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Another round of shout-outs is up on our Substack: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... Every other week, we list new lit mag publications! @joankwonglass.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social @asteralesjournal.bsky.social @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @amymarques.bsky.social

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Many thanks to Erica Goss for her beautiful review of Joan Kwon Glass’s Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, up this month in Sticks & Stones. You can read the whole review in our Linktree, and subscribe to Sticks & Stones to see Erica Goss’s literary community work. 🌟📖💞 @joankwonglass.bsky.social

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🌷Spring, 2025 book tour dates! 📙 🌼 DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS 🌼 at Perugia Press ❣️Really excited & grateful for the lovely invitations to read, moderate & serve on panels.

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Love to see it! 🥰

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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection AMERICAN SYCAMORE by Lisbeth White. Find more prompts, sample poems & discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out White’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @earthmaven.bsky.social

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Check out our latest newsletter: Interviews with our January interns Zora Danticat and Alexandra Zook; Events for Joan Kwon Glass's Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms; Shawn R. Jones in February's Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight; and Perugia Press poet news! ymlp.com/z4K2Qv @joankwonglass.bsky.social

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Q & A with Lynne Thompson in The Offing: theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...

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"Song" by Lynne Thompson oneartpoetry.com/2025/02/18/s...

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Corrie Williamson is reading with Russell Rowland at the Discovery Center in Lewistown, MT on March 6th at 7pm in an American Prairie presentation. The evening includes a performance by Rivertooth. @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

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Thank you, Zora Danticat, for your great work this winter as a Perugia Press intern! “I see how much emphasis [Smith] places on making sure women have a safe space to shine in a world that wants them to be silent … Perugia Press does the same for its writers.” Read about Zora in our Linktree.

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Perugia board member Shoshana Olidort is organizing an event in conjunction with the course she’s teaching at Amherst College this spring, “Poetry After Auschwitz,” featuring poet, translator & translation theorist Mireille Gansel on Wed, 3/5 at 4:30pm, at Amherst’s CHI. Free & open to the public.

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Sharing this brilliant review of Gansel by Shoshana Olidort in ⁦@LAReviewofBooks⁩ again. It is an intimate exploration of translation across borders and communities. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/recovering-worlds-on-mireille-gansels-soul-house

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Thank you, CLMP, for this stellar reading list for Black History Month 2025, including Lynne Thompson’s Beg No Pardon and Lisbeth White’s American Sycamore. 🖤📚♥️ @clmporg.bsky.social @earthmaven.bsky.social

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Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of Shawn R. Jones and her book Date of Birth (Persea Books, 2023).🌟

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This month we're celebrating the work of Shawn R. Jones in our "Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight." Check it out to read one of her poems and learn more about this poet: perugiapress.org/2025/02/emer...

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Maria Zoccola and Carolina Hotchandani at their reading on February 23 at Bad Seed Coffee in Omaha, Nebraska. 🌟🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social

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Next week! K. Iver will be reading for the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center series at Smith College in Weinstein Auditorium on Tues, 3/4 at 7pm & they will be joined afterward for a convo with Joan Kwon Glass. BDPC readings are in-person w/a livestream on their YouTube page. 🌟🌟 @joankwonglass.bsky.social

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Today! 🌟🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social

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Today! 🌟🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social

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Carolina Hotchandani will be reading with Maria Zoccola to celebrate the launch of Zoccola’s Helen of Troy at Bad Seed Coffee, Omaha, NE Sunday, February 23, 5:30 (entrance & parking on 50th Ave). 🌟🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social

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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection BEG NO PARDON by Lynne Thompson. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Thompson’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).

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Corrie Williamson was on the “Of Poetry Podcast” in support of her beautiful new book Your Mother’s Bear Gun (River River Books, 2025). Take a listen wherever you get your podcasts - Spotify below. 💚📖🍃 @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6JNR...

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Carolina Hotchandani and Maria Zoccola are reading from their beautiful debut collections this Saturday at Francie & Finch Bookshop in Lincoln, Nebraska at 4:30pm. 🌟🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social

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Thank you, Alexandra Zook, for your great work this winter as a Perugia Press intern! “When I heard that Perugia Press is a place that uplifts women writers, I was … excited to have the opportunity to work at Perugia.” Read about Alexandra and her work in our latest blog post (linktree in bio).

