very glad to have a new poem in TPQ @tupelopress.bsky.social, especially right now when this amazing press is taking a firm and public stance against the appalling new NEA guidelines. if you enjoyed reading this poem/issue, consider making a donation 🫶🏽
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My new poetry book is the March book club pick by the New York Mycological Society! If you’re in NYC and a #fungi fan I recommend checking them out—I’m reading their newsletter and they have a ton of great programming. @newyorkmyc.org @tupelopress.bsky.social
Every single Senate Democrat will vote against Russell Vought, the Trump nominee for OMB and chief architect of the ultra-right Project 2025.
We are holding the floor of the United States Senate overnight to expose how Project 2025 is the Trump White House agenda.
The first mushroom sprouted on St Brigid’s Day, which feels like a good omen! Official launch in a month. A box of author copies is on its way… @tupelopress.bsky.social
Congratulations again to our winner and finalists. Special thanks to Tupelo Press Board Member Sally Whitehill, whose incredible generosity made this award possible. Enormous thanks as well to our terrific readers and our judge, Ilya Kaminsky.
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For more than 150 years, through Democratic and Republican administrations, the US and Canada have been the closest of allies. Beyond the economic harm that his senseless tariffs will surely cause, Donald Trump is sending a clear message to the world that the United States can no longer be trusted.
Meanwhile, Canada be like...
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
I can see this too, and I wonder what vehicle there is for addressing this quickly, or if there is one and if not, what is possible? Does everything hang on truculent Republican legislators?
The queen star lit this diaphanous cloud in her way to repose last night, just as my battery died. Lovely help from fellow light-chasers and a friend - battery replaced, I installed it in the dark and drove home with finger-tightened nuts and don’t care if that was the toll for such beauty…
Fava sprout promises for hope & new life in midwinter, rainbow chard and ridiculous tiny carrots for a delightfully surprising winter harvest. Keep planting seeds, keep planting seeds.
A review of Leigh Lucas’s Landsickness, the winner of the Tupelo Press’s Sunken Garden Chapbook contest.
“…the individual pieces are like a spectrum of experience and add up to one poetic meditation, as the poet comes to terms with her boyfriend’s suicide.”
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From the archives—a poem I wrote for @tupelopress.bsky.social’s 30/30 Project back in April 2020 💙📚
Authors Christina Pugh and Karen An-hwei Lee will each be discussing their poetry collections, The Right Hand and The Beautiful Immunity, respectively. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
Venue: Seminary Co-op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
www.semcoop.com/event/christ...
This month’s 30/30 crew have a lot on their minds, as do we all.
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Our January cohort is stunning! Join us!
Congrats to Ae Hee Lee for the mention of Asterism in the California Review of Books’s 31 Outstanding Poetry Books from 2024!
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“Remarkable poet, Nicholas Regiacorte… stuns in his book of poetry, American Massif.”
compulsivereader.com/2024/12/09/t...
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Registrations now open!
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What’s on Arthur Turfa’s bookshelf this week? It’s Lesley Wheeler’s Mycocosmic! And it’s “well-crafted” and “guides readers to greater insights”…
www.midwestbookreview.com/rbw/dec_24.h...
One of the poems from Liz Countryman’s collection Green Island, "The End Is Always Sudden," is up on Poetry Daily!
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Consider joining us in January!
I'm writing a poem a day all this month to support @tupelopress.bsky.social! Follow my progress & if your resources allow, consider a donation to one incredible indie press: www.tupelopress.org/the-december...
Attention Chicagoans! Christina Pugh and our very own Karen An-hwei Lee will be discussing their poetry collections on Wednesday, January 29, 4:00pm - 5:00pm at Seminary Co-op (5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
www.semcoop.com/event/christ...
Wonderful to see this shoutout for Asterism by Ae Hee Lee as one of the best debut poetry books of the year!
debutiful.net/2024/11/19/t...
New #poetry #books for Dec. 2024 from @anvilpress.bsky.social , Eulalia Books, The Song Cave, @variantlit.bsky.social , @unvpress.bsky.social, @lsupress.bsky.social , @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social and @tupelopress.bsky.social . #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...
Congratulations to G.C. Waldrep whose collection The Opening Ritual was included in the @nytimes round up of the BEST poetry books of the year!
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/b...
“There were no heroes and no monsters, and there was silence. They loved him, and they wanted something else, and they wanted cigarettes.” —Sean Singer, “Look to the Side” @tupelopress.bsky.social
Here's the beginning to a long-ish poem, "Pastoral," which appeared in Tupelo Quarterly / @tupelopress.bsky.social. It's the last I'll post by way of introduction to Bluesky, but I've got some new poems coming soon!
Read the full poem here: www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-feat...
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Great to see the Publishers Weekly shoutout for the forthcoming Jalousie by Allyson Paty! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
