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Megan Peak
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Poet | Mother | Queer | Girldom at Perugia Press

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From ‘This is from Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006’ (2007)
—Ellen Bryant Voigt 💔

#poetry #poem #booksky
After Keats I. If truth is not a thing apart from me, Then I don’t want it. II. —Have you always told the truth? I have always loved the truth.
October 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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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
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Honored to have my poem “The Crux,” first published in diode, featured on The Slowdown with Maggie Smith.

Like most experiences, motherhood, for me, lives between depletion and abundance, where love and grief sit side by side.

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6bNs...
October 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Megan Peak has a new poem, “Losing the Cat,” up in the latest issue of Rust & Moth. Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole at rustandmoth.com. ♥️ @meganpeak.bsky.social @rustandmoth.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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It’s like my whole life has been a string of Augusts.

Read more about this odd, uneven month on my substack: megpeakpoet.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Wrote about peeling an orange, parenting, poetry, & tiny existential crises. Juice, joy, Wendy Cope, and my inner child.

🍊New post + video:
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#poetry #amwriting #amreading #blueskywriters #writingcommunity #parenting #motherhood #innerchild #microessays
July 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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We love to see Perugia books making their way into readers’ hands. Gratitude to Tammy Carlson Greenwood for sharing what drew you in to Megan Peak’s Girldom, including a couple of favorite poems! ♥️📖💞 @meganpeak.bsky.social @tcgreenwood.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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We appreciate our readers so much & love to see Perugia books in readers’ hands. Gratitude to Tammy Carlson Greenwood for shining light on three of our titles: L. I. Henley’s Starshine Road, Corrie Williamson’s Sweet Husk & Megan Peak’s Girldom. 🌟🔦✨📚 @tcgreenwood.bsky.social @meganpeak.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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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
May 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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It’s always a joy to be read, and this is one of my favorite poems in Girldom, my book. You can also read it at @adroitjournal.bsky.social

Thanks, @susanlleary.bsky.social and so much love to @perugiapress.bsky.social

#poetry #poems #girlhood #poemaday #amreading #blueskypoetry #poets
susanlleary.bsky.social Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Apr 14
Megan Peak ♥️

from GIRLDOM (Perugia Press)

Day 14 - National Poetry Month

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SUBURBAN GIRL REQUIEM No girl-tongue in the mouth. No street of magnolias. Domed white. No father ambling around the cul-de-sac, no. Circles. No decoupage planets, neon stars named for the birth year. Year of the snake, snake, snake. No mirror with a mother. Brushing off a daughter's pretty bones. No confessions. Like bright jewelry on throats. No name but litany. Suburban and chilled. Build me a paper shrine. I was a girl before I was anything else. My name means daughter. Means loyal. I can be a secret. I can be a twig-woman in the grass. Small in a man's yard. But there's no air under the magnolia. No name for the dark inside a tree.
April 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Thank you, Jill, for supporting my book Uncertain Acrobats and Megan Peak’s Perugia book Girldom in such good company! ♥️📚💞 @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social @jillpoppyflower.bsky.social @meganpeak.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Feeling honored to see Girldom featured by @asterismbooks.bsky.social for Women’s History Month—and @perugiapress.bsky.social for believing in this collection and the stories it tells.

Thank you for reading, sharing, and continuing to make space for women’s voices—past, present, and powerful.
March 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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once a snowflake fell
on my brow and I loved
it so much

— Nikki Giovanni

#poetry #poems #art #nikkigiovanni #amreading #amwriting #poemsofbluesky #blueskypoetry #poets #winter #winterpoem #love #writingpoems #writinglife
December 11, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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Today from @costarastrology.bsky.social.

Somewhere in my city, a light just turned on. What about yours?

#poetry #amreading #amwriting #poetryofbluesky #poets #astrology #costar #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #writinglife #aquarius
December 9, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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I will forever love this movie (Bright Star).

“Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery."

#brightstar #keats #janecampion #poetry #poets #blueskypoetry #romanticism #amreading #amwriting #poemaday

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'I still don't know how to work out a poem. A poem needs understanding through the senses....' - Bright Star
Fanny Brawne: I still don't know how to work out a poem. John Keats: A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore but to be in ...
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December 4, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Reading George Saunders and wondering: What have I overlooked today that might someday feel unspeakably beautiful?

What about you?

#amwriting #amreading #literature #lincolninthebardo #saunders #booklovers #fictionmatters #literaryquotes #readinglife #quoteoftheday
December 2, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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If poetry is the house of language, Girldom is where I started building my rooms. Inside: storms, daughters, grief knots. What does your house of language hold?

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Girldom - Perugia Press
Megan Peak’s debut collection Girldom chronicles coming of age as a woman: the violence of discovery, the evolution of sexuality, and the […]
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November 25, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Can’t wait, @alinaetc.bsky.social 👅

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November 23, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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As a writer, curiosity has always been essential to my process. I suppose it’s essential to being human, too. It was a privilege to contribute to The Virtues, presented by the Thanks-Giving Foundation.

Take a look at the project and read my poem here: www.thevirtues.org/curiosity

#poetry #poems
Curiosity — The Virtues, Presented by Thanks-Giving Foundation
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November 20, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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Hey all! Pleiades Magazine is now on Bluesky—give us a follow? 🙏🏼✨🦭@pleiadesmag.bsky.social
Pleiades: Literature in Context (@pleiadesmag.bsky.social)
Literary Magazine
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November 19, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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Joined Blue Sky, because where else would a poet belong?
Here to write, to listen, to spotlight brilliance.

Tell me: If poetry is the house of language, what’s the view from your window?

#PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBlueSky #WritingLife #ModernPoetry #CreativeWriting #BlueSkyPoetry
November 18, 2024 at 10:07 PM