PUBLISHING NEW WOMEN POETS SINCE 1997

* Submissions 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!

🍂📚🍃 Lisbeth White's American Sycamore 🍂📚🍃 
 is on sale for $15.00 through September.
Get your copy TODAY before it turns into
its regular pumpkin price of $18.00 tomorrow.

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Lisbeth gave her first public reading from American Sycamore
hosted by Imprint Bookstore & Winter Texts
Here's one more pic of Lisbeth aptly reading under trees:
 
 
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American Sycamore was featured on Taylor Swift as Books,
a fan account that designs pairings of book covers with
pictures of Taylor Swift. Check out this autumnal splendor:

Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight

September 2022 Poet: Tzynya L. Pinchback

 
 
And suddenly

 
I imagined you floating
twelve weeks: limbs, skin, a rapid pulse, swimming
in tiny sac clear like cellophane,
not falling or being torn from me, but raging desire
to run, breathe, touch bread (wine, someday),
sun to lips. And suddenly we were bone
splintered in two, edge pushed through flesh - 
a wound. And I imagined you a fairy
in tiny sac clear like cellophane
a swathe of copper and iron confetti,
wings glittering, folded beneath your feet,
standing on the branch of a boab tree
jutting from the lean of my umbilicus.
 

from How to Make Pink Confetti (dancing girl press)

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

PERUGIA PRESS VIDEO NEWS:

We’re delighted to announce that Perugia Press now has a YouTube channel! This summer, we created a new video project entitled “Readings & Roots: Perugia Poets on Poetic Process.”
We’ll be adding content to the series over time, and the goal is to
bring Perugia poems, and the process and stories behind them,
to life through the voices and ideas of our poets.
 
 
The first two installments in the series come from Janet E. Aalfs,
who performs & discusses “Way of the Crane” from Reach 
(Perugia, 1999) and Lisbeth White, who reads & discusses
  “Awakening of Stones: Results” from American Sycamore 
 (Perugia, 2022). Check out this series, and recordings of stellar
virtual readings and events we held through the pandemic,
on our YouTube channel & read more on our blog🍂📚🍃

Perugia Press in Straw Dog Writers Guild
Publishers Panel and Marketplace on 10/19
 

* PERUGIA POET NEWS *

was featured on Poetry Daily.

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Listen to the latest installments of the podcast "Poems on Air" 
(Allison Adelle Hedge Coke! traci kato-kiriyama! Martha Ronk!)
a weekly reading of poetry by Los Angeles Poet Laureate
 
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