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.

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

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.

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 oneartpoetry.com/2024/11/08/i...

Sharing a new poem from Abby E. Murray, "Hello, I Am Not a Soldier". What about this poem resonates with you? joannecorey.com/2024/11/17/h...

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! 🌟📚🌟

"Today’s poem is such a beautiful meditation on knowing ourselves," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1460. Read "Poem to Remind Myself of the Natural Order of Things" by Donika Kelly, from THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (@graywolfpress.bsky.social): bit.ly/4kJCLbB

Westminster Hall*, 519 W. Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. Admission is free. Cash bar available. *A former Presbyterian church, Westminster Hall and Burying Ground is an historic site and the resting place of Edgar Allan Poe (and others).

❤️ This year’s Offsite. On Purpose. is dedicated in loving memory to Jennifer Martelli (1962-2025), our friend & colleague, one of the founders of this annual reading, a fierce advocate for poetry, dedicated to progressive causes, & a brilliant poet.

SWWIM, MER, NELLE, Whale Road Review, Perugia Press, & Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry present Off Site. On Purpose, featuring many of today's most inspiring women poets! Join us for a night of life-affirming poetry on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM).

Check out our latest newsletter, featuring our collab offsite at AWP & our author signings at the AWP Bookfair, Asa Drake in the Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight, Holli Carrell's continuing Apostasies book tour, an interview with one of our January interns & lot of other news about our poets & books.

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of Asa Drake and her book Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026).🌟 @tinhouse.bsky.social @asaldrake.bsky.social

Tomorrow night!

This month we’re celebrating the work of Asa Drake in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio). @tinhouse.bsky.social @asaldrake.bsky.social

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

Thrilled to announce a third #AWP2026 event where we can share a big, awkward hug! Join me with @swwim.bsky.social, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, @merliterary.bsky.social, NELLE, & @perugiapress.bsky.social for Off-Site. On Purpose. Wed, Mar 4, 2026, 7 PM, Westminster Hall, Baltimore.

Here's my latest blog post w/news about Singing from the Deep End, incl. 3 Feb. readings (local launch this Thurs!), links to past readings & more. I'd love it if you followed my site by adding your email there - I only send a few posts a year. Thanks, folks! ❤ rebeccahartolander.com/februarys-fi...

Save the date to celebrate & commemorate - on Wed. 3/4 @7pm, Perugia Press will be involved again in the collaborative “Off Site. On Purpose.” @AWP w/SWWIM, MER, Whale Road Review, NELLE & Cultivating Voices Live Poetry. Free admit/cash bar. ♥️🎤🎉✨ @hollicarrell.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social

Going back to my motherland to sing from the deep end! Looking forward to reading in my hometown at the Gloucester Writers Center on Thurs, 2/26 at 7:00pm w/Heather Nelson. Join us in this special place! Thanks to Eric Parkison for organizing and GWC for hosting us. 🌊📖♥️ @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

After reading together in Santa Cruz, CA in December, Lynne Thompson and Patricia Smith sat down for a convo with Dion O’Reilly of the Hive Collective, which was recently posted as a podcast episode. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts. ♥️📚🌊🐝🎤 @dionoreilly.bsky.social

Corrie Williamson has four poems in Issue 2 of the beautiful Outskirts Literary Journal. Here are excerpts of three of them, and you can read, and listen to, the poems (and check out the whole gorgeous issue) at the link. Congratulations, Corrie! 💚 www.outskirtslit.com/corrie-willi...

Looking forward to reading at Salem State U. w/J. D. Scrimgeour on 2/24 at 7:30pm. So honored to share my work inspired by growing up on the North Shore with my mom, who went back to school when I was a girl & grad. from Salem State with her BSN. @salemstate.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.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).

Check out this interview with one of our two January interns, Lola Stacy, on the work she did with Perugia, including creating a poetry film for our series "Flux & Flow"!

I’m so honored that the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College will be hosting my local book launch for SINGING FROM THE DEEP END on Thursday, 2/19 at 7pm. I look forward to sharing and celebrating this book with our community here. Join us in the deep end! ♥️📖🎉 @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Thank you, @susanlleary.bsky.social 💞

Thank you, @susanlleary.bsky.social! ♥️ @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Thank you, @susanlleary.bsky.social! ♥️ @hollicarrell.bsky.social

TONIGHT!

Gratitude to CLMP for this beautiful reading list for Black History Month 2026, including Lynne Thompson’s Beg No Pardon and Lisbeth White’s American Sycamore. Check out all the fantastic titles in the full list on CLMP.org. ♥️📚🖤 @earthmaven.bsky.social @clmporg.bsky.social

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

TOMORROW! Friday, 2/6 at 7pm EST is the ‘Winter Edition’ of The Couplet Reading Series @ Books are Magic on Montague St in Brklyn. I’m over the moon to be reading w/Nicole Cooley, Major Jackson, Keetje Kuipers & Wayne Miller. Hosted by Leah Umansky. Livestream on YouTube & in person w/tix (see bio).

Thanks to Grolier Poetry Book Shop & James Fraser for hosting last night’s reading w/ Holli Carrell, Rebecca Olander & Christopher Jane Corkery. Thank you to Carla Panciera for the generous intro & to the audience. ♥️📚♥️ @carlapanciera.bsky.social @rholanderpoet.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social

TONIGHT!

TONIGHT! @kwoyafagin.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social