I wrote some of my notes on Tana Jean Welch’s In Parachutes Descending while sitting in a cafe […]
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If it weren’t for the title of her debut full-length collection, Good Girl and Other Yearnings (Write Bloody […]
Hands Empty: Shiloh Jordan on Isabelle Correa’s Good Girl and ...
When singers publish poetry collections—particularly, those from mainstream genres—I find that their common thrust is one of drawn-out […]
Emma Ruth Rundle’s “The Bella Vista” and Musing with Terror—Reviewed ...
Late in Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s multi-layered novel, A Stranger Comes to Town, protagonist Joe Marzino says, “There are […]
There Are So Many Ways of Forgetting; A Stranger Comes ...
I recently read a compelling article, by Dan Chiasson, about the life and work of James Schuyler.* Chiasson […]
Goat, Goddess, Moon by Catherine Strisik, Reviewed by Douglas Babington
In woke up no light, LeilaMottley writes about Blackness and womanhood with such attention that we feel the […]
Linda Michel Cassidy on woke up no light by Leila ...
“Now I want to write until I blush. Because I believe that’s where the most interesting writing, the […]
Britta Stromeyer on Coming. Apart. by Edy Poppy, translated by ...
It is truly an honor to introduce the thirty-sixth issue of Tupelo Quarterly. We are thrilled to announce the winners, […]
Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Ellen Kombiyil uses redaction, collage, and recombination to expose a dark history. The result is both acerbically witty […]
Judge’s Citation by Hasanthika Sirisena
Bolton’s poems are generous and skillfully compressed, visionary and focused. I was drawn in so fully by their […]
Judge’s Citation by Maya Popa
Exploring themes of purification, healing, and rebirth, this six-part lyrical essay is as insightful as it is moving, as […]
Judge’s Citation by Diana Spechler
Martha McCollough’s newest book of poems, Trash Witch, strewn with magical debris, overshadowed by death, and fraught with […]