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We’re so happy to announce Jen Siraganian as the winner of the 2026 Perugia Press Prize for her debut collection EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD. Here’s a description of her book, forthcoming this fall, and a bio of the poet. Congratulations, Jen! 🌟 @jsiraganian.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to announce Jen Siraganian as the winner of the 2026 Perugia Press Prize for EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD. Brava to the finalists & semi-finalists & thank you to our readers & judges & to all the poets who sent us their work for consideration. 🌟📚🎉 @jsiraganian.bsky.social

Check out our latest newsletter: Results of the 2026 Perugia Press Prize Contest / Celebrate w/ us at AWP in Baltimore / Apostasies events for March / Interview w/ January intern Audrey Jiggetts @jsiraganian.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Hope you’ll stop by Table # 833 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Joan Kwon Glass will be there on Saturday, March 7 from 9:00-10:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟 @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that Lisbeth White is represented by The Caldwell Agency, a queer & Black woman-owned team. It is not only a great joy to see poets we’ve published gain recognition & be celebrated for their gifts, it is tied to our mission. Sending you all the flowers @earthmaven.bsky.social! 💐♥️🎉

Wednesday night!!!

Come join us at AWP!! We'll have open-mics at our bookfair booth, and our editor @xandergershberg.bsky.social will be moderating a panel with editors from @juneroadpress.bsky.social @triohousepress.org @perugiapress.bsky.social @splitlippress.com @clmporg.bsky.social !!

Join me & Erica Goss for a virtual braided reading & convo to celebrate our new books, both of them second collections woven with mothers and daughters, bees and trees. This virtual gathering will take place on Sunday, 3/15 at 1pm PT/4pm ET. Register at the link in bio! @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection THE WISHING TOMB by Amanda Auchter. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, & check out Auchter’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @alauchter.bsky.social

Hope you’ll stop by Table # 833 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Carolina Hotchandani will be there on Friday, March 6 from 3:00-4:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social

Hope you’ll stop by Table # 833 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Nancy K. Pearson will be there on Friday, March 6 from 11:00-12:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟

Hope you can join Perugia Press, SWWIM, MER, NELLE, Whale Road Review & Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry for “Off Site. On Purpose,” featuring many of today’s most inspiring women and nonbinary writers and poets! 3/4 at 7PM (doors 6:30 PM), Westminster Hall, Baltimore, MD. Admission free. Cash bar.

A Conversation with Perugia's Intern: Audrey Jiggetts - Perugia Press In January, Audrey Jiggetts completed an internship at Perugia Press, sponsored by the Praxis Program at Smith College. This is the […]

Check out this interview with one of Perugia Press's two January interns, Audrey Jiggetts, on the work she did with Perugia, including creating a poetry film for our series "Flux & Flow"! @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Hope you’ll stop by Table # 833 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Lynne Thompson will be there on Friday, March 6 from 10:00-11:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟

Lynne Thompson will be participating in the event “Rooted in Us: Celebrating Black Writers and the Legacy of S. Pearl Sharp” on Saturday, February 28 at the Mirror Room in Altadena, CA from 2:00-4:00pm.

Can’t wait to celebrate my new book Singing from the Deep End at the 2026 AWP Conference in Baltimore next week. I’ll be at the CavanKerry Press table (T#550) signing books on Friday, March 6 from 1:30-2:30. Hope to see you there! @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Looking forward to reading at the collab AWP offsite “Books & Bevvies Bonanza” w/ CavanKerry and the fine folks at Acre Books, Lily Poetry Review & Nixes Mate! Join us Fri. 3/6, 6:30-9:00 (the CKP spot is at 8:30) at Patterson Theater @ Creative Alliance in Baltimore. @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

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Hope you’ll stop by Table # 833 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Holli Carrell will be there on Thursday, March 5 from 2:00-3:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟 @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Elliott Bay Book Co. in Seattle is hosting the launch of Subhaga Crystal Bacon’s new Lily Poetry Review collection A BRIEF HISTORY OF MY SEX LIFE w/Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Kathleen Flenniken, Abby E. Murray, & Cindy Veach on 3/2 at 7pm! For info, visit elliottbaybook.com/events. @subhaga.bsky.social

Hope you’ll stop by Table # 833 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Abby E. Murray will be there on Thursday, March 5 from 1:00-2:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟

Wayfarer Magazine featured three of Jennifer K. Sweeney’s poems last month. Here are excerpts, and you can read them in full at wayfayermagazine.com.

“Hello, I Am Not a Soldier” by Abby E. Murray And yet I wear caution like a uniform now, pulling myself into its rough sleeves and old boots each morning before I even think of coffee or how

Wherever I go, I cling to my hope
like a weapon I have been trained to love.

—Abby E. Murray

It’s Going to Be Okay by Abby E. Murray It’s Going to Be Okay I know it will be okay because NASA has confirmed Stephen Hawking was right and the world will end probably by the year 2600, which means we are celebrating the birth of our c…

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“Hello, I Am Not a Soldier” by Abby E. Murray Rattle Magazine has an ongoing series called Poets Respond which publishes at least one poem a week based on something that happened in the news in the last week. Today, Rattle published a powerful…

Sharing a new poem from Abby E. Murray, "Hello, I Am Not a Soldier". What about this poem resonates with you?
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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection STARSHINE ROAD by L. I. Henley. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Henley’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).

Tonight!

On Friday, 2/20 at 1:30, Holli Carrell will be giving a reading from Apostasies and signing copies at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY as part of the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture. You can find her in the Bingham Poetry Room for Session E! @hollicarrell.bsky.social

L. I. Henley will be reading with Dayna Bennett, Lisa Coffman, and Katya Cengal at Tea Trolley in Atascadero, CA on Sunday, March 8 at 3:30pm. Join them for words, wonder, and tea!

Hope you’ll stop by Table # 833 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Linda Tomol Pennisi will be there on Thursday, March 5 from 11:00-12:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