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Gail Martin has two stunning poems in the latest issue of The Southern Review. Here’s “The Doors between Two Rooms”. ♥️ @southernreview.bsky.social

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Amanda Auchter has two reviews in The Indianapolis Review! One is on Perugia board member Jen Jabaily-Blackburn’s brilliant GIRL IN A BEAR SUIT. The other is for the incomparable Martha Silano’s THIS ONE WE CALL OURS. 🌟🌟🌟 @alauchter.bsky.social @marthasilano.bsky.social @jenjblackburn.bsky.social

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My Valentine’s Day Substack is a banger!!! With excerpts from LOVE IN A FCKED UP WORLD @deanspade.bsky.social, poems & prompts that speak to “the romance myth.” All monies generated by today’s post will be donated to a New Haven mutual aid group. joankwonglass.substack.com/p/the-romanc...

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Stsrts Monday!

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Joan Kwon Glass’s poem “Wildfire,” published in Poetry’s September 2024 issue and also appearing in Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, was featured on the “Audio Poem of the Day” Poetry Foundation podcast. 🔥🎤♥️ open.spotify.com/episode/0yoN... @joankwonglass.bsky.social @poetryfoundation.bsky.social

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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS by Joan Kwon Glass. Find more prompts, poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Glass’s book & others in our shop (see linktree). @joankwonglass.bsky.social

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As it should be for Lisbeth White, rocking it with her new Red Mare Press chap at Powell’s Books! 🌟♥️🎉 @powells.bsky.social @earthmaven.bsky.social

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The recent Café Muse salon featuring Joan Kwon Glass and Cynthia Marie Hoffman reading from their stunning books is now on the Word Works Café Muse YouTube channel. It was an amazing night, and now you can listen in if you missed it live! @joankwonglass.bsky.social @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social

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Check out our latest newsletter, with a letter to our community from our board re: gender justice, welcoming new board member Shoshana Olidort, news about Joan Kwon Glass & Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, where to find Perugia these days on socials (here!) & lots of good news from our poets! 🦋🌈🌟🎉💞

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This one appeared in Cape Cod Review & is in my WIP—third full length collection. Here ya go @readinstead.bsky.social ✌️

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Joan Kwon Glass and Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms were featured in the Smith Quarterly Alumnae Magazine, an honor given to only four poetry collections by alumnae each year. Brava, Joan! Thank you, SQ team! 🌟 @joankwonglass.bsky.social

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Here’s an excerpt from Abby E. Murray’s poem “Two-Hour Delay,” published on February 9 in Rattle’s “Poets Respond.” Read and listen to the whole at www.rattle.com/two-hour-del...

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My next, available, virtual, generative, multi-week poetry workshop is 🎶 “Basement Hymns” at @Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown! -20% off discount for students and teachers throughout the Winter season by using the code: STUDENT/TEACHER20OFF fawc.org/24-pearl-str...

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Carolina Hotchandani has three poems in the 25th Anniversary issue of Smartish Pace, including this beautiful one, which you can also read in her Perugia book The Book Eaters. Brava, Carolina! Order the issue at smartishpace.com 🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social

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Jennifer K. Sweeney had her poem “Dear Y2K” featured on SWWIM. Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole at swwim.org. Congratulations, Jennifer! 🌊 @swwim.bsky.social

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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection THE WORK OF HANDS by Catherine Anderson. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Anderson’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).

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One day left to register for this seven-week, online workshop w/ @omotarajames.bsky.social, where we'll explore the interplay between art, literature and personal narrative through the lens of ekphrastic poetry as we explore the eras spanning the 1960s to the 2000s! brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

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In our newest issue, an interview with the singular Joan Kwon Glass. Read about her inspirations, her style, and how her memories link intrinsically to her work. Link in profile.

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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? perugiapress.org/product/girl... #poetry #poet #blueskypoetry #amwriting #writinglife #poetrycommunity #writersconnect #poems #girlhood

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