Thanks to the team POETRY magazine for hosting this podcast, where I discuss my essay 'On Crestfallenness,' from this month's issue of Poetry.

Thank you to everyone who came out to hear Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with Kiki Petrosino this past Sunday at Paramount Theater! Here's a photo of our staff right before the event. We still have copies of Roman Stories available in the shop!

Finishing this excellent audiobook w/ thanks to Amy Clukey for the rec. Now looking for additional tomes on the Tudor era that are just as well-written, minutely researched & emotionally DEVASTATING as this. Drop your recs!

(NB: I've read Wolf Hall x3, love them all).

Superb little poem, just in time for my favorite holiday of the year. 'Witch Wife' by Kiki Petrosino.

poetryfoundation.org/poems/146933/w…

Fabulous poem by Kiki Petrosino: Witch Wife - poetryfoundation.org/poems/146933/w…

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY

This year has offered an abundance of surprises, among them, this exciting, thrilling, bubbly news: I've been awarded an Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council for my poetry collection-in-progress.
I am beside myself with gratitude —to the KAC, to the panelists…

“The glass lady doesn't know anything / about Sally Hemmings except she was young / & got to live in Paris for two years. It doesn't / sound half bad, not when you think about it / straight-on, which nobody does” —Kiki Petrosino, “Souvenir” Sarabande Books

I’m so happy to be one of three Autumn House Press authors included on Lambda Literary’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Books list for October! My new lyric essay collection Otherwise officially releases on Monday! ❤️📚🏳️‍🌈

Thank you for the shout-out 💙🧡 We're a 3 yr program w/ a 2 yr option. Funding has *just* been bumped a bit. And we're hiring a new faculty poet. For more: creativewriting.virginia.edu/funding

The featured poet in Vol. XLI, Iss. 1 of Italian Americana is Kiki Petrosino (@UVACWP). Read her work “The Red Earth of Terra” & “Terra” 1-5 in the issue.

scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/issue/X…

Spread the word! The UVA English Department is hiring a TT assistant professor in 19th Century British literature & culture apply.interfolio.com/130424

Week 34!

What to Read This Weekend:

Nation-making, Nobel Prizes, outer limits of philosophy and knowledge, adulting, school debates, startups, poets, muses, population genetics, science funding, civilization states, curing depression...

👉🏻 interintellect.substack.com/p/anna-gat-wha… 👈🏻

'I feel crestfallen when I think too much about glory and not enough about the work, when I fail to flay the tough, silvery membrane between intention (what I want) and attention (what the poem reveals).' 🔥

I wrote an essay on crestfallenness for the October issue of Poetry Foundation: poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

Vol. XLI, Iss. 1 of Italian Americana is all about Italian American literary expression with scholarship and creative work from Kiki Petrosino (@UVACWP), Annette Januzzi Wick, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell (@curran_center), Marc Alan Di Martino 🌻, and more scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/issue/X…