Joan Kwon Glass

The spring season from the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center begins TONIGHT! The first reading features Gabrielle Calvocoressi in convo w/Leila Chatti. The season closes w/Smith alumn poets Joan Kwon Glass & janan alexandra in convo w/Rebecca Hart Olander. Save these dates!!! ♥️📚🎉 @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Blue flyer that says Welcome! Writers in Residence 2025-2026: Allison Blevins, Taylor Byas, Joan Kwon Glass, Rita Mookerjee, Lisa Rhoades, Nina Sudhakar, Lesley Wheeler, Sunni Wilkinson. Logos at the bottom say SWWIM, The Betsy Hotel, Matwaala, and CreArte.

Flyer that says Save Every Date 2025-2026 Reading Season: Thursday, 9/11/25, at 7:00 PM: SWWIM x Matwaala: Nina Sudhakar & Carolene Kurien Thursday, 10/16/25, at 7:00 PM: Lisa Rhoades & Yael Valencia Aldana Thursday, 11/13/25, at 7:00 PM: Taylor Byas & Rosa Sophia Godshall Thursday, 12/11/25, at 7:00 PM: Lesley Wheeler & Haya Pomrenze Thursday, 1/8/26, at 7:00 PM: Rita Mookerjee & Madison Whatley Thursday, 2/12/26, at 7:00 PM: Allison Blevins with Carolina Hospital, Nicole Hospital-Medina, & Holly Iglesias Thursday, 3/19/26, at 7:00 PM: Sunni Brown Wilkinson & Elizabeth Jacobson Thursday, 4/16/26, at 7:00 PM: Joan Kwon Glass & Clayre Benzadón Logos at the bottom read: SWWIM, The Betsy Hotel, Matwaala, and CreArte

Please join us in welcoming our 2025-2026 Writers in Residence. Save every date for our upcoming reading season!

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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 bookshop in Linktree. @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Our latest newsletter: Joan Kwon Glass on winning our contest; A. Anupama in the BIWOC Spotlight; Holli Carrell's Apostasies: presale & MER Bookshelf; supporting CHIRLA w/Now in Color; & poet news! @joankwonglass.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social @meganpeak.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social

Thank you to CLMP for featuring Joan Kwon Glass’s Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms in the September edition of “Indie Lit on the Shelf.” Read about her book and others set in the Great Lakes Region in our Linktree. @clmporg.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social

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New poem from my collection (out on submission) about caregiving and brain injury up at the lovely @thirdwednesday.bsky.social with thanks to @joankwonglass.bsky.social & the Ontario Arts Council & poetry mentors ntr & trailheads. thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2025/09/12/w...

Thanks, Asterism, for these shoutouts for Apostasies by Holli Carrell & Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms by Joan Kwon Glass. We’re so happy to work w/Asterism to get our books into the world & on bookstore shelves! ♥️📚♥️ @hollicarrell.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social

New writing prompts are up! Write the bold poem 🙌 poems by @jessicacuello.bsky.social Terrance Hayes & June Jordan

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Joan Kwon Glass was interviewed by @pw.org in “Winners on Winning” after winning the 2024 Perugia Press Prize. Thanks, Joan, for these kind words. Our contest is open till 11/15 to emerging women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities. See Linktree for details. @joankwonglass.bsky.social

We appreciate our readers so much, and we love to see Perugia books in Sealey Challenge stacks! Thanks to Mark Walsh for choosing Joan Kwon Glass’s DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS this month for the 2025 #sealeychallenge. 💞 @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Explore poetry as documentation, righteous rage, the postcolonial poem, modern ode, voice, submitting poems & more in these workshops w/ @storiesandnoise.bsky.social, Ashunda Norris, @joankwonglass.bsky.social, dawn lonsinger, @ds-waldman.bsky.social & Emma Sheinbaum! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

