Launch of the fanzine Black Venus Flytrap by Jeanetta Rich based on a proposal and translation by Camille Kingué

Graphic design: Sofia Quintero

50 copies will be available of this first translation of Jeanetta Rich's poetry collection Black Venus Flytrap, published in 2021 by Deluge Books. Sales of the fanzine, which contains just a few poems, will be used to finance the translation of the entire book, soon to be published by How To Become.

Jeanetta Rich, poet and filmmaker, creates work that is part social critique and screwball scripture. Based in Los Angeles she writes about the emotional lives of voiceless women, those who have been silenced through poverty and/or lack of education. Her past accomplishments include Meisner scholarship recipient at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and she received the National Audience Award at Indie Memphis Film Festival in 2021. Most recently, her film Desperate LA premiered at Metrograph in New York. Jeanetta has had work appear in Los Angeles Review of Books, Texte Zur Kunst, The Quarterless Review and Changes Press. Black Venus Flytrap is her debut book of poems from Deluge Press.

Special thanks to

Helio Volana for proofreading the exhibition text
The entire How To Become team
especially, the members,
sabiche soyer for the prints, proofreading and scenographic vision
and Sofia Quintero for her graphic talent
Jeanetta Rich for accepting the translation project