Rebecca Pelky

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection THROUGH A RED PLACE by Rebecca Pelky. Find more prompts, poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Pelky’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social

Sending thanks to our awesome distributor Asterism for their Thanksgiving post highlighting Indigenous stories, including Through a Red Place by Rebecca Pelky (Perugia, 2021). Check out all these amazing books at asterismbooks.com. 🍁📚♥️ @asterismbooks.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social

Through a Red Place - Perugia Press Through a Red Place is an inventive collage of geography, history, myth, translation, lineage, erasure, journalism, and photography.

Written in English and Mohegan, Rebecca Pelky’s story-in-poems “assembles the author’s research into her Native and non-Native heritage in the land now known as Wisconsin.”

Read THROUGH A RED PLACE (@perugiapress.bsky.social) this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth: perugiapress.org/product/thro...

Thanks for including Rebecca Pelky’s THROUGH A RED PLACE in great company in this year’s Native American Heritage Month reading list, CLMP! ♥️ @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social

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Water snake snakin’ on the canal.

Old Erie Canal Log, Day 2
Most of the critters are too quick for me to photograph. It’s honestly amazing how quickly chubby raccoons, in their their natural environments, can disappear as if invisible. So instead here’s a big fish!

Old Erie Canal Log, Day 1 (as far as Bluesky is concerned, at least). I walk here a lot in summer. It helps me stay sane. Today, being a good citizen of nature meant giving my neighbors a little extra space by choosing not to pass them.

Here’s Rebecca Pelky’s book Through a Red Place at Columbia, Missouri’s independent bookstore, Skylark, in good company & in support of the Unbound Book Fest, and the great crowd at Serendipity for her panel on Indigenous Justice with Tacey Atsitty & m. s. RedCherries. @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social

On Saturday, April 19, Rebecca Pelky will be on the panel “Indigenous Justice” from 11:45-1:00 with Tacey M. Atsitty and m. s. RedCherries at Serendipity Saloon in Downtown Columbia, Missouri as part of the Unbound Book Festival. ♥️📚♥️ @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social

Thanks to Lisa Stice for this Poetry Month post for Rebecca Pelky’s Through a Red Place, beautifully framed by spring. This title is available at our bookshop and Asterism Books - links in our Linktree. 🌱📖🍃 @lisasticepoet.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social

Great pic from Rebecca Pelky’s AWP panel on starting over in academia, with her co-panelists Amy Butcher, Molly McCully Brown, and Brooke Champagne. 🌟🌟🌟🌟 @mmccullybrown.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @ #awp25

Rebecca Pelky’s author signing yesterday at AWP! 🖊️📖🌟 @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social #perugiapress

As seen in downtown L.A.

Last night! ♥️♥️♥️♥️ @chotchandani.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social

Last night! 🔥 AWP Off Site. On Purpose. @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @jenjblackburn.bsky.social @rholanderpoet.bsky.social

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Hope you’ll stop by Table #510 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Rebecca Pelky will be there on Friday, March 28 from 2:00-3:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟 @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social #througharedplace #awp25

Two weeks from tonight! We’re thrilled to be part of a collaborative offsite at #AWP25 in L.A. on 3/27. Join us! Free admission / Cash bar. @swwim.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @jenjblackburn.bsky.social

It’s much more insidious when we actually say the words: Trump Administration Launches Portal for Reporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Public Schools.

Trump administration launches portal for reporting DEI in public schools Website arrives before government’s two-week ultimatum to schools and universities to dismantle program

The Trump administration is setting up witch hunts. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Post-poetry dark chocolate mousse tower with visiting poet Phil Terman and the Le Moyne CW faculty.

While we’re arguing colonial names, let’s not forget that the Maya called it Chactemal before if was anyone’s Gulf.

Reading the comments it’s funny/not funny how pissed everyone is but also don’t seem to notice the irony/hypocrisy of having the words “End Racism” overshadowed by the giant racist team name whose fans are best known for doing “the tomahawk chop.” Maybe it’s like, “End Racism (here’s an example!)”

Does anyone else see the irony (or maybe it’s hypocrisy?) of “End Racism” above “Chiefs” in giant letters? Granted it’s not as bad as the former Washington team name, but still.

Prepping my Native Lit class and getting homesick for Lake Superior while reading Jane Johnston Schoolcraft.

Banana for scale?