Sarah Chestnut's Fundraiser
What can a poem a day do?
Cheer me on, and support independent publishing, as I find out!
A supporter of Sarah Chestnut
"Well done friend."
$100
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Catherine Weber
"Go, Sarah, go! I sure hope you get to take advantage of the retreat! "
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Karen Kupelian
"Love this and you! Way to lean into your creativity ❤️"
$30
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Naomin Pattison-Williams
"Sarah, thank you for sharing your beautiful gift with words, and your prayerful heart!"
$20
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Jeff Banks
"Sarah, thank you for adding beauty to this world through your writing."
$60
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Jennifer May
"I think Sarah's an incredible contemplative and a beautiful minister of Christ!"
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Kelly Whitehouse
"Connor and Ruthie and I are proud to know you and LOVE your poetry. "
$30
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Roberta Crowley
"We want to help foster literary creativity. "
$100
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Lisa Abigail Christ
"I am excited to participate in this most worthy effort through prayer, encouragement, & the delight & wonder of reading each day’s poem!"
$30
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Andrea Marshall
"$30 for 30 days of 30 poems! Bravo for your bravery! "
$30
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Sarah Chestnut
"Investing in my own writing, and investing in Tupelo!"
$50
Dear friend and fellow lover of a timely word,
I find David Whyte's reflection on poetry compelling and...well, prayerful: “The unknown is the dark basket into which we plunge our hands to bring out words that feed the hungry and clothe the poor—as good a definition of poetry as we might find.”
I've been writing poems for a long time, but I've never challenged myself with such a formidable goal as this: write a new poem each day for thirty days in a row. Thirty poems in thirty days sounds like...a lot of unknown. But I can't wait to see what this kind of commitment (and courage!) will yield: Bread? Clothing? I hope so!
The 30/30 Project has been described as a marathon, and I know for sure that I will need encouragement to make it to the finish line! This is not my first experience working with the good people at Tupelo Press (I participated in a manuscript conference back in 2020), and I have found here a generous spirit and joyful commitment to poetry and poets, and it is an honor to volunteer my creative energies in support of this press. Will you support me and my writing by donating to Tupelo Press?
The nuts and bolts:
Accompanied by a cohort of other fine poets, I will provide Tupelo Press with a new poem every day in April. The poems will be posted daily for you to read.
At the end of the project, the poems belong to me to continue revising and to submit for publication anywhere I please. 30/30 poems have been taken by over 200 journals and featured in over 40 published chapbooks.
Your gift to Tupelo Press helps them to keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard otherwise. And, every dollar gives me confidence to write more...to keep plunging my hands into the "dark basket of the unknown" to see what words I might pull out. May they nourish. May they clothe.
Thank you so very much for your support in whatever way you can give it.
With joy,
Sarah Crowley Chestnut