We appreciate our readers so much, and we love to see Perugia books in Sealey Challenge stacks! Thanks to Ann Wallace for choosing Joan Kwon Glass’s DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS this month for the 2025 #sealeychallenge. 💞 @joankwonglass.bsky.social @annwallace.bsky.social

We appreciate our readers so much, and we love to see Perugia books making their way into readers’ hands and seeing where they carry them. Gratitude to Rachel Neve Midbar for spending time with Joan Kwon Glass’s book Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms. ♥️📚💞 @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Joan Kwon Glass’s “Upon Learning of Your Death While Waiting to See the Barbie Movie,” published in The Texas Review & also in her book Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, was chosen by Assoc. Ed. Britt Bustos to be highlighted @ TR. ♥️ @joankwonglass.bsky.social thetexasreview.org/item/2024/an...

Check out our newsletter: The 2026 contest opens TOMORROW, Kenzie Allen in the BIWOC Poet Spotlight, APOSTASIES presale, supporting @chirla-org.bsky.social w/poetry & poet news! @tinhouse.bsky.social @cerena.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social

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We appreciate our readers so much, and we love to see Perugia books in Sealey Challenge stacks! Thanks to Carla Panciera for choosing Joan Kwon Glass’s DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS this month for the 2025 #sealeychallenge. 💞 @joankwonglass.bsky.social @carlapanciera.bsky.social

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection THROUGH A RED PLACE by Rebecca Pelky. Find more prompts, sample poems and questions in our reading companions, and check out Pelky’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social

Join us! @poetshouse.bsky.social

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TODAY!!! Joan Kwon Glass will be on NPR/CT Public’s “Where We Live” to talk with “Poetry in the Garden” reading series host Barb Fulton Jennes & poet Trace Peterson. Tune in at 9:00am at www.ctpublic.org/show/where-w.... @joankwonglass.bsky.social @tracepeterson.bsky.social @ctpublic.bsky.social

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Brava to Balcones Prize for Poetry winner Cindy Juyoung Ok for Ward Toward & to the finalists: Black Bell, by Alison C. Rollins, Thick with Trouble, by Amber McBride & Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, by Joan Kwon Glass! Gratitude to ACC & judge JJJJJerome Ellis! 🌟📚🎉 @joankwonglass.bsky.social

We love to see Perugia books in readers’ hands. Gratitude to Julia Thacker for bringing Joan Kwon Glass’s Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms home from Mass Poetry in good company (incl. w/ board member Jen Jabaily-Blackburn’s Girl in a Bear Suit). @jenjblackburn.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Thank you, Tierney Boyle, for your great work this spring as a Perugia Press intern! Read about Tierney and the work she did for our press in our latest blog post (linktree in bio). @joankwonglass.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social

We love to see Perugia books in readers’ hands. Gratitude to Lisa DeSiro for bringing @joankwonglass.bsky.social’s book Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms home from the Mass Poetry Fest w/books from some of brilliant volunteer readers: Eileen Cleary, @jennmartelli.bsky.social & Cindy Veach).

We love to see Perugia books making their way into readers’ hands. Gratitude to Michael Mercurio for bringing Joan Kwon Glass’s book Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms home from the Mass Poetry Fest (where it was also lovely to see him!). 🌊📚💞 @joankwonglass.bsky.social @poetmercurio.bsky.social

Mining the Stars with guest writer Monica Ong

Joan Kwon Glass's latest Substack: Mining the Stars open.substack.com/pub/joankwon... @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Explore your villain era, obsession, vox vocation, dreams, beginnings, endings and more in these workshops with @joankwonglass.bsky.social, Anthony Thomas Lombardi, @imogenxtian.bsky.social, alma valdez-garcia and @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social! Register at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

My next multi-week class is sold out, but there are still spots remaining in the one that starts July 8th at Corporeal Writing!

I’d love to write with you. Especially now. 🖤

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Gratitude to Claire Hutchinson for reviewing Joan Kwon Glass’s Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms in the latest Crab Orchard Review. Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole at siucraborchardreview.com (linked in our bio). @joankwonglass.bsky.social