PUBLISHING NEW WOMEN POETS SINCE 1997

* 2024 Perugia Press Prize is OPEN till 11/15 *

Publication of the winning manuscript comes with
$2,000, author copies, and other support from the press.

 

We look forward to reading your work!

* Carolina Hotchandani's The Book Eaters *

We celebrated the launch of The Book Eaters with a reading 
 and conversation on October 11, featuring author
Carolina Hotchandani and poets Catherine Barnett,
Jennifer K. Sweeney, and Lynne Thompson. If you missed 
 the launch, catch the recording on our YouTube channel. 
 And check out our latest blog featuring launch info and the ways The Book Eaters has been making its way in the world.

 
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This month, The Book Eaters and Carolina Hotchandani
were featured on Nebraska Public Media. Three segments
include the reading and discussion of three poems each (found here, starting at 21:47; here, starting at 22:46; and here, starting
at 33:25). Hotchandani was also interviewed for the podcast
 Friday LIVE, a weekly arts and humanities program hosted
by Genevieve Randall on NPM. Their conversation on Hotchandani’s work teaching and in poetry and the genesis
of her Perugia collection can be found here, starting at 11:21). 
 
 
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Get your copy of The Book Eaters, with a bookplate 
 signed by the author, while supplies last!

Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight

October 2023 Poet: Cintia Santana

Photo by Rewa Bush
 
Midnight, Barking Desert

In the hollow of the hollow tree
In the night’s night and the deep ravine
The world’s awhirl when I look up

More is misnomer than we know
More is more seed than can be sown
I keel and cobble, I reel, I keen

And all the deities are made of stone
And a widow, young, cannot give up her rings

Ringing: the world is ringing
There’s fever in the eye
I’m driving mirrors through the night


From The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Press, 2023)

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

* Perugia Poet News *
 
Perugia poet Jacqueline Balderrama is the supervising editor 
of the Thousand Languages Project at ASU's Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. Their third issue just came out, "Artifacts of Connection," and the launch is TONIGHT. 
This Zoom event (5:30 PST/8:30 EST) is a celebratory multilingual event with readings & reflections on translation.
Read about the genesis of the project in Balderrama’s 
“Poet’s Platform” blog post from October of 2022.
 
 
* 
Perugia poet Gail Thomas was nominated for a Pushcart Prize
for her poem in the Naugatuck River Review!
 
 
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Perugia poet Lynne Thompson will be in conversation with
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on November 2 at Scripps College!
 
 
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