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Literary journal. Discovering luminous writers, cultivating a generous artistic community, celebrating creative risk, presuming abundance.

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Rosmarie Waldrop, Hajar Hussaini, Alan Gilbert, Ry Cook, G.C. Waldrep, Felipe Franco Munhoz, Felicia Fuster (trans. Marialena Carr), Elena Guro (trans. Matvei Yankelevich & Yelena Polowy), Friederike Mayröcker (trans. Donna Stonecipher), Valentine Penrose (trans. Mia X. Pérez), Sandra Santana (trans. Forrest Gander), Maral Taheri (trans. Hajar Hussaini). Link in bio. by @tupelo_quarterly

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One of the "Landscapes?" I've been writing, "Ucross", is out today — published by Tupelo Quarterly (@tupelo_quarterly), in a "Six Poets" folio edited by Karla Kelsey (@karla.kelsey), along with works by Rosemarie Waldrop, Hajar Hussaini (@kbl.volumist), Alan Gilbert (@alan_d_gilbert), Ry Cook (@ry_p_cook) and G.C. Waldrep. Come read the Donkey creek freezing up little by little, the way I was watching it happen during a Ucross (@ucrossfoundation) residency in November/December 2024. Many thanks, also, to Tawni Schuler (@tawnishuler) and Jessie van Eerden (@monathehound), first readers of this poem.

https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/two-special-guest-edited-folios-curated-by-karla-kelsey/ taken in Ucross Foundation by @tupelo_quarterly

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Starting today! A mini-symposium to celebrate the life and work of Pierre Joris, a luminary within the fields of literary history, innovative poetics, translation, and transnational writing. This feature comes at a time when Joris’s work enters a new era of visibility. Links in bio, website, and through @poets_house by @tupelo_quarterly

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Have you seen Issue 38 of Tupelo Quarterly yet? Link in bio! by @tupelo_quarterly

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“In the pantheon of monsters, it’s not just about blood, I take it all. Track intestines, guzzle kidneys, binge scalp silk. To fear might as well be incantation. To croon is corpuscular. To moon is mayhem.”

Genre-Bending, Gender-Breaking: A Folio of Queered Poetics curated by marvel, @camiloloaizabonilla for @tupelopress + @tupelo_quarterly. Love to other poets on this list who radiate along side me! @crsed_poet @feiikashumari 💙🌊 thank you @bjanepr for your impetus 👹

Thank you for uplifting my goth emo butch, trans, tibok, queer ass, blood thirsty Pilipinx folklore poem in three parts. To every time our relationships are hidden, how we bring them to the stars & surface. Is this a poem about aswangs or vampires? About topping & stigma? Wlw? Oceanic steam? About erasure being colonial? About the unsaids and the unsettled? Something like that. Swipe right ➡️ link in bio.

For the Aswangs who are your best friends (a triad) Soundtrack: Fade Into You, Mazzy Star.

#Queer #Aswang #QueerPoetry #Pilipinas taken in San Fabian Beach, Pangasinan by @tupelo_quarterly

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It’s always a pleasure seeing poets find amazing homes for their collections. After working with @nobodytoo2 at @32poems , she reached out to collaborate on a video for her newest collection from @milkweed_books — I can’t wait to get my hands on this one!

“Don’t Make Me” from The Going Is Forever by Elizabeth Metzger, out from Milkweed Editions on September 15, 2026, and available for preorder.

This poem grew out of a conversation Elizabeth Metzger had with her young son. She had been afraid of the moment when she would have to explain the permanence of death, unsure how to put into words a truth that feels impossible even for adults to hold.

Instead, the conversation changed her. By the end, her son had offered a way of seeing endings that she hadn’t expected—one that lingered long after they stopped talking. It became a reminder that while relationships may end, what they create in us endures. They still have souls.

The final line of this poem became the title of the book, The Going Is Forever.

For more poetry videos check out @cutterstreeby by @tupelo_quarterly

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You have accumulated a stack of poems, so what’s next? How do you go about arranging your material into a book? Should you work towards a chapbook or a full-length collection? What could be a manageable, non intimidating place to get started? What is the best way to organize the work? Should you break it into sections or shape it into one continuous flow? How can you recognize a good title for a collection? What are the main architectural elements of a book? How to keep sane and motivated throughout all this? Poet/Editor/Publisher Katerina Stoykova will discuss best practices on these and give tips to keep the process manageable and fun.

Meet Your Instructor

A Bulgarian by birth, Katerina Stoykova is a bilingual poet living in Kentucky and is the author of Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House (University Press of Kentucky, 2024) and The Poet’s Guide to Publishing: How to Conceive, Arrange, Edit, Publish and Market a Book of Poetry (McFarland, 2024). Katerina is the founder and senior editor of Accents Publishing, as well as the creator of the Accents podcast on WUKY. Katerina serves as the 2025-2026 President of the Kentucky State Poetry Society. by @tupelo_quarterly

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LAST CHANCE to sign up for tomorrow’s workshop!

