THE BEST NEW WOMEN POETS
 

 Our Poets Are Amazing!
Abby E. Murray's debut with Perugia, Hail and Farewell, was beautifully reviewed in Literary Mama by Libby Maxey. FYI, check out the latest issue of Collateral, the journal Abby edits.

Megan Peak’s Girldom, her debut with Perugia, has won the Philosophical Society of Texas’s 2020 Book Prize in Poetry!


Lynne Thompson's poem "She talk like this 'cause me Mum born elsewhere, say" was chosen for the 2020 Best American Poetry & Lynne is a new Cave Canem Board Member!
 
Jenifer Lawrence is passing the baton as Editor-in-Chief 
of Crab Creek Review - congrats on your tenure Jenifer! 
 
Lisa Allen Ortiz is part of The Hive Poetry Collective,
a community of writers in Santa Cruz creating public conversation "about the poems that buzz through our lives."
 
The latest issue of the Adroit Journal features new poems
by Frannie Lindsay and Abby E. Murray and a review
of Corrie Williamson's latest book!
 
Our poets make beautiful music TOGETHER!
Check out the latest collaboration between Perugia poets
L. I. Henley and Jennifer K. Sweeney in Stirring Lit, from their manuscript The Book of Questions.

Several of our poets had new books published in 2019:

Catherine Anderson, Everyone I Love Immortal (Woodley Press)
L.I. Henley, The Whole Night Through (What Books Press)
Lynne Thompson, Fretwork (Marsh Hawk Press)
(SIU Press / Crab Orchard Series)

2020 will bring new books from other Perugia poets, including Carol Edelstein (Simian Press) and Frannie Lindsay (CavanKerry Press), and, of course, the 2020 PERUGIA PRESS PRIZE WINNER! Stay tuned for our announcement of this year's winner soon...       
 

Perugia Press at AWP 

San Antonio, Texas * March 5-7

We'll be at the annual AWP Conference & Bookfair in San Antonio! Visit Editor/Director Rebecca Olander at table #1941. We're hosting author visits, and all of our books will be on sale. Hope to see you there

Come to our off-site reading: 

Join Perugia Press & its poets for a reading at The Candlelight Café
on Saturday 3/7 (3011 N St Mary's St, San Antonio, TX 78212) from 7:00-9:00.
Featuring Abby E. Murray (Hail and Farewell), Megan Peak (Girldom), 
Corrie Williamson (sweet husk), and more! The Candlelight Café is a great place to have a bite to eat and sip a cup of coffee or a glass of wine after a day at the AWP conference. We'll have short readings, books for sale and signing, and celebration of poetry in community. See you there!


 
 
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