Perugia Press
@perugiapress.bsky.social
Founded in 1997, Perugia is a nonprofit feminist press celebrating & supporting women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, in print & beyond.
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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GLOSS by Ida Stewart. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Stewart’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @idastewart.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GLOSS by Ida Stewart. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Stewart’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @idastewart.bsky.social
Tonight!
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. www.eventbrite.com/e/patricia-s...
December 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Tonight!
Cheers to board member Arya Samuelson on being named a 2026 Writer-in-Residence at Edith Wharton’s The Mount, sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild! Congrats to all the residency winners and finalists! 🎉🌟 @aryasamuelson.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Cheers to board member Arya Samuelson on being named a 2026 Writer-in-Residence at Edith Wharton’s The Mount, sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild! Congrats to all the residency winners and finalists! 🎉🌟 @aryasamuelson.bsky.social
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My author copies arrived & I took one on its first field trip! Here she is on the mantle in Emily Dickinson’s bedroom & in my arms in her mother’s bedroom (Emily Norcross Dickinson). Thanks to all the poetry predecessors & to all who helped make this book come true. ♥️ @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
My author copies arrived & I took one on its first field trip! Here she is on the mantle in Emily Dickinson’s bedroom & in my arms in her mother’s bedroom (Emily Norcross Dickinson). Thanks to all the poetry predecessors & to all who helped make this book come true. ♥️ @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
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OverJOYED to see @juneroadpress.bsky.social, @perugiapress.bsky.social, @bobsykora.bsky.social, ENTRE RÍOS Books, @sundresspub.bsky.social and @djvorreyer.bsky.social on this list!
📚❤️🎉 I hope we are all giving books this year, and supporting small presses.
📚❤️🎉 I hope we are all giving books this year, and supporting small presses.
What has 464 poetry collections, chapbooks, and anthologies? Our Poetry of 2025 roundup, featuring an incredible wealth of poetry published by independent literary presses this year! www.clmp.org/news/poetry-...
Poetry of 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
We’re excited to share this year-end roundup of poetry anthologies, chapbooks, and full-length collections published in 2025 by independent literary publishers! Read our year-end roundups of fiction,…
www.clmp.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
OverJOYED to see @juneroadpress.bsky.social, @perugiapress.bsky.social, @bobsykora.bsky.social, ENTRE RÍOS Books, @sundresspub.bsky.social and @djvorreyer.bsky.social on this list!
📚❤️🎉 I hope we are all giving books this year, and supporting small presses.
📚❤️🎉 I hope we are all giving books this year, and supporting small presses.
Thank you, @clmporg.bsky.social! 💞 @hollicarrell.bsky.social
What has 464 poetry collections, chapbooks, and anthologies? Our Poetry of 2025 roundup, featuring an incredible wealth of poetry published by independent literary presses this year! www.clmp.org/news/poetry-...
Poetry of 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
We’re excited to share this year-end roundup of poetry anthologies, chapbooks, and full-length collections published in 2025 by independent literary publishers! Read our year-end roundups of fiction,…
www.clmp.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Thank you, @clmporg.bsky.social! 💞 @hollicarrell.bsky.social
It’s staggering to reflect on a whole year of books produced by independent literary publishers. Thanks to CLMP for showcasing the work our community does in their year-end roundups, including “Poetry of 2025” featuring Holli Carrell’s APOSTASIES. 🎉📚🎊 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @clmporg.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It’s staggering to reflect on a whole year of books produced by independent literary publishers. Thanks to CLMP for showcasing the work our community does in their year-end roundups, including “Poetry of 2025” featuring Holli Carrell’s APOSTASIES. 🎉📚🎊 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @clmporg.bsky.social
Check out our latest newsletter to find out how you can help our nonprofit independent poetry press this season, see highlights about our holiday book sale, and learn about upcoming events for Perugia poets, including two tonight, December 15! @hollicarrell.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social
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December 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Check out our latest newsletter to find out how you can help our nonprofit independent poetry press this season, see highlights about our holiday book sale, and learn about upcoming events for Perugia poets, including two tonight, December 15! @hollicarrell.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social
We appreciate our readers so much & we love to see Perugia books making their way into readers’ hands. Thanks to Erin Edinger for this beautiful shoutout for Holli Carrell’s APOSTASIES & Perugia! Our books are 25% off all month, so check out our bookshop to snag your own! @hollicarrell.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We appreciate our readers so much & we love to see Perugia books making their way into readers’ hands. Thanks to Erin Edinger for this beautiful shoutout for Holli Carrell’s APOSTASIES & Perugia! Our books are 25% off all month, so check out our bookshop to snag your own! @hollicarrell.bsky.social
TONIGHT! @hollicarrell.bsky.social
Holli Carrell is reading with Freda Epum & Eliza Guerra at Conveyor Belt Books in Covington, KY on Monday, December 15 at 7:30. @hollicarrell.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
TONIGHT! @hollicarrell.bsky.social
TONIGHT!
Meadowlark Press is holding a virtual book launch for Catherine Anderson’s new book, the Birdy Poetry Prize-winning AFLOAT, on December 15 via Zoom at 7pm (CT). Catherine will read & discuss the origin & process behind some of the poems with Meadowlark Editor Linzi Garcia. DM us for the Zoom link!
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
TONIGHT!
