (January 2008). Interview. Kickingwind.com. (Winter 2006/7). Interviews Conducted “Interview with Gail Scott on The Obituary.” Poetry Project Newsletter. (April 2012). “Interview with Akilah Oliver.” Poetry Project Newsletter. (December 2004). “Conversation with Anne Waldman,” Boog City 7: Belladonna*. (April 2002). top ︎ Conference Talks &amp; Invited Lectures “Before the Book: In The Waiting Room.” Forthcoming ACLA Seminar Panelist, March 2018, Los Angeles, CA. Juried. Renee Gladman Isn’t Ghost Writing.” UC Davis Feminist Arts and Science Shop, October 2017. Invited. “Queer Geographies.” City Planning Poetics at the Kelly Writers House. University of Pennsylvania, April 2017. Invited. “Enter Her Brain Theater: How I Read Anne Waldman.” Symposium on Anne Waldman. Drew University, January 2017. Invited. “Publishing Panel.” Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWPS). Pratt Institute, March 2016. Invited. “The White Room.” Poetry Project Panel Discussion, New York, NY, January 016. Invited. “Beyond the Poems: Creative Writing in Times of Precarity.” National Women’s Studies Conference. November 2015. Milwaukee. Juried. “Essaying as Event.” Minneapolis, MN: Associated Writing Programs, 2015. Juried. “The Art of the Book: Kelly Writers House Brodsky Gallery,” University of Pennsylvania, September 17, 2015. Invited panelist and exhibitor. “Essay as Action” at AWP (Associated Writing Programs), Minneapolis, MN, April 10, 2015. Juried. “Pratt’s Non-Traditional MFA in Writing” at AWP (Associated Writing Programs), Minneapolis, MN, April 10, 2015. Juried. “Collaboration For The Duration.” &amp;Now Festival/Blast Radius at Cal Arts, Valencia, CA, March 27, 2015. Featured event, juried. “Artist’s Talk.” Duke University, Durham, NC. March 19, 2015. “Lineage &amp; Discomfort.” Naropa at 40. Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, Nov. 5, 2014. “Cities of Women: Translating Feminist Experimental Writing” at “American Council for Québec Studies Nineteenth Biennial Conference, Montreal, Quebec (October 2014). “Politics of the Walk” for Elastic City’s Walks Festival “Talk Series.” Higgins Hall, Pratt Institute (Sept. 28, 2014). Invited. “Four Collaborative Projects In Search of a Theory of Collaboration” for Leslie Flint Presents, collaborations presented with Susan Bee, Ariel Goldberg, Simone Kearney and Christian Hawkey, Berl’s Bookshop (May 18, 2014). Invited. “Against Triumphalism and In Favor of Winning: Proposal for Poetry,” in the panel “The Karma of the Modernists.” Summer Writing Program Week One, Naropa University, Boulder, CO (July 2013). Invited. “Difficult Reading and Writing as Acts of Mourning and Healing,” Poetics Seminar, University of Montreal, Quebec (March 2013). Invited. “Recuperative Strategies for Ecopoetics Pedagogy and Practice” at “Conference on Ecopoetics,” University of California, Berkeley (February 2013). Juried. “Renewing Practice for Our Times,” BathHouse Annual Poetics Panel, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti (November 2012). Invited. “Notes on Structure,” Emergent Communities Conference of the Politics and Poetics Group, University of California, Santa Cruz (May 2012). Juried. “Presenting the Work of Office of Recuperative Strategies,” (with Christian Hawkey) University of Amsterdam, Holland, (August 2012). Invited. “The Possibility of an Aberrant Future.” At “&amp;Now Tomorrowland Forever Festival,” University of California, San Diego (October 2011). Juried. “Publishing Out of the Binding.” At “Public Space: Performance and Small Press Publishing,” Summer Writing Program Week Four, Naropa University, Boulder, CO (July 2010). Invited. “Chapbooks Workshop for Poets,” and “Chapbook Workshop for Publishers.” At “The Annual Chapbook Festival,” City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, New York, NY, (May 2010). Invited. “Speed Youth Mourning.” At “Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism,”CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY (September 2009). Moderator. “On kari edwards’ Bharat jiva.” At “Poetics Group,” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (May 2009). Invited. “Chapbook Now: Producing Chapbooks.”At “The Poetry Society Celebration of the Chapbook,” CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, (April 2009). Invited. “Troubled Sleep: A Discussion of Ezra Pound’s “Cantico del Sole”.” At “Poem Talk.” Hosted by Al Filreis, broadcast and archived at PennSound, with Charles Bernstein, and Joshua Schuster, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (November 2008). Invited. “High Places : No Higher Place: Feminist Avant-garde Poetics and Production.” At “Tokyo Poetry Festival,” Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan (October 2008). “Using Creative Writing to Stretch Thinking.” For “Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Development Seminar,” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (March 2008). “Inclusive Exclusion in ‘Aesthetic Community.’” At “Poetry is News: Pulling It Down.” Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY (October 2007). Invited. “Cross Currents in Contemporary Japanese Poetry: with Kyung-Mi Park, Kiriu Minishita and Takako Arai.” At “Festival of Japanese Women Poets.” Poets House, New York, NY (November 2006). Moderator. “Anarchism, Aesthetics, and Literary Fashion.” At “Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference” Goddard College, Plainfield, VT (October 2006). Juried. “Queer Borders.” At “Associated Writers’ Programs Conference,” Vancouver, CA (April 2005. Juried. “Collective Action with The Black Took Collective &amp; Belladonna*.” Poets House, New York, NY City, (March 2005). Invited. “Action Poetries: Hybrid Forms.” At “New Genres/New Poetics Series,” Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (January 2005). Invited. “Language in Night Shade: Belladonna and Belladonna Books.” “Boog City presents/d.a. levy lives: renegade press in america,” ACA Gallery, New York, NY (April 2004). Invited. “Inventive Feminist Intervention.” At “Wrapping the Word: Re-Imagining Publication,” The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY (October 2003). “Directing Words: Utilizing Poetic Language in Direct Action.”At “Poetry Is News,” The Poetry Project, New York, NY (February 2003). Invited. “Rebel Rebel: Editors of Experimental Poetry.” Poets House, co-sponsored with Council for Literary Magazines and Publishers, New York, NY (April 2002). Invited. “Writing While Environment Drifting.” Belladonna Series Salon with Gail Scott and Carla Harryman, Brooklyn, NY (March 2002). Moderator. top ︎ Commissioned Exhibitions, Shows, Events “Andy Warhol,” in Together Men Make Paradigms. Dixon Place Hot Festival, NYC, July, 2014. “Bloodflames Revisited” Poem commissioned by Phong Bui for curated gallery show at Paul Kasmin Gallery, NYC (June 26, 2014). “Former Islands” Poems, painting and performance with artist Susan Bee, curated collaborations show at Heliopolis Gallery, Greenpoint, NY (June 2014). “Geometries of Recognition” with Filmmaker Stephanie Gray, OoRS Workshop for Iland’s Fallow Time Festival at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY (May 30, 2014). “The Imprint of the City” Collaborative Reading and Analog Slide Show with Ariel Goldberg, Van Alen Institute Spring Launch, Issue Project Room (May 9, 2014). “Against the Wall: Migration/Habitation/Erasing/Tracing” Collaborative (OoRS &amp; Jovanina Pagano) Workshop Event for Governor’s Island installation “Writing On It All!” NYC (June 23, 2013). “InGesturing The Gowanus Canal (OoRS),” in conjunction with Gallery Show “To The Stars on the Wings of an Eel,” Gowanus Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY (July 6, 2012). “Des Integration (OoRS),” Artists Walk commissioned by Elastic City, Berlin, DE (July 28-29, 2012). “The Making of the Gradual Reading of The Making of Americans: an Eight Hour Reading of Gertrude Stein.” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (November 2008). “Perfect California.” Plays on Words: A Poets and Theater Festival. Ontological Hysteric Incubator and The Poetry Project, St. Marks Church, NYC (May 2006). “Under Water.” 24 Hour Plays, The Poetry Project, NYC (February 2002). “Reduced Tuesday”(with Camille Roy). Poets Theater Jubilee, San Francisco, CA (January 2002). top ︎ Academic Service SLAS General Education Assessment Committee. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2017-Present). Instigator. “Casual Showings.” Discussions on Film and Writing Pedagogy. Writing Department Committee on Appointment, Reappointment, and Tenure (WriCART). Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2017-present). Chair. HMS Committee on Appointment, Reappointment, and Tenure (HMS C.A.R.T.). Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2016-2017). Coordinator, Language and Film Series: a Collaboration between the Pratt Library Media Department and Humanities and Media Studies. (Spring 2016 – present). Member, HMS Curriculum Review Committee. Humanities, Media Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (March 2016 – Present). Co-Curator of Writing Event, Alumni Exhibition, Summer 2016. Associate Coordinator for Fundraising. Pratt MFA in Writing. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (August 2014-2016). Coordinator. Writing Activisms Lecture Series. Pratt MFA in Writing. Pratt Institute,Brooklyn, NY (August 2014-May 2015). Committee Chair. HMS Assessment. