The Watering Hole “builds Harlem Renaissance spaces in the new contemporary South through retreats, workshops, classes, etc”. They honored Lisbeth White & her Perugia book AMERICAN SYCAMORE on their recent book rec list. Much gratitude, The Watering Hole folks! 💞📚🍃 Lisbeth White

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection NOW IN COLOR by Jacqueline Balderrama (swipe for poem excerpt). Find prompts, poems & questions in our reading companions & check out Balderrama’s book & others in our bookshop (Linktree in bio).

Voting is open through May! Thanks all!

Congratulations to Carolina Hotchandani, whose debut collection THE BOOK EATERS has been named a Category Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Awards! Brava on this distinction, Carolina! 🌟🎉📖 hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Aw… Eric Hoffer Award Carolina Hotchandani

Blue on a Blue Palette: reading by LA Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson – The Feminist Library feministlibrary.co.uk/event/blue-on-…

“Look Again” at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Spfld, MA features woodcut portraits by Julie Lapping Rivera paired with poems, incl. by Editor/Director Rebecca Olander, poets Jacqueline Balderrama & Melody S. Gee, BIWOC Spotlight poet Rage Hezekiah, and Perugia volunteers. 🌟

We're so excited to announce the 2024 Winners of Pushcart Prizes. Congratulations to Diane Seuss and Brian Gyamfi! Their work can be found in Issue 44 and Issue 46. We're so thrilled to celebrate these writers with you!🎉

Conversation: 'I was interested in what lingers, what remains, how each living person is a remnant, fragment of an impossible whole (family, diaspora, and so on).'
(International Examiner)
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Join us next Tuesday evening for 'Poems as Pilgrims: a Workshop on Submission' with Robbie Gamble!

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This event is free with Zoom registration.

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Hello Wisconsin! I'm at A Room of Ones Own tonight in Madison and in Milwaukee tomorrow.

Jennifer K. Sweeney takes readers for an incredible ride in her poem “Splash Kingdom” in this spring’s edition of Sixth Finch. 🧜‍♀️🔥🌊 Sixth Finch Jennifer K Sweeney

Spring poetry pair: Singular glances back as owl boy and cat woman. Featuring ONE WILD WORD AWAY by Geffrey Davis (BOA Editions, 2024) and MODERN POETRY by Diane Seuss (Graywolf Press, 2024). ♥️🦉♥️🐈‍⬛ #geffreydavis BOA Editions Diane Seuss Graywolf Press #poetrycommunity

Check out this cool project pairing history, art & poetry. It’s made by women, honors women, and features poems by our editor/director and some of our poets, volunteer readers, and BIWOC Spotlight poets! Brava to all! 💞

Come see “Look Again” at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, MA, up now through February 2025, featuring artist Julie Lapping Rivera’s woodcut portraits accompanied by poems written for them, and the women they honor. ♥️🔥♥️ springfieldmuseums.org/exhibitions/lo…

So happy to see Carolina Hotchandani’s THE BOOK EATERS on Omaha Public Library’s “Top Shelf” list of staff favorites. Thank you, Holly Pelesky for recommending this book! 🌟📖🌟 Carolina Hotchandani Omaha Public Library

Looking forward to this! ♥️

Honored to see “Forgiveness” as today’s poem on Verse Daily
Thank you J. P. Dancing Bear 🇺🇸 🚀 🇺🇦 and Presence Journal editors Mary Ann Miller Lois Roma-Deeley Marjorie Maddox

THE DISAPPEARING LETTERS by Carol Edelstein “is an instruction manual on how to pay very close attention while daydreaming.”

Poetry from Perugia Press and our #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth list: perugiapress.org/product/the-di…

This…is…surreal. I’m the featured poet on today’s episode of The Slowdown, one of my favorite podcasts! Thank you for selecting my poem, Major Jackson, and for your thoughtful reflections on it. 🤍 The Slowdown Major Jackson

Really cannot wait to speak to Lynne Thompson OctoberBooks tomorrow about her gorgeous new collection and her role as LA Poet Laureate! Please do join us - it will be a once in a blue moon event for Southampton's poetry scene.