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
May 20-23, 2016, join us for a no-nonsense, intensive workshop conceived and presented by three of the most experienced poets and editors in the nation: Jeffrey Levine, poet, Editor-in-Chief and founding Publisher of Tupelo Press, Mark Doty, prize-winning poet, and Veronica Golos, award-winning curator, teacher, and poet. Due to a last-minute cancellation, Tupelo Press is offering … Read more
Tupelo Press is proud and honored to select the following 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 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Poetry Fellowship. … Read more
Become the next acclaimed Tupelo Press author! We welcome your submissions and offer many opportunities each year to submit your work to us. It is important that you read the complete guidelines for each contest or reading period before submitting your work. Writers submitting work for consideration may be published authors or writers without previous … 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
See the Million-Line Poem in progress here! Today’s lines of inspiration: In silence now, we are as ancient sky-gazers, Westward-led, the night’s full moon casting light on one star-mapped birth. (Maureen E. Doallas, Arlington, VA) * * If you’re just joining us now, you can read more about the Million-Line Poem and how to participate … Read more
See the Million-Line Poem in progress here! Today’s lines of inspiration: None bet bullets for a song at le Ba-ta-clan. Miles from that music, a bowed and bankrupt city mourns. It’s one more American mass. (Maureen E. Doallas, Arlington, VA) * * If you’re just joining us now, you can read more about the Million-Line … Read more
See the Million-Line Poem in progress here! Today’s lines of inspiration: None bet bullets for a song at le Ba-ta-clan. Miles from that music, a bowed and bankrupt city mourns. It’s one more American mass. (Maureen E. Doallas, Arlington, VA) * * If you’re just joining us now, you can read more about the Million-Line … Read more
See the Million-Line Poem in progress here! Today’s lines of inspiration: None bet bullets for a song at le Ba-ta-clan. Miles from that music, a bowed and bankrupt city mourns. It’s one more American mass. (Maureen E. Doallas, Arlington, VA) * * If you’re just joining us now, you can read more about the Million-Line … Read more