It is truly an honor to introduce the thirty-eighth issue of Tupelo Quarterly. Gratitude to our distinguished guest editors, who contributed luminous and thought-provoking folios of work at the forefront of contemporary poetics and hybrid writing. In addition to celebrating the work of noted writers like Bruce Bond, Henry Sussman, and Sarah Giragosian, we are excited to highlight several exciting new voices in the literary arts. Nicole Allensworth, for instance, shows us the myriad ways that poetry can bridge temporal moments and genre boundaries in a folio that is impressive in its scope and ambition. Similarly, Monserrat Andrée Carty and Jesse Albatrosova show us the infinite forms that hybridity and innovation can take.
This issue is one of our best ones yet, representing a full range of aesthetic approaches, formal predilections, and writerly influences. In many ways, this diversity arises from our Senior and Associate Editors’ impressive array of critical and creative projects, and the infinitely varied questions they ask of language. As always, it is a pleasure to showcase their interests in our Editorial Features section, highlighting the myriad influences that shape our magazine and its offerings. Similarly, our Editors’ Selections in Poetry, Prose, and Visual Art showcase work that has been important to our editors’ development as creative practitioners and critical thinkers.
From all of us at TQ, we hope you will peruse the magazine’s vast and luminous offerings. We are also thrilled to announce our upcoming juried contests, which will open to submissions on August 15th. Happy summer, and enjoy!