PUBLISHING NEW WOMEN POETS SINCE 1997

More on our New Distribution Partner: Asterism Books
 
Many thanks to all who have been helping us to weather the sudden closure of Small Press Distribution (SPD). Our publisher page is now up and stocked over at our new distributor, Asterism Books. And, as always, our books are available through our website. Asterism can handle individual and bulk orders, and they are an especially great place to order stock for indie bookstores and libraries.

In recent newsletters, Asterism highlighted some books from the new presses that have recently joined the Asterism catalog, including Lisbeth White’s American Sycamore in their feature on supporting “some of the most innovative voices in independent literature,” and Carolina Hotchandani’s The Book Eaters in their feature spotlighting books available at Asterism that “have received recent attention in the media.”


As a nonprofit, we rely on generous support from our community to fulfill our mission, including in times of transition. This is an especially great time to become a recurring donor, an option through our safe Donorbox site. One-time gifts of $100 or more, or recurring monthly donations of any size, receive a thank-you gift of a copy of our new book each year when it is published. Thank you for supporting Perugia Press and small press poetry publishing, always. 

* Kudos for The Book Eaters *
 
Congratulations to poet Carolina Hotchandani and The Book Eaters!
In addition to being  named one of twelve finalists in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards for Poetry (noted in a previous newsletter), it was also named a finalist for an Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Poetry by the Sea Book Award, and a Reading the West Award.
 
The Book Eaters is still in the running for the Reading the West Award, which is determined by reader support through voting.

 
 

Poet's Platform: Rebecca Pelky
"Kinship & Poetry: Ancestors in the Archive"
 
Our latest "Poet's Platform" feauture is up on our blog. This one comes from Rebecca Pelky and is about the beginning of her Perugia book Through a Red Place and her archival work tracing her Native American ancestral roots. Read Pelky's beautiful piece here.
 

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Perugia poet Carolina Hotchandani presented at the Grossmont Literary Arts Festival earlier this month. Here she is with the bound letters of appreciation written to her by students who studied her book in Daniela Sow's Creative Writing class:

 
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"Splash Kingdom" published at Sixth Finch.
 
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Perugia poet Lynne Thompson has two poems in 
the latest Jet Fuel Review: “Through Another Looking Glass” 
and “The year of voting dangerously.”
 
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Perugia poet L. I. Henley's essay “Dispatches from the Ridge” was published in The Southern Review. It's a piece that chronicles the months leading up to her move away from the desert place that raised her, and where her Perugia book, Starshine Road is set. Here are Henley and Marsha de la O with artwork Henley
created for the cover of de la O's book Creature.
 
 
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Cheers to Joan Kwon Glass (winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Prize) on her latest poem publication, “Upon Learning of Your Death while Waiting to See the Barbie Movie,” up in
The Texas Review. The poem will appear in her forthcoming Perugia book, Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, out this fall. 

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Here's Perugia poet Gail Thomas supporting student artists
from Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School as the
emcee of the launch of the 6th volume of The Viking Runestone
at Forbes Library in Northampton.

 
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Here's Perugia poet Jacqueline Balderrama reading at Dynamo Verlag for the celebration of A Human Moon by Alleliah Nuguid.
 
 
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Perugia poet Abby E. Murray was on "Writer to Writer" with Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers on Radio Boise about the intensifying awareness of war in so many people's lives and balancing teaching, parenting, editing Collateral Journal, and
the curation of her own creative work. Here's Murray at her
recent Desert Rat Writing Residency:
 
 
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