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Carolina Hotchandani

@chotchandani.bsky.social

Poet. Professor. Author of THE BOOK EATERS (Perugia Press, 2023).

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Powerful new work β€œShelter,” by Carolina Hotchandani, in the latest Alaska Quarterly Review. β€οΈπŸ’” @chotchandani.bsky.social

26.08.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Carolina Hotchandani has a new poem up in Issue 54 of The Adroit Journal: β€œInterim.” Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole and listen to Hotchandani read it at the link. @adroitjournal.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social β™₯οΈπŸ•―οΈ theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

15.08.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks to our distributor Asterism for amplifying this new review of Carolina Hotchandani’s THE BOOK EATERS, written by Jami Macarty and published in New Pages. Read the whole at www.newpages.com/blog/books/b... πŸ’žπŸ“–πŸŒŸ @asterismbooks.bsky.social @newpages.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social

28.07.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We appreciate our readers so much & we love to see Perugia books in Sealey Challenge stacks! Thanks to Brittney Corrigan for choosing Carolina Hotchandani’s THE BOOK EATERS this month for the 2025 #sealeychallenge. Find it in our Linktree! πŸ’ž @brittneycorrigan.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social

12.08.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gratitude to Jami Macarty for this new reader’s response review of Carolina Hotchandani’s The Book Eaters, and to New Pages for giving it a home. Read the whole at the link in bio. πŸŒŸπŸ“–πŸŒŸ @newpages.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social

21.07.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Many thanks to our distributor Asterism Books for highlighting our title THE BOOK EATERS by Carolina Hotchandani in a recent β€œImmigration Stories” showcase. We appreciate the partnership in support of our books and poets, Asterism! πŸŒŸπŸ“šπŸŒŸ @asterismbooks.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social

03.07.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Jami Macarty, for this new review of @chotchandani.bsky.social’s The Book Eaters, and to New Pages for giving it a home! πŸ’ž

20.07.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hope you’ll stop by Table #510 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Carolina Hotchandani will be there on Friday, March 28 from 3:00-4:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! πŸŒŸπŸ“šπŸŒŸ @chotchandani.bsky.social #perugiapress #awp25

21.03.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Two weeks from tonight! We’re thrilled to be part of a collaborative offsite at #AWP25 in L.A. on 3/27. Join us! Free admission / Cash bar. @swwim.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @jenjblackburn.bsky.social

13.03.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ’‘New poetry by @chotchandani.bsky.social in Smartish Pace!πŸ’‘Hotchandani is the author of The Book Eaters, the 2023 @perugiapress.bsky.social winner & a debut book featured in @pw.org . She is a Goodrich Assistant Professor of English at the U. of Nebraska at Omaha.πŸ’‘
#poetry #SmartishPace #Poets #Poet

14.03.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

10.02.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

20.02.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Thank you for publishing this tornado poem of mine, @highcountrynews.bsky.social!

25.12.2024 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spring of Whirling Omens - High Country News A poem by Carolina Hotchandani.

One week in May, we wake
each day to sirens.

Branches shaking,
snapped. We aren’t lulled

back to dreams by the wailing,
the rhythmic pelting of hail.

✍️ A poem by Carolina Hotchandani.

21.12.2024 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Thank you to @pw.org for your special section, β€œReflection: Twenty Years of Debut Poets.” I’m so pleased to be among these poets, featured for my debut poetry collection, THE BOOK EATERS (Perugia Press).
www.pw.org/content/refl...

12.12.2024 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you to @pw.org for your special section, β€œReflection: Twenty Years of Debut Poets.” I’m so pleased to be among these poets, featured for my debut poetry collection, THE BOOK EATERS (Perugia Press).
www.pw.org/content/refl...

12.12.2024 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thrilled to have a poem in @highcountrynews.bsky.social this month!

05.12.2024 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you to Paisley Rekdal, the poetry editor at High Country News, for publishing my poem β€œSpring of Whirling Omens” in the December issue of the magazine.

www.hcn.org/issues/56-12...

01.12.2024 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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That is a dream assignment! I adore Hayv Kahraman’s work so much. I look forward to reading this.

26.11.2024 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations to Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, for Something About Living!

21.11.2024 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 385    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
Paradise may be the time when we can finally turn to our past and see that its beauty was there despite our being there. In fact, its beauty can finally be seen because we aren't there.

Paradise may be the time when we can finally turn to our past and see that its beauty was there despite our being there. In fact, its beauty can finally be seen because we aren't there.

Fanny Howe

21.11.2024 06:24 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
A poem titled β€œAbout Secrets, D + D” by Dawn Lundy Martin. It reads β€œI like secrets though. I think about the way secrets are a product of a shared. Secrets are a necessary part of how people form, locate themselves and each other. The secret is crucial for the erotic. And devastating for what happens after the moment of foreclosure. If a secret is held right where the nature of the secret is shared and understood, the disclosures are less personalized, so the devastation is still present but shifts from altering truth to multiplicity, ever present (loss) against oneness. How can a secret be shared when the very word β€˜secret’ means apart? The secret isn’t shared, but the purpose of the secret is shared. What if I, say; accidentally murdered your hamster, and that’s the secret? If you accidentally murdered my hamster, I would know you didn’t tell me because you have your own feelings about it that you were processing before processing my reaction/response to it. A secret is a promise in reverse. Which is the weapon? Which hurts the most? For example, it’s just us on earth now and our eyes are quite dry. We think we hear a yodeling from afar. We reveal the door.”

A poem titled β€œAbout Secrets, D + D” by Dawn Lundy Martin. It reads β€œI like secrets though. I think about the way secrets are a product of a shared. Secrets are a necessary part of how people form, locate themselves and each other. The secret is crucial for the erotic. And devastating for what happens after the moment of foreclosure. If a secret is held right where the nature of the secret is shared and understood, the disclosures are less personalized, so the devastation is still present but shifts from altering truth to multiplicity, ever present (loss) against oneness. How can a secret be shared when the very word β€˜secret’ means apart? The secret isn’t shared, but the purpose of the secret is shared. What if I, say; accidentally murdered your hamster, and that’s the secret? If you accidentally murdered my hamster, I would know you didn’t tell me because you have your own feelings about it that you were processing before processing my reaction/response to it. A secret is a promise in reverse. Which is the weapon? Which hurts the most? For example, it’s just us on earth now and our eyes are quite dry. We think we hear a yodeling from afar. We reveal the door.”

From INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE LOVERS, by Dawn Lundy Martin

16.11.2024 06:25 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The 10 best graphic novels of 2024 These beautifully designed and illustrated books take readers into forgotten insurrections, the dreamy depths of childhood, a lost Sunday and more.

Wowowow!!! Just found out the @washingtonpost.com listed my book FRENCH GIRL @fieldmousepress.bsky.social as one of The 10 best graphic novels of 2024!!! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

20.11.2024 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 366    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 6

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