It is truly an honor to introduce the twenty-second issue of Tupelo Quarterly. In addition to featuring new work by such literary luminaries as Mary-Kim Arnold, Denise Duhamel, Julie Marie Wade, Carol Guess, & Rachel Eliza Griffiths, we are excited to highlight several exciting new voices in the literary arts. […]
In The Hare With Amber Eyes, ceramicist Edmund de Waal writes that [s]tories and objects share something, a patina,” that “[p]erhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed.” In her essay “Go On, Then,” Darcie Abbene’s artful prose reveals the essential […]
With such a title as She-Giant in the Land of Here-We-Go-Again, maybe it would be best for you, the reader, to pull a blanket over your head and read in dim light, to try to see something with pure sight, undiluted by what you already know, undulating to the sound […]
It is truly an honor to introduce this new poem by Heather McHugh. McHugh is like no other writer working today. In her understated, yet syntactically rebellious, poem, she uses what seem at first like small stylistic decisions to make startling and necessary claims about gender, form, and academia. In […]
It had been a while since we’d finished eating, but as it was my turn to do the dishes, I was still in the kitchen. I finished washing, dried everything, put it all away and went back to the table to eat cookies: my dessert and only recompense for my […]
It was an honor to see some prose pieces from Nils Michals come across the TQR inbox; I’m a fan of his poetry but was struck wholly by Michaels’ ability to weave lyric power and philosophical inquiry into tight lines of vivid prose. I was also struck hard by his […]
Even in the deepest frozen tundra, even in the driest desert air, even in the stillness of a forged metal core, a heart beats; Brian Turner’s essays examine love and loss through the far-reaches of the natural world, through time, through the spirit world, through the aching loss of a […]
Whether she’s writing about jellyfish, Michelangelo, automatons, or gun violence, Rebecca Morgan Frank is a writer interested in the processes of perspective and perception. She engages in ways of re-seeing the world; or, as she comments in an author’s note, she’s constantly adjusting the lens. A poet of ekphrases and […]
I love Jessica Abughattas’s poems. I had the good fortune of writing a blurb for her forthcoming book, Strip, which is a stunning debut. Any subject Abughattas writes about becomes a conundrum in the most beautiful of ways, whether the poet is investigating politics, family, identity, or love. These poems are little apertures that open […]
Feminist Poetics of the Archive: A Forum Edited by Karla Kelsey We might evoke the term “archive” to describe many different holdings—for example, all that goes on-record via the Net, an institution’s official repository of valuable texts, or a culture’s canon. An archive might also be personal, housed in alternative […]