We set out to design TQ in a way that is simultaneously beautiful, true to the intent of […]
Editor’s Feature
Dear readers, fellow writers, fellow editors, fellow electronic-publishing-wranglers, In April of 2013, Jeffrey Levine set me on […]
Launch Notes
I am beyond excited to serve as a Senior Poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly. And what better way […]
Thanks Be to Poetry: Values, Expressions, Gratitudes by Stacey Waite
1) Because I know you, I know these poems weren’t written sequentially. Are they born of your obsessions, […]
An Interview with Gary McDowell by TJ Jarrett
What I’m looking for, always, is writing that works me over like a crowbar. That bruises, yes, but […]
Spikes & Rivers: The Work of Joe Wilkins by Elizabeth ...
I seem to have strayed a long way from our subject, but our subject is social and historical […]
Book of the World Courant: I-IV by Eric Darton
Others before me have eloquently discussed the theory, history, and practice of the art of literary translation. This […]
The Poetics of Translation: An Introduction by Nancy Naomi Carlson
I’m sitting in my living room in the day’s last light, listening to a Gillian Welch track, “Look […]
Shoshin by CM Burroughs
“In each relationship, one must bring something of simple usefulness. Wood or flint to the fire; salt or […]
Pairings: Poets and Painters in Mutual Usefulness by Cassandra Cleghorn
Julius Lester’s biography should be a familiar one. In the civil rights movement, in literature, in scholarship and […]
Thinking in Light: the Art of Julius Lester by Jessamyn ...
I’ve now known Taryn Schwilling’s poems for many years, poems whose music of both ear and eye made […]
Introduction to Taryn Schwilling’s Poetry by Dan Beachy-Quick
Jellyfish, it seems, are what our oceans are becoming: capitalizing on the warming temperatures, the acidification, the decreasing […]