PUBLISHING NEW WOMEN POETS SINCE 1997

 
TONIGHT!

* BOOK LAUNCH
 for 
NOW IN COLOR
 
by Jacqueline Balderrama *
 
on Día de los Muertos * MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 * 5:30 pm PST/8:30 pm EST
 
Celebrate the publication of Jacqueline Balderrama's first full-length collection, NOW IN COLOR, winner of the 2020 Perugia Press Prize. This event features readings by Balderrama and special guests: poets Sally Ball (author of Hold Sway), Alberto Ríos (Arizona’s inaugural poet laureate), and Juan Felipe Herrera (U.S. Poet Laureate emeritus). Come listen in to poetry in community around this important new book that uses ekphrasis, portraiture, and family mythos to deepen our understanding of hybrid identities and call attention to those impacted by tensions along the U.S.-Mexico border.

FREE, BUT MUST REGISTER HERE
 
 
Program featuring readings by:
 
 
Juan Felipe Herrera
 
 
 
Sally Ball
 
 
 
Alberto Ríos

 
 
Jacqueline Balderrama

Your book could be next!
 
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR TWO MORE WEEKS

for the 2021 Perugia Press Prize
for a first or second book of poetry by a woman
 
*
on changes related to our contest and prize. Send us your work by 11/15!
 
PERUGIA PRESS
PO Box 60364, Florence, MA  01062