PUBLISHING NEW WOMEN POETS SINCE 1997
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The 2025 Perugia Press Prize is OPEN
for two more weeks - till November 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!
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Praise & Readings for Joan Kwon Glass's
* Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms *
On October 18, Joan Kwon Glass visited Western, MA to read for students at The Care Center in Holyoke and with Perugia board
member Yasotha Sriharan and award-winning poet Kirun Kapur. Thanks to all who helped to organize and host these readings, and to the audiences who came to listen and celebrate Perugia's new release. Here are some memories from those beautiful events:
Joan Kwon Glass working with The Care Center
students & Poetry Coordinator Sara Rauch in Holyoke
Joan Kwon Glass reading to a full house at
CLICK Workspace in Northampton
Joan with fellow readers Kirun Kapur & Yasotha Sriharan
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And check out this recent recent reading though Mass Poetry
and the Boston Book Festival and an upcoming reading
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Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight
October 2024 Poet: Mia Ayumi Malhotra
Photo by Veronica Riedel
Isako's Rules to Remember
You will be sent for by mail and arrive by ship. Shocking pink is a fine color to wear. To travel in style is the only way. A daughter-in-law is like a servant without a wage. Your mother will arrive by plane with feet swollen in her new shoes. The daughter you bear will neither speak your language nor understand your customs. Your granddaughter: even worse. Monday. Wednesday. Tuesday. How are you. Go away from here. You will help your mother copy these phrases into a small black notebook and one day you will find her marching in a parade at the county fair. With this you will learn there is more than one way to make a way.
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Perugia Board: Shifts & Gratitude
We've had some recent changes to the Perugia Board of Directors. Members Amy Dryansky and Shanta Lee finished their board service, and Perugia poet Lynne Thompson completed her tenure as our inaugural poet liaison. Founder Susan Kan remains on the board but has stepped down as president, with member Jean Blakeman stepping up to take on that role. Member Jen Jabaily-Blackburn has agreed to serve as clerk. Thank you to the outgoing members for your service and support of Perugia, and gratitude to those taking on new roles on the board.
On that note, we have a new board member to announce! Perugia poet Carolina Hotchandani has joined the board as a member and will also serve in the role of poet liaison. Thank you, Carolina, for coming aboard the board. Read about our current members here.
Carolina Hotchandani is the author of The Book Eaters, the 2023 Perugia Press Prize winner and one of ten debut poetry books featured in Poets & Writers Magazine’s 2024 debut poets issue. She was awarded a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Fellowship, a Nebraska Book Award, and her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, AGNI, AQR, Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, Prairie Schooner, Smartish Pace, and other magazines. She is a Goodrich Assistant Professor of English in Omaha, Nebraska. |
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* Perugia Poet News *
* A SELECTION OF RECENT POET PUBS & HONORS *
L. I. Henley's essay “The Weeping Fig Waits for No One” was chosen as one of two runners-up for the Margarita Donnelly
and she was nominated for a Best of the Net for her poem
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Abby E. Murray reading at Cloud Croft Studios, where they also facilitated a workshop called “How to Sing the Dark”:
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the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center:
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L. I. Henley put out a "Summer Edition" of her "Paper Dolls & Books" project, a generous and beautiful showcase of books rendered through her creative lens into collages of visual wonder:
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