Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection TWO MINUTES OF LIGHT by Nancy K. Pearson. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions and check out Pearson’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).

Majda also has a stunning chapbook, "The Call of Paradise", winner of the Two Sylvia's Press Chapbook Prize, selected by none other than the inimitable @dseuss.bsky.social. twosylviaspress.com/store/p81/Th...

It's the marvelous @majda.bsky.social's birthday! Celebrate by purchasing her brilliant collection "In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls" if you don't already have this beauty on your shelves! politics-prose.com/book/9798218...

The 2026 Perugia Press Prize from @perugiapress.bsky.social is an annual contest for first or second books of poetry by women. The winner receives $2,000, publication, and more! Submit by 11/15. AWP members can learn more on the Contests & Calls directory.

There a few spots left for this rsvp-only poetry party in Pelham, MA on Fri. 11/7, feat. poets Holli Carrell & Jenifer Browne Lawrence & w/ the botanical photos of Shelley Kirkwood for sale. RSVP to [email protected] & we’ll send the address. 📸📚🎉 @jenblaw.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social

TOMORROW night! @adrie-rose.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Thanks for including Rebecca Pelky’s THROUGH A RED PLACE in great company in this year’s Native American Heritage Month reading list, CLMP! ♥️ @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social

Perugia’s annual prize is open for subs through 11/15 (2 MORE WEEKS) for what will be our 30th collection. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Full guidelines & info in bio. We look forward to reading your work!

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

Perugia's latest newsletter 🎃📚🎉 ymlp.com/zUDKkN @hollicarrell.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social @earthmaven.bsky.social @meganpeak.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @jenblaw.bsky.social @boa-editions.bsky.social @adrie-rose.bsky.social @annwallace.bsky.social

Board member Jen Jabaily-Blackburn has a new poem, “Ars Poetica: Getaway Car,” up online at The Common! Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole here: thecommononline.org/ars-poetica-... @commonmag.bsky.social

Holli Carrell will be visiting Holyoke, Pelham & Northampton, MA and Cincinnati, OH this November. Save the dates to celebrate and hear from APOSTASIES, and from a host of other 🔥 poets! 🎉📚🎤 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @jenblaw.bsky.social @adrie-rose.bsky.social

Lisbeth White was on the 1st episode of Season 2 of Talkin Story, a community podcast in WA that “features local people of the global majority who are quietly acting as flashpoints for social & cultural transformation.” Listen on Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. ♥️🎤🖤 @earthmaven.bsky.social

Carolina Hotchandani has a new poem “Casting” up online in The Atlantic! Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole here: www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1... @chotchandani.bsky.social @theatlantic.com

TONIGHT! @chotchandani.bsky.social

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

Singing from the Deep End is surfacing SOON! This beauty is a proof that arrived in my mailbox to my astonishment & gratitude & this is a reminder that it’s on its best sale in preorder in the CKP bookshop through 11/2 (link in bio). Thanks for supporting this book! ♥️📖🪸 @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of India Lena González and her book fox woman get out! (BOA Editions, 2023).🌟 @boa-editions.bsky.social

Two weeks from tonight! @adrie-rose.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social

This month we’re celebrating the work of India Lena González in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book fox woman get out! (BOA Editions, 2023), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio). @boa-editions.bsky.social

This month we're celebrating the work of India Lena González in our "Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight." Check it out to read one of her poems and learn more about this poet. @boa-editions.bsky.social

Jacqueline Balderrama is teaching a virtual generative workshop through The Poetry Society of NY on poetic self-portraiture for BIPOC creatives on Nov 4. It’s free to join!🪞🤎🖊️🖤📖 www.eventbrite.com/e/psny-bipoc...

@catamaranlit.bsky.social So amazed to have this story recognized. Thank you marvelous Catamaran Literary Reader!

“Today’s poem is as imagistic and musical as a song, and it’s deeply rooted in place," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social says in episode 1379 of The Slowdown. "The poem borrows a refrain from a Lucinda Williams song." Read "Arkansabop" by @elizabethlinds.bsky.social: bit.ly/4n7J5ZW

Gratitude to Asterism Books for featuring Holli Carrell’s recent press at Brooklyn Poets & the Poetry Society of America in their book blog! Read the whole at link in bio. 🌟 @asterismbooks.bsky.social @brooklynpoets.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Megan Peak’s poem “The Crux” was featured on The Slowdown, hosted by Maggie Smith! Check it out in the link in our bio, or where you listen to podcasts. Congratulations, Megan! 🌟 @slowdownshow.org @meganpeak.bsky.social @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

Honored to have my poem “The Crux,” first published in diode, featured on The Slowdown with Maggie Smith. Like most experiences, motherhood, for me, lives between depletion and abundance, where love and grief sit side by side. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6bNs...

“There were times when mothering felt overwhelming," shares host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in episode 1377 of The Slowdown. "Now, I always want more of them. It’s funny how that works, isn’t it?" Read “The Crux" by @meganpeak.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/47i2L7o

The latest The WildStory podcast includes a fruitful conversation w/ poet Holli Carrell & host Ann Wallace about Apostasies, the natural world, origin stories, reciprocity with the Earth, community gardens & more. Link in bio, & available where you listen to podcasts. 💚📖🌿 @hollicarrell.bsky.social

TONIGHT! ♥️

Brava Lisbeth White for your finalist nod for the Radar Coniston Prize! Lisbeth will read w/winner Bo Hee Moon, finalists JC Andrews, Callista Buchen & Jenna Rozelle & judge Diane Seuss on 10/20 @7pm ET. Email Radar w/ “RSVP” in subject at [email protected] to get link. @earthmaven.bsky.social

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press on National Black Poetry Day, drawn from the poetry collection BEG NO PARDON by Lynne Thompson. Find more prompts, sample poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Thompson’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). 🖤

Today is National Black Poetry Day! Visit TorchLiteraryArts.org to read poems by Black women from across the diaspora. 🔥🌟🔥🌟🔥🌟🔥

Here's my latest website post, w/updates about my forthcoming book SINGING FROM THE DEEP END, incl. notes about the incredible cover, recently published poems & more. There's also a link to the presale, at its best rate through 11/2. Thanks for supporting this book! 🪸❤️🌊 @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Thanks for including the open Perugia Press Prize info in the October eLitPak, @newpages.bsky.social!

Gail Thomas will present “Publishing for Poets” at the WriteAngles Conference on October 18 at Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, MA. The conference is organized by Straw Dog Writers Guild. Visit writeanglesconference.com for more info on Saturday’s offerings! @gthomaspoet.bsky.social

tonight!! 🔗 in quoted 🧵 to register & hear these wonderful readers! 🤩

Lynne Thompson was on NBC’s TODAY discussing reinvention, which she did transitioning from lawyer to poet. We’re proud Perugia published Lynne’s first book, Beg No Pardon (2007) & she’s gone on to publish three more, incl. Blue on a Blue Palette (BOA, 2024). Watch at link in bio. 🌟🌞 @todayshow.com

Check out our latest newsletter w/events, features & press for Holli Carrell's Apostasies, details on submitting to the Perugia Press Prize, a spotlight on summer intern Regan Williams' work, our collaboration w/ indiegiftbooks.com & the launch for that TONIGHT & poet news! @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Perugia Press’s annual prize is open for subs through 11/15, for what will be our 30th collection. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Full guidelines & info in linktree. We look forward to reading your work!

TONIGHT! @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Tomorrow night! Thanks @tomsnarsky.bsky.social for featuring @hollicarrell.bsky.social and curating this space!

Perugia is part of a new coalition of indie presses working together to showcase our unique collections & connect them w/readers. We’re holding a Zoom launch on 10/15 @ 7pm ET. For Perugia, poet Holli Carrell will read a poem from Apostasies. Link to join in our bio. @hollicarrell.bsky.social

The adminsitration is pushing for a celebration of Christopher Columbus. While I share “Revisionist Villanelle” each year on this day, I offer the poem today as my response to this administration’s efforts to whitewash history. #poetrynews #poetrysky #poets #poetry #poems #writers

On October 26, Sunday Salon Chicago is happening on Zoom at 6 pm CT, featuring Perugia’s own @chotchandani.bsky.social and Nancy Miller Gomez, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, Daniel Tam-Claiborne & Donato Loia, hosted & curated by @ignatius2u.bsky.social. Register here: tinyurl.com/448u4yw3

Saturday 10/11 from 1-2 at the Kansas City Public Library, join Kansas City authors, incl. Perugia's own Catherine Anderson, as they share how they've given themselves permission to create & grow. Book signing to follow (with Catherine's latest book AFLOAT, winner of the 2025 Birdy Poetry Prize).

Holli Carrell is reading in Toledo tomorrow, October 11, with Gary Bond and Juliet Cook in the Uncloistered Poetry Series. @hollicarrell.bsky.social

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

Former intern Amelia Burton wrote an incredible essay “from an aspec perspective” on Perugia’s latest book, Holli Carrell’s APOSTASIES, for her Substack “The Ace Lit Corner.” It’s a brilliant take on compulsory sexuality as explored through the book (see link in bio). 🙏📖💞 @hollicarrell.bsky.social

TONIGHT! @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social