Rebecca Hart Olander

Wonderful interview w/ author Holli Carrell, up in Sapling! Thanks to Kit Frick for featuring Holli & her incredible book Apostasies & thanks to Holli for shining light on Perugia. Read the whole at link in bio & subscribe to Sapling - a fantastic resource for writers. 🌱💚🌿 @hollicarrell.bsky.social

A Reading List for Women’s History Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses For Women’s History Month, observed annually during the month of March, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the books and magazines they…

Happy #WomensHistoryMonth! Celebrate by picking several reads from our 2026 reading list and bookmarking it for year-round recommendations: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

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#WomanLifeFreedom - Words Without Borders Words Without Borders presents a series addressing the ongoing #WomanLifeFreedom uprising in Iran by Poupeh Missaghi.

#WomanLifeFreedom, published by @wwborders.bsky.social & on our #WomensHistoryMonth list, is “an attempt to create a space for the voices of Iranians who are using their words and their art to document these days as well as protest and fight the system.” wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...

At the Edge: Selected Political Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (translated by Margaree Little) — Green Linden Press 120 pages © 2025 ISBN: 978-1-961834-08-8 Book and Cover Design: Christopher Nelson Perfect-bound 6” x 9” Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

This #WomensHistoryMonth, pick up AT THE EDGE: SELECTED POLITICAL POEMS OF MARINA TSVETAEVA, transl. by Margaree Little (Green Linden Press)!

According to Julia Nemirovskaya, these poems “don’t just reflect history; they confront it, denounce its brutality.” www.greenlindenpress.com/books/at-the...

Graphic Rage | Aubrey Hirsch | Split/Lip Press In 25 sharp, unflinching, and darkly funny feminist comics, Aubrey Hirsch’s Graphic Rage exposes the absurdities and injustices that women know all too well, turning rage into razor-sharp wit and…

Pick up a collection of graphic essays from Split/Lip Press this #WomensHistoryMonth!

Aubrey Hirsch’s GRAPHIC RAGE explores topics ranging from “the impossible standards of beauty to the very real dangers of living in a legislated body.” www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

Love this book. Congrats, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social! @juneroadpress.bsky.social

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Apostasies - Perugia Press Holli Carrell’s debut collection Apostasies explores Mormon girlhood, the American West, matriarchal lineage, indoctrination, estrangement, and the lingering ramifications of being raised within a…

Holli Carrell’s APOSTASIES (@perugiapress.bsky.social) “explores Mormon girlhood, the American West, matriarchal lineage, indoctrination, estrangement,” and more.

Read poetry for #WomensHistoryMonth: perugiapress.org/product/apos...

Tomorrow night! Boston area peeps, hope you can join us at justBook-ish in Dorchester at 6:30! @carlapanciera.bsky.social

Coming up this Sunday! Join us for a braided reading & convo online - free but registration required. Link in bio.

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Petrichor I love the slow, tender / hooved gallop behind my left

Start your day with Reginald Dwayne Betts
“ I love this prayer,
this sin-eater or ghost or madman
humming to my soul. I love discursive
& juxtaposition & the alchemy turning
words into the only parachutes
I long for.”
poets.org/poem/petrich... Academy of American Poets

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