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Please join Belladonna* Collaborative for our last reading of the year (!) and the second installment of our fall reading series, Close Distances, featuring Gabrielle Civil, Laura Henriksen, and Zefyr Lisowski, co-curated by Zoe Tuck and Anna Gurton-Wachter. Sign up here.
NOTAFLOF: if price is a barrier, please email belladonnaseries@gmail.com for zoom link!
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit MI. She has premiered fifty performance art works around the world, most recently Jupiter (2021) and Vigil (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), ( ghost gestures ) (2021), and the déjà vu (2022). Her writing has also appeared in Kitchen Table Translation, New Daughters of Africa, Teaching Black, and Experiments in Joy: a Workbook. A 2019 Rema Hort Mann LA Emerging Artist, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.
Laura Henriksen is the author of several chapbooks, including Agata, Canadian Girlfriends, and October Poems. Her writing can be found in LitHub, The Brooklyn Rail, Newest York, and other places. She lives in Lenapehoking-Sunset Park, works at The Poetry Project as the Director of Learning & Community Engagement, and teaches writing at Pratt.
Zefyr Lisowski is a trans disabled poet and multimedia artist from North Carolina. She's a poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal and the author of the short Lizzie Borden murder book Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press, 2019). Through 2020, she ran Away Message, a virtual paid, captioned asynchronous reading series for queer disabled writers in need of financial support over the pandemic. She’s also the recipient of a 2020 Center for the Humanities Adjunct Incubator Grant for Wolf Inventory, a collaborative film made with Candace Thompson about ghost stories, Southern identity, and sexual violence. Her work has appeared in The Offing, Nat. Brut., Hayden's Ferry Review, Literary Hub, and elsewhere; Zefyr has received support from Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop, Blue Mountain Center, and more. More information is available at www.zeflisowski.com.