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Tupelo Press Poetry Project
In 2007, the Tupelo Press “Poetry Project” was established to provide poets and creative writing teachers with engaging, challenging prompts or provocations for writing new poem.
Click the links below to read our previous submissions:
Winter Poetry Project — Erotic Poems Due by Valentine’s Day!
To celebrate the New Year in style, we’re running the winter edition of the Tupelo Press Poetry Project as a contest, though you don’t have to win the contest to be chosen for the online journal — an anthology of erotic poetry containing all of the poems we feel are right and ripe for it!
So, there’s no prompt, only a challenge: to write a stunningly good erotic poem. Be bad. Be good and bad. There are no other rules.
You may submit up to three poems (unpublished only) per entry via our Electronic Submission Manager. Please put your poem(s) all in the same document and, if you wish, include a short bio, also in the same document. You may submit as often as you like, so long as each submission is accompanied by the reading/entry fee of $15, which you make via PayPal. You do not need your own PayPal account to pay; you can use your credit card by following the prompts within PayPal. Please note the submission of your poems and the payment of your fee are two separate steps in your complete entry. Sorry, we cannot accept mailed or emailed entries.
Our editors for the winter edition are Jeffrey Levine, Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press, and Marie Gauthier, Director of Sales & Marketing for Tupelo Press and author of Hunger All Inside (Finishing Line Press), who will select first ($300), second ($200) and third place ($100) winners, five honorable mentions, and the balance of the poems that will round out the online and print issue of the Erotic Winter Poetry Project.
The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2012.
Submit poems to our submission manager and payment to PayPal:
A note on Writing Prompts:
Some people dislike prompts, while others enjoy them and use them with students and in writers’ groups. We’re interested in hosting an ongoing discussion of the utility and pleasures of writing in response to arbitrary or serendipitous occasions. Please feel welcome to send us your thoughts. Recently we posted three prompts from poet Karen An-hwei Lee, which elicited a circumspect response from poet Dan Beachy-Quick, whose comment sparked poet Paul Bone to reply in defense of prompts. Follow the links to read these commentaries.
What do you think?
- Karen An-hwei Lee: “Ten Prompts for Writers” (excerpted from the Reader’s Companion for the book Ardor
- Dan Beachy-Quick: “Some (Skeptical) Thoughts on Prompts”
- Paul Bone: “A Defense of Writing Prompts”