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writer - reader - citizen - really into vegetables - has horse problem - save the redwoods league - trees and tree shapes
Pinned
This is not new news, but I noticed the norm around here is to pin something good at the top of our pages. By norm, I mean it’s what chen chen does. (Thanks to all you friends, poets, writers and publishers for being here. 💙)

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Sternocleidomastoid
space under a floating mind, a speck in the sky faint as a heated up cloud— a dim knowing: once there were so many birds on so many wires.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
@catamaranlit.bsky.social So amazed to have this story recognized. Thank you marvelous Catamaran Literary Reader!
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I’m so excited about this book!
Happy publication day to APOSTASIES & poet Holli Carrell! We appreciate everyone’s support along this publication path & those the book will connect with as it finds its readers & audiences. Brava, Holli! 🎉♥️🪩 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social @bookmobile-itasca.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Kamali Williams recently completed a summer internship at Perugia, in collab with Smith College's Praxis Program. Jean Blakeman, our board president, interviewed Kamali about her experience as a Perugia intern. @hollicarrell.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social perugiapress.org/2025/09/a-co...
A Conversation with Perugia's Intern: Kamali Williams - Perugia Press
Kamali Williams recently completed a summer internship at Perugia Press, sponsored by the Praxis Program at Smith College. This is the […]
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September 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Lisa Allen Ortiz has a new poem, “Furniture,” up in the latest Sixth Finch. Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole at sixthfinch.com/laortiz1.html. 💙🐦‍⬛🌿 @sixthfinch.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GUIDE TO THE EXHIBIT by Lisa Allen Ortiz. Find more prompts, poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Ortiz’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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TONIGHT! An evening with Catamaran at Hakone Gardens, featuring Garden Issue writers, including Lisa Allen Ortiz! @catamaranlit.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#perugiapress 🥹 And crazy beautiful AWP.
Lisa Allen Ortiz’s author signing yesterday at AWP! 🖊️📖🌟 @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social #perugiapress
March 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The worst part of being a writer is sometimes you have to leave the house.
March 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is not new news, but I noticed the norm around here is to pin something good at the top of our pages. By norm, I mean it’s what chen chen does. (Thanks to all you friends, poets, writers and publishers for being here. 💙)

poems.com/poem/sternoc...
Sternocleidomastoid
space under a floating mind, a speck in the sky faint as a heated up cloud— a dim knowing: once there were so many birds on so many wires.
poems.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Reposted by Lisa Allen Ortiz
In our Special Garden Issue, explore lush literary works with settings that span public gardens, imaginary gardens, themes of flowers, plants, and the organic world, alongside visual artwork from landscape & still life paintings to abstraction and realism.
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February 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM