belladonna*

earlier this week, i put together twelve pages of poetry for belladonna* books, an awesome chapbook series complementing writers' participation in the belladonna* reading series (i'm reading there with margaret christakos on october 10). check out belladonna*'s list of publications; exciting discoveries.

for my belladonna*, i compiled w i d e r, a series of b-sides, remixes, and rarities from wide slumber. these texts aren't (fully) in the coach house version of the poem; some were excised shortly before the book's printing, while others disappeared years earlier. i had great fun browsing through the twenty or so drafts of the manuscript, rediscovering these moments in wide slumber's development.

i reworked the b-sides for coherence, and corralled them into six short segments:

• O A FIELD GUIDE (for matt ceolin)
  
• C~ MIL (for alixandra bamford)
  
• ~ CHRYSALISTALIZATION : HYPERHYPNOTRANSLATION (for lori nancy kalamanski)
  
• ~} REMnants (for conor green)
  
• {#} SOMNOPTERA (for ciara adams)
  
• >{}< DON’T SAY THE YOU THE YOU THE YOU SAY THE WE (for alexis milligan)
  

can't wait to see the belladonna* book! can't wait to see what margaret's submitted (fingers crossed for material she read at "her poetics")!