“Cloud-bellies Full of Virgin Birds”: Arturo Desimone Reviews TENSION : RUPTURE, poetry by Cutter Streeby, paintings by Michael Haight

In the prologue to Tension : Rupture poet Cutter Streeby admits to the unpredicted challenges of collaboration between two artists … More

“Promise Me Home”: Tiffany Troy in Conversation with Naoko Fujimoto about Her Newest Poetry Collection GLYPH

Naoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. She is the author of Where I Was Born (Willow Publishing, … More

“An Examination of My Mother’s Life through the Poetry of Nehassaiu deGannes”: MUSIC FOR EXILE Reviewed by Byron Armstrong

Read aloud, Nehassaiu deGannes’ new book of poetry, Music for Exile, might sound like my grandmother crooning lullabies to the … More

NEMEROV’S DOOR, an essay collection by Robert Wrigley, reviewed by Francesca Moroney

I’ve come to contemporary poetry late in my life. Just a few years shy of half a decade, I began … More

AND SO WAX WAS MADE & ALSO HONEY, a poetry collection by Amy Beeder, reviewed by David Epstein

When Polish-born Joseph Conrad was asked why he wrote in English, he said “Because Flaubert was already writing in French.” … More

THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, the ninth poetry collection by Alan Michael Parker, reviewed by David Epstein (Tupelo Press)

Pick up a biography, and one is drawn first to thumb through the sheaf of photographs lodged centrally in the … More

FABLESQUE, a Tupelo Press poetry-hybrid collection by Anna Maria Hong, reviewed by David Epstein

Let’s assume the superlatives are sprinkled all throughout. Fablesque is a poetically expansive volume, a house in three wings, with … More

“Inside Endless Epidemics in America” – FOUR QUARTETS: POETRY IN THE PANDEMIC, a Tupelo Press anthology edited by Kristina Marie Darling & Jeffrey Levine, reviewed by Amy Strauss Friedman

As of this writing, over 420,000 Americans have died from Coronavirus, to say nothing of the suffering of millions of … More

boysgirls, Katie Farris’ hybrid prose text from Tupelo Press, reviewed by Cheryl Weaver-Amenta

For such a small book, boysgirls by Katie Farris is intimidating. It dares us into a world of multiplicities bookended … More

“More Heart Than Weather”: Zach Savich Interviews EXCLUSIONS Author Noah Falck

Noah Falck’s newest book of poetry is Exclusions (Tupelo Press, 2020). He is also the author of You Are In … More

Will Stanier Reviews EXCLUSIONS, a Tupelo Press poetry collection by Noah Falck

I suppose any discussion of Noah Falck’s most recent book, Exclusions, should begin with the topic of its title, and … More

Esteban Rodríguez on ARROWS, Dan Beachy-Quick’s seventh poetry collection (Tupelo Press)

At its core, poetry seeks to examine the relationship between things, and although there are many ways in which poets … More

Noreen Hernandez Reviews Carol Ann Davis’ essays on art, violence, and childhood: THE NAIL IN THE TREE from Tupelo Press

About twenty years ago, I felt buried under the usual family problems that most people face. I complained to my … More

WHAT COULD BE SAVED, bookmatched novellas and stories excerpt, by Gregory Spatz

  For a time—ninth grade, some of tenth—he’d lost himself in music. Listening, playing along to songs on the stereo, … More

“How Hazel Tried to Kill the One Good Thing,” an excerpt from the novel HAZEL by David Huddle

  Hazel never completely moved into Forrest’s apartment. She kept paying her rent in graduate housing, but she left more … More