Toothless starlight, sing to me now. Low moon, skin-swaddled and ancient, speak from the I of […]
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A Process Note I first started thinking about video poetry and experimental film centered on poetry as “poem-films,” […]
Wyoming by Tyler Truman Julian & Joshua Young
Timothy Donnelly’s poetry exists at the interstices of philosophy and the literary arts. In many ways, […]
An Introduction to Timothy Donnelly by Kristina Marie Darling

In recent years, audiences and readers have been offered glimpses into a theater of death, suffering, raw fear, […]
The Cost of Love and Survival: A Review of Rebecca ...

Befriending one’s pain is the core of Holley M. Hill’s stunning and ravaging memoir — a hybrid of […]
Terrible Beauty: A Review of There Is Only Lampyridae

In the titular poem of Heidi Seaborn’s first full-length collection of poetry, the speaker asserts that “sometimes/ Chaos […]
What Chaos Can Do: On Heidi Seaborn’s Give a Girl ...
Veronica Golos is the author of A Bell Buried Deep, co winner of […]
The Girl. Thirteen. by Veronica Golos
On “Flagstones” . . . Here, the speaker recounts the seemingly simple task of setting flagstones […]
Judge’s Citation by Kevin Prufer
It is truly an honor to introduce the newest issue of Tupelo Quarterly, TQ16. We are pleased to celebrate […]
Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
“To hold up a mirror to our hunger” is the gift of this remarkable poem. It’s […]
Judge’s Citation by Jennifer Chang
In “hogtied,” the archive distorts its own memory so that, reading, I experienced the book as […]
Judge’s Citation by Bhanu Kapil

A metaphor that extends across a poem, defying clichés and breaches of clarity or cohesion, is already a […]