My poems can make a difference!

Valéria M. Souza holds a Ph.D. in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies & Theory, specializing in Disability Studies, from The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She lived in Saint Louis, Missouri from August 2013 through August 2017, where she was an active participant in the #BlackLivesMatter and #FergusonFrontline movements. Her poetry has been published in Cold Mountain Review, Rock & Sling, and elsewhere. She is affiliated with Grub Street Writers and was the 2019 recipient of the Lesley University Mani Iyer Scholarship for a Writer Living with a Disability. She lives with her wife in Mattapan, Massachusetts and is an employee of the City of Boston.

Your support will give me vital inspiration as I write for thirty days this month. I feel that Tupelo Press has published some of the finest poets being published. I have especially admired the work of poets like Maggie Smith and Ilya Kaminsky who is being honored this year with the Anisfield-Wolf Award.

For the 30/30 project, Tupelo Press provides the canvas, I bring my words, accompanied by other fine poets, writing thirty poems in thirty days, all ours to edit and submit as we wish. 30/30 poems have been taken by over 90 journals and featured in over 40 published chapbooks, all so Tupelo Press can keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard otherwise.

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