I’m so excited about this book!

Kamali Williams recently completed a summer internship at Perugia, in collab with Smith College's Praxis Program. Jean Blakeman, our board president, interviewed Kamali about her experience as a Perugia intern. @hollicarrell.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social perugiapress.org/2025/09/a-co...

Lisa Allen Ortiz has a new poem, “Furniture,” up in the latest Sixth Finch. Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole at sixthfinch.com/laortiz1.html. 💙🐦‍⬛🌿 @sixthfinch.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.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, poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Ortiz’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social

TONIGHT! An evening with Catamaran at Hakone Gardens, featuring Garden Issue writers, including Lisa Allen Ortiz! @catamaranlit.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social

Happy to be a part of this lovely magazine. sixthfinch.com

#perugiapress 🥹 And crazy beautiful AWP.

The worst part of being a writer is sometimes you have to leave the house.

This is not new news, but I noticed the norm around here is to pin something good at the top of our pages. By norm, I mean it’s what chen chen does. (Thanks to all you friends, poets, writers and publishers for being here. 💙) poems.com/poem/sternoc...

In our Special Garden Issue, explore lush literary works with settings that span public gardens, imaginary gardens, themes of flowers, plants, and the organic world, alongside visual artwork from landscape & still life paintings to abstraction and realism. catamaranliteraryreader.com/the-garden-i...