Download the PDF file . Selva Casal (b. 1930) is the author of fifteen books of poetry. A former lawyer and professor of sociology, Casal is inspired by her experiences working with people who have faced injustice. She resides in Montevideo, Uruguay. Jeannine Marie Pitas […]
Adrienne Raphel’s debut collection of poetry, What Was It For, careens on the edges of nonsense—which are also the disquieting edges of nursery rhyme, riddle, and song. Its humor is by turns blunt as a groan and subtle as a sniff; “I like to go into the soggy […]
For the last issue of Tupelo Quarterly, TQ11, I curated an Editorial Feature, “An Inheritance of Riches: A Portfolio of Contemporary Uruguayan Women Poets” whose purpose was to showcase five Uruguayan women poets, Melisa Machado, Laura Cesarco Eglin, Virginia Lucas, Karen Wild Díaz and Eloísa Avoletta, born from 1966 […]
In this interview, the founding editor of Plays Inverse Press, Tyler Crumrine, discusses the ways in which contemporary, experimental verse drama can change how we think about poetry, theatre, and the performative dimensions of any text. Plays Inverse has recently published works by authors including Catherine Theis, Dalton […]
Anneke Brassinga, born in 1948 at Schaarsbergen, Holland, did translation studies at the University of Amsterdam 1967 – 1972. She has been a free-lance literary translator from English, French, and German. She has been writing poetry and essays since 1984, winning several prizes, including P.C. Hooft-Prijs 2015. […]
– Yves Tanguy’s Les Vues Like a man running away from his tumor (legs fuzzy with speed) skull contorting to the cancer’s protean form— a bicuspid pliered from the roots, enamel gone, dentin starting to slouch like pudding—stages 2, 3 lurking on […]
Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry is Scald (Pittsburgh, 2017). Blowout (Pittsburgh, 2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other titles include Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009); Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled […]
Jeannine Marie Pitas is the author of two poetry chapbooks and the translator of several Uruguayan poets. Her first full-length poetry collection, Things Seen and Unseen, is forthcoming from Quattro Books. She lives in Iowa and teaches at the University of Dubuque. Jesse Lee Kercheval: The History […]
Betsy Wheeler’s lyrics remind me why and how in poems we sing. Devoted to a kind of a daily ecstatic, these almost-odes deftly mine the key of loving observation in which subjectivity is as much outward-leaning, outward-learning, as inward, and the things of the world are noted both as […]
Hope Wabuke is the author of the chapbooks The Leaving and Movement No.1: Trains. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A contributing editor for The Root, her work has also been published in The Guardian, Guernica, The North American […]
