Rebecca Hart Olander

Join 5 editors from 5 small presses to talk shop in the panel “Small Presses Getting Big Attention” at AWP on 3/7 at 12:20. Spons. by CLMP, moderated by Xander Gershberg of Spout & featuring Perugia’s Rebecca Olander, June Road’s Sara Arnold, Trio House’s Natasha Kane & Split/Lip’s Caleb Tankersley.

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection APOSTASIES by Holli Carrell. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Carrell’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @hollicarrell.bsky.social

TONIGHT! 🎉

I’ll be signing Singing from the Deep End today, Friday, from 1:30-2:30 at the CavanKerry table - # 550. Hope you can stop by! @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

The cover of Majda Gama's poetry collection reads: In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls poems Majda Gama The title text is interwoven amid an illustration of leaves and flowers.

Huge congrats to @majda.bsky.social whose collection, In the House of Modern Upbringing for Modern Girls is a finalist for the Da Vinci Eye Eric Hoffer Award.

The poems serve as tribute and elegy to a girlhood spread across Islamic & Western worlds and are now more poignant than ever.

Fantastic news and well deserved!

Here are some of the amazing ways our press is representing at AWP 2026! Stop by Table #833 to meet our poets & get a signed book, attend our collaborative offsite TONIGHT (Wednesday), and check out the panel presentations they (& our editor) are participating in. Go Perugia community! 🌟📚🎉

Tonight! We can't wait to see you there.

Joan Kwon Glass is offering the one-day generative workshop “Be the Stain” on Zoom from 12-4 on March 28 for Hudson Valley Writers Center. More info and registration info at @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social. @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Marching & Singing Toward Spring The annual AWP Conference & Bookfair takes place this first week of March in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to a book signing and offsite reading for CavanKerry Press to celebrate Singing from the D...

Here's my latest blog post on my website with news about Singing from the Deep End, including AWP doings in Baltimore this week & other March events, pix from readings & a grant from the Mass Cultural Council! Thanks for reading! rebeccahartolander.com/marching-sin... @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Holli Carrell will be reading and signing copies of APOSTASIES in Baltimore in and around the annual AWP conference this week, and virtually later in the month with A Hundred Pitchers of Honey. Save the dates to celebrate and hear from APOSTASIES, and from other poets! 🎉📚🎤 @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Here’s where, when & with whom I’ll be reading in March to share my new book, SINGING FROM THE DEEP END - from AWP in Baltimore back home to Massachusetts, with a couple of virtual events too. Hope you can join me & the amazing folks with whom I’ll be sharing space. ❤ @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Hope you’ll stop by Table # 833 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Catherine Anderson will be there on Saturday, March 7 from 10:00-11:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟

We’re so happy to announce Jen Siraganian as the winner of the 2026 Perugia Press Prize for her debut collection EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD. Here’s a description of her book, forthcoming this fall, and a bio of the poet. Congratulations, Jen! 🌟 @jsiraganian.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to announce Jen Siraganian as the winner of the 2026 Perugia Press Prize for EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD. Brava to the finalists & semi-finalists & thank you to our readers & judges & to all the poets who sent us their work for consideration. 🌟📚🎉 @jsiraganian.bsky.social

Check out our latest newsletter: Results of the 2026 Perugia Press Prize Contest / Celebrate w/ us at AWP in Baltimore / Apostasies events for March / Interview w/ January intern Audrey Jiggetts @jsiraganian.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that Lisbeth White is represented by The Caldwell Agency, a queer & Black woman-owned team. It is not only a great joy to see poets we’ve published gain recognition & be celebrated for their gifts, it is tied to our mission. Sending you all the flowers @earthmaven.bsky.social! 💐♥️🎉

We are pleased to invite you to the Café Muse Literary Salon on Monday, March 2, 2026 at 7:15 pm. for our program featuring poets Grace Cavalieri & Geoffrey Himes & Kenzie Allen. Please use the registration form below to receive the Zoom link for the reading. sites.google.com/view/cafe-mu...

Hope you’ll stop by Table # 833 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Joan Kwon Glass will be there on Saturday, March 7 from 9:00-10:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟 @joankwonglass.bsky.social

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Awesome! If you have a chance to stop by the Perugia table that would be amazing. 833. I’m pretty tethered there except for my own signing (Friday 1:30) and a panel I’m on Sat (12:10). But otherwise you should find me there. Wish I could come to your panel!

Also, Majda - I NEED your book. I wanted to get it in person and hope to this AWP. Have loved everything I’ve heard and read from it so far.

Come join us at AWP!! We'll have open-mics at our bookfair booth, and our editor @xandergershberg.bsky.social will be moderating a panel with editors from @juneroadpress.bsky.social @triohousepress.org @perugiapress.bsky.social @splitlippress.com @clmporg.bsky.social !!

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#AWP26! Celebrate with us Friday March 6 at The Patterson Theater @ Creative Alliance. Acre Books, @cavankerrypress.bsky.social, Lily Poetry Review, and Nixes Mate. 6:30 to 9:00 pm. #Baltimore. 📚🎉