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Winner of the 2020 Perugia Press Prize

Jen Siraganian's Everything Has Been

Moved, Even the Dead, winner of the 2026 

 Perugia Press Prize, is on presale till 9/15!

 

Jen Siraganian’s debut collection Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead traces a self shaped by history, fragmentation, and memory as she weaves her family’s past in the Middle East with her identity as an Armenian-American woman and mother. Through poems that seed each other with recurring images of pomegranates, mushrooms, and fire, this book pushes against annihilation with a voice that resists silence.

 

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Jen Siraganian is serving as a 2026 International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) mentor, along with Liana Aghajanian, Tatevik Ayvazyan, Dr. Nyri Bakkalian, Dr. Tamar M. Boyadjian, Ariel Djanikian, Armine Iknadsoian, Lola Koundakjian, Shahe Mankerian, Micheline Marcom, Aline Ohanesian, Nadine Takvorian, Taline Voskeritchian, and Taleen Voskuni.

 

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Joan Kwon Glass gave a reading in celebration of her Paterson Poetry Prize win for Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms recently, which was aired on YouTube. Thanks to Passaic County Community College and the Paterson Poetry Center for honoring Joan and her Perugia Press book. Please also check out the reading given by Paterson Poetry Prize co-winner Nancy Miller Gomez - both offerings are wonderful!

 

 

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Here's a shout-out for Joan Kwon Glass's Daughter of

Three Gone Kingdoms at The Poetry Shop from poet Leila Farjami, whose debut Daughter of Salt we featured in our April 2026 Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight:

 

 

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Gratitude to Poetry Daily for their “Hot Off the Presses”

list showcasing recent titles they’ve received, including Perugia’s own Apostasies by Holli Carrell and

Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms by Joan Kwon Glass.

 

 

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Janet E. Aalfs had her poem, "[     ] Between,"

published in By the WAYE journal, an independent

print magazine of poetry and visual art.

 

 

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Lynne Thompson will be taking part in the Library Girl

show #190 on August 9th at 7pm to celebrate Women in a Golden State, an anthology celebrating the possibilities and perspectives of 175 women poets sixty and over in California (Gunpowder Press, 2025). Get tix at ruskingrouptheatre.com.

 

 

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Lynne Thompson has a new poem, “By the time the apocalypse began, the world had already ended, and still”

in The Common, Issue 31. Here’s the journal’s excerpt, and you can read the poem, and browse the issue, online.

 

 

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Jennifer K. Sweeney has two new poems up at Terrain.org: “Fairy Ring” and “Formation.” Read & listen to them online.

 

 

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Catherine Anderson has a review of Judith Vollmer’s

The Pavese Stone (Alice James Books) up at RHINO.

 

 

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Amanda Auchter has a review of The Ground Never Lets Go,

by Liz Marlow (Moon Tide Press), up at RHINO.