I remember the first time I saw “Figure with Meat” in high school. I wasn’t shocked by the grotesque, nightmarish image of this zombie-like pope sitting between two bisected halves of a cow, but instead, I was awed, eager to know more about the painting and to understand how Francis Bacon could create something that […] The post “Picturing: A conversation with Jory Mickelson” – curated by Esteban Rodríguez appeared first on Tupelo Quarterly.| Tupelo Quarterly
Catherine Imbriglio: Your book, Earthly Materials: Journeys Through our Bodies’ Emissions, Excretions and Disintegrations, is a rich, multilayered text that I find entertaining, beautiful and unnerving. It contains a masterful blend of on-site reportage, scientific exposition, historical research, analysis, reflection, and personal narrative; it is delightful in its quietly deceptive, associative, meditative approach to existential questions. I think […] The post “Groping around ...| Tupelo Quarterly
It is truly an honor to introduce the thirty-sixth issue of Tupelo Quarterly. We are thrilled to announce the winners, finalists, and semi-finalists of our recent juried contests. Thank you to Maya Popa, Hasanthika Sirisena and Diana Spechler serving as our distinguished judges and for their exciting selections. Gratitude to everyone who submitted work for our consideration. […] The post Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling appeared first on Tupelo Quarterly.| Tupelo Quarterly
Ellen Kombiyil uses redaction, collage, and recombination to expose a dark history. The result is both acerbically witty and harrowing, a master class in the potentials of image and text. The post Judge’s Citation by Hasanthika Sirisena appeared first on Tupelo Quarterly.| Tupelo Quarterly
Bolton’s poems are generous and skillfully compressed, visionary and focused. I was drawn in so fully by their vulnerability and empathy, their spirituality and sense of witness and care for others, and their sheer inventiveness and music. What a poet. This selection is one I will be returning to—I look forward to reading Bolton’s collection. The post Judge’s Citation by Maya Popa appeared first on Tupelo Quarterly.| Tupelo Quarterly
Exploring themes of purification, healing, and rebirth, this six-part lyrical essay is as insightful as it is moving, as cerebral as it is from the heart. Castillo writes, “I will help her drag all of it up that hill. Because I know in my bones, my healing starts with her healing. And to do otherwise would […] The post Judge’s Citation by Diana Spechler appeared first on Tupelo Quarterly.| Tupelo Quarterly
TQ36 Guest Poet: Donna Stonecipher Poetry writing is a holistic proposition, and I believe we ought to talk about craft granularly while we discuss the psychological growth and wellbeing (or lack thereof) that drove it. Since high school, we’ve rightly been New Critically conditioned to separate the speaker from the poet, but I want to […] The post “Be Kind Rewind: Where Poetry Meets Proust,” an interview series by L.J. Sysko appeared first on Tupelo Quarterly.| Tupelo Quarterly
Martha McCollough’s newest book of poems, Trash Witch, strewn with magical debris, overshadowed by death, and fraught with the lure of the difficult, remains buoyant with turns of wry humor. Instead of offering an earnest ode to wisteria, she says, “I like…. wisteria, the way / it’ll tear your house down.” Destruction and deconstruction are […] The post Jenny Grassl on Martha McCollough’s Trash Witch appeared first on Tupelo Quarterly.| Tupelo Quarterly
Summer Hardinge lives near the Potomac River in Maryland and facilitates Amherst Writers and Artists workshops in the Washington D.C. area. Summer received the 2024 Ron Rash Poetry Award for her poem, “Contents of Lincoln’s Pockets” published in Broad River Review. Her poetry published or forthcoming may be found in The Ekphrastic Review, Stonecoast Review, Literary Mama, Mid Atlantic Review, Beltway […] The post Summer Hardinge – A Portfolio of Poetry appeared first on Tu...| Tupelo Quarterly
Vasvi Kejriwal is a former lawyer from India. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart, and has been a Finalist for the Yellowwood Poetry Prize and the Epiphany Breakout Prize. She is the recipient of the AI Young Memorial Scholarship from the Community of Writers Conference, along with fellowships from The Watering Hole and […] The post Vasvi Kejriwal – How To Be Super Productive in a Job You Dislike 101 appeared first on Tupelo Quarterly.| Tupelo Quarterly