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

Check out our latest newsletter: Cover reveal & presale for Jen Siraganian's Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead / our 2025 Annual Report / the 2027 Perugia Press Prize / Mai-Linh Hong in our Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight! @jsiraganian.bsky.social @triohousepress.org @mai-linhhong.bsky.social

This Thursday, July 23, Gallery Sonder presents “Poetry at Sonder,” featuring Lynne Thompson, Mariano Zaro, and Patty Seyburn, reception 6:30, reading 7:00pm, in Corona Del Mar, CA. This reading is presented in conversation with the “Keeping Things Whole” exhibit.

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of Mai-Linh Hong and her book Continental Drift (Trio House Press, 2026). @triohousepress.org @mai-linhhong.bsky.social

This month we’re celebrating the work of Mai-Linh Hong in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book Continental Drift (Trio House Press, 2026), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio). @triohousepress.org @mai-linhhong.bsky.social

This month we're celebrating the work of Mai-Linh Hong in our "Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight." Check it out to read one of her poems and learn more about this poet. @triohousepress.org @mai-linhhong.bsky.social

Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight: Mai-Linh Hong - 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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Lynne Thompson has a poem in the summer 2026 issue of Persimmon Tree, which publishes the work of women over sixty. This issue is "Poets of the Western States.” Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole at the link: persimmontree.org/summer-2026/...

You’ve got this! Perugia’s annual prize opens in two weeks - on August 1. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Guidelines & info in bio & at link. We look forward to reading your work! perugiapress.org/contest/

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

We’re excited to announce EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD by Jen Siraganian: Release date September 15. Available NOW for preorder at a sale price till 9/15 at Perugia and also available at asterismbooks. Check it out in our Linktree. 🎉📖✨ @asterismbooks.bsky.social @jsiraganian.bsky.social

Abby E. Murray will have their poems featured on “Poems You Need” with Kelli Russell Agodon and Melissa Studdard on their YouTube channel this Wednesday, July 15, along with other Desert Rat poets Tommye Blount, Jeff Walt & C. Dale Young. 🎉♥️🗽🌵 @kelliagodon.bsky.social @melissastuddard.bsky.social

We’re so proud of our author Jen Siraganian, whose debut collection Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead is coming soon! She’s serving as a 2026 International Armenian Literary Allliance (IALA) mentor “donating time to guide” their mentees along with 13 other mentors. 💞 @jsiraganian.bsky.social

Thanks to our distributor, Asterism, for celebrating the Gold IPPY win for Mary Ardery, from our friends at @juneroadpress.bsky.social, along w/ Silver for Holli Carrell of Perugia, in their recent Summer Reading List! 🌟📚🎉 @mardery.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Grateful to Tessara Dudley for their review of SINGING FROM THE DEEP END & to MER for making space. An excerpt: “Olander is deeply, contemplatively concerned with cycles: of life & death, of growing & birthing, of seasons & time.” Link in bio. @cavankerrypress.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social

Here's my latest blog post with details on my three upcoming readings in July, a recent podcast & review in support of Singing from the Deep End & other poetic summer highlights. ❤️📖🌊 @cavankerrypress.bsky.social rebeccahartolander.com/singing-summ...

Singing Summer: Jaunting Through July

I hope the summer has been good to you and yours so far. I’m happy to share details on my upcoming three readings in July, the latest podcast and review in support of Singing from the Deep End, and ot...

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I’m so grateful to Erica Goss for her review of Singing from the Deep End, up now in Pleiades: Literature in Context. She beautifully speaks to the “broken and radiant fragments” held by these poems - thank you, Erica & to @pleiadesmag.bsky.social. Read at link in bio. @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Tune in at 9am CT, Sunday, July 12 to Nebraska Public Media (KIO 91.5 - nebraskapublicmedia.org) to listen to a convo w/poet Carolina Hotchandani, who reads some of her poems and talks about themes of identity, belonging, and loss in her debut The Book Eaters. 🎤📖🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social

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

Gail Thomas is offering a workshop through @pvww.bsky.social for beginner poets, or anyone wanting a craft refresher. The group kicks off Sunday, July 12 via Zoom. Limited to 10 writers & just a couple of spots left. RSVP asap at www.pioneervalleywriters.org/service-page... @gthomaspoet.bsky.social

Coming up this Saturday, July 11: a book launch event for Tim Mayo’s 5th collection, Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster, will be held at 118 Elliot St in Brattleboro, VT, doors @ 4pm, reading @ 4:30. The event features Mayo w/Carlene Kucharczyk & Rebecca Hart Olander. Supported by ByWay Books. 📚 ♥️