Karla Kelsey is an exciting voice in contemporary poetry. In many ways, her work reads as […]
Editors’ Selections
Mexican tacos in Paris look like thick rolled cigars, if cigars had meat inside. They dance […]
You Will, Indeed, Always Be the Same Person After Vacation ...
Shauna Barbosa’s poems are so gorgeous and provocative as to be startling, like the sun sinking […]
An Introduction to Shauna Barbosa by dawn lonsinger
In this discussion of Douglas Crase and Emersonian poetics, Kylan Rice considers how poetry can help […]
An Introduction to Kylan Rice by Zach Savich
One of the oldest critiques leveled against the poets, or anyone who makes (tous poietikous), is […]
Things as They Are by Kylan Rice
The work of Emily Hunt, with its sonic brilliance grounded by its precise sense of affect, […]
An Introduction to Emily Hunt by Henk Rossouw
Strange markings indeed. Rachel Moritz’s “Word Blindness” inscribes a text that is by turns dark and […]
An Introduction to Rachel Moritz by Elizabeth Robinson
I keep shifting the stems around until they face forward and lie flat. The thorns and […]
from COMPANY by Emily Hunt
my mouth pressed to innocence, my mouth pressed to heaven or none or few, a cold […]
They put their mouths up to the heavens, which, by ...
http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/On-Certainty-by-Karla-Kelsey.pdf Karla Kelsey is the author of four books, most recently Of Sphere, selected by […]
from ON CERTAINTY by Karla Kelsey
counting mountains writeth deer she was born a lull in aspen he, a stave to ash, […]
When in my days I called by Todd Melicker
I met Kate Folk at breakfast, at the MacDowell Colony. Over pancakes and bacon and cooked-to-order […]