Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling


It is truly an honor to introduce the thirty-fourth issue of Tupelo Quarterly. In addition to featuring new work by such literary luminaries as Kim Sunée, Alison Granucci, Karen Donovan, and John Gallaher, we are excited to highlight many exciting new voices. Writing by Alycia Piromohamed, Rebecca Boyle, and Sawnie Morris, for instance, shows us the infinite number of forms that innovation and artistic risk can take. 

This issue is one of our best ones yet, representing a full range of aesthetic approaches, formal predilections, and writerly influences. In many ways, this diversity arises from our Senior and Associate Editors’ impressive array of critical and creative projects, and the infinitely varied questions they ask of language. As always, it is a pleasure to showcase their interests in our Editorial Features section, highlighting the myriad influences that shape our magazine and its offerings. Similarly, our Editors’ Selections in Poetry, Prose, Translation, and Visual Art showcase work that has been important to our editors’ development as creative practitioners and critical thinkers. We are also pleased to launch a series of special features, which will appear between issues. The first of these features is a roundtable on “Leadership in the Arts and Humanities,” which will be published on February 1st.

Beginning on January 15th, we will be open to submissions for TQ35. As always, we look forward to reading your work. In the meantime, I hope you will peruse TQ’s vast and luminous offerings.

Happy new year, and enjoy!