Dixon Place is proud to present a variety of Literary Series curated by NYC's finest connoisseurs of fiction, sci-fi, and poetry.
Experiments and Disorders
With this series, curators Charlotte Meehan & Sarah Gambito
presents a wide cultural and stylistic range of emerging and established
writers who break the boundaries between fiction, poetry, and plays. By bringing
audiences a cross-section of risk-taking writers distinguished by their highly
individual use of language, the series curators aim to involve a diverse audience
in the flux of new poetic forms. Such writers as Ruth Danon, Catherine Imbriglio,
Craig Watson, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Jude Laure Denis, David Hopkins,
Jay Key, Greg Lichtenberg, Angela Pneuman, April Krassner, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas,
Edward Carey, Elizabeth McCracken, Jason Lucero, Macgregor Card, Lara Stapleton,
Jan Clausen, and Anthony Tognazzinihave read their new works in this series.
Past curators have included; Sherry Mason and Paul Foster Johnson.
QT
aka Queer Text (formerly Homotext)
This series focuses on new literary work by queer writers. It has featured
such writers as Christopher Bram, Kate Clinton, Stephanie Grant, Stephen Greco,
Scott Hightower, A.M. Homes, Jaime Manrique, Leslea Newman, Gerry Gomez Pearlberg,
David Plante, Sarah Schulman, Paul Selig, Susan Thames, David Trinidad, Mark
Wunderlich, Eileen Myles, Nate Lippens, Thorn Kief Hillsbery, Blair Mastbaum,
Sara Jaffe, Jess Arndt, Julia Bloch, Julian Brolaski, Renee Gladman, and Anna
Joy Springer. Gerry Gomez Pearlberg was the founding curator of Homotext in
1995, followed by curators Michael Klein, Jill Dearman, Pamela S. Booker,
and Sara Seinberg. QT is now curated by Sara Marcus. For more info,
please visit http://qtreadings.blogspot.com
Belladonna
Belladonna is a reading series and small press that promotes the work of women
writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, multi-form,
multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, delicious to talk about,
unpredictable, and dangerous with language. Readers have included; Kate Colby,
Elizabeth Willis, Angela Rawlings, Margaret Christakos, Akilah Oliver, Erica
Hunt, Deborah Meadows, Laura Moriarty, Maureen Owen, Patricia Spears Jones,
Rebecca Brown, Anna Moschovakis, Claudia Rankine, and Jocelyn Saidenberg.
Curated by Erica Kaufman and Rachel Levitsky. http://belladonnaseries.blogspot.com