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“This book gets better each time I read it.<br>Harrison is very skillful in a way that’s almost passed out of existence…”<br>— Tom Sleigh<br>

“(Barnstone’s) thought is of course the core, but with it come tones and over-tones, undertones even, from the poets whom he has so brilliantly, so sensitively translated from many languages.”<br>— James Laughlin

“Resourceful, restless, witty and substantially intelligent —<br>what a rare combination of erudition and nimbleness this group of poems exhibits.”<br>—
Dean Young<br>

“One of the most radically inventive and invigorating books of poetry I’ve read in years.”<br>— Timothy Donnelly<br><br>

“<em>Darktown Follies</em> is an acutely discerning book that challenges the reader’s sense of blackness in the American landscape. Intimate, Intellectual, and incredibly funny, this is poetry carved from a past that can only be seen in the light of this moment.”<br>— Matthew Shenoda<br>

“All the pieces here are of a piece. Along the way there are poignant portraits of some of our most significant poets and precise meditations on examples of war. What connects the disparate parts of Stitt’s journey is a lyric intelligence unafraid of self-analysis, in stories that do not turn away and in prose that does not yield.”— Stanley Plumly<br>

“Meditation erupts into delight or urgency, humor or declaration… I am taken by these readings of the material world necause they are (sparingly) complicated by the poet’s own preoccupations.”
— Ellen Doré Watson<br><br>

“Christopher Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation.”<br>
— W. S. Merwin<br><br>

“This is not just another anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry. Ming Di and her outstanding team of poets, critics, and translators here introduce the Anglophone reader to the distinctive, complex, and highly sophisticated landscape of recent Chinese poetry.”<br>— Marjorie Perloff<br>

“…I think back to Chaucer, and the poems of Grace Paley. Prado is similarly voluble, playful, down to earth, and cheerful.”<br>— Jean Valentine<br><br>

Berkshire Prize We’re thrilled to announce Dorset Prize winner Jeffrey Harrison, author of the newly published Into Daylight, will be the judge for the 2014 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry. Submissions are open now and will close April 30th.

The 30/30 Project Celebrate Freshly Written Poems Each Day: Support our "poetry marathoners" in this exciting challenge, and watch their body of work emerge! Learn more.

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Sunken Garden winner Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that Mark Doty has selected Ted Lardner of Gates Mills, Ohio as winner of the 2013 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize for his chapbook manuscript, We Practice For It.

Tupelo Quarterly Issue Three of our new online literary journal is now live! We are thrilled to include the winner & finalists of our Poetry Contest judged by Alicia Ostriker, beautiful solicited and unsolicited submissions, and features from our talented editors.

Tupelo Quarterly 4 Prose Open Contest Please send us one, single, solitary piece of prose: any style or sensibility, 15 pages or less. The deadline is May 27, 2014, and the final judge is EJ Levy. Read the guidelines here.

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Our new catalog is now online, and may be accessed as a PDF (4.6 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.

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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.

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