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Poetry. 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. The Winter 2012 edition of the Poetry Project celebrated Valentine's Day with a simple challenge: write a stunningly good erotic poem. Be bad. Be good and bad. To our delight, that challenge was met and then some. Sensual, witty, cerebral—the results are this anthology, modest in size only, which includes the winners, plus our favorites of the submissions. Contributors: Cynthia Rausch Allar, Michelle Bitting, Lisa Coffman, Amy Dryansky, Li Yun Alvarado, Paula Brancato, Gillian Cummings, Darla Himeles, Joel F. Johnson, Christopher Kokinos, Amy MacLennan, Stephen Massimilla, Barbara Mossberg, Susanna Rich, Aubrey Ryan, Anna Claire Hodge, Janet R. Kirchheimer, Conley Lowrance, Lea Marshall, Mary Ann Mayer, Steven Paschall, Liz Robbins, Jo Anne Valentine Simson, Jeneva Stone, Molly Spencer, Judith Terzi, Gail Thomas, Kim Triedman, Bruce Willard, and P. Ivan Young.
On August 28, 1963, over a quarter-million people—about two-thirds black and one-third white—held the greatest civil rights demonstration ever. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” oration. And just blocks away, President Kennedy and Congress skirmished over landmark civil rights legislation. As Charles Euchner reveals, the importance of the march is more profound and complex than standard treatments of the 1963 March on Washington allow. In this major reinterpretation of the Great Day—the peak of the movement—Euchner brings back the tension and promise of that day. Building on countless interviews, archives, FBI files, and private recordings, Euchner sho...
Jon Riccio is from Michigan, USA. Recent work appears in print or online at The Cincinnati Review, COAST NoCOAST, The Ekphrastic Review, E-ratio, Pouch, etc. He is the author of the chapbook entitled "Prodigal Cocktail Umbrella" (Trainwreck Press). This book won James Tate Poetry Prize 2020.
Mikko Harvey is the author of "Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit" (House of Anansi Press, 2018). He recently received the 2017 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award, as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He currently lives in New York City, where he serves as the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation Editorial Fellow at Poets & Writers Magazine. Jake Bauer serves as poetry editor for The Journal. His poems have recently appeared in DIAGRAM, Threepenny Review, The Bennington Review, and RHINO, among others. He lives in Philadelphia.
Bob Lucky was educated at Dartmouth College and holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. He currently lives and works in Saudi Arabia. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in various journals such as Flash, Rattle, KYSO Flash, Modern Haiku and Haibun Today. His chapbook "Ethiopian Time" (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014, ) a collection of haibun, tanka prose and prose poetry, was an honorable mention in the Touchstone Book Awards. He is an editor at Contemporary Haibun Online.
Born in Moscow, Russia, Anton Yakovlev is a graduate of Harvard University currently living in the New York metropolitan area. He is the author of "Ordinary Impalers" (Kelsay Books, 2017) and two prior chapbooks. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Hopkins Review, Measure, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and elsewhere. ""In these unsparing, unsettling, sometimes surreal poems, he makes us feel what it's like to be alive in our time-grappling with fear, grief, bewilderment, chaos, and brute contingency. These poems are a rare hybrid of intelligence and imagination. Yakovlev is a unique talent in American poetry,"" writes Jennifer Franklin, the author of "No Small Gift" (Four Way Books.)
Henry Finch is from North Carolina, USA. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, he lives in Germany and teaches at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His poems appear in The Massachusetts Review, North American Review, The Missouri Review, About Place Journal, Crevice, Entropy, Forklift Ohio, GlitterMOB, jubilat, Prelude, Sugar House Review, 05401 PLUS, and The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought. This collection won James Tate Poetry Prize 2020.