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“Rumors come ahead of Soldier On—be ready to let your guard down, to find yourself thinking things you haven’t thought before. Be ready to be changed.”<br>—
Dara Wier<br>

“These poems startle me into happiness.<br>They distract me from the dull matters at hand. They remind me of what it’s like to live”<br> — Timothy Donelly<br>

“These poems throw sparks. To read them is like dozing in front of an analog TV in the wee hours and waking to wonder whether you actually saw these images or imagined them. Saints, scientists, and escape artists pirouette out of Deborah Flanagan’s smart, smoky pages as you turn them slowly, never wanting the dream to end”— David Kirby

The great generation of Russian modernists was a small world…<br>This anthology’s structure creates a matrix of poetic conversation:<br>Mayakovsky of Khlebnikov, Pasternak on Mayakovsky, Tsvetaeva on Pasternak, Brodsky on Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova on Mandelstam.

Spiritual improvisations, radiant acts of attention— Thomas Gardner’s lyric prose takes the form of a yearlong runner’s journal, defying boundaries of genre. Freed up by discipline and effort, the mind roams and mourns and remembers, surrounded by a cloud of witnesses.<br><br>

Chitwood’s seventh book of poems interrogates and celebrates work as a kind of translation, whereby what we do links us to the past and becomes our present and future…<br><br>

“I was swept away by David Huddle’s utterly unique new novel…<br> a profoundly moving mediation on death… This is somehow also, mysteriously, a very funny book.”<br>— Jane McCafferty

Written over twenty-five years in three series, Carol Frost’s twelfth book of poems is formally elegant but fierce in feeling, boldly exploring lineation, an elastic syntax, and inventive punctuation to reach an extraordinary sensory intensity.<br><br>

An “anthology of anthologies”: a choral oratorio, a many-accented gathering of voices that invites further discovery and promotes an intra-cultural conversation.<br><br>

“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>

Berkshire Prize We’re thrilled to announce Jeffrey Harrison has chosen Jenny Molberg’s Marvels of the Invisible, as the winner of the 2014 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry. 2015 submissions open Jan. 1

Dorset Prize
Submissions Now Open Lauren Camp’s One Hundred Hungers has been chosen by David Wojahn as the winner of the 2014 Dorset Prize.
2015 Submissions open now, judged by Edward Hirsch.

Snowbound Chapbook Prize Winter is upon us! Submissions now open,
judged by Lia Purpura. Learn more.

Thank You! Check out our movie, our project, our rewards: Pablo Neruda, Canto General: A New Translation for a New Generation.
We reached our goal, thank you! Watch for more news.

2015 Subscription Series 10 Books for $129 and we'll pay the postage! Save over 30% and become a vital part of Tupelo’s success with this diverse collection, which includes our first ever literary cookbook!

Digital Perfection! We’ve released four of our best selling titles as eBooks! Click here to be among the first have Tupelo titles on your eReader!

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

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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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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