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2013-2014). Co-Coordinator. Annual Pratt Festival for Contemporary Writing and Feminism. Pratt BFA in Writing and HMS. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2012-present). Coordinator. Creative Writing for Art and Design Program. Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC). Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2011-2013). Chair. Search Committee for Chairperson of Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2012-2013). Total Credit Subcommittee of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2012). General Education Committee. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2012-2014). Co-Coordinator. Office for Recuperative Strategies/ORS Lecture Series. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (May 2011-May 2014). Assistant Coordinator/Developer of the Language for Art and Design Program. Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC). Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2011-2014). Committee Co-Chair. Committee on Appointment, Reappointment, and Tenure (C.A.R.T.). Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2010-2011). Curriculum Development for Minor In Sustainability/FIPSE Grant. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (May 2010). With Christian Hawkey, to design the course “Cultural Sustainability and Recuperative Poetics.” Committee on Appointment, Reappointment, and Tenure (C.A.R.T.). Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2007-2008). top ︎ Service To The Community Mentorship Mentor. The Poetry Project’s Emerge, Surface, Be Mentorship Program. 2018-2019. Collaboratively selected three mentees and worked closely with Kay Gabriel, one of the three mentees selected for one year. Honed a book manuscript, supported submissions, made introductions to publishers. Volunteer Organizations Founder and Officer. Office of Recuperative Strategies. 2010-present. Research and pedagogical laboratory that promotes a concept of cultural sustainability and radical recuperation toward possible futures that invent new fields of vitality, desire, hybridity, activism, and dwelling. OoRS teaches semester long classes at Pratt Institute and conducts shorter workshops, walks and urban inversions at a range of places and situations from the superfund site of The Gowanus Canal to the elite institution such as Harvard University, and The University of Amsterdam to dystopian urban transit hubs such as Alexanderplatz and the Holland Tunnel. (oors.net) Belladonna* Collaborative Founder. Brooklyn and New York City, 1999-present. Multifaceted project with mission to publish and pursue critical conversation and scholarship about feminist avant-garde writing practice and activism. Facets include book and chapbook publishing, salon hosting, thematic event series at NYC venues, workshops, retreats, internship programs for college students, and cross-cultural and festivals and conferences. (belladonnaseries.org) Judging Prizes LAMBDA Literary Award. Judge, 2019, 2018, 2017. Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Poetry jury for two $40,000 awards, 2017. Radcliffe Fellowship. Judge, 2013-2016. Workspace Selection. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Spring 2016. Wonder Book Prize Judge, 2014. Poets House Fellowship Prize, 2014. Millay Colony Poetry Jury, 2009-2010. Conference Committee Chair. For “Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism,” CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, (September 2009). Center For Book Arts Judge. Chapbook Contest. New York, NY (2003, 2005). Curating Poetry Readings Belladonna* Collaborative/Belladonna Series. 1999-2020. Segue Series Curator. Bowery Poetry Club and Roof Books. New York, NY (2003). The Poetry Project Monday Night Series Coordinator. New York, NY (2000—2002). The Left Hand Reading Series Founder and Curator. Boulder, CO, (1996-1998). Writing on Poets’ Work (blurbs) Susan Briante Michael Burkard Diana Cage Lonely Christopher Lydia Cortez Rachel Blau DuPlessis E.Tracy Grinnell Ariel Goldberg Lyn Hejinian Lauren Hunter Patricia Spears Jones Krystal Languell Simone Kearney Cheena Marie Lo Sandra Liu Caitlin McDonnell Leslie Scalapino Second Story Books Fiona Templeton Liz Waldner Maged Zaher top ︎ Courses taught Literature, Linguistics and Poetic Practice Annotating the Long Poem I. BFA Tutorial. Pratt Institute BFA Writers Studio: Freshman Poetry. Pratt Institute Prose Poetry and Prose. BFA Tutorial. Pratt Institute BFA Writers Studio: Junior Fiction. Pratt Institute MFA Writers Studio. Pratt Institute Revolutionary Prose. MFA Tutorial. Pratt Institute Graduate Seminar: Engaged and Collaborative Writing, Pratt Institute MFA Writing Studio, Pratt