We’re pleased to announce the preliminary readers for our 2018 Snowbound Chapbook Award. These talented writers will help choose which manuscripts should be honored as finalists and forwarded on to our final judge.
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The results of the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Major Jackson has selected as winner of the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize: Flight, by Chaun Ballard Judge’s Citation by Major Jackson: The poems in Flight unspool a rich and charmed history of survival into songs that celebrate the miracle of endurance in a country defined by the … Read more
Announcing the Preliminary Readers for the Dorset Prize
We’re pleased to announce the preliminary readers for our 2018 Dorset Prize. These talented writers will help choose which manuscripts should be honored as finalists and forward on to our final judge.
The results of the First Annual Tupelo Broadside Prize
The selection of a poem for a broadside carries a special charge: that the poem be one that warrants repeated readings, and that lends itself to visual design. The materiality of letterpress work, its embodied and tactile nature, can heighten one’s experience of the poetic image, typography, white space, and the lovely arc of narrative. … Read more
Poem of the Month, November 2017
Earth in Space If there is no sun and won’t be for a while, I just can’t see making it any further. I keep drifting away in small boats being a trumpeter, being shapes. Red and blue are on either side of me, making impressions of dinosaurs on plaster of Paris. I will be … Read more
Honoring Indigenous Poetry from North America
Please pledge any amount to bring this anthology to life! Please pledge your support now! “I write from a continuous space of erasure. Poetry was the one way that I was able to hold onto…my history, geography, and language.” These words of Craig Santos Perez, an indigenous Chamoru from the island of Guam, … Read more
The results of the 2017 July Open Reading Period
Tupelo Press and the selection panel are delighted to announce our decisions for the 2017 July Open Submission Period. We congratulate the following poets, whose books will be published and distributed by Tupelo Press: Amy Beeder of Albuquerque, New Mexico, And So Wax Was Made & Also Honey and Noah Falck of Buffalo, New York, … Read more
The results of the 2017 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Aimee Nezhukumatathil has selected Anna Maria Hong of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as winner of the 2017 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second book of Poetry. Her manuscript Fablesque will be published by Tupelo Press in 2019. Anna Maria Hong is the Visiting Creative Writer … Read more
The results of the 2017 Snowbound Chapbook Award
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Meg Wade has won the 2017 Snowbound Chapbook Award for her manuscript, Slick Like Dark. Her chapbook, selected by Kristina Marie Darling, will be published by Tupelo Press in 2019. Meg Wade is a former Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Creative Writing … Read more
The results of the 2017 Kundiman Poetry Prize
Kundiman and Tupelo Press are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2017 Kundiman Poetry Prize is Adeeba Shahid Talukder. Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet and translator. She translates Urdu and Persian poetry, and cannot help but bring elements from these worlds to her own work in English. A Best of … Read more