Carolina Hotchandani
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Poet. Professor. Author of THE BOOK EATERS (Perugia Press, 2023).
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Thank you to @pw.org for your special section, “Reflection: Twenty Years of Debut Poets.” I’m so pleased to be among these poets, featured for my debut poetry collection, THE BOOK EATERS (Perugia Press).
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Powerful new work “Shelter,” by Carolina Hotchandani, in the latest Alaska Quarterly Review. ❤️💔 @chotchandani.bsky.social
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Carolina Hotchandani has a new poem up in Issue 54 of The Adroit Journal: “Interim.” Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole and listen to Hotchandani read it at the link. @adroitjournal.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social ♥️🕯️ theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
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Thanks to our distributor Asterism for amplifying this new review of Carolina Hotchandani’s THE BOOK EATERS, written by Jami Macarty and published in New Pages. Read the whole at www.newpages.com/blog/books/b... 💞📖🌟 @asterismbooks.bsky.social @newpages.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social
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We appreciate our readers so much & we love to see Perugia books in Sealey Challenge stacks! Thanks to Brittney Corrigan for choosing Carolina Hotchandani’s THE BOOK EATERS this month for the 2025 #sealeychallenge. Find it in our Linktree! 💞 @brittneycorrigan.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social
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Gratitude to Jami Macarty for this new reader’s response review of Carolina Hotchandani’s The Book Eaters, and to New Pages for giving it a home. Read the whole at the link in bio. 🌟📖🌟 @newpages.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social
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Many thanks to our distributor Asterism Books for highlighting our title THE BOOK EATERS by Carolina Hotchandani in a recent “Immigration Stories” showcase. We appreciate the partnership in support of our books and poets, Asterism! 🌟📚🌟 @asterismbooks.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social
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Thank you, Jami Macarty, for this new review of @chotchandani.bsky.social’s The Book Eaters, and to New Pages for giving it a home! 💞
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Jami Macarty reviews 'The Book Eaters' by Carolina Hotchandani, poems that examine selfhood, family, and cultural inheritance, using powerful metaphors of consumption to explore loss.

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Book Review :: The Book Eaters by Carolina Hotchandani
Carolina Hotchandani's 'The Book Eaters' explores identity, motherhood, and loss through self-portraits, confronting familial illness and cultural heritage.
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Hope you’ll stop by Table #510 at the AWP Bookfair and visit with Perugia Press and our poets. Carolina Hotchandani will be there on Friday, March 28 from 3:00-4:00. Don’t miss the chance to talk with our brilliant poets about their work! 🌟📚🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social #perugiapress #awp25
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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
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💡New poetry by @chotchandani.bsky.social in Smartish Pace!💡Hotchandani is the author of The Book Eaters, the 2023 @perugiapress.bsky.social winner & a debut book featured in @pw.org . She is a Goodrich Assistant Professor of English at the U. of Nebraska at Omaha.💡
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Carolina Hotchandani has three poems in the 25th Anniversary issue of Smartish Pace, including this beautiful one, which you can also read in her Perugia book The Book Eaters. Brava, Carolina! Order the issue at smartishpace.com 🌟 @chotchandani.bsky.social
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Carolina Hotchandani and Maria Zoccola are reading from their beautiful debut collections this Saturday at Francie & Finch Bookshop in Lincoln, Nebraska at 4:30pm. 🌟🌟
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Thank you for publishing this tornado poem of mine, @highcountrynews.bsky.social!
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One week in May, we wake
each day to sirens.

Branches shaking,
snapped. We aren’t lulled

back to dreams by the wailing,
the rhythmic pelting of hail.

✍️ A poem by Carolina Hotchandani.
Spring of Whirling Omens - High Country News
A poem by Carolina Hotchandani.
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One week in May, we wake
each day to sirens.

Branches shaking,
snapped. We aren’t lulled

back to dreams by the wailing,
the rhythmic pelting of hail.

✍️ A poem by Carolina Hotchandani.
Spring of Whirling Omens - High Country News
A poem by Carolina Hotchandani.
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Thank you to @pw.org for your special section, “Reflection: Twenty Years of Debut Poets.” I’m so pleased to be among these poets, featured for my debut poetry collection, THE BOOK EATERS (Perugia Press).
www.pw.org/content/refl...
chotchandani.bsky.social
Thank you to @pw.org for your special section, “Reflection: Twenty Years of Debut Poets.” I’m so pleased to be among these poets, featured for my debut poetry collection, THE BOOK EATERS (Perugia Press).
www.pw.org/content/refl...
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Thank you to Paisley Rekdal, the poetry editor at High Country News, for publishing my poem “Spring of Whirling Omens” in the December issue of the magazine.

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That is a dream assignment! I adore Hayv Kahraman’s work so much. I look forward to reading this.
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Congratulations to Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, for Something About Living!
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From INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE LOVERS, by Dawn Lundy Martin
A poem titled “About Secrets, D + D” by Dawn Lundy Martin. It reads “I like secrets though. I think about the way secrets are a product of a shared. Secrets are a necessary part of how people form, locate themselves and each other. The secret is crucial for the erotic. And devastating for what happens after the moment of foreclosure. If a secret is held right where the nature of the secret is shared and understood, the disclosures are less personalized, so the devastation is still present but shifts from altering truth to multiplicity, ever present (loss) against oneness. How can a secret be shared when the very word ‘secret’ means apart? The secret isn’t shared, but the purpose of the secret is shared. What if I, say; accidentally murdered your hamster, and that’s the secret? If you accidentally murdered my hamster, I would know you didn’t tell me because you have your own feelings about it that you were processing before processing my reaction/response to it. A secret is a promise in reverse. Which is the weapon? Which hurts the most? For example, it’s just us on earth now and our eyes are quite dry. We think we hear a yodeling from afar. We reveal the door.”