“Let me tell you about being female” rings, obliquely, the salvo and refrain of Sarah Giragosian’s stunning poem “Missing Person.” In this deft and original work, we are reminded of the modern adage that men are afraid of being embarrassed by women; women are afraid of being killed […]
Kelvin Christopher James is a Trinidadian-American who writes fables, short stories, and novels. Most recently we have received another of his absorbing short stories, “Luck,” and we have taken this time to offer both the tale and an brief e-interview with the author. I began by asking Kelvin how he […]
Mutant, you said, and we understood. Moonlight unlocks murder dreams, the angels sober. In the mystic classroom, we clapped our hands at the seeds of sacred dignity sewn into the skin of western philosophy. Simple. The cells marched. Mother, you re-mother. Bones bloomed and the bodies once inside […]
Kylan Rice is a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studies nineteenth-century literature. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. His poems and prose can be found at Kenyon Review, The Seattle Review, and elsewhere. His book reviews have been published by […]
Rodrigo Toscano’s newest book of poetry is Explosion Rocks Springfield (Fence Books, 2016). Forthcoming is In Range (Counterpath, 2019). His previous books include, Deck of Deeds, Collapsible Poetics Theater (a National Poetry Series selection), To Leveling Swerve, Platform, Partisans, and The Disparities. His poetry has appeared in the anthologies Dialectical Imaginaries, Poetry and Work, Voices Without Borders, Diasporic Avant Gardes, Imagined Theatres, and Best American Poetry. Toscano has […]
A Process Note Last year, I started doing research on one of the bits of Chicago local history I find most fascinating–HH Holmes and his “Murder Castle”. How a man could get away with murdering Worlds’s Fair attendees, supposedly by the dozen, and no one be the wiser. There was […]
KEVIN WIXTED: AT PLAY IN THE FIELD a micro-interview with Elaine Sexton Elaine Sexton: Your new paintings, the subject of an exhibit at the American University of Paris Fine Arts Gallery earlier this year, show a dramatic shift from grids and abstract patterns to the tropical and ecstatic, composed […]
Editor’s Note Tupelo Quarterly’s Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary is frequently home to poetry films, video poems, and multimedia work. As part of this issue’s offerings, we are delighted to feature this retrospective of work from the archives of Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Rabbit Light Movies. Here, Wilkinson has chosen representative work from […]
A Process Note Reallifeaninstallation is a web project designed by Phuong T. Vuong and Julie Carr to accompany Carr’s book Real Life: An Installation, (Omnidawn Books, 2018). Thirty-six hypothetical installations have been actualized in digital space by artists of diverse backgrounds, stages in their careers, and artistic practices. Galleries, art spaces, […]
Ginny Threefoot received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has recently appeared in collaboration with artist Anne Lindberg at Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago and Haw Contemporary in Kansas, City, MO. Their exhibit “Think Like the River” will open at the Figge Art Museum […]
