Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Gabrielle Calvocoressi has selected Elizabeth Acevedo’s Medusa Reads La Negra’s Palm as winner of our 2016 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry. “Medusa Reads La Negra’s Palm is the book I need right now. Maybe that’s selfish to say? I’ll still say it. Medusa Reads La Negra’s Palm is a book that tells me this … Read more
Tupelo Press and Kundiman are delighted to make the joint announcement that Tupelo Press Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Levine and Poetry Editor Cassandra Cleghorn have selected Sharon Wang of Ridgewood, New York as winner of the 2016 Kundiman Poetry Prize for her manuscript, The Republic of Mercy. Sharon Wang’s poems have appeared in journals including Blackbird, Omniverse, … Read more
Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Levine and Poetry Editor Cassandra Cleghorn have selected Feed by Suzanne Parker of New York, New York as winner of the 2016 Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Award. As you may know, C.D. Wright was slated to judge this competition. We honor her memory with our … Read more
Tupelo Press is honored to announce that Robert Pinsky, former two-term U.S. Poet Laureate, who not only served as our judge for the Dorset Prize, but in an extraordinary and unprecedented act of generosity read (blind) over 100 manuscripts, has selected Mario Chard of Smyrna, Georgia as winner of the 2016 Dorset Prize for his … Read more
This year, Tupelo Press is grateful to the editors and publisher of 3:A Taos Press for joining us in a six-months process of reading and evaluating each of the submissions, which came to us in record numbers — and record quality. Tupelo Press will publish two of the submitted manuscripts, and 3:A Taos Press, which … Read more
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Peter Stitt has selected Hadara Bar-Nadav of Kansas City, Missouri as winner of the 2015 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize for her chapbook manuscript, Fountain and Furnace. The Sunken Garden Poetry Prize is a prestigious national poetry prize for adult writers. Established in 2002, the Prize has drawn submissions … Read more
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that our judge Carol Frost has selected Patrick Coleman of Ramona, California from an extraordinary field of finalists as winner of the 2015 Berkshire Prize for his manuscript, Fire Season. The winner receives a $3,000 cash prize, publication by Tupelo Press, and national distribution. Patrick Coleman earned a BA … Read more
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Edward Hirsch has selected Thomas Centolella of San Francisco, California as winner of the 2015 Dorset Prize for his manuscript, Almost Human. The winner receives a $3,000 cash prize, publication by Tupelo Press, and national distribution. Thomas Centolella is the author of three collections of poetry: Terra … Read more
Congratulations to all of our Tupelo Press award and contest winners for 2014! Dorset | Snowbound | Berkshire | Sunken Garden Tupelo Press selected three manuscripts for publication from among an astonishment of deserving work submitted during our July 2014 Open Reading Period: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram of Buffalo, New York for Personal Science Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is a 2014 … Read more
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that David Wojahn has selected Lauren Camp’s One Hundred Hungers as winner of the 2014 Dorset Prize. Lauren Camp is the author of two books of poems, The Dailiness (Edwin E. Smith, 2013) and This Business of Wisdom (West End Press, 2010). She was a juror for the 2014 … Read more