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for 20 years

DEADLINE in ONE week:   Tuesday, November 15th

for a first or second poetry book  by a woman 
              
BandM   gloss  TMOL   ECH  KB   
 

You can't win if you don't enter!

Prize: $1000 and publication
  
 

 
Perugia Press Marks 20 Years
of Publishing the Best New Women Poets

This Week!  NOVEMBER 10-15, 2016
 
 
Saturday, November 12 at 7:30 PM
 Join us for short readings with Gail Thomas, Janet E. Aalfs, Carol Edelstein, Faye George, Catherine Anderson, Ida Stewart, Lynne Thompson, Jenifer Browne Lawrence, Gail Martin, Corrie Williamson, and Lisa Allen Ortiz. Also: remarks by board member Allegra Mira, founder & outgoing director Susan Kan, and incoming director Rebecca Hart Olander. And cake!
Neilson Browsing Room at Smith College
Northampton, MA
 

Saturday, November 12 at 1:00 PM
Two sessions: 1-2:15 and 2:30-4:45 PM
Poet-led, drop-in, free workshops and conversations. Writing Epistolary Poems; To Submit or Not, Where & When; The Poet in theMachine: Technology, Tools, & How to Use Wisely; Writing the Slam Poem; AND MORE! All are welcome.
Wright Hall at Smith College  
Northampton, MA
Detailed descriptions here. 
 

Tuesday, November 15 at 4:00 PM and 7:30 PM
Lisa Allen Ortiz, Gail Martin, and Corrie Williamson
Q&A session at 4:00 PM in the Poetry Center, Wright Hall
Reading at 7:30 PM in the Helen Hills Hills Chapel
Smith College, Northampton, MA

GUIDE    sweet husk    BEH
 

Thursday, November 10 at 7:00 PM
Lisa Allen Ortiz and Carol Edelstein
Mocha Maya’s Café in Shelburne Falls, MA

Ortiz   Edelstein
 

A commemorative chapbook with poems by all the Perugia Press poets
Available at our anniversary events for $10 

Brilliance


Co-sponsored by the Poetry Center at Smith College and supported by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
 
PO Box 60364, Florence, MA  01062