Tupelo Press

Editors Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler have gathered conversations with nineteen of America's leading poets, reflecting upon their diverse experiences with spirituality and the craft of writing...

This book follows the first stages of one American Mastodon in his attempts to evolve. His life begins to resemble a human life. His mother appears human. His wife and children, human. His own...

Author: Amy BeederPublisher: Tupelo PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2020Number of Pages: 61 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1946482366ISBN-13: 9781946482365

In this unprecedented anthology, acclaimed poets from around the world select poems from their countries of origin to share with a wider audience. Readers will find eloquence, urgency, and...

From the author of the award-winning book of poems, Miracle Fruit, comes the eagerly anticipated second collection, At the Drive-In Volcano. In this new and imaginative followup, Aimee...

"[D]ivulges the spirit of a sensualist and the habits of a contemplative; sometimes vice versa. Colors are separated with the veracity of paint. Shifts in temperature are registered and background...

In her second book, Jennifer Militello uses symptoms, diagnostic tests, and antidotes to illuminate tensions of identity that are central to illness and health. An endangered psyche confronts...

Butch GeographyAuthor: Stacey WaitePublisher: Tupelo PressPublication Date: January 31, 2013Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1936797259ISBN-13: 9781936797257

Rosa Lane brings a necessary, gender-fluid, feminist perspective to the Emily Dickinson table of debate. In bold tribute with a title utilizing the last two words Emily Dickinson wrote, Rosa Lane's...

City Scattered: Cabaret For Four VoicesAuthor: Tyler MillsPublisher: Tupelo PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2022Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1946482684ISBN-13:...

An examination of obsession, gender, love, and loss in contemporary rural America. Country Songs for Alice is a story of queer love and heartbreak, infused with the imagery and aesthetics of country...

Floyd Skloot's new book gathers sixteen stories that combine unsentimental comedy and forceful emotion. As in his award- winning poetry and memoirs, Skloot's fiction shows how individual people,...

Poetry. Women's Studies. Winner of the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, chosen by Timothy Donnelly. DIURNE is a procedural project, "a line each hour of waking / a poem each day of making," that explores...

"Harry Waitzman is an American original." -- Thomas Lux. "Harry Waitzman writes clean, well crafted, accessible poems. I admire the plainly spoken, unadorned poem and that's what Waitzman...

Fasting for Ramadan is structured as a chronicle of daily meditations, during two cycles of the 30-day rite of daytime abstinence required by Ramadan for purgation and prayer. Estranged in certain...

The book begins with deaths: chiefly the poet's mother's, but also those of cherished mentors and friends. Poems explore living beyond those deaths and approaching old age, and then do some traveling...

Good Bones: PoemsAuthor: Maggie SmithPublisher: Tupelo PressPublication Date: October 01, 2017Number of Pages: 114 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1946482013ISBN-13: 9781946482013

Poems that enlarge our sense of what beauty and awe can be. The poems in Green Island delve into the relationship between place and imagination, examining the ways in which the physical places the...

Poetry. Winner of The Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Press's First / Second Book Award, chosen by Dan Beachy-Quick. Kristina Jipson's HALVE peels away the layers of orderly narrative with which we try and...

The first English translation of one of the most important volumes of twentieth-century French poetry.Author: Ren? CharPublisher: Tupelo PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2016Number of Pages: 160...

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Asian American Studies. Native American Studies. INTIMATE is a hybrid memoir and "photo album" that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine...

A lyric essay about young love and loss and the aftermath of a former lover's suicide. Landsickness explores the inelegant progress of grief and pursues a relentless search for evidence of the...

Poetry. Stitching a seam. Sweeping a floor. First light after working the all- night shift. These are small moments in everyday jobs, but surprisingly luminous. In his tenth book, Michael Chitwood...

Author: Corey Van LandinghamPublisher: Tupelo PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 2022Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1946482617ISBN-13: 9781946482617

From Publishers Weekly: Nezhukumatathil's fourth book is fascinated with the small mechanisms of being, whether natural, personal, or imagined. Everything from eating eels in the Ozark mountains to...

Author: Cm BurroughsPublisher: Tupelo PressPublication Date: January 01, 2021Number of Pages: 66 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1946482382ISBN-13: 9781946482389

Maura Nelson, who has expertise in physics, medicine, and programming, has stumbled upon a way to execute someone using only the computers in her home office - silently, anonymously, leaving no trace...

In 2007, the Tupelo Press Poetry Project was established to provide poets and creative writing teachers with engaging, challenging prompts or provocations for writing new poems. Contributors include...

Can we ever truly know another person, however well-loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman's family and his closest friend possess quirky and compelling interior...

Personal Science investigates what happens when the imagined life and the stories we tell ourselves become terrifying. Yielding to no strict genre boundaries, Bertram's poems reveal in new ways our...