M. I. Devine’s essays have appeared in American Literature, Adaptation, Measure, and Los Angeles Review of Books. His writing has won support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cofounder of the pop music project Famous Letter Writer, he is an Associate Professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh. Kristina Marie […]
In the tradition of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Karen Volkman, and Lisa Jarnot, Jenny Grassl defamiliarizes language in poetry that is at once spontaneous and skillful, playful and erudite. Here, we encounter words that we only thought we knew, rendered suddenly strange as Grassl reimagines their semantic meaning. […]
Erica Buist is a freelance writer and journalist, formerly a staffer at The Guardian, and she lectures at universities across the UK about features writing. She travelled to seven death festivals (in Mexico, Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan and Indonesia) and wrote a book about it called This Party’s Dead, which […]
In the spring of 2020, the editors of Tupelo Press announced an open call for chapbook-length folios that addressed themes of illness, contagion, pandemic, sheltering-in-place, isolation, wellness, and public health. We were overwhelmed by the response. In a few months’ time, we received nearly 1200 submissions from around […]
Elizabeth A.I. Powell is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Atomizer (LSU Press, 2020).Her two previous books of poems are: Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstancesand The Republic of Self. She is also the author of the novel “Concerning the Holy Ghost’s Interpretation of JCrew Catalogues. […]
Matthew Mumber, M.D., practices medicine as a board-certified radiation oncologist with the Harbin Clinic in Rome. After entering private practice, Matt attended and graduated from Dr. Andrew Weil’s fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona, where he met Rachel Remen and attended trainings on facilitation of physician-patient retreat […]
Amalia Melis was born and raised in New York. She is a freelance hard news/feature writer who has worked from New York and Athens, Greece. She has published interviews with two Pulitzer Prize winning authors Michael Cunningham and Frank McCourt. She is an essayist and fiction writer as well. Her […]
Such were skirts in college. Or, at least, Picasso paintings. So I got a job. The cubes were piled inside the cubicle, and cubicles composed the office space. The structure had its hundred offices. The orifices in their turns were sundry and assorted, many tiny. My own […]
John Gallaher is the author of Brand New Spacesuit, which was recently launched from BOA Editions, Map of the Folded World (University of Akron Press, 2009) and The Little Book of Guesses (Four Way Books, 2007), which won the Levis Poetry Prize. He is an associate professor of English at Northwest […]
Maya C. Popa is the author of American Faith (Sarabande), 2020 recipient of the North American Book Prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia. She is the Poetry Reviews Editor of Publishers Weekly and a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is writing on the role of […]
