Perugia Press

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Perugia Press
Founded 1997
Founder Susan Kan
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location Florence, Massachusetts
Publication types books
Fiction genres poetry
Official website www.perugiapress.com

Perugia Press is an American not-for-profit poetry press located in Florence, Massachusetts and founded in 1997 by Editor and Director Susan Kan. The press publishes one collection of poetry each year, by a woman poet chosen from its annual book contest, the Perugia Press Prize. [1] [2]

Notable authors published by Perugia Press include Diane Gilliam Fisher (Kettle Bottom, 2004), Melanie Braverman, Frannie Lindsay, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Lynne Thompson, and Nancy K. Pearson. Authors have been recipients many awards including the James Laughlin Award, the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, the Ohioana Library Association Poetry Book of the Year award, the Pushcart Prize, NEA Literature Fellowships, Massachusetts Cultural Council grants, and numerous other honors. [3] Perugia Press titles have been reviewed by Valparisio Poetry Review, [4] Prairie Schooner, [5] Blackbird, [6] and other publications.

Diane Gilliam Fisher is an American poet. She is author of several poetry collections, most recently, Kettle Bottom.

Kettle Bottom is a collection of historical poems published in 2004 by Perugia Press in Florence, Massachusetts and written by Diane Gilliam Fisher. The collection's deep focus is on the West Virginia labor battles of 1920 and 1921, such as the Battle of Matewan and Battle of Blair Mountain. Kettle Bottom was named Top Ten Poetry Book for 2005 by American Booksellers Association Book Sense, was winner of the Ohioana Library Association Poetry Book of the Year, was a finalist for the Weatherford Award of the Appalachian Studies Association, and selected for inclusion in The Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses.

Frannie Lindsay is an American poet. She is author of three poetry collections, most recently, Mayweed. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MacDowell and Millay Colonies, and Yaddo. Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review, Black Warrior Review, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, Field, Prairie Schooner,Poetry East, Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, and Hunger Mountain. Her poems have also been featured on Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. Lindsay earned her B.A. from Russell Sage College and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She grew up in a musical family—her mother was a concert violinist—and she is a classical pianist and lives in Belmont, Massachusetts with her two dogs.

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References

  1. ↑ Perugia Press > About the Press Archived 2012-10-28 at the Wayback Machine .
  2. ↑ Perugia Press Home Page Archived 2009-11-15 at the Wayback Machine .
  3. ↑ Perugia Press > Books Archived 2009-11-15 at the Wayback Machine .
  4. ↑ Review: Valparisio Poetry Review > Review by Erin Murphy of Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher
  5. ↑ Prairie Schooner > Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2008
  6. ↑ Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts > Fall 2007 > Vol. 6, No. 2 > Review by Catherine MacDonald of Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher
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