because poetry matters

Poet Bio: Darius Stewart holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, where he was a James A. Michener Fellow in poetry. He is author of the poetry chapbook collections: The Terribly Beautiful (2006) and Sotto Voce (2008), each an Editor's Choice Selection in the Main Street Rag Poetry Chapbook Series, and The Ghost the Night Becomes (2014), winner of the 2013 Gertrude Press Poetry Chapbook Competition. Other poems and creative nonfiction prose are published in Appalachian Heritage, Callaloo, Meridian, Chelsea Station Magazine, the Good Men Project, storySouth, the Best Gay Poetry 2008, the Southern Poetry Anthology (volumes III and VI), the Potomac Review, Verse Daily and numerous others. He tends bar at an award-winning seafood house and writes at his kitchen table in Knoxville, TN, where he lives somewhat comfortably with his dog, Fry.

For each of the thirty-one days this month I will depend upon your support to inspire work that is of vital importance.

Tupelo Press has provided the canvas, I will bring my words, accompanied by other fine poets, to make public works that are in their purest forms, due to limited time to refine these poems, which allows them a sense of urgency, and also a preview of works-in-progress.

I invite you to participate in this process so that, together, we can advocate for Tupelo Press and its efforts to keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard (or read) otherwise.

Every dollar gives me confidence to write more, and helps the press place more poems in gorgeous books. Help me to help this distinguished press. No amount is small enough. Give today!

Keep track of my progress here: https://www.tupelopress.org/the-3030-project-2/