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The funding landscape has been punishing for many nonprofit organizations this year, especially for those working in the arts, and particularly for poetry. Perugia Press is not immune; we've learned this fall that we didn't receive multiple grants we'd been hoping would continue to sustain our mission. Now more than ever, we need our community to help us to keep making impactful books that change lives.  

 

 

Your donations allow us to provide greater access to our contest for emerging poets, to create beautiful, important books, and to support our poets as their work gains a wider audience. A donation in any amount is deeply appreciated, and you can give securely on our website.

• a $15 gift underwrites a reduced-rate submission, open to all submitters to our annual contest
• a $30 gift underwrites a fee-free submission, open to BIWOC poets
• for any sized monthly gift, and one-time gifts of $100 or more, donors receive our latest book: Holli Carrell’s Apostasies, winner of the 2025 Perugia Press Prize

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* Perugia Press Holiday Book Sale *

 

Looking for a great book to gift this season? Perugia Press

has a bookshop full of award-winning collections that are beautiful inside and out. Our holiday sale runs through 12/31 - 25% off any and all titles with the code WINTERREADS. Support small press poetry publishing by choosing our

books to give to yourself or someone else you love!

 

Also, we donate a portion of our book sales at the end of each year. In 2025, our selected organizations are The Care Center, Torch Literary Arts, and We Are Not Numbers. So, when you purchase Perugia books, the impact ripples beyond our nonprofit press. Thank you!

Winner of the 2020 Perugia Press Prize

* Perugia Poet Upcoming Readings *

 

TONIGHT! Holli Carrell is reading with Freda Epum

& Eliza Guerra at Conveyor Belt Books in Covington, KY

on Monday, December 15 at 7:30.

 

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TONIGHT! Meadowlark Press is holding a virtual launch for Catherine Anderson’s new book Afloat, winner of the Birdy Poetry Prize, on December 15 via Zoom at 7pm (CT).

Catherine will read and discuss the origin and process behind some of the poems with Meadowlark Editor Linzi Garcia.

Email editor@perugiapress.org for the Zoom link!

 

 

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Poetry on the Wharf will feature Lynne Thompson

and Patricia Smith for a remarkable evening of poetry

and conversation on December 19. Doors open at 6PM,

reading at 7PM, food and wine available, curated by

Santa Cruz Poet Laureate Nancy Miller Gomez.