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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 1d

What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 1d

Jalousie by Allyson Paty @tupelopress.bsky.social ‬⁩

#poetry

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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 2d

Warm thanks to Alexis David, Jenny Grassl, KB Kinkel & Kristina Marie Darling for this critical symposium on Mycocosmic in Tupelo Quarterly. Inspiring reviewers to read about mushrooms while in the bathtub: life goal unlocked. @tupelopress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/tq36-table-o...

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zephyrpress.bsky.social @zephyrpress.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for an excellent issue, and we're especially delighted by @tiffanytroy.bsky.social's interview with James Shea and Dorothy Tse about translating "Moving a Stone," by Hong Kong poet Yam Gong.

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 5d

“Indifferent Cities, in inspiring the reader to consider these paradoxes, is anything but indifferent. On the contrary, it is poignant.” Review of Ángel García‘s Indifferent Cities on Compulsive Reader

compulsivereader.com/2025/09/18/n...

Compulsive
Reader
Reviews of books by some of the hottest writers working today, exclusive author interviews, literary news and criticism.
BOOK REVIEWS, POETRY REVIEWS
En Busca del Tiempo Perdido, a review of Indifferent Cities by
Ángel García

A purple flower with a faint face in the middle: the cover of Indifferent Cities by Ángel García

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 6d

Tupelo Quarterly issue 36 is out now!

Which means aside from incredible poetry, prose and art, submissions for TQ37 are now OPEN!

www.tupeloquarterly.com/tq36-table-o...

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 8d

“Teresa Dzieglewicz’s debut… emerges from deep community with the youth- and Indigenous-led movement opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock Reservation.”

Review of Teresa Dzieglewicz‘s SOMETHING
SMALL OF HOW TO SEE A RIVER in

rhinopoetry.org/reviews/tere...

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 9d

"riveting... rich, varied, and layered" - review of Lesley Wheeler's Mycocosmic on Action, Spectacle

www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...

Action, Spectacle
Laurel Kallen
"riveting... rich, varied, and layered" - review of Lesley Wheeler's Mycocosmic
Summer 2025 | Prose
Mycocosmic, by Lesley Wheeler. (Tupelo
Press). 2025

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · Apr 30

Arts, books, words and freedom of expression are all under attack. Of course they are. Because silence is complicity, and authoritarians need complicity to function.
Share your experience in the open air and chronicle these times in the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project.
www.tupelopress.org/about-the-30...

When government defunds the humanities, it is up to all of us to keep small, independent voices alive.
Write a poem a day with us.
Refuse to be silenced with us.
Keep the humanities alive, shoulder to shoulder, word by word.
Chronicle these times in the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project.

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 12d

“a book of courage and sorrow, of introspection and challenges” - a review of Phantom Number, an Abecedarium for April by Spring Ulmer on Action, Spectacle

www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...

Marina Burana - book review of Spring Ulmer — Action, Spectacle

www.action-spectacle.com

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Winning Writers @winningwriters.com · 13d

Deadline Oct 31: The Helena Whitehill Book Award
Submit an unpublished, full or chapbook-length poetry manuscript or creative non-fiction manuscript. Win $1,000 & pub. Fee: $30.
https://www.tupelopress.org/helena-whitehill-book-award/
via @tupelopress.bsky.social

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 16d

A poem for the first day of autumn. From Good Bones by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social.

Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/goodbonesBK

#poem #books #writing

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 16d

Only three seats left for the September Online Manuscript Conference!

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 Just a FEW SPOTS LEFT for the October 30/30 project and ONE SPOT left in November! 🚨

Write a poem a day for 30 days while raising money for our nonprofit. Maybe you’ll be the 100th participant to go on to get a collection published!

www.tupelopress.org/about-30-30-...

30/30 Project Benefits:
• A "virtual" residency for a month
• Weekly mini-craft talks
• International visibility for you and your work
• Thirty new drafts for your writing folder
• Learn to build your readership
• Explore hybrid and experimental forms
• Stretch your literary "muscles"
• Write with support and companionship
• Daily supportive emails
• International visibility for you and your work
• Support through the process

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 19d

Lovely to see Indifferent Cities by Ángel
García and The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez by Iliana Rocha featured on @clmporg.bsky.social’s Reading List for Hispanic Heritage Month 2025!

www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

A Reading List for Hispanic Heritage Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For National Hispanic Heritage Month, observed annually from September 15 to October 15, we asked our members to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in celebration. (Learn more...

www.clmp.org

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 20d

“Important and essential” - a review of Indifferent Cities, by Ángel García

www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...

A review of Indifferent Cities, by Ángel García in Action, Spectacle with the caption “Important and essential” - a review of Indifferent Cities, by Ángel García

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Kimberly Gibson-Tran @kdawn999.bsky.social · 20d

Just had to write about Belly in my 30-30 fundraiser poem today for @tupelopress.bsky.social Title is “When was the summer I turned pretty?” #thesummeriturnedpretty
Donate here: tupelopress.networkforgood.com/projects/258...

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 22d

Justin Gardiner’s Small Altars is “poignant, vulnerably authentic, and subtly humorous” says The Los Angeles Review

losangelesreview.org/small-altars...

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · Aug 20

From @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's book, Good Bones.

#poem #books #writing

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 25d

The Helena Whitehill Book Award

Now open to poetry manuscripts of any length, and also to creative nonfiction, including essays, memoirs, and hybrid work.

Deadline: October 31st
Cash Prize: $1,000
Judge: Jane Wong

tupelopress.submittable.com/submit

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Kimberly Gibson-Tran @kdawn999.bsky.social · 29d

Day 8 of @tupelopress.bsky.social’s 30/30 fundraiser. Right—a new poem posted each day. I’ve written about Thai Soaps, Bob Ross, Fanny Price, Missionaries, golf, ex profs, Luigi Mangione, & Titanic.
Read: www.tupelopress.org/30-30-projec...
Donate: tupelopress.networkforgood.com/projects/258...

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · Aug 24

For Day22 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social CM Burroughs 1st collection (2012) from @tupelopress.bsky.social The Vital System correlates mechanisms of body presence & self/other explorations w/a highly personal syntax experimental prosody /new forms performative expressions on identity, sex & grieving.

Cover of THE VITAL SYSTEM by CM Burroughs (2012) Tupelo Press
Cover art a photo by Elaine Duigenan entitled "Equus Caballus III" Black and white beautiful abstracted juxtapositions of fabric, glass, a window and mysterious night.

Excerpt from "THINK AWAY THE BLOOD"

the tumble of presence had I turned sooner had I
bone kissing my precise destination asked the correct question
the undercarriage your grave in Virginia taste of blood in my throat

absence visible before it goes under was it your face
my precise pain driving as into sludge then breaking in the earth'sface
against the head of a doe as into sludge then breaking please

ON IMPACT

We watched the bird begin -- at the veranda's edge and taking off with mission into the French/doors five feet ahead. A red bird reddening . Sexed in vermeil. Damaged. Days, this continued -- / you saw it. The
bird dying for the bird: how to love the self. A week at least, at last. The elongated click/ of its mouth a tension, repetition. The work of watching its attempts to die. / The words please and / don't mined from every throat in that house. As much as we were witnesses, we did not see its beak/ gag, did not see it die. But gently noticed no refrain, no rhythm at the glass -- its body or betrothal/ gone.

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · Sep 6

Out now: Force Drift: An Essay in the Epic
Jeffrey Pethybridge

In his extraordinary second collection, poet Jeffrey Pethybridge confronts the ethical disaster of the torture program that the United States used to advance the so-called global war on terror.

www.tupelopress.org/book/force-d...

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · Sep 5

Accepting registrations for the September Online Manuscript Conference!

September 26th – 29th

Four days of real-world ideas and suggestions to level up your poetry manuscript. Over 95 of our conference alumni have had their books taken post-conference!

www.tupelopress.org/manuscript-c...

Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · Sep 3

Daphne by Kristen Case was just called “stunning” by @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Los Angeles
Review of Books
RB
Ungatherable Being
Martha Ronk thinks about Kristen Case's
"Daphne."
By Martha Ronk • September 2, 2025

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