Announcing the Winners of the
Third Annual Tupelo Broadside Prize!
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Please join us in congratulating Kim Garcia and Arthur Solway, whose poems were selected as winners.
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About This Year's Winners
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Kim Garcia
is the author of
The Brighter House
, winner of the 2015 White Pine Press Poetry Prize,
DRONE
, winner of the 2015 Backwaters Prize, and
Madonna Magdalene
, released by Turning Point Books in 2006. Her chapbook
Tales of the Sisters
won the 2015 Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in such journals as
Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Mississippi Review, Nimrod
and
Subtropics
, and her work has been featured on The Writer’s Almanac. Recipient of the 2014 Lynda Hull Memorial Prize, an AWP Intro Writing Award, a Hambidge Fellowship and an Oregon Individual Artist Grant, Garcia teaches creative writing at Boston College.
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Arthur Solway’s
poetry and essays have appeared, most recently, in
The Antioch Review, BOMB, The London Magazine, Salmagundi, Tri-Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly
, with forthcoming work in
Barrow Street.
A manuscript of poems, written while living and working in Shanghai, China for over a decade, was cited among the finalists for both the 2019 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and for the 2018 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. He is a frequent contributor of reviews, cultural essays and profiles to
Artforum
,
Frieze
, and
Art Asia Pacific
magazines. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, he currently lives Santa Cruz, California with his wife and daughter.
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From the Editors of Tupelo Press . . .
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For literary editors, selecting a poem for broadside publication carries with it a special charge. The poem must be one that lends itself to multiple careful readings, and one that generously offers layer after layer of interpretive possibility. Secondly, it must a poem that fortifies, one that the reader will revisit in their brightest, and perhaps their darkest, hours. Lastly, a poem selected for broadside publication would ideally approach the page as a visual field, utilizing even the white space, the silences and apertures, to actualize its meaning. Garcia and Solway offer us work that is in every way a broadside designer's dream. Here is poetry that offers hope, resilience, and beauty in all of their gorgeous complexity. Here are poems that use the space of the page in a visually engaging, and deeply philosophical, way. Bravo!
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About the Tupelo Broadside Prizes
Winners will receive a cash prize of $350, 20 copies of the their letterpress broadside, and each of our winners will have their poems published in Tupelo Quarterly.
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A Note about the M.F.A. Student Prize: Due to the relatively small number of entries, we have chosen not to award a student prize this year. All entrants in this category will receive a full refund of their entry fee.
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