PUBLISHING NEW WOMEN POETS SINCE 1997

American Sycamore was officially released
on September 15! This beautiful collection is on sale for $15.00 through September on our website
 
 
“This book with its forehead to the earth. A book of tears. A book of grief. A book of resource. How Lisbeth White listens for the messages of dirt and bones, reminding me that word is sound, breath, mark—gesture 'to make a sudden temple.” I follow her into the gorgeous greenness of her questions—“how long can filament grow / in the memory of hands?' and 'didn’t we live / as a forest…'—and find myself closer to my own life, reaching and reaching toward reunion..”

—Aracelis Girmay, author of the black maria

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Lisbeth was just hosted by Imprint Bookstore and Winter Texts
in the Mixed Metaphor Literary Series on September 25.
Lovely to see the book in the wild & Lisbeth reading under trees!

 
 
Photos courtesy of Imprint Bookstore

* Submissions Are Open *
 
The 2023 Perugia Press Prize contest is open for submissions! 

The prize is for a first or second full-length book of poetry by a woman.

Publication of the winning manuscript comes with
$1,000, author copies, and other support from the press.


We're pleased to continue a fee structure for our contest that
gives poets options on how they submit their work and makes
the contest more accessible to all. Read more on our blog.

We look forward to reading your work!

* Perugia Poets in CLMP Spotlights *
 
Lisbeth White's American Sycamore

 
 
Jacqueline Balderrama's Now in Color
 

PERUGIA POET NEWS:
 
Congratulations to Perugia poet Lisa Allen Ortiz 
on the publication of her poetry collection
the 2021 Idaho Prize for Poetry by Ilya Kaminsky.

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Perugia poet L.I. Henley has three text & image
collages up at The Adroit Journal.
 
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 written for woodcut artist Julie Lapping Rivera's 
 
PERUGIA PRESS
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