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Poets! We are currently accepting manuscript submissions for the Lexi Rudnitsky Editors Choice Award, open to those who have published at least one previous full-length poetry collection. Americans living anywhere in the world or people living in the United States regardless of nationality or status are eligible. Previous winners include Amy Newman, Michael White, Shane McCrae, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Gary Young, and others. For more information or to submit your collection, visit the contest page on Submittable: https://tinyurl.com/4u83r66r

We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry is Date of Birth by Shawn R. Jones! Date of Birth will be published in Spring 2023. Congratulations to Shawn, and also to our finalists: Fay Dillof, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Alyssandra Tobin, and Natalie Tombasco. The next entry period for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize begins on September 1, 2022. Currently, we are accepting submissions for the Lexi Rudnitsky Editors Choice Award via Submittable. Visit www.perseabooks.com for details and guidelines for either poetry contest.

Happy (1st!) book birthday to ARRHYTHMIA by Emily Van Kley. Yep, we're celebrating a #pubday! What happens to the vibrant particulars of a life when it ends? A tribute to queer friendship, this book weaves chronic griefs with the stab of a loved one’s sudden absence. http://ow.ly/xtnZ50EVmsk

Did you hear Molly McCully Brown on The Paris Review Podcast yet? We've got the link for you here: http://ow.ly/xmyf50HfXFT. In this episode, Molly reads "If You Are Permanently Lost". She joins writers George Saunders, Monica Youn, and Venita Blackburn. And here's where you can find Molly's book of essays upon your falling in love with her captivating work: https://www.perseabooks.com//places-ive-taken-my-body-essa

She is a beauty! MADRIGALIA hailed one of the 11 Best Book Covers of November by Lit Hub. lithub.com/the-11-best-bo Cover art: Julie Heffernan Cover design: Small Stuff NYC Poems (deemed "sensuous, ecstatic" by Emily Temple): Lisa Russ Spaar... ow.ly/j1ce50H14fZ

"...at the core of this poem is the light that comes after the clouds have cleared." Listen to Ada Limón read Gabrielle Calvocoressi's "Hammond B3 Organ Cistern" on The Slowdown Show. It will be the best 5 minutes of your day: https://www.slowdownshow.org//24/552-hammond-b3-organ-cist.

Cameron Awkward-Rich, author of DISPATCH, has been awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation . Congratulations to Cameron, as well as all the fellows and awardees.

Poetry deadline approaching! We are accepting manuscript submissions via Submittable for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in poetry until 11:59pm Eastern on October 31st. The winner is awarded book publication, $1K, and the option of an expenses-paid six week residency at Civitella Ranieri, an incomparable artist retreat housed in an Italian castle. Click link for complete guidelines or to submit your collection: https://perseabooks.submittable.com//lexi-rudnitsky-first-

Happy Publication Day to SHORELESS by Enid Shomer, winner of the 2019 Editor's Choice Award as part of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project. Shomer, the author of five previous books of poetry, "carries us through the uncertainties of life and death, love and loss" in her newest work. --Michelle Boisseau Here's just one of many places you can purchase SHORELESS: https://www.perseabooks.com/bookshop/shoreless.... #getpublished #pubday #bookbirthday #florida #tampabay #prizewinner #poetryreading #lexirudnitsky #perseabooks

News of Leslie Shinn's passing has reached us. We'd like to send our deepest condolences to Leslie's surviving family as we remember her. Shinn authored INSIDE SPIDERS (Persea Books, 2014) and was a beloved member of the biochemistry program at UPenn. https://www.thedp.com//vagelos-biochem-coordinator-memorial

Less than two weeks out from the release of Enid Shomer’s wondrous collection SHORELESSwinner of the 2019 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Awardand that calls for a sneak peek. Enjoy Enid’s poem Translation today, and the rest of her fifth book of poetry on October 20th. Oh, and how about the beautiful abstract expressionism featured on the cover? Artwork by the late Helen Frankenthaler, cover design by Small Stuff NYC. #shoreless #enidshomer #perseabooks #lexirudnitsky #poetry #floridapoetry #florida #tampa #tampabay #comingsoon #newrelease #bookrelease #helenfrankenthaler

Sure it's only October, but it's never too early to start that holiday wish list! While you're at it, check out this list of Featured Fall Books from The Academy of American Poets twice: https://poets.org/2020-featured-fall-books. Kimberly Grey, author of SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE OF FEELING (out in December!), gets a mention!

Thanks to The Rumpus for selecting SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE OF FEELING by Kimberly Grey for its November Poetry Book Club!

We "shore" hope you're following us on The Gram. See our latest: http://ow.ly/qTRe50BvIUp #socialmedia #newpost #thegram #follow #bookstagram

Happy pub week to MORE TRULY AND MORE STRANGE, an anthology of American self-portrait poems edited and introduced by the incredible Lisa Russ Spaar. (Cover art by Sylvia Plath!) Contributors: Lucie Brock-Broido, Jericho Brown, Stephanie Burt, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Chen Chen, Natalie Díaz, Rita Dove, Denise Duhamel, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Major Jackson, Natasha Trethewey, Carl Phillips, Tracy K. Smith, & many more. Order directly from our site and get a 20% discount with the promo code "TRULY" http://ow.ly/J5J250Bm78j

Poets! We are accepting manuscript submissions for the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, open to female-identifying writers. The winner receives book publication, $1,000, & the option of an expenses-paid, six-week residency in 2022 at Civitella Ranieri in Italy. Previous winners include Molly McCully Brown, Valencia Robin, Alexandra Teague, & many others. For guidelines / submission, click here: https://perseabooks.submittable.com//lexi-rudnitsky-first-

ICYMI: We loved Rene Ostberg's write-up of In the Field Between Us, co-written by Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison, in U.S. Catholic's list of books sure to expand your imagination. More here: https://uscatholic.org//expand-your-literary-imagination-/.

PSA: Tomorrow, our Submittable begins accepting entries to the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book contest! Previous prize winners include Molly McCully Brown, Valencia Robin, and most recently Sarah Matthes. Send us your work & join this incredible rank of women! More at http://ow.ly/QBQW50ATvmE.

"Almost all [Wainscott's sonnets] have lines I want to quote, or lines you might want to quote out of context, epigrammatic portraits of a contemporary, just-pre-COVID American oscillating among fear and anger and lust and bemusement and tears and hope..." Read more of Stephanie Burt's spirited review of INSECURITY SYSTEM by Sara Wainscott up at Green Mountains Review. http://greenmountainsreview.com/a-review-of-insecurity-sys/

While your morning may not have been futuristic, space-hopping, and asteroid-evading, this version of "In a World" by Aaron Belz gets pretty darn close. Thank you to the reader, Jesse Morrison, for this very vocoder moment. #vocoder #digitalart #storytime #tiktok

Poets, get excited! Submissions to our Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in poetry open September 1st. We can hardly wait to read your poetry. More information about the contest can be found at http://ow.ly/4nAk50AQDZn