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

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

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).

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

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

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

Amanda Auchter has a review of The Ground Never Lets Go, by Liz Marlow (Moon Tide Press), up at RHINO. Read the review at rhinopoetry.org/reviews/liz-.... @rhinopoetry.bsky.social @lizmarlowpoet.bsky.social @alauchter.bsky.social

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GUIDE TO THE EXHIBIT by Lisa Allen Ortiz. Find more prompts, sample poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Ortiz’s book & others in our bookshop (link in bio). @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social

Poets, get your manuscripts ready! Perugia Press’s annual prize opens on August 1. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Full guidelines and submission info at linktree in bio. We look forward to reading your work!

Cover reveal! Here’s the amazing cover of the next Perugia title: Jen Siraganian’s EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD. Cover art is from “Light Rising Light Falling” by Linda Ganjian, to whom we are so grateful. It’s been a joy & honor to work on this book with Jen. ♥️ @jsiraganian.bsky.social

Many thanks to our distributor, Asterism Books, for this shout out in their recent newsletter for Holli Carrell’s 2026 IPPY Award in Poetry Silver Medal win! And cheers again to Holli on this wonderful honor for your debut! 🪩📖🎉 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GLOSS by Ida Stewart. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Stewart’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @idastewart.bsky.social

Holli Carrell was in conversation w/Phaedra Charles & Cass Skye Howlett on their podcast “Let’s Discuss Something…,” which focuses on queerness & Ex-Mormonism. Take a listen at the link in bio & gratitude to Cass, Phaedra & Holli for this brave, beautiful discussion. 🌈📖♥️ @hollicarrell.bsky.social

New intro to poetic craft workshop from Gail Thomas, online through Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshops. Four-week session of reading & writing poetry starts July 12! Learn more: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/service-page.... 📖📝🌞 @gthomaspoet.bsky.social @pvww.bsky.social

Catherine Anderson has a review of Judith Vollmer’s The Pavese Stone (Alice James Books) up at RHINO. Read the review: rhinopoetry.org/reviews/judi... @rhinopoetry.bsky.social @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social