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
December 12, 2025 at 8:21 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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I was honored to write on behalf of Catherine Anderson’s beautiful new collection AFLOAT, winner of the Birdy Prize from Meadowlark Press. You have the chance to celebrate this book too, on 12/15 at 7pm CT/8pm ET for Catherine’s virtual book launch. Hope to see you there! DM for Zoom link. 💚📖🐦⬛
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I was honored to write on behalf of Catherine Anderson’s beautiful new collection AFLOAT, winner of the Birdy Prize from Meadowlark Press. You have the chance to celebrate this book too, on 12/15 at 7pm CT/8pm ET for Catherine’s virtual book launch. Hope to see you there! DM for Zoom link. 💚📖🐦⬛
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. www.eventbrite.com/e/patricia-s...
December 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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. www.eventbrite.com/e/patricia-s...
Looking for a great book to gift this season? Perugia Press has a bookshop full of award-winning collections that are beautiful inside & out. We’re having a holiday sale now through 12/31 - 25% off your entire cart with the code WINTERREADS. Thanks for supporting small press poetry publishing! 🎁📚❄️
December 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Looking for a great book to gift this season? Perugia Press has a bookshop full of award-winning collections that are beautiful inside & out. We’re having a holiday sale now through 12/31 - 25% off your entire cart with the code WINTERREADS. Thanks for supporting small press poetry publishing! 🎁📚❄️
Meadowlark Press is holding a virtual book launch for Catherine Anderson’s new book, the Birdy Poetry Prize-winning AFLOAT, on December 15 via Zoom at 7pm (CT). Catherine will read & discuss the origin & process behind some of the poems with Meadowlark Editor Linzi Garcia. DM us for the Zoom link!
December 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Meadowlark Press is holding a virtual book launch for Catherine Anderson’s new book, the Birdy Poetry Prize-winning AFLOAT, on December 15 via Zoom at 7pm (CT). Catherine will read & discuss the origin & process behind some of the poems with Meadowlark Editor Linzi Garcia. DM us for the Zoom link!
Holli Carrell is reading with Freda Epum & Eliza Guerra at Conveyor Belt Books in Covington, KY on Monday, December 15 at 7:30. @hollicarrell.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Holli Carrell is reading with Freda Epum & Eliza Guerra at Conveyor Belt Books in Covington, KY on Monday, December 15 at 7:30. @hollicarrell.bsky.social
Lynne Thompson will be helping to “deck the halls with words of holly” this Sunday, December 14, at the Strong Words Holidays Show at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027. For more info, see strongwordslive.com/events/
December 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Lynne Thompson will be helping to “deck the halls with words of holly” this Sunday, December 14, at the Strong Words Holidays Show at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027. For more info, see strongwordslive.com/events/
Thank you to Two Sylvias Press and the Weekly Muse team for featuring an interview with Joan Kwon Glass about her Perugia book Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms in the latest issue. Here are some excerpts, and you can read the whole at the link in Perugia’s bio. @joankwonglass.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Thank you to Two Sylvias Press and the Weekly Muse team for featuring an interview with Joan Kwon Glass about her Perugia book Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms in the latest issue. Here are some excerpts, and you can read the whole at the link in Perugia’s bio. @joankwonglass.bsky.social
Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection THE BOOK EATERS by Carolina Hotchandani. Find more prompts, poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Hotchandani’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @chotchandani.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection THE BOOK EATERS by Carolina Hotchandani. Find more prompts, poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Hotchandani’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @chotchandani.bsky.social
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Congratulations to @kalekim.bsky.social,
nominated for the Pushcart Prize!
nominated for the Pushcart Prize!
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Congratulations to @kalekim.bsky.social,
nominated for the Pushcart Prize!
nominated for the Pushcart Prize!
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I’m honored that Yellow Arrow Journal selected me for their 79th .Writers.on.Writing. feature. This monthly series is designed to “Get to know our authors, the foundation and heart of Yellow Arrow Journal, and what writing means to them.” See linktree for interview. 💛🏹 @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I’m honored that Yellow Arrow Journal selected me for their 79th .Writers.on.Writing. feature. This monthly series is designed to “Get to know our authors, the foundation and heart of Yellow Arrow Journal, and what writing means to them.” See linktree for interview. 💛🏹 @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social
Abby E. Murray has a new poem, “The Problem with Gratitude,” up at Rattle. Listen to Abby read their poem, and check out the whole text, at rattle.com. @rattlepoetry.bsky.social 💛🪁
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Abby E. Murray has a new poem, “The Problem with Gratitude,” up at Rattle. Listen to Abby read their poem, and check out the whole text, at rattle.com. @rattlepoetry.bsky.social 💛🪁
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Gratitude has never fired a gun
or met a dog it didn’t love.
—Abby E. Murray
or met a dog it didn’t love.
—Abby E. Murray
The Problem with Gratitude by Abby E. Murray - Rattle: Poetry
It is the mind’s youngest child, one of the most stubborn of human emotions. Gratitude obeys occasionally and often arrives […]
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November 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Gratitude has never fired a gun
or met a dog it didn’t love.
—Abby E. Murray
or met a dog it didn’t love.
—Abby E. Murray
The Manhattanville U. Fall Poetry Fest is coming up on Sat, 12/6! Feat. readings, craft discussions, book signings & more by Joan Kwon Glass, Carlie Hoffman, Abi Pollokoff & Phylisha Villanueva, Panel disc. & craft exercises 1-3:30. Readings & book signings 3:30-5. 🎉📚🌟 @joankwonglass.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The Manhattanville U. Fall Poetry Fest is coming up on Sat, 12/6! Feat. readings, craft discussions, book signings & more by Joan Kwon Glass, Carlie Hoffman, Abi Pollokoff & Phylisha Villanueva, Panel disc. & craft exercises 1-3:30. Readings & book signings 3:30-5. 🎉📚🌟 @joankwonglass.bsky.social