Institute Cultural Sustainability and Recuperative Poetics, Pratt Institute Radical Fictions, Pratt Institute The Making of An America, ComD MFA Cross-disciplinary Course with Letter Press Design, Pratt Institute Artists Text, Pratt Institute Building a Manuscript, University of Pennsylvania Collaborative and Collective Writing, Pratt Institute Creative Writing, Pratt Institute Experiments in Prose, Pratt Institute Hybrid Poetics, Pratt Institute Literary the Avant-Garde Survey, Pratt Institute Literary Avant-Garde Major Authors (Stein, Beckett, Baraka, Hejinian), Pratt Institute Modern Poetry, Pratt Institute Oral Communication, Queens College Poetics of Confinement, Naropa University Practice of the Avant-Garde, Pratt Institute, University of Pennsylvania The Novella, Naropa University Urban Moderns: Paris/New York, Pratt Institute, Bard Prison Initiative Theme-based Comp/Essay Writing Courses Disobedience. Pratt Institute Beginning and Difference. Pratt Institute Modern Tragedy. Pratt Institute My Generation. Pratt Institute Affect/Effect. Pratt Institute We, You: The City, Pratt Institute Prose Cities: Via Cortazar, Pratt Institute Power and Freedom, Arthur Kill Correctional Facility Reading the Emotions, Pratt Institute Happiness, Pratt Institute Cities and Speed, Pratt Institute Literature of New York City, Pratt Institute Water and Oil, Pratt Institute “Getting” Home, Pratt Institute Manifestos and Meaning, Pratt Institute Reading the In-Between, Pratt Institute Writing Workshops Prose, Prose! The Poetry Project Spring Workshop Series 2016. The Complete Sentence, Naropa University, Summer 2015. Writing Bodies into Alliance, Naropa University, Sept. 30, 2014. Border Crossing and Migratory Trace, Naropa University, SWP, May 2013. Cultural Sustainability and Recuperative Strategies, Woodberry Poetry Room and Arts@29Garden. Harvard University, Cambridge, January 2012. Liberating Practice: Writing into The Open. Poets House, New York, NY, October 2011. Creative and Interesting Artists Statements, Artist as Thinker, Focus on Style. Writing Across the Curriculum, for the Department of Fine Arts and the MFA in Art Therapy, Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY, 2008-present. Language/Making. Department of Architecture, Pratt Institute. New York, 2007-present. Defying Expectation: Crossing Genre to Write the Poem You Want. Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI, November 2006. Worldly And Infinitely Dimensional. The Poetry Project, New York, NY, 2007. Poetry from the Outside. Poets House, New York, NY, 2006. Re-Sourcing. The Poetry Project, New York, NY, 2004. Grade School Poetry Residencies. Teachers and Writers Collaborative, New York, NY, 1998-2000. Cities of Word, Travels of Mind. Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA, 1999. top ︎ Selected Readings and Performances The Dance (with Lisa Robertson and Anna Gurton-Wachter), NYC, January 2020. Double Take, Apex Art. NYC, April 2019. Double Change. Woolworth Atelier, Paris, France. July 2018. Special Guest Poet. Yoskiko Chuma’s Workshop, St Marks Church on the Bowery, Nov, 2017. Futurepoem Press Reading with Rosa Alcalà at Berl’s Bookshop, November 2017. Feminist Arts and Science Lab, UC Davis, October 2017. Open Studios at the LMCC Arts Center, Governors Island, September 2017. Release Reading for VIZ Inter-Arts with Alex Katz, Nada Gordon and Brenda Iijima, July 2017. Kelly Writers House, City Planning Poetics, University of Pennsylvania, April 2017. Feria Internacional del Libro Universitario, FILU, Xalapa, Mexico, March 2017. “Reading the Feminist Avant Garde,” The New School, October 2016. King Juan Carlos Center, NYU, September 2016. Poets Read Prose. CLMP/Berl’s Poetry Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY. May 2016 Belladonna* Collaborative Reading with Yanyi Lou and Megan Kaminsky. Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, NY. April 2016. Futurepoem Reading with Charles Bernstein and Edwin Torres, Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, New York, NY. February 2016. “Close Readings” Series at Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY. November 2015. A John Weiners Celebration, Poets House, New York, NY. October, 2015. Naropa University, Boulder Colorado, June 2015. Writers Read Series, Concordia University, Montreal, QE, Oct. 2014. What Where Series, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, Sept. 2014. Leslie Flint Presents at Berl's. Collaborations. With Ariel Goldberg, Susan Bee, Christian Hawkey and Simone Kearney, Brooklyn, May 2014. Van Alen Institute Season Opening at Issue Project Room: Imprint of the City, Brooklyn, May 2014. UDP and Salt and Cedar, Detroit, MI, May 2014 Poetic Research Bureau