Lois Dodd, 2007, oil on linen, 42 x 84 3/8 inches
Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“Strand Tests” – by Emma Bolden
“’Imbuing the Words on the Page with Bottomless and Exquisite Care’: A Conversation with Alex Lemon” – curated by Victoria Chang
“When Air Becomes Breath: Dan Beachy-Quick on Song and Silence” – curated by Cassandra Cleghorn
“‘It’s all so strange, writing poems’: A Conversation with Michael Dickman” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘Vulnerability, Traces, Roughness, Multiplicity’: A Conversation with Laurie Sheck” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘Imaginary Gardens’: A Conversation with Jan Wagner & a Portfolio of New Poems” – curated by Ming Di
“An (Imaginary) Poetry Reading in Montevideo, Uruguay: A Portfolio of New Writing in Translation” – curated and introduced by Jesse Lee Kercheval
“Mega-City Redux: Are We There Yet?” – by Virginia Konchan
“Exile II” – by Bronwyn Mills
“‘Most Difficult and Most Necessary’: A Micro(inter)view with Julie Carr & a Portfolio of New Poems” – curated by Lisa Olstein
“Strange Lights: A Micro(inter)view with Matthew Rohrer & a Portfolio of New Poems” – curated by Lisa Olstein
“But Not Untangle: An Interview with Translator Karen Emmerich on Eleni Vakalo’s Before Lyricism” – conducted by Zach Savich
“Otherwise Unnoticed Insights: An Interview with Hayan Charara” – conducted by Zach Savich
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
Garnett Kilberg Cohen – “Space and Time, the Four Dimensions”
curated & introduced by Tony Trigilio
Aaron Coleman – “The Great Dismal Swamp,” “St. Who,” & “To whom – to what – do I belong”
curated & introduced by Cassandra Cleghorn
Jessica Garratt – “April 15”
curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Elsbeth Pancrazi – “Sasquatch” & “The Interior at Night”
curated & introduced by Megan Levad
Sasha Steensen – “Practicing in the Sleepingfields”
curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Jackie White – “Looking South,” “Grief Rows: The Best of 2012,” & “The First Extraction”
curated & introduced by Simone Muench
Jameka Williams – “Since I Laid My Burden Down,” “Ignition,” & “Brief Notes on the End of the World, Women”
curated & introduced by Simone Muench
Editors’ Selections in Visual Art
Each artist chosen & interviewed by Elaine Sexton
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Emily Anderson & Jen Morris – Three Video Poems: “Rhapsode I,” “Rhapsode II,” & “The Latest”
Jenni Baker & Douglas Luman – “Container: An Exhibition of Text Objects & Sculptural Poems”
Kristy Bowen – “The Poetics of Ephemera: A Portfolio of Work in the Book & Paper Arts”
Jim Daniels & Charlee Brodsky – from American Patriot
Mary Kathryn Jablonski & Laura Frare – “These past few days of freezing rains”
Sam Taylor – from The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir & Verse
Joshua Unikel – Two Visual Essays: “AK Series” & “On Discrepancy”
Translation
Daiana Henderson – “I saw it snow” and “The guys would leave us behind” – translated by Lucina Schell
Franca Mancinelli – “[I worked with death in my heart for a month]” and “[spoon in sleep, the body]” – translated by Allison Grimaldi Donahue
Almaz Myrzakhmet – “The Quenching of Bakapai’s Thirst” – Translated by Mirgul Kali
Ángelo Néstore – “A Father and His Daughter in the Living Room of a House in the Suburbs” and “A Larger House” – translated by Lawrence Schimel
Mónica Ramón Ríos – “Dead Men Don’t Rape” – translated by Robin Myers
The First Annual Tupelo Broadside Prize
Judge’s Citation by Cassandra Cleghorn, Kristina Marie Darling, & Jeffrey Levine
Winners
Laura Lauth – “Because It Is Our Custom Not to Eat Our Dead”
Susan Tichy – “To Speak of One Is to Speak of the Other”
The TQ14 Poetry Open Prize
Judge’s Citation by Denise Duhamel
Winner
D. Gilson – “My Mother Describes Chemo for Andy Warhol”
Finalists
V. Joshua Adams – “Ends” & “Dream-Work”
Kara Candito – “Basic Hygiene” & “Pendulum”
Gillian Cummings – “Forgotten Forests in a Land of Little Green” & “At the Council of a Sleepless Solstice”
D. Gilson – “A History of My Father as the History of McDonald’s”
Amanda Gomez – “Lessons on Bilingualism”
Anita Olivia Koester – “Constellation for Ophelia”
Randy Smith – “Lookout” and “Learning the Craft of the Land”
Semi-Finalists
Kelli Allen – “Avoiding the mirror beneath an oak means you disappear, too”
Raphael Dagold – “Autumn Drive”
Holaday Mason – “Carnival” and “Menopause”
Joshua Martin – “Foreign Language”
Kyle McCord – “Rain, Steam, and Speed”
Dawn McGuire – “Amalgam” and “Ode to a Fragment of an Urn”
Arthur Solway – “Skin Deep” and “Remembering Steinberg”
Susan O’Dell Underwood – “Theodicy”
The TQ14 Prose Open Prize
Judge’s Citation by Nick Flynn
Winner
Robin Clarke – from Those Little Anodynes
Finalists
Joanna Penn Cooper – “Battles”
Geoffrey Hilsabeck – “American Vaudeville”
Debra Nystrom – “Charms Against Touch”