Here’s my latest blog post with photos of recent events and details on upcoming ones, new reviews of Singing from the Deep End, Perugia Press news and interviews, notes from visiting Hedgebrook Farm, and undertaking my first Sealey Challenge. @cavankerrypress.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social

Already Arrived at August’s End!

My tail-end-of-August post begins with a couple of pictures from July readings that took place after my July blog, both of which were a real joy to take part in. The Phosphorescence Reading (pictured ...

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Joan Kwon Glass will be leading a single-session, generative workshop for Hudson Valley Writers workshop on 9/13, 12-4 ET on Zoom. In the workshop, participants “will read and write poems about human behavior, disconnection, and the divine.” @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social ✨ @joankwonglass.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 & discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Auchter’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @alauchter.bsky.social

Our latest newsletter has info on our contest, Michele Evans in our Aug. spotlight, Jen Siraganian's new book & poet news! @awordsmithie.bsky.social @jsiraganian.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @earthmaven.bsky.social @meganpeak.bsky.social

We’re so grateful to poet Matthew Zapruder for supporting Jen Siraganian’s debut collection EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD with these words of praise. You can preorder your copy in our bookshop or at Asterism Books (linktree in bio). @jsiraganian.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social

Here’s where, when & with whom I’ll be reading in August & September to share my new book, SINGING FROM THE DEEP END - across MA, into CT & virtually in the “New Books Showcase” series for Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry. Hope you can join me & the amazing folks with whom I’ll be sharing space. ❤

Holli Carrell shared her thoughts on Apostasies winning the 2025 Perugia Press Prize in an interview in Sapling. Our contest is open now through November 15 to emerging women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities. We hope to read your work! Details in Linktree. @hollicarrell.bsky.social

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).

Gratitude to Poetry Daily for their “Hot Off the Presses” list showcasing recent titles they’ve received, including Perugia’s own EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD by Jen Siraganian! 📚♥️📖 @poetrydaily.bsky.social @jsiraganian.bsky.social

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of Michele Evans and her book purl (Finishing Line Press, 2025). @finishinglinepress.bsky.social @awordsmithie.bsky.social

This month we’re celebrating the work of Michele Evans in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book purl (Finishing Line Press, 2025), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (Linktree in bio). @finishinglinepress.bsky.social @awordsmithie.bsky.social

This month we're celebrating the work of Michele Evans in our "Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight." Check it out to read one of her poems and learn more about this poet. @finishinglinepress.bsky.social @awordsmithie.bsky.social

Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight: Michele Evans - Perugia Press

This monthly series features poems by women of color in the early stages of their publishing careers. It is our […]

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On Sat, August 22, the San José Poetry Festival will feature “Poets of Resistance” with Jen Siraganian (her first with her debut Perugia book!), Nathalie Khankan, Farnaz Fatemi & Deema Shehabi. The event is 2:15-3:45 PM in the Renzel Room @ History Park in San José, CA. 🔥📚♥️ @jsiraganian.bsky.social

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection SEAMLESS by Linda Tomol Pennisi. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Pennisi’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).

Spotted in the wild! Joan Kwon Glass’s DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS (Perugia, 2024) at Open Books: A Poetry Emporium in Seattle (beside a book of maps drawn by Ursula K. LeGuin, author of the epigraph in Joan’s collection!). Thanks, @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social!✨📚✨ @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Spotted in the wild! Holli Carrell’s APOSTASIES (Perugia, 2025) at Open Books: A Poetry Emporium in Seattle (and right beside a selection of iconic Anne Carson books - swoon!). Thanks, @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social!✨📚✨ @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Spotted in the wild! Lisbeth White’s AMERICAN SYCAMORE (Perugia, 2022) at Open Books: A Poetry Emporium AND Arundel Books, both in Seattle. Thanks, @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social and Arundel! ✨📚✨ @earthmaven.bsky.social

We’re so grateful to Sapling and Kit Frick for interviewing Editor/Director Rebecca Olander about Perugia. We love sharing what we do & how we do it - thanks for the space & time, Kit! Here are a couple of excerpts & check out the whole interview at the link in bio. 🌿📚🌿@rholanderpoet.bsky.social

Jen Siraganian is starting her book tour for Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead this month in CA! Check out where she will be reading & signing copies of her brilliant debut collection in August & September. Won’t you celebrate with us? ♥️📖🎉 @asterismbooks.bsky.social @jsiraganian.bsky.social

Lynne Thompson will be reading in the next Library Girl show, Sunday night August 9th at 7pm, featuring Women in a Golden State, an anthology celebrating the possibilities and perspectives of 175 women poets sixty and over in California (Gunpowder Press, 2025). Get tix at ruskingrouptheatre.com.✨📖✨

Thanks, Perugia, for publishing my first book in 1997! My seventh book, published this year is THIS WORLD. www.gailthomaspoet.com

Gail Thomas

Poet. Teacher. Speaker.

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We’re so grateful to Enzo Silon Surin for having Editor/Director Rebecca Hart Olander on “It’s a Poetic Life” for its feature “Press Enter: The Heart-Labor of Small Presses and the Creative Minds Behind Them” to talk about Perugia & her own books. Listen @ link in bio. @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Check out our latest newsletter: Our annual contest opened TODAY / Jen Siraganian’s book Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead is in presale / Perugia poet news! @hollicarrell.bsky.social @alauchter.bsky.social @jsiraganian.bsky.social

Today’s the day! Perugia Press’s annual prize is open NOW, August 1-November 15. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Guidelines & submission info at linktree in bio. We look forward to reading your work! 💙

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

We appreciate our readers so much, and we love to see Perugia books making their way into readers’ hands. Here is a post featuring Corrie Williamson’s SWEET HUSK, from our steadfast supportive reader Burgi Zenhaeusern. Many thanks to @burgi.bsky.social for sharing love for this collection. 📚💞📖

Rebecca Pelky’s work in Through a Red Place (Perugia, 2021) was analyzed by Chadwick Allen, an Indigenous literature scholar, in Transit: Serpent Mound Crossing Space, Time, Discourse, available now from The U of Chicago Press. Brava, Rebecca Pelky & Chad Allen! @uchicagopress.bsky.social

This Friday at Beyond Baroque, Lynne Thompson will be reading at a double book launch for Michelle Bitting & James Meetze. Come eat, drink & listen on July 31, 7:30pm (in person and live on YouTube). RSVP at Linktree @bblitarts.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 discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Pelky’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).

Flowers & gratitude to the Shō Poetry Journal editors for choosing my poem “An Old Story” for pub & for the Editor’s Prize for the summer issue (link in bio). Thanks, Dominique Ahkong, Johnny Cordova & Claire Zhou! Folks, Shō is open now - send your work their way!🌻♥️🌷 @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social