Winner of the 2020 Perugia Press Prize

Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms

Review & Events: 

Gratitude for this beautiful review by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards of Joan Kwon Glass’s Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms. And thank you to Pedestal Magazine for highlighting this book and Joan’s work! Read the whole review here.

 

 

In celebration of National Poetry Month, NEPM’s “The Fabulous 413” recorded at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst. 

 Joan Kwon Glass was featured along with DeMisty Bellinger, whose work we've highlighted in our BIWOC Poet Spotlight.

If you missed it when it aired, take a listen.

 

 

Spoken & Heard featured Joan Kwon Glass and Monic Ductan on April 17. This virtual series is hosted by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour and Sheila Na Gig Editions and sponsored by the Ohio Arts Council. Watch the recording here.

 

 

Joan Kwon Glass visited Wesleyan University's College

of East Asian Studies for a reading for students and a public lecture entitled "Ghosts of the Korean Diaspora."

 

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Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight

April 2025 Poet: Mariella Saavedra Carquin

 

 

a child said that she

is lonely 

a feverish energy

we described as coming out of her skin

I told her I'd start

teach her how to connect her emotions 

w/ her body & brain 

she heard me describe it as

my insides feel like they're gonna burst 

my heart's beating fast

like it's gonna explode

I can't escape myself

that's when I'm at my loneliest

she said, me too! 

that's what it is 

that's exactly what it is

I didn't realize loneliness 

doesn't care about age 

that at 6 you can be lonely 

that at 30 you can be lonely 

that at 68 you could be lonely 

and it feels the same 

body & brain

 

 

from Maps You Can't Make (June Road Press, 2023)

 

To read about this poet and her work, check out our blog.

Winner of the 2020 Perugia Press Prize

* Poet News *

Abby E. Murray is author of the “keynote” poem for the War Poetry Postcard Project (WPPP), which includes a pop-up literary contest that seeks new and reprint poems on the effects of armed conflict, state violence, and/or military service. Murray will serve on a panel of judges this summer to help select the first WPPP prize-winners. Submit up to three new or previously published poems. Deadline is May 3, 2025. Learn more here. 

 

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Rebecca Pelky's panel “Indigenous Justice” with

Tacey M. Atsitty and m. s. RedCherries was part of the

Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri in April.

 

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Amanda Auchter has a review up in RHINO of

Corrie Williamson's new book Your Mother's Bear Gun

(River River Press, 2025). Amanda also has a poem

in the new print issue of MER.

 

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Jennifer K. Sweeney also has a poem in the new print issue of MER, and her poem “Ghost Log” (with art by Janice Redman) is part of Broadsided Press's “eight new original collaborations between writers and artists.”

 

 

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Lisbeth White was featured as one of three case studies in

How to Submit, in which she wrote about her path to

the publication of American Sycamore, with Perugia Press.

Thanks for sharing your story, Lisbeth! 

 

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Lynne Thompson's poem "The Ways of Remembering Women" was featured on The Slowdown with Major Jackson. Lynne also recently joined BookSwell host Cody Sisco in conversation to discuss “taking inspiration from the world, how women are both elevated and denigrated, palm trees, Black lives, poetic forms, and being a good poetry citizen.” You can watch it on YouTube

or listen on the BookSwell site.

 

 

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Behold these beautiful new books by Perugia poets:

Melody S. Gee’s We Carry Smoke & Paper: Essays on the

Grief and Hope of Conversion (University of Iowa, 2024),

L. I. Henley & Jennifer K. Sweeney’s Dear Question: 

A Conversation (Glass Lyre, 2024), Lisbeth White’s A Most

Natural Thing: An Elemental Memoir (Red Mare, 2025), and Corrie Williamson’s Your Mother’s Bear Gun (River River, 2025). 

 

So proud of these makers of beautiful work in expansive genres, and so happy for them and their readers.

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