Artwork courtesy of Katarina Weslien.
Editorial Features
“GOD SAVE THE QUEEN: REFLECTIONS ON READING PHILOSOPHY” – by Andrea Applebee
“‘Forging a new kind of womanhood’: A Conversation with Leah Umansky & a Folio of Poems” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘To take control of my own narrative and history’: A Conversation with Rajiv Mohabir & a Folio of New Poems” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“’Being black in between’: Reading Roberto Carlos Garcia’s black/Maybe: An Afro Lyric as a Salve for Melancolía” – by Emari DiGiorgio
“‘The story starts in conversation’: A Conversation with Beth McDermott & a Folio of New Poems” – curated by Virginia Konchan
“Matching the Gut with Its Impulses: A Conversation with Sophia Dahlin & a Folio of New Poems” – curated by Vi Khi Nao
“ALI RAZ IN CONVERSATION WITH VI KHI NAO: On birds, coffee, and the transformative edge” – curated by Vi Khi Nao
“‘An Unimaginable Place’: A Conversation with Cynthia Arrieu- King & a Folio of Poems” – curated by Lisa Olstein
“‘Do we trust the voice?’: An Interview with Daniel Tiffany & a Folio of New Work” – curated by Henk Rossouw
“Something in the Air: An Interview with Lindsay Turner” – conducted by Zach Savich
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
Maria Abegunde – “Learning to Eat the Dead: USA”
Curated & introduced by Cassandra Cleghorn
Hadara Bar-Nadav – “Death Party” & “Wolf Child”
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Nicky Beer – “Notes on the Village of Liars” & “Exclusive Interview”
Curated & introduced by Simone Muench
Vandana Khanna – “The Goddess as Jilted Lover” & “The Goddess Shows Up Late to the End of the World Party”
Curated & introduced by Seth Brady Tucker
Julia Madsen – from A Museum of Midwestern Domestic Architecture: “If any pastoral image…” and “Between now and then…”
Curated & introduced by Brandi Homan
Jessica Q. Stark – “Name Numerology K-Hole: 11 Weeks,” “The Burn Pits,” & “Daniel Boone’s Bones”
Curated & introduced by Vi Khi Nao
Grey Vild – “How long did we live this way like nomads at the far edges of war” & “So the day would not come when we had to carry the war everywhere we went like a second”
Curated & introduced by Claudia Cortese
Editors’ Selections in Visual Art
Each artist chosen & interviewed by Elaine Sexton.
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
José Felipe Alvergue– “born to violence”
Mary-Kim Arnold – “In the Permanent Collection”
Laura Christensen & Christine Poreba – “Here Then, Today”
Laura Christesen & Marjorie Thomsen – “To Float, To Breathe, To Hear (After John Cage)”
Reilly D. Cox & Brennan Emmett Cox – “Dead Narcissus: A sequence with found objects”
Kate Greenstreet– Video Poem: color comes from outside
Mara Adamitz Scrupe – from Arillus a Flora: “Monarda didyma/American Beebalm”
Translation
Jerzi Ficowski – “Papuzsa” & “Life” – translated by Jennifer Grotz & Piotr Sommer
Gemma Gorga – “Little Fairy Tale” & “Zeno of Citium Reflects Aloud” – translated by Sharon Dolin
Itamar Vieira Junior – “Alma” – translated by Tiffany Higgins
Irene Ivantcheva – “Luxe” & “The Wrap” – translated by Holly Karapetkova
Giovanni Pascoli – “The Staff” – translated by Geoffrey Brock
Li Suo – “Castor” – translated by Henry Zhang
Abraham Sutzkever – “A Horizon of Furious Salt” – translated by Maia Evrona
Wang Yin – “Men Out of Step With the Times” & “Suddenly” – translated by Andrea Lingenfelter
The Second Annual Tupelo Broadside Prize
Judge’s Citation by Kevin Prufer
Winners
Jacquelyn Malone – “Revival of Diana at the Church of Christ”
Susan O’Dell Underwood – “God as Reflexive Pronoun”
Finalists
Leslie Harrison – “And these are the ways we talk to each other”
R.J. Lambert – “Continuous Burlesk” & “Hayden loved to climb the summit on one of the bare hills flanking the river & stand there while the wind blew”
TQ16 Poetry Open Prize
Judge’s Citation by Jennifer Chang
Winner
Finalists
Elisávet Makridis – “Clockwork Dream”
Alison Rollins – “American Immortal,” “[American Journal],” & “Key to the Kingdom”
Andrew Seguin – “Recommended Usage” & “Curb of Inquiry”
Julia Story – “When She Went into the Field” & “With the Time She Had Left”
Corey Van Landingham – “Lyrical Vows”
Stella Yin Yin Wong – “Halloween Redux”
Mark Wagenaar – “Birthday at Motel 6”
Semifinalists
Ina Cariño – “Theory of Nothing” & “I dream in a tongue other than my own”
Kyle McCord – “Viewing the Tribute to Money, My Father Thinks of His Wife”
Isaac Ginsberg Miller – “The Satellite, The Many-Headed God, Is Flung”
Dylan Weir – “The Committee Speaks of Forgiveness”
John Sibley Williams – “At Bay”
TQ16 Prose Open Prize
Judge’s Citation by Bhanu Kapil
Winner
José Felipe Alvergue – “hogtied”
Finalists
Merle Bachman – from RECORDS: Biolume, Substrate Alpha Centauri
Chloe Firetto-Toomey – “Blue: A Katabasis”
Darien Hsu Gee – “Three Wives”
Jeffrey Gray – “Too Late: A Question of Travel”
Megan Grumbling – “SOLVING FOR M”