Rodolfo Mata NOT MY LANGUAGE* For Shelley and Andy English words are landing on my brain while I sit in this open library in the most vivid silence full of tires rolling away random biplanes or jets crossing the blue sky and Chinese chimes touched by the wind English […]
Cassie Donish is a queer Jewish writer from Los Angeles. They are the author of the poetry collections The Year of the Femme (University of Iowa Press, 2019), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and Beautyberry (Slope Editions, 2018). Their nonfiction work On the Mezzanine (Gold Line Press, 2019) was chosen by Maggie Nelson as […]
Elaine Johanson is a Philadelphia based writer and artist. She recently published And And, a chapbook of poems and photographs, with photographer and designer Jan C. Almquist. Katherine Hollander: Elaine, thank you so much for talking with me about your new book, And And! Elaine Johanson: Hi, Katie! I’m […]
John Gallaher is the author of Brand New Spacesuit, which was recently launched from BOA Editions, Map of the Folded World (University of Akron Press, 2009) and The Little Book of Guesses (Four Way Books, 2007), which won the Levis Poetry Prize. He is an associate professor of English at Northwest […]
Maya C. Popa is the author of American Faith (Sarabande), 2020 recipient of the North American Book Prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia. She is the Poetry Reviews Editor of Publishers Weekly and a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is writing on the role of […]
Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of three poetry collections, Red Summer, Darktown Follies, and Imperial Liquor. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Dorset Prize. He directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. John Murillo: Our books of […]
Danusha Laméris’ first book, The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize. Some of her poems have been published in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, […]
Last year in June, I was in Canada where I met the Slovak translator Lucia Duero at the Banff Literary Translation Centre at the Banff Centre for the Arts. We began talking about contemporary Slovak poetry and I immediately wanted to make more of this work available for English language […]
It is truly an honor to introduce the twenty-first issue of Tupelo Quarterly. In addition to featuring new work by such literary luminaries as Karla Kelsey, Jeffrey Pethybridge, Brandon Shimoda, Elisa Gabbert, Denise Duhamel, & Julie Marie Wade, we are excited to highlight several exciting new voices in the literary […]
Grace Talusan’s powerhouse memoir The Body Papers is an intimate, explosive account of a life marked by migration, trauma, and survival. Her recurrent themes of identity in the in-between space of American vs. Filipino, girl vs. woman, victim vs. survivor, woman as mother vs. infertility, all tie in to the […]
