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“Militello is one of our richest younger poets, and the poems of <em>Body Thesaurus</em> are opulent in their ‘goldrush want.’… <em>Body Thesaurus</em> is a haunted and haunting voyage through the body's analogies, which expand to embrace whole worlds…”<br>— G. C. Waldrep<br>

“…The poems stutter and shudder through their observations toward their discoveries, merciless, feminist, and unforgiving… (A) book about power and powerlessness, and about suffering, about which Kocher is, unfortunately, never wrong.”<br>—
Kathy Fagan<br>

“When you finish reading <em>Calendars of Fire</em>
the first time, you will want to go right back to the beginning<br>
and start reading it again, and again, and each time
it will renew itself in its own flames.”<br>— Fred Marchant

The Winter 2012 Poetry Project celebrated Valentine's Day
with a simple challenge: write a stunningly good erotic poem.
Be bad. Be good and bad. To our delight, that challenge
was met and then some. Sensual, witty, cerebral—
the results are in this anthology.<br><br>

“Waite is a pathfinder, charting with disarming honesty,
humor, pathos, and willful perplexity the uncertain terrain
of gender in ways that shatter assumptions, unsettle easy
presumptions, and yet, through the sheer grace of her craft
… open us to the beauty of our strange human enterprise.”
— Kwame Dawes

“Super smart, precise, and irreverent, Jan Richman's
<em>Thrill-Bent</em> is a linguistic joy ride for any
openhearted risk taker.”<br>— Suzzy Roche<br><br>

“The question underlying <em>After Urgency</em>’s
pages is how to go on…<br>and each poem posits its own
hard-wrestled, multiplying answer of gorgeous continuance.”
— Jane Hirshfield<br><br>

“An incandescent collection of essays, superbly edited,
radiant with wisdom, demonstrating the great truth that
all poetry, all art, all human endeavor finds its fulfillment
in service to something higher than itself….”—
Philip Zaleski<br><br>

“<em>Meridian</em> is not merely a beautifully written,
ambitious poem—<br>it is also the most moving I have
read in a long time.”— Kevin Prufer<br><br>

Award-winning journalist, artist, and educator Patricia Rosoff
offers a first-hand tour of the sometimes shocking,<br>
often challenging ideas and approaches that continue
to fuel the art of today.<br><br>

2013 First/Second Book Award Results Thank you to all who submitted to the contest! We'll announce Paisley Rekdal's selection this summer. Read the complete guidelines.	2013 Subscriptions Now Available! Nine books for $99, and we'll pay the postage! A dynamic series of poetry & prose. Learn more.	Tupelo Press Writing Conferences The Perfect Ten, Truchas, New Mexico Retreat June 18-21 & Workshop June 21-24 Learn more.
Snowbound Results Tupelo Press will announce Kathleen Jesme's selection for the 2012-2013 Snowbound Chapbook Award in early summer. Read the complete guidelines.	Dorset Prize Results Tupelo Press will announce Kimiko Hahn's selection for the 2012 Dorset Prize in spring 2013. Read the complete guidelines.	The 30/30 Project Celebrate National Poetry Month: Support our "poetry marathoners" in this extraordinary challenge, and watch their body of work emerge! Learn more.

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Winter/Spring Catalog

Our new catalog is now online, and may be accessed as a PDF (10 MB). If you are a teacher interested in adopting Tupelo Press books for courses, or an editor for a book-review publication, or anyone else who would like to receive a printed copy of our new full-color catalog, please email us at catalogrequest@tupelopress.org.

Free Reader's Companions

Tupelo Press offers Reader's Companions for select titles, available as free PDF downloads. See the complete list, which includes Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Lucky Fish and Daniel Khalastchi's Manoleria. >

Million-Line Poem

A celebration of the collective poetic process, the MLP is being written, couplet by couplet, by readers and writers around the world, and published online by Tupelo Press. Each day we post two lines from which contributing poets draw their inspiration. Participate in the creation of this unique art form as it grows organically. Your contribution is part of its dynamic synergy.

Stacey Waite, Michael Chitwood, Ellen Doré Watson, Megan Snyder-Camp,
and Annie Finch Audio CDs Now Available:
the lake has no saint, Poor-Mouth Jubilee, Dogged Hearts,
The Forest of Sure Things, and Calendars
Special introductory offer: Book and CD for $20 ($15 for the lake has no saint)

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the lake has no saint, Poor-Mouth Jubilee, Dogged Hearts,
The Forest of Sure Things, and Calendars
Special introductory offer: Book and CD for $20 ($15 for the lake has no saint)

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Fostering the literary arts since 1999

Support Tupelo Press

New From Tupelo Press

Tupelo Press Broadsides

Winter/Spring Catalog

Free Reader's Companions

Million-Line Poem

Stacey Waite, Michael Chitwood, Ellen Doré Watson, Megan Snyder-Camp, and Annie Finch Audio CDs Now Available: the lake has no saint, Poor-Mouth Jubilee, Dogged Hearts, The Forest of Sure Things, and Calendars Special introductory offer: Book and CD for $20 ($15 for the lake has no saint)

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Stacey Waite, Michael Chitwood, Ellen Doré Watson, Megan Snyder-Camp,
and Annie Finch Audio CDs Now Available:
the lake has no saint, Poor-Mouth Jubilee, Dogged Hearts,
The Forest of Sure Things, and Calendars
Special introductory offer: Book and CD for $20 ($15 for the lake has no saint)