PUBLISHING NEW WOMEN POETS SINCE 1997

* Carolina Hotchandani's The Book Eaters
Online Launch Celebration TONIGHT! *

The Perugia online launch for The Book Eaters is this evening, Wednesday, October 11, at 7:30pm ET (4:30 PT/6:30 CT). 
 The celebration will feature readings from
Carolina Hotchandani, Catherine Barnettand fellow 
 Perugia poets Jennifer K. Sweeney & Lynne Thompson.


 
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Carolina Hotchandani read from The Book Eaters
on Nebraska Public Media recently! Listen to her read
& discuss “The Boxes,” “Partition,” & “A Cord to Bind Us”
(her recording begins at 21:47).
 
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Hotchandani will be also be sharing The Book Eaters
 here through the rest of October:
 
 
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Here's poet Paisley Rekdal on The Book Eaters:

The 2024 Perugia Press Prize is OPEN
for Submissions until November 15

Your book could be the next Perugia Press collection!
Publication of the winning manuscript comes with
$2,000, author copies, and other support from the press.

 

We look forward to reading your work!

* Perugia Poet News *
 
Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU!
 
 
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in “The More-than-Human World,” a beautiful
new issue of About Place Journal curated by
Nickole Brown and Erin Coughlin Hollowell.
Sweeney also received a "Best of the Net"
nomination from Guesthouse!
 
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was analyzed at the Western Literature Association Conference
in a presentation entitled "Ghosting Settler Maps, Remapping Indigenous Spirits: Rebecca Pelky's 'Bird Mound Facing Devil's Lake'" presented by Chadwick Allen from U. of Washington.
 
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Perugia poet Abby E. Murray received "Best of the Net" nominations from Harbor Review and New Ohio Review!
 
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named a semifinalist for the Housatonic Book Award in Poetry!

 

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Perugia poet L.I. Henley created a process video
"My Hands My Tentacles" featuring the artist playing
with elements from her most recent Paper Dolls & Books installation, with music and editing by Jonathan Maule.
 
 
"Inspiration from Anguish" is part of a new initiative
"Poets on the Beat" that is a collaboration between
Capital & Main and the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center.
Six California poets were commissioned "to write short essays
that link poetry to social and political themes ... to provide
new perspectives on such topics as climate change, growing inequality, the immigrant experience, and police violence.”
 
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