Humans have complex, deep connections with landscapes, yet we rarely take the time to think about on a cultural, ecological or linguistic level. ‘Visualising the Landscape’ invites novice and experienced writers alike to contemplate through experimental poetic practice the meaning of creating landscapes and place-making with a focus on, but not limited to, linguistic histories, mapping, walking, heritage, ecology and topography. Through a series of individual exercises and group discussion, this workshop encourages participants to utilise the written word as a tool for connectivity, protest, and exploration, delivering new perspectives on how to interact with landscapes dear to us. by @tupelo_quarterly

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You have accumulated a stack of poems, so what’s next? How do you go about arranging your material into a book? Should you work towards a chapbook or a full-length collection? What could be a manageable, non intimidating place to get started? What is the best way to organize the work? Should you break it into sections or shape it into one continuous flow? How can you recognize a good title for a collection? What are the main architectural elements of a book? How to keep sane and motivated throughout all this? Poet/Editor/Publisher Katerina Stoykova will discuss best practices on these and give tips to keep the process manageable and fun.

Meet Your Instructor

A Bulgarian by birth, Katerina Stoykova is a bilingual poet living in Kentucky and is the author of Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House (University Press of Kentucky, 2024) and The Poet’s Guide to Publishing: How to Conceive, Arrange, Edit, Publish and Market a Book of Poetry (McFarland, 2024). Katerina is the founder and senior editor of Accents Publishing, as well as the creator of the Accents podcast on WUKY. Katerina serves as the 2025-2026 President of the Kentucky State Poetry Society.

Sign up at the link in our bio! by @tupelo_quarterly

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APRIL WORKSHOP: Speculative Flash Nonfiction: Lyric Invention and “What If” with Allison Blevins (she / her) - April 8th / 6:00- 9:00p ET

“In this workshop we will utilize the flash form to generate work that defies the boundaries between truth and speculation, nonfiction and poetry. Speculative nonfiction concerns itself with contradiction, uncertainty, and emotional truth. In their manifesto on speculative nonfiction, Robin Hemley and Leila Philip ask, “Must an essay, as a subset of nonfiction, entertain ‘thing-ness’ or the empirical world at all? Or is the truth of an essay sometimes the speculative endeavor itself, a literary engagement not with things or facts.” Ultimately they conclude that a speculative essay “concerns itself with the figurative over the literal, ambiguity over knowing, meditation over reportage.” During our time together, you will have an opportunity to read examples of speculative flash nonfiction by contemporary authors from online journals like Brevity and Speculative Nonfiction. Using these readings, discussions, and additional writing prompts, we will write and have an opportunity for workshopping that writing. You can expect to leave this workshop with a deeper sense of how to use language in new imaginative and metaphorical ways, a small portfolio of flash pieces, and a better understanding of how speculation and truth work together to create representations of the world as it should or could be.“

Register at the link in our bio! by @tupelo_quarterly

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LAST CHANCE to sign up for tomorrow’s workshop, Orchid Tierney‘s Reading the Unreasonable College.

Samuel Butler’s belief in the power of experiential and participatory modes of pedagogy was largely at odds with the standards of Victorian education. “Don’t learn to do,” he wrote in his notebooks, “but learn in doing.” Butler held that traditional instruction produced little more than conformity and obedience. Yet by embracing trial and error, a student would be better equipped to respond to life’s inevitable emergencies. In Butler’s satirical novel, Erewhon, “Colleges of Unreason” focused on teaching students the potentialities that emerged in response to a set of “utterly strange and impossible contingencies.” The college curriculum was entirely irrational, a parallel to Butler’s perception of Victorian academics that were meant to churn out socialized drones with little capacity to critically evaluate the world’s nuances.

Resisting this conformity is a political imperative of our current political moment. Unlike previous iterations of this course, “Reading the Unreasonable College” will focus on two practical steps to revise Butler’s pedagogies for the twenty-first century. First, we will read example poetry and prose from writers who have explored pedagogy and incorporated this pedagogy into their textual practices. Writers under discussion will include Adrienne Rich, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Felicia Rose Chavez, and Holly Melgard. Second, we will workshop together strategies to develop poetry-inspired pedagogical practices, exercises, and lesson and assignments that we can apply to our K-12 and college classrooms to foster communal empathy, speculation, and learning in the current period of political uncertainty.

Sign up at the Spring Workshops link in our bio! by @tupelo_quarterly

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Our Spring Workshop Series continues next Wednesday with Orchid Tierney‘s Reading the Unreasonable College.

Samuel Butler’s belief in the power of experiential and participatory modes of pedagogy was largely at odds with the standards of Victorian education. “Don’t learn to do,” he wrote in his notebooks, “but learn in doing.” Butler held that traditional instruction produced little more than conformity and obedience. Yet by embracing trial and error, a student would be better equipped to respond to life’s inevitable emergencies. In Butler’s satirical novel, Erewhon, “Colleges of Unreason” focused on teaching students the potentialities that emerged in response to a set of “utterly strange and impossible contingencies.” The college curriculum was entirely irrational, a parallel to Butler’s perception of Victorian academics that were meant to churn out socialized drones with little capacity to critically evaluate the world’s nuances.

Resisting this conformity is a political imperative of our current political moment. Unlike previous iterations of this course, “Reading the Unreasonable College” will focus on two practical steps to revise Butler’s pedagogies for the twenty-first century. First, we will read example poetry and prose from writers who have explored pedagogy and incorporated this pedagogy into their textual practices. Writers under discussion will include Adrienne Rich, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Felicia Rose Chavez, and Holly Melgard. Second, we will workshop together strategies to develop poetry-inspired pedagogical practices, exercises, and lesson and assignments that we can apply to our K-12 and college classrooms to foster communal empathy, speculation, and learning in the current period of political uncertainty.

Sign up at the link in our bio! by @tupelo_quarterly

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