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❤️ This year’s Offsite. On Purpose. is dedicated in loving memory to Jennifer Martelli (1962-2025).

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Congratulations again to Joan Kwon Glass, winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Award in Poetry. This is the judges’ commentary for Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, posted by The US Review of Books, from The Eric Hoffer Award panel. 🌟📖🎉 #hofferaward #perugiapress @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Congratulations, Joan Kwon Glass, on being named to the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List! And cheers to all the books who earned this distinction, and to the presses that published them! 🌟📚🎉 #erichofferaward #perugiapress @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Abby E. Murray will be reading their poems and facilitating a writing workshop TODAY at 11:00am PT at Highline College in Des Moines, WA. Thanks to @aaronottinger.bsky.social for organizing! #perugiapress

Love to see our latest book, Joan Kwon Glass’s DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS, at our beloved local indie bookstore, Broadside Books, in such good company. ♥️📚♥️ @joankwonglass.bsky.social #perugiapress

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection BEGIN EMPTY-HANDED by Gail Martin. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Martin’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). #perugiapress

Thanks for bringing Melody S. Gee’s EACH CRUMBLING HOUSE home with you from AWP in such good company, @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social! ♥️📚💞 #awp25 #perugiapress #melodysgee

Thanks for bringing Carolina Hotchandani’s THE BOOK EATERS home with you from AWP in such good company, Matthew Siegel! ♥️📚💞 #awp25 #perugiapress @chotchandani.bsky.social

Lynne Thompson’s author signing yesterday at AWP! 🖊️📖🌟 #perugiapress #begnopardon

We missed Joan Kwon Glass at AWP! Here’s Editor/Director Rebecca Olander celebrating Joan’s book with poet & @wplseries.bsky.social maven Dustin Brookshire. ♥️📖🎉 @joankwonglass.bsky.social @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social @rholanderpoet.bsky.social #perugiapress #daughterofthreegonekingdoms

Jackie Balderrama’s author signing yesterday at AWP! 🖊️📖🌟 #jackiebalderrama #perugiapress #nowincolor @rholanderpoet.bsky.social

Thanks to the ever-lovely Patricia Smith for spending time on Friday at the Perugia Press table! Gratitude for the love you show our press & poets (here w/ Lynne Thompson, Editor/Director Rebecca Olander & Lisa Allen Ortiz). ♥️📚♥️ #perugiapress @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social @rholanderpoet.bsky.social

#perugiapress 🥹 And crazy beautiful AWP.

Carolina Hotchandani’s author signing yesterday at AWP! 🖊️📖🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social @rholanderpoet.bsky.social #perugiapress

Jennifer K. Sweeney’s author signing yesterday at AWP! 🖊️📖🌟 #perugiapress

Lisa Allen Ortiz’s author signing yesterday at AWP! 🖊️📖🌟 @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social #perugiapress

Rebecca Pelky’s author signing yesterday at AWP! 🖊️📖🌟 @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social #perugiapress

So happy our poet Lisa Allen Ortiz can make a surprise appearance at AWP! This Santa Cruz poet is coming to town today, and you can meet her at a pop-up Perugia author signing at Table #510 today (Friday, 3/28) from 1:00-2:00pm. ♥️📖🖊️ @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social #guidetotheexhibit #perugiapress #awp25

Carolina Hotchandani is on a panel this year at AWP - “Forms of Grief: The Craft of Writing Elegiac Poetry.” Make sure to try to catch this brilliant poet and the event she’s collaborating on this Saturday. 🎉🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social #perugiapress #awp25

AWP 2025: Los Angeles - Perugia Press We’re looking forward to the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles, CA from March 26-29. Perugia Press will […]

Need a reminder about what Perugia Press and our poets and board members are up to this week at AWP in Los Angeles? Here's our latest blog with all the info in one place. Hope to see you in L.A.! #awp25 #perugiapress

Hope you’ll stop by Perugia Press’s table at the AWP Bookfair - #510! We’ll have copies of our latest book, Joan Kwon Glass’s DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS, complete with bookplates signed by the poet! 📖🖊️♥️ @joankwonglass.bsky.social #perugiapress #awp25

Thank you, CLMP, for this wonderful reading list for Women’s History Month 2025, including Amanda Auchter’s The Wishing Tomb and Ida Stewart’s Gloss. Check out all the titles in the list @clmporg.bsky.social 💞📚💞 @alauchter.bsky.social @idastewart.bsky.social #perugiapress #readwomen #clmp

Hope you’ll stop by Table #510 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Lynne Thompson will be there on Saturday, March 29 from 2:00-3:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟 #begnopardon #perugiapress #awp25

Hope you’ll stop by Table #510 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Jackie Balderrama will be there on Saturday, March 29 from 11:00-12:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟 #jackiebalderrama #nowincolor #perugiapress #awp25

Hope you’ll stop by Table #510 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Carolina Hotchandani will be there on Friday, March 28 from 3:00-4:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social #perugiapress #awp25

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection THE DISAPPEARING LETTERS by Carol Edelstein. Find more prompts, sample poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Edelstein’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). #perugiapress