Prageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019), Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007), The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: […]
Tom Henry is a recent graduate from Maryville University, where he majored in art and studied with mentors Scott Angus, professor of photography, John Baltrushunas, professor of design, and Dana Levin, professor of poetry. For more info see truthofmay.com Dana Levin has this to say about Tom Henry: “Over many […]
I first encountered this poem in its embodied performance by Abegunde. In my mind’s ear, I hear the poet’s aching voice gaining strength as she addresses Diamond Reynolds, Philando Castile’s girlfriend who witnessed and recorded his killing and his dying. When Abegunde watched the dash cam video, she […]
Dan Beachy-Quick is the author, most recently, of gentlessness (Tupelo Press, 2015) and A Brighter Word Than Bright: Keats at Work (Iowa University Press, 2013). He is a Monfort Professor teaching in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. Tupelo Quarterly’s Associate Editor, Cassandra […]
Nonfiction writer John McPhee devises a graphic symbol to represent the structure of every piece he writes — a doodle with arrows, a nautilus set against the axes of time and place. When I read Aaron Coleman’s poems, I want to draw their forms: intricate, precise, relentless, necessary. […]
A line from another of Natalie Catasús’s poems haunts me, “how soon body/will sidestep body.” Lately, I seem to spend my days alternating between passionate intensity and artful sidestepping. In the latter mode, I avert my eyes, weary of contact with haters and allies alike. In times of […]
I first proposed this collaborative corner of TQ with an appreciative glance at Robert Creeley’s work with visual artists. Poet John Yau writes that for Creeley what mattered most in collaboration was “the kind of integration that can be made to take place.” That integration was intimate, visceral, […]
Kevin Bubriski Fes, Morocco May 23-30, 2013 iPhone camera AFTERWORD I hold in my hands a half dozen of Kevin Bubriski’s passports. Extra pages accordion out, covered with stamps of blue, green, purple and pink and scrawls in more languages than I can name. Compared to these […]
In the previous issue of the journal I launched this “corner” in which collaboration between poets and painters might happen. Here’s the language I used to describe the next steps: I’ve conceived of this ‘corner’ of Tupelo Quarterly as a loosely bounded place for poets and painters, […]
“In each relationship, one must bring something of simple usefulness. Wood or flint to the fire; salt or flour to the loaf.” — Hank Hine Just over ten years ago I went to an exhibit at the New York Public Library called “In Company,” a documentation of Robert Creeley’s […]