at Public School, L.A., April 2014 Trickhouse Live. Tucson, AZ, April 2014 Poetics at Pratt, Brooklyn, April 2014 Christian Porter Annual Lecture, April 2014 Lungful at Zinc Bar, NYC, March 2014 Double Change, Paris, France, March 2014 University of Wyoming, March 2014 Brooklyn Ladies Text Based Salon, February 2014 House Reading Andersonville, Chicago, IL, Dec. 2014 University of Tulsa, December 2013 Brown University, November 2013 Poetry Center SFSU (San Francisco State University), October 2013 Poets House Showcase Reading, NYC July 2013 A Public Space (Journal) Reading, Brooklyn, July 2013 Poets House Showcase Reading, NYC, July 2013 Naropa University Faculty Reading, SWP, Boulder, June CO 2013 House Reading, Buffalo, NY, June 2014 House Reading, Skanky Possum, Toronto, Ontario, June 2013 Pierogi Gallery Boiler Room Book Party Choral Reading, June 2013 University of Montreal, Quebec, May 2013 Queer Division Series, NYC May 2013 Poetry Project Wednesday Night Series (with Aaron Shurin), April 2013 Poetry Project New Year’s Marathon Reading, NYC, Jan. 2013 BathHouse Reading Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Nov. 2012 Reading and Poetics Lecture with Christian Hawkey, University of Amsterdam, NE, August 2012 I’ll Drown This Book Release, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, May 2012 In Aporia at Lang Café, NYC, Sept. 2011 Greenlight Bookstore FACE OUT Reading, Brooklyn, May 2011 Con/Crescent Series. Philadelphia, PA, March 2011 La Sociedad at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, Feb. 2011 University of Texas at El Paso, Bi-lingual Reading, Feb. 2011 Poetry Project New Year’s Marathon Reading, NYC, Jan. 2011 Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY, July 2010 New York University, with Valerie Mejer, Bi-lingual Reading of NEIGHBOR, King Juan Carlos Center, November 2010 Poets House Annual Showcase, Poets House, NYC, July 2010 Talk Show at The Kitchen, NYC, April 2010 New York Public Library, Mulberry Branch, March 2010 Coach House Books at The Dikeou Collection, Denver, 2010 Wordspace at The Women’s Museum, Dallas, Feb. 2010 Brooklyn Public Library, NYC, Jan. 2010 Housing Works Bookstore, NYC, Jan. 2010 PPOW Gallery, NYC, Jan. 2010 The Collection of Silence, DIA at the Hispanic Society, NYC, 2009 Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit, Poetry Project, NYC, 2009 Wednesday Night Series, Poetry Project, NYC, 2008 Segue Reading Series, New York City, 2008 Morgan Lehman Gallery, for Emilie Clark’s The Weeklies, New York City, 2007 The Holloway Series in Poetry, University of California, Berkeley, 2007 Bowery Women, Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, 2007 Faculty Reading, Pratt Institute, New York City, 2007 Bowery Poetry Club, Eoagh: Queering Language, 2007 National Small Press Reading, Mo’ Pitkins, New York City, 2007 Readings Between A and B, New York City, 2006 Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, 2006 John Ashbery Festival, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006 High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles, 2006 Bluestockings Bookstore, New York City, 2006 Broadsides Reading Series, Center for Book Arts, New York City, 2006 New Genre Readings, Wayne State, Detroit, 2005 Elliot Bay Bookstore, Seattle, 2005 AWP, Vancouver, 2005 Saint Joseph’s College, Hartford, 2005 New Yipes Reading Series at 21 Grand Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2005 Performing Arts Center, Naropa University, Boulder, 2004 John Ashbery Poetry Series, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, 2004 Center for Book Arts, New York City, 2004 The Germ Poetic Research Bloc Reading Series, Los Angeles, 2003 University of Pennsylvania, Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia, 2003 Poetry Project Wednesday Night Series, New York City, 2003 top ︎ Reviews of Publications The Story Of My Accident Is Ours (May 2013) Futurepoem Blog (reviews and responses by Chris Nealon, Renee Gladman, Andrew Durbin, Lisa Robertson, HR Hegnauer) Hyperallergic Constant Critic The Poetry Project Newsletter Triple Canopy Neighbor (July 2009) e-consulta (Mexico City) Jacket Magazine Wild Horses of Fire Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics Coldfront Magazine Galatea Resurrects Attention Span 2010 at Third Factory Harriet Blog at The Poetry Foundation Poets and Writers Page One Publishers Weekly Jacket (2) Under the Sun (February 2003) The New Review of Literature The Poetry Project Newsletter Gay City News Rain Taxi Jacket Sentence Magazine The Texas Observer top ︎ References: Susan Bee Charles Bernstein Vincent Broqua Carla Harryman Lyn Hejinian Erica Hunt Ira Livingston Dawn Lundy Martin Renato Rosaldo Stacy Szymaszek