Rebecca Hart Olander
@rholanderpoet.bsky.social
Poet: Singing from the Deep End (2026) & Uncertain Acrobats (2021) @cavankerrypress.bsky.social * Editor/Director: @perugiapress.bsky.social * writing teacher * mother * adorer of the Atlantic 🌊 * she/her
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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection TWO MINUTES OF LIGHT by Nancy K. Pearson. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions and check out Pearson’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection TWO MINUTES OF LIGHT by Nancy K. Pearson. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions and check out Pearson’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).
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Majda also has a stunning chapbook, "The Call of Paradise", winner of the Two Sylvia's Press Chapbook Prize, selected by none other than the inimitable @dseuss.bsky.social. twosylviaspress.com/store/p81/Th...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Majda also has a stunning chapbook, "The Call of Paradise", winner of the Two Sylvia's Press Chapbook Prize, selected by none other than the inimitable @dseuss.bsky.social. twosylviaspress.com/store/p81/Th...
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It's the marvelous @majda.bsky.social's birthday! Celebrate by purchasing her brilliant collection "In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls" if you don't already have this beauty on your shelves! politics-prose.com/book/9798218...
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It's the marvelous @majda.bsky.social's birthday! Celebrate by purchasing her brilliant collection "In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls" if you don't already have this beauty on your shelves! politics-prose.com/book/9798218...
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The 2026 Perugia Press Prize from @perugiapress.bsky.social is an annual contest for first or second books of poetry by women. The winner receives $2,000, publication, and more! Submit by 11/15. AWP members can learn more on the Contests & Calls directory.
2026 Perugia Press Prize
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November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The 2026 Perugia Press Prize from @perugiapress.bsky.social is an annual contest for first or second books of poetry by women. The winner receives $2,000, publication, and more! Submit by 11/15. AWP members can learn more on the Contests & Calls directory.
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There a few spots left for this rsvp-only poetry party in Pelham, MA on Fri. 11/7, feat. poets Holli Carrell & Jenifer Browne Lawrence & w/ the botanical photos of Shelley Kirkwood for sale. RSVP to editor@perugiapress.org & we’ll send the address. 📸📚🎉 @jenblaw.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There a few spots left for this rsvp-only poetry party in Pelham, MA on Fri. 11/7, feat. poets Holli Carrell & Jenifer Browne Lawrence & w/ the botanical photos of Shelley Kirkwood for sale. RSVP to editor@perugiapress.org & we’ll send the address. 📸📚🎉 @jenblaw.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social
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TOMORROW night! @adrie-rose.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social
Holli Carrell is coming to town to launch her new book, APOSTASIES, winner of the 2025 Perugia Press Prize, on 11/6 at 7pm at the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College, joined by Adrie Rose & Nicole Young-Martin. Hope you’ll join us! 🌟📚🎉 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @adrie-rose.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
TOMORROW night! @adrie-rose.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social
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Thanks for including Rebecca Pelky’s THROUGH A RED PLACE in great company in this year’s Native American Heritage Month reading list, CLMP! ♥️ @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social
Celebrate #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth with us by picking reads from our 2025 reading list! Featuring poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from indie presses and lit mags: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
A Reading List for Native American Heritage Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For Native American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of November, we asked our member presses and literary magazines to share with us some of the books and magazines they recommend…
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November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Thanks for including Rebecca Pelky’s THROUGH A RED PLACE in great company in this year’s Native American Heritage Month reading list, CLMP! ♥️ @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social
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Perugia’s annual prize is open for subs through 11/15 (2 MORE WEEKS) for what will be our 30th collection. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Full guidelines & info in bio. We look forward to reading your work!
November 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Perugia’s annual prize is open for subs through 11/15 (2 MORE WEEKS) for what will be our 30th collection. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Full guidelines & info in bio. We look forward to reading your work!
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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection APOSTASIES by Holli Carrell. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Carrell’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @hollicarrell.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection APOSTASIES by Holli Carrell. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Carrell’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @hollicarrell.bsky.social
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Perugia's latest newsletter 🎃📚🎉 ymlp.com/zUDKkN @hollicarrell.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social @earthmaven.bsky.social @meganpeak.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @jenblaw.bsky.social @boa-editions.bsky.social @adrie-rose.bsky.social @annwallace.bsky.social
2026 Prize Open for TWO MORE WEEKS * Apostasies Events & Press * BIWOC Poet Spotlight * Poet News
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October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Board member Jen Jabaily-Blackburn has a new poem, “Ars Poetica: Getaway Car,” up online at The Common! Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole here: thecommononline.org/ars-poetica-... @commonmag.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Board member Jen Jabaily-Blackburn has a new poem, “Ars Poetica: Getaway Car,” up online at The Common! Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole here: thecommononline.org/ars-poetica-... @commonmag.bsky.social
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Holli Carrell will be visiting Holyoke, Pelham & Northampton, MA and Cincinnati, OH this November. Save the dates to celebrate and hear from APOSTASIES, and from a host of other 🔥 poets! 🎉📚🎤 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @jenblaw.bsky.social @adrie-rose.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Holli Carrell will be visiting Holyoke, Pelham & Northampton, MA and Cincinnati, OH this November. Save the dates to celebrate and hear from APOSTASIES, and from a host of other 🔥 poets! 🎉📚🎤 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @jenblaw.bsky.social @adrie-rose.bsky.social
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Lisbeth White was on the 1st episode of Season 2 of Talkin Story, a community podcast in WA that “features local people of the global majority who are quietly acting as flashpoints for social & cultural transformation.” Listen on Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. ♥️🎤🖤 @earthmaven.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Lisbeth White was on the 1st episode of Season 2 of Talkin Story, a community podcast in WA that “features local people of the global majority who are quietly acting as flashpoints for social & cultural transformation.” Listen on Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. ♥️🎤🖤 @earthmaven.bsky.social
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Carolina Hotchandani has a new poem “Casting” up online in The Atlantic! Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole here: www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1... @chotchandani.bsky.social @theatlantic.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Carolina Hotchandani has a new poem “Casting” up online in The Atlantic! Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole here: www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1... @chotchandani.bsky.social @theatlantic.com
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TONIGHT! @chotchandani.bsky.social
I'm excited to host SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO tonight on ZOOM at 6 pm CT with featured readers Nancy Miller Gomez, @chotchandani.bsky.social, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, Daniel Tam-Claiborne & Donato Loia. Come join us, won't you? Register for Zoom at sundaysalon-chicago.com 👏👏👏 ❤️🍁🌈
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
TONIGHT! @chotchandani.bsky.social
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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GIRLDOM by Megan Peak. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions and check out Peak’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). 🔥 @meganpeak.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GIRLDOM by Megan Peak. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions and check out Peak’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). 🔥 @meganpeak.bsky.social
Singing from the Deep End is surfacing SOON! This beauty is a proof that arrived in my mailbox to my astonishment & gratitude & this is a reminder that it’s on its best sale in preorder in the CKP bookshop through 11/2 (link in bio). Thanks for supporting this book! ♥️📖🪸 @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Singing from the Deep End is surfacing SOON! This beauty is a proof that arrived in my mailbox to my astonishment & gratitude & this is a reminder that it’s on its best sale in preorder in the CKP bookshop through 11/2 (link in bio). Thanks for supporting this book! ♥️📖🪸 @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
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Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of India Lena González and her book fox woman get out! (BOA Editions, 2023).🌟 @boa-editions.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of India Lena González and her book fox woman get out! (BOA Editions, 2023).🌟 @boa-editions.bsky.social
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Two weeks from tonight! @adrie-rose.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social
Holli Carrell is coming to town to launch her new book, APOSTASIES, winner of the 2025 Perugia Press Prize, on 11/6 at 7pm at the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College, joined by Adrie Rose & Nicole Young-Martin. Hope you’ll join us! 🌟📚🎉 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @adrie-rose.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Two weeks from tonight! @adrie-rose.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social
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This month we’re celebrating the work of India Lena González in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book fox woman get out! (BOA Editions, 2023), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio). @boa-editions.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This month we’re celebrating the work of India Lena González in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book fox woman get out! (BOA Editions, 2023), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio). @boa-editions.bsky.social
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This month we're celebrating the work of India Lena González in our "Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight." Check it out to read one of her poems and learn more about this poet. @boa-editions.bsky.social
Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight: India Lena González - Perugia Press
This monthly series features poems by women of color in the early stages of their publishing careers. It is our […]
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October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This month we're celebrating the work of India Lena González in our "Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight." Check it out to read one of her poems and learn more about this poet. @boa-editions.bsky.social
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Jacqueline Balderrama is teaching a virtual generative workshop through The Poetry Society of NY on poetic self-portraiture for BIPOC creatives on Nov 4. It’s free to join!🪞🤎🖊️🖤📖 www.eventbrite.com/e/psny-bipoc...
October 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Jacqueline Balderrama is teaching a virtual generative workshop through The Poetry Society of NY on poetic self-portraiture for BIPOC creatives on Nov 4. It’s free to join!🪞🤎🖊️🖤📖 www.eventbrite.com/e/psny-bipoc...
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@catamaranlit.bsky.social So amazed to have this story recognized. Thank you marvelous Catamaran Literary Reader!
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
@catamaranlit.bsky.social So amazed to have this story recognized. Thank you marvelous Catamaran Literary Reader!
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“Today’s poem is as imagistic and musical as a song, and it’s deeply rooted in place," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social says in episode 1379 of The Slowdown. "The poem borrows a refrain from a Lucinda Williams song."
Read "Arkansabop" by @elizabethlinds.bsky.social: bit.ly/4n7J5ZW
Read "Arkansabop" by @elizabethlinds.bsky.social: bit.ly/4n7J5ZW
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“Today’s poem is as imagistic and musical as a song, and it’s deeply rooted in place," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social says in episode 1379 of The Slowdown. "The poem borrows a refrain from a Lucinda Williams song."
Read "Arkansabop" by @elizabethlinds.bsky.social: bit.ly/4n7J5ZW
Read "Arkansabop" by @elizabethlinds.bsky.social: bit.ly/4n7J5ZW
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Gratitude to Asterism Books for featuring Holli Carrell’s recent press at Brooklyn Poets & the Poetry Society of America in their book blog! Read the whole at link in bio. 🌟 @asterismbooks.bsky.social @brooklynpoets.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org @hollicarrell.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Gratitude to Asterism Books for featuring Holli Carrell’s recent press at Brooklyn Poets & the Poetry Society of America in their book blog! Read the whole at link in bio. 🌟 @asterismbooks.bsky.social @brooklynpoets.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org @hollicarrell.bsky.social