July Open Results
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July Open Results

Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that we have committed to five books of poetry from the many wonderful poetry collections submitted during our July open reading period. We received approximately 1,000 manuscripts, and found so many terrific ones. These sorts of decisions are so difficult. As always, we wish it were possible to take more. We are endlessly grateful to all who submitted.

We will be publishing:

Angela Shaw of Swarthmore, PA, for The Beginning of the Fields. Angela Shaw’s poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry Anthology 1994 and 1996. She has also had poems selected for The Pushcart Prize & The Beacon Best of 2001. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Chelsea, Field, Pleiades, and elsewhere. “The Beginning of the Fields” is her first book.

Karen An-Hwei Lee of Santa Ana, CA, for two books: Ardor and Erythropoiesis. Heather McHugh selected Ms. Lee’s first book, In Medias Res, for the 2003 Katherine Morton Prize from Sarabande Books. In Medias Res also won the Norma Farber First Book Award from Poetry Society of America. She won a 2005 individual artist’s grant from the NEA.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson of Denver, Colorado, for The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth. Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s first collection, Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms was published by Pinball Press in 2005, and Lug Your Careless Body Out of the Careful Dusk won the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and was published by U. Iowa Press in 2006. New Michigan Press published his chapbook, A Ghost as King of the Rabbits.

Christopher Buckley of Lompoc, CA, for Modern History—Prose Poems 1987-2007. Christopher Buckley has published fourteen books of poetry, most recently, Sky (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2004) and Star Apocrypha (Northwestern University Press, 2001). For his poetry he has received four Pushcart Prizes, two awards from the Poetry Society of America, a Fulbright Award in Creative Writing to the former Yugoslavia, and is the recipient of NEA grants in poetry for 2001 and 1984.


2007 Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Competition Now Open




Winner receives: $1000 cash prize and 50 copies of their book.

A judge of national distinction shall be named later.

Manuscripts are judged anonymously, Tupelo Press will consider all finalists for publication.

Entries must be postmarked between
December 1, 2006 and February 15, 2007.

Full Guidelines can be found on the Tupelo Press Website.

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Upcoming Events


Lillias Bever


THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2007
Reading from Bellini in Istanbul
Tacoma Community College
6501 South 19th Street
Tacoma, WA
Contact: Allen Braden
Phone: (253) 566-5382
Reading from Bellini in Istanbul with Susan Rich.


Aimee Nezhukumatathil



FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2007
4:00PM
Poet's Alcove Featured Reading
Mag:Net Gallery
AGCOR Building
335 Katipunan Avenue
Quezon City, PHILIPPINES
Website: Mag:Net.com
Cost: FREE
Aimee will be reading from Miracle Fruit as well as her new work, At the Drive-In Volcano.