Join us for a Perugia Press book launch reading at CLICK Workspace in Northampton, MA on Friday, October 18 at 7pm! The event is celebrating the 2024 Perugia Press Prize winner – Joan Kwon Glass’s Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms – with readings by Glass and special guests Kirun Kapur and Yasotha Sriharan.

The event is free and open to the public. Free parking can be found on any of the side streets perpendicular to Market St. These are Graves Ave, Union Street, Cherry Street, etc. There is also 2-hour metered parking on Market St, as well as a parking garage located at 85 Hampton Ave, Northampton, MA 01060.

Reader bios:

Yasotha Sriharan is a poet and professor in the Pioneer Valley. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Papua New Guinea and England before immigrating to the U.S. She writes about the countries of her childhood. She teaches at Springfield Technical Community College and has taught at Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Springfield College, and other colleges in the area. She serves on the Board of Directors of Perugia Press.

Kirun Kapur is the author of three books of poetry, Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist (Elixir Press, 2015) which won the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize and the Antivenom Poetry Award, Women in the Waiting Room (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), a finalist for the National Poetry Series; and the chapbook All the Rivers in Paradise (UChicago Arts, 2022). Her work has appeared in AGNI, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares and many other journals. She serves as editor at the Beloit Poetry Journal, one of the nation’s oldest poetry publications, and teaches at Amherst College, where she is director of the Creative Writing Program.

Joan Kwon Glass is a Korean diasporic author, winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Prize for Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, and author of Night Swim, winner of the Diode Book Prize (Diode Editions, 2022), as well as the chapbooks How to Make Pancakes for a Dead Boy (Harbor Editions, 2022) and If Rust Can Grow on the Moon (Milk & Cake Press, 2022). Her poems have been featured in The Margins (Asian American Writers’ Workshop), Poetry, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, The Slowdown, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. She lives in coastal Connecticut where she is a public school educator, and she teaches poetry at writing centers throughout the country.