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“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>

“Riven by the events of the first decade of this century and shot through with grief and a bird-like wonder, Mary Molinary uses the space of the poetry collection to experiment with a form—and therefore invent a mechanism—to reckon with this ‘marked little bird of a heart’…”<br>— Carol Ann Davis<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>

“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>

First / Second Book Award Submission period opens on January 1st
We look forward to reading your manuscript! Learn more.

Snowbound Chapbook Award We're happy to announce that the final judge for the 2014 Snowbound Chapbook Award will be Ruth Ellen Kocher. Submissions open December 1st. Learn more.

July Open Reading Results Announced Tupelo Press is proud and honored to select three manuscripts for publication…
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Sunken Garden Prize An extraordinary partnership between
Hill-Stead Museum and Tupelo Press.
Thanks to all who participated in the contest! Learn more.

AWP in Seattle Did you see us at our smashingly successful 15th Anniversary Reading at AWP but miss out on getting books at the booth? You can find CM Burroughs, Ilya Kaminsky, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Karen An-hwei Lee, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil here!

2014 Subscriptions Nine books for $99, and we'll pay the postage!
A dynamic series of poetry & prose,
or create your own personalized subscription!
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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.

Tupelo Quarterly Issue Two of our new online literary journal is now live! We are proud to include the winner & finalists of our Prose Open Contest judged by Matt Bell, extraordinary solicited and unsolicited submissions, and dynamic editor features.

Read Senior Prose Editor Eric Darton’s profile of TQ Editor-in-Chief Jessamyn Smyth Click here.

TQ3’s Poetry Contest judged by Alicia Ostriker is now closed The next submission period opens April 15th. Read the guidelines here.

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Autumn Catalog

Our new catalog is now online, and may be accessed as a PDF (32 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.

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