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Dear Friends of Perugia Press,

 

Now in its 29th year, Perugia Press continues to publish one outstanding poetry book by a woman each year. We also maintain an enduring commitment to diversity, inclusion, and outreach.

Here are some highlights:

• We continue to offer free submissions to our annual contest to poets who are Black, Indigenous, and women of color. Our 2026 contest closed on November 15, and we received a record number of submissions overall. We’re thrilled that submissions from BIWOC poets have increased every year since we have offered the fee-free option.

 

• Our monthly Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight in which we highlight poets of color is going strong. On December 2, our November spotlight poet janan alexandra and our 2024 Perugia Press prize winner Joan Kwon Glass will read together at Smith College, followed by a public conversation with Editor/Director Rebecca Olander.

 

• We partner with organizations such as The Care Center. On November 6, our poet Holli Carrell visited with the center’s HISET students, who are young mothers who have dropped out of public school. Sharing an erasure poem from her book, Holli led students to create their own, then read from and signed copies of her book Apostasies.

Donations are an integral part of how we fulfill our mission. Please help us celebrate our vibrant community with a donation this year.

• A donation in any amount is deeply appreciated, and you can give securely on our website.

 

• For donations of $100 or more, or for recurring monthly donations of any amount, we’ll send you a copy of Holli Carrell’s Apostasies, winner of the 2025 Perugia Press Prize.

Thank you for considering a year-end gift to Perugia Press.

 

With gratitude,

 

Jean Blakeman, President of the Board

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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

* Poet News *

 

TONIGHT! Joan Kwon Glass and janan alexandra will close

out the Fall 2025 Reading Series from the BDPC at Smith College

 in Weinstein Auditorium on Tuesday, December 2 at 7pm,

 and will be in conversation afterward with poet & Perugia Editor/Director Rebecca Hart Olander. It’s a Smith celebration - all three poets are Smith alumna! Here's the link to livestream.

 

 

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Corrie Williamson will give the 2025 Stephen Ambrose Memorial Lecture, “Revery Will Do: Imagination and Conservation on Montana’s Great Plains,” at the Lewis & Clark Library in Helena, MT on 12/3. Corrie—author, teacher, naturalist, and Community Outreach Director at American Prairie—will blend poetry, history, and restoration ecology in a presentation that travels across time, geography, and literature.

 

 

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The Manhattanville University Fall Poetry Festival is coming up on Dec 6th! Featuring readings, craft discussions, book signings and more by Joan Kwon Glass, Carlie Hoffman, Abi Pollokoff,

 and Phylisha Villanueva. Panel discussions and craft exercises from 1-3:30. Readings and book signings from 3:30-5.

 

 

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We're celebrating the poems we nominated for a Pushcart

Prize from Holli Carrell’s Apostasies. Cheers, Holli! 

 

 

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Brava to L. I. Henley for earning a Pushcart Prize nomination

from the Mississippi Review for her nonfiction piece

“Return of the Maker” from the Art Issue, 52.3! 

 

 

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Rebecca Pelky’s Through A Red Place (Perugia, 2021) 

was featured by our distributor, Asterism Books, 

in November for an "Indigenous Stories" showcase.