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...

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. 📚 ♥️

Gratitude to Lana Hechtman Ayers for featuring my poem "Brackett's Quarry" from Singing from the Deep End (CavanKerry Press) in her "Poem After Poem" newsletter! Read the poem & subscribe at the link. ♥️ mailchi.mp/ef497d92c396... @cavankerrypress.bsky.social @lanaayers23.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

Happy Publication Day, Leila Farjami!!💛💜💛💜

Going to be sooo good!

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

Read our latest newsletter: Apostasies wins a 2026 IPPY Silver Medal, Holli Carrell & Jen Siraganian's work on podcasts, Jen's book in P&W, Megan Peak on Girldom * BIWOC Spotlight w/Amy M. Alvarez (Go Knicks!) & Happy Pride!! @hollicarrell.bsky.social @jsiraganian.bsky.social @meganpeak.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

We’re over the moon to share that the announcements of the 2026 IPPY Awards are posted, and we send congratulations to all the winners, particularly in the Poetry-Standard Category, including Silver to our own Holli Carrell for Apostasies! 🪩📖🎉 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social

So happy to share this Poets & Writers announcement about the 2026 Perugia Press Prize Winner: Jen Siraganian for EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD! We’ve been bringing this incredible book toward print this summer - more soon - & subs open 8/1 for the 2027 prize! 🌟📚 @jsiraganian.bsky.social

Thank you, @burgi.bsky.social! 💞

Gratitude to Dion O’Reilly & The Hive for featuring me on their podcast! Take a listen to our convo about Nan Cohen’s poem “Thirty-Year Friendship,” Perugia Press, CavanKerry Press, poems from Singing from the Deep End & more! Link in bio. 🎤📖🌊🐝 @dionoreilly.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of Amy M. Alvarez and her book Makeshift Altar (University Press of Kentucky, 2024). @kentuckypress.bsky.social

In this month of honoring fathers & the Knicks, we’re celebrating the work of Amy M. Alvarez in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book Makeshift Altar (U. Press of Kentucky, 2024). Learn more about this poet on our website (see linktree). 💙📖🧡 @kentuckypress.bsky.social

This month we're celebrating the work of Amy M. Alvarez in our "Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight." Check it out to read one of her poems and learn more about this poet:

The 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards medalists have been named & Holli Carrell won the IPPY Award Silver Medal in Poetry. Brava, Holli! Cheers to the other medalists & finalists & to the indie authors and publishers honored this year! 🪩📚🎉 @asterismbooks.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social

When immigrant families are pushed into fear, schools feel the impact. Immigration enforcement affects entire school systems. 💡 Learn more: https://edtrust.org/blog/ice-raids-upending-schools-communities/ #ProtectPlyler #EducationForAll #ImmigrantHeritageMonth

Here’s a Juneteenth writing prompt from Perugia Press celebrating the work of Lisbeth White, drawn from her Perugia collection AMERICAN SYCAMORE. Find more prompts, poems & questions in our reading companions & check out White’s book & others in our bookshop (link in bio). @earthmaven.bsky.social

Our series “The Story of My Book,” chronicles Perugia’s collections through the words of their authors. Our latest features Megan Peak on GIRLDOM (see Linktree to read). And keep Perugia in mind for YOUR book — we’re open for subs in August! 🌟📚🌟 @meganpeak.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social

Check out our latest "The Story of My Book" feature - this one from @meganpeak.bsky.social on GIRLDOM, which won the 2018 Perugia Press Prize!

Produced by the @emilydickinson.bsky.social, Phosphorescence July 2026 features Rebecca Hart Olander, Jen Jabaily-Blackburn & Sara Eddy on 7/16 at 6pm ET. Virtual, free, registration required (see Linktree in bio). @saraeddy66.bsky.social @jenjblackburn.bsky.social @rholanderpoet.bsky.social

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection THE BOOK EATERS by Carolina Hotchandani. Find more prompts, poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Hotchandani’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @chotchandani.bsky.social

Take a listen to this encore podcast from Painted Bride Quarterly in which two poems from Jen Siraganian are discussed, both of which appear in her forthcoming Perugia collection, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, out in September! @jsiraganian.bsky.social

Tomorrow night! Mocha Maya’s in Shelburne Falls with Skyler Lambert and open mic folks - join us! 🥰🎤😘

Thanks to the folks at Poetry Daily for keeping a “Hot Off the Presses” list to highlight recent titles they’ve received, including this spring’s lineup of CavanKerry books! Honored to be among them. 📚♥️📖 @poetrydaily.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Gratitude to Poetry Daily for their “Hot Off the Presses” list showcasing recent titles they’ve received, including Perugia’s own APOSTASIES by Holli Carrell and DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS by Joan Kwon Glass! 📚♥️📖 @poetrydaily.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection HOW TO LIVE ON BREAD AND MUSIC by Jennifer K. Sweeney. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Sweeney’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).

Sunday, June 7, at 3pm EDT, join MER & an amazing lineup of readers, incl. Perugia’s own Megan Peak, for the first of two readings to celebrate MER’s “Mothers & Family” Issue. Free on Zoom: merliterary.com/2026/05/30/m... @merliterary.bsky.social @carlapanciera.bsky.social @meganpeak.bsky.social

Gratitude to CLMP for this fantastic reading list for Pride Month 2026, including Nancy K. Pearson’s Two Minutes of Light and Gail Thomas’s Finding the Bear. Check out all the incredible titles in the full list: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi.... 💜📚🏳️‍🌈 @clmporg.bsky.social @gailthomaspoet.bsky.social

TONIGHT! Join Floating Bridge Press & Grit City Books as they host Kelli Russell Agodon to celebrate the release of her new book “Accidental Devotions” with special guests Abby E. Murray, Anis Gisele, and Jory Mickelson. Grit City Books, June 3rd, 6-7:30PM, Tacoma, WA. 🎉🫖📚 @kelliagodon.bsky.social

Sarah Goettsch of Western Colorado University chose Abby E. Murray’s poem “The Traditional 20th Anniversary Gift Is China” from Abby’s second book Recovery Commands during her week hosting Spokane Public Radio’s “Poetry Moment” recently. Listen: www.spokanepublicradio.org/show/poetry-...

Here’s where, when, and with whom I’ll be reading in June & July to share SINGING FROM THE DEEP END - in W. MA & Brattleboro, VT, virtually for the Emily Dickinson Phosphorescence series & on Governor’s Is. for the NYC PoFest! Hope you can join me & the amazing folks w/whom I’ll be sharing space. ❤

Jennifer K. Sweeney has two new poems up at Terrain.org. Here are excerpts of “Fairy Ring” and “Formation,” and you can read, and listen to, the whole poems, on their site: www.terrain.org/2026/poetry/.... 🌳💚